Captain Morgan issues a recruitment call for more pirates, later complains that he has too many pirates.

>The rest of the men fell to repairing the damage done to the sails and rigging during the open-sea gale; more work was required after October 7, when “so violent a storm” hit the fleet that “all the vessels except the Admiral’s were driven on shore.” Three ships were lost, and the fleet was getting increasingly crowded with the droves of men who arrived daily in dinghies, in canoes, or on foot. >[Morgan](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Henry_Morgan_in_colour.jpg) wrote to Modyford [**the governor of Jamaica**] complaining that he had more men than ships to carry them; the response to his call-up had been unusually strong. _______________________________ **Source:** Talty, Stephan. “Black Clouds to the East.” *Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan’s Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws’ Bloody Reign*. New York: Crown Publishing Group (NY), 2007. 196. Print. _______________________________ **Further Reading:** [Harri Morgan / Sir Henry Morgan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Morgan) [Colonel Sir Thomas Modyford, 1st Baronet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Modyford)