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Title Page:
A GENERAL
HISTORY
OF THE
PYRATES,
FROM
Their first Rise and Settlement in the Island of
Providence, to the present Time.
With the remarkable Actions and Adventures of the two Female
Pyrates
Mary Read and Anne Bonny;
Contain'd in the following Chapters,
Introduction.
Chap. I. Of Capt. Avery.
II. Of Capt. Martel.
III. Of Capt. Teach.
IV. Of Capt. Bonnet.
V. Of Capt. England.
VI. Of Capt. Vane.
VII. Of Capt. Rackam.
VIII. Of Capt. Davis.
IX. Of Capt. Roberts.
X. Of Capt. Anstis.
XI. Of Capt. Worley.
XII. Of Capt. Lowther.
XIII. Of Capt. Low.
XIV. Of Capt. Evans.
XV. Of Capt. Phillips.
XVI. Of Capt. Spriggs.
And their several Crews.
To which is added.
A short ABSTRACT of the Statute and Civil
Law, in Relation to Pyracy.
The second EDITION, with considerable ADDITIONS
By Captain Charles Johnson.
LONDON:
Printed for, and sold by T. Warner, at the Black-Boy in Pater-Noster-Row,
1724
by: Captain Charles Johnson A General History of the Pyrates vol II Title Page:
THE
HISTORY
OF THE
PYRATES,
Containing the LIVES of
Captain Misson.
Captain Bowen.
Captain Kidd.
Captain Tew.
Captain Halsey.
Captain White.
Captain Condent.
Captain Bellamy.
Captain Fly.
Captain Howard.
Captain Lewis.
Captain Cornelius.
Captain Williams.
Captain Burgess.
Captain North.
And their several CREWS.
Intermix'd with a
Description of Magadoxa in Ethiopia; the natura Hatred and Cruelty of the
Inhabitants to all Whites; their Laws, Manners, Customs, Government and
Religion: With a particular ACCOUNT of the beautiful Tombs, and their Ceremony
of guarding them, taken from Captain Beavis's Journal; and that of a Molotto,
who belong'd to the said Captain, was taken by, and lived several Years with the
MAGADOXIANS
To the Whole is added
An APPENDIX, which compleats the Lives of the first Volume, corrects some
Mistakes;
and contains the Tryal and Execution of the Pyrates at Providence; under
Governor
Rogers; with some other necessary Insertions, which did not come to Hand till
after the Publication of the first Volume, and which makes up what was defective Collected
from Journals of Pyrates, brought away by a Person who was taken by, and forc'd to
live with them 12 Years; and from those of Commanders, who had fallen into their
Hands, some of whom have permitted their Names to be made use of, as a Proof of
the accuracy of what we have published. The Whole instructive and entertaining.
VOL. II.
By Capt. Charles Johnson, Author of Vol. I.
LONDON:
Printed for, and Sold by T. Woodward
by: Andrew Barker A Report of Captain Ward and Danseker Full Title: A True and Certaine Report of the Beginning, Proceedings, Overthrowes, and now prefent Eftate of Captaine Ward and Danseker, the two late famous Pirates: from their firft fetting foorth to this prefent time.
First published in 1609.
by: Unknown A True Relation of the Pirates Purfer and Clinton Full Title: A True Relation, of the Lives and Deaths
of the two moft Famous Englifh Pyrats, Purfer, and Clinton
who lived in the Reigne of Queene Elizabeth.
Published in 1639.
by: George Alfred Henty Among Malay Pirates Full Title: Among Malay Pirates: A Tale of Adventure and Peril.
by: B. Barker. Esq. Blackbeard; Or, the Pirate of Raonoke. Published in 1847.
by: Howard Pyle Book of Pirates Published in 1903.
by: Colonel John Biddulph Pirates of Malabar and an Englishwoman in India Full Title: The Pirates of Malabar and an Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago.
Published in 1907.
by: Philip Nichols Sir Francis Drake Revived Published in 1910.
by: William Hope Hosgson The Ghost Pirates Fiction. Published in 1909.
by: F. Scott Fitzgerald The Offshore Pirate Fiction.
by: Randall Parrish Wolves of the Sea Fiction. Published in 1918
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