Note 8 — Chapter XIII · IN THE TRACK OF PLATE-FLEETS AND BUCCANEERS
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Esquemeling was among the last of these classes. After being twice sold as a slave, he finally obtained his liberty when, to use his own words, “Though like Adam when he was first created, that is, naked and destitute of all human necessaries, not knowing how to get my living, I determined to enter into the Order of the Pyrates or Robbers at Sea.”8