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Title: The Pirates of Panama
or, The Buccaneers of America; a True Account of the Famous Adventures and Daring Deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and Other Notorious Freebooters of the Spanish Main

Author: A. O. (Alexandre Olivier) Exquemelin

Editor: George Alfred Williams

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Language: English

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THE PIRATES OF PANAMA

[Illustration: "THE MAN-OF-WAR GAVE THEM CHASE"--_Page 43_]

THE PIRATES OF PANAMA

Or

The Buccaneers of America

A True Account of the Famous Adventures and Daring Deeds of Sir Henry
Morgan and Other Notorious Freebooters of the Spanish Main

by

JOHN ESQUEMELING

_One of the Buccaneers who was Present at those Tragedies_

EDITED AND ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE ALFRED WILLIAMS

[Illustration]

New York
Frederick A. Stokes Company
Publishers

Copyright, 1914, by Frederick A. Stokes Company
All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign
languages.

Printed in the United States of America

CONTENTS

PAGE

(1) INTRODUCTION BY GEORGE ALFRED WILLIAMS xi

(2) THE TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION xv

CHAPTER I.
The Introduction--The Author sets forth for the Western
Islands, in the service of the West India Company of
France--They meet with an English frigate, and arrive
at the Island of Tortuga