The Pirates' Who's Who Part 9

CACHEMAReE, CAPTAIN. French filibuster.

Commanded the _St. Joseph_, of six guns and a crew of seventy men. In 1684 had his headquarters at San Domingo.

CaeSAR.

A negro. One of Teach's crew hanged at Virginia in 1718. Caesar, who was much liked and trusted by Blackbeard, had orders from him to blow up the _Queen Ann's Revenge_ by dropping a lighted match into the powder magazine in case the s.h.i.+p was taken by Lieutenant Maynard. Caesar attempted to carry out his instructions, but was prevented from doing so by two of the surrendered pirates.

CaeSAR, CAPTAIN.

One of Gasparilla's gang of pirates who hunted in the Gulf of Mexico. His headquarters were on Sanibel Island.

CALLES, CAPTAIN JOHN, or CALLIS.

A notorious Elizabethan pirate, whose activities were concentrated on the coast of Wales.

We quote Captain John Smith, the founder of Virginia, who writes: "This Ancient pirate Callis, who most refreshed himselfe upon the Coast of Wales, who grew famous, till Queene Elizabeth of Blessed Memory, hanged him at Wapping."

Calles did not die on the gallows without an attempt at getting let off.

He wrote a long and ingenious letter to Lord Walsyngham, bewailing his former wicked life and promising, if spared, to a.s.sist in ridding the coast of pirates by giving particulars of "their roads, haunts, creeks, and maintainers." One of the chief of these "maintainers," or receivers of stolen property, was Lord O'Sullivan, or the Sulivan Bere of Berehaven.

In spite of a long and very plausible plea for pity, this "ancient and wicked pyrate" met his fate on the gibbet at Wapping.

CAMMOCK, WILLIAM.

A seaman under Captain Bartholomew Sharp. He died at sea on December 14th, 1679, off the coast of Chile. "His disease was occasioned by a sunfit, gained by too much drinking on sh.o.r.e at La Serena; which produced in him a _celenture_, or malignant fever and a hiccough." He was buried at sea with the usual honours of "three French vollies."

CANDOR, RALPH.

Tried for piracy with the rest of Captain Lowther's crew at St. Kitts in March, 1723, and acquitted.

CANNIS, _alias_ CANNIS MARCY.

A Dutch pirate who acted as interpreter to Captain Bartholomew Sharp's South Sea Expedition. Captain c.o.x and Basil Ringmore took him with them after the sacking of Hilo in 1679, to come to terms with the Spanish cavalry over the ransoming of a sugar mill. On Friday, May 27th, 1680, while ash.o.r.e with a watering party in the Gulf of Nicoya, the interpreter, having had, no doubt, his fill of buccaneering, ran away.

CARACCIOLI, SIGNOR, _alias_ D'AUBIGNY.

An Italian renegade priest, who became an atheist, Socialist, and revolutionist, and was living at Naples when Captain Fourbin arrived there in the French man-of-war _Victoire_.

Caraccioli met and made great friends with a young French apprentice in the s.h.i.+p, called Misson, and a place was found for him on board. The ex-priest proved himself to be a brave man in several engagements with the Moors and with an English wars.h.i.+p, and was quickly promoted to be a petty officer.

Caraccioli, by his eloquence, soon converted most of the crew to believe in his theories, and when Captain Fourbin was killed in an action off Martinique with an English s.h.i.+p, Misson took command and appointed the Italian to be his Lieutenant, and continued to fight the English s.h.i.+p to a finish. The victorious crew then elected Misson to be their captain, and decided to "bid defiance to all nations" and to settle on some out-of-the-way island. Capturing another English s.h.i.+p off the Cape of Good Hope, Caraccioli was put in command of her, and the whole of the English crew voluntarily joined the pirates, and sailed to Madagascar. Here they settled, and the Italian married the daughter of a black Island King; an ideal republic was formed, and our hero was appointed Secretary of State.

Eventually Caraccioli died fighting during a sudden attack made on the settlement by a neighbouring tribe.

CARMAN, THOMAS.

Of Maidstone in Kent.

Hanged at Charleston in 1718 with the rest of Major Bonnet's crew.

CARNES, JOHN.

One of Blackbeard's crew. Hanged at Virginia in 1718.

CARR, JOHN.

A Ma.s.sachusetts pirate, one of h.o.r.e's crew, who was hiding in Rhode Island in 1699.

CARTER, DENNIS.

Tried for piracy in June, 1704, at the Star Tavern in Boston. One of John Quelch's crew.

CARTER, JOHN.

Captured by Major Sewall in the _Larimore_ galley, and brought into Salem.

One of Captain Quelch's crew. Tried at Boston in 1704.

CASTILLO.

A Columbian sailor in the schooner _Panda_. Hanged for piracy at Boston on June 11th, 1835.

LA CATA.

A most blood-thirsty pirate and one of the last of the West Indian gangs.

In 1824, when La Cata was cruising off the Isle of Pines, his s.h.i.+p was attacked by an English cutter only half his size. After a furious fight the cutter was victorious, and returned in triumph to Jamaica with the three survivors of the pirates as prisoners. One of these was found out at the trial to be La Cata himself. Hanged at Kingston, Jamaica.

CHANDLER, HENRY, _alias_ RAMMETHAM RISE.

Born in Devons.h.i.+re, his father kept a chandler's shop in Southwark. An English _renegado_ at Algiers, who had turned Mohammedan and had become an overseer in the pirates' s.h.i.+pyards. He was a man of some authority amongst the Moors, and in 1621 he appointed a slave called Goodale to become master of one of the pirate s.h.i.+ps, the _Exchange_, in which one Rawlins also sailed. Owing to the courage and ingenuity of the latter, the European slaves afterwards seized the s.h.i.+p and brought her into Plymouth; Chandler being thrown into gaol and afterwards hanged.

CHEESMAN, EDWARD.

Taken prisoner out of the _Dolphin_, on the Banks of Newfoundland, by the Pirate Phillips in 1724. With the help of a fisherman called Fillmore, he killed Phillips and ten other pirates and brought the s.h.i.+p into Boston Harbour.