The Containing the lives of Captain Misson, Captain Bowen, Captain Kidd, Captain Tew, Captain Halsey, Captain White, Captain Condent, Captain Bellamy, Captain Fly, Captain Howard, Captain Lewis, Captain Cornelius, Captain Williams, Captain Burgess, Captain North, and their several crews Defoe, Daniel 1661?-1731 creator text utu 2018 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "The History of the Pyrates. Vol. II." by Daniel Defoe is a book published in 1724. This second volume chronicles pirates from earlier decades, featuring profiles of notorious figures and their exploits on the high seas. The author ventures further from historical sources here, embellishing accounts and including three possibly fictional captains. This influential work helped shape popular conceptions of piracy, introducing iconic elements like buried treasure and the Jolly Roger flag that became staples of pirate literature. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_General_History_of_the_Pyrates Release date is 2018-04-20 Produced by Jens Sadowski and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. This file was produced from images generously made available by Digital Collections, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University. Original publication data not identified Pirates -- Early works to 1800 F2155 Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57005 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57005 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134320.0 57005