Adventure Magazine Cover, December 10, 1922 — page 193: what you’re looking at

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Ask Adventure the Pirates,’ London, 1726, or one of the several In conclusion there is the relation of 26 pages of a voyage made by the Sieur de Montauban, Captain of the Freebooters on the coast of Guinea, in the year 1695. (Whole in two volumes.) All the above is printed in English and is copied verbatim (but without the index, and the four books not divided, although by the chapters you can readily tell where one leaves off and another begins) in the edition of 1853 (one volume). In the French editions probably the voyages of Sharp, Coxon, etc., would be omitted, and more stress laid on French exploits. The same—stressing the operations of their own nationality—in the German and Spanish editions. As they are all out of print the only way to obtain them is of a private individual, at auction, or through some bookseller who specializes in such things. In ten years I have seen only one odd vyol- ume (Vol. II) of the English edition on sale, and that at auction. The French editions are more often met with, and can be purchased more cheaply. As I have said, I have not seen the English edition on sale since I bought the one I have described heretofore some fifteen years ago for $100. I know an individual who has—or had some months ago—both that edition and the one of 1853. At that time he was willing to sell the 1741 edition (2 vols. very quaintly illustrated with woodcuts of Morgan, Llolonnois, Roc the Brazilian, Bat the Portuguese, battles and maps, and beautifully rebound in full morocco) for $75, and the edition of 1853 (1 vol. with frontispiece and illustrations of Morgan, Llolonnois, etc., copied from old edition) for $20. I do not know if he still has them or if they are still for sale. I will inquire for you if you wish me to. I should doubt your being able to get the English editions for less unless by chance. “The Voyages of Capt. Barth and Others” I am unfamiliar with. “Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coast,” by Frank Russel Stockton, is not contained in the best edition of his (so-called) complete works, which I have. It was published (by Harper, I think) about 1890, and is probably out of print. It is only a col- lection of a dozen or so lives, apparently picked at random from Johnson. I saw it sell at auction a year or so since for two or three dollars. James Burney’s “History of the Buccaneers of America” was published in 1816 in London. Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons, near Lincoln’s-Inn Fields; for Payne and Foss, Pall-Mall, it forms one of the five quarto volumes of his masterly work, issued between the years 1803-1817, under the general title, ““A Chronological History of the Voyages and Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean.” I have a very beautiful reprint in one vol. half morocco, published by Swan, Sonnenschein & Co., London, Paternoster Square, 1891, which I think cost about $5 fifteen years ago. I have also an edition in one small voulme, but complete, published by the Unit Library, Limited, Leicester Square, London and New York, 1902, which I picked up in a department store for about twenty-five cents. It makes a handy pocket edition. lor general purposes this is all that is necessary, and covers all the others, for information on the early or buccaneers proper, down to the days of such pirates as Kidd, Blackbeard, etc., for which purpose you would want Capt. Charles Johnson’s “Lives of copies of his lives (which the Stockton book is to a limited extent). I would refer you to a long letter of mine in the “A. A.” section of the Feb. 20, 1922, issue, Vol. XXXII, No. 2, in which I give a long list of pirate publications. As to a genealogical history of the family of Morgan in America, I can not advise you. Libbie has none in a recent catalog, composed entirely of genealogies. If you were thinking of the buccaneer, Sir Henry Morgan, he was of obscure Welsh parent- age and left no descendants. Trust that this may be of service to you, and regret that I can give you no more definite informa- tion. The full statement of the sections, as given in this issue, is printed only in alternate issues. ’Gator-Hunting in Florida ea to be more sport than profit in it: Question: —‘Would like to ask you a few questions regardiag alligator-hunting in Florida. Are they plentiful there? Could you inform me where I could go to hunt same? Also what sort of equipment would we need as there are two of us? Is there any market for ’gator hides? And where? We thought perhaps we could make a business as well as a pleasure trip there. What sort of a boat would you recommend to us? Also could you give us an estimate upon the cost of an outfit minus the grub part? At present our outfit consists of a .401 auto Win., .45 Colt automatic, an eight-m.m. Mauser carbine and a .45 Govt. ~~ S. & W. revolver. Would these arms be suitable for our purpose?” —W. Da.ton, New Orleans, La. Answer, by Mr. Liebe:—Alligators are by no means so plentiful as they once were in Florida. Those that are left are to be found in the wild places, anywhere in the State. There is a market for ’gator hides, yes, but not a good one; I’m told that it’s worth as much as the hide brings to skin them now. There is a firm or two in Jacksonville that buys them, but I don’t recall the names just now. Nearly any kind of boat will do, and nearly any kind of gun, though a high-power rifle is best, and especially an explosive bullet is best. way to hunt them is to go at night with a strong 187 The best light, “shine their eyes,” shoot them, mark the spot — with a weight and a float with a cord between, and go back next day to grapple for them. (At that you won’t find half of them!) Any of the weapons you name will be all right. There’s a lot of poppycock about this notion that ’sators are so hard to kill. A .22 bullet will kill one if you hit him in a vital spot—backbone, brain or heart. . Cost of an outfit? It would depend on whether it | was new or second-hand, of what it consisted, and where you got it. Not much is needed. A tent, Army-type beds, blankets, cooking-utensils, ax, lantern, carbid light, emergency remedies (and don’t Gomichbooks