Ianto and 22 Volunteers of Brigad Glyndwr had sailed on a Swansea Copper Ore Ship bound for Valparaiso via Cuba but the Cuban stop over proved disasterous for the 'Brigad Glyndwr' venture. The Swansea Tall Ship had been damaged in storms on way across the Atlantic and thus put into Cuba for repairs as well as supplies, a stay that would last for two weeks. Two weeks in which time the ildisciplined 'Hwntw' Brigad Glyndwr Volunteers were just kind of reduced in number untill only Ianto was left. Some died in fights, others fell into the Sea and Drowned and others drank themselves to death or caught yellow feaver. Others disappeared with Cuban Women never to be seen again only years later it was said there was a 'Lost Tribe' of dark skinned Welsh Cubans with names as Glyndwr, Llywelyn and Lewis, Dai and Rebecca and Frances' in the High Sierras.
Whatever, it was not the intention of Ianto to give up, not wishing to go aboard the Swansa Tall Ship again he bought a Yacht and naming her 'Nana' with is new Cubun Girl Freind and a few hired Cuban Mercenaries they sailed across the Gulf of Mexico to Panama. The reason why kept close to his chest in shape of a Map an 'Old Sea Dog' had sold him in the Cuba, a pub in Swansea docks. The 'Old Sea Dog' had been as 'pissed as a fart' and blabbed that he had been handed down a map which did mark with an 'X' where the Welsh Pirate Henry Morgan had bueried the Spanish Treasure from his Sack of Panama City. The 'Old See Dog' being a Swansea Jac was quite happy to hand over the map for one Gold Sovereign.
Thus Ianto was to find himself in Panama, the Pirate Treasure discovered in the jungle, the Map a truth not a lie after all, after losing the Cuban guys Ianto was free to move on to Bolivia in some style. After a month in Bolivia he had carefully selected trained and equiped native Indians he had recruited and formed a model mercenary Indian Army to lead to Patagonia across the Southern Andes.
This was to prove to be as adventurous as it was perilous as the new Brigad Glyndwr made it's way south to Patagonia led by the intrepid Commandante Ianto.
