The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-07-28
HIGHWAYNIEN OF THE SEA.
Great Wars Always Followed BY
LaWleSSneSS.


grounding of the Carroll Deering and
the mysterious disappearance of three
other American steamships.
An epidemic of piracy has follow
ed in the wake of nearly all of the
great wars. Even as recently at 1915
restless souls who had smelled the
blood of battle and felt the intoXica-
tion of danger became loath to settle
down into the peaceful ways Of men
and commerce and chose the wide
seas as an asylum because they re-
fused to live under the law says a
bulletin of the National Geographic
Society from its Washington, D. c.,
headquarters.
Some Famous Pirate Bases.
BESIDE the broad oceans which Of
fered infinite chance for escape there
have always been the islanddotted
areas which furnish excellent lurking
places from which these exponents of
absolute freedom might direct their
efforts and to which they might take
their quarry for examination and long
division among them. The Greek
Archipelago the island hiding places
made it possible for him to defy the
fleets of England, Italy, Spain and
Holland, to levy tribute on all the
vessels that passed over the highway,
to capture the richly laden Papal gal
leys bound for Rome in Mosleum de-
fiance of Christendom and chain the
Christians to their oars. In 1910, at
that time notorious and immensely
wealthy, he changed the base of his
operations to the island of Jerba, off
the coast of Tunis, where the Fates
ceased to smile so kindly upon him.
After many hard fought battles and
vicissitudes of fortune he fell before
the forces of Charles V of Spain near
Tremizan on African soil. He had
actually escaped, but upon learning
that his faithful followers were close
pressed he returned to die with them.
The career of his brother Kheyr-ed-
din is sacredly less romantic.
PIRACY on the American coast
among the French and Spanish navi-
gators began before the days of the
English conflicts. Queen Elizabeth is
said to have covertly countenanced as
we'll as helped expeditions by buc-
cancers and in the West Indies the
trade restrictions placed by the va
rious mother countries led to accept
ance by many island governors of
wares brought by navigators whom
they knew to be free-booters and
hose methods they could not afford
to question.
Piracy Road to High Office.
"Perhaps the most INSCRIPTIONS
and willy of the perverted sea-kings
was Henry Morgan of the Caribbees.
He was a magnate, an indomita BILE
ruler, crafty strategist and a COM
mander of genius as we'll as pirate
par excellence. In fact he flirted with
one danger after another always to
come out on top. He marched into
Puerto Principe in the heart of Cuba
and took it despite every resistance.
He outwitted with uncanny cunning
the officers of Porto Bello, in Pana-
ma, one of the strongest cities near
the Caribbean shores and the store
house for the riches which had been
brought by Spanish galleons and
mule packs from the interior. He es-
capped with an inestimable amount Of
gold and jewels, ingeniously employ
ing a fireship against the Spanish to
accomplish his escape when he was
bottled up in Maracaibo Lake. Finall-
ly he took and sacked the city of
Panama. Then leaving his compan-
ions in the lurch, he slipped away at
night with all the booty to Jamaica,
ingratiated himself with the COVER
nor and was clever enough to get
himself into the graces of the Eng
lish king who knighted him and made
him lieutenant-governor of Jamaica
for his long experience of that colo
ny
"In our boyhood, stories of Captain
Kid were frequent. The subject of
the narratives was really a respec-
able sailor in the merchant service
with a wife and family in New York
when he was commissioned by the
English king 1890 with power to
seize and destroy off the American
coast all pirate ships. Having been
given ships and crews to accomplish
the purpose, he gaily set sail across
the Atlantic around the Cape of Good
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