Chapter 4

IN WHICH IS RELATED AN ACCOUNT OF THE TAKING OF LA GUAYRA BY THE BUCCANEERS AND THE DREADFUL PERILS OF DONNA MERCEDES DE LARA AND CAPTAIN ALVARADO IN THAT CITY.

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XIV.--Wherein the crew of the galleon intercepts the two lovers by the way 231

XV.--Tells how Mercedes de Lara returned the unsought caress of Sir Henry Morgan and the means by which the buccaneers surmounted the walls 248

XVI.--In which Benjamin Hornigold recognizes a cross and Captain Alvarado finds and loses a mother on the strand 265

XVII.--Which describes an audience with Sir Henry Morgan and the treachery by which Captain Alvarado benefited 283