SIR HENRY MORGANW. Adolphe RobertsCovici, Friede ($3). Buccaneers were originally harmless Caribbean creatures, so named from their hunter's trade of smoking meat on a boucan (grid), but that was before Henry Morgan became their Admiral-in-Chief. By that time (1667) they had found other, more dangerous fish to fry; some of them were no better than pirates. In Morgan's early career he was not much better himself: he served a bloody apprenticeship against the Spaniards in Hispaniola and Granada, quitted himself so like a buccaneer that he was elected Admiral. Jamaica's...
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