Show belmo SCOTT WATSON 1 lab western newspaper union sir henry morgan fiend aso GREATNESS Is only a relative term so that the statement of one historian that sir henry morgan was ah ilia greatest of all the brethren of th the coast night be accepted with reservations if the designation deb ignation brethren of the coast coan be interpreted to mean those who wrote their names in history in red with looting and with murdering then sir henry boigan buccaneer may well claim preeminence B dut u t if tin tilt term be limited strictly to pirates morgan must give place to others for morgan a welshman bo born a 1 in the year can be regarded as a pirate only by one people ti alie t e span lards to whom he was for so go long a terrible scourge it Is doubtful doubt tul if tile the english care to class him with that other terror of the dons sir robert kobert drake or even to admit that he committed some of the blackest crimes in history under the english banner but the tact fact remains that henry morgan became sir henry morgan by word and act of his gracious majesty charles II 11 and it was an english court which decided a libel suit in morgans favor against the publishers of I 1 esque aque mell famous book Ill history story of the Buca Bu canlers in which morgan was painted as an inhuman monster the son of a welsh farmer morgan took to the sen sea early eventually going to the west indies where ills his uncle was for a time deputy governor of ja jamaica millea lie soon made a name darne for himself as a commander of privateers and in scored his first success by looting the town of puerto bello puerto bello gold goedl it what romantic visions of untold wealth that term conjures up but in the he case of morgan and his buccaneers bucca it should be accompanied compa nied by words only which mean untold agony and fiendish cruelty this was followed by other success es the raid on maracallo Mara calbo the storming of fort st lawrence the famous march up the chagares chagres river and finally the peak of 11 morgans organs infamous career the capture and sack 0 oj the city of panama the full tale of this would fill a volume A quotation from one historian will give an inkling of the career of sir henry Bl morgan organ the bright moon from the clear heaven looked down in all its tender tropic splendor upon such a carnival 0 of erime crime and debauchery as possibly J the world never saw they had bad a vast avast amount of precious merchandise merchandize dize one hundred and twenty five beasts of burden la laden denNIth with gold silver and jewels and six hundred prisoners tor for can ransom loot sir henry morgan wrote that word in a manner which never will be surpassed 1 long ben hero of a play NEXT nother EXT to captain kidd perhaps no other pirate leader ever caught the popular fancy so much as capt john avery alias henry every alias captain Bridger variously known as long ben and the A arch ach pirate rate A large part of this was due no doubt to the fact that he be was the hero of charles johnsons play called the successful gyrate which was acted at the theater royal in drury lane avery was born about 1005 the son of a plymouth innkeeper and from the beginning lie he had bad a turbulent career As a youth lie he shipped as a cabin boy j and soon proved himself an accomplished blied young desperado ile he first came into prominence as first officer on nn an armed privateer tile the duke whose commander captain gibson the Spun spaniards lards had engaged to fight french pirates in the west indies avery led it a mutiny on board the ship while it lay at anchor in cadiz harbor put the captain ashore and was himself elected captain then lie he renamed the vessel the charles the second arid and set out at the isle of may blay he seized the portuguese governor A vernor and held him for ransom ura until a supply of provisions were sent aboard then lie sailed avy to the coast of guinea to engage in the slave trade rude capturing two or three oliree english vessels en route ne near r io ti the esland of princess lie he captured two danish and then set out for madagascar from base he be ort on aerated crated in the red lied sea at aden averys ship was jf ened by two english pirate ships and three i from america all bent upon the same q quest an n incident which took place a filart time before this was typical of 0 abrys A crys calIf felty tor for deviltry in general ile he had balled into the borbor of a town named meat with the intention I 1 of af pf some of ills his tolen stolen i nier clinn dese to the natives but they were suspicious of averys villainous looking traders and refused to do any dinst nes q with them in order to thein lein the burnt their ton the lie pirate ships kept a Ilg illInt watch biatch for the fleet it to elude the freebooters eri in the night but avery was tint ht in pursuit the next morning and singling out the liggett vessel captured it after a tW two OLour hour battle it turned out to be the he gangway Gun sway boned on noil by the great mo gul ail blin self and one of ills his was from elliis ship the arites took a vast loot pame t of eight mid the same number of chi dains the great real argil 9 11 wis waa furious A nl tind nt a to 10 whether r guilty should pay for it threatened to t lay jay waste to nil itil tile eos indeli andin comp nys settlements in re veng e JI whether hether or not he made cooj goo on nn lis ills threat Is not recorded but list be neter uia dp avery suffer buffer for it t |