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He then wrote letter to the governor
telling what he had done, thanking
him for "his Kindness" and promising
to visit him before long and serve him
in the same style.
The sack of Gibraltar, Merida, and
Maracaibo, which followed this adven-
ture, was carnival of bloodshed and
debauchery from start to finish. L'Ol-
lonnois differed from Morgan in the
respect that he did no: torture much.
If prisoner did not divulge the loca-
tion of treasure instanter, L'Ollonnois,
whom Esquemeling states was the
most impatient man that ever lived,
simply struck off his head with his
meat cleavcr, his favorite weapon.
From the sack of these cities L'Ollon-
nois reaped harvest of 100000 in
coin and $l00 600 in church plate and
jewels. This, according to the rules
of the buccaneers, he divided among
his men. He spent his own share in
two days.
Soon after this he set sail for Hon.
duras, but fate turned against him,
and L'Ollonnois, who was 50 fond OF
chopping people to pieces, was hewn
down by the Darien Indians, among
whom he had sought shelter from the
Spaniards, and who actually chopped
him up in fragments, boiling and eating
the remains for supper.
CHARACTER OF MORGAN
Henry Morgan, Welshman, the
greatest of the English buccaneers,
was different sort of man from L'Ol-
lonnois. Burney states that "hee was
a create rogue, and lttel respeckted
the olde proverb of honoure among
thieves" In 1867 he attacked Porto
Bello, or Puerto Velo, on the Isthmus,
with 800 men, surprising and storming
the outer works at night In the
morning be locked the officers in one
room of the castle. set fire to the maga-
zine and blew them into eternity.
The explosion caused such consterna-
tion that the brave old governor could
not rally the people to his support.
and was obliged to retire within the
inner castle, where the fighting con-
tinued until Morgan compelled the
priests and nuns Of convent to plant
ladders against the wall. They
screamed and pleaded for mercy, but
the governor, who had some of the old
Cortez spirit in him: shot them down
in crowds. When the ladders we're
planted the pirates rushed to the at
tack, scaling the castle wall and put
ting all to the sword. From the raid
the pirates secured $280,O00
1t was soon after this that Morgan
undertook what turned out to be one
of the most remarkable naval engage
ments ever fought, and which is of in.
terest to Americans owing to the fact
that the conditions were almost exact
ly the same as those which prevailed
in the, Santiago fight, of the late Span
ish-American war. Maracaibo had
been sacked in 1854 by L'Ollonnois,
but had recovered from the shock, and
in 1868 was again very rich town
Like Santiago, in Cuba, it is situated
on the shores of a long bay, or lake,
having very narrow mouth, 80 mar
row in fact that one ship could almost
block it. .......-
Morgan entered this peculiar bay
with three ships, stormed the town
and took the fort His entire com
mand entered the building and we're
making merry with some wine which
the garrison had left, when Morgan
stepped outside to take view of the
place. AS he did so he noticed some
thing burning on the ground, and,
Fastening to where it lay, found that
it was fuse which the enemy in their
retreat had laid to the powder maga-
zine in the fort. 1t had burned to
within a few feet of the powder vaults,
but he snatched it away and stamped
out the fame, which in another minute
would have blown him and his CON-
mand to atoms.
TORTURED THE CAPTIVES.
The city was deserted, but Morgan
sent 100 men into the woods to hunt
up The tugitives, who, with their wealth,
were secreted in the forests round
about. They returned with thirty
men and women. This was kept up
for days, and the most inhuman tor
lures were employed to force these un-
fortunates to confess where they had
hidden :heir wealth. Some were broken
on the rack, while others were tied and
burning torches placed between their
fingers. In this way many were
roasted alive. Slender. cords were