. The history of the buccaneers of America; containing detailed accounts of those bold and daring freebooters; chiefly along the Spanish main, in the great South sea, succeeding the civil wars in England . Kings Islands, whereof I havespoken so much, is full of a great many very large whales, whoare infested by a fish they call espadon, that assaults them con-tinually with a kind of fish-bone, like unto a sabre, fastened totheir heads; and this makes those monstrous animals to givesuch leaps and rebounds, that they raise themselves continuallyabove the water. But to return from a great fish to
. The history of the buccaneers of America; containing detailed accounts of those bold and daring freebooters; chiefly along the Spanish main, in the great South sea, succeeding the civil wars in England . Kings Islands, whereof I havespoken so much, is full of a great many very large whales, whoare infested by a fish they call espadon, that assaults them con-tinually with a kind of fish-bone, like unto a sabre, fastened totheir heads; and this makes those monstrous animals to givesuch leaps and rebounds, that they raise themselves continuallyabove the water. But to return from a great fish to a smallone, I shall say, that, besides pearl oysters, which are to befound iu those parts in great numbers ; there are also others thatare exceeding good, antl so large that they are forced to cutthem into four parts to eat them, and they are, when roasted,exceeding white. We departed on,the 18th, and sailed for those islands thatare in the main, where we came to an anchor on the 19th inthe morning, and on the 20th put out with our galley and twoperiaugues to go to a sugar plantation, which stands two leaguesto leeward of Panama, giving orders at the same time to our THE BUCCANEERS OP AMERICA. 391. 392 THP BUCCANEERS OF AMERICA. ships to come and anchor there three days after us. We pos-sessed ourselves of the said plantation, and seized all the peo-ple belonging thereto, who told us there was a courier comefrom Chiriquita to Panama, who reported he had seen two ships,and as many barks, belonging to the freebooters, anchor at theport of that town, who came for provision there; wherewithwe were somewhat surprised, and could hardly believe thosefreebooters would have left so good a coast as that of Peru was,(whither we knew they were gone,) to come thither, which ismuch worse ; which difference arises from no other than theabundance and quality of the provisions that the former pro-duceth, whereof I shall give you an account hereafter. Wewere also informed by these prisoners, as
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