In the wake of the buccaneers

by A. Hyatt Verrill

XIX [Panama New and Old] 332

How Ringrose described Panama. Changes of to-day. In the city. A hustling modern town. Round the town. The old fort. Walls. Chiriqui and Las Bovedas. Where the [[xv]]creek once flowed. The old city wall. Churches. Odd architecture. Ruins. The Golden Altar of San José. Old Panama. The bridge crossed by Morgan. Ruins. St. Anastasio’s tower. Old fort and walls. Reconstruction of the ruins. The facts about old Panama. Burning of the city. Relics. Old Panama as it was. Wanton destruction. Morgan’s blackest deed.

XX [How Morgan Kept His Promise] 349

Morgan’s rise to fame. The gathering of the great fleet. The taking of Old Providence. Treachery. The attack on San Lorenzo. A furious battle. The accident that won the day. Bravery of Spanish troops. Awful slaughter. Morgan’s arrival. Morgan garrisons the fort. Loss of ships. Up the Chagres. Overland. Hardship and sufferings. In sight of Panama. The battle before the city. The buccaneers’ victory. Deviltry let loose. Tortures and murder. Burning of the city. The return. Morgan’s gallantry. Sir Henry’s treachery. The pirate Judas. The dishonored chieftain. Monuments to the past. [[xvii]]

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

	[The Dangerous Voyage]							Frontispiece
								FACING PAGE
	[The Cruise in the Wake of the Buccaneers]							3
	[Blackbeard]							48
	[The Vigilant]							49
	[St. John—The careenage, Rendezvous Bay]							80
	[Statia—Along the waterfront]							80
	[St. John—A vista on the Peter Duerloo estate]							81
	[Anegada—The guardian reef]							112
	[Anegada—The forbidding coast]							112
	[St. Martin—Salt ponds]							113
	[St. Martin—A street in Gustavia]							113
	[Saba—Saba Island from the sea]							128
	[Saba—A Saban sedan-chair]							128
	[Saba—“Going aboard”]							129
	[Saba—The town of Bottom from Saba Peak]							129
	[St. Kitts—Basseterre and Monkey Hill]							144
	[St. Kitts—The Circus, Basseterre]							144
	[Map of the South Sea and Coast of America, 1680 and 1681]							145
	[Santa Cruz—Plantation]							192
	[Porto Rico—City wall and house of Ponce de Leon]							192
	[Porto Rico—The Morro, San Juan]							193
	[Porto Rico—San Cristobal, where Ogeron’s men labored]							193
	[Trade Wind Cay—The Gibraltar of the Buccaneers]							208
	[Porto Rico—A “piragua,” the craft in which the buccaneers first captured Spanish ships]							209
	[St. Barts—Mending nets where the buccaneers divided loot][[xviii]]							216
	[Carib canoes—It was in such craft that the first buccaneers voyaged from St. Kittsto Hispaniola]							216
	[Tortuga—The birthplace of the buccaneers]							217
	[Francis Lolonois (commonly called Lolonais)]							228
	[The cruelty of Lolonois]							229
	[Rock Brasiliano]							236
	[Bartolomew Portugues]							237
	[The towne of Puerto del Principe taken and sackt]							256
	[Spanish coins used in buccaneer days]							257
	[Sr. Hen. Morgan]							272
	[Jamaica—A road in the hills]							273
	[Panama—Ruins of the fort at Porto Bello]							304
	[Panama—The jungle, Darien, through which Sharp and his men tramped]							305
	[Panama—San Lorenzo fortress as it is to-day]							312
	[Panama—The new city of Panama]							313
	[Panama—A street in modern Panama City]							313
	[Panama—Darien Indians wearing wooden crowns exactly as described by Dampier and Ringrosein their accounts of the buccaneers’ trip across the isthmus]							320
	[Panama—The Tuira River down which Sharp and his men traveled]							321
	[Panama—Darien (Kuna) Indians, the Indians who guided Sharp and his men]							321
	[Panama—The ruins of the cathedral, and bit of wall, Old Panama]							336
	[Panama—All that is left of the ancient fort, Old Panama]							336
	[Panama—Ruins left from Morgan’s raid, Old Panama]							337
	[Panama—Ruins of the governor’s house, Old Panama]							337

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