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  Speaker 1: Section zero preface. The following narrative is so ample and
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  Speaker 1: circumstantial in its details, and the unparalleled barbarities witnessed and
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  Speaker 1: endured by mister Smith during his captivity by the pirates
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  Speaker 1: of Cuba are so clearly narrated that it may appear
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  Speaker 1: scarcely necessary to detain the reader by prefixing anything by
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  Speaker 1: way of preface. But the author of the subsequent pages,
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  Speaker 1: who is now again employed in the duties of his profession,
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  Speaker 1: having before he quitted England, committed his plain unvarnished tale
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  Speaker 1: to the care of a friend. That friend conceives he
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  Speaker 1: cannot perform a more acceptable service to a brave and meritorious,
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  Speaker 1: though unfortunate man, than by submitting the same to the
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  Speaker 1: notice of a humane and generous public. While it is
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  Speaker 1: humbly conceived, no portion of that public will read the
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  Speaker 1: narrative without feeling amaetions of a twofold and opposite kind
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  Speaker 1: pity for a man who underwent such unmerited sufferings and
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  Speaker 1: indignation at the base conduct of those who, with the
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  Speaker 1: means in their power, neglected to vindicate his injured honor
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  Speaker 1: and to wipe off the stigma of his being a
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  Speaker 1: willing accessory to the unparalleled atrocities herein detailed. Errinsmith was,
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  Speaker 1: on the nineteenth of December eighteen twenty three, tried on
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  Speaker 1: a charge of piracy before the High Court of Admiralty,
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  Speaker 1: And such was the zeal of his prosecutors to make
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  Speaker 1: an example of a British seaman who had become, however, involuntarily,
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  Speaker 1: the associate of a gang of pirates, that, notwithstanding all
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  Speaker 1: the perils and hardships he had undergone, he narrowly escaped
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  Speaker 1: an ignominious death, and that too by the laws of
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  Speaker 1: his own country, in whose service his previous life had
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  Speaker 1: been passed with credit and honor. Among the multiplicity of events, however,
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  Speaker 1: which take place in the metropolis, and the varied contents
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  Speaker 1: of the newspapers, it is possible that his trial might
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  Speaker 1: not have been generally read, or that, if read at
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  Speaker 1: the time, the particulars may have escaped the recollection of
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  Speaker 1: those not immediately interested in its issue. On that account, therefore,
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  Speaker 1: a very brief outline of it is here given footnote.
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  Speaker 1: A copious and explicit report of his trial may be
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  Speaker 1: seen in the Morning Chronicle of December twenty from which
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  Speaker 1: the above account is abridged end footnote. At the High
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  Speaker 1: Court of Admiralty, Friday, December nineteenth, eighteen twenty three, Aeronsmith
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  Speaker 1: took his trial, being charged with seizing the ship Victoria,
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  Speaker 1: the property of Hyman Cohen and others, and stealing six
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  Speaker 1: hundred thirty six barrels of coffee value five thousand pounds
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  Speaker 1: and one hundred barrels of coffee value one thousand pounds.
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  Speaker 1: He was also charged with seizing the ship Industry on
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  Speaker 1: the high seas on the seventh of August eighteen twenty two.
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  Speaker 1: Several witnesses, seamen, and others on board the ships just
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  Speaker 1: mentioned were called in support of the prosecution, who severally
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  Speaker 1: deposed to the active part taken by the prisoner during
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  Speaker 1: their capture, some of whom, however, admitted that in his
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  Speaker 1: conduct he evinced more forbearance than the ferocious crew by
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  Speaker 1: whom he was surrounded. The prisoner, being called on for
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  Speaker 1: his defense, entered into a detail of the compulsory nature
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  Speaker 1: of his actions, solemnly declared that he had never participated
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  Speaker 1: in the unlawful booty, and recounted with much feeling these
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  Speaker 1: circumstances of his captivity and the horrid cruelties that had
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  Speaker 1: been inflicted on him by the merciless fury of that monster,
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  Speaker 1: the captain of the Pirates. His defense was natural and unaffected,
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  Speaker 1: and appeared, from the effect it had upon the auditory,
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  Speaker 1: to carry home conviction to every bosom. He then called
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  Speaker 1: upwards of twenty respectable witnesses who spoke in unqualified terms
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  Speaker 1: with regard to his humanity, bravery, and the general excellence
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  Speaker 1: of his character. Among these were Captain Hayes, the commander
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  Speaker 1: of the ship on board of which Aaron Smith had
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  Speaker 1: been mate, and his brother, mister John Smith, an officer
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  Speaker 1: in the navy. But the witness who excited the most
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  Speaker 1: attention was Miss Sophia Knight, a female of considerable personal attractions,
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  Speaker 1: who proved that she had been intimately acquainted with the
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  Speaker 1: prisoner upwards of three years the their marriage had been arranged,
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  Speaker 1: and that it would have taken place had not the
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  Speaker 1: prisoner been detained from his friends and his country by
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  Speaker 1: the fatal interposition of the savage Horde, and to whose
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  Speaker 1: power he had been so unfortunately thrown. In giving her evidence,
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  Speaker 1: Miss Knight wept bitterly, and the manly cheek of Smith
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  Speaker 1: was likewise suffused with tears. The judge recapitulated the evidence,
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  Speaker 1: and the jury acquitted the prisoner. They did their duty,
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  Speaker 1: and they could do no more. The crime for which
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Smith was tried is undoubtedly one of the deepest turpitude,
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  Speaker 1: and one at which his honest mind revolted. But those
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  Speaker 1: who peruse the following pages will see that he was
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  Speaker 1: so completely in the power of that demonacal crew of pirates,
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  Speaker 1: so involved in the meshes of their inextricable net, that
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  Speaker 1: neither bravery nor artifice, neither skill nor enterprise could affect
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  Speaker 1: his deliverance. While groaning under the weight of his own sufferings,
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  Speaker 1: and looking forwards only to the means of escape, he
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  Speaker 1: was compelled to assume an air of satisfaction and to
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  Speaker 1: join in the desperate acts of those freebooters, to elude
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  Speaker 1: their vigilance and to avoid the terrible effects of their vengeance.
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  Speaker 1: It was imperative on him to act precisely in the
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  Speaker 1: way he did act. Any other line of conduct would
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  Speaker 1: in fact have subjected him to a horrible death, preceded
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  Speaker 1: perhaps by tortures at which the stoutest heart would have trembled.
