Show NO HONORS PAID FAMOUS PIRATE jamaica ignores memory of henry morgan there Is no monument to sir henry moran in jamaica although he be was once lieutenant governor there fol lowing a career of piracy second to none in the wide confines of amert amerl cas ca s mod med the sea in all of kingston there Is not a street square or lane named after him visitors to the island frequent ly iy express surprise at the lick lack of even a tablet perpetuating the mem cry ory of the man who ravaged the spanish main and then at the behest of bis his government stamped out buc bue ca caneen ng in the british indies born in wales he first arrived in the west indies as a stowaway on a ship bound for barbados A short time later he reached fort port royal across the bay from kingston hingston with a string of prize ships captured at campeche campiche Cam peche shortly afterward he pit caged and burned panama the oldest town on the american continent this raid netted him mule loads of treasure he ile was infamous for cheating and ill III Irea retting his men usually robbing them of their shires shares of booty ilia ills schemes of torture were fiendish in the extreme combining practically all the brutalities ever invented in all countries since the very begin ning of time finally arrested in cannim and shipped to angland to give an ac count 0 of his a cr criares ire a his glib tongue and riches saved him from punish ment instead of being bring hinged c d be he was knighted and sent back to ja malci malca as lieutenant governor with a commission to abate piracy on al all the waterways leiding leading to or surrounding any of the british west indies the king of england bellev ing it to be a good idea to set a thief to catch a thief morgan betrayed his former at se hanging them without mat trial or mercy and thus for the time ending piracy in british dominions his despotism finally led to his recall some say sir henry morgan died peacefully in england under an as fumed name others that he be resumed I 1 is piratical career and was killed in a raid while the best liked story ts Is to tl ti e effect that some of his old shipmates tied him in aprea I 1 1 eagle fashion on the shore and let the incoming tide slowly drown him generally considered an appropriate fate |