CONTENTS


Preface

CHAP. PAGE

I. Introductory--
Part I.--The Spanish Colonial System 1
Part II.--The Freebooters of the Sixteenth Century 28
II. The Beginnings of the Buccaneers 57
III. The Conquest of Jamaica 85
IV. Tortuga, 1655-1664 113
V. Porto Bello and Panama 120
VI. The Government Suppresses the Buccaneers 200
VII. The Buccaneers Turn Pirate 232
Appendices 273-74
Bibliography 275
Index 289




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


Map of the West Indies _Frontispiece_
From Charlevoix' _Histoire de S. Domingue_.

FACING PAGE

Spanish Periagua 1

From Exquemelin's _Histoire des Aventuriers Trevoux_,
1744.

Buccaneer Vessels 76

From Exquemelin's _Histoire des Aventuriers Trevoux_,
1744.

A Correct Map of Jamaica 85

From the _Royal Magazine_, 1760.

Map of San Domingo 86

From Charlevoix' _Histoire de S. Domingue_.

Plan of the Bay and Town of Portobelo 154

From Prevost d'Exiles' _Voyages_.

The Isthmus of Darien 164

From Exquelmelin's _Bucaniers_, 1684-5.

'The Battel between the Spaniards and the
pyrats or Buccaniers before the Citty of
Panama' 166

From Exquemelin's _Bucaniers of America_, 1684-5.

Plan of Vera-Cruz 242

From Charlevoix' _Histoire de S. Domingue_, 1730.

Plan of the Town and Roadstead of Cartegena
and of the Forts 264

From Baron de Pontis' _Relation de ce qui c'est fait la
prise de Carthagene_, Bruxelles, 1698.