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A Romance oS Braddock's Defeat
NEARBY i
AND
YONDER
By
T.T.
Maxcy
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By Hugh Pendexter
OoMrrlfM kf tb rmdsxur.
CHAPTER X
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Th Long Trail Ends
It was thirteen days after the bot
tle that Dunbar the Tardy arrived at
Fort Cumberland on Wlll'a creek with
three hundred wounded soldiers. It
la Impossible to picture the amine
ment and consternation that smotb
ered the colonies when It was definite
ly known that the army had been de
feated and broken. There had been
no concern In the public mind a to
the outcome of the campaign.
The Drat uncertain news was re
ceived by Colonel James Innes, com
mander at Fort Cumberland. This
was on July eleventh, two day after
the battle. He immediately started
expresses to the neighboring provinces
to announce bis grave fear that the
army bad met with reverses. While
these messenger! were carrying the
astounding news the wagoners, who
bad first fled the bloody Held, were
beginning to reach the outlying settle
Bents. Governor Morris was at Car
Usle when a half-starved, half-mnd
wagoner flogged bis exhausted mount
Into the settlement and began crying
ont that Braddurk bad been defeated,
that the entire army had been annl
bllated, and that he, the wagoner, was
the only survivor.
The provinces were stunned. On
the sixteenth another messenger
brought further details. General Brad
dock was dead and bad been burled
at Great Meadows on the fourteenth
and the army and Dunbar's wagons
bad passed over his grave to hide It
from the savages. On the dny this
man brooght his dismal budget. Gov
ernor Morris sent ont a call fur the
tnembly to meet him In t'blladelphla
on the twenty-third, so aa to permit
Dunbar to take the offensive and pre
vent the triumphant enemy from over
running our frontiers and from bring
tog the ax to the eastern settlements
Dunbar promptly announced his de
termination to be done wltb forest
lighting; and be marched his twelve
hundred soldiers to Philadelphia and
left three hundred wounded men at
Will's creek. Bis army went Into
camp on Society bill, and In tuln did
Governor Morris urge blm to send s
tew men to patrol the Susquehanna.
Enongb refugees came In to swell the
army to fifteen hundred, and without
raising bis band to protect the border
Dunbar the Tardy sailed with this
force for New Tork In October.
8tupefactloo was replaced by dis
may as this, the only fighting force In
the south, war withdrawn. In very
truth were the colonies sruused to
the realization that tbey must protect
themselves by doing their owo fight
ing, and no longer depend 0ko over
seas armies. Once Pun bur's Inten
tlons to withdraw from the province
became known. Governor Dinwiddle
urged Pennsylvania and Maryland to
unite with Virginia In bulldlnt a
Strong fort at the Great crossing or
on Great Meadows This wise plan
for protecting the bonier came to
nothing because of the colonies' In
iblllty to overcome factional Jealous
les snd to agree ss to the division of
the eiinse. labor snd the like. So
we drifted Into three years of rapine
snd slaughter.
I reached Carlisle the dny after
Governor Morris started for I'hlladel
phis. My wounds, aggravated hy ex
pom re, forced me to travel alowi) :
and my efforts to find some trace of
the Dlnwotd girl permitted many sur
vivors to pass me. Mine was old news
when I did arrive. In Carlisle I fell
In wltb three rangers who were ut
off from the ford when the final rout
filled the narrow road. They were
forced to sdvance north, or close to
Duquesne, to escape the savages The?
hud concealed themselves In the woods
near the Allegheny, snd from what
they had observed I learned how five
hundred of Confine's Ottawas had
quarreled wltb the French over the
division of the booty, and had thrown
back the ax snd bad killed and
calped two Frenchmen very close to
the spot where my Informants were
biding.
I recovered from my wounds and
ecame active In preparing s defense
against the red swarms we knew
jrould soon be upon us. As rapidly as
possible a string of forts was built
from the Delaware and Susquehanna
o the Potomac. There were Fort
ttedford a' Ilea's Town, Fori I.lgonla
a the site of the old Indian town of
Loyal Harms In Westmoreland conn
y. Fort Loudon at the foot of nine
nnuntaln, Fort l.o wilier at Carlisle
ind Chnmherr fort few miles west
Of that town.
And there were other forts, ss well
is numerous small blot k bouses, erect
td during the tiext three years. For
two months after the bnttle of the
donnnguhels we worked feveilsnly.
