Journal of Voyages Containing an Account of the Author's being Twice Captured by the English and Once by Gibbs the Pirate...   By: Jacob Dunham (1779-)

JOURNAL OF VOYAGES:

CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR'S BEING TWICE CAPTURED BY THE ENGLISH AND ONCE BY GIBBS THE PIRATE;

HIS NARROW ESCAPE WHEN CHASED BY AN ENGLISH WAR SCHOONER;

AS WELL AS HIS BEING CAST AWAY AND RESIDING WITH INDIANS.

TO WHICH IS ADDED

Some account of the Soil, Products, Laws and Customs of Chagres, the Musquitto Shore, and St. Blas, at the Isthmus of Darien.

With Illustrations.

BY CAPTAIN JACOB DUNHAM.

NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR, And Sold by Huestis & Cozans, 104 and 106 Nassau street.

1850.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty, by JACOB DUNHAM, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York.

D. Fanshaw, Printer and Stereotyper, 35 Ann, corner of Nassau street.

CONTENTS.

page.

AUTHOR'S APOLOGY, 9

EARLY LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, 11

CHAPTER I. Sloop Rover Capture by the English Sale and sinking of the Sloop Rover, 13

CHAP. II. Sloop New York Second capture by the English Exchange of Prisoners, 30

CHAP. III. Sloop Biddle Captain's Mitchell and Lafitte, the Pirates, 37

CHAP. IV. Casting away of the Sloop Biddle near Waa waa River with some account of the Indians, 52

CHAP. V. Pearl Key Lagoon, and more of the Indians, 70

CHAP. VI. Runaway Negroes among the Indians The Sookerman, 77

CHAP. VII. Visit to Corn Island, 89

CHAP. VIII. Visit to Bluefields Permit of George Frederick, King of the Musquitto Nation, 92

CHAP. IX. Mode of Taking Turtle Musquitto Laws Produce Customs, &c. 98

CHAP. X. Some description of the country and inhabitants of the Musquitto Nation, 105

CHAP. XI. Sloop Governor Tompkins, 111

CHAP. XII. Schooner Price, First Voyage Leading the dance in Old Providence A ball at St. Andreas, 115

CHAP. XIII. Schooner Price, Second Voyage Landing at St. Blas, 120

CHAP. XIV. The harbor of Little Cordee Trading with the Indians, 125

CHAP. XV. Schooner Price, Third Voyage A fleet of Patriots (or pirates) at Old Providence, 140

CHAP. XVI. Schooner Price, Fourth Voyage Our Boats fired into at Corn Island, 151

CHAP. XVII. Schooner Enterprise, 160

CHAP. XVIII. Schooner Felicity Republicans and Royalists of Port au Prince, 162

CHAP. XIX. Schooner Felicity, Second Voyage The smartest Padre (or priest) in the West Indies, 167

CHAP. XX. Schooner Combine Captured by the Pirates Placed in the ring to be shot Capture of the Aristides by Pirates, 170

CHAP. XXI. Schooner Combine, Second Voyage Our trade in Horses The Yellow Fever at Port au Prince Counterfeit Coin Arbitrary Laws, 187

CHAP. XXII. Schooner Combine, Third Voyage, 194

CHAP. XXIII. Capture of the Piratical Vessels by Lieutenant Commandant Allen, 199

CHAP. XXIV. Schooner Allen Chased by an English Schooner Horrible attrocities committed by Pirates on the Spanish Main, 205

CHAP. XXV. Schooner Frances Trading Voyage to Musquitto Shore, Chagres, Porto Bello, &c. The Author officiates at a christening, 216