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i PRESIDENT r Twenty-Seven Years)
CAPTURES; PIR ATEJHIP •
DOCTOR TRICKS ENEMY AND SAILS WITH REBELS
CjOup Cleverly Planned Leads All Slaves
to Freedom
BY RAFAEL SABATINI
Bridgetown, Carlisle Bay, Barbadoes, March 19, 1686. — ■ A coup such as never before undertaken within the history of the Spanish Main was successfully ventured by Peter Blood, rebel-convict, who was sold into slavery here on orders of King James, and today this stricken town, still sutifering from the raid of the Spaniards under Don Diego Espinosa y Vaklez, is free of its oppressors.
And ,while Peter Blood was freeing Bridgetown of these Spaniard liiiccaneers, he himself won lil)erty and freedom for his fellow slaves who had been condemned under Lord Jeffreys.
Don Diego wan fixing the ransom to be paid in gold pieces of eight and his soldiers were looting and drinking and ravaging the citizenry when, under cover of darkness. Peter Blood and his band of rebelsconvict slipped on board the Cinco Llagas. They overpowered the guard and when Don Diego appeared with his bodyguard they made him prisoner, too. They turned the guns onto the returning Spaniards and sank their small boats.
Colonel Bishop went on board to congratulate Blood and lo demand the return of the rebels-convict to their labors. Blood wasted no time with the military commander. He used him to make way to safety beyond the harbor, then putting down a small boat for his safety, put him to the plank. Blood and liis crew .sailed for Torlnga, rendezvous of tlie pirates of the Spanish Main.
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