Surcouf, Robert, famous French privateer captain; his origin, 240; destined for the Church, 240; sent to a seminary, 240; resents chastisement, and runs away, 241; ships on a brig, 241; volunteer on _Aurora_, 241; behaves well in a storm, 242; wreck of the slave ship, 242; his zeal and courage afterwards, 243; returns home, 243; back to Indian seas, 243; mate in a trading vessel, 243; enmity of the chief officer, 244; nearly dies in a fit, 244; episode at death-bed of chief officer, 245; joins a colonial war-ship, 245; in an action with English war-ships, 246; is commended, 247; commands a slave brig, 247; episode with the Health Committee, 247-249; offered command of a privateer, 249; commission refused, 249; sails as an armed trader, 249; narrowly escapes capture, 250; determines to act as a privateer, 250; captures several ships, and exchanges into one, 250, 251; captures the _Triton_ Indiaman, 252-254; his brig is captured, 255; arrives at Mauritius and finds his actions condemned, 255; he appeals home successfully, and pockets his unlawful gains, 255; becomes engaged to Marie Blaize, 255; goes to sea again, makes a prize, and arrives at Mauritius, 256; narrow escape from an English frigate, 256; captures an American ship, 257; the Governor prevents him from fighting a duel, 258; his capture of the _Kent_ East Indiaman, 258-260; returns home and is married, 261; his last ship, the _Ghost_, 261; complaint of merchants and East India company, 261; settles down at St. Malo; his death, 261; other references, 207, 262 Surcouf, Robert (great-nephew and biographer of the privateersman), 248, 251, 252, 256, 258 Syracuse, 234, 235 Talbot, Captain James, 149, 150, 151 Talbot, Captain (or Colonel) Silas; his birth, 274; ships as cabin-boy, 274; captain in U.S. army, 274; commands a fireship, 274; captures an English vessel at Rhode Island, 275; commands the _Argo_, a small privateer, 275; captures a Rhode Island privateer, 276; action with the _Dragon_ and marvellous escapes, 277; in company with _Saratoga_ captures a Dublin privateer, 278; ridiculous story, 278, 279; encounters an honest Scotchman, and takes his ship, 280; commands _General Washington_, but is soon captured, 280; his alleged ungenerous treatment by a "Scotch lord," 281; imprisoned at New York, 281; sent to England and imprisoned at Dartmoor, 281; vainly attempts to escape, is eventually liberated and returns to America, 281; his death, 281 Taylor, Captain, 165 Tea, recipe for making at sea, 148 _Teméraire_, 234 Teneriffe, 47 _Terrible_, 106-111 _Thetis_, 342, 343, 344, 347, 348, 350, 351, 352 Thibaut, Captain, 264, 265 _Three Sisters_, 362-364 Thurot, Émile, successful French privateer captain, 262