Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1906-01-20

obedience and respect for his com.
mands, no duties other than those re.
quired were performed by the men.
During the day when not at work or at
drill they drank, smoked, gambled and
fought at pleasure, although, as the
captain mercilessly exercised them
during long hours at the great guns
and with small arms. they did not have
any too much leisure for play. During
the night they kept watch and watch,
Of course, but in II all they took no
care Of the ship, and filth and dirt
abounded. II they had anticipated a
long cruise things would necessarily
have been different, but as they had
gone far to the southwark now and
might make a landfall at any moment
there was no necessity for botherlng
about mere cleanliness. Morgan had
not communicated his ultimate pur.
poses to his men as yet, but as he was
the only navigator on the ship he was
perforce allowed to have his own way.
Breakfast had been seTved--a mea.
ger breakfast II was. too. for all hands
were on short allowance of everything
but spirits, on account of the unpro.
vided state of the ship. Fortunately
for their contentment there was plen.
ty of rum on board. The men were
oongregated forward on the forecastle
or in the waist. wrangllng and arguing
as usual. The officers gathered on the
Quarter deck, and Morgan paced the
high raised poop alone, overlooking
them, when the lookout suddenly re.
ported three sail In sight. The half
drunken sailor who had been sent aloft
at daybreak had kept negligent watch,
for almost as soon as he had made his
report the ships were observed from
the deck OF the frigate.
The Mary Rose had the wind on her
quarter. her best point Of sailing. and
she was covered with canvas from her
trucks to her decks, from her spritsail
yard to her huge mizzen cossjack,
lateen sail. The wind was light, but
she was making rapid progress toward
the approaching strangers. who. with
their larboard tacks aboard, were beat.
ing up toward the English.
Attended by the maroon, Morgan,
pistol In hand, went forward to the
forecastle. kicking ehis way clear
through the sullen, black browed mass
OF sailors. He ran a short distance up
the weather fore shrouds and took
long look at the strangers. They all
few the yellow flag of Spain. One was
a huge galleon, the other two smaller
ships, though larger In each instance
than the Mary Rose, and all heavily
armed.
One of the plate ships from Porto
Bello was due In this latitude about
this time, and Morgan instantly sur.
missed that the galleon was she and
that the two others were Spanish frig-
ates TO give her safe convoy across
the ocean. Spain was at peace with
oil the world at that time, and the two
frlgates would have been ample to
ward off the attack OF any OF the small
plratical craft which had succeeded
the buccaneer ships of the Caribbean.
The Spaniards had no idea that such a
vulture as Morgan was afoat; there.
fore, although they had sighted the
Mary Rose long before she had seen
them, because they kept better watch,
they came on fearlessly and without
hesitation. II was evident to the ex.
perlenced officers among them that
the vessel was an English frigate, and
as England was country with which !
there was profound peace at the time
they apprehended nothing. I
ITO be eontinued)