"Letters Patent" to Ralegh--"El Dorado" again--Ralegh's first voyage to Guiana--Keymis and Berrie--The Dutch in Guiana--Charles Leigh founds a settlement--Robert Harcourt's colony--Ralegh's imprisonment--He is released to again visit Guiana--Disastrous results--Roger North's colony--King James's want of policy--Changes after his death--St. Christopher's and Barbados--North's colony again--The Bahamas--The French and Dutch settlements--Rise of the Dutch--The French and English at St. Christopher's. V. BUCCANEERS, FILIBUSTERS, AND PIRATES 90-112 The buccaneers of Hispaniola--Tortuga--Bay of Campeachy--Privateers turning pirates--Pierre Legrand--Captains de Basco and Brouage--Captain Lawrence--Montbar the "Exterminator"--Lolonois--Morgan storms and captures Panama--He settles down in Jamaica--Van Horn--Raid on the South Sea--Lionel Wafer's journey across the Isthmus. VI. WAR IN THE YOUNG COLONIES 113-136 Spanish raids--Effects of the "Great English Revolution"--The Caribbee Islands in revolt--Cavaliers and Roundheads in Barbados--Charles the Second declared king--Lord Willoughby arrives with a Commission from the fugitive--Persecution of the Roundheads--Sir George Ayscue sent out with a fleet to reduce Barbados--The island blockaded--Its surrender--Surinam held for the king--Cromwell and Spain--The Expedition to St. Domingo--Capture of Jamaica--Colonisation of the island--The Council for foreign plantations. VII. THE PLANTERS AND THEIR SLAVES 137-159 First adventurers not agriculturalists--Slaves wanted--Negroes imported--Sugar--Cotton--Tobacco--First plantations--Kidnapping-- Prisoners transported--English slave-trade--Comparative cost of negroes and whites--Rebels--Story of Henry Pitman--Condition of the bond-servants--Life of the planter--Dangers of the voyage--Jamaica--Slavery in Africa--Treatment of the West Indian slave. VIII. THE STRUGGLE FOR SUPREMACY 160-183 Trade disputes between England and Holland--War--The buccaneers employed--Repulse of De Ruyter at Barbados--Capture of Dutch colonies by English--The French drive the English from St. Kitt's--Abortive attempts for its recapture--Peace of Breda--The value of the buccaneers to Jamaica--Character of the three nations now contending for supremacy--Case of Surinam--English refused permission to leave with their slaves--War again--Peace of Westminster and the exodus from Surinam--Case of Jeronomy Clifford--Sir Henry Morgan represses buccaneering--Another war--Du Casse and the Corsairs--Jacques Cassard--Curious position of Berbice--Cassard takes Curaçao--His downfall. IX. THE STRUGGLE FOR THE DARIEN TRADE 184-206