Inking advantage of the brief period
the Indians required to convince
themselves that the war path to the
Mist was unobstructed. Then the storm
began to break.
The first blow struck by the raider,
as In Cumberland county, and mw
Ihe as was taking toll on the Husque
hanna. A large body of Indian,
romped thirty miles above llnrrln
terry snd killed on both sides of th
ITJustratforu
river. In October a mixed force of
French and Indians was burning and
scalping within forty miles of the
ferry. Settlers were frantically flee
ing to the east, or doggedly fortlng
themselves on learning that escape
was cut off. I went out with forty
five men from the ferry and helped
bury fourteen mangled bodies. Great
cove was destroyed.
Ry December, the Indians were on
the Lehigh behind the Blue moun
tains, where they killed a hundred
people and burned ninny cabins Beth
lehem prepared to resist an attack.
At about the same time another band
penetrated to the Schuylkill la Berks
county and did devil's work. For fifty
miles around Easton the country was
devastated. So widespread were the
activities of the savages that bun
dreds of teople fled Into the Jerseys,
some carrying their household goods
and driving their cattle; others vain
ly offering half of all they possessed
In an effort to save something.
It was a characteristic of this on
equal fighting that the Indlnns took
but few prisoners. Thirty-six houses
and the cLurcb at Gnadenhutten were
burned, although Lieutenant Brown
and a company of rangers forted
themselves In the church and held It
until It was fired. The Juniata was
visited early In January and many
people were murdered within two or
three miles of Fort Patterson.
Even the back districts of Chester
and Philadelphia counties were en
dangered, and four hundred German
farmers from the latter county
marched Into Philadelphia city snd
demanded that tha assembly grant
them some protection. These settlers
should have remembered bow men of
their race defeated Joseph Seely
Berks county cnndldate for sheriff. In
the October election, because he
favored military training.
Throughout the winter, the savages
continued very active, which was un
usual, ss during the snow months the
frontier always bad experienced a re
lief from sttacks and had slept sound
ly. The woods from the Juniata to
Shamokln were filled with feroclout
red men, who killed and burned. In
the latter part of the month a hnn
dred Indians st Klttannlng. Inclod
Ing not a few who had been loyal to
England until the defeat on the Mn
ongnhela, left to raid the Coocix-he
ague settlements snd forts Shirley
and Littleton. I was one of those
who rode ahead to spread the alarm.
and I experienced enough thrills to
last me several lifetimes.
And so the bloody story might go
on through volumes. Settlements In
flames and the rough roads crow-led
wltb terrified families. 8carcely s
night could one scan the horizons snd
not see the red flares that told of
some cabin or hamlet being wlied
out. Not until Gen. John Forbes' ex
pedition In the summer of n.VJ. when
he marched to Duquesne wltb fifty
eight hundred men and a thousand
wagons, did we begin to bave a rest
from the butcheries But General
Forbes would have nothing to do with
the III fated Braddock road and wise
ly followed the central path through
Carlisle, Shlppenshnrg. snd nrer
Laurel mountain. The long rifles wert
proving their worth snd were soon
to tnke Canada from the French
During all this strife and thete ru!s
eruble scenes, I endeavored to do mj
shnre In exacting s penalty from the
red tnea For two weeks I worked
with Cuptaln Jack, the Black Hunter
of the Junlnta. But when that rtvei
was harried he became such s mad
man and would take such foolhuidt
risks that I left his band. Tel we
made some rare killings In the shr
time we were together.
The danger was never so rreut,
however, as to cause me to forget,
the Dlnwold gtrL In my dreams
and In my waking hours I could aee
tier tugging st young Morgsn's hind
and striving to come back snd face
the trouble nut In my company. At
night I would awake with her voice
BHnBant4nnnaBunnuantjannt4aa
Humble Seaweed Put
It "weed" Is lo continue ss the name
for a plant for which oo use bus been
discovered, then seaweed will have to
change Its name.
After prolonged research, a process
has been found In which seawood Is
utilized In the production of slglo and
alginates Algln Is a subrtnnce sim
ilar to starch and gum arable In Its
profiertles, but In many respects su
perior to either.
With a viscosity fourteen times
that of starch snd thirty-seven times
that of gum s ruble, It Is of greater
sdvsnlage Ihon starch In sizing and
llntelilng fabrics, for It fills the cloth
better, Is tougher snd more elastic.
