The word and the grand pirate, George Cusack -- "The usual atrocities": narrating Henry Morgan's raid on Panama City -- Exquemelin in England: the literary transformation of Henry Morgan -- Captain Bartholomew Sharp and the "sacred hunger for gold" -- Reconsidering William Dampier's vision -- Consummate privateers: Edward Cooke and Woodes Rogers -- the return of the buccaneer in the voyage narratives of Shelvocke and Betagh.