THE PIRATES'WHO'S WHO

Giving Particulars of the Lives & Deaths
of the Pirates & Buccaneers

BY PHILIP GOSSE

"Let it be made clear at the very outset of this Preface that the pages which follow do not pretend to be a history of piracy, but are simply an attempt to gather together, from various sources, particulars of those redoubtable pirates and buccaneers whose names have been handed down to us in a desultory way.

I do not deal here with the children of fancy; I believe that every man, or woman too—since certain of the gentler sex cut no small figure at the game—mentioned in this volume actually existed."