Note 42 — Chapter XV

Lawful and honorable privateering never admits of plundering and appropriating the luggage and private property of the passengers found on the captured prize and seamen, of whatever nation, committing such outrages, are pronounced by all honorable men of the Christianized world, as pirates. In view of this long-established truth I am obliged, however I may regret the necessity of doing so, to give, at the outset of this narrative, the chivalric Southern officers, into whose gentlemanly (?) hands I was so unfortunate as to fall, their only appropriate name of pirates.