ILLUSTRATIONS
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At dawn the buccaneers sailed away. Frontispiece
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Money of the buccaneers’ times 16
Cruising about in small boats and attacking every Spanish ship they saw 17
He managed to secure two earthen wine jars and plugged their necks, with the idea of using them as floats 34
The buccaneers swarmed over the ship’s rails 35
Sir Henry Morgan, the most famous of the buccaneers, with one of his crew 76
Burning the galleon 77
The buccaneers’ fleet 116
The ruined tower of the cathedral in Old Panama 117
Near the cathedral are the walls of the ancient fort 117
Dampier wrote his journal during lulls between battles 140
Piraguas. It was in boats like these that the earlier buccaneers captured their first Spanish ships 141
Two ships were promptly fired and sunk 168
The battered, patched old galleon sailed southward around Cape Horn 169
The merchants bid for the loot brought ashore 188
All were in the best of spirits, smoking, drinking, spinning yarns of the sea 189
The last of the pirate ships, the Vigilant, as she was originally rigged. Now a packet in the West Indies 244