Formality
Little Jean was visiting ber small
'cousin. They were playing end hav
ing a glorious time together when
leu us father came to lake her home
After she had donned her coat and
tint, she turned sround and said: "Say
come back to me, somebody I"
by Irwin Myers
WNU Ssrvla
In my eurs, culling me "mister." Once
I dreamed we were wltb the hnggnge
train and she was saying "Kiss me."
I required many a bloody foray
against Shnwnee and traitorous Dela
ware to wash that last dream thin.
So there was never s day, when I
was meeting wltb some one new, Hint
I did not make diligent Inquiry for
her, 1
But so many families had been ex
terminated, ao many pedigrees ended,
that only by chance could I hope for
news from the wltch-glrl An elfish
boyish creature In reality, but my
separation from her translated her
Into some symbol of the border, some
thing fearfully desirable. It became
s mania with me to find her, and yet
my place was on the frontier.
On relief sallies, on retreats and
00 scouting trips, I asked of all I met
If they knew of one called Daniel
Morgan. Some professed to have met
him, but none knew about a young
woman dressed as a man. At the end
of my service rith General Forbes I
was as Ignorant ss to whether she
be alive or dead ss I had been when
1 recovered my wits at the edge of
the clearing along tha Allegheny,
where the dead bung from the twelve
torture-stokes.
And I missed the Onondaga. God
only knows how I missed hint and his
brave heart when on some lonely
faring. I missed Cromll In a lesser
degree, and often wished his terrible
hands could help me decide some
uneven argumenL Aye, I missed them.
But It was Bound Paw of tha Wolf
clan whose absence ate Into my soul,
lied or white, never was there a
stronger comrade than he. The lone
ly Monongabela alngs his requiem, hut
In my heart he shall ever bave a
high place. Mnny a good comrade
have I bad In my day, but none so
dear lo my memory ss the Wolf man.
Gone to meet his particular god as
has many another, snd sit becaww
one man did not understand.
Worn by Incessant hardships snd
serloosly troubled by the old arrow
wound In my arm, I returned to Car
lisle, uncertain as to what I should do
next The settlers were preparing
to follow General Forbes srtny snd
moke s new beginning slnng some
pleasant stream. But L the last ot
the House of the Open Hand, had on
desire to build a cabin and lake roof
In one SKL The strange onrest
which had been only satisfied hy the
turmoil of border warfare, reduced
me to s sad state of nerves. How
could I ever be content on one creek
or In one valley, wltb the memories
of the Monongahela haunting me)
Wltb the vision of that small wlstfu!
face staring back at me, I rode
skeleton of a horse Into Carlisle.
Perhaps It was a weakness of spirit
that Impelled me to surrender to the
sudden longing to visit my old home
snd once more look through the gate
of my father's garden. I scsrcely re
member my mother, but perhaps this
longing was the divine calling of the
maternal In me. Like my horse, I
was scarcely more than s skeleton
borrowed s suitable horse of
stranger and did not marvel at his
trust In me. At limes I ensured my
self It was but a whim, that I would
soon be doubling on my tracks and
seeking service In the north; and
yet I rode on.
The memories stirred up by the Jour
ney were painful. Unlike thai othet
rlstt, the Onondaga was no longer
my companion; and yet st times
funded he walked at my stirrup, his
chest showing the fresh white pnlnf
of the round paw of the wolt. In
my more rational moments I fell old
and out of place. It was when I
brooded over the witch girl s dlsap
pearance that I fell s great emptl
ness of heart which made all the
plans ot youth hut little account I
hod no wish to look on Josephine
again and tell her poor Rushy's fare
well message; and yel something
drew me to the town.
(TO BB CONTINUED.)
to Commercial Uses
transparent when dry, and Is ont sot
ed upon by acids. Alglo will undonht
edly be uaed In dyeing and color print
Ing and In the sizing snd coating of
pnper.
Seaweed, too, has for sometime been
known as a source of iodine.
"Lvoof"
There Is one thing harder to under
stand In Lwow than the Hebrew, Po
lish, German, Italian and Itusslan
heard on Its streets the prununcla
Hon ot the city's name. Most of as
would pronounce the "L" snd folio
up by a well emphasized "wow." Bui
the Poles will tell you to press your
tongue to the roof of your mouth snd
say "L" as we do, then forcefully bit
Ing the lower Hp with the upper teeth
to say "vnof" (l.voof).
