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But
that is by the way. I mention it chiefly as a warning, for when
presently I come to relate the affair of Maracaybo, those of you
who have read Esquemeling may be in danger of supposing that Henry
Morgan really performed those things which here are veraciously
attributed to Peter Blood. I think, however, that when you come to
weigh the motives actuating both Blood and the Spanish Admiral, in
that affair, and when you consider how integrally the event is a
part of Blood's history - whilst merely a detached incident in
Morgan's - you will reach my own conclusion as to which is the real
plagiarist.
The first of these logs of Pitt's is taken up almost entirely with
a retrospective narrative of the events up to the time of Blood's
first coming to Tortuga. This and the Tannatt Collection of State
Trials are the chief - though not the only - sources of my history
so far.
Pitt lays great stress upon the fact that it was the circumstances
upon which I have dwelt, and these alone, that drove Peter Blood to
seek an anchorage at Tortuga.


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