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Durham Chronicle (1867), 21 Sep 1905, p. 6

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[1‘01] Pip- :imss Llned finders. attention to it" 5rv'a "will As he spoke the men hurried to their stations. There was no lack of skill on the frigate, and now was seen the value of Morgan’s constant drilling. The cannon of the ship were cast loose “That’s well," said Morgan grimly. “Master Teach, here, will command forward on the fo‘c’sl. Raveneau and Velsers shall attend to the batteries in the waist. I appoint you, Hornigold, to look after the movements of the ship. See that the best hands are at the wheel and have sail trimmers ready. My Portuguese friend, you may look to the after guns. Now to your stations. Cast loose and provide! Man the iarboard battery! See everything is ready, but hold your fire and keep silence under pain of death! You frigate over there we’ll strike first. She’ll be unprepared and unsuspecting. One good blow ought to dispose of her.” and loaded, loggerheads and matches lighted, small arms distributed and primed. pikes were served out, cutlasses loosened in their sheaths, and such as had armor, still worn in greater or less degree even in that day. donned it, and the ship was full of busy preparation. “We've no flag flying. sir,” said Hor- ; nigold as the men settled down to their ' stations, grim and rea‘dy. I “Aye,” said Morgan, “Show the Eng. llsh flag. We‘ll make as much trouble i for his gracious majesty King James. as possible.” ' In a short time the glorious colors of England, which had never waved over so despicable a crew before, rip- pled out in the freshening breeze. As they were rapidly approaching the Spanish ship now, Morgan descended from the poop deck to make a personal inspection of his frigate before begin- ning actim. He found everything to his taste and passed along the lines of silent men congregated around the guns with words of stern appreciation. “To the death!" cried young Teach, who had come forward and mingled with the crowd. lifting a naked cutlass as he spoke. His cry was taken up and repeated, first by one and then another, until the whole body was yell- ing frantically to be given a chance to fight the Spanish ships. The crews of the guns hat] been con- et’ituted with great care. The gun cap- tains in each instance were tried and proved seamen, men as fearless as they were capable. The weaker and the more wretched of the band had been so placed that opportunity for showing cowardice would be greatly circum- scribed, and the stern command of the captain that the officers and petty of- ficers should instantly shoot any man who flinched from duty was not with- out en'ect. He did not hesitate to re- mind the men, either, that they fought with halters around their necks. “Hornigold.” said Morgan as he stepped up on the quarter deck again, “I want the frigate to pass as close to windward or that Spanish ship as you can bring her without touching. Let her not suspect our desire, but whirl into her as we get abreast. Don’t fall foul of her as you value your life!” “Aye. aye, sir.” answered that vet- eran. squinting forward along the jib- boom with his one eye as it measuring the distance, “I’ll bring her close enough for you to leap aboard and yet never touch a rope yarn on her.” He spoke with the consciousness and pride of his skill. “Now, lads,” cried Morgan, “have ov- erything ready, and when I give the word pour it in on yonder ship. I want to settle her with one broadside. Stand by for the word! Now lie down, all, behind the bulwarks and rails. We must not arouse suspicion.” r‘v 1:!) two ships, the Mary Rose going fret. the Spanish fzigate close hauled on the port tack, were now within hail- 1 ': .‘1mz(e.As they approached each ()11:.“.' .m buccanccr could see that the other ship was crowded with men. Among her people the flash of sun- light upon iron helms denoted that she .- T‘.‘icd a company of soldiers. The Spaniards were entirely unsuspecting. The men had not gone to their quar- ters. the guns were still securedâ€"in short, save for the military trappings of the soldiers on board and the tam- pi' ned muzzles of her cannon she was in appearance as peaceful a vessel to sailed the seas. “This is the frigate Mary Rose.” The and answer to such a hail would 33'; hqgn. “Th1; is his Britannic maj- The two ships were near enough now to make conversation possible, and the Mary Rose was hailed by a 1:111. richly dressed officer in glistening breastplate and polished steel cap standing on the torecastle of the other ship. 'To the death" COPYRIGHT. 1905. “What ship is that?” he cried in bro- Author of “The Southerners." “For Love of Country." “The Grip of Honor." Etc. . DILLINGHAM COMPANY “Now Hornigold; now!” said Morgan in a fierce whisper. e old boatswain sprang himself to . wheel1 Wigh_ his powerful hand: he revolved it quickly until it was hard up. The frigate answered it instantly. She swung away toward the Spaniard to leeward of her with a suddenness that surprised even her steersman. As soon as the Mary Rose had begun to fall off-â€"aye, even before her motion had been perceptihleâ€"Hornigold had reversed the helm. “Flow the head sheets there,” he cried, shoving the wheel over spoke by spoke with all the force of his arms. “Flatten in aft :1 little, here! Steady! We‘re right abreast now, captain,” he Iaid. or ship. Hornigold’s seamanship skill had been magnificent. He dom- all that was asked of him all that he had pron'lised. Almost as quickly as she had fallen OK the nimble frigate, beautifully handled, came to the Wind again. She mm now almost in touch with the oth- "Aye, aye,” answered Morgan in tri- umphant commendation. "Handsome- ly done. 1 could leap aboard!” The Spanish ship was filled