Panama and the canal . Massive Tower of Saint Augustin. SIR HENRY MORGAN 55 Finally the return march began. One hundred andseventy-five mules and six hundred prisoners helped tocarry the plunder back across the Isthmus to the ships,. ¥%- <-% --- 1^- ^1^?^^^ K^^~ - t^Hk) <vkv. , ^^^^^t^^ -u.^. ^^^m iA ^ ^-^- j ^^B^ M -^€k Wall of Tower of St. Augustin.—Note Thickness of Masonry. where the final division was to be made. But with thebase and cunning treachery of a true pirate, Morgan anda few friends, while their comrades slept at Chagrestown,loaded a vessel to the waters edge with the most
Panama and the canal . Massive Tower of Saint Augustin. SIR HENRY MORGAN 55 Finally the return march began. One hundred andseventy-five mules and six hundred prisoners helped tocarry the plunder back across the Isthmus to the ships,. ¥%- <-% --- 1^- ^1^?^^^ K^^~ - t^Hk) <vkv. , ^^^^^t^^ -u.^. ^^^m iA ^ ^-^- j ^^B^ M -^€k Wall of Tower of St. Augustin.—Note Thickness of Masonry. where the final division was to be made. But with thebase and cunning treachery of a true pirate, Morgan 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. ^6 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.
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