The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-17
[Copyrlghted by Howard Pyle. ]

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The adventures of two of the great
buccaneers of the Spanish main have
already been told-of Pierre lie Grand
and how he took the great Spanish
treasure-ship; of Sir Henry Morgan
and the sacking of Panama.
Sir Henry Morgan was the last of
the great buccaneers; after him came
an entirely different sort of pirates
who preyed upon the ships not only
from Spain, but of all nations.
After the peace of Ryswick, when
England became allied with Spain and
Holland against France. it. became no
longer possible for the buccaneers to
devastate the West Indies as they had
done. If lawless and bloody men de-
sired to become pirates they now had
to seek elsewhere for prey. For Eng
land and Holland would no longer al
low Englishmen and Dutchmen to rob
their allies, the Spaniards.
So it was that buccaneering came to
an end.
At that time the European nations
had just fairly begun that trade with
the East Indies that afterwards
poured such a flood of wealth into the
western world. Already a great stream
of commerce came and went around the
Cape of Good Hope and up back of the
Island Of Madagascar and through the
passage between Johanna and the small
Ter islands. 1t was here that these
later freebooterS found fresh fields for
their enterprise.
The West Indies, no longer open to
freebooting, were comparatively near
TO home, but here on the further coast
of Africa, the would-be pirates were
so far away from all the rest of the
world that no law could touch them.
1t only depended on good hard. stub
born fighting TO win almost whatever
fortune they choose.
The later pirates were called, not
buccaneers. but marooners
If you will look in your dictionary for
the word maroon" you will find that
it means ITO put ashore on a desolate
island" 1t was from this meaning that
these later pirates gained their name,
for it was thus that the pirate cap
tains used to serve those of their crew
who mutinied against them; or, if the
mutineering crew were stronger, it
was thus they served their pirate cap
tain. Or if the pirates captured a ship
and did not know how else to dispose
of the crew, they marooned them on
some deserted island, sailing away and
leaving them to their fate.
Among the earliest Of the famous
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captured the ship of the Great Mogul
together with his daughter. her court
and all the inestimable treasure in
jewels and gold.
The earliest known OF Captain Avery
is as first mate aboard ship called
1.-The Duke which. after the peace of
Ryswick. had been fitted out by the
Spanish government at Bristol. in Eng
land, and sent to the West Indies to
Ill
guard. to keep away the French SNUG
glers who used to sail over from Mar
Unique to travel along the coast of the
Spanish main.
The commander of 'sThe Duke" was
one Captain Gibson. of Bristol. He
was, as the historian expresses it.
nightly addicted TO punch, so that
he passed most of the time on shore
in some ordinary"
Thus it came about that the ship
and the ships company were left alto
gether in charge of the first mate
Avery, who spent all this time in per-
suading the crew to mutiny and turn
pirates.
The crew. many of whom were from
the West Indies were only too willing
to listen to him. So one night viii e
the captain lay stupefied in a drunken
sleep in his cabin. the mutineers under
command of Avery, slipped the cable
and sailed away to sea, passing direct
ly under the, stern of a Dutch frigate
of forty guns which did not seem to
think it worth while to stop them.
Meanwhile. Captain Gibson sl-pt en-
snoring like a good fellow. Nor did
Avery disturb him, allowing him to
sleep on until the next day. Then
when he was as fairly awake as he
could be in his tipsy condition, the
mutineer put him into an open boat
with those few who refused to Join
with them and watched them as Trey
pulled away toward the distant line