item: #1 of 13 id: 19206 author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred) title: Under Drake's Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main date: None words: 108628 flesch: 75 summary: Accustomed as the young men were to see great Spanish ships taken by single boats, and a whole fleet submissive before one ship, it seemed to them that with such an armament they could destroy the whole navies of Spain, and even then that little glory would be divided between each vessel. Sir Francis threw himself into the center of the Spanish lines, followed by many other English ships, and thus separated several of the great galleons from their consorts, and then fell to work battering them. keywords: admiral; arrows; attack; board; boat; boys; canoes; captain; coast; course; day; days; distance; drake; enemy; english; fire; force; forest; gerald; good; governor; hands; indians; island; lads; man; men; morning; natives; ned; negroes; night; party; people; place; round; sea; set; ship; shore; spaniards; spanish; thought; time; tom; town; voyage; water; way; white; young cache: 19206.txt plain text: 19206.txt item: #2 of 13 id: 19396 author: Masefield, John title: On the Spanish Main; Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien date: None words: 114370 flesch: 78 summary: [Illustration: AN ELIZABETHAN GALLEON] During the reign of Elizabeth, the galleon, or great ship, and the galliasse, or cruiser, grew to gradual perfection, in the hands of our great sailors. If we look upon the galleon or great ship as the prototype of the ship of the line, and on the galliasse as the prototype of the frigate, and on the pinnace as the prototype of the sloop, or corvette, we shall not be far wrong. keywords: anchor; attack; bello; boats; buccaneers; cannon; canoas; captain; castle; charge; city; coast; company; cruz; cut; dampier; day; days; dios; drake; end; english; fire; fort; french; going; gold; good; governor; green; guns; half; hands; home; indians; iron; island; john; left; main; man; march; maroons; meat; men; miles; morgan; morning; near; new; night; nombre; number; order; panama; party; pieces; pinnaces; pirates; place; port; powder; prisoners; ready; river; sail; sea; set; sharp; ship; shot; silver; south; spaniards; spanish; thought; time; town; treasure; water; way; west; wood; work cache: 19396.txt plain text: 19396.txt item: #3 of 13 id: 26690 author: Exquemelin, A. O. (Alexandre Olivier) title: The Pirates of Panama or, The Buccaneers of America; a True Account of the Famous Adventures and Daring Deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and Other Notorious Freebooters of the Spanish Main date: None words: 59022 flesch: 61 summary: They found much difficulty in their approach to the city, for within the town the Spaniards had placed many great guns, at several quarters, some charged with small pieces of iron, and others with musket bullets; with all these they saluted the pirates at their approaching, and gave them full and frequent broadsides, firing at them incessantly; so that unavoidably they lost at every step great numbers of men. Here they set down distinctly what sums of money each particular person ought to have for that voyage, the fund of all the payments being what is gotten by the whole expedition; for otherwise it is the same law among these people as with other pirates. keywords: captain; captain morgan; castle; city; day; days; english; fire; fleet; french; governor; guns; inhabitants; island; lolonois; men; morgan; new; panama; people; pieces; pirates; place; prisoners; rest; river; sea; seeing; ship; spaniards; spanish; things; time; town; way cache: 26690.txt plain text: 26690.txt item: #4 of 13 id: 26862 author: Pyle, Howard title: Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates Fiction, Fact & Fancy Concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main date: None words: 87423 flesch: 75 summary: There were other men down, all about the deck. Thus coming to it, our hero could see that it was a large yawl boat manned with half a score of black men for rowers, and there were two lanterns in the stern sheets, and three or four iron shovels. keywords: aboard; away; barnaby; black; blackbeard; boat; buccaneers; captain; captain morgan; chist; crew; day; dead; eyes; face; good; half; hand; harbor; head; hero; hiram; house; illustration; jonathan; left; levi; lieutenant; life; like; mainwaring; man; master; men; moment; money; morgan; new; night; old; pirates; place; sand; saw; sea; set; ship; sir; spanish; tell; time; tom; town; treasure; true; vessel; voice; water; west; white; world cache: 26862.txt plain text: 26862.txt item: #5 of 13 id: 32809 author: Rodway, James title: The West Indies and the Spanish