H taring ot Fitht$
Fisn ao not actually nave ears; they
have sensitive sound organs snd can
usuully bear noises under watec.
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"God's Acre" Forlorn
DOWN on the lower Eust side of
New York city, u I most within the
budow of Brooklyn bridge on New
owery street, to bo exact, behind S
lull Iron fence, a tablet carrying the
following announcement unexpectedly
ttracts the nttenfon of tha passer
by: "This tablet marks what remains
of the first Jewish cemetery In the
l ulled Stoles, consecrated In the year
luoO, when It was described as 'Out-
Ida the city.' During the War of the
devolution it was fortified hy the pa
triots as oue of the defeuses of the
city."
History records that this resting
place of the departed was In high es
teem for many years, many who were
prominent In their day having been
tenderly Interred therein, but as the
encronchments of the commercial so
tlvltles of the living practically pushed
Ihe dend out of their own, many of
the bodies were moved to a lurger
lace then fur beyond the city con
nea where supposedly they would re
nin In undisturbed forever. But, ss
America grew and New York city ex
panded, this once beautiful place also
as had to gtvs way to the murcb of
progress.
All that Is left of the original cem
etery la a small plot of ground, con
taining probably one hundred tombs
ot unknown dead. The Inscriptions
bave been worn by time to a state of
Illegibility, the sctlons of the elements
have badly disintegrated the stones
and caused the vaults to crumble In
decay. The rear windows of surround
ing apartment houses frown upon this
hallowed spot and sn oil station id-
Joins to the south. A more . forlorn
sight would be difficult ot Imagination.
Busy Water
VTEWTON CHEEK forms a part of
I the boundary line between Brook
lyn snd Long Island City. Its navl
gable length Is approximately five
miles. Its maximum width probably
la 2.10 feel and Its greatest low-water
depth Is perhaps S3 feet Four bridges
enable vehicles, street cars and pedes
trians to cross It at convenient street
nteresectlnns. It empties Into ths
East river, which separates Long Is-
and snd Manhattan Island, opposite
Thirty third street. New Vork city. Its
eastern end Is near the geographical
center and Its western end Is near tha
center of population ot Greater Ne.
York.
By virtue of the fret that Its en
tire length Is near to both the whole
sale and the distributing centers of
Manhattan and that It penetrates one
of the world's leading manufacturing
centers, which Is growing wltb sslon-
tolling rapidity, this little creek has
he reputation of being the busiest wa
terway of Its sire lo sll the world.
Stenotic Indicate that during s
recent year receipts and shipments via
this little waterway aggregated more
than fi.ii00.utiu tons of freight nmnu
factured products, sand, nil, stone, lum
ber and ore constituting the chief
Items, having an aggregate valuation
of something like g.'Hi.i.0lsi. More
than lo.ouo arrivals and a like Dumber
of departing vessels were recorded
during that time. Allowing for the ad
dltioniil tog, lighter and barge move
ments which necessarily took place. It
seems safe to conclude that its waters
were churned some 4o.ouo times dur-
Ing those twelve months.
"The Corn Belt"
TUB Corn Belt Is generally and fa
.oriibly known as the outstanding
corn-producing section of America, It
extends east lo west from mid Ohio to
mid-Nebraska or about IKsj miles snd
north to south from about 'M to Sou
miles. Including portions of ten stales
Michigan, Ohio, Indians, Illinois.
Missouri, low Minnesota, Ksnsns, Ne
braska and South Dakota, Although
this belt comprises only about 8 per
cent of our national land s.ea, II pro
duces shout 70 per cenl of all the
corn grown In America or about 40
per cenl of the world s supply lo say
nothing of staggering quantities of
other crops.
Nature apparently Intended this
for her prize winning, com growing
section, because conditions combine to
make It Ideally suited for that pur
pose. The loamy soil Is particularly
adapted, Its general levelness conduces
to ease of cultivation snd operates to
prevent the flowing away of rainfall;
to grow rupidly corn should have hot
nights snd this region certainly has
litem during ths corn growing period;
the crop usually has smple time to
mature before frosty nights appear
and experts declnrs that Ihe dry, odd
winters which often prevail In this
area are beneficial from the soil stand
point Big cities havs grown np In
and urourl tl.ls section, created made-to-order
mnrkets and hold an snnr-
mou consuming population. Half the
population of the United Stales lives
within 700 miles of Ihe renter of this
great belt Ilnllronds criss-cross I ho
territory snd provide wonderful trans
portation. The "Cora Belt" Is most ap
propriately named.
