Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-01-16
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over the side of the Santo Nlno-
Captain Blood proceeded to investi'
gate the value of this further prize
When her matches were removed, q
human cargo was disclosed in ner
slaves said Wolverstone, and
PERSISTED in that belief, cursinS
Spanish dcviltry until CahusaC
crawled up out Of the dark bowels
of the ship, and stood blinking in
the sunlight.
And those that crawled out after
him-the remnants of his crew
cursed him horribly for the push
lanimity which had brought them
into the ignominy of owing their de-
| ~1iverance to those whom they had
deserted as lost beyond hope. .
Their sloop had encountered ana
| had been sunk three days ago by
| the Santo Nino.
CHAPTER XVIII
The Milngrosa
The affair at Maracaybo is to be
| considered as Captain Bloods buc-
| ~caneering masterpiece. ,
The fame which he had enjoyed
! before this, great as it already was
IS dwarfed into insignitlcance by the
fame that followed.
In Tortuga, during the months he
spent there re1tting the three SHIPS
he had captured from the feet that
had gone out to destroy him, he
found himself almost an object OIL
worship in the eyes of the wild
Brethren of the Coast. When next
he sailed away it was with q heet
of five fine ships in which went
something e a thousand men. Inc
three captured Spanish vessels he
had renamed with a certain scholar
ly humor the Clotho, Lachesis, and
Atropos.
In Europe the news of this feet,
following upon the news of the
Spanish Admiral's defeat at Mara
caybo, produced something of a SEN
sation.
On the 18th of September of the
year 1854 memorable year in the
annals of England-three ships
were afoat upon the Caribbean,
which in their coming ~conjunctions
were to work out the fortunes of
several persons,
The first of these was Captain
BIood's flagship the Arabella, which
had been separated from the buc-
cancer fleet in q hurricane of the
Lesser Antilles.
The second ship was the great
Spanish g~alleon, the Milagrcsa,
which, accompanied by the smaller
frigate Hidalga, 1urked off the Cay
mites. Aboard the Milagrosa sailed
the vindictive Don Miguel.
The third and last Of these ships
with which we are at present con-
cerned was an English man-of-war.
which was at anchor in the French
port of st. Nicholas. She was on
her way from Plymouth to Jamaica,
and carried on board a very dis
tinguished passenger in the person
of Lord Julian Wade, who came
charged with a mission of some con-
sequence and delicacy.
My Lord Sunderland, the Secre-
tary of State, had appointed a strong
man to the deputy governorship of
Jamaica. This strong man was that
Colonel Bishop who for some years
now had been the most influential
planter in Barbados.
The Royal Mary-the vessel bear
ing that ingenious, tolerably accom-
plfshed, mildly d~issolate, entirely ele-
CANT envoy made a good passage to
st. Nicholas, her last port of call be-
fore Jamaica. 1t was understood
that as a preliminary Lord Julian
should report himself to the Deputy
Governor at Port Royal, whence at
need he might have himself convey
ed to Tortuga. Now it happened that
the deputy governors niece had
come to St. Nicholas some months
earlier or a visit to some relatives,
and so that she might escape the in
sufferable heat of Jamaica in that
season. The time for her return be-
ing now at hand, a passage vas
sought for her aboard the Royal
Mary, and in view OF her uncle's
rank and position promptly accord
ed.
Lord Julian hailed her advent
with satisfaction.
Miss Bishop was a young woman
and a lady. On his side, with his
title and position he bore about him
the atmosphere of the great world
that was little more than a name
to her. 1t is not therefore wonder
full that they should have been at
tracted to each other before the
Royal Mary was warped out of st.
Nicholas.
81 wonder now ne said as they
were sauntering on the poop, "if
you ever saw this fellow Blood. who