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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Journal of Voyages, by Jacob Dunham This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Journal of Voyages Containing an Account of the Author's being Twice Captured by the English and Once by Gibbs the Pirate... Author: Jacob Dunham Release Date: October 3, 2010 [EBook #33835] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JOURNAL OF VOYAGES *** Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Stephen H. Sentoff and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) [Illustration: CAPT. JACOB DUNHAM.] JOURNAL OF VOYAGES: CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR'S BEING TWICE CAPTURED BY THE ENGLISH AND ONCE BY GIBBS THE PIRATE; HIS NARROW ESCAPE WHEN CHASED BY AN ENGLISH WAR SCHOONER; AS WELL AS HIS BEING CAST AWAY AND RESIDING WITH INDIANS. TO WHICH IS ADDED Some account of the Soil, Products, Laws and Customs of Chagres, the Musquitto Shore, and St. Blas, at the Isthmus of Darien. With Illustrations. BY CAPTAIN JACOB DUNHAM. NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR, And Sold by Huestis & Cozans, 104 and 106 Nassau-street. 1850. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty, by JACOB DUNHAM, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New-York. D. Fanshaw, Printer and Stereotyper, 35 Ann, corner of Nassau-street. CONTENTS. page. AUTHOR'S APOLOGY, 9 EARLY LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, 11 CHAPTER I.--Sloop Rover Capture by the English--Sale and sinking of the Sloop Rover, 13 CHAP. II.--Sloop New-York Second capture by the English--Exchange of Prisoners, 30 CHAP. III.--Sloop Biddle Captain's Mitchell and Lafitte, the Pirates, 37 CHAP. IV. Casting away of the Sloop Biddle near Waa-waa River--with some account of the Indians,
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