First Sight of the City.--The Spanish Scouts Appear.--Morgan’s Advance.--Character of the Country.--Fears of the Spaniards.--Removal of Treasure.--Capture of the City.--The Poisoned Wine.--Magnificent Scenery of the Bay.--Description of Panama and its Surroundings.--Wealth of the City.--Scenes of Crime and Cruelty. 335 CHAPTER XXII. _The Return from Panama._ Return of the Explorers.--The Beautiful Captive.--Sympathy in her behalf.--Embarrassments of Morgan.--Inflexible Virtue of the Captive.--The Conspiracy.--Efficiency of Morgan.--His Obduracy.--The Search of the Pirates.--The Return March.--Morgan Cheats the Pirates.--Runs Away. 349 CHAPTER XXIII. _Montbar the Fanatic._ Partial Solution of a Mystery.--Montbar’s Birth.--His Education and Delusions.--Anecdote of the Dramatic Performance.--Montbar Runs Away from Home.--Enters the Navy.--His Ferocious Exploits.--Joins the Buccaneers.--Desperate Battles on the Land and on the Sea.--His Final Disappearance. 360 CAPTAIN KIDD. CHAPTER I. _Origin of the Buccaneers._ Renown of Captain Kidd.--Wild Legends.--Demands of Spain.--Opposition of the Maritime Powers.--The Rise of the Buccaneers.--The Pirates’ Code.--Remonstrance of Spain.--Reply of France and England.--Confession of a Buccaneer.--Adventures of Peter the Great. There are but few persons, in the United States, who have not heard the name of the renowned pirate, Captain Kidd. There are also but few to be found who have any intelligent conception of his wild and guilty career. The banks of the Hudson, the islands scattered through the Sound which skirts the southern New-England coast, and the wild rivers and craggy harbors which fringe the rugged shores of Maine, are all rich with legends of the exploits and hiding-places of this notorious buccaneer. Thousands of fanatical people have employed themselves in digging among the rocks and sands, in search of treasure of gold and jewels supposed to have been buried, in iron-bound chests, by this chief of outlaws. It was well known that he had plundered many a rich Spanish galleon, laden with golden coin, bound to or from the colonies. Many a Spanish lady had been compelled to walk blindfolded the awful plank, until she was jostled into the sea, while her chests of golden ingots and diamonds fell into the hands of brutal assassins.