Periagua (from Spanish piragua, in turn derived from the Carib language word for dugout) is the term formerly used in the Caribbean and the eastern seaboard...

sites misunderstand this line, saying 'hero' or sometimes 'biro' instead. Periagua, a cognate which became applied to a different kind of sailing vessel in...

had learned from the captured crew of a small Cuban sailing vessel (a periagua) that Spanish ships were preparing to sail in both directions between Havana...

acts of piracy took place in the winter of 1713–1714, when he employed periaguas (sailing canoes) and the sloop Happy Return, alongside Daniel Stillwell...

hanged in Martinique in 1724. Men of HMS Diamond reported encountering a periagua with nine men aboard in March 1726, recognising one of them as Low. Diamond...

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...

who attacked Spanish ships and others from small open boats such as the periagua. On his 1713 cruise he and his small crew “brought back Asian silks, copper...

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off the Virginia capes for slave ships inbound from Guinea, he sent his periagua to capture more English sloops in the area, brazenly looting their targets...

Class. Log canoe, a type of sailboat used in the Chesapeake Bay region Periagua, an 18th-century term for sailing canoes in the Caribbean Adrian Horridge...

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...

wrecks unsuccessfully. Despairing, they traded their canoes for small periaguas and turned to piracy. They were driven off from a captured sloop by the...

fitted out the sloop for piracy, sailing toward Jamaica. They captured two periaguas and another sloop, which Deal took command of. In December they looted...

river from Bunce Island. He kept his vessels – several small boats and a periagua - as well as native slaves and servants, and welcomed pirates who came...

attacked the Jamaica-bound sloop Snapper by rowing alongside in an open periagua. Blanco threatened to attack New Providence and “give no quarter,” and...

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...

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with a few others in a canoe, the multi-lingual Lewis took over a small periagua, then captured a sloop, pressing some captured crew into service as pirates...

Spaniard escaped; Coxon then advised the buccaneers to set out in canoes and periaguas before the Spanish ship could report their activities. Richard Sawkins...

and people from a protected area of shoreline on the Hudson River in periaguas. These were row-and-sail vessels with two masts and a shallow draft, capable...

plus 5 points for an unsuccessful challenge by Nyman), GYNAECIA (95) and PERIAGUA (76). Incidentally, Smitheram was a former contestant on the television...

Nicholl's party, nineteen in all, rigged and provisioned one of their periaguas, and on 26 September they left Saint Lucia. On 5 October they were wrecked...

occurred on 25 December 1759, when 150 Spaniards aboard a 'great number' of periaguas landed in the port of Belize. This coup de grâce resulted in the imprisonment...

aboard two periaguas, surprise merchant captain Burchell in the Bay. start of April – end of May: Spanish privateers aboard two periaguas surprise merchant...