Ociete et la vie creoles sous l'ancien regime," Paris, 1909, p. 7.]

[Melen Hoster]

Rry the prize to Cartagena, and now am arrived to this coast, and have
burnt it. And I come to seek General Morgan, with 2 ships of 20 guns,
and having seen this, I crave he would come out upon the coast and seek
me, that he might see the valour of the Spaniards. And because I had no
time I did not come to the mouth of Port Royal to speak by word of mouth
in the name of my king, whom God preserve. Dated the 5th of July
1670."[290] Meanwhile, in the middle of October, there sailed into Port
Royal three privateers, Captains Prince, Harrison and Ludbury, who six
weeks before had ascended the river San Juan in Nicaragua with 170 men
and again plundered the unfortunate city of Granada. The town had
rapidly decayed, however, under the repeated assaults of the buccaneers,
and the plunderers secured only L20 or L30 per man. Modyford reproved
the captains for acting without commissions, but "not deeming it prudent
to press the matter too far in this juncture," commanded them to join
Morgan at the Isle la Vache.[291] There Morgan was slowly mustering his
strength. He negotiated with the Fre
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