Identifier: outing51newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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t thistime), that the raid had not been madewithout considerable success, and that theraiders had taken most extraordinary risksin making it. He says: By this rain they lost many men at thepassage over a river that was overflown;here likewise some women and children,and many mules laden with plate andgoods, so that things were in a very badcondition with Captain Morgan, and themen much harassed. At the end of five weeks Morgan de-manded a ransom for the town, and wascontent to sail away when only 5,000 piecesof eight had been delivered. For he hadbeen away from the other end of the lakeso long that he feared the Spaniards mighthave improved the fortifications there to an extent that would make an escape diffi-cult, if not impossible. As soon as theanchorage at Maracaibo had been reacheda swift boat was sent to the entrance ofthe lake to see what the Spaniards haddone there, and it returned, in greaterhaste than it had gone, to tell Morganthat the thing he feared most had comeupon him.
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AiiJEAf TR u>E~—%. © 4 . Through miles of swamp they waded afterMorgan in search of treasure. Drawing by Allen True to accompany TheTrapping of Morgans Buccaneers. 43° The Outing Magazine The squadron that had sailed from Spainthe preceding year with orders to extermin-ate the buccaneers had struck Morganstrail off Santo Domingo, and three frigateswere now anchored in line abreast acrossthe mouth of Lake Maracaibo. One ofthese ships carried forty guns of heavycaliber, another carried thirty, and thethird carried twenty-four. Morgans bestship carried fourteen 4-pounders. Throughtheir own audacity and the luck of theSpaniards, Morgan and his men had beentrapped like wolves in a den. And theodds seemed so great against them that, inspite of his previous record, his men ex-pected Morgan to despond and to behopeless. But the conditions that made othersdespair did but inspire Henry Morgan togreater efforts, and if he is viewed solelyas a leader of fighting men, few have beenknown to

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