Ironically, the Jamaican legislature passed an anti-piracy law during his administration, and Morgan even assisted in pirate prosecution.ġ4 Everyday Objects of Ancient Egypt Captain Kidd Though Morgan was briefly arrested in 1672, he ended up serving as acting governor of Jamaica in 1678 and again from 1680 to 1682. Over the next few years, other brutal raids followed against two towns in Venezuela and Panama City. He then moved on to capture Porto Bello, Panama, in part by creating a human shield out of priests, women and the mayor. Perhaps the best-known pirate of the buccaneering era, Henry Morgan once purportedly ordered his men to lock the inhabitants of Puerto Príncipe, Cuba, inside a church so that they could plunder the town unhindered. Karma came back to haunt him in 1668, however, when, according to Exquemelin, he was captured and eaten by cannibals. Suspecting he had been betrayed, L’Olonnais supposedly once even cut out a man’s heart and took a bite. Seventeenth-century pirate historian Alexander Exquemelin wrote that L’Olonnais would hack his victims to pieces bit by bit or squeeze a cord around their necks until their eyes popped out.
Also known as Jean-David Nau, L’Olonnais is believed to have begun raiding Spanish ships and coastal settlements-and cultivating a reputation for excessive cruelty-soon after arriving in the Caribbean as an indentured servant. L’Olonnais was one of many buccaneers-a cross between state-sponsored privateers and outright outlaws-who plied the Caribbean Sea in the mid-to-late 1600s.
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