Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children (1922)
Sylvester, Charles Herbert · Chicago : Bellows-Reeve · leaf 386
singpiracy in the Caribbean Sea. We have two notable accounts of the deeds of theearly buccaneers. One was published in 1678 inAmsterdam by John Esquemeling, who wrote fromobservation, as he was himself one of the pirates,and present at many of the conflicts which hedescribes. The second account is… … CAPTAIN Morgan had been so longabsent from Maracaibo that he knewthat the Spaniards had had sufficienttime to fortify themselves strongly,and so hinder his departure from thelake.. Without waiting to collect thefull sum he had required from theinhabitants of Gibraltar, he demanded some of…
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