[Lprof-devel] Ere obliged to throw overboard a great many

[Giaquinta <flo...@he...>]

Es and other missiles, were hurled upon them. At last the wily Morgan
had an idea. He set his men to work to make some ladders high enough to
reach to the top of the walls, and wide enough to allow three or four
men to go up abreast. If he could get these properly set up, his crew of
desperate tiger-cats could make a combined rush and get over the walls.
But to carry the ladders and place them would be almost impossible, for
the men who bore them would surely be shot down before they could finish
the work. But it was not Morgan's plan that his men should carry these
ladders. He had captured some convents in the suburbs of the town, with
a number of nuns and monks, known as "religious people," and he now
ordered these poor creatures, the women as well as the men, to take up
the ladders and place them against the walls, believing that the Spanish
Governor would not allow his soldiers to fire at these innocent persons
whom the pirates had forced to do their will. But the Governor was
determined to defend the town no matter who had to suffer, and so the
soldiers fired at the nuns and monks just as though they were buccaneers
or any other enemies. The "religious people" cried out in terror, and
screamed to their friends not to fire upon them; but the soldiers obeyed
the commands of the Governor, while the pirates were swearing terribly
behind them and threatening them with their pistols, and so the poor
nuns and monks had to press forward, many of them dropping dead or
wounded. They