Show FROM BUCCANEER TO PIRATE the brethren thren of the coast warred against every nation mr frank R PL stockton continues in st nicholas his series of narrative sketches of the buccaneers Bucca of our coast in the may number mr stockton says the buccaneers bucca had grown to be reckless freebooters and when they became soldiers and marched in little armies the patience of the civilized world began to wea weaken en panama for instance was an important spanish city england was at pence peace with spain therefore when a military force composed mainly of englishmen and led by a british subject captured and sacked panama it if england should not interfere with her buccaneers bucca she would have a quarrel to settle with spain so a new governor was sent to jamaica with strict orders to put pot down the buccaneers bucca and to break up their organization and then it was he set a thief to catch thieves and empowered the ex pirate morgan to execute his former comrades comrade but methods of conciliation as well as threats of punishment ish ment were used to induce the bu buc cancers to give up their illegal calling and liberal otters offers were made to them to settle in jamaica and become law abiding citizens but these offers did not tempt the brothers of the coast from active pirates to retired pirates was too great a change and though some of them returned to their original avocations of cattle butchering and beet beef drying some it is said chose rather to live among the wild indians and share their independent lives than to bind themselves to any form of honest indest industry ry the french also had been active in suppressing the operations erat ions ol of their buccaneers bucca and soon the brethren of the coast considered as an organization for preying upon the commerce and settlers of spain might be said to have ceased to e exist but it must not be supposed that because buccaneering bucca had died out that piracy was dead driven from jamaica from san domingo and even from tortuga they retained a resting place only at new providence an island in the bahamas and this they did not maintain very long then they spread themselves all over the watery world they were no longer buccaneers bucca they were no longer brothers of any sort they no longer set out merely against spaniards but their attacks were made upon people of every nation they confined themselves to attacks upon peaceable merchant vessels often robbin robbing 9 them and then scuttling them delighted with the spectacle of a ship with all its crew sinking hopelessly into the sea the scene of piratical operations in america was now very much changed the successors of the brothers of the coast no longer united by any bonds of fellowship but each pirate captain acting independently in his own wicked way were coming up from the west indies to afflict the more northern sea coast |