Sketch Sixth Barrington Isle and the Buccaneers

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Sketch Sixth Barrington Isle and the Buccaneers–––––––– "Let us all servile base subjection scorn, And as we be sons of the earth so wide, Let us our father's heritage divide, And challenge to ourselves our portions dew Of all the patrimony, which a few Now hold on hugger-mugger in their hand." "Lords of the world, and so will wander free, Whereso us listeth, uncontrolled of any." "How bravely now we live, how jocund, how near the first inheritance, without fear, how free from little troubles!" NEAR TWO CENTURIES ago Barrington Isle was the resort of that famous wing of the West Indian Buccaneers, which, upon their repulse from the Cuban waters, crossing the Isthmus of Darien, ravaged the Pacific side of the Spanish colonies, and, with the regularity and timing of a modern mail,

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