VIII SAMUEL BELLAMY, WHOSE SHIP WAS WRECKED AT WELLFLEET AND 142 DROWNED 116 IX GEORGE LOWTHER, WHO CAPTURED THIRTY-THREE VESSELS IN SEVENTEEN MONTHS 132 X NED LOW OF BOSTON AND HOW HE BECAME A PIRATE CAPTAIN 141 XI CAPTAIN ROBERTS’ CURIOUS ACCOUNT OF WHAT HAPPENED ON LOW’S SHIP 157 XII THE BRUTAL CAREER AND MISERABLE END OF NED LOW 200 XIII THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF PHILIP ASHTON 218 XIV NICHOLAS MERRITT’S ACCOUNT OF HIS ESCAPE FROM PIRATES 270 XV FRANCIS FARRINGTON SPRIGGS, THE COMPANION OF NED LOW 277 XVI CHARLES HARRIS, WHO WAS HANGED AT NEWPORT WITH TWENTY-FIVE OF HIS CREW 288 XVII JOHN PHILLIPS, WHOSE HEAD WAS CUT OFF AND PICKLED 310 XVIII WILLIAM FLY, WHO WAS HANGED IN CHAINS ON NIX’S MATE 328 XIX PIRATE HAUNTS AND CRUISING GROUNDS 338 XX PIRATE LIFE AND DEATH 353 APPENDIX I CAPTAIN PLOUGHMAN’S COMMISSION 371 II CAPTAIN PLOUGHMAN’S INSTRUCTIONS 373 III DYING SPEECH OF CAPTAIN QUELCH 376 IV JOHN FILLMORE’S NARRATIVE 379 V AN “ACT OF GRACE” 381 INDEX 383 ILLUSTRATIONS BOSTON HARBOR FROM THE SURVEY IN THE “ENGLISH PILOT,” Part IV. London, 1707 _Front end-paper_ From an original in the Harvard College Library. VIEW OF THE HARBOR AND TOWN OF BOSTON IN 1723 _Frontispiece_ From an engraving in the British Museum after a drawing by William Burgis. FAC-SIMILE OF THE TITLE-PAGE OF CAPT. CHARLES JOHNSON’S “HISTORY OF THE PIRATES,” London, 1724 1 From an original in the library of the Massachusetts Historical Society. MAP OF THE WEST INDIES ABOUT 1720, SHOWING “THE TRACTS OF THE SPANISH GALLIONS” 10 From Herman Moll’s “Atlas Minor,” London, 1732, in the Harvard College Library. CAPT. HENRY MORGAN, THE BUCCANEER, BEFORE PANAMA 14 From an engraving in Johnson’s “General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Pyrates,” etc., London, 1734, in the Harry Elkins Widener Collection, Harvard College Library. FAC-SIMILE OF THE TITLE-PAGE OF REV. COTTON MATHER’S “PILLARS OF SALT, AN HISTORY OF SOME CRIMINALS EXECUTED IN THIS LAND,” Boston, 1699 26 From an original in the Harvard College Library.