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  Speaker 1: End of Section zero, preface Section one Part one narrative,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. In the month of June eighteen
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  Speaker 1: twenty one, I embarked on board the merchant ship Harrington
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  Speaker 1: and proceeded on a voyage to the West Indies. Subsequent events, however,
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  Speaker 1: induced me to resign my situation in that vessel and
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  Speaker 1: devote myself to other pursuits. After having passed nearly two
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  Speaker 1: years in that part of the world, and finding my
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  Speaker 1: health somewhat impaired by the climate, I became anxious to
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  Speaker 1: see my family once more and made the necessary arrangements
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  Speaker 1: for my return to England. Being then at Kingston in
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  Speaker 1: the island of Jamaica, I communicated my wishes to a
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  Speaker 1: Captain Talbot, an intimate friend, who very kindly undertook to
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  Speaker 1: forward my views and introduced and recommended me to mister Lumsden,
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  Speaker 1: the master of the merchant brig Zephyr, which vessel was
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  Speaker 1: at that time waiting for freight to London. In consequence
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  Speaker 1: of this introductory recommendation, I entered into an agreement with
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  Speaker 1: that person to accompany him as his first mate, and
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  Speaker 1: about the middle of April eighteen twenty two, I commenced
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  Speaker 1: the duties of my office. The season that year had
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  Speaker 1: been very unfavorable to the planters. The crops had in
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  Speaker 1: many instances failed, and freights were, in consequence very scarce.
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  Speaker 1: The lading of the Zephyr therefore proceeded very slowly, and
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  Speaker 1: I became daily more anxious for my return. In the meantime,
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  Speaker 1: I embarked in a trifling speculation and purchased and shipped
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  Speaker 1: a quantity of coffee on board the brig on my
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  Speaker 1: own account, from time to time consulting and advising with
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  Speaker 1: mister Lumsden as to the best methods of completing our lading.
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  Speaker 1: Some time, however, still elapsed before we could attain our object,
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  Speaker 1: and during this interval I discovered so many unamiable traits
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  Speaker 1: in the character of that person as to cause very
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  Speaker 1: unfavorable impressions on my mind towards him. His ignorance and
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  Speaker 1: want of education betrayed them themselves on almost every occasion.
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  Speaker 1: Nor was I surprised at the discovery when I was
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  Speaker 1: afterwards informed that he had been originally bred to the
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  Speaker 1: coal trade and had been nearly all his life employed
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  Speaker 1: in that capacity. Towards the latter end of June, we
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  Speaker 1: had completed our cargo and having taken on board our passengers,
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  Speaker 1: who consisted of a Captain Cooper, five or six children,
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  Speaker 1: and a black woman as a servant, we sailed on
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  Speaker 1: the twenty ninth and proceeded down to Port Royal, where
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  Speaker 1: we anchored for the night. Mister Lumsdon, with some friends
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  Speaker 1: belonging to the children and a lady of color at
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  Speaker 1: whose house he had lodged during his stay on the island,
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  Speaker 1: followed the vessel in a boat and came on board
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  Speaker 1: at Port Royal. The boat was then sent for another passenger,
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  Speaker 1: and on his arrival the person who had accompanied mister
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  Speaker 1: Lumsdon returned on shore. On the following morning, we weighed
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  Speaker 1: anchor and left the port, and, having discharged the pilot,
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  Speaker 1: proceeded on our voyage with a moderate breeze and fine weather,
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  Speaker 1: but very soon afterwards encountered strong northeasterly winds accompanied by
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  Speaker 1: a heavy swell from the eastward. Mister Lumsden now seemed
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  Speaker 1: anxious to consult me as to future proceedings, and asked
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  Speaker 1: me whether I should deem it advisable for him to
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  Speaker 1: apply for the windward or to bear up for the
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  Speaker 1: leeward passage. The opinion which I had formed of his character,
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  Speaker 1: rendered me unwilling to hazard my advice, as I did
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  Speaker 1: not wish to have any responsibility thrown on me hereafter
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  Speaker 1: from what might be the result of his own ignorance
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  Speaker 1: and want of skill. As however, I could not consistently
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  Speaker 1: with my duty altogether refuse my opinion, I confined my
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  Speaker 1: answer merely to pointing out the advantages and disadvantages of each,
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  Speaker 1: without evincing any prepossession in favor of either. The windward passage,
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  Speaker 1: I informed him, might prolong the voyage, but the leeward
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  Speaker 1: would expose us to the risk of being plundered by
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  Speaker 1: pirates and perhaps the total destruction of the vessel, of
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  Speaker 1: which the accounts in the Daily Journals gave two melancholy warnings.
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  Speaker 1: And therefore I should recommend him to be guided by
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  Speaker 1: his own judgment and experience, without considering much upon the subject.
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  Speaker 1: He decided upon the latter, notwithstanding the perils to which
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  Speaker 1: such a measure might expose him. In consequence of this determination,
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  Speaker 1: we steered for the Great caymans which islands. The heavy
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  Speaker 1: sailing of the Zephyr and the unusual lightness of the
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  Speaker 1: winds prevented us from reaching until the fourth day, the
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  Speaker 1: inhabitants came off to us in canoes, and we purchased
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  Speaker 1: a few parrots, some turtles, and a quantity of shells.
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  Speaker 1: From thence we steered for Cape Saint Antonio, the southwest
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  Speaker 1: point of the island of Cuba, and on our passage
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  Speaker 1: spoke to a schooner belonging to Saint John's New Brunswick
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  Speaker 1: on her return from Kingston. This vessel had made an
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  Speaker 1: unsuccessful attempt to apply for the windward passage and had
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  Speaker 1: abandoned it on the fifth or sixth day. We parted
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  Speaker 1: company in the night, and on the following morning made
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  Speaker 1: Cape Saint Antonio. The wind was still light and the
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  Speaker 1: weather fine. Having got round the cape, we stood to
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  Speaker 1: eastward and the breezes freshened and became more favorable. At daylight.
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  Speaker 1: On the following morning, we discovered two sail ahead standing
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  Speaker 1: the same course, and in the forenoon, the day, being
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  Speaker 1: remarkably clear and fine, took a very good observation of
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  Speaker 1: the sun's altitude. At two o'clock p M. While walking
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  Speaker 1: the deck in conversation with Captain Cooper, I discovered a
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  Speaker 1: schooner standing out towards us from the land. She bore
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  Speaker 1: a very suspicious appearance, and I immediately went up aloft
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  Speaker 1: with my telescope to examine her more closely. I was
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  Speaker 1: instantly convinced that she was a pirate, and mentioned it
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  Speaker 1: to Cooper, who coincided with me, and we deemed it
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  Speaker 1: proper to call mister Lumsdon from below and inform him.
