Muscogi tribes 300 Algonquin-Iroquois conspiracy against the North Carolina settlements 300xiii Capture of Lawson and Graffenried by the Tuscaroras; Lawson's horrible death 301 The massacre of September, 1711 302 Aid from Virginia and South Carolina 302, 303 Barnwell defeats the Tuscaroras 303 Crushing defeat of the Tuscaroras by James Moore; their migration to New York 304 Administration of Charles Eden 304, 305 Spanish intrigues with the Yamassees 305 Alliance of Indian tribes against the South Carolinians and nine months' warfare 306 Administration of Robert Johnson 306 The revolution of 1719 in South Carolina; end of the proprietary government in both colonies 308 Contrast between the two colonies 308, 309 Interior of North Carolina contrasted with the coast 310, 311 Unkempt life 311 A genre picture by Colonel Byrd 312, 313 Industries of North Carolina 313 Absence of towns 314, 315 A frontier democracy 315 Segregation and dispersal of Virginia poor whites 316 Spotswood's account of the matter 317 New peopling of North Carolina after 1720; the German immigration 318 Scotch Highlanders and Scotch-Irish 318, 319 Further dispersal of poor whites 319, 320 Barbarizing effects of isolation 321 The settlers of South Carolina, churchmen and dissenters 323 The open vestries 323 South Carolina parish, purely English in its origin, not French like the parishes of Louisiana 324 Free schools 325 Rice and indigo 326 Some characteristics of South Carolina slavery 327, 329 Negro insurrection of 1740 329 Cruelties connected with slavery 330 Social life in Charleston 331 Contrast between the two Carolinas 332, 333 The Spanish frontier and the founding of Georgia 333 James Oglethorpe and his philanthropic schemes 334 Beginnings of Georgia 335, 336 Summary; Cavaliers and Puritans once more 337xiv CHAPTER XVI. THE GOLDEN AGE OF PIRATES. The business of piracy has never thriven so greatly as in the seventeenth century 338 Pompey and the pirates 338 Chinese and Malay pirates on the Indian Ocean and Mussulman pirates on the Mediterranean Sea 339 The Scandinavian Vikings cannot properly be termed pirates 339, 340 Sir William Blackstone's remarks about piracy 340 Character of piracy 341 To call the Elizabethan sea-kings pirates is silly and outrageous 341, 342 Features of maritime warfare out of which piracy could grow 342, 343 Privateering 343 Fighting without declaring war 344 Lack of protection for neutral ships 344 Origin of buccaneering; "Brethren of the Coast" 345 Illicit traffic in the West Indies 346 Buccaneers and filibusters 347 The kind of people who became buccaneers 348 The honest man who took to buccaneering to satisfy his creditors 349 The deeds of Olonnois and other wretches 349, 350 Henry Morgan and his evil deeds 350, 351 Alexander Exquemeling and his entertaining book 352 How Morgan captured Maracaibo and Gibraltar in Venezuela 353 The treaty of America of 1670 for the suppression of buccaneering and piracy 353