Main date: None words: 92417 flesch: 65 summary: The native Americans--The Arawak and the Carib--Their independent spirit--Their country--The character of the Spaniard--He wants to convert the natives to Christianity--A ton of gold--First Spanish settlers in Hispaniola--They ravage the island and are entirely cut off--The second colony oppresses the Indians--Repartimientos--Cruelties to the Indian slaves--Decrease of the population--Slave-hunting in other islands and on the Main--Resistance of the cannibals--Decline of Hispaniola. II. It followed, therefore, that some of the more audacious of the adventurers took up the trade of kidnapping the Indians from other islands and the mainland. keywords: barbados; british; buccaneers; captain; colonies; colony; company; country; days; death; dutch; end; enemy; england; english; fleet; france; french; general; gold; good; government; governor; guiana; hispaniola; illustration; indians; indies; inhabitants; island; jamaica; king; left; little; main; man; means; men; negroes; new; number; party; people; place; plantations; planters; possession; result; river; sea; slavery; slaves; spain; spaniards; spanish; time; town; trade; vessels; war; way; west; west indies; whites; work; year cache: 32809.txt plain text: 32809.txt item: #6 of 13 id: 38631 author: Thornbury, Walter title: The Monarchs of the Main; Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers. Volume 1 (of 3) date: None words: 62688 flesch: 70 summary: Having now attained the summit of his wishes, he became, as many greater men have been, intoxicated with power. Many men would have rested satisfied with such a prize, but Pierre knew no Capua, and thought naught done while aught remained to do. keywords: adventurers; arms; board; buccaneers; canoes; captain; companions; crew; crowns; day; days; death; enemy; english; feet; fire; flibustiers; food; france; french; good; governor; half; hand; hispaniola; history; hunters; indians; island; left; life; lolonnois; man; maracaibo; meat; men; money; montbars; new; night; oexmelin; pieces; place; planters; prisoners; rest; return; round; sea; ship; shore; slaves; spaniards; spanish; time; tortuga; town; vessel; water; way; wild; woods; work cache: 38631.txt plain text: 38631.txt item: #7 of 13 id: 38632 author: Thornbury, Walter title: The Monarchs of the Main; Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers. Volume 2 (of 3) date: None words: 58493 flesch: 70 summary: The guides served them well, but brought them at one spot so near to the castle, and in so open and bare a place, that they lost many men by the shot. This skirmishing continued till the evening, when the Buccaneers, who had lost many men, their commander having his leg broken with a cannon shot, began to waver and to think of retiring, having in vain tried to burn down the place with their fireballs, and charged up to the very walls, which they tried in vain to climb, sword in hand. keywords: arms; attack; boats; buccaneers; canoes; captain; city; crew; day; days; death; enemy; english; expedition; fire; fleet; fort; french; good; governor; guns; indians; island; jamaica; man; men; morgan; night; panama; pieces; place; prisoners; provisions; ringrose; river; sea; sharp; ship; shore; shot; slaves; spaniards; spanish; time; town; vessel; water; way; woods cache: 38632.txt plain text: 38632.txt item: #8 of 13 id: 38633 author: Thornbury, Walter title: The Monarchs of the Main; Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers. Volume 3 (of 3) date: None words: 62359 flesch: 72 summary: Amongst other men that consulted Snelgrave was a sailor named Curtis, who, being sick, walked about the deck wrapped in a silk gown. The Spaniards lost many men, and the blood ran out of their scupper holes, but they still cried at parting, A la manana, la partida--(to-morrow, again.) keywords: arms; board; boat; buccaneers; canoes; captain; coast; company; crew; cut; davis; day; days; death; enemy; england; english; fire; fort; french; good; governor; great; guns; island; king; lussan; man; men; new; night; pieces; pirates; place; prisoners; prize; rest; river; roberts; russel; sea; ship; shore; shot; sloop; spaniards; spanish; time; town; vessel; war; water; way cache: 38633.txt plain text: 38633.txt item: #9 of 13 id: 43770 author: Starr, Ida May Hill title: Gardens of the Caribbees, v. 1/2 Sketches of a Cruise to the West Indies and the Spanish Main date: None words: 43938 flesch: 74 summary: Now had I been more familiar with the rare though limited treasures of West Indian literature, I would not have marvelled at the glorious mountain summits of Martinique that day we came to picturesque St. Pierre; I might have said to my companion: Ah! here they are, quite as I