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  Speaker 1: When he came on deck, we pointed out the schooner
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  Speaker 1: and stated our suspicions, recommending him to alter his course
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  Speaker 1: and avoid her. We were at this moment about six
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  Speaker 1: leagues from Cape Roman, which bore southeast by east. Never
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  Speaker 1: did ignorance, with its concomitant obstinacy, betray itself more strongly
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  Speaker 1: than on this occasion. He rejected our advice and refused
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  Speaker 1: to alter his course, and was infatuated enough to suppose
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  Speaker 1: that because he bore the English flag, no one would
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  Speaker 1: dare to molest him. To this obstinacy and infatuation, I
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  Speaker 1: must attribute all my subsequent misfortunes the unparalleled cruelties which
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  Speaker 1: I have suffered, the persecutions and prosecutions which I have undergone,
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  Speaker 1: the mean and wanton insults which have been heaped upon me,
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  Speaker 1: and the villainy and dishonesty to which I have been
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  Speaker 1: exposed from the author of them, all who not satisfied
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  Speaker 1: with having occasioned my sufferings, would have basely taken advantage
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  Speaker 1: of them to defraud my friends of what little of
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  Speaker 1: my property had escaped the general plunder. In about half
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  Speaker 1: an hour after this conversation, we began to discover that
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  Speaker 1: the deck of the schooner was full of men, and
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  Speaker 1: that she was beginning to hoist out her boats. This
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  Speaker 1: circumstance greatly alarmed mister Lumsden, and he ordered the course
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  Speaker 1: to be altered two points. But it was then too late,
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  Speaker 1: for the stranger was within gunshot. In a short time
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  Speaker 1: she was within hail, and in English ordered us to
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  Speaker 1: lower our stern boat and send the captain on board
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  Speaker 1: of her. Mister Lumsdon either did not understand the order
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  Speaker 1: or pretended not to do so, and the corsair for
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  Speaker 1: such she now proved to be fired a volley of musketry.
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  Speaker 1: This increased his terror, which he expressed in hurried exclamations
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  Speaker 1: of Ay, Ay, Oh, Lord God, and then gave orders
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  Speaker 1: to lay the main yard aback. A boat from the
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  Speaker 1: pirate now boarded the Zephyr, containing nine or ten men
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  Speaker 1: of a most ferocious aspect, armed with muskets, knives and cutlasses,
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  Speaker 1: who immediately took charge of the brig and ordered Captain Cooper,
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  Speaker 1: mister Lumsden, the ship's carpenter, and myself to go on board.
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  Speaker 1: The pirate, hastening our departure by repeated blows with the
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  Speaker 1: flat part of their cutlasses over our backs and threatening
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  Speaker 1: to shoot us. The rapidity of our movements did not
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  Speaker 1: give us much time for consideration, and while we were
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  Speaker 1: rowing towards the corsair, mister Lumsdon remarked that he had
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  Speaker 1: been very careless in leaving the books, which contained the
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  Speaker 1: account of all the money on board, on the cabin table.
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  Speaker 1: The captain of the pirate ordered us on deck immediately
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  Speaker 1: on our arrival. He was a man of most uncouth
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  Speaker 1: and savage appearance, about five feet six inches in height,
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  Speaker 1: stout in proportion, with aquiline nose, high cheek bones, a
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  Speaker 1: large mouth, and very large full eyes. His complexion was
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  Speaker 1: sallow and his hair black, and he appeared to be
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  Speaker 1: about two and thirty years of age. In his appearance,
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  Speaker 1: he very much resembled an Indian, and I was afterwards
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  Speaker 1: informed that his father was a Spaniard and his mother
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  Speaker 1: a Yucatan squaw. He first addressed mister Lumsden and inquired
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  Speaker 1: in broken English what the vessels were that he saw ahead.
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  Speaker 1: On being informed that they were French merchantmen, he gave
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  Speaker 1: orders for all hands to go in chase. The zephyr
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  Speaker 1: was observed in the meantime to make sail and stand
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  Speaker 1: in the direction of Cape Roman. The captain now addressed
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  Speaker 1: himself to mister Lumsden on the subject of his cargo,
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  Speaker 1: which he was informed consisted of sugars, rum, coffee, arrow, root, dye, woods,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera. He then severally inquired who and what we were,
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  Speaker 1: and then whether we had spoken any vessel on our passage.
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  Speaker 1: On being informed of the schooner from New Brunswick, he
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  Speaker 1: asked if we thought she had specie on board. We
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  Speaker 1: told him that those vessels in general sold their cargoes
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  Speaker 1: for cash, and he seemed very anxious to learn whether
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  Speaker 1: she was ahead or astern of us, and whether she
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  Speaker 1: was armed. Mister Lumsden now entreated the captain to make
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  Speaker 1: a signal to the zephyr not to stand nearer to
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  Speaker 1: the land, as he was apprehensive of her going on shore,
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  Speaker 1: and was told that he need not be under any alarm,
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  Speaker 1: as there was a very experienced pilot on board of her.
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  Speaker 1: He was, however, dissatisfied with this reply, and repeated his entreaty,
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  Speaker 1: when the other, in a menacing tone, enjoined silence and
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  Speaker 1: went forward. In a short time, he returned and questioned
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  Speaker 1: mister Lumsden as to what money he had on board,
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  Speaker 1: and when told that there was none, he replied, do
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  Speaker 1: not imagine that I am a fool, sir. I know
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  Speaker 1: that all vessels going to Europe have specie on board,
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  Speaker 1: and if you will give up what you have, you
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  Speaker 1: shall proceed on your voyage without further molestation. Mister Lumsden
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  Speaker 1: repeated his answer, and the pirate declared that if the
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  Speaker 1: money was not produced, he would detain the Zephyr, throw
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  Speaker 1: her cargo overboard, and if any was found concealed, he
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  Speaker 1: would burn her with every soul belonging to her. He
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  Speaker 1: then asked whether there were any candles, wine, or porter
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  Speaker 1: on board, and mister Lumsden foolishly replied not any that
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  Speaker 1: he could spare, without appearing to consider that we were
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  Speaker 1: in his power and that he could if he pleased
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  Speaker 1: possess himself of anything he might wish without consulting his convenience.
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  Speaker 1: The night was at this time fast approaching, and the
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  Speaker 1: breeze had begun to die away. The captain appeared to
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  Speaker 1: despair of coming up with his chase, which we could
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  Speaker 1: now clearly perceive to be a ship and a brig
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  Speaker 1: and ask Captain Cooper and myself whether he should be
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  Speaker 1: able to overtake them before dark. We replied in the negative,
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  Speaker 1: and he then gave orders to shortened sail and stand
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  Speaker 1: towards them. The pirates then began to prepare for supper
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  Speaker 1: and were very liberal in serving out spirits to our
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  Speaker 1: boat's crew, and also offered us a share or wine
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  Speaker 1: if we preferred it, but we decline both. The captain
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  Speaker 1: now turned to me and said that as he was
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  Speaker 1: in a bad state of health and none of his
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  Speaker 1: ship's company understood navigation, he should detain me for the
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  Speaker 1: purpose of navigating the schooner. I tried as much as
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  Speaker 1: possible to conceal my emotions at this intimation, and endeavored
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  Speaker 1: to work upon his feelings by telling him that I
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  Speaker 1: was married and had three children, that they, together with
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  Speaker 1: my wife and aged parents were anxiously expecting me at home,
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  Speaker 1: and represented in as pathetic language as I could the
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  Speaker 1: misery and distraction which it would cause them, beseeching him
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  Speaker 1: to spare my wife and children and not bring down
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  Speaker 1: the gray hairs of my unfortunate parents with somorrow to
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  Speaker 1: the grave. But I appealed to a monster devoid of
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  Speaker 1: all feeling, inured to crime, and hardened in iniquity. Mister Lumsdon,
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  Speaker 1: in the meantime, interfered and hoped that he would not
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  Speaker 1: deprive him of my services. But he savagely told him,
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  Speaker 1: if I do not keep him, I shall keep you.
