The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century

The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century is by C.H. Haring, with ten maps and illustrations. The preface says the principal facts about the exploits of the English and French buccaneers of the seventeenth century in the West Indies are sufficiently well known to modern readers. The preface says the French Jesuit historians of the Antilles have left us many interesting details of their mode of life.

The general of the galleons, on his departure, received from the Council of the Indies three sealed packets, the first of which, opened at the Canaries, named the island in the West Indies at which the fleet was first to call. From a pilot picked up by the buccaneers, Morgan learned that the flagship held a great quantity of plate to the value of 40,000 pieces of eight. Morgan returned to Maracaibo to refit his prize and, opening negotiations again with Don Alonso, succeeded in obtaining 20,000 pieces of eight and 500 head of cattle as a ransom for the city.