Buccaneers of America (1684)

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BUCCANEERS OF AMERICA (1684)
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   A classic.  Full text is available if you Google this title.
   OED does not cite it for "Buccaneer," but 22 hits are from "Bucaniers" of America.  The book is extremely rich in information that could be cited--particularly the first chapters, which describe the land.
   It contains our first "dough-boy," but OED dates it to 1685.

Pg. 16:  ...such are magniot, potatoes, Acajou apples, yannas, bacones, paquaye, carosoles, mamayns, ananas and diverse other sorts....
Pg. 16:  ..._Matates_, or in English, half-yellow men.  (OED?--ed.)
Pg. 20:  ...some of which are born of white European people and negroes, and these are called _Mulattos_.  Others are born of Indians and white people, and such are termed _Mestizos_.
Pg. 21:  ...citrons, toronjas and limes...crab-lemons....
Pg. 25:  ..._mapou_...  (See the later OED "mapau"--ed.)
Pg, 25:  ...mancanilla, or dwarf-apple tree...  (See OED "manchineel"--ed.)
Pg. 29:  ...caymans...
Pg. 36:  ...of the said potatoes they make a drink called Maiz.
Pg. 36:  ...Mandioca, which the Indians by another name call Cassava.
Pg. 36:  ...Mirick...  (Not in OED?--ed.)
Pg. 37:  ...a liquor, by them called Veycou...
Pg. 38:  ...sugar, indigo, and gimbes...
Pg. 40:  These miserable kidnapped people are frequently subject to a certain disease, which in those parts is called coma, being a total privation of all their senses.
Pg. 45:  ...the same law, among these people, as with other Pirates, _No prey, no pay_.
Pg. 50:  ...cacao-nuts, the chief ingredient of that rich liquor called chocolate....
Pg. 64:  ...savage Indians, whom the Spaniards call Bravos or Wild.
Pg. 76:  ...knit a net with the rinds of certain trees, called in those parts Macoa.
Pg. 78:  ...there they drink a certain liquor, made of maize, or Indian wheat.  (Note that "brandy" is used in this work, but "rum" is not--ed.)
Pg. 78:  ...canpeche wood (i.e. logwood)...
Pg. 81:  Such are potatoes, bananas, racoven, ananas, and many others...
Pg. 116:  ...Montera-caps...
Pg. 116:  ...Junta (i.e. council)...
Pg. 141:  ...a place called Barbacoa.  (Barbecue?--ed.)
Pg. 146:  ...who hallooed to the Pirates...
Pg. 161:  ...Indios Bravos, or Wild Indians.
Pg. 163:  ...Barbary or Guinea dog.
Pg. 165:  ...a certain fruit, which there is called platano.  (Many "plantain" cites here--ed.)
Pg. 167:  ..._manitas_, a sort of fish so called by the Spaniards.
Pg. 168:  The commonest among them is called _achioc_.  (An alcoholic drink--ed.)
Pg. 184:  ...three or four cakes of bread (called by the English dough-boys)....
Pg. 181:  ...after which preparation they call it Miscelaw.
Pg. 191:  ...an Indian hut, or _embarcadero_...
Pg. 193:  We told them they were _Wankers_.
Pg. 196:  ...the Spaniards keep a watch or look-out (for so it is termed by the sea-men) for fear of pirates or other enemies.
Pg. 197:  ...periaguas...
Pg. 199:  ...or Mulattos or Tawneymores...
Pg. 200:  ...gave a loud hallo, which was answered by our men in the periagua.
Pg. 203:  ..._vacadas_ or _beef stantions_...
Pg. 208:  ...indigo, otto, manteca, or butter...
Pg. 211:  ...several sorts of fish, as dolphins, albicores, mullets, and old wives, etc....
Pg. 244:  ...chocolate, whereof the Spaniards make infiniteuse.
Pg. 247:  ...a _calenture_, or malignant fever and a hiccough.
Pg. 255:  ...coney-holes...
Pg. 255:  ...Sea Lion...
Pg. 256:  ...cray-fish...
Pg. 294:  ...incognito...
Pg. 297:  ...a club like our bandies, called by them a tomahawk.
Pg. 305:  ...fowl-fish (poxaros-ninos)...
Pg. 310:  ...flying fish, bonitos, albicores...
Pg. 313:  ...man-of-war fowl...



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