CAPTAIN MORGAN. 



wretch Lolonois, who, full of horrid, execrable, and enormous deeds, and debtor to so much 

 innocent blood, died by cruel and butcherly hands, such as his own were in the course of 

 his life." Those that remained on the island De las Puertas waiting for their companions* 

 return were later taken off on the ship of another pirate. The united crews, now in number 

 500, made for the river at Gracias a Dios, which they entered in canoes. They took little- 

 provision, expecting to "find" in the pirate's meaning-, steal plenty ashore. In this, 

 they were disappointed, for the Indians had got notice of their coming, and had fled. They 

 were thus reduced to extreme necessity and hunger, and a few green herbs formed their only 

 sustenance. After a laborious search in the woods for food, during which time they were- 

 reduced to eat their own boots and the leather sheaths of their swords and knives, and at 

 which period they also vowed to sacrifice any Indians they might meet to appease their own 

 appetites which, fortunately for the Indians, did not happen their courage oozed out, and 

 they returned to the ships. The greater part of them subsequently perished from hunger and 

 exhaustion, or in the same manner as had their commander Lolonois not long before. 



And now to the deeds of another famous freebooter, " who," as Esquemeling says, " may 

 deservedly be called the second Lolonois, not being unlike or inferior to him either in 

 achievements against the Spaniards or in robberies of many innocent people." The notorious 

 pirate Captain Morgan now appears upon the scene. 



CHAPTER III. 



THE PIRATES AND BUCANIERS (continued). 



The Second Lolonois Captain Henry Morgan His first Successes A Pirate Fleet of Seven Hundred Men Attack on a 

 Cuban Town Morgan's Form Not to be Beaten Puerto Bello Morgan's Strategy The Castle taken Extrava- 

 gant Demands The Governor of Panama Derided Return to Jamaica Their Dissipation A Fresh Start 

 Maracaibo re-taken A Chance for Guy Fawkes Gibraltar again Cruel Tortures inflicted on Prisoners- 

 Horrible Brutalities Arrival of a Spanish Fleet Morgan's Insolence Letter from the Spanish Admiral" To the 

 Death ! " 



CAPTAIN HENTIY MORGAN was born in Wales; his father was in easy circumstances, as 

 many who bear that name in Wales were and are known to be. Morgan, when young, 

 had no inclination for the calling of his father, and therefore left the country and came 

 to the sea-coast, to seek some other employment more suitable to his aspirations. He 

 volunteered on board a vessel bo .mi for Barbadoes, the captain of which, according to the 

 frequent practice of those times, sold him as soon as he went ashore. " He served his 

 time at Barbadoes, and, obtaining his liberty, betook himself to Jamaica, there to seek new 

 fortunes. Here he found two vessels of pirates ready to go to sea ; and being destitute 

 of employment he went with them, with intent to follow the exercises of that sort of 

 people; and he soon learnt their mode of living so exactly that, having performed three 

 or four voyages with profit and success, he agreed with some of his comrades, who had 

 got by the same voyages a little money, to join stocks and buy a ship. The vessel being 

 bought they unanimously chose him captain and commander." 