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  Speaker 1: This threat evidently alarmed and agitated him, and he seemed
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  Speaker 1: to regret the part he had taken. A few minutes, however,
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  Speaker 1: displayed the unfeeling and selfish character of this man in
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  Speaker 1: the strongest light. Mister Smith said, he turning to me,
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  Speaker 1: for God's sake, do not importune the captain, or he
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  Speaker 1: will certainly take me. You are a single man, but
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  Speaker 1: I have a large family depended upon me, who will
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  Speaker 1: become orphans and be utterly destitute. The moment I am liberated,
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  Speaker 1: I shall proceed to the Havana and despatch a man
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  Speaker 1: of war in Sir of the Corsair, and at the
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  Speaker 1: same time published to the world the manner in which
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  Speaker 1: you have been forcibly detained. Nay, I will represent the
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  Speaker 1: whole affair at Lloyd's and should the pirate be captured
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  Speaker 1: hereafter and you found on board, no harm shall befall you.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever property you have shall be safely delivered to your family,
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  Speaker 1: and mine will forever bless you for the kind and
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  Speaker 1: generous act. During this address, he was much affected, and
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  Speaker 1: the tears streamed from his eyes. I sympathized in his
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: feelings and replied that I hoped that neither of us
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: would be detained, but if the lot must fall upon one,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: under these circumstances and on these conditions, I would consent
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: to become the victim. This declaration calmed his agitated spirits,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: but little did I think of the treachery and duplicity
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: that had been massed beneath them, and which subsequent events
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: have too clearly demonstrated. Supper having been prepared, the captain
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: and his officers, six or seven in number, sat down
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: to it and invited us to join them, which, for
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: fear of giving offense and exciting their brutality, we did.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Our supper consisted of garlic and onions, chopped fine and
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: mixed up with bread in a bowl, for which there
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: was a general scramble, everyone helping himself as he pleased,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: either with his fingers or any instrument with which he
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: happened to be supplied. During supper, mister Lumsden begged to
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: be allowed to go on board the Zephyr to the children,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: as he was fearful that they would be alarmed at
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: our absence and the presence of strangers, in which request
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: I joined, But he replied that no one would injure them,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: and that as soon as the two vessels came to
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: an anchor, he would accompany us on board. The Corsair
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: was at this time approaching the Zephyr, when the captain
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: ordered a musket to be fired and then tacked in shore.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: The signal was immediately answered, and the brig followed our movements.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: One of our boat's crew was then ordered to the
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: lead with directions to give notice the moment he found soundings,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: and the captain then inquired if we had any Americans
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: on board as seamen. He expressed himself very warmly against them,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: and declared he would kill all belonging to that nation,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: in revenge for the injuries that he had sustained at
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: their hands, one of his vessels, having been lately taken
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: and destroyed by them, adding at the same time that
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: if he discovered that we had concealed the fact from him,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: he would punish us equally. To the Americans, he said
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: that he should never give quarter, but as all nations
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: were hostile to Spain, he would attack all. The man
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: at the lead during this conversation gave notice of soundings
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: in fourteen fathoms, and the captain ordered the boat down
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: and told mister Lumsden he would accompany him on board
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: his vessel. The men we had brought were ordered into
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: the boat, but Captain Cooper, the carpenter, and myself were
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: not allowed to go into her. The boat then proceeded
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: towards the Zephyr with mister Lumsdon and the captain of
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: the Corsair, and shortly after returned with some of the
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: men whom the pirate had put on board, who brought
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: with them Captain Cooper's watch, the ship's spyglass, and my telescope,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: together with some of my clothes and a goat. The
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: goat had no sooner reached the deck than one of
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: these inhuman wretches cut its throat and proceeded to flay
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: it while it was yet alive, telling us at the
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: same time that we should all be served in the
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: same manner if no money was found on board. The
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Corsair had then got into four fathoms water and came
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: to an anchor, as also did the zephy for about
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: fifty yards from her, and the pirates that were on
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: board began hailing their companions and congratulating one another at
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: their success. The watch on board the Corsair was now set,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: and Captain Cooper, the Carpenter, and myself were ordered to
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: sleep on the companion. Thither we repaired, but to sleep
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: was impossible. The carpenter then took an opportunity of informing
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: us that there was specie on board, and expressed his
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: apprehension that, if discovered, the cruel threat would be put
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: into execution. Captain Cooper and myself, however, were ignorant of
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: the circumstance and felt rather inclined to believe that the
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: carpenter was mistaken, but he assured us that such was
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: the case, and that mister Lumsdon had consulted him a
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: day or two before about a place for its concealment.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: The expression which had dropped from him in the boat
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: then occurred to us, but we still felt inclined to
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: believe believe that it was some private money of his own.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: The whole night was passed in giving way to various
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: conjectures and hope and fear, and the dread of assassination
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: completely drove sleep away. Each reflected on what might be
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: his future fate, and imparted his hopes or his apprehensions
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: to his fellow sufferers. At daylight, we perceived the pirates
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: on board beating the Zephyr's crew with their cutlasses, and
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: began to tremble for our own safety. After this, we
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: perceived the sailors at work, hoisting out their boats and
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: hauling a rope cable from the after hatchway and coiling
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: it on deck, as if preparing to take out the
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: brig's cargo. The crew of the Corsair meanwhile began to
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: take their coffee, and the officers invited us to partake
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: of some, which we willingly did and found it very
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: refreshing after a night spent in sleepless apprehension. At seven o'clock,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: the captain hailed his crew from from the Zephyr, where
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: he had passed the night, and ordered the boat to
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: be sent in which he returned in a short time
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: with some curiosities belonging to myself. On his arrival, he
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: approached me, and, brandishing a cutlass over my head, told
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: me to go on board the Zephyr and bring everything
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: necessary for the purposes of navigation, as it was his
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: determination to keep me to this mandate. I made no reply, so,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: brandishing his cutlass again, he asked me with an oath
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: if I heard him. I replied that I did, when,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: with a ferocious air, he said, mind and obey me then,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: or I'll take off your skin. At this thread, I
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: went into the boat and pulled towards the Zephyr, and
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: on my arrival found mister Lumsden at the gangway. I
