The history of Ibiza is a history of landings, at least for four long centuries of fear and misery. Ibiza, round and open to all winds and seas, was the subject of constant pirate landings. The current tourist coast is not, of course, the expense of old anger, which could all dread. The sea was the sea is not ours. Ibiza was too central to the sailings pirates. Death or captivity were frequent Ibiza luck, and hence the growing depopulation island. In 1392 the population of the island was reduced to 500 families. Formentera in the fourteenth century, was completely despoblada.Si the best defense is attack, the pirates that their island had expanded into the offshore island to the strict limits of its edge Jabeque, swift boats built by the famous pine Ibizan mestres d 'aixa of the island of Ibiza. One hundred and sixteen pirates are glorious in the annals Ibiza exploits with history, from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, being the most popular figure of the marine Antonio Riquer Arabi, who on June 1, 1806, with its Jabeque "San Antonio and Santa Isabel" , 72 tons and mounted two guns to eight, four of six and two to four, took the collision, about five miles south of the island of Ibiza, the English brig "Felicity", 250 toneladasy twelve añones.En the centennial of the dam of English brig, was built in the port of Ibiza an obelisk to its original pirates, the only monument dedicated to Jan l world perpetuate the memory of the corsairs.