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Updated: June 8, 2025
The English sloop Zebra was sent down into the Gulf of Paria to clear it of French privateers, manned by the defeated maroons and brigands of the French islands, who were paying respect to no flag, but pirating indiscriminately. Chacon confessed himself glad enough to have them exterminated. He himself could not protect his own trade. But the neutrality of the island must be respected.
But they seconded as infamous things, such as cowardly raids from neutral territory into the states, bank robbings, lake pirating, city burning, counterfeiting, railway sundering, and the importation of yellow fever into peaceful and unoffending communities.
At this time there was a deal of talk in those parts of the Americas concerning Captain Morgan, and the prodigious successes he was having pirating against the Spaniards. This man had once been an indentured servant with Mr. Rolls, a sugar factor at the Barbados.
Of course Beardsley used some heavy words he always did when things did not go to suit him and then he said, as if he were almost on the point of crying with vexation: "It's too bad for them cowardly Yankees to come pirating around here just at this time when we've got a big fortune in our hands.
Why, you horrible villains, do you mean to tell me that you have been doing all this pirating for money? "Aaron Halyard scraped his feet in the sand, and shuffled about uneasily. "'Beggin' yer pardin', Cap'n, but what in Sancho HAVE we been doin' of it for, else? "Black Pedro gave a moan, and then another bellow of rage. "'Out of my sight, you miserable, sordid scoundrels, out of my sight! What?
"There are wild sorts of chaps out in those parts, who go pirating in their proas, as they call them. While we were just shoving off, a dozen or more of these proas came round us. We knew if the pirates got hold of us we should all be knocked on the head, so we began blazing away to keep them at a distance. We kept on at it till we hadn't a charge left for our muskets.
I have no doubt there was many a one who had been pressed into pirating just as I was, to save their lives, would have made off had they seen ever such a little chance of getting away. "'Just come into the cabin with me, says he; 'I want you to show me exactly where are these batteries, and the position of the village on shore.
"`I'll walk that plank, if I must, says he; `but I hope I'm too honest to turn my hand to your pirating, says he. "`Ah right, says the Yankee; `just as you please; there's no compulsion; only if you're so confounded honest, says he, `you'll have to leave this here ship, says he, `for we can't afford the room to stow away sich a bulky article as honesty.
The Christian doctrine of stewardship extends this commandment over much ground which we seldom think of as affected by it. All sharp practice in business, the shopkeeper's false weights and the merchant's equivalents of these, adulterations, pirating trademarks, imitating a rival's goods, infringing patents, and the like, however disguised by fine names, are neither more nor less than stealing.
He wished to go pirating again, and saw a way of doing this which he thought would be far superior to any of the common methods. It was about this time that King George of England, very desirous of breaking up piracy, issued a proclamation in which he promised pardon to any pirate who would appear before the proper authorities, renounce his evil practices, and take an oath of allegiance.
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