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: told him the nature of my visit, at which he
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: expressed his sorrow, but advised me not to oppose the
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: pirate lest it might produce bad usage, as he seemed
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: bent upon detaining me. He then informed me that they
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: had taken possession of everything, and that he himself had
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: narrowly escaped assassination on account of his watch. On entering
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: my cabin, I found my chest broken to pieces and
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: its contents taken away, with two diamond rings and some
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: articles of value. From a seaman, I received my gold watch, sextant,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: and some other valuable things which I had previously given
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: to him to conceal, And with these I returned to
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: my own state room and proceeded to pack up what
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: few clothes had been left by the plunderers. My books,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: parrot and various other articles. I gave in charge to
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: mister Lumsdon, who engaged to deliver them safely into the
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: hands of my friends should he reach England. The Corsair
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: had during the interim weighed anchor and hauled alongside of
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: this zephyrt, and having made fast, the crew had commenced
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: moving all the trunks on board of her. Among these
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: was the desk of Captain Cooper, containing all his papers
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: and vouchers, which he begged me to claim as mine
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: and recover for him, for which purpose he gave me
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: the key. Well aware of the serious loss he would sustain,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: I undertook the dangerous task, and, passing into the Corsair
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: informed the captain that my desk had been taken, and begged,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: as it only contained papers which were of importance to
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: my family, that it might be restored. He ordered me
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: to open it, and having examined the interior, he granted
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: my request, and I had the pleasure of obliging Captain Cooper,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: who in return promised to represent my case to the
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: underwriters at Lloyd's. The pirates next commenced taking out the
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Zephyr's cargo, at which mister Lumsdon and myself were compelled
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: to assist, but the former was soon after removed on
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: board the schooner in consequence of the crying of the children,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: who the captain said had been instigated by him to
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: do so. There he was employed in striking the cargo
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: into the hatchways. The pirates, in the maintime became intoxicated
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: and gave way to the most violent excesses. All subordination
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: was at an end, and equality seemed to be the
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: order of the day. Mister Lumsden was now called on
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: board the Zephyr and questioned as to the cargo down
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: the main hatchway. When he read and explained the manifesto,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: orders were immediately given to four sailors and myself to
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: prepare for hoisting the cargo up and to clear away
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: the dye wood that was in our way. Mister Lumsdon
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: directed us to throw it overboard, which we commenced doing
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: and threw some over but this was prevented by the captain,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: who said that he only wanted to throw the ship's
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: cargo overboard in order to say that it was taken
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: from him and to fraud the underwriters. We continued our
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: occupation until we had hoisted up two screons of indigo,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: a quantity of arrow root, and as much coffee as
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: they thought sufficient. The seamen were then ordered to send
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: down the fore top gallant mast and yard, both of
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: which were taken on board the pirate with whatever spars
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: they thought would be of utility. Even the playful innocence
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: of the children could not protect them from the barbarity
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: of these ruffians. Their ear rings were taken out of
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: their ears, and they were left without a bed to
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: lie upon or a blanket to cover them. They next
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: commenced taking out the ship's stores with all the live
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: stock and some water, and mister Lumsden and Captain Cooper
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: were then ordered on the quarter deck and told that
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: if they did not either produce the money or tell
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: where it was concealed, the zephyr should be burned and
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: they wither. On this occasion the same answer was given
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: as before, and the inhuman wretch instantly prepared to put
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: his threat into execution by sending the children on board
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: the schooner and ordering those two gentlemen to be taken
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: below decks and to be locked into the pumps. The
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: mandate was no sooner issued than it was obeyed by
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: his fiendlike mermidons, who even commenced piling combustibles round them.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: The apparent certainty of their fate extorted a confession from Lumsden,
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: who was released and taken on deck, where he went
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: to the round house and produced a small box of doubloons,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: which the pirate exhibited with an air of exultation to
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: the crew. He then insisted that there was more, and
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: notwithstanding that the other made the most solemn asseverations to
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: the contrary, and that even what he had given was
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: not his own, he was again lashed to the pumps.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: The question was then applied to Captain Cooper, and fire
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: was ordered to be put to the combustibles piled round him.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Seeing his fate inevitable, he offered to surrender all he had, and,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: being released, he gave them about nine to balloons, declaring
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: that what he had produced was all he had and
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: had been entrusted to his care for a poor woman, who,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: for aught, he knew, might at this moment be in
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: a state of starvation. Do not speak to me of
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: poor people, exclaimed the fiend. I am poor, and your
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: countrymen and the Americans have made me so. I know
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: there is more money, and will either have it or
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: burn you in the vessel. The unfortunate man was then
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: once more ordered below, and fire directed to be applied
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: in vain. Did they protest that he had got all
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: he persisted in his cruelty. The flames now began to
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: approach their persons, and their cries were heart rending, while
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: they implored him turned them adrift in a boat at
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: the mercy of the waves, rather than torture them. Thus
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: and keep the zephyr, when if there was money he
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: would surely find it. Finding that no further confession was extorted,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: he began to believe the truth of these protestations, and
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: ordered his men to throw water below and quench the flames.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: The unfortunate sufferers were then released and taken into the roundhouse,
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: and the seamen, children and myself allowed to go on
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: board the brig. There we were left for a while
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: at liberty while the pirates caroused and exulted over their booty.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: When they had finished their meal, the captain told them
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: that it was now time to return to their own vessel,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: and ordered me to accompany them. I hesitated at first
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: to obey, but he was not to be thwarted, and,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: drawing his knife, threatened with an oath to cut my
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: head off if I did not move instanter. I thought
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: it best to pretend ignorance of his order, and said
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: that I had not heard him at first, and hoped,
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: as I had some accounts to settle with mister Lumsdon,
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: that he would give me time to do so before
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: he took me away. He complied with some difficulty. I
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: then requested mister Lumsdon to sign a written bill of
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: lating for the two tiarses of coffee belonging to me
