Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ... . WRECK OF THE PIRATE-SHIP WHIDAH. Piracy did not disappear with Kidd. The coasts of the Caro-linas were for a long time infested with freebooters, though atvarious times some fifty of them were hung in Charleston. In1717, the famous and dreaded privateer Whidah was wreckedupon the shores of Cape Cod. This vessel carried twenty-threeguns, one hundred and thirty men, and was commanded bySamuel Bellamy. The dead bodies of all but six floated ashore:these six were tak
Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ... . WRECK OF THE PIRATE-SHIP WHIDAH. Piracy did not disappear with Kidd. The coasts of the Caro-linas were for a long time infested with freebooters, though atvarious times some fifty of them were hung in Charleston. In1717, the famous and dreaded privateer Whidah was wreckedupon the shores of Cape Cod. This vessel carried twenty-threeguns, one hundred and thirty men, and was commanded bySamuel Bellamy. The dead bodies of all but six floated ashore:these six were taken alive and executed. This was a severe lossto the pirates. But the decisive blow against them was not strucktill 1723. The British man-of-war Greyhound captured a craftwith twenty-five men and carried them into Rhode were tried, found guilty, and hung, at Newport, in was the end of piracy in the American HOME OF ALEXANDER SELKIRK. CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE VOYAGE OF WOODES ROGERS—DESERTION CHECKED BY A NOVEL CIRCUM-STANCE—A LIGHT SEEN UPON THE ISLAND OF JUAN FERNANDEZ—A BOATSENT TO RECONNOITRE—ALEXANDER SELKIRK DISCOVERED—HIS HISTORY ANDADVENTURES—HIS DRESS, FOOD, AND OCCUPATIONS—HE SHIPS WITH ROGERSAS SECOND MATE—TURTLES AND TORTOISES—FIGHT WITH A SPANISH TREA-SURE-SHIP—PROFITS OF THE VOYAGE—THE SOUTH SEA BUBBLE—ITS INFLA-TION AND COLLAPSE—MEASURES OF RELIEF. A company of merchants of Bristol fitted out two ships in1708—the Duke and Duchess—to cruise against the Spaniardsin the South Sea. The Duke was commanded by Woodes Rogers,the Duchess by Stephen Courtney. William Dampier, whosename had long been a terror to the Spaniards, was pilot to thelarger ship. They left Bristol on the 14th of July, with fifty-six guns and three hundred and thirty-three men, and with 355 356 MAN UPON THE SEA. double the usual number of officers, in order to prevent themutinies so c
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