(A till WwUrn Nnrspspsr Union I
Clamt Crow Slowly
It takes from two to four years for
clnms to grow to edible size, the exact
time depending on food conditions
temiieraturt of the water and other
conditions.
it
if W ( i feii
Loading Lighters
Frrl hv lh Nallonsl Oorhl
Socidr, Vhiin.n, I. O
N't
( Hl'SIXKSS reaches out In-
so many remote places of
the world as docs Hint of the
pharmacist, a fact which It
will be remembered was tleuioiiHtrnt-
ed graphically during the World war
when the commerce of the world was
disrupted.
Consider as a typical case, su foe-
thin gum. Much of It comes from
the city of Herat In Afghanistan.
Numerous citizens of Herat make
their living by going down yearly
midway between the mountains and
the Persian desert, after the rains
clot ho the pinion w ith venture, there,
w ith much back bending, to Incise the
Feruln root. From the Incisions
comes a milky gum, which, diled,
forma the axafoetlda of commerce
Throughout history man has comlied
the out-of-the-way places for his
drugs. It was the trade In drugs and
spices which made Venice from the
Thirteenth to the RlJteetith century
the nioMt Important commercially and
the richest rlly In Kuro, and It was
the loss of this commerce which
cnused her rapid decadunce and the
passing of her riches and her glorr
The story of Venice Is so essential
ly romantic that to mention commerce
In connection with It seems out of
drawing. Yet It was aa merchents
Unit the Venetians were famed. The
traffic In spires snd aromatic drugs
began to assume vast proportions In
the Middle ages, as the people of
Europe became educated to a hunger
for the spicy flavors of the East.
From India and China and Persia
camo not only silks and Incea. but
more Important, spices nnd nils nnd
drugs, and Venice was quick to real
Ire the Importance of having this
commerce pass through her port
The knowledge of medicines used
by the Moors and Arabs, which wns
brought back by the Crusaders,
helped to educate the eoile of ninliv
lands to the uses of biiUnms snd
spices of Ihe oriental markets. The
embarkation point for Palestine was
Venice. The Venetian merchant ma
rine profited well by furnishing trans
port service, and during the Fourth
f'rusnde, finding the Crusaders unable
to pny their pnssnge morey, the Ve
netians forth with enlisted them as
soldiers In a war agnlnst their Chris
tian neighbors, the Imlimitlnns, and
the Infidels got off scot free!
Columbus Was After "Cplccs."
The monopoly of Venice wns re
sented, ss Is Inevitable; her proiper
try wns envied. This Is why nil the
explorers of that period sourhl a
short ocean route to India. Colum
bus, It will be remembered, Sought the
"spices of the Indies" rather than s
new land. Ho from the hour when,
on May 20, I ID1. Vasen dn Guma ful
filled the ambition of his Portuguese
sovereign, blazed s new trail In the
uncharted deep nnd snlled Into Call-
cut, after rounding t npe or flood
Hope, the commercial greatness of the
Itnllan port was doomed.
When the news reached Venice that
Portuguese carracks laden with spices
had come Into the hnrbor nt Lisbon
without the necessity ef touching at
Venice "the whole rlly was disturbed
nnd astounded, says the ancient
chronicler, prlitll, In his diary. They
had ample cause for worry, for they
fixed the Inevitable.
How Venice warred on Portugal;
of the Inter wnrs between Portuguese,
Spanish, Dutch and Kngllsh to assert
supremacy In the spice nnd drug
trade; of Ihe long voyages, with deel
inn Hon of the crews by pirates, hy
mutineers, and hy Ihe often fatal nnd
always horrible scourge of scurvy
thesH tales la-long to the heroic age
of the sens, and hnve furnished In
spiration to many a poet nnd novelist
Well may poets sing of Drake and
Hawkins, nnd Greenville, and Oven
nam meeting, with their little 200 ton
ships, the great galleys of Spain snd
defeating them I But the prizes thev
captured were galleons laden with
cloves, snd ginger, and popper, and
frankincense, nnd dragon's blood, nnd
cinnamon, nnd when these cargoes
were found they asked not for dou
bloons. -
Motley, In his "History of the
United Netherlands," emphasizes this
point very well. "The world had
lived In former ages," he says, "verv
comfortably without cloves." Bui In
st Zsmlbar.
the beginning of the Seventeenth cen-
u ry that odoriferous pistil had been
the cause of so ninny pitched battles
and olmtlnuto wars; of so much vitu
peration, negotiation, and Intriguing,
that ths worlds destiny seemed tn
hnve become almost dependent upon
the growth of a particular gllly-llow-er.