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: on board consigned to mister Watson ship Chandler in London,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: and also a promissory note for eighteen pounds ten shillings
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: payable to the same person on account of money's due
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: to me. Having made these arrangements, I returned on board
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: the schooner and the captain asked me if I had
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: my watch. I answered in the affirmative. He took it
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: from me and looked at it, and, admiring it, gave
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: very strong hints that he should like to have it.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: I took no notice of the hint, and said that
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: it was a from my aged mother, whom I never
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: expected to see again, and should like descend it to
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: her by mister Lumsden. But I was afraid that his
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: people would take it away from that person if I
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: gave it into his hands. Your people have a very
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: bad opinion of us, he replied, but I will convince
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: you that we are not so bad as we are
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: represented to be. Come along with me, and your watch
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: shall go safely home. Saying this, he took me on
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: board the Zephyr with the watch in his hand and
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: gave it to mister Lumsden and desired his people not
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: to take it from him on any account. I then
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: asked to remain awhile and bid farewell to the children
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: and crew. Which he, with some difficulty, allowed me to do.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: In this interval, the owner's son, who was on board
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: learning navigation, said that his quadrant and all his clothes
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: had been taken away, and begged me to recover them
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: for him if possible. I promised him I would do
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: my best, and represented to the pirate that he was
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: the son of poor parents and could ill afford the loss,
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: and begged that they might be restored. He sulkily replied
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: that I was presuming too much, but this must be
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: my last request, and the lad might have his things,
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: with the exception of checked shirts, which must be left
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: for his crew. Having performed this good office, the captain
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: became impatient for my return, and I was obliged to
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: take a hasty but affecting leave of my former messmates
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: to become one of a desperate banditi. The inhuman wretch
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: thought even this affecting ceremony too long, and drove me
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: on board at the point of his knife. When I
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: had reached the deck of the Corsair, he asked me
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: if I had got every instrument necessary to the purposes
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: of navigation, and if not, to go and get them,
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: for he would have no excuses by and by, and
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: if I made any he would kill me. I answered
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: that I had got all that was necessary. And he
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: then gave orders to cast loose from the zephyr, and
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: told mister Lumsdon he might proceed on his voyage, but
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: on no account to steer for the Havana, for if
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: he overtook him on that course, he would destroy him
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: and his vessel together. He promised that he would not
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: touch there, and the vessels were accordingly cast loose. In
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: a short time afterwards, mister Lumsdon, Captain Cooper, and the
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: children stood on the gangway and bade me adieu. And
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: my heart sunk within me. As the two vessels parted,
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: The horrors of my situation now rushed upon my mind.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: I looked upon myself as a wretch upon whom the
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: world was closed, forever exposed to the brutality of a
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: ferocious and remorseless horde of miscreants, doomed to destruction and death,
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: and perhaps to worse, to disgrace and ignominy. To become
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: the partaker of their enormities and be compelled, I knew
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: not how soon to embrew my hands in the blood
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: of a fellow creature and perhaps a fellow countryman. The distraction, grief,
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: and painful apprehensions of my parents and of one to
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: whom I was under the tenderest of all engagements, filled
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: my mind with terror. I could no longer bear to
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: look upon the scene my fancy presented to me, and
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: I would have sought a refuge from my own miserable
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: thoughts and self destruction. But my movements were watched, and
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: I was secured, and a guard set over me. The
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: captain then addressed me and told me that if I
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: made a second attempt, I should be lashed to a
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: gun and there left to die through hunger, and for
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: the sake of security, ordered me below. But at my
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: earnest entreaty, I was allowed to remain on deck till
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: it was dark. End of Section one, Part one, Section two,
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: Part two. A narrative, et cetera, et cetera. The Zephyr
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: had got under weigh and had set her sails, but
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: I could perceive that her boats had either been cut
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: or set adrift. This did not escape the notice of
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: the pirate, who called to me and said, look at
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: that rascal. He has cut loose his old boats, and
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: when he gets home he will say that I have
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: taken them and get new ones from the underwriters, but
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: I will write to Lloyd's and prevent it. He then
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: appeared very anxious to know whether I thought they would
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: go to the Havana, of which he seemed so apprehensive
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: that he would have gone after the Zephyr and destroyed
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: her had I not said that they would, in all
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: probability pursue a direct course. The wind was light and
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: the sea calm, but the weather was thick and heavy.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: Both vessels moved slowly through the water from one another,
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: and I kept my eyes upon the Zephyr as long
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: as she was visible, and then gave way to melancholy
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: reflections on my forlorn and wretched condition. At dusk, we
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: anchored at the edge of the reef, and a boat
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: was despatched to the shore to inform the inhabitants of
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: their good success. At daylight, the pirates stood to the southwest,
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: and at nine o'clock in the morning entered a delightful harbor,
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: where she anchored in two fathoms water. This harbor, called
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: by the Spaniards Rio Medias, is large, commodious, and capable
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: of containing a hundred sail The anchorage is good, being
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: a compound of clay and mud, and it is protected
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: from every wind except the north. Vessels within it ride
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: very safe and easy as the reef breaks off the
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: force of the sea. The distance of it is about
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: three miles from the edge of the reef to the southward,
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: and the entrance intricate and hazardous. At two o'clock in
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: the afternoon, I perceived a number of boats and canoes
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: pulling towards the Corsair, and the captain told me that
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: he expected a great deal of company from the shore,
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: and among others two or three magistrates and their families,
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: and some priests. Observing also that I should see several
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: pretty Spanish girls. I remarked that I wondered he was
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: not afraid of the magistrates. He laughed and said I
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: did not know the Spanish character. Presents of coffee and
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: other little things. Said he will always ensure their friendship,
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: and from them I receive intelligence of all that occurs
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: at the Havana, and know every hostile measure time enough
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: to guard again. Two magistrates, a priest, and several ladies
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: and gentlemen now came on board and were received in
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: great pomp. By the captain, whom they congratulated on his success.
