The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII CenturyHaring, Clarence Henry
History
The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century
Haring, Clarence Henry
Buccaneers; West Indies -- History
The History of the Bucaniers; being an impartial
relation of all the battels, sieges, and other most
eminent assaults committed for several years upon the
coasts of the West Indies by the pirates of Jamaica and
Tortuga. More especially the unparalleled achievements
of Sir Henry Morgan ... very much corrected from the
errors of the original, by the relations of some English
gentlemen, that then resided in those parts. _Den
Engelseman is een Duyvil voor een Mensch._ London,
printed for Thomas Malthus at the Sun in the Poultry.
1684.
(Brit. Mus., G. 13,674.)
The first edition of 1684 was reprinted with a new title-page in 1695,
and again in 1699. The latter included, in addition to the text of
Exquemelin, the journals of Basil Ringrose and Raveneau de Lussan, both
describing voyages in the South Seas, and the voyage of the Sieur de
Montauban to Guinea in 1695. This was the earliest of the composite
histories of the buccaneers and became the model for the Dutch edition
of 1700 and the French editions published at Trevoux in 1744 and 1775.
The first French translation of Exquemelin appeared two years after the
English edition of 1684. It is entitled:
Histoire des Aventuriers qui se sont signalez dans les
Indes contenant ce qu'ils ont fait de plus remarquable
depuis vingt annees. Avec la vie, les Moeurs, les
Coutumes des Habitans de Saint Domingue et de la Tortue
et une Description exacte de ces lieux; ... Le tout
enrichi de Cartes Geographiques et de Figures en
Taille-douce. Par Alexandre Olivier Oexmelin. A Paris,
chez Jacques Le Febre. MDCLXXXVI., 2 vols. 12º.
(Brit. Mus., 9555, aa. 4.)
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