Roosevelt, Mr. Theodore (late President United States), 270
_St. George_ (Wright's ship), 135, 136, 138, 141
St. Malo, 106, 150, 210, 211, 212, 219, 224, 231, 239, 255, 261
_Sanspareil_ (_alias Nonsuch_), 220-224, 226
_Saratoga_ (American privateer), ridiculous story about, 278, 279
Schomberg, Captain (Naval chronicler), 237
Selkirk, Alexander; sailing master in _Cinque Ports_, 38; been with buccaneers, 39; his hatred of Captain Stradling, 39; determines to desert at Juan Fernandez, 39; he is landed there, 39; the prototype of Robinson Crusoe, 40; is rescued by Woodes Rogers, 56; describes his adventures, 57, 58; is reluctant to sail with Dampier, 58, 59; made a mate on board _Duke_, 59; returns to Scotland, but laments his island, 73; elopes with Sophia Bruce, 74; marries Mrs. Candis, 74; dies in the Royal Navy, 74; other references, 62, 66
Semmes, Captain Raphael (of the _Alabama_), 13
Shelvocke, George; commands two privateers under a foreign commission, 75; goes to Ostend, 75; commissions altered to English, 76; commands _Speedwell_ under Clipperton in _Success_, 76; his hatred of Clipperton, 76; sails from Plymouth, 76; they separate in a gale, 77; he robs a Portuguese ship, 77-80; alleged mutiny, 80; runs far south, 80; his officer shoots an albatross, 81; Coleridge's albatross, 81; rounds Cape Horn and sights Chili, 81; lingers on the coast, 81; captures two small prizes, 81; his men are ambushed, 82; burns a prize, 82; sails for Juan Fernandez, 82; finds there record of Clipperton, 82; his disingenuousness, 83; takes two guano ships, 83; fires the town of Payta, 84; action with a large Spanish ship, 84-86; his officer's account of the action, 86, 87; is wrecked on Juan Fernandez, 89; builds a small ship, captures and exchanges into a prize, 90; unpleasant meeting with Clipperton, 90; they part on bad terms, 91; exchanges into another prize, 91; Spanish Governor announces peace, and demands return of prize, 91; he disregards, and quits, 91; in difficulties, contemplates surrender, but eventually sails for China in another prize, 91; his suspicious conduct at Whampoa, 92; returns home in an Indiaman, and is arrested for piracy, 92; proofs failing, is imprisoned for fraud, 92; escapes and leaves England, 92; writes an account of his voyage, 92; his officer writes a very different one, 92