Panama and the canal . Massive Tower or Saint Augusiin. SIR HENRY MORGAN oS Finally the return march began. One hundred andseventy-live mules and six hundred prisoners helped tocarry the plunder l_iack across the Isthmus to the ships,. Wall of Tower of St. Augusiix.—Note Thickness of RL\sonry. where the final division was to be made. But witli thebase and cunning treachery of a true pirate, JNIorgan anda few friends, while their comrades slept at Chagrestown,loaded a vessel to the waters edge with the most valuablepart of the spoil and sailed away to the English island ofJamaica. Strange to sa
Panama and the canal . Massive Tower or Saint Augusiin. SIR HENRY MORGAN oS Finally the return march began. One hundred andseventy-live mules and six hundred prisoners helped tocarry the plunder l_iack across the Isthmus to the ships,. Wall of Tower of St. Augusiix.—Note Thickness of RL\sonry. where the final division was to be made. But witli thebase and cunning treachery of a true pirate, JNIorgan anda few friends, while their comrades slept at Chagrestown,loaded a vessel to the waters edge with the most valuablepart of the spoil and sailed away to the English island ofJamaica. Strange to say, the outrageous acts of thisbrutal man were readily forgiven him by King Charles IIof England, and he lived to be honored and knighted asSir Henry Morgan. 36 THE END OF SPANISH RULE The massive tower of the cathedral church of SaintAugustin, whose bells rang out their clear chimesone hundred years before the Pilgrim Fathers landedon Plymouth Rock, alone struggles, amid rank vege-tation, to mark the sight of the once golden city ofPanama. The fall of the city of Panama marked the beginning ofthe end of Spains power in the New World. Though theSpaniards soon built a new town, the present city of Pan-ama, five miles west of th
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