Out of It sweetness had grown
such MltcrncHs among nations as not
torrents of blood could wash sway.
Alsppe a Shipping Point
When Venice was distributing
drugs and spices to the West, Aleppo,
Syria, was the most Important con
centration point for the eastern
goods, and It still helps to supply the
druggist's shelves, tiuiil trsgncnuth
used as s source of in mil age In
medicine and the arts Is one of the
principal products sent from Alepiw
today.
Concerning Aleppo there Is some
Interesting correnpoiidcneit In the rec
ords of the old Kngllsh Muscovy coin
pnny. Kdwnrds, one of their fuctcrs.
writing In l.s'A said: "Therein nr
many Venetians , , , who buy
gull, tnllow, saffron, skins, col ton.
wool , , , and also will serve us
of all kind of spices, we giving them
sufllclent warning lo fetch It In the
Indies nnd will deliver It to ua In
Hhiiinnky
And as there la nothing new under
the sun, another factor tells about
the light Rusninn oil which now.
when It Is refined, we prize so highly
as a medicine: -mere is a gn-iu
river," he wrote, "which fiiMeth Into
the Caspian sea by a town mllml
llnchu w hereunto which Is a strange
thing to behold. For there Issuetll
out of the ground s large quantity of
oil, which oil they fetch from the Ut
termost hounds of sll Persia, It sere
elh all the country to burn lo their
hoiiie. This oil Is black and Is culled
ii) fie. There Is also by the snbl
town of I'.aclm another kind of oil
which Is white and very precious; It
Is supposed to lie the same that Is
here called petroleum." Today men
are coniiH-tliig for Hint oil as In his
day they fought for cloves!
Camphor, which Is tmportnnt not
only In medicine hut In Ihe arts and
manufactures, was nn example or ef
ficient production and control of out
put. After the Japanese-Chinese war
Japan obtained control of the ror
inosa camphor Industry, Although
the Formosa forests are practically
Inexhaustible, forestry measures wers
instituted for replanting and rare of
trees; 2.U00 police were ftimhihrd t
protect workers snd large refining -plants
were built Workers were paid '
s fixed sum. The distribution of tint
entire product was let hy contract
nud the right of sale swarded nn
Kngllsh linn, the latter contracting to
conduct the sule of camphor In New
York, London, Hamburg nnd Hong
kong, and to accept from Japan a
definite amount of camphor each yenr.
Today s growing part of the camphor
iicil In the West Is being mode la
western laboratories.
Batavls's Osys of Glory.
Butuvln, aa of old, la still s greal
exiort center for the spice snd drag
trade, ns It was when It wns fort I lied
as the capital of the "Spice Islands,"
and was known as the "gueen of Die
Knut." In How days, when every sea
voyage wns a perilous undertaking.
It was only natural that s warlike
community should assemble In audi
a place. And so picturesque soldiers
of fortune nnd adventurers from all
parts of the world gathered about Its
riimils and In Its while walls, besides
Imleli and Japanese, many Cermnns
Portuguese, French, Chinese and
Moors; for. of course, being a Dutch
city, It wns Intersected by ratuils,
mid, being a rich eommunlly, It n
fort I (led, ,
With Its picturesque nnd adventur
ous population. Its quaint architectur
al scheme, and lis gleaming snow
while ramparts outstanding like a
finely chiseled cameo In the glare of
the tropical sun ngalnst the turquoise
ocean, It was a dream city of the do
parted days of piracy and buccaneer
ing A garrison of a thousand men
was there In the Heventeetilh century,
suit an equal number lo guard tha
I nil eh monopoly if the .cinnamon
I rude In Ceylon, Today the old fortI
flcntlotis have crumbled; ths old
"city" proper Is no more.