FACING PAGE Money of the buccaneers’ times 16 Cruising about in small boats and attacking every Spanish ship they saw 17 He managed to secure two earthen wine jars and plugged their necks, with the idea of using them as floats 34 The buccaneers swarmed over the ship’s rails 35 Sir Henry Morgan, the most famous of the buccaneers, with one of his crew 76 Burning the galleon 77 The buccaneers’ fleet 116 The ruined tower of the cathedral in Old Panama 117 Near the cathedral are the walls of the ancient fort 117 Dampier wrote his journal during lulls between battles 140 Piraguas. It was in boats like these that the earlier buccaneers captured their first Spanish ships 141 Two ships were promptly fired and sunk 168 The battered, patched old galleon sailed southward around Cape Horn 169 The merchants bid for the loot brought ashore 188 All were in the best of spirits, smoking, drinking, spinning yarns of the sea 189 The last of the pirate ships, the Vigilant, as she was originally rigged. Now a packet in the West Indies 244 THE BOYS’ BOOK OF BUCCANEERS CHAPTER I WHO AND WHAT WERE THE BUCCANEERS? Jack looked up from the book he had been reading. “Father,” he asked, “what was a buccaneer? Cousin Fred says buccaneers and pirates were the same thing, and Jim says they were not, and in this story they speak of pirates and buccaneers both.” “Fred and Jim are both wrong and both right,” replied Mr. Bickford. “Buccaneers were pirates, but pirates were not necessarily buccaneers. But nowadays the two are often confused and writers of stories do not seem to realize the difference and make it still more confusing. When Fred comes over to-night bring him into the library, and I’ll try to straighten out the puzzle and tell you about the buccaneers.” “Say, Fred!” cried Jack, when his cousin came bouncing into Jack’s den that evening. “You were way off. Buccaneers were not the same as pirates. Dad says so, and he’s going to tell us all about them to-night. Come on down to the library.” “That’ll be dandy,” agreed Fred, enthusiastically. “And of course if Uncle Henry says they’re not the same, why they’re not, but I always thought they were. I wonder if Captain Kidd was a pirate or a buccaneer.” “Ask Dad, he knows!” laughed Jack, as the two raced downstairs to Mr. Bickford’s library.