Few cities in this world have known the glory of the West Indies' fabled Port Royal, and fewer still have faded so deep into oblivion. In the seventeenth century the glittering, wicked Jamaican port was the "jewel of the Caribbean," the first city of the Western Hemisphere. But like the harlot she was, she lost her glamour when adversity struck her, and she never regained either her importance or her insolent abandon.