Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-02-24
BARTHoLEMY THE PIRATE.
With q Few Men He Captured Great
Spanish Treasure Shin.

of narrative sketches, 1.-The Buc-
cancers of Our Coast" tells in St.
Nicholas of the adventures of Bar
tholemy, the famous pirate. Bar
tholemy, after his escape from San
Francisco, in Campeachy, got from
his buccaneer friends small vessel
and crew of 90 men. Then he set
out for revenge.
To do daring and astounding deeds
is part of the business of pirate,
and, although it was an uncommon
ly bold enterprise that Bartholemy
contemplated, he secured his vessel
and his men, and away he sailed.
After voyage of about eight days
he came in sight of the little seaport
town, and, sailing slowly along the
coast, he waited until nightfall be-
fore entering the harbor.
Anchored at considerable dis
lance from shore was the great
Spanish ship ON which he had been
a prisoner. The sight of the vessel
filled his soul with a savage eager
ness to revenge himself.
AS the little vessel slowly APP
preached the great ship the people
on board the latter thought twas a
trading vessel from shore and al
lowed it to come alongside, such
small craft seldom coming from the
sea. But the moment Bartholemy
reached the ship he scrambled up it's
side almost as rapidly as he had
jumped down from it with his two
wine jars a few weeks before, and
every one Of his crew, leaving their
own vessel to take care of itself,
scrambled up after him.
Nobody on board was prepared to
defend the ship. 1t was the same
old story. Resting quietly in a
peaceful harbor, what danger had
they to expect9 AS usual, the pi-
rates had everything their own way.
They were ready to fight, and the
others were not, and they were led
by man who was determined to
take that ship without giving even
thought to the ordinary alterna-
tive Of dying in the attempt. The
resistance was not worth mention
ing, for there were people on board
who did not know what was taking
place until the vessel had been cap
tured.
AS soon as Bartholemy was mas
ter of the great vessel he gave Or
ders to slip the cable and hoist the
sails, for he was anxious to get out
of that harbor as quickly as posi-
BILE. The fight had apparently at
tracted no attention in the town,
but there were ships in the port
whose company the bold buccaneer
did not desire.
Now indeed was Bartholemy tri-
umphant. The ship he had eaptur-
ed was finer one and a richer one
than that other vessel which had
been taken from him. 1t was load
ed with valuable merchandise, and
we may hear remark that, for some
reason or other, all Spanish vessels
of that day which were taken by
pirates seemed to be richly laden.
If our bold pirate had sung wild
pirate songs with his crew in the
cabin of the Spanish vessel he had
first captured. he now sang wilder
songs. If Bartholemy could have
communicated his great, good for
tune to the other buccaneers in the
West Indies, there would have been
a boom in piracy which would have
| threatened great danger to the hon
esty and integrity of the seafaring
men of that region. But nobody,
not even a pirate, has any way of
finding out what is going to happen
next, and if Bartholemy had had an
idea of the fluctuations which were
about to occur in the market in
which he had made his investments
he would have been in great hurry
to sell all his stock very much be
low par.
The fluctuations referred to occur
red on the ocean, near the island OF
Pines, and came in the shape OF
great storm waves, which blew the
Spanish vessel, with all its rich
cargo and its triumphant pirate
crew, high up on the cruel rocks
and wrecked it absolutely and ut.
terly. Bartholemy and his men
barely managed to get into a little
boat and row themselves away.
All the wealth and treasure which
had come to them with the capture
of that great Spanish vessel, all the
! power which the possession of that
vessel gave them and all the wild
i joy which came to them with riches
and power were lost in as short 8
space of time as it had taken to gair
them.
A Case of Preserves
i After hearing argument in case
a Georgia justice said, "I'm sortel
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