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Identifier: westindiantaleso00aspi (find matches)
Title: West Indian tales of old
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Aspinall, Algernon Edward, Sir, 1871-1952
Subjects: Legends -- West Indies, British West Indies, British -- History West Indies, British -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, Duckworth and Co
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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mn Te Deum was chanted.The inhabitants then brought in their money andvaluables, while the victors gave themselves up to thewildest dissipation. Every article of the capitulationwas broken. The churches were plundered and thewomen violated, and the soldiers committed every kindof excess. The result was that 800 perished in six days,and the French had soon to abandon all hopes of keep-ing the place. They therefore shipped the plunderand 86 brass guns from the batteries, and after blowingup the forts of San Lazaro and Boca Chica took theirdeparture. M. du Casse had meanwhile demanded from de Pontithe share of the plunder to which he and his adven-turers were entitled. Great was the indignation of thebuccaneers when he was informed that it amounted to40,000 dollars only. They expected far more, andbeing determined to get it, returned to the unfortunatecity. Rounding up all the men they could find theylocked them in the cathedral and demanded 5,000,000dollars as ransom for their lives.218
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5* $-8 «. m 5 3 £ -J WEST tNDIAN TALES More than a million dollars were at once brought in,and after remaining four days the buccaneers decamped,having first divided the silver and gold, which amountedto a thousand crowns a man. They decided to divideup the merchandise when they arrived at the island ofLa Vache. Their intentions were, however, doomed tobe frustrated, for the marauders had only proceededabout thirty leagues when they fell in with the combinedEnglish and Dutch fleets, which made short work ofthem. One of their vessels, Le Christ, well laden with money,was captured by the Dutch, another, the Cerf Volant,equally rich in plunder was taken by the English, athird was driven ashore at San Domingo and burnt,while a fourth was chased back to Cartagena, whereher orew was captured and made to work in the rebuild-ing of the fortifications which the men themselves hadhelped to destroy. Five other vessels managed to reach San Domingo;but the treasure which they contained was subse

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