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brashly envisaged that summer's day back in Jamaica, but 1400 shaken and badly disciplined freebooters.

Spies had, with telling effect, spoke of fortifications at Los Bracas, whilst Indians and deserters described the recruiting of great swarms of savages. As if to top the {ll fortune resulting from Bradley's death and the loss of the food ships, a new and more crushing blow lay in store. Morgan came upon Jackman and his cousin Bledry, looking as if a hangman’s noose was about ' their necks. The former stood beating one fist into the palm of his other hand.

” » ” “FORE GOD, Harry, we're in damned bad case. © What's left of that boucan meat and meal we took on at the Ile des Vaches is alive with weevils and maggots.” “Speak quiet, damn you!” Morgan snapped. “Surely some of it must be eatable? “No,” Bledry said. putrid, fit stomach.”

“'Tis all to turn a Moors

Morgan beckoned the two offi-

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loony.” “So others have claimed in the

imen?” “Enough for one day and a half,” soberly returned the New Englander. “And damned slim rations at that. How long d’ye calculate ’'twill take to cross the Isthmus—if at all?”

_ “Six days,” came the instant response, “Provided we don’t

meet with too much fighting on 80iour way. The men will have to/the

live off the country, they've no choice. By the living God, what I've done before, I can do again.” Vice-Admiral Collier entered the tent in time to hear Morgan's last comment. Heavily, he seated himself and mopped a streaming face and neck, “Not necessarily, This time the Dons have had fair and timely warning, and Panama City isn’t conveniently to hand, but lies across sixty miles of rivers, swamps, jungles and mountains.” Morgan's unshaven jaw went out. “D'you fancy I haven't weighed those risks time and again? To hell with your fears! We'll win through despite all our ill luck. Now go, all of you, and order your men to draw their rations.” The Army of Jamaica set out on the ninth of January, 1671, a date never quite to be forgotten

in the New World. Fourteen hun{dred men commenced rowing, paddling or sailing up the broad |coffee-colored Chagre. , | Morgan, sweating long in the {lead canoe found encouragement

you find to bait twelve hundred!

simply could not be manhandled any distance along a trail which even infantry were going to find damnably difficult.

there harassed by legions of midges, gnats and mosquitoes, the Army that night devoured the last of the scanty provisions they had fetched with them, having found nothing edible in moss-draped swamps and backwaters about them. Unaccustomed to the sound of 80 many voices and the crackling of ,branches, monkeys, birds, 0s and even the loath-some-looking sloths alike fled so far that only an occasional young lor decrepit creature was brought to pot. “Thickest jungle ever I see, grumbled one of Col. Prince's "men the next day. “These vines is tougher nor a Tortuga trollops ‘eart ”

He spat on his hands and commenced again to use his greenstained cutlass against a stubborn wall of vegetation barring the long-disused river trail. At the end of half an hour the freebooter fell back, too exhausted even to pick off the dozens of ticks and leeches attached to his body. Another privateer emitted a bitter curse when Morgan drove him forward to replace the weary cutlass wielder. r . s

{as a man’s hand with thick, hairy!

Camping on the river bank and

fainting with heat mouths and , reeled aside to Me'the world, like st naked chest heav-| Through the

lay farther soiled piece of paper; away than fabulous Cathay. On the high ground lurked legible. quantities of venomous serpents.

There were spiders, too, broad, lian perfidy.

Morgan read:

legs and dark brown bodies. | Luteranos,

cutlass shovelled the raw cereal bled.

