The Funeral of Captain Hall 269 Start of Lieutenant Payer’s Sledge Expedition 272 Fall of the Sledge into a Crevasse 273 View of Cape Horn 277 Lisbon in the 16th Century 281 Bartholomew Diaz on his Voyage to the Cape 284 Christopher Columbus 285 Caravels of Columbus 288 Columbus’s First Sight of Land 289 Discovery of the Isle of Spain 292 Reception of Columbus by Ferdinand and Isabella _To face page_ 293 Ancient Gold-washing at St. Domingo 293 Columbus under Arrest 297 View of Calicut in the 15th Century 300 Vasco da Gama 301 Ojeda’s Attempted Escape 305 The Death of La Cosa 309 Arrival of Ojeda and his Followers at the Indian 312 Village Ferdinand de Magellan 317 [Illustration] THE SEA. CHAPTER I. THE PIRATES AND BUCANIERS. Who was the First Pirate?—The Society of Bucaniers—Home of the Freebooters—Rise of the Band—Impecunious Spanish Governors and their Roguery—Great Capture of Spanish Treasure—An Unjust Seizure, but no Redress—Esquemeling’s Narrative—Voyage from Havre—“Baptism” of the French Mariners—Other Ceremonies—At Tortuga—Occupied and re-occupied by French and Spanish—The French West India Company—Esquemeling twice sold as a Slave—He joins the Society of Pirates—Wild Boars and Savage Mastiffs—How the Wild Dogs came to the Islands—Cruelty of the Planters—A Terrible Case of Retribution—The Murderer of a Hundred Slaves—The First Tortugan Pirate—Pierre le Grand—A Desperate Attack—Rich Prize taken—Rapid Spread of Piracy—How the Rovers armed their Ships—Regulations of their Voyages—“No Prey, no Pay”—The richly-laden Vessels of New Spain—The Pearl Fisheries—An Enterprising Pirate—Success and Failure—His Final Surrender.