Abundant opportunities for securing richer swag came to them with the advent of the Plymouth Pilgrims.

As had been before stated, these boys brought in with them a large portion of their first instalment of veteran bounty--aggregating in amount, according to varying estimates, between twenty-five thousand and one hundred thousand dollars.

The Pilgrims were likewise well clothed, had an abundance of blankets and camp equipage, and a plentiful supply of personal trinkets, that could be readily traded off to the Rebels.

An average one of them--even if his money were all gone--was a bonanza to any band which could succeed in plundering him.

His watch and chain, shoes, knife, ring, handkerchief, combs and similar trifles, would net several hundred dollars in Confederate money.