Note 16 — Chapter XIII · IN THE TRACK OF PLATE-FLEETS AND BUCCANEERS
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Referring to this matter, George W. Thornsburg writes:—
“Anomalous beings, hunters by land and sea, scaring whole fleets with a few canoes, sacking cities with a few grenadiers, devastating every coast from California to Cape Horn, they needed only a common principle of union to have founded an aggressive republic as wealthy as Venice and as warlike as Carthage. One great mind and the New World had been their own.”—The Monarchs of the Main, or Adventures of the Buccaneers, preface, p. 10, London, 1855. ↑