expected; old, old friends; little white city, square cathedral tower, narrow, hilly streets; above and beyond little irregular fields--all hanging to the mountainside as they should! The little blue map of the West Indies given to me at our departure, which same map has lain very snugly between the unopened pages of my journal until to-day, shows me, as for the first time I unfold the wrinkled paper, that we have just passed Watling's Island (the San Salvador of the early explorers) and a lot of other little islands; while a row of tiny dots shows that we are somewhere near the Tropic of Cancer. keywords: beautiful; beauty; black; blue; charlotte; children; city; columbus; daddy; day; deep; domingo; eyes; good; green; half; hand; head; illustration; islands; juan; left; look; man; martinique; morning; near; night; people; pierre; place; port; prince; puerto; ribbons; san; santo; sea; ship; sister; sun; thomas; thought; time; water; way; west; white cache: 43770.txt plain text: 43770.txt item: #10 of 13 id: 43771 author: Starr, Ida May Hill title: Gardens of the Caribbees, v. 2/2 Sketches of a Cruise to the West Indies and the Spanish Main date: None words: 36885 flesch: 71 summary: Once upon a time, in the far-off golden days, when the Divine in Creation had not been quite forgot, there came to this shore a band of men,--not faultless, no, not faultless--but great men for a' that, who, with glittering cross aloft, christened this fair land after the blessed Trinity. The idle hands were clasping rich harvests unsown, rich treasures in gold and silver glittered upon her fingers, and following the sweep of her green mantle, there was a race of warm-hearted children, within whose being there was the making of great men and women. keywords: american; away; black; caracas; children; church; city; country; curaçao; day; doctor; earth; english; feet; good; great; green; hotel; illustration; island; jamaica; lake; left; life; man; men; mother; mountains; new; people; pitch; place; sea; ship; south; spanish; sun; things; time; trees; trinidad; venezuela; way; white; women cache: 43771.txt plain text: 43771.txt item: #11 of 13 id: 55100 author: Trollope, Anthony title: The West Indies and the Spanish Main date: None words: 120734 flesch: 77 summary: In the first place, it is for the government to look to them; and then, lest the government should neglect its duty, it is for such men as Lord Brougham to look to the government. Few may probably have been produced who are able even to form an accurate judgment as to the genius of such men as these. keywords: america; barbados; belly; black; canal; central; costa; country; course; cuba; day; days; doubt; england; english; french; friend; good; government; governor; great; guiana; half; hands; head; home; hours; house; indies; island; jamaica; josé; juan; kingston; labour; lady; left; life; line; little; look; man; matter; means; men; money; negro; negroes; new; people; place; present; race; rate; regards; rica; river; road; round; san; saw; sea; spanish; states; subject; sugar; sun; thomas; time; town; trade; water; way; west; white; work; world; years cache: 55100.txt plain text: 55100.txt item: #12 of 13 id: 973 author: Pyle, Howard title: Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates Fiction, Fact & Fancy Concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main date: None words: 73876 flesch: 76 summary: There were other men down, all about the deck. Thus coming to it, our hero could see that it was a large yawl boat manned with half a score of black men for rowers, and there were two lanterns in the stern sheets, and three or four iron shovels. keywords: aboard; away; barnaby; blackbeard; boat; cabin; captain; chist; crew; day; eyes; face; good; half; hand; harbor; head; hero; hiram; left; levi; lieutenant; life; mainwaring; man; master; men; moment; money; morgan; new; night; old; pirates; place; sand; saw; sea; ship; sir; spaniards; spanish; tell; time; tom; town; treasure; true; vessel; voice; water; west; white cache: 973.txt plain text: 973.txt item: #13 of 13 id: 9835 author: Farnol, Jeffery title: Martin Conisby's Vengeance date: None words: 99994 flesch: 80 summary: Strong, great men be usually the gentlest, said she. Said he, setting a musquetoon ready to hand and glancing at the primings of his pistols. keywords: adam; arms; aye; belvedere; boat; day; dead; dear; death; don; enemy; evil; eyes; face; federigo; feet; fire; friend; god; good; hand; hath; head; joanna; knees; lady; lay; life; look; love; man; martin; men; nay; night; place; quoth; resolution; richard; save; saw; sea; set; ship; sir; sir richard; soul; sun; thing; thought; time; tis; voice; water; wild; wind; woman cache: 9835.txt plain text: 9835.txt