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had on board
a priest's black gown and broad brimmed hat. These he put on and sat
in his cabin pretending to tell his beads. On the pirates coming to rob
him, they all crossed themselves and left him, so that he alone of the
whole company was not robbed.
ALEXANDER, JOHN.
A Scotch buccaneer; one of Captain Sharp's crew. Drowned on May
9th, 1681. Captain Sharp, with a party of twenty-four men, had landed
on the Island of Chiva, off the coast of Peru, and taken several
prisoners, amongst whom was a shipwright and his man, who were
actually at work building two great ships for the Spaniards. Sharp,
thinking these men would be very useful to him, took them away, with
all their tools and a quantity of ironwork, in a dory, to convey them off
to his ship. But the dory, being overladen, sank, and Alexander was
drowned. On the evening of May 12th his body was found; which they
took up, and next day "threw him overboard, giving him three French
vollies for his customary ceremony."
ALI BASHA.
Of Algiers. Barbary corsair.
Conquered the Kingdom of Tunis in the sixteenth century, and captured

many Maltese galleys. He brought the development of organized piracy
to its greatest perfection.
In 1571 Ali Basha commanded a fleet of no fewer than 250 Moslem
galleys in the battle of Lepanto, when he was severely defeated, but
escaped with his life.
ALLESTON, CAPTAIN.
Commanded a vessel of eighteen tons, no guns, and a crew of
twenty-four. In March, 1679, sailed in company with eight other
vessels, under command of Captain Harris, to the Coast of Darien, and
marched on foot across the isthmus, on his way attacking and sacking
Santa Maria.
AMAND or ANNAND, ALEXANDER.
Of Jamaica.
One of Major Stede Bonnet's crew in the Royal James. Hanged on
November 8th, 1718, at White Point, Charleston, South Carolina, and
buried in the marsh below low-water mark.
AMEER, IBRAHIM.
An admiral of an Arabian fleet of Red Sea pirates. In 1816 he captured
four British merchant vessels on their way to Surat.
ANDRESON, CAPTAIN CORNELIUS.
A Dutch pirate. Sailed from Boston in 1674 with Captain Roderigo to
plunder English ships along the coast of Maine, in a vessel called the
Penobscot Shallop.
Tried at Cambridge, Massachusetts, sentenced to death, but later on
pardoned. Afterwards fought very bravely for the English colonists
against the Indians.
ANDROEAS, CAPTAIN.

A Chief or Captain of the Darien Indians, who in 1679 conducted the
buccaneers under Coxon and Harris across the isthmus to attack Santa
Maria and afterwards to make an attempt on Panama.
Captain Androeas had a great esteem for the English, partly because the
buccaneers were kind to the Indians, and partly because of the Indians'
fear and hatred of the Spaniards. He afterwards led back a party of
malcontents under Captain Coxon from the Pacific side of the isthmus.
ANGORA, Sultan of Timor.
Refusing to allow the East India Company to station garrisons on
Timor, he was driven out of the whole of his island except the chief
town, also called Angora.
Deciding to take revenge, he turned pirate and went to sea in command
of a small fleet of five well-armed prows and several galleys. His first
prize was a packet brig carrying despatches from Calcutta to the
English General before Angora. Captain Hastings, the commander, a
near relation of Warren Hastings, and a gallant officer, had thrown the
despatches overboard, for which he was hanged, while the crew were
sent to prison at Angora and afterwards poisoned. His next prize was an
East Indian ship, the Edward, Captain Harford, the crew of which were
also poisoned. Cruising off Bombay he defeated a vessel sent out by
the Government to attack him. After taking other English vessels,
Angora met with a richly laden ship from Burmah, a country whose
sovereign he was on friendly terms with, but the Sultan-pirate took this
ship and drowned every soul on board except one woman, who, owing
to her great beauty, he kept for himself. His next victim was a
well-armed Malay praam, which he captured after a severe fight. The
crew he shackled and threw overboard, while he burnt the vessel.
Paying another visit to Bombay, he caught the garrison unprepared,
blew up the fort, and sailed off with some sheep, cows, and pigs. A few
days later the pirate seized an English packet, St. George, and after he
had tortured to death the captain, the terrified crew joined his service.
Returning to Timor with his plunder, he was surprised by the arrival off
the port of H.M.S. Victorious, seventy-four guns, which had been sent
to take him. Slipping out of harbour unobserved in the night in his

fastest sailing praam, he escaped to Trincomalee in Ceylon, where the