Journal du Voyage fait a la Mer de Sud, avec les Flibustiers de l'Amerique

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Author: Raveneau de Lussan, Sieur de (1663-170?) Year: 1690 Publisher: Chez Jean Baptiste Coignard Place: Paris Description: [16]+272 pages. Duodecimo (5 1/4" x 3 1/4") bound in full later calf with blind-stamped ruled edges with red label to spine in gilt lettering. (Hill 1423. European American 690/104; Palau 248537; Sabin 67984) Second edition. Raveneau de Lussan (born 1663 in Paris) was a French buccaneer. He belonged to a noble but impoverished family, and embraced a military career at the age of 14. In 1679 he embarked for Santo Domingo in search of fortune, but was unsuccessful, and joined the buccaneers under Laurens de Graaf, sailing from Petit-Goâve, 22 November 1684. He soon left de Graaf at the head of a band of his own, and in 1685 pillaged the town of El Realejo. In 1686 his band took part in the capture of Grenada, and, not finding the booty they expected, set fire to the city. After this Lussan separated from the English pirates, but he joined them again for the purpose of attacking Guayaquil, which they took with much booty. Lussan and a part of his followers then sailed for Tehuantepec, which they captured, and went as far north as Acapulco. They returned to Mapala, a port north of El Realejo, and deliberated on the route they should take to reach the Antilles. It was agreed to march to Nueva Segovia, a town situated on the Coco River, which empties into the Atlantic. Of this expedition Voltaire said: "The retreat of the ten thousand will always be more cel

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