[Footnote 7: _Histoire des Avanturiers Flibustiers, avec la Vie, les Moeurs, et les Coutumes des Boucaniers_, par A.O. Oexmelin, who went out to the West Indies as a poor _Engage_, and became a Buccaneer. Four Volumes. New Edition, printed in 1744: Vol. III., containing the Journal of a Voyage made with _Flibustiers_ in the South Sea in 1685, by Le Sieur Ravenau de Lussan; and Vol. IV., containing a History of English pirates, with the Lives of two Female Pirates, Mary Read and Ann Bonny, and Extracts from Pirate-Codes: translated from the English of Captain Charles Johnson.--Charlevoix, _Histoire de St. Domingue_, Vols. III. and IV.--_The History of the Bucaniers of America, from the First Original down to this Time; written in several Languages, and now collected into One Volume._ Third Edition, London, 1704: containing Portraits of all the Celebrated _Flibustiers,_ and Plans of some of their Land-Attacks.--_Nouveaux Voyages aux Isles Francoises de l'Amerique_, par le Pere Labat, 1724, Tom. V, pp. 228-230. See also Archenholtz.] [Footnote 8: Not to be confounded with the Tortugas, the westernmost islands of the Florida Keys (_Cayos_, Spanish for rocks, shoals, or islets).] [Footnote 9: Charlevoix will have it reversed, and derives _flibustier_ from _freebooter;_ but this English word is not old enough to have been a vagrom in those seas at that time. Webster derives it from the Dutch _Vrijbuiter;_ but that and the corresponding German word were themselves derived. Schoelcher says that it is a corruption of an English word, _fly-boater_, one who manages a fly-boat; and he adds,--"Our _flibot_, a small and very fast craft, draws its origin from the English _fly-boat, bateau mouche, bateau volant_." But this is only a kind of pun. Perhaps the Dutch named it so, not from its swiftness, but from its resemblance, with its busy oars and darting motions, to a slender-legged fly. There appears to be no ground for saying that the boat was so called because it first came into use upon the river Vlie in Holland. It might have been a boat used by the inhabitants of Vlieland, a town on the island of the same name, north of Texel. _Freebooter_ is such a good word for _flibustier_ that it was easy to accuse it of the parentage.] [Footnote 10: Pinnaces of five or six tons, which could be packed on shipboard in pieces and put together when wanted, were built in the reign of Elizabeth. The name is of Spanish origin, from the pine used for material.] [Footnote 11: See a contract of this kind in _Histoire Generale des Antilles_, Du Tertre, Tom. I. p. 464.] [Footnote 12: Bancroft's _United States_, Vol. I. p. 14.] [Footnote 13: Buckle's _History of Civilization_, Vol. II. chap. 1.] A COMPLAINT OF FRIENDS.