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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: SEVENTY-FIVE beasts of burden loaded with treasures of gold and
silver and jewels, besides great quantities of merchandise, and
six hundred prisoners held for ransom.
Whatever became of all that vast wealth, and what it amounted to,
no man but Morgan ever knew, for when a division was made it was
found that there was only TWO HUNDRED PIECES OF EIGHT TO EACH
MAN.
When this dividend was declared a howl of execration went up,
under which even Capt. Henry Morgan quailed. At night he and
four other commanders slipped their cables and ran out to sea,
and it was said that these divided the greater part of the booty
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