Esquemeling, who was present, “both lean and full of scabs and blotches, with galled back and sides. This horrid animal they instantly killed and skinned, and divided into small pieces among themselves as far as it would reach; ...
There can scarcely anything be found in the literature of our language, more wild and wonderful, than the narrative contained in this volume.
The buccaneers, with their purses well filled with gold, the result of their cruises as freebooters, ran into the harbor of ... It is not known that she added anything to it during her short and compulsory cruise on board the buccaneer.
Reproduction of the original: Captain William Kidd and Others of the Buccaneers by John S.C. Abbott
Captain William Kidd and Others of the Buccaneers
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
American historian John S.C. Abbott wrote Captain William Kidd and Others of the Buccaneers (1874) as part of his American Pioneers and Patriots series.