The History of the Pyrates. Vol. II.
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
This second volume of A General History of the Pyrates, first published in 1728 under the name of Captain Charles Johnson and long attributed to Daniel Defoe, though the attribution is now disputed, continues the lives of the pirates of the early eighteenth century. It opens with Captain Misson and his utopian pirate colony of Libertalia on Madagascar, and goes on to Captain Kidd, Thomas Tew, Halsey, White, Condent, Bellamy, William Fly and others, with a description of Magadoxa on the African coast. Trials, sentences and confessions are reproduced, and fact and invention blend in a vivid portrait of life on the account. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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