Stories of a Figure Who For Years Terrorized Eastern Seas March 15 1920 âBully Hayes,â a Modern Pirate Stories of a Figure Who For Years Terrorized Eastern Seas A CENTURY or more ago many picturesque lawbreakers roamed the ! Spanish Main, and stories of their peculiarities and their desperate deeds are still read with interest. In later years, the developments of commerce have largely swept them from the seas. Here and there however, in unfrequented seas, the buccaneer has remained almost to the present | time. Among these the most notable â figure is that of Bully Hayes. Thomas J. McMahon tells something of his career ' in a recent number of the Wide World Magazine.