Crossword-Solution: MATELOTAGE 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

The cow-killers, as they had neither wife nor children, commonly associated in pairs with the right of inheriting from each other, a custom which was called "matelotage." These private associations, however, did not prevent the property of all from being in a measure common.

Derivation of the words Buccaneer and Flibustier--The three classes--Dress of the hunters--West Indian scenery--Method of hunting--Wild dogs--Anecdotes--Wild oxen, wild boars, and wild horses--Buccaneer food--Cow killing--Spanish method--Amusements--Duels--Adventures with the Spanish militia--The hunters driven to sea--The _engagés_, or apprentices--Hide curing--Hardships of the bush life--The planter's _engagés_--Cruelties of planters--The _matelotage_--Huts--Food.

The _matelotage_, or _compagnon à bon lot_, being thus formed, the two planters would go to the governor of the island and request a grant of land.

Some of the pirates now gave up their wild life and settled in _matelotage_ at Madagascar, on the tontine principle of the longest liver inheriting all.

Unburdened by women-folk or children, these men lived in couples, reciprocally rendering each other services, and having entire community of property—a condition termed by them matelotage, from the word 'matelot,' by which they addressed one another.