[Footnote 101: In this monograph, by "buccaneers" are always meant the corsairs and filibusters, and not the cattle and hog killers of Hispaniola and Tortuga.] [Footnote 102: Labat: Nouveau voyage aux isles de l'Amerique, _ed._ 1742, tom. vii. p. 233.] [Footnote 103: Le Pers, printed in Margry, _op. cit._] [Footnote 104: Le Pers, printed in Margry, _op. cit._] [Footnote 105: Dampier writes that "Privateers are not obliged to any ship, but free to go ashore where they please, or to go into any other ship that will entertain them, only paying for their provision." (Edition 1906, i. p. 61).] [Footnote 106: Labat, _op. cit._, tom. i. ch. 9.] [Footnote 107: Labat, _op. cit._, tom. vii. ch. 17.] [Footnote 108: Ibid., tom. ii. ch. 17.] [Footnote 109: Gibbs: British Honduras, p. 25.] [Footnote 110: A Spaniard, writing from S. Domingo in 1635, complains of an English buccaneer settlement at Samana (on the north coast of Hispaniola, near the Mona Passage), where they grew tobacco, and preyed on the ships sailing from Cartagena and S. Domingo for Spain. (Add. MSS., 13,977, f. 508.)] [Footnote 111: A piece of eight was worth in Jamaica from 4s. 6d. to 5s.] [Footnote 112: Exquemelin, _ed._ 1684, Part I. pp. 21-22.] [Footnote 113: Dutertre, _op. cit._, tom. i. ch. vi.] [Footnote 114: Charlevoix, _op. cit._, liv. vii. p. 16.] [Footnote 115: Charlevoix, _op. cit._, liv. vii. pp. 17-18.] [Footnote 116: According to a Spanish MS., there were in Tortuga in 1653 700 French inhabitants, more than 200 negroes, and 250 Indians with their wives and children. The negroes and Indians were all slaves; the former seized on the coasts of Havana and Cartagena, the latter brought over from Yucatan. In the harbour the platform had fourteen cannon, and in the fort above were forty-six cannon, many of them of bronze (Add. MSS., 13,992, f. 499 _ff._). The report of the amount of ordnance is doubtless an exaggeration.] [Footnote 117: Add. MSS., 13,992, f. 499.] [Footnote 118: According to Dutertre, one vessel was commanded by the assassins, Martin and Thibault, and contained the women and children. The latter, when provisions ran low, were marooned on one of the Caymans, north-west of Jamaica, where they would have perished had not a Dutch ship found and rescued them. Martin and Thibault were never heard of again.] CHAPTER III THE CONQUEST OF JAMAICA