This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 Excerpt: ...as for the preservation of the poor remains of the plundered city. These terms he sent ' Esquemeling, Buccaneers of America, part ii p 97-1-Ibid. W 90, 99. _ also to the Governor of Panama, who had attempted to approach the place, but being intercepted by the adventurers in a narrow pass, was compelled' to retreat. The ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 Excerpt: ...as for the preservation of the poor remains of the plundered city. These terms he sent ' Esquemeling, Buccaneers of America, part ii p 97-1-Ibid. W 90, 99. _ also to the Governor of Panama, who had attempted to approach the place, but being intercepted by the adventurers in a narrow pass, was compelled' to retreat. The inhabitants collected among themselves a hundred thousand pieces of eight, which Morgan having graciously accepted, retired to his ships, and prepared to depart from the coast. The astonishment of the Governor of Panama that so small a body of men should carry the town and forts, and hold them so long, induced him, it is said, to send a message to the Buccaneer leader, requesting a specimen of the arms which he used. The latter received the envoy with civility, gave him "a pistol and a few bullets, which he desired his master to accept as a slender pattern of the weapons wherewith he had taken the fortified city, and to keep them for a twelvemonth, when he would come to Panama and receive them again. The governor retuped the loan accompanied with a gold ring, requesting that the Englishman would spare himself the trouble of so long a journey, and certifying him that he should not fare so well as at Porto Bello.-l When the spoils were divided at the Keys of Cuba, it was found that the booty amounted to 250,000 pieces of eight, besides goods of all kinds, including silks, linen, cloth, and many things which would meet a ready market in Jamaica: And for that island accordingly the pirates next sailed, to fit themselves for a fresh expedition by the prodigal expenditure of these fruits of their many toils and crimes.1 This brilliant exploit, in which a few men, with no other arms than pistols and sabres, had taken a strong city, greatl...
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