The Buccaneer Coast (Blood, Steel, and Empire Book 1)

by James L. Nelson

The hunters had learned this technique for smoking meat from the natives of that island, the Arawaks, who were now mostly gone. The natives called the structure a buccan; the French called it a boucan. The hunters who came to Hispaniola, who hunted and dried and sold the meat, took their name from this lash-up as well. They were the boucaniers.