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Title: Panama and the canal in picture and prose ..
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Abbot, Willis John, 1863-1934. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York (etc.) Pub. in English and Spanish by Syndicate publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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A WOMAN OF OLD PANAMA THE PIRATES ORGY OF PLUNDER 95 up seriously. First the churches and governmenthouses had to be ransacked for precious orna-ments and treasure, and herein the robbers metwith their first serious disappointment, for on thenews of their coming much of the plate had beenput on ships and sent out to sea. A brig agroundin the harbor was seized by Morgan and sent inpursuit, but the delights of the Island of Taboga, From ceremonial plate to the seamstresss thimble;from the glittering necklace to the wedding ring,everything was raked together into the great commonstore of plunder. What was easily found was notenough. Wells were searched, floors torn up, wallsripped open and, after all other devices had beenemployed, prisoners were put to the torture to makethem reveal the hiding places of their own and
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WASH DAY AT TABOGA then as now a pleasure resort, proved superior evento the avariciousness of the Spaniards, and theylingered there over wine cups until the treasure shipshad vanished. Rumors still linger that much ofthe treasure had been buried at Taboga, and thatone richly freighted ship had been sunk some placenearby. But frequent treasure-hunting expeditionshave come home empty handed. After raking the government buildings from gar-ret to vaults the pirates turned to the private houses. others valuables. Capt. Morgan led in this activity,as indeed he appears to have been the most villainousof all his crew in the mistreatment of women. Afterall that could be gathered by these devices had beentaken the several thousand prisoners were in-formed that if they wanted to retain their livesand regain their liberty they must pay ransom,fixed in amount according to the standing in thecommunity and the wealth of the captive. Ofcourse the community was gone and the buccaneers 96 PANAMA AND T

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