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West Indian Tales Of THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES nXMp 1 ' WEST INDIAN TALES OF OLD A ' ' - < , -"-i^ * /> "> , , il ~~ of the ol&e'ir ^P- \ I 'Mil; A I, JOHN BENItOW From au I'liirravliiu after the pnintinjf by Sir Godfrey Kiieller WE ST INDIAN TALES OF OLD BY ALGERNON E. ASPINALL AUTHOR OP "THE POCKET GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES" AND "THE BRITISH WEST INDIES: THEIR HISTORY, RESOURCES AND PROGRESS" ILLUSTRATED LONDON DUCKWORTH AND CO. first published, 1912 New Edition, 1915 Printed by BALLANTYNE, HANSON A Co. LTD. At, the Ballantyne Prett LONDON AND EDINBURGH College Library /= / I To. PREFACE THE Caribbean Sea, which has been aptly described as the cockpit of the Empire, will shortly undergo a striking change. From being a mere cul-de-sac it will, now that the Panama Canal is completed, become one of the world's principal ocean highways and trade routes. One result of this will certainly be that an increasing number of visitors will patronise the British West Indian islands, and it occurred to me that it might be an opportune moment to re-tell, for their benefit, some of the tales connected with the West Indies, whose history is surrounded by a wealth of romance. Such is the origin of the present volume, in the compilation of which I have received much valuable assistance from Mr. N. Darnell Davis, C.M.G., the Hon. Arthur W. Holmes a Court, Mr. Cecil Headlam, Mr. Edgar Tripp, Mr. F. Sterns-Fadelle, Mr. Oscar Plummer, Mr. G. H. King, and other kind friends to whom I desire to express my indebtedness. A. E. A. 1221875 CONTENTS CHAPTER PREFACE I. BENBOW THE BRAVE II. THE FATE OF GOVERNOR PARKE III. THE SIEGE OF BRIMSTONE HILL IV. THE BATTLE OF THE SAINTS V. CHAGUARAMAS BAY, TRINIDAD VI. THE DIAMOND ROCK 124 " VII. " LA GRANGE 163 VIII. ENGLISH HARBOUR, ANTIGUA 171 IX. OLD CARTAGENA 203 X. A BARBADOS MYSTERY 224 XI. THE LEGEND OF ROSE HALL 234 APPENDIX I. THE WILL OF GOVERNOR DANIEL PARKE 247 II. ARTICLES OF CAPITULATION OF THE ISLA"ND OF ST. CHRISTOPHER'S 250 III. CAPTAIN J, W. MAURICE'S ACCOUNT OF THE Loss OF THE DIAMOND ROCK 255 vii WEST INDIAN TALES OF OLD CHAPTER I BENBOW THE BRAVE Come all you sailors bold Lend an ear, lend an ear ; Come all you sailors bold lend an ear . ^Tis of our Admiral's fame. Brave Benbow calTd by name ; How he fought on the main You shall hear, you shall hear. FROM AN OLD CHAUNTIE. WHEN Admiral John Benbow was in Jamaica, King- ston, the present capital of the island, had only recently come into existence. Spanish Town the old St. lago de la Vega of the days of the first colonisers from Spain was the chief town, and for many years Port Royal, formerly called Caguaya, at the extremity of the spit of sand which shelters what is now Kingston Harbour, had been the principal trade centre. Being conveniently situated it was much frequented by the members of that roving band of freebooters known as the buccaneers, who made it the storehouse and mart of their ill-gotten wealth, and the scene of the wildest excesses when they returned from their marauding expeditions. But in 1692 a terrible calamity befell this proud A I WEST INDIAN TALES in that it was city. On June 7 year overwhelmed by an earthquake, which threw down houses, churches and the nearly every building in place. The event was the graphically described by Rector, whose account of it was published in a pamphlet, of which a copy is to be seen in the British Museum. This worthy tells how on the fateful day he had been at church reading careful to prayers as he was add he did every day " to keep up some show of religion among a most 1' ungodly and debauched people. After partaking of wine a glass of wormwood a beverage which still forms the basis of that seductive Barbadian cock- " " tail called green bitters with the President of the " Council "as a whet before dinner at a place frequented by the merchants, he was sitting with him while he smoked his pipe when the catastrophe occurred. Though it is not altogether relevant to the story of Benbow, what happened shall be described in the " Rector's own words. I found the ground rolling and " under he states which I moving my feet," ; upon said ' ' to him [the President] Lord, Sir, what is that ? He ' a It is an replied, being very grave man, earthquake ; it will soon over.' it be not afraid, be But