with con- fuaimn. The captain, with his face blur-i; with rage, stood on the fore- castle shaking his fist. "This is: outrageous, sir!" he shouted. “You 1m v0 nearly run us down! What (In yuu want?” "I want to return your salute,” ano- swerml Morgan snm'ely. "Up. lads!" he cried. As the men an 1111;; to their feet he roared out florvely: “Stand by! Fire! Pour it into them!" esty’s {agate Mary Rose,“ but th'e Spaniards suspected nothing as Mor- gan continued, “carrying Sir Henry Morgan, some time vice governor t the island of Jamaica.” “I have the honor to wish the vice governor a very good morning,” an- swered the Spaniard, courteously wav- ing his hand in salutatlon. “Have a care, senor! What mean you? You will be aboard of us! Hard up with the helm!" “And I salute the vice governor,” continued the Spanish captain just as the English ship swept down upon him, and then he cried in sudden alarm and excitement: The Mary Rose was almost in con- taet with the Spanish ship when a per- feet tornado of fire burst from her side. Every gun in her broadside, and she was a forty-eight gun frigate, was discharged point blank at the astonish- ed enemy. Not waiting to relozul the guns, the crew seized the small arms ready charged to hand and as they slowly swept by poured a withering fire upon the Spaniard’s crowded (.‘tet'l{S~ Out of the flame and smoke the Mary Rose burst upon the astonished eyes of the officers and men of the two re- nmining ships. The first frigate was a wreck on the water. Some of the pirate gum had been depressed, great holes had been opened by the shot, the masts had been carried away, and the devoted ship was sinking, her decks covered with dead and dying. “We wish you the corroliments of the morning, senor,” roared Morgan, facing aft toward the battered and ruined frigate. “How like you our salute?” But the captain of the Spanish vessel lay dead upon his bloody deck, and it any answered the jeering taunt it was drowned by the laughter and cheering of the English crew. They had elimi- nated the first ship from the game. They had diminished their enemies by a third, and full of confidence they swept down upon the other two. With a confidence born of success, however, Morgan resolutely bore down upon the enemy. Even the dastards in his crew had been excited by the ease and success of the first treacher- ous blow and plucked up courage, be. Jieving that their captain’s invincible skill, address and seamanship would carry them safely through the next encounter. ‘ The Spanish had "*tle warning after all, for the breeze was rapidly fresh- ening, and in what seemed an incredi- bly short time the English frigate was prehend the reason for the vi- cious attack upon their consort by a ship of a supposedly friendly power, it w- evident to the Spaniards in the tw emaining ships that the English triga e was approach- mg them with the most sinister and malevolent purpose. Consequently the exultant men on the Mary Rose could hear the shrill notes of the trumpeters on the two other ships calling their men to arms. ! LTHOUGII they could not com- 9.199 gt. hand. Though they. worked 'How like you our salute? ' CHAPTER VI. and had and With a desperate energy, the)" had not entirely completed those preparations required by the shock of battle. As usual, Morgan was determined to lose no time. If he could have thrown his .vessel upon them out of the tire and smoke of the first broadside he would have gained the victory with scarcely less difficulty than he had seized the first advantage, but that was not to be, and it was With considerable anxiety that he surveyed the crowded decks of the two remaining ships. He had no fear of the armament of either one, but if those Spanish solâ€" diers ever got a footing upon his own deck it was probable they could not be dislodged without a tremendous sac- rifice of life, and as he gazed over his motley crew he even questioned their ability to contend successfully with such a mass of veterans. He had hoped that the remaining frigate would de- tach herself from the galleon, in which event the superior handiness and mo- hility of his own ship. to say nothing of his probable advantage in the. way in which his batteries would be fought. Would enable him to dispose of her without too much diiiivulty. Then he (‘Ol'zili with ease place the huge and uavrieldlv galleon at his mercy. But the two Spanish ships stuck close to- gether, too close indeed, Morgan thought, for their own safety. They were both on the wind, with their lar- board tacks aboard, the frigate slight- ly ahead and to windward ot‘ the gal- lean~on the side. that is, whence the Mary ltose was approaching. So far as he could divine it, the Spanish plan, if they had formulated any in their hurry, appeared to be for the frigate to engage the Mary Itose, and while she had the latter ship under her battery the galleon would tack across the Bug- lish vessel’s hows or stern, as might be, rake her, get her between the two ships, run her aboard and thus effect her ruin. The plan was simple, prac- ticable and promised easy success, pro- vided the Englishman did what was expected of him. Weft-“0‘5. ': 4' . Morgan was not to be caught nap- ping that way. As be rushed down upon them there came into his head one of the most daring ideas that have ever flashed across a seaman’s brain. llas- tily summoning Braziliano, he bade him take a dozen of his men, descend to the after magazine, procure two or three barrels of powder from the gun- ner and stow them in the cabin under the poop deck. He charged him to do it as quietly as possible and take only men for the purpose upon whom he could depend. While this was being done young Teach was also summoned from the forecastle, his place being taken by old Velsers, whose division in the battery