- The term
periagua overlaps, but is not
synonymous with, pirogue,
derived through the
French language from piragua. The
original periaguas or piraguas...
- acts of
piracy took
place in the
winter of 1713–1714, when he emplo****
periaguas (sailing canoes) and the
sloop Happy Return,
alongside Daniel Stillwell...
-
sites misunderstand this line,
saying 'hero' or
sometimes 'biro' instead.
Periagua, a
cognate which became applied to a
different kind of
sailing vessel in...
- loss of the
valuables on the St. Marie. He had the
second of Bellamy's
periaguas seized and "cut to pieces,"
presumably with the
remainder of Bellamy's...
- ****ed out the
sloop for piracy,
sailing toward Jamaica. They
captured two
periaguas and
another sloop,
which Deal took
command of. In
December they looted...
- it. A
total of 96 men
boarded the captain's barge, the yawl, a
periagua (three
periaguas had been
captured near Cuba and
carried on the Tyger) and a canoe...
-
favored continuing the attack.
December – Vane
captures a
sloop and two
periaguas off
northwest Jamaica.
December 9–10 – John
Auger and
eight of his pirates...
- in
Martinique in 1724. Men of the HMS
Diamond reported encountering a
periagua with nine men
aboard in
March 1726,
recognising one of them as Low. Diamond...
-
wrecks unsuccessfully. Despairing, they
traded their canoes for
small periaguas and
turned to piracy. They were
driven off from a
captured sloop by the...
- 1736. From there, some went to the
mainland while others traveled via
periaguas (also
known as pirogues) to St.
Simons Island to
found Frederica. The...
