231,239,255,261St. Martin's Road (Isle de Rhé),95St. Mary,6St. Mary, Island of (Madagascar),103St. Paul's Bay (Isle of Bourbon),247St. Pol, M. de (French mate),242St. Peter,28-32St. Vincent, Cape,182St. William,231,232Sandy Hook,278,281Sanspareil(alias Nonsuch),220-224,226Santa Anna Gratia,119Santa Familia,91,92Santa Rita,339Saratoga(American man-of-war),290Saratoga(American privateer), ridiculous story about,278,279Sardinia,141Sauret, Antoine,197,198,199,201Scarborough,9Schomberg, Captain (Naval chronicler),237Scilly Isles,214,228Scottish Rebellion of '45,151Selcraig (original name of Selkirk),74Selim, a young Turk,142-144Selkirk, Alexander;sailing master inCinque Ports,38;been with buccaneers,39;his hatred of Captain Stradling,39;determines to desert at Juan Fernandez,39;he is landed there,39;the prototype of Robinson Crusoe,40;is rescued by Woodes Rogers,56;describes his adventures,57,58;is reluctant to sail with Dampier,58,59;made a mate on boardDuke,59;returns to Scotland, but laments his island,73;elopes with Sophia Bruce,74;marries Mrs. Candis,74;dies in the Royal Navy,74;other references,62,66Semmes, Captain Raphael (of theAlabama),13Serieux,233,235-237Seychelles Islands,249,250Shannon, River,211Sheerness,165-167Shelvocke, George;commands two privateers under a foreign commission,75;goes to Ostend,75;commissions altered to English,76;commandsSpeedwellunder Clipperton inSuccess,76;his hatred of Clipperton,76;sails from Plymouth,76;they separate in a gale,77;he robs a Portuguese ship,77-80;alleged mutiny,80;runs far south,80;his officer shoots an albatross,81;Coleridge's albatross,81;rounds Cape Horn and sights Chili,81;lingers on the coast,81;captures two small prizes,81;his men are ambushed,82;burns a prize,82;sails for Juan Fernandez,82;finds there record of Clipperton,82;his disingenuousness,83;takes two guano ships,83;fires the town of Payta,84;action with a large Spanish ship,84-86;his officer's account of the action,86,87;is wrecked on Juan Fernandez,89;builds a small ship, captures and exchanges into a prize,90;unpleasant meeting with Clipperton,90;they part on bad terms,91;exchanges into another prize,91;Spanish Governor announces peace, and demands return of prize,91;he disregards, and quits,91;in difficulties, contemplates surrender, but eventually sails for China in another prize,91;his suspicious conduct at Whampoa,92;returns home in an Indiaman, and is arrested for piracy,92;proofs failing, is imprisoned for fraud,92;escapes and leaves England,92;writes an account of his voyage,92;his officer writes a very different one,92Sherdam,204Sibylle(British frigate),256Skinner, Captain John,330-332Slave Trade, English,12,13Slave Trade, French,242,243,247,248Smith, Captain Matthew,246Smith, William,97Smollett, Tobias, historian,124Smyrna,234Solebay,95,96Somerville, Captain Philip,318Sonson (Sumatra),256Spanish Succession, War of,47Spanish treasure-ships,35Speedwell,75,76,81,84-87,90Staremberg,75Stendard,234Stradling, Captain,37,39,40,61Stretton, Mr.,72Stuart, Charles Edward (the young Pretender),195Success,75,78,82,88Sumatra,250,256Sunderland,161Surcouf, Nicholas (brother of Robert),255Surcouf, Robert, famous French privateer captain;his origin,240;destined for the Church,240;sent to a seminary,240;resents chastisement, and runs away,241;ships on a brig,241;volunteer onAurora,241;behaves well in a storm,242;wreck of the slave ship,242;his zeal and courage afterwards,243;returns home,243;back to Indian seas,243;mate in a trading vessel,243;enmity of the chief officer,244;nearly dies in a fit,244;episode at death-bed of chief officer,245;joins a colonial war-ship,245;in an action with English war-ships,246;is commended,247;commands a slave brig,247;episode with the Health Committee,247-249;offered command of a privateer,249;commission refused,249;sails as an armed trader,249;narrowly escapes capture,250;determines to act as a privateer,250;captures several ships, and exchanges into one,250,251;captures theTritonIndiaman,252-254;his brig is captured,255;arrives at Mauritius and finds his actions condemned,255;he appeals home successfully, and pockets his unlawful gains,255;becomes engaged to Marie Blaize,255;goes to sea again, makes a prize, and arrives at Mauritius,256;narrow escape from an English frigate,256;captures an American ship,257;the Governor prevents him from fighting a duel,258;his capture of theKentEast Indiaman,258-260;returns home and is married,261;his last ship, theGhost,261;complaint of merchants and East India company,261;settles down at St. Malo;his death,261;other references,207,262Surcouf, Robert (great-nephew and biographer of the privateersman), 248, 251, 252, 256, 258Syracuse,234,235Talbot, Captain James,149,150,151Talbot, Captain (or Colonel) Silas; his birth,274;ships as cabin-boy,274;captain in U.S. army,274;commands a fireship,274;captures an English vessel at Rhode Island,275;commands theArgo, a small privateer,275;captures a Rhode Island privateer,276;action with theDragonand marvellous escapes,277;in company withSaratogacaptures a Dublin privateer,278;ridiculous story,278,279;encounters an honest Scotchman, and takes his ship,280;commandsGeneral Washington, but is soon captured,280;his alleged ungenerous treatment by a "Scotch lord,"281;imprisoned at New York,281;sent to England and imprisoned at Dartmoor,281;vainly attempts to escape, is eventually liberated and returns to America,281;his death,281Taylor, Captain,165Tea, recipe for making at