CAPT. JACOB DUNHAM.
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 onethousand eight hundred and fifty, by JACOB DUNHAM, in the Clerk's Officeof 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—withsome 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
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