one who dries and smokes flesh or fish after the manner of the Indians. The name was particularly given to the first French settlers on the island of St Domingo, whose sole employment consisted in hunting bulls or wild boars, in order to sell their hides and flesh. The name has also been applied to those famous piratical adventurers, chiefly English and French, who joined together to make depredations on the Spaniards of America. Of both these we shall give an account.

1. The Buccaneers of St Domingo. The Spaniards had not been long in the possession of the West Indies, and the continent of America, when other nations, especially the English and French, began to follow them there. But though the Spaniards were unable to peo-