

32 THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA. 



last, navely says our friend, the narrator, they be- 

 came so emboldened by their success, that w;th an 

 audaciousness only becoming freebooters, they again 

 made a levy of ten thousand dollars upon him ; and 

 again, for a still further sum of ten thousand dollars, 

 and the chief magistrate (as he calls the Governor) 

 submitted with shame and humiliation. Having 

 extorted these sums, and being somewhat disgusted 

 with the pusilanimity of these men, behind their 

 trenches, the buccaneers retired, satisfied with their 

 success, and proceeded up the Bay of Panama. 





