One of four New England pirates who in the middle of the seventeenth century rowed up the Saugus river and landed at a place called Lynn Woods. The boat contained, besides the pirates, a quantity of plunder and a beautiful young woman. They built a hut on Dungeon Rock, dug a well, and lived there until the woman died. Three of the pirates were captured, and ended their days on the gallows in England. Thomas Veale escaped and went to live in a cave, where he is supposed to have hidden his booty, but he continued to work as a cordwainer. In the earthquake of 1658 the cave was blocked up by pieces of rock, and Veale was never seen again. VERPRE, CAPTAIN. French filibuster. His ship _Le Postillion_ carried a crew of twenty-five men and was armed with two guns. VIGERON, CAPTAIN. French filibuster. Of San Domingo. Commanded a bark, _La Louse_, thirty men and four guns. VILLA RISE. In the year 1621 this Moorish pirate commanded a small squadron of five vessels which took an English ship, the _George Bonaventure_ (Captain John Rawlins, Plymouth), in the Straits of Gibraltar. One of the finest deeds ever achieved by English sailors was the escape of Rawlins and some of his crew from the Moors at Alexandria in a stolen ship. VAN VIN, MOSES. Buccaneer. One of L'Ollonais's officers. After burning Puerto Cavallo and torturing and murdering the inhabitants, L'Ollonais marched away to attack the town of San Pedro with 300 of his crew, leaving van Vin as his lieutenant to govern the rest of his men during his absence. VIRGIN, HENRY. Of Bristol. One of Major Stede Bonnet's crew of the _Royal James_. Hanged for piracy at White Point, Charleston, South Carolina, on November 8th, 1718, and buried in the marsh below low-water mark. VIVON, CAPTAIN M. LA. French filibuster. Commanded the _Cour Valant_ of La Rochelle. In December, 1668, his ship was seized by Captain Collier for having robbed an English ship of provisions. WAFER, LIONEL. Surgeon, buccaneer, and author. Believed to have been born about the year 1660. He could speak Gaelic and also Erse, which languages he had learnt during his childhood, which was spent partly in the Highlands of Scotland and partly in Ireland. In 1677 he sailed as mate to the surgeon of the _Great Ann_, of London (Captain Zachary Browne), bound for Java. Two years later, he again sailed as surgeon's mate on a voyage to the West Indies. He deserted his ship at Jamaica and set himself up as a surgeon at Port Royal, but one day meeting with two noted buccaneers, Captain Linch and Captain Cook, he agreed to sail with them as ship's surgeon.