Pierre: Relations et memoires inedits pour servir a l'histoire
de la France dans les pays d'outremer. Paris, 1867.

Pacheco, Cardenas, y Torres de Mendoza: Coleccion de documentos
relativos al describrimiento, conquista y colonizacion de las posesiones
espanoles en America y Oceania. 42 vols. Madrid, 1864-83; _continued as_
Coleccion de documentos ineditos ... de ultramar. 13 vols. Madrid,
1885-1900.

Pointis, Jean Bernard Desjeans, sieur de: Relation de l'expedition de
Carthagene faite par les Francois en 1697. Amsterdam, 1698.

Present state of Jamaica ... to which is added an exact account of Sir
Henry Morgan's voyage to ... Panama, etc. London, 1683.

Recopilacion de leyes de los reynos de las Indias, mandadas imprimir y
publicar por rey Carlos II. 4 vols. Madrid, 1681.

Sharp, Bartholomew: The voyages and adventures of Captain B. Sharp ...
in the South Sea ... Also Captain Van Horn with his buccanieres
surprising of la Vera Cruz, etc. London, 1684.

Thurloe, John. A collection of the State papers of, etc. Edited by
Thomas Birch. 7 vols. London, 1742.

Venables, General. The narrative of, etc. Edited by C.H. Firth. London,
1900.

Wafer, Lionel: A new voyage and description of the Isthmus of America,
etc. London, 1699.

Winwood, Sir Ralph. Memorials of affairs of State ... collected from the
original papers of, etc. Edited by Edmund Sawyer. London, 1725.

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Among the printed sources one of the earliest and most important is the
well-known history of the buccaneers written by Alexander Olivier
Exquemelin (corrupted by the English into Esquemeling, by the French
into Oexmelin). Of the author himself very little is known. Though
sometimes claimed as a native of France, he was probably a Fleming or a
Hollander, for the first edition of his works was written in the Dutch
language. He came to Tortuga in 1666 as an _engage_ of the French West
India Company, and after serving three years under a cruel master was
rescued by the governor, M. d'Ogeron, joined the filibusters, and
remained with them till 1674, taking part in most of their exploits. He
seems to have exercised among them the profession of barber-surgeon.
Returning to Europe in 1674, he published a narrative of the exploits in
which he had taken part, or of which he at least had a first-hand
knowledge. This "history" is the oldest and most elaborate chronicle we
possess of the extraordinary deeds and customs of