Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . ing thatstore. This accomplished to his lik-ing, and knowing that idleness breedsdiscontent, and that discontent isalways hurtful to capital, he set hismen to work pulling the Castle of SanLorenzo to pieces. While they werethus engaged, one dark night withfavoring winds he hove anchor andwith four ships, filled with his Englishfavorites, and laden with the lions share of thebooty, he sailed away from Chagres and from bucca-neering forever. He left behind all the French,Dutch and mongrel pirates—those ancient and ex-perienced ones. He left them som
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . ing thatstore. This accomplished to his lik-ing, and knowing that idleness breedsdiscontent, and that discontent isalways hurtful to capital, he set hismen to work pulling the Castle of SanLorenzo to pieces. While they werethus engaged, one dark night withfavoring winds he hove anchor andwith four ships, filled with his Englishfavorites, and laden with the lions share of thebooty, he sailed away from Chagres and from bucca-neering forever. He left behind all the French,Dutch and mongrel pirates—those ancient and ex-perienced ones. He left them some of the poorerships — much as anefficient gang of streetrailway looters leavesome rusty rails anddecrepit cars to a townthey have looted—butsaw to it that nonewas left that couldpossibly catch up withhis fleet. So the desertedbuccaneers firstfought awhile amongthemselves, then dis-persed. Some in anamateurish waysacked the town ofKeys in Cuba. Otherswent to Campecheand Honduras. Es-quemeling with asmall band went upto Bocadel Toro, now. OLD BELL AT EEMEDIOS, 1682 embarrassing. the Panama headquarters of t!:eUnited Fruit Company, whence hemade his way back to Europe. Therehe wrote his History of the Bucca-neers, which became one of theworlds best sellers, and in whichhe gave his Captain Morgan theworst of it—a species of satisfactionwhich is often the only recourse of theliterary man who gets tangled up withBig Business. As for Captain Morgan, he wasmade much of at Jamaica, where thecrowns share of the proceeds of hispiracy was cheerfully accepted by thegovernor. But in England there wassome embarrassment, for there was nowar with Spain and the completedestruction of a Spanish city by aforce bearing British flags was at leastSo by way of showing its repentanceand good intent the government announced its pur-pose to suppress buccaneering and all piracy, andto that end created Henry Morgan a baronet andput the commission in his hands—much as we have
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