Early Life of Lolonois.--His Desperate Character.--Joins the Buccaneers.--His Fiend-like Cruelty.--The Desperadoes Rally around Him.--Equips a Fleet.--Captures Rich Prizes.--Plans the Sack of Maracaibo.--The Adventurous Voyage.--Description of Venezuela.--Atrocities at Maracaibo and Gibraltar.--Doom of the Victors. 151 CHAPTER X. _The Plunder; the Carousal; and the New Enterprise._ Gibraltar in Ashes.--The Return to Maracaibo.--Division of the Plunder.--Peculiar Scene.--Reception of the Pirates at Tortuga.--Fiend-like Carousal.--The Pirates Reduced to Beggary.--Lolonois’s New Enterprise.--The “Furious Calm.”--Days of Disaster.--Ravaging the Coast.--Capture of San Pedro. 170 CHAPTER XI. _The End of Lolonois’s Career._ The Pirates’ Perfidy.--Capture of a Spanish Ship.--Misery of the Pirates.--Desertion of Vauclin.--The Shipwreck.--Life upon the Island.--Expedition to Nicaragua.--Its utter Failure.--Ferocity of the Indians.--Exploring the River.--The Retreat.--Coasting to Darien.--Capture and Death of Lolonois.--Fate of the Remnants. 186 CHAPTER XII. _The Female Pirate, Mary Read._ Testimony of Charles Johnson.--Marriage of Mary Read’s Mother.--Singular Adventure.--Reasons for Disguising her Daughter.--Early Training of Mary as a Boy.--She Enlists on board a Man-of-War.--The Character she Developed.--Enters the Army.--Skill and Bravery.--Falls in Love with a Fleming.--Reveals her Sex.--The Marriage.--Happy Days.--Death of her Husband.--Adversity.--Resumes Male Attire. 201 CHAPTER XIII. _Anne Bonny, the Female Pirate._ Rackam the Pirate.--Anne Bonny his Wife.--Her Reasons for Assuming a Boy’s Dress.--Infamous Character of Rackam.--Anne falls in Love with Mary.--Curious Complications.--The Duel.--Chivalry of Frank.--The Capture.--The Trial.--Testimony of the Artist.--Death of Mary Read.--Rackam Dies on the Scaffold. 214 CHAPTER XIV. _Sir Henry Morgan._ His Origin.--Goes to the West Indies.--Joins the Buccaneers.--Meets Mansvelt the Pirate.--Conquest of St. Catharine.--Piratic Colony there.--Ravaging the Coast of Costa Rica.--Sympathy of the Governor of Jamaica.--Death of Mansvelt.--Expedition of Don John.--The Island Recaptured by the Spaniards.--Plans of Morgan.--His Fleet.--The Sack of Puerto Principe.--Horrible Atrocities.--Retreat of the Pirates.--The Duel.--They Sail for Puerto Velo.--Conquest of the City.--Heroism of the Governor. 225 CHAPTER XV. _The Capture of Puerto Velo, and its Results._