Old Virginia and her neighbours

aavCONTENTS.CHAPTER XVI.THE GOLDEN AGE OF PIRATES.The biisiness of piracy has never thriven so greatly as in theseventeenth century 338Pompey and the pirates 338Chinese and Malay pirates on the Indian Ocean and Mussulmanpirates on the Mediterranean Sea .... 339The Scandinavian vikings cannot properly be termed pirates339,340Sir William Blackstone's remarks about piracy . . . 340Character of piracy 341To call the Elizabethan sea-kings pirates is silly and outrageous341, 342Features of maritime warfare out of which piracy couldgrow 342, 343344.....Privateering 343Fighting without declaring war 344Lack of protection for neutral shipsOrigin of buccaneering ; " Brethren of the Coast " . . 345Illicit traffic in the West Indies 346Buccaneers and filibusters ....... 347The kind of people who became buccaneers .... 348The honest man who took to buccaneering to satisfy hiscreditors ......... 349The deeds of Olonnois and other wretches . . . 349, 350Henry Morgan and his evil deeds .... 350, 351Alexander Exquemeling and his entertaining book . . 352How Morgan captured Maracaibo and Gibraltar in Venezuela353The treaty of America of 1670 for the suppression of buccaneeringand piracy 353Sack of Panama by Morgan and his buccaneers . . 354How Morgan absconded with most of the booty . . . 355How English and Spanish.........governors industriously scotchedthe snake355How the chief of pirates became Sir Henry Morgan, deputygovernorof Jamaica, and hanged his old comrades orsold them to the Spaniards ...... 356How the treaty of America caused his downfall . . 357Decline of buccaneering . 357Pirates of the South Sea 358,359