Sharp had been an effective and enduring leader of his band of buccaneers in the enterprise of crossing to the Pacific shore and, in capturing Spanish shipping, had reaped a considerable harvest from the colonial power, though not without many setbacks. Certainly Bartholomew Sharp got most of the credit, and deserved at least some of it, after he appeared in England, along with Ringrose and some others, in the spring of 1682. As a criminal, Ringrose had something to be said for him: not the most cruel and savage of the breed, he had a gift for sketching harbors and for writing (when he was not seasick on a voyage) a very readable kind of narrative-one of historical importance. ![]() In the history of the buccaneers, those romanticized robbers of the Spanish Main, the Caribbean, and the Pacific coasts in the late seventeenth century, Henry Morgan has well overshadowed Bartholomew Sharp, and Sharp, in turn, has overshadowed Basil Ringrose. ![]() Thrower, editors A Buccaneer's Atlas: Basil Ringrose's South Sea Waggoner. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1992 1992. ![]() Preferred Citation: Howse, Derek, and Norman J.
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