The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-07

was no longer profitable to anybody.
1t was just about this time that Pierre.
| of whom nobody heretofore had ever
| heard, became Pierre lie Grand.
He was at that time living in Tortuga.
| He had been, it was said, native of
Dieppe. in Normandy, and from this faint
distant glimpse we catch of him in a
queer little Dutch history published in
Amsterdam far. back in 176S, called de
Iierre a wild, desperate, rowing French
man, probable the chief of a band of buc-
cancer meat curers as wild and as des-
| perate as himself.
1t was to Pierre lie Grand that it oc-
Cured to carry the war with Spain out
into the waters of the G2rribbean sea.
hunters of wild cattle and enrers of wild
| cattle meat; they were also skilled and
| venturesome sailors So one day Pierre
lie Grand set sail in a little open boat with
| the Banana channel in quest of adVen-
ture against the Spaniards.
been just such little scattered villages of
huts, some of stone, but mostly of waffle.
snleared with mud, as they now build
stood facing the naked, dusty streets
along which they stood. There were CO.
cca palm trees everywhere, and bananas
and all that thick, luxuriant vegetation
which overruns everything. with great,
| thick masses of green foliage. Up and
down the hot, baked streets and clustered
around the ordinary" or drinking hous-
|
desperate, shaggy men, with wide brim-
ned hats, of woven grasses; with great,
baggy breeches and short coats, with belt
and badnalier and, broadsword, and a
musket almost as heavy as a little can
non. A couple of pistols. hung from a
sling about the. neck, and a knife was
! thrust in the belt.
] Such were the buccaneers, and it was
with such crew that Pierre lie Grand
set sail in a little open boat and SKINNED
away out of the great wide waters OF
| search a,
boat to fight.
1t was not until they had reached off
PAMELA, that Pierre and his party fell in
with an adventure.
."The boat" says one historian Of this
in this quaint bnat bngnhP Gf
Grand was with his companions had now
been at sea a long time without hnd1ng
anything. according; to his intent Of pira-
their provisions beginning to fail, they
must of necessity starve. Being almost
reduced to despair. they espied a great
arated from the rest. This bulky vessel
they had resolved to set upon, and TO
| take or die in the attempt.
| This ship was the Vice Admiral OF 5ne
| Spanish flota, or fleet and it was loaded
| with gold and silver plate.
| 1t was about evening when the pirS ties
sighted her. The ship was then the; pro6any
| ture, rising and falling on the slow
ground swell of the hot, smooth sea, big
| and black against the western evening M
scattered fleet, also riding at anchor. The
little open boat with the buccaneers in 1t
sailed toward her; That very day says
| had been told by some of the seamen that
a boat which was in view cruising was
beat of pirates. Unto whom the captain,
What, then; must | be afraid of such a
pitifuI thing as that is? No; nor though
She were a slip as big and strong as mine
| is -"
So now Pierre lie Grand and his pirates
ship through the dusk of the evening mat
fell, as it falls in the tropics, swiftly ana
and the Spaniards did not see them
Pierre made all of his men swear SOL
emn oath to stand by him in the hour of
coming danger; then he ordered the sur
geon to bore holes in the bottom of the
little boat in which they were, so that it
would sink beneath them and they would
have no means of escape so that it would
| to die.
They came nearer and nearer the Span
iards Now they , were very close aboard "a G5i
big, and still in the gathering darkness
and the murmuring silence OF tropical
night. Pierre and the others reached out
| and stopped the on-coming of their little
boat. The surgeon had done his work,
and it was already filing under them, the
water pouring gurglingly into It, There T,t
" as no longer any time for delay. They
must leave their boat or it would sink be-
meath them. Up the side they swarmed in
the darkness and over the rail of the e. big
ship. ''This,' says the historian was
performed accordingly and without any
other arms than pistol in one OF their
hands and a sword in the other"
ard a scuffie of bare feet on the smooth,
| still deck of the Spanish vessel; a dark
rush of mems figures hither and th1ther.
men, ran swiftly through the darkness
across the deck and into the great cabln;
| others ran to the gun room and took pos
session of the guns and ammunition:
In the cabin the captain of the ship was
sitting with sone friends playing cards
! by the dim light of the lantern swung
overhead from the deck above: ,- PIerr e
| blow and rushed directly up TO the cap
| tain, thrusting out his pistol and pressing
it against that officers breast "com IaaiI.
up the ship unto their obedience. The
| Standards says he, seeing the pirates
aboard their ship without scarce having
| seen them. at once cried out: Heaven
bless us, are these devils, or what are
They were neither devils" nor men;
! They were the first buccaneer pirates VI
IT Thus at a Stroke and without a drop. OF
| blood having been shed, fell the Spanish
Vice Admiral the treasure SHIP VIII ra s, nc
i
aboard and without single other one Oh
| the Spanish fleet knowing that there were
Pierre lie Grand set the captain and a
number of the crew of the. Vice Admiral
ashore in the darkness, the rest est. being bel ng
kept on board the boat to man her. Inen
without waiting for morning they slipped
the cables and sailed away toward
How low great was the treasure they gain in
ed, how vast the amount of gold and sill
yer. there is no record. 1t must have been
eiI Pierre ire reached France in safety.
There" says the chronicler, ne contln-
ued without ever returning unto the parts
such is the famous exploits of Pierre lie
Grand. the first buccaneer pirate who, at
single bold dash up the side of the great
Snanish ship, gained inestimable wealth
and pi'' fame in five minutes, time. It was
The first spark that set all the west In
Eies into a blaze, that of piracy ana ra-
nine that did not cease for over twenty
years
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