Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897 · Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin & Co. · leaf 255
great exploit of this maritime license, forthe Peace of Ryswick, in that same year, practically closed the period ofthe buccaneers. A new complication with England arose, when, at the close of the cen-tury, William Paterson led a colony of Scots to settle at Darien. The com-pany had left Leith with… … From Oe.vnielins Avaiiliiiicrs FlibustUrs (Trevoux, 1744), vol. ii. and dreams of the great opportunity for amassing fortunes by virtue ofsecuring the transit trade of the Isthmus were too impressive to let theeager youths who had embarked think of obstacles. They had a warrantfrom William III to…
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