Transcriber's note.
Many of the names in this book (even outside quoted passages) areinconsistently spelt. I have chosen to retain the original spellingtreating these as author error rather than typographical carelessness.
THE PIRATES'
WHO'S WHO
Giving Particulars of the Lives & Deaths
of the Pirates & Buccaneers
BY PHILIP GOSSE
ILLUSTRATED
BURT FRANKLIN: RESEARCH & SOURCE WORKS SERIES 119
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BURT FRANKLIN
NEW YORK
Published by BURT FRANKLIN
235 East 44th St., New York 10017
Originally Published: 1924
Printed in the U.S.A.
Library of Congress Catalog Card No.: 68-56594
Burt Franklin: Research & Source Works Series 119
Essays in History, Economics & Social Science 51
I DEDICATE THIS BOOK
TO
MY FELLOW-MEMBERS OF
THE FOUNTAIN CLUB
WITH THE EARNEST HOPE THAT NOTHING
IT CONTAINS MAY INCITE THEM TO
EMULATE ITS HEROES
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| TO FACE PAGE | |
A PAGE FROM THE LOG-BOOK OF CAPTAIN DAMPIER | 98 |
PRESSING A PIRATE TO PLEAD | 140 |
A PIRATE BEING HANGED AT EXECUTION DOCK, WAPPING | 182 |
ANNE BONNY AND MARY READ, CONVICTED OF PIRACY NOVEMBER 28TH, 1720, IN JAMAICA | 256 |
CAPTAIN BARTHOLOMEW ROBERTS | 262 |
PREFACE
Let it be made clear at the very outset of this Preface that the pageswhich follow do not pretend to be a history of piracy, but are simply anattempt to gather together, from various sources, particulars of thoseredoubtable pirates and buccaneers whose names have been handed down to usin a desultory way.
I do not deal here with the children of fancy; I believe that every man,or woman too—since certain of the gentler sex cut no small figure at thegame—mentioned in this volume actually existed.
A time has come when every form of learning, however preposterous it mayseem, is made as unlaborious as possible for the would-be student.Knowledge, which is after all but a string of facts, is being arranged,sorted, distilled, and set down in compact form, ready for rapidassimilation. There is little fear that the student who may wish in thefuture to become master of any subject will have to delve into theoriginal sources in his search after facts and dates.
Surely pirates, taking them in their broadest sense,