The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1891-05-14
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III Ralny Dap Il Pirag-.PlundR 4 Almost
liUlbiiIabk IalHs Wild Has
DISAPPEARED

The principle which bound The EARL
buccaneers together was their hatred O
lhe spanIards and q spirit Of greed and
adventure. On The little island Of Tor
taea de Mar a spanish colony Of simple
aahermen and cultiyators Of The soil Get.
ledaWaf bIsk n he lopenihR decades d
ne seventeenth century. scarcely had
thew become thoroughly established ia
their new home when a band Of Fse6ch'
men settled on the coast and began "a
slaughter and boucan beeves. As thu
island Law directly in the path Of Euro.
pean vessels bound for Mexican ports thu
Frenehmen found a ready market Iol
their iark.d. salted and dried beet. Tho
work became soprolltable that the French
nwarmed 10 the Mace and boucannina
beef gds the easiest and surest way Of
making fortune.
But the spanish settlers became jeal.
ous Of their successsful neighbors, and
December I, 1883, they descended head
long upoa the camps Of the Frenchmeu
and masSacred them BY The dozens. The
surviving tssmbers Of the Inflated camps
collected In The HIspaniola coast Rlades
and formed q league q the stIangsst kind.
The league was divided ND into conples,
Who SeFs % live and Iofk and lfehkito-
eethak.h fhis sihperislAble\ bFolh& hbJd
determined TO avenee the Tortugan mas
sacre, and one night they landed before
The spaniSk colony and completely wiped
itouto existence. AeaEniyalof hatchery
followed, and the boucanninR hunters
rsyslsd II Ne GOOD things iof 6o6d and
drink which they captured. They estab-
lished themselves on the island Of Tor
tuea onoS niorS, and thIbdlSnt Spirits
from other Iatitnaes followed them, until
the trade bet1ean the boucanners and
thu passinR vessels became 90 large that
Il attracted universal attention.
One PiesTe 10 Gros, Of Diepps, strong,
ball-doe aort Of Frsnchman, driited to
the Island, and, with twonty-seven fol-
lowers, took possession Of . Tortnkan
aloop. With this efals they started out
to prey upon the passing spanish galleOns
trading between ne new world and Cadis
and Barcelona. This was plain piracy,
and II vas the BEGINNING Of that unlawful
uractics which son sppead over The waters
Of two oceans. They captured q good
spauiIh enIlson. and amer "marooninV',
TIE eaotSin and crew on a solitary Carib.
b,an'f,v. thew called ne stolen we'd 70
Havana. vhsfe thev disposed Of = rich
earuo a paarIs. sllks and merchandise.
INA raualt Of thia exhibit on the hixh seas
Gas that every TortuQan wanted 70 no ga
buccane.rinr'' for Raileous. and In 4 abort
tine sloops and brias were iltted out on
~ I.I,nd n Drav unon the spanisb com.
mwre
From this TINA onward the buccaneem
made lbeir rove, al on the vatpr.o. he
suanish Main. and "A others aocked 70
their standaEa tbel, name. becama tev.
ror % m sbani,b aeamen. The business
Of uIr.cv was yeeoapi,od N a Ieoitimate
one a. Z tina. and the bueeanes,n vrre
enploved bv The RpalIsh and French SOW.
emmenll 10 accompIIah object which
their own iorcaa eould not van d Ioul.
Soolt q EagII.b hnceanaer coDce,voa
~ -, a io;nI,s N. A;1Ts~.,, h..d. ~
g.th1- N . i.Dd eruod;tion. aua J. . -.
M - s,nan,.a ~ $500 m ,;ch -.
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