The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-08
CHAPTER XVII.
rhe New Powder Monkez


It may be understood that Annals
news. which h carried that very night
to Will and me in the weaving shed.
touched us very nearly. For me I did
not feel nearly so much terror as, in
such melancholy circumstances I might
have anticipated. And as for viii, /
think he did not believe in the reality
Of the danger. He had that kind of
English conceit that makes a man con-
slider himself the master, not the slave,
of circumstances.
Courage, Philip" he said. you and
I are far from being dead yet. We are
forewarned-whicn is to say forearmed.
If they take US back to the Isle OF the
Winds, as they must, if this be so
why, we shall escape and maintain our
selves in the high woods till We get a
passage home. Then Umphray Spur
way will surely charter a ship and with
our fighting weaver as we'll as the
crew, faith, it viii go hard with US if
we DO not drive these S~paniards into
the sea-"
But somehow this seemed too remote
a contamination to afford us n real
comfort. But it was Wits way and 1
did not contradict him. Then we sent
for Eborra privately. to seek his coun-
sci, who, when he heard that saul
Mark knew Cor said he knew of the
hiding place of Morgan's treasure, was
very grave and silent for a while.
81 will go and consult my mother"
he said, and so left US quickly. It was
well nigh an hour before he returned,
looking much downcast and discon-
certed.
1T is true" he said, "he knows.
Some strong Obeah has spoken to him..
But not so strong as my mothers. We
shall conquer yet, but it will be hard
And we must wait. If you go to seek
the treasure. Eborra will go alsoi''
Perhaps they will not permit you" I
said.
Yes, yes, they will allow" said Ebor-
ra. 1 alone can keep the black men
quiet. I alone know the woods. Per-
haps Saul may kill me after, but first
he will let me 60"
l need not recount the anxious days,
the hot and sleeplesS nights we spent,
VIII and I. while the San Esteban was
being fitted UP and the expedition for
the Isle of the Winds prepared. We
soon found that Don Nicholas also had
been drawn into the q 1t had
been suggested to him that she annexa-
ton of a new island to his masters do
m,nions, and the destruction of a nest
of pirates and buccaneers which had
long been given 70 capturing Spanish
treasure ships would bring him vast
credit in old Spain. And, besides, was
there not great treasure TO be gained,
not only from the boards of Sir Henry
Morgan, which Saul Mark a prom
Used to disclose, but also from those
more immediate and accessible Ones
anlassed by Captain Key and his men.
For long we could not understand
what it was the expedition was kept
waiting for. Everything seemed ready.
The arms and powder were on board.
All the bacon and dried food were on
board. Cattle were in readiness to be
slaughtered upon the eve of embarka-
ton. Yet still we waited. 1t was Anna
as usual who brought us the word that
We were delayed in order to allow the
new levies to be landed out of the great
galleon now on her way from Cartha-
gena to Port Of Spain.
One morning, however, as we looked
out of the weaving shed, we could see
her masts and precipitous sides loom
ing solemnly up the bay, like some
huge sea monster, and the same even
ing the soldiers were ashore, a gOOdly
band Of stout fellows enough. with the
country bloom yet red on their cheeks.
For they came mostly from the north
ern provinces, which have from the
first reared the best fighting stock of
Spain.
l. nv - AALL 2A2RA14OAl lAdA SUI
denly taken possession of our captors.
but on the same day that the ship for
Port of Spain landed her first boatlOad
of soldiers a detail of men came to the
weaving Shed and put US both in irons
again, or rather tethered us UP like
dogs, at a kennels mouth. For they
fastened the same iron belts Is at first
about our waists. and to the ring they
welded a swiveled chain behind by
means s0f PNr0nnV SD1f n and hi- +f-o4-1I
ing forge. But instead of sending US
TO the gang they bored a hole in the
stout wood of the shed about the mid
die of the northern side, then thrust
the chain through and made it fast TO
a great stake of wood driven into the
ground on the outside. 1t was lin other
circumstances) a most laughable pre-
dicament that we were in.
For we were thus aole tO do our work
and even to meet and converse pri-
vately, having freedom of motion to
the extent Of chains, though IN
able to reach the fastenings by which
we were tethered-
The negro and h~alf-breed women and
lads who formed our working party
laughed broadly at first, but since we
had already been kind to them they
grew sorry in their hearts to see us
treated thus. Besides, we told them |
NAkLN 4 NAAtg Az AAoL 1bCg - NLAEA we l
spoke they would surely have black
men set over them-overseers who
would whip them as they whipped the
chain gang. For such people of color
as are placed in authority over their
kind are much more severe than
any white taskmasters. 1t is curious
to hear them cracking their whips and !
crying. You d-n Niger you
black son of perdition," when in point
of nnfnp fhnpa s- No. a ALA1a - 49, ]
between slave and taskmaster.
In the evening arrived Saul Mark,
with great profession of sympathy, to
us that this was wholly the
commentaries doing. but that it would
not be for long. All was being done
that could be done. and the good Will
of the abbot and the grand inquisitor
were being used on our behalf.
But what e9n such young sparks ex-
pect?" he said With a cunning leer. Il
am advised that your favor has been
altogether too high with the Lady
Juanita. All, sly dogs-sly dogs."
But we held u peace, save to say
that we had lone nothing to deserve
chains, n that we hoped that they
soon be removed.
AS Of ours we could not sleep in our
hammOcks in the inner room. some of
the kinder of workfolk brought us
woye mats of palm fiber on which we
slept not so i'll, having pulled our waist
rings round. as they showed us. till the
chain and it's attachments was in front.
we made shift to get some sleep.
lying wholly on our backs, which on
any hard bed is the only position of
comfort.
In this dolorOuS manner We lived at
the weaving house Of Porto Rico till
the sailing of the Port of Spain GAL
leon. that is the better part of a week.
The new soldiers, not yet accustomed
to the routine of snail colonies cane