The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-11-05

great herds OF wild cattle. which had be"h
brought over to the Americas during inc
previous century by the SpaniardS, anu
which now roamed at large over the pam
pas and through the tropical forests %
these two islands. These the puccalle'I9
hunted and killed, cutting up thelr heah'
drying it in the sun ana Sellih@ II " ''ig
Spanish ship captains who sailed IN ana
out along the great Bahama chaThel on tho"
way to America or home again
The West Indies were at that time Tue
vast treasure house from which Snain drew
all her wealth. Ever since the discovery ol
the new world by Columbus, Spain had ia.u
claim To all that immense part OF the Woilu
to all those thousand h"autliui lSid-'"9
scattered over the wonderful Caribbean sea-
To all the northern coast OF South America
and tl,e isthlnus of Darien and Panama,
and to all of the west coast OF the con I'ile"I
bordering the wide Pacific ocean.
Now. Central and especially South Amer
;ca are perhaps the richest spots for gold
and SILVER in the world. There IN the l'lA-
orpiess and tangled forests are rivers WHO'S
sands daily sparkle with PARTICLES o. 'ho
nrocious metaI-rocks scanned and money
aombed with yellow veins of treasure. hNe-
rvwhere Spain had her agents gathering
,nd Gathering and gathering from this vast
storehouse treasures Of the precious meItlS
which were carried across the ocean III
those queer old high-poopcd ships and pour
cd a golden stream, into the Golfers OF me
Spanish king. .-,,r,
emptied out frcm the new world INTO Spain
made the other nations of Europe very en-
,.ious of her. Nobody felt that all that
,raat western world really belonged TO one
noople and to one king. Other nations lett
NAT they had just 3s much right 70 bring
away from the Americas some OF that ma
tive silver and gold as had SPAN SPAN
.,non her part striving TO keep every thlnS
fol. herself sent thither great wa'shipS 90
keen other nations from taking Trom the
great mother earth that which the Spanish
pcople claimed belonged all to themselves.
So Spain trying to keep all the rest OF
The world out of the West Indies, and all
he rest Of the world striving to get gold anu
silver for itself, it came about that Tor Two
centuries even when the nations OF the
eartb were nominally at peace there was
war. war i'm the West Indies, ceaseless war
bloody and cruel
Now, when the buccaneers hrSt came 10
the Spanish Main, as II was called they
came there as was said, not to rob SPAN oil
her silver and gold, but to gam money III
another way. ship captains that came 70
America had no means OF obtaining pro-
visions TO victual their ships for the re-
tt,rn voyage There was no Hour and no
grain. There was no meat, ana II thcre
had been meat there was no salt WhereWlIh
70 cpra IL \ shin captain had either To
victuaI a shin for the round voyage TO the
West Indies and return, or else run the
risk of falling short of provisions some
times n ships crew would almost starVe be
fore they got back to their own coul-
trv When buchanan first invented his pro-
cess of curing meat, and when snip cap
taius began to supply themselves there
with he made an enormous fortune in a lit
tie while-such a great fortune that nearly
every one that had nothing else better TO
do began to turn his attention TO curing
meat as buchanan had done.
These buccaneer curers OF meat We're
nearly all English, French and Dutch. But,
as was said Spain did not allow any oil
the other nations to come into her parts OF
America So she tried to drive the buc-
cancers out Of Tortuga. The buccaneers,
upon their part, gathered toSethef INTO
little army and fought the Spaniards. SO
ber~,n a war; first favorable to the Span
iards then to the buccaneers, which did
not cease for over twenty years, and only
terminated finally when the buccaneers
took possession OF the Isle of Tortuga in the
name of France, and drove and kept the
STANDARDS out Of that island.
After that they buccaneered Their meat
in comparative peace and quietness unit
so many men were hunting WHO cattle an"
drying their meat that the business was no
longer profitable 10 anybody
r. was inst about this time that Pierre,
Of whom nobody heretofore had ever heard,
became Pierre lie Grand.
He was at that time living at Tortuga
He had been, ii was said, a natlVe OF
Dieppe in Normandy, and from this FAINT,
distant glimpse we catch of him In queer
little Dutch history published IN Amster-