The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-12-18
NEW STORIES or LAr;rls..
Some Fresh Facts About the Life
the Pirate. in the Bay of Dolores.

Some Fresh Facts About the Life O
the Pirate iR the Bay OF Dolores.
"On The hh day after iravm,
Progress. about 9 o'clcck at night,
writes Alico ID. lie Plongecn iron
Hucatan. I'VE sailed into he beauti
ful Bay OF D"orcs at BlAgtrei
Island, or Wolnah's Island, as til,
! Spanish cOnqE-rers c.,lled il, because
they fOugd m the temples of tie
temples Oi the natives many images
Of women Ihe first golden 8uf
ray that s..ot from the coast called
every creature to lie aud action.
Doors EPre thrown open, faint col
tunes Of 4oke wreathed tLeir way
to the elouded sky, fsherneii
launched their boats, women passed
TO and fro and feqlhered songsters
wurb!ed SIR sweetest lay. No
wonder that the last pjiate chief,
Capt. Lafilte, made this island h 8
headqusiters.
"Some Old people there viii re-
member him as Mica gentleman
whe paiA for everything he had
from the flsheffnan along Il e coast,
and never harmed any poor person.
1t was at the b, ginning OF this prt SCI
century thai Lsftte became ter
ror to the Mexico and the Caribbean
sea, among the West India Islands
down to the cost Of Venezuela. In
the beautiful AarbQr of Mugeres
Island he found perfect shelter trOm
the storms that at certain times Of
the year sweep with violence along
these coasts; and on the top OF
some domes, south Oh what is now
the village of Dolores, he built
small towers, whence he could keep
au eye on the surrounding waters.
''The foundations Of these towers
yet remain IL place, and every
Christmas eve the ghost of sailor
wanders about the hills No one
darcs speak to him, believing that it
would cause to dEo within OHe year.
Wlen net on board, Lafitle's men !
lived III huts Oh the very spot whore
the village now is. Lahlte is dis
cribed as haeing been very naughty |
with his men. punisIing the least /,
fault Of discipline, and ne} er allowing
them t. approach him without first
ask e permIssiOn; bat he was kind T,
10 Tie poor people on the coost. |
Once, when the aicalde of ii village !
refused to sell him meat for his men, |
he caused them TO seize bull and I
put it on his ship. but when told by
lie fishermen that tie bull hird been +
brought tor their amusement iii a +
festival, he hud IL at once restored /
tu them, stating that he would be
9 ,rry 10 deprive tnem of the lit e
pleasure they had il their life Of toll
and hardship.
after the bun fight plenty of
m, at was sent to him as a present,
bat he insisted on paving for it, say
ing that he would take nothing from
the poor. The tragic fate Of this
pirate king is told and retold hy
those WHO recoilect the event. just
at IL time when sonic OF Lahtte's
slnps were away from che place OF
a rung force was sent
Il gAiI.st hun. Hu encountered it
near Contoy and fought bravely. but
his ship struck a rock and sunk.
He took to the boats with eight or
ten men and succeeded in landing on
r sandbank called BlaIqui. la, but
was pursued and surruunded, Que
by one all his men tell, still he re-
fused to surrender, ana was killed
there, DEFENDING himself as long as
there was breath IN his body Two