Giving Particulars of the Lives & Deaths of the Pirates & Buccaneers ILLUSTRATED BURT FRANKLIN: RESEARCH & SOURCE WORKS SERIES 119 Essays in History, Economics & Social Science 51 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 Scie

Let it be made clear at the very outset of this Preface that the pages which follow do not pretend to be a history of piracy, but are simply an attempt to gather together, from various sources, particulars of those redoubtable pirates and buccaneers whose names have been handed down to us in 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 the game—mentioned in this volume actually exist

AISA. Barbary corsair. A famous Mediterranean pirate, and one of Dragut's admirals in the sixteenth century. ALCANTRA, Captain Mansel . A Spaniard. Commanded a pirate brig, the Macrinarian . Committed many outrages. Took the Liverpool packet Topaz , from Calcutta to Boston, in 1829, near St. Helena, murdering the whole crew. In the same year he took the Candace , from Marblehead, and plundered her. The supercargo of the Candace was an amateur actor, and had on board a priest's black gown and bro