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The Genevie Who Sel]Ls Herself A N.Dffi IHJCCANI )fi£CATttAKpan noR&u « 'Cav V ( V Av ^ GREAT er and commandM+a great criminal was Henry MnrKan. He lifted ,j piracy to a height it never reached PjBZ' before or since, and f IB he became such a Jl power that an lish king madeEngohim W a knight. But 90k knighthood «l'd not * &> vtv^1^^ satisfy his He dreamed and he plannedambition.to make himself emperor of the West JBvj BUWmtI to levy toll upon all the commerceIndies, of the gulf and to break the power of 8paln in the western world. If Morgan had any virtue other than courage there is no record of it. Not one >?BB9HHMKliLi«y/''^D^^^^ deed Is credited kindly act. not one good was a joy and all a man had to do when other hand, there are he ry and infantry alike. The pirates to him. On the needed money was to got to sea and > atrocities, more rob a IP ^» i_^to|J&r up this advantage, but it was onlyfollowed charged against him more ship. after three hours' fighting that the horrors. more terrible crimes against retired defeated, leaving WO Spaniardsdead and defenseless men than .% . and wounded on the field. The women against When reached Jamaica loss pirate other man In history*. The Henry Morgan uILtjVVmi afi&b 1 was heavy. perhaps any the business had to such heard a body of i Panama at that time had were of his stripe and kind. piracy developed had perished Morgan to Ha|A 2.000 flna men he led an sea tu en route from 8anta J ago seven monasteries, two vicious, savage and extent that it spread out from the troops short and MMnSR residences. No more lawless, to the land. Some of the pirate captains relieve the city. His food being one convent, one hospital.cathedrals.SM> creatures could be found In the there no prospect of more plunder, warehouses and a lot of handsome debauchedwhen they or their crews got Impatient being city if world. were the offscourings of he agreed to leave the unhappy merchandise worth a great sum. The buildings. To terrorise the peoplepublic They waiting for a treasure ship, would swoop beeves. These were at at once set lire to men in whom conscience was he received 500 of Panama was so astonishedGovernor s^f-*.> Morgan the larger all nations, down on a violence and blood Spanish city and sack it. This and he departed. furnishedMorgan's success that he asked for a buildings. The fire burned for four dead and to whom of cities seems to have * of the arms the used. Morgan weeks. Immediately after setting the sacking appealed ' pirate pattern meant little. to as the surest and * * sent a pistol and a few bullets, and said %:. principal buildings afire he sent looting arrived In particularly Morgan them one year parties the these men It was In IflP" that Morgan most remunerative branch of had a contempt for the If the governor would keep through city. Had He had been born In piracy. Morgan Morgan would go to Panama and take paid strict attention to the duties to the West Indies. It was not until he had taken three as a soldier and on his next not raid he threatened to burn every out bullets. He sent some of his which a trips Spaniardthem away. they were assigned a rich treasure father was well-to-do be held as to insure good Wales and his out of Jamaica and served apprenticeship which was against Puerto Bello, * building in the city. to hostages lieutenantshis would have fallen into their hands, but but agr culture had no charm exped'tion. The admiral vax so the faith on his part. Morgan carried out farmer, thirsted for as an ordinary flghtinr man that Morgan Costa Rica, the strongest place held * * Impressed by all nine forts they gave themselves up to debaucheries, for the young man. He audae ty of Morgan that while he refused part of the fomnat t, and and before turned their attention to stories he heard of th* won the confidence of his fellows. Then in America except Havana and Goaded with booty the pirates returned were with 30.000 they and the adventure,led bySpain to agree to ransom the city he offered if surrendered, together looting again the king's plate and the the ocean nine boats and there was an immense wonderful new land across four or five of them Joined him in buying Cartagena, he had only to Jamaica. For a few weeks the .pirates surrendered all their plunder pounds of powder and jewels and wealth of the richest men in had a pleasant a altirt a f wIiIaK ha ViAoama />u ntfl in Q nrl him to leave home They vi w IIIV41 IIC L/vvame vajiiaiii! WIU Two castles, almost a of there, and then their and prisoners lie would allow them to of guns. number In order to swell 400 men. riot dissipation leave Panama, together with a vast amount of habit In those days. he started out. He had a very successful and garrisoned by 1J00 men. hundreds of thousands of dollars of without molestation. gold ingots and the gold and valuable to the colonies and provide impregnable Morgan did not believe in giving up * * ornaments Immigration the rich factors, voyage and brought several prises in to the entrance to the harbor. To were gone and they had to consider of the cathedrals, had been servants and laborers for commanded plunderanything Putting his eight ships in Morgan at once sent, his vice admiral, loaded on a in which also sailed young men In British Jamaica. His success was so pronounced attack this place from the front would new schemes. By this'time Morgan's for he to orderhis galleon, of shanghaiing for that departure prepared fight Brodely, to attack the fort at the mouth the women of the convent. By charging fabulous prices Mansvelt, who at that particular be folly, so Morgan, effecting a landing h:wi p;«in.>ri a irreat name for him,exrtinitaway out. But lie soon saw it was forcingseaports.time a of the river, and so clear the food and clothing and had great reputatioa as pirate to narrow Chagres passage, new some distance away, marched his men when he railed for buccaneers to get through the mpossible * to work out the debt in the chief, and who was organising an afid so as the fort's to Panama. But again the pirates * them of the overland and made a night attack. So at Coro Isle, south of Santo long guns channelway world they practically made slaves ofTered to make him vice admiralexpedition,if rendezvousthe harbor. Unable to copecommandedwith the had more on their hands than they For three weeks Morgan practiced en up he would him. and nezllrent were the Spaniards that the another campaign a great unfortunate youths. Morgan, picked join Morgan accepted, for Domingo.fort from the waterside he resorted to a The fort was defended the unfortunate people of Panama all the seaports, was with a fleet of fifteen vessels and 500 without the alarm there. There Chagres expected. In one of the English sentinel was captured number of pirates flocked stratagem. In the daylight he never have all the tn and there had to work men Mansvelt down and so valiantly that it might inhumanities, terrible crimes he Rarhados swooped, fightingbeing given. The castle was surrendered was one big English ship of thirty-six most of his men and arrangeddisembarked had before he had cleared his captured St. Catherine, Costa Rica. It a them as if to attack the fort at in been had it not been for visited before upon the people of the for two yearn the after a short struggle and then Morgan, in the fleet. There was another, night captured debt and won his freedom. Maybe was Mansvelt's plan to hold this place as guns the rear. Admiral Del t'ampo promptly luck. One of the buccaneers had other cities he had sacked; then, when maybe the a base from which lie could the to terrorize the troops in the other castle, French one, of equal size. The French shifted pirates' Injustice of this kidnaping, ravage a'l the and soldiers in one the fort's guns from the harbor been wounded in the back by an arrow, some of his men threatened to mutiny of servile toil turned Mexican and Caribbean coast and prey shut up officers were of the English, side to the land side of the structure. of the years bitterness room and blew the great building. pirates suspicious dart out of his side. He and sail the Pacific in search of the venom. the rich came up the coming all that was good in Morgan into upon freight that across the the time who made up the bulk of Morgan's force, did not attack that night, but MorganJust the day he wan freed isthmus. a force to hold St. Paying no attention for being at dawn he started down the channel the arrow out, and then, wrapping treasure ship, hs fathered up all his .At any rate, from his leaving to the other castle, into which the and when Morgan invited them to join pulled In Barbados until the day he died Catherine, Mangvelt returned to Jamaica sorrow with a fireboat leading the way. The a bit of cotton around it he put it in his plunder, and. with about 000 prisoners, crime.
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