sea,148Teméraire,234Teneriffe,47Terrible,106-111Thetis,342,343,344,347,348,350,351,352Thibaut, Captain,264,265Three Sisters,362-364Thurot, Émile, successful French privateer captain,262Times, The, strong comment on American successes by,324Topaze,74Torrington, Mr. (an "Antigallican"),97Toulon,238Toulouse,234,235Trinidad, Island of (off Brazil coast),52Trinity,88Triton,251-255,256,257Trouin, Luc (father of René Du Guay),208,209Trouin, René, uncle of René Du Guay,208,209Trouin, René Du Guay, famous French privateer captain;his origin,208;destined for the Church,209;sent to a seminary,209;elects to study law,209;but learns nothing except fencing,209;dissipating in Paris, encounters the head of the family,209;his family sends him to sea in a privateer,209;distinguishes himself in action,210;takes part in capture of convoy,211;takes command of a privateer at eighteen,211;pillages in Ireland,211;gets a better ship,212;with a consort captures a convoy and two English sloops-of-war,212;escapes at great risk from an English squadron,212;his skilful navigation,212,213;narrow escape in Bristol Channel,213;has some bad luck,213;sickness, short food, and mutiny,213;his dream comes true,214;sails round thePrince of Orange,214;fires at her under English colours,214;chased by six men-of-war,214;his desperate scheme,215;holds out, though surrounded,216;his crew shirk and fire breaks out,216;brings his men up with grenades,216;is badly wounded and surrenders,216;kindness of the English captain,216;on parole at Plymouth,216;his "pretty shop-girl,"217;is recognised by captain ofPrince of Orange, who denounces him as a pirate,218;imprisoned pending decision,218;allowed to receive friends, pretty shop-girl included,218;plans escape with her assistance,218,219;a love-sick young Frenchman,219;buys a boat from a Swede and is completely successful,219;returns to France, and finds a ship ready for him,219;captures two large English ships,220,221;his king presents him with a sword of honour,221;with a consort captures three Indiamen, cargoes valued at one million sterling,222;commands one of his prizes, and captures two Dutch ships off Vigo,222;falls in with English fleet,222;his bold and successful ruse,222,223;his ill-treatment by a French naval aristocrat,224;with four consorts engages three Dutch war-ships with convoy,224;desperate action with Dutch commodore's ship,224,225;gallantry of the commodore,225;he captures all three, with heavy loss on both sides,225;an anxious night,225;he brings in his prizes,226;is made a commander in the navy,226;his marvellous escape from an English squadron,226-228;his death,228;other references,229,239,240Tuckerman, H.T. (biographer of Silas Talbot),281Turkey Company, The,132,133Twiss, Sir Travers,15Underwood, George,44Univers,116Valbué, Jerome,197,198,199Vanbrugh, Mr. Carleton,48,53,62,70Vengeance,106,109,111Vernon, Admiral,11Vestale,234Vigo,222Vigor, John,44Villeneuve, M.E. de,103Virginia,290Walker, George, a great English privateer captain;eulogised by naval historian,152;enthusiasm of his biographer,152,153;his modesty,153;served in Dutch navy,153;commandsDuke William,154;frightens a Spanish privateer by a ruse,154;clears Carolina coast of Spanish privateers,155;sails for England with three traders,155;in peril in storm,155;intervenes from sick bed to save ship,155,156;his ruse to obtain assistance,156;arrives in England to find that he is ruined,156;trades to the Baltic,156;again escapes capture by a ruse,156;sails inMarswithBoscawen,157;fights a French war-ship,157;"prudence" ofBoscawen'scaptain,157;falls in with two French treasure-ships,157;Boscawenruns away,158;surrendersMarsto two French ships,159;French and English politeness,159;unusual projectiles,160;four English war-ships give chase,160;Marsrecaptured,161;incapacity of English captains,161,162;arrives at Brest and is liberated on parole,162,163;Fleuronis blown up,163;his tact and courage,164;arrives in England,164;commandsBoscawenwithMarsin company,164;Boscawena "slopped" ship,165;outwits an Exeter privateer captain,165;sails and meetsSheerness,166;sights eight armed French ships,166;his admirable speech to his officers,166;sinks one and captures six,167;his device for protection of his men,168;rigs out an old lady prisoner,168;her tragic account of the action,168,169;acknowledgment of his services by Admiralty,169;captures and buys a vessel as tender,169;his dealings with mutineers,169,170;a foolish joke,171;his perilous voyage home and heroic conduct,173-176;wrecked in St. Ives, crew saved,176;his owner's eulogy,176;commands the "Royal Family" privateers,177;loses one ship,177;chased by French, escapes; one ship parts,177;cuts out a French ship at Safia,177;his dealings with his officers,178;makes a tender of his prize,178;puts into Lisbon with much gain and no loss of men,178;buys a ship at Lisbon,178;but loses her by an extraordinary accident,179;chases and engages a 74-gun Spanish ship alone,180;an extraordinary engagement,180-182;Spaniards' poor gunnery,182;his courage and self-possession,182;Spaniard desists and retires,183;Russelljoins in chase,183;Dartmouthjoins and is blown up,184,185;Lieut. O'Brien's apology,185;Spaniard captured, but treasure already landed,186;ungenerous conduct of his owners,186;deprived of his ship,186;goes home in packet,186;saves her from a pirate,187;is imprisoned for debt,187;his integrity,187;his death,187;other references,96,116,117,194,280Waller, Edmund, the poet,153Walpole, Horace,125Wapping,46Warren, Captain,216Warren, Sir Peter,98Warwick,98Wassenaer, Baron de,225