CHAPTER XX. I AM TRIED AND TORTURED BY THE SPANIARDS 220 CHAPTER XXI. HOW I ESCAPE FROM THE SPANISH GUARDHOUSE—AM CHASED BY BLOOD-HOUNDS IN THE WOODS, AND HOW AT LENGTH I FIND A STRANGE ASYLUM 243 CHAPTER XXII. THE FAMILY OF THE SPANISH MERCHANT 263 CHAPTER XXIII. HOW WE SAIL TO JOIN THE PEARL FLEET, AND THE NEGRO DIVER’S STORY 282 CHAPTER XXIV. MY ADVENTURES AMONG THE PEARL FISHERS, AND MY ESCAPE FROM THE FLEET 303 CHAPTER XXV. THE PIRAGUA IS PICKED UP BY A GREAT PRIVATEER, AND I FIND MYSELF AMONG NEW SHIPMATES 338 CHAPTER XXVI. THE LEGEND OF THE DEMON WHO HAUNTS POINT MORANT IN JAMAICA 357 CHAPTER XXVII. WHAT HAPPENS ABOARD THE ‘SAUCY SUSAN’—AND THE ENDING OF HER AND HER CREW 369 CHAPTER XXVIII. THE FOODLESS BOAT AND THE ISLAND 397 CHAPTER XXIX. THE DISCOVERY OF A NEW WORLD 412 CHAPTER THE LAST. I MEET OLD FRIENDS 416 LEONARD LINDSAY; OR, THE STORY OF A BUCCANEER. CHAPTER I. OF MY BOYHOOD, AND HOW, BEING CAST AWAY AT SEA, I AM CARRIED TO THE WEST INDIES AGAINST MY WILL. It was in the fair sunlight of a May morning, in the year of Grace 1672, that that great brave ship, the Golden Grove of Leith, hoisted her broad sails, with many a fluttering pendant and streamer above them, and stood proudly down the Firth of Forth, designing to reach the open ocean, not far from the hill, well known to mariners by the name of the North Berwick Law. On board of the Golden Grove, I, LEONARD LINDSAY, then in my twenty-second year, was, you must know, a sailor, and I hope a bold one. My father was a fisherman, and, as I may say, his coble was my cradle. Many a rough rocking in truth it bestowed upon me, for it was his use even before I could go alone, to carry me with him a fishing, wrapped up, it may be, in a tattered sail, while my mother, with a creel upon her back, journeyed through the landward towns, and to the houses of the gentry, to sell the spoil of hook and net.