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: I was then introduced to them as a captive detained
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: to navigate the vessel, and underwent much questioning from all
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: of them as to my country, and whether I came
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: from London, and of what religion I was. Refreshments were
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: then introduced and the whole party drank the captain's health.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: Dancing was then proposed by the females, and preparations made
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: for it. The parties stood up for their favorite amusement,
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: and to my great annoyance, I was selected as a
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: partner for one of the magistrate's daughters. I declined the
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: honor that was intended me rather abruptly, but the young
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: lady herself, notwithstanding my apparent rudeness, pressed me to know
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: the cause of my refusal. I told her candidly that
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: my thoughts were too much occupied by my melancholy situation
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: and the misery which it would occasion my wife and
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: family to take any interest in the amusement. You cannot
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: be a married man, replied she, with an air of naivete,
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: for I have been told that when people are married,
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: they always endeavor to conceal it. I repeated that I was,
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: and she applied to the captain, who replied that I
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: had told him so, but he did not believe it,
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: as mister Lumsdon had assured him. To the contrary, she
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: said that she had heard a great deal of the
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: gallantry of my countrymen, but she had never seen one
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: of them until now, I hoped. I replied that she
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: would not form an unfavorable opinion of them from my
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: want of it, but that my mind was so agitated
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: and my spirits so depressed, that I must entreat her
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: to excuse my not accepting the high honor that was
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: intended me by selecting me as her partner. She said,
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: with a look that clearly indicated that she felt as
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: she spoke, that she sincerely pitied me and felt deeply
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: interested in my behalf, and that if it was possible
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: for her either to alleviate my sufferings or to procure
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: my liberty, she should be happy in doing so, and
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: would endeavor to persuade her father to exert his influence
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: and have me released. I beseeched her not to be
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: rash in her application, for if the captain should discover
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: that I was endeavoring secretly to interest either her or
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: her father in my behalf, it might cost me my life.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: Our conversation was here interrupted by the captain, who, seeing
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: that he did not join the dancers, asked the cause, and,
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: on being informed, roughly ordered me to lead the young
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: lady out immediately, a mandate that I did not dare
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: to disobey. As I shall have occasion to mention this
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: young lady very often in the course of this narrative,
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: it may be as well for me here to give
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: some description of her. Her Christian name I afterwards discovered
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: to be Seraphina, by which I shall hereafter designate her
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: her family name. I never knew. She was young, and
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: evidently unacquainted with the world, and therefore ignorant of the
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: artifice's practiced in it. She was unembarrassed in her manners,
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: and there was an openness and frankness in all that
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: she said or did that under any other circumstances might
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: perhaps have had a more powerful influence. Her features were
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: regular and pretty, but not handsome, and her eyes sparkling, animated,
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: and full of intelligence. She was a brunette, and her
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: whole appearance was of that description which interests the beholder
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: almost at first sight in her disposition, she was kind, benevolent,
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: and humane, and possessed of strong and warm feelings, which
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: were very manifest when she was interested in anything. During
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: the dance, I could plainly perceive that she was hurt
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: at the arbitrary conduct of the captain, and she very
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: soon pleaded indisposition and sat down. The instant the attention
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: of the party was diverted from her, she regretted in
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: a mournful tone of voice, the unpleasant sensations of which
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: she must have been the cause, and then, as if
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: rallying her spirits, passed on to indifferent subjects, and made
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: many inquiries into our manners and customs, asking me if
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: all the stories she had heard of the grandeur and
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: riches of London were true, and what sort of a
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: building the immense Church was that everybody went to see.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: The manner in which she entered into conversation, and the
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: very great degree of feeling an interest that she betrayed
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: on my account, led me to flatter myself that I
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: had made some tender impressions on her heart. Pity I
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: had heard say was akin to love, and methought if
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: I should be happy enough to inspire her with the
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: latter passion she might become instrumental in my escape. My opinion, however,
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: of the Spanish character, was not very high. I suspected
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: treachery might lurk beneath this apparent warmth of feeling, and
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: was determined to meet Stratagem by stratagem if such should
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: be the case. I hinted, therefore, that my holding her
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: so long in conversation might give offense to her father,
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: as I was an utter stranger and a mere captive.
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: She replied not at all, as he was an indulgent
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: parent and never interfered with her. Having so far satisfied myself,
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: I endeavored to obtain some knowledge of the situation of
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: the country and what towns or villages were along the shore.
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: This naturally led to the question whether I should like
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: to go on shore, and I replied in the affirmative,
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: making a bad state of health as a plea for
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: my wishes. She immediately volunteered to obtain me the pirate's
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: permission to go there, and said she had a ready
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: excuse without implicating me in the application, which was that
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: most of the inhabitants had never seen an Englishman, and
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: my being allowed to go to the village would be
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: conferring a favor on them and would gratify their curiosity.
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: The rest of the party were at this time engaged
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: in the dance, and her father and the priest were
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: enjoying their wine, which they praised as the finest they
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: had ever tasted. All therefore had been too busily employed
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: to have observed us. Sarafina now left my side and
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: went to the captain, and in a few moments I
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: saw her in earnest conversation with him, and I easily
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: guessed the subject of it. I saw that the result
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: was not favorable, as she evidently left him chagrined, and
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: then went to her father. After exchanging a few words
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: with him, he rose and accompanied her towards the captain.
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: This mutual explanation raised my hopes, and as she had
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: before said that if permission was obtained, a horse should
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: be waiting on the beach to convey me to her
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: father's house, I resolved to take advantage of that circumstance
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: to escape. But alas those hopes were ill founded, she
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: soon returned to inform me that the pirate was inexorable
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: and had positively denied the favor, although her father had
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: promised to become responsible for my safety. As the day
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: was far spent, the visitors began to talk of returning,
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: and the dance broke up. Refreshments of fowls and sweetmeat,
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: which had been taken from the zephyr, were then served up,
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: but there was no want of knives, forks or spoons
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: as on former occasions, as the pirates had secured those
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: belonging to the brig when they had refreshed themselves. The
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: captain commenced the distribution of wines and other things as
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: presents to his guests. A trunk belonging to me that
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: contained linen and silks fell to the lot of the priest,
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: who was highly pleased and told the captain he might
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: be assured of his prayers, and indeed ought to attribute
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: his present success to the intercessions which he had made
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: with the virgin. All indeed appeared gratified with their treatment,
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: and told the captain that they had sent information round
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: the country that the Corsair had RUMs, sugars and coffee
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: for sale, who replied that if they meant to come
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: and purchase they must do so quickly, as he should
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: go on a cruise in a day or two. While
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: the rest were thus engaged, Sarafina imparted to me the
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: ill success of her mission and said that the priest
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: had also unwittingly joined in her request. She then assured
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: me of her esteem and her future exertions, promised to
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: visit me often, and took leave of me. The party
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: now took to their boats and canoes, and the priests,
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: in descending, invited the captain to dine with him, and
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: to be sure and bring me with him when he came.
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: As soon as the party had gone, the captain came
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: to me and inquired whether I had commissioned Seraphina to
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: make the request. As I was prepared for this question,
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: I immediately answered in the negative, and added that I
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: could have no object in going on shore as I
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: was a stranger, and as to escape, that was out
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: of the question as I was totally unacquainted with the
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: face of the country. He then said, if I behave well,
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: he would take me with him, and immediately turned the
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: conversation on the influence which he possessed with the magistracy
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: of the whole island, saying that he could obtain passes
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: for himself and his crew at all times to travel
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: from one part to another. These passes, from what I
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: could understand, are passports issued and signed by the different magistrates,
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: without which persons traveling are liable to be thrown into
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: prison unless they can give a good account of themselves.
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: The captain was at this very time much intoxicated, as
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: was usually the case with him in the afternoon, and
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: when in that state, was wantonly cruel. Something just then
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: excited his brutal temper, and he hastily drew his knife
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: and told me to go down into the cabin and
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: not come on deck anymore, and that I must in
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: future lie on the bare floor. I pleaded my ill
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: health and begged a mattress, but he replied that he
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: always slept on the deck himself, and I must do
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: the same. Nor would he have his cabin lumbered up.
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: His usual berth was on deck at the cabin door,
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: where also two or three of his officers slept, so
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: that it was impossible for any person to go out
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: without awaking them. I passed the whole of the night
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: in meditating on the means of escape, but almost every
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: plan was abandoned, as impracticable as soon as it was formed.
