This war continued nearly to the end of King
William's feign, and during that time the English
and French buccaneers were engaged on opposite
• sides as auxiliaries to the regular forces of their
respective nations, which completely separated them ;
and it never afterwards happened that they again con-
federated in any buccaneer cause. They became
more generally distinguished by different appellatioi;is,
not consonant to their present situations and habits ;
for the French adventurers, who were frequently
occupied in hunting and at the boucan, were called
the flibustiers of St. Domingo, and the English
adventurers, who had nothing to do with the boucan,
were called the buccaneers of Jamaica.
The French had not kept possession of St.
Christopher quite a year when it was taken from
them by the English. This was an unfortunate year
for the French, who in it suffered a great defeat from
the Spaniards in Hispaniola. Their governor, De
Cussy, and 500 Frenchmen fell in battle, and the
town of Cape Frangois was demolished.
The French flibustiers at this time greatly annoyed
Jamaica, making descents, in which they carried off

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such a number of negroes that in derision they nick-
named Jamaica " Little Guinea ". The principal
transactions in the West Indies were the attempts
made by each party on the possessions of the other.
In the course of these services De Graaf was accused
of misconduct, tried, and deprived of his commission
in the army ; but, though judged unfit for command in
land service, out of respect to his maritime experience
he was appointed captain of a frigate.