was placed under the com- mand of Raveneau. There was a whis- pered colloquy between the Chieftain and his young subordinate, after which the latter nodded his head, ran below and concealed himself in one of the staterooms under the quarter deck. In a little space the Portuguese reappear- ed with his men and annonnvmi that they had completed their task. where- Upmi they were directed to return to their stations. Meanwhile the crew had been re charging the battery and reloading the small arms. Morgan addressed to them a few words of hearty approval of their previous actions and predicted an easy victory over the two ships. The Spanish captain naturally suppos- edâ€"and indeed the courses upon which the three ships were sailing if persist- ed ln would have brought about the resultâ€"that the Mary Rose would pass along his larboard side and the two vessels would engage in the terms! manner or the period, yardarm to yard- arm until the galleon could get into action and so settle it in the put-posed way. He intended. 0: course, if it could be broad": about. to throw the masses of soldiers he was transporting ,‘hofienponthehzllshdech and car- | W the hint. by teem Again Morgan put Hornlgold in charge of the maneuvering of the ship, and again that old worthy chose ,to 113.13.21.19 the 89.9528 1:198:11.- Theta ml: Try an Adv. in the and :mqmnce w1th the “rich fruity flavor” of Red F D Rose Tea h {3 all the good points of two i f and te IS and no: 1c of the weaknesses of any. M You m: ver drank at CU}; of stxaight Ceylon or Indian tea. that could compare in strength, richness, delicacy further. more than either Indian or Ceylon teas alone. Red Rose Tea is better than either Indian or Ccy‘on tea and is more economical because it goes Rose 'l'ea. Yet Red Rose Tea goes further and cows no ___, _â€"â€"_ it WiH Get You Business: If You Have None. CHRONECLE a bflef cameraman 5etiveen them, and then the English captain ran forward on the forecastle. The ships were very near now. In a moment or two they would pass each other in parallel courses, though in Opposite directions, and their broadsides would hear. But when the Mary Rose was about a ea- ble’s length from the Spanish frigate the astonished don heard a sharp com- mand ring out from the approm-hing English Ship, after which she inhale a Wide sweep and mine driving :5 might at him at a furious speed. The English captain intrude-f1 to run hlin thiwnf There was to he in passage airing: hi4 broadside. The oiiior was Upon him! The (rutwatcr of the onrushing ship loomed up before him tremendously. Instantly all was confusion on the Spanish ship. The steersman lost his head and Without orders put his helm up sharply. Some one cut the sheet of the after sail on the huge lateen yard, and the frigate went whirling around on- her heel like a top: in a violent and fatal as well as vain eflort to get out of the road. It was a most foolish maneuver, for close at hand on the lee side of her the galleon came lumbering along. Iler captain, too, had seen the peril and had elected to meet it by tacking under his consort’s stern, but he was too near, and the other ship fell off and was swept to leeward too rapidly. His own ship, cumbersome and unwieldy. as they always were, was slow in answering the helm. The frigate and galleon came together with a terrific crash. The shock carried away the fore topmast of the frigate, which fell across the head yards or the galleon. The two ships were. instantly locked together. They swung drifting and helpless in the tossing waters. Morgan had counted upon this very catastrophe. A twist of the helm, a touch of the braces, and the prow of the Mary Rose swung to windward. As her batteries bore she hurled their messengers of death into the crowded masses on the Spanish ships. Although dismayed by the collision, the gunners on the frigate made a spirited reply with a discharge which at such close range did much execution. Unfortunately for her, the Mary Rose had rushed so close to the two en- tangled ships that it was impossible for her to escape hitting them. The English captain would have given any- thing if he could have gone free of the mass, for he could have passed under the stern of the two helpless ships, raked them and probably would have had them at his mercy, but his dash at them had been an earnest one, and in order to carry out his plan successfully he had been forced to throw his ship right upon them. There.- fore, though the helm was shifted and the braces hauled in an eflort to get clear, and though the ship under Mor- gan’s conning and Hornigold’s steering was handled as few ships have ever been handled, and though it was one of the speediest and most weatherly of vessels, they could not entirely swing her clear. The stern of the frigate crashed against the stern of the nearest Spanish ship drifting frano tieally to leeward. had been no tlmc to reload. The re- mainder ot the engagement to all in- tents and purposes would be fought with the. cold steel. , and rail of the Spahiard were black with iron capped men. They swarmed over on the lower poop and quarter deck of the Mary Rose in a dense mass. The small arms on both sides had been discharged a moment before, and there The Spanish captain, mortified and humiliated beyond expression by the mishap, instantly realized that this con- tact presented them with a possibility of retrieving themselves. Before the ships could be separated grappling irons were thrown, and in a second the three were locked in a close embrace. Morgan had anticipated this situation also, although he had hoped to avoid it, and had prepared for it. As the two ships became fast the high poop Jam-4 \‘1‘ the approach? g xich she made a driving straight ed. 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