BRIGANTINE CHASING FELUCCA 236

GOZON DE DIEU-DONNÉ SLAYING THE GREAT SERPENT OF RHODES 294

CARRACK IN WHICH THE KNIGHTS ARRIVED AT MALTA, 1530 300

JEAN PARISOT DE LA VALETTE, GRAND MASTER OF THE KNIGHTS
OF MALTA, AT THE SIEGE OF THAT ISLAND BY THE TURKS
IN 1565 324

DEATH OF DRAGUT AT THE SIEGE OF MALTA 340

A GALLEY OF THE KNIGHTS OF MALTA 354

DON JOHN OF AUSTRIA 362

SEBASTIAN VENIERO 364




INTRODUCTORY

In all the ages of which we have any record there have been men who gained
a living by that practice of robbery on the high seas which we know by the
name of Piracy. Perhaps the pirates best known to the English-speaking
world are the buccaneers of the Spanish Main, who flourished exceedingly in
the seventeenth century, and of whom many chronicles exist: principally
owing to the labours of that John Esquemelin, a pirate of a literary turn