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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

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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,