The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-07


With wonderful speech of Spanish
gold and the vast rich country lying
to the west, Captain John OXeham was
home again; and not a promise he
made but was increased ten-fold by
his swearing henchman, Salvation
Yeo.
Amyas Leigh, stout Devon youth,
was afire to take the sea with Captain
John as he listened; but his godfather,
Cir Richard Grenvil, said he was too
young. Later, it might be. And later
he went, his first voyage being with
the famous Sir Francis Drake around
the world.
Following that voyage came fight
ing in Ireland in the company of Sir
Walter Raleigh and the poet Spenser;
and then an expedition with Sir Hum
phrey Gilbert, wherein, because of
mutinies, disease, ill-found ships and
great storms, Sir Humphrey met his
| death; and Amyas came home in sad
ness.
At this time Amyas, with score of
other Devon gallants, was in love with
Mistress Rose Salterne; but she was
for no Devon cavalier. A Spanish
captain Of bravery and charb was
dwelling in Devon till his ransom
should be coming, and it was he who
captured the fancy of the lovely but
capricious Rose, and carried her off
to Caracas, whereof he had been ap-
pointed governor.
Whether Rose went as Don GuZ-
mans wife or leman no one could say.
Mr.. Salterne, father of Rose, and rich
merchant of the port, gave a ship and
500 pounds toward fitting out, the
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now experienced in seamanship and
the handling Of rough men; and so he
sailed on his first venture on the good
ship Rose, of 200 tons burden and 100
men, with beef, pork and good ale
in abundance, and culverins, sWivels,
muskets, calivers, long bows, pixies,
and cutlasses aplenty. He was to dis
cover the whereabouts and condition
of Rose if he could, but surely to dam
age to his utmost what Spaniards ha
should fall afoul of A commission to
his liking, for it was an article Of faith
with Amyas, as with most young En-
glish rovers of that day, that all Span
iards were cruel and cOwardly, even
as his own great Queen Elizabeth was
all white purity. With Amyas went
Frank, his brother, scholar and cour-
tier, and mad likewise for love of
Rose Salterne, also Salvation Yeo, his
own Captain OXenham being long
dead.
Westward they sailed to tropic
shores: to low wooded hills, spangled
by fireflies; westward through Won
drous seas where islands and capes
hung suspended in air. In a wooden
blight they spied a caravel, which they
captured, and in her found a store Of
of brown pearls; also cargo Of salt
hides, which smelt evilly as they
burned.
Amyas sailed on to La Guarya in
Caracas, finding Don GGuzman not
at home, but having sight Of Rose
Salterne, she being truly Don GuZ-
mans wife, in a garden Of the govern
or's palace. In the fight with Don
Guzman's men, Frank Leigh was
wounded and captured. Amyas was
knocked unconscious, but was taken
safely away by his men.
Leaving fatal La Guayra far behind,
the Rose thrashed through rolling seas
and overhauled a long Caravel, too
long indeed to manouvre with the MIN
Bile Rose. Two galleys were also with
her. Victory fell to Amyas, but a vic
tory which left his ship so battered
anu his crew SO OSClTndlSO, 1QdI ne
ran into little bay for repairs and
recuperation. Here with their cul-
verins and swivels behind a stockade.
Don Guzman came upon them, in force
too strong for their shattered num-
bers; so, first burning the Rose, they
turned their backs to the sea and
marched inland.
And now came hope Of glory for
their queen, and for themselves great
treasure. in quest of the Golden City
in the kingdom of Manoa, whereof
friendly Indians told them. Through
untrodden hills and forests they
marched, past the falls of the Orinoco
and the upper waters of the great Am
AEON, from low swamps of high pla-
teaus, wherein they viewed the eternal
SHOWS Of Chimborazo, towering above
the thunder cloud, and the fiery cone
of Cotobaxi flaming against the stars;
a region 500 miles in length by 400
miles in width they traversed. Three
years Of fever and cold and famine
the yspent on the trial, and once
gold pack train, loosely guarded, fell