The Memoirs of Pere Labat, 1693-1705: First English Translation

ISBN-13: 9780714619408 / Angielski / Twarda / 1970 / 262 str.

Jean Baptiste

Opis

During his stay in the West Indies as a Dominican missionary, pere Labat was able to observe buccaneers and their ships. His adventures in this turbulent period are varied, but it is in the descriptions of the lives of the different races that the value of his memoirs resides.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 The Departure from France; Chapter 2 The Voyage to Martinique; Chapter 3 The Priests and the Nuns of Martinique; Chapter 4 Filibusters; Chapter 5 Père Romanet and Two Ladies; Chapter 6 PèRe XXX; Chapter 7 A Murder and Its Punishment; Chapter 8 A Picnic; Chapter 9 Slaves, Agents, and Interlopers; Chapter 10 The Diablotin; Chapter 11 A Plantation Feud; Chapter 12 Carib Indians; Chapter 13 A Carib Carbet; Chapter 14 Dominica Caribs; Chapter 15 Voyage to Barbados— Renada, St. Vincent and St. Lucia; Chapter 16 Voyage to San Domingo—St. Kitts—Père Cabasson's Monkey; Chapter 17 Contraband; Chapter 18 Hunters; Chapter 19 Capture of Labat by Spaniards; Chapter 20 St. Thomas; Chapter 21 Saba; Chapter 22 General Codrington; Chapter 23 A Commis Du Domaine; Chapter 24 Captain Daniel: Pirate; Chapter 25 Two Incidents in the Fighting at Guadeloupe; Chapter 26 L'Abbé Signier; Chapter 27 Captain Daniel: Filibuster; Chapter 28 Labat's Departure from Martinique and Arrival at Cadiz;

O autorze

John Eaden, Philip Gosse