The Life, Adventures, and Piracies of the famous Captain Singleton, who was set on shore in Madagascar, traversed the continent of Africa from east to west past the sources of the Nile, and went roving again in the company of the famous Captain Avery, was produced to satisfy the same demand.
"Daniel Defoe"
William Minto
Bitter feeling had been growing steadily between the two countries ever since Drake's Piracies in the Spanish dominions in America; and a gradually increasing fleet at Cadiz was the outward sign of it.
"By What Authority?"
Robert Hugh Benson
But they were wedded to their predatory life, returned with renewed zeal to their Piracies, and were finally destroyed by the State forces and a United States naval expedition, which burned their settlement, freed their slaves, razed their fortifications, confiscated their cannon, killed many of their people, and dispersed the rest among the swamps and forests of southern Louisiana.
"American Merchant Ships and Sailors"
Willis J. Abbot