'was so scribbled as to

drifting trail to Cruces. In came Catfoot's supple, quick-mov-e imagination of most. Panama, ing figure. He offered Morgan a ordered|the City of Gold,

its

“Be once more warned, that you violate a

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“Just two short leagues, yours great Ra bling

inhabitants of Panama City. | On recalling the fate of Mara-

his principal lieutenants, Borgueno from Veraguas and Alphonso de Alcaudete, commander of the fortresses in Porto Bello, succeeded not only in quelling the hysteria but actually created an at-

message] be barely

“Mira, another piece of Cas-| march out against the terrible

vile

Of all torments, insects proved treaty of peace signed last sumto be the worst; nits, ticks, chig- mer between your heretic King gers and leeches dropped from the and our Most Catholic Majesty, leaves and, unless promptly dis- the Regent of Spain. You will be lodger, burrowed into the sailor’s!caused to pay a: thousand-fold for

sweaty skin. When the privateer van, sullen, ritory, their belts pulled tight to the last] notch, burst yelling into the vil-|

ter of cracked cooking utens! worn out blankets and an

found to reward the victors.

the mountains came nearer the river became transformed into a swift .and beautiful mountain |v .. stream. Upward, ever upward, struggled the army of Jamaica, More and more men collapsed

division. Deep shouts and the screeching of

ils, occaforward Col. Prince and men sional broken Indian arrow were both reconnoitre and to seize

Indians

their companions tramped incuri- thudding of musketry.

ously past these feebly groaning,

/this unlawful invasion of our ter-

“(Signed) F. SALADO.”

On the eighth day Morgan sent/was it! Morgan was about to attojtack Panama City. Although it

risoners very badly needed for his strength, the gaunt wretch As the hills grew steeper and the purpose A interrogation, To-{rattled his chains and howled wards mid-day the sounds of|with laughter. battle reached the ears of Adm. Edward Collier and was frenzied again—this European perfect to be true! But was it? high-pitched Perhaps, for during an intermin. were/able period, no jailer “ad come through fever and exhaustion, but mingled with a deadly thud-jnear. As a physician, he was

In a narrow defile the vanguard/much longer the well-recognized

{mosphere of confidence. {| The army of Panama prepared

{piratas from Jamaica. In his tide-invaded cell deep below ground, David Armitage cdully wondered what was afoot. By listening hard, he could hear cheering and the shouts of, “Let those English dogs advance onto the plain!” More shouts. He raised his filthy, shaggy head. “Muerte a Morgan! Abajo los Luteranos!” Morgan? He found strength enough to blink amid the unrelieved ‘darkness. Morgan? MORGAN! Dear God in Heaven, that

cost him near the whole sum of

Sobbing, he fell silent. No. He was too

aware that he could not survive

Gradually, the Governor, with;

I'M OUT TO GET the woman my husband went with. I'l pay

pusillanimous failure to make her back good if it’s the last thing I do. She has not yet paid “the ‘la stand at either Barro Colorado|fiddler.” otherwise

I'm glad for every bit of trouble I made for her. I nearly caused

ne a Oe w!all ier to lose her husband 1 should have caused her to lose her job,

— ay You're going at this thing Vengeance ahd making other 2 by reeling a boy people unhappy—and resentful | of son in Jove with you before wouldn't give you lasting satls- | .., 2, together. You have to faction. You could’ accomplish | jo 0st and appeal to boys first,

far more with your marriage | by learning to get the best from the husband you love. Two wrongs don't make a “right,” you know. You're legitimately angry— and hurt—but you're a Christian woman. Forgiveness is a part of Christianity. Helping your husband and the woman to become better peopie would help all three of you.

laugh at you and go on ere You'll read In Matthew 5:44, |\ing embarrassment and in“Love your enemies, bless them permanent unpopularity, that curse you, do good to them | are you?

up, when you see that boy and his new girl. Be casual — show them you don’t take

that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you.”

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nearly naked wretches sprawled had ‘been ambushed by literally Even

while vultures and buzzards circled lower over the jungle, their

helpless beside the trail.

weapons were retrieved. : ” ®

THOUGHT the

” Admiral, as on

hundreds of natives who had rained arrows and azagayas, or javelins, upon it to such effect that eight of Prince's men lay draining the last of their blood

the fifth day he kicked into pain- others .were

last your luck’s about to run out./from their ambush

BY MORNING OF the third day, the men were ravenous and

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