CHAPTER I.--SIR HENRY MORGAN.

Son of a Welsh farmer--Runs to sea--Turns Buccaneer--Joins Mansvelt and takes the Island of St. Catherine--Mansvelt dies--St. Catherine re-taken by the Spaniards--Morgan takes Port au Prince--Quarrel of French and English adventurers about a marrow-bone--Takes Porto Bello--Captures _Le Cerf Volant_, a French vessel--It blows up--Takes Maracaibo---City deserted--Tortures an Idiot beggar--Le Picard, his guide--Takes Gibraltar--Also deserted--Tortures the citizens--With a Fire-ship destroys the Spanish fleet and repasses the bar--Escapes the fort by a stratagem--The Rancheria expedition--Sails for Panama--Captain Bradley takes the Castle of Chagres--Anecdote of a wounded Buccaneer 1