. 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 . very diligent in their inquiries,) alwayscruise between the places above mentioned ; but in case theylight of no considerable booty, they commonly undertake somemore hazardous enterprises, one remarkable instance of whichI shall here give you. A certain pirate called Pierre Francois,or Peter Francis, waiting a long time at sea with his boat andtwenty-six men, for the ships that were to retur
. 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 . very diligent in their inquiries,) alwayscruise between the places above mentioned ; but in case theylight of no considerable booty, they commonly undertake somemore hazardous enterprises, one remarkable instance of whichI shall here give you. A certain pirate called Pierre Francois,or Peter Francis, waiting a long time at sea with his boat andtwenty-six men, for the ships that were to return from Mara-caibo to Campeachy, and not being able to find any prey, at lasthe resolved to direct his course to Rancheiras, near the Riverde la Plata, in 12° and a half north latitude. Here lies a richbank of pearl, to the fishery whereof they yearly sent fromCarthagena twelve vessels with a man-of-war for their vessel has at least two negroes in it, who are very dex-terous in diving to the depth of six fathoms, where they findgood store of pearls. On this fleet, called the pearl-fleet, PierreFrancois resolved to venture, rather than to go home empty:5* 54 THE BUCCANEERS OF Bartholomew lortujrues. THE BUCCANEERS OF AMERICA. 55 they then rode at anchor at the mouth of the River de la Harha,the man-of-war scarce half a league distant from the small ships,and the wind very calm. Having spied them in this posture,he presently pulled down his sails and rowed along the coast,feigning to be a Spanish vessel come from Maracaibo; but nosooner was he come to the pearl-bank, when suddenly heassaulted the vice-admiral of eight guns and sixty men, com-manding them to surrender. The Spaniards made a gooddefence for some time, but at last were forced to thus taken the vice-admiral, he resolved to attempt theman-of-war, with which addition he hoped to master the restof the fleet: to this end he presently sunk his own boat, puttingforth the Spanish colors,
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