increased^ and we heard the church and tower fall, upon which save ourselves I lost we ran to ; quickly him and made towards Morgan's fort, because being a wide, open place, I thought to be there securest from the falling houses but as I made I saw the earth ; towards it, open and swallow up a multitude of people, and the sea mounting in upon them over the fortifications. I then laid aside all thought of escaping, and resolved to make toward my own lodging, and there to meet death in as good posture as I could. From the place where I was, I was forc'd to cross and run through two or three very narrow streets, the houses and walls fell on each side of some bricks came over shoes me, rowling my ? but none hurt I to I me ; when came my lodging found there all things in the same order I left them, not a picture, of which there were several fair ones in my chamber, being out of its place. I went to my balcony to view the street in which our house stood, and saw never a house down there, nor the ground so much as cracked the there ; people seeing me cry'd out to come with I to me and pray them ; when came into the street every one laid hold on my cloaths and embraced me, that with their fear and kindness I was stifled I at least to kneel almost ; persuaded them down and make a large ring, which they did. I prayed with them near an hour, when I was almost spent with heat of and the exercise then the the sun, ; they brought me a chair, the earth working all the while with new like the of the motions, and tremblings, rowlings sea ; insomuch that sometimes when I was at prayer I could hardly keep myself upon my knees. By that time, I had been half an hour longer with them in setting before them their sins and heinous provocations and in seriously exhorting them to repentance, there came some merchants to me of the place, who desired me to go aboard some ship in the harbour, and refresh myself, telling me that they had gotten a boat to carry me off; so coming to the sea, which had entirely swallowed up the wharf with all those goodly brick houses upon it, most 3 WEST INDIAN TALES of them as fine as those in Cheapside, and two intire the of streets beyond that ; I, upon tops some houses which lay levelled with the surface of the water, got first into a canoe, and then into a long boat, which put me aboard a ship called the Storm-Merchant, where I found the President safe, who was overjoyed to see I continued that but could not me ; there night, sleep for the returns of the earthquake almost every hour, which made all the guns in the ship to jarr and rattle. The next day I went from ship to ship to visit those that were bruised, and a dying, and to pray with them, and likewise to do the last office at the sinking of several corps that came floating from the point, which indeed hath been my sorrowful employment ever since I came aboard this ship with design to come for England, we having nothing but shakings of the earth, and thunder foul ever since and lightening and weather ; and the people being so desperately wicked it makes me afraid in for that this terrible to stay the place ; very day earthquake was, as soon as night came on, a company of lewd rogues whom they call privateers, fell to break- ing open warehouses and houses deserted, to rob and rifle their neighbours whilst the earth trembled under them, and some of the houses fell on them in the act : And those audacious whores that remain still upon the place are as impudent and drunken as ever. I have been twice on shoar to pray with the bruised and dying people, and to christen children, where I met too many drunk and swearing; I did not spare them, nor the magistrates neither, who have suffered wicked- ness to to so a I have I bless grow great height ; God 4 BENBOW THE BRAVE to the best of my skill and power discharged my duty in this place, which you will hear from most persons that come I have so from hence ; preached seasonably to them, and so plain in the last sermon I preached to them in the church : I set before them what would be the issue of their impenitence, and wickedness, that they have since confessed that it was more like a than a sermon I I an prophesie ; had, confess, impulse on me to do it : And many times I have preached in this pulpit, things that I never premeditated at home, and could not methought do otherwise.
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