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THE MONARCHS OF THE MAIN;

Or,

Adventures of the Buccaneers.

by

GEORGE W. THORNBURY, ESQ.

"One foot on sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never." MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.

In Three Volumes.

VOL. III.

London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, Successors to Henry Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough Street. 1855.

London: Sercombe and Jack, 16 Great Windmill Street.

CONTENTS OF VOL. III.

CHAPTER I.--RAVENAU DE LUSSAN.

As a young French Officer joins De Graff, at St. Domingo--Cruises round Carthagena--Crosses the Isthmus--Hardships--Joins the Buccaneer Fleet--Grogniet, the French Captain--Previous history of his Life--Fight with Greek mercenaries on the island--Take La Seppa--Engagement off Panama--Take Puebla Nueva--Separate from English--Capture Leon--Sack Chiriquita--Burn Granada--Storm Villia--Surprised by river ambuscade--Treachery of Greek spy--Capture vessels--Behead Spanish prisoners--Letter of Spanish President--Burning of the Savannahs--Quarrel between French and English--Attack on Quayaquilla--Love adventure of De Lussan--Retreat of French Buccaneers by land over the Isthmus of Darien--Passage from North to South Pacific--Great danger--Pass between the mountains--Daring stratagem of De Lussan--Escape--The river of the torrents--Rafts--Arrives at St. Domingo 1

CHAPTER II.--THE LAST OF THE BROTHERHOOD.

Sieur de Montauban--Cruises on the coast of Guinea--Captures English man-of-war--Escape from explosion--Life with the negro king--Laurence de Graff--His victories--Enters the French service--Treachery--Buccaneers join in French expedition and take Carthagena--Buccaneer marksmen--Robbed of spoil--Return and retake the city--Capture by English and Dutch fleets, 1698--Buccaneers wrecked with D'Estrees--Grammont takes Santiago--Captures Maracaibo, Gibraltar, and Torilla--Lands at Cumana--Enters the French service--Lost in a farewell cruise 105

CHAPTER III.--DESTRUCTION OF THE FLOATING EMPIRE.

Peace of Ryswick--Attempts to settle the Buccaneers as planters--They turn pirates--Blackbeard and Paul Jones--Last expedition to the Darien mines, 1702 157

CHAPTER IV.--THE PIRATES OF NEW PROVIDENCE AND THE KINGS OF MADAGASCAR.

Laws and dress--Government--Blackbeard--His enormities--Captain Avery and the great Mogul--Davis--Lowther--Low--Roberts--Major Bonnet--Captain Gow--The Guinea coast--Narratives of pirate prisoners--Sequel 163

List of Authorities.

Buccaneer Chiefs.

MONARCHS OF THE MAIN.