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: In the morning, when the crew had breakfast and the
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: decks had been washed, preparations were made for exposing their
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: plunder for sale. About eleven o'clock, Saraphina and her father came,
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: and after the usual compliments had passed between them and
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: the captain, she came to me, shook me by the hand,
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: seemed glad to see me, and remarked that I appeared
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: in better spirits. She then informed me that her mother
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: was very desirous of seeing me, and that her father
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: had been prevailed upon to renew his application to the captain.
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: I thought this a favorable opportunity to put my plan
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: into execution, and told her how completely her kindness and
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: benevolence had gained my heart, and that if ever I
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: recovered my liberty, I should do all in my power
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: to deserve her esteem. I then added that I was
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: not a married man, but had made use of that
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: artifice to preserve my liberty, and as that had failed,
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: I thought it useless to persist in the declaration any longer.
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: She appeared highly pleased at the confession, and I should
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: have pursued the conversation and in all probability elicited her sentiments,
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: but for the arrival of strangers. The sale then commenced,
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: and I was placed at the steel lyards to weigh
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: out the coffee to the purchasers. To this, however, they objected,
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: as they suspected did I would cheat them, but they
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: had no alternative, as no one else understood the use
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: of steel yards, and the captain having informed them that
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: I was a captive and bore no share in the profits,
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: they were content to let the sale go on. The
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: best coffee was sold for ten dollars per hundred weight,
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: its supposed half value at Havana, and the inferior at
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: a similarrate. I observed that the purchasers all brought sacks
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: and bags with them as precautionary measures to prevent detection
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: and destroy every clue to the market in which it
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: was purchased. Having weighed their several proportions, a gun was
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: fired when two schooners of a small size came out
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: from the land, and when within hail, were ordered to
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: come alongside and take the coffee on board. Neither the
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: captain nor any part of his crew understood arithmetic, so
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: that my next task was to make out the several bills,
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: and their amount having been paid, a large dinner was
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: prepared from the stock taken from the Zephyr. While these
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: preparations were going on, the captain told me, in English,
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: which the rest did not understand, to make a strong
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: mixture of spirituous liquors that would rapidly intoxicate, and bring
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: it up after dinner as an English cordial. In the meantime,
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: he informed the company that after dinner he should set
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: up to auction all the wearing apparel he had taken
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: in this prize. They had all made perfectly free with
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: the wine taken from the zephyr, and the captain then
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: told me to bring up the pretended cordial, which I
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: had made from a mixture of wine, rum, gin, brandy
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: and porter, and recommended it to his guests, who drank
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: it greedily and praised it. Its intoxicating effects were soon visible,
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: and the auction then commenced. The different trunks were brought
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: upon deck one by one, and as the content of
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: one was disposed of, another was opened, in order that
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: the good and the bad might be sold alike. My
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: own shared the fate of the rest, and I was
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: obliged to see them pass into the hands of strangers
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: without daring to claim them. The cordial now had its
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: intended effect, and the state of intoxication in which they
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: were caused them to contest every article, and accordingly enormous
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: sums were bid for the most trifling. The sale being finished,
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: they returned to the bottle, which gave me an opportunity
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: of conversing with Sara Fina, to whom I gave so
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: glowing a description of everything in England that she said
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: she would give worlds to see it. I then told
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: her that were I at liberty, I should be happy
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: to devote myself to her services. Nay, that could I
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: escape and she would accompany me, I would, on my
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: arrival marry her. This sudden declaration startled her, and I
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: began to be very much alarmed that I had, by
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: this imprudence, destroyed the very foundation of the fabric that
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: I was endeavoring to erect, and the more so when,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: with an air of unusually cold solemnity, she replied that
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: I ought to remember that I was a stranger and
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: a foreigner, and therefore it would be highly imprudent and
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: improper for her to trust herself to my protection, and
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: what was still more important, that it would be the
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: height of ingratitude to quit in a clandestine manner the
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: roof of such indulgent parents as hers. I acquiesced in
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: the justice of these remarks, but at the same time
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: used all the sophistry of which I was master to
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: persuade her to think otherwise. To all my arguments, she
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: observed in reply that should she consent to elope with me,
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: a thousand obstacles must be surmounted before it could take place.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: The lower order of Spaniards were avaricious and treacherous, and
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: would commit any crime for the sake of money, and
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: therefore could not be trusted. To traverse the immense forests
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: without a guide was impossible, for to attempt it we
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: should expose ourselves to destruction by wild beasts or starvation.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: And how to procure one that was trustworthy? She knew not.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: I was glad to hear her talk in this manner,
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: for I begin to hope my arguments had had some effect,
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: nor was I mistaken. After some further doubts and fears,
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: she promised to consider and inquire on the subject, and
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: if she found it practicable, she would consent to escape
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: with me to the Havana and thence to England. This
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: promise overjoyed me, and I began to be sanguine in
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: my hopes of escape. What the cordial had begun, additional
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: quantities of wine had completed. The whole party were very
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: much intoxicated, and universal disorder prevailed. A quarrel took place
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: between two of the crew, and a desperate fight with
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: knives ensued, of which the rest were cool spectators. The
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: battle was for a long time doubtful, as both fought
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: with equal skill and an equal degree of caution. Notwithstanding,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: they were intoxicated, until one fell with a severe stab
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: in the left breast, bleeding profusely. I was instantly called
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: to administer to the wounded man, and it was in
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: vain for me to declare that I knew nothing of
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: the healing art. The captain swore at me and said
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: he knew to the contrary, for the master of the
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: Zephyr had informed him that I had cured and saved
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: the life of his sail maker who had fallen down
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: the hold, and therefore if I did not cure him,
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: he would serve me in the same manner. I saw
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: it would be useless to make any reply, and therefore,
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: having procured bandages, I staunched blood and dressed his wounds
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: in the best manner I was able. Having attended to
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: one patient, I was then obliged to turn my attention
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: to his antagonist, who had not escaped unhurt. When I
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: had completed my task, I was carelessly complimented on my
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: skill and asked if the wound was mortal, which question
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: I evaded by saying I hope not. This brutal exhibition
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: rendered me quite melancholy, and while I was standing lost
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: in thought, Seraphina came up to me and asked the reason.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: I told her, and added that such ruffianly conduct was
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: not suffered in England. She said it was the custom
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: of the country, and therefore I should not mind it.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: She then told me that she had been considering the
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: subject of our conversation and thought that it might be feasible,
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: and was therefore determined to affect my liberation on the
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: first favorable opportunity. Having thus raised my hopes, she went
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: to her father, who was, like the rest of the party,
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: much intoxicated, and tried to prevail on him to return, and,
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: after considerable difficulty succeeded in her wishes. This was a
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: signal to the rest, and a general preparation for departure
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: was the consequence. The schooners that had removed the coffee
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: had already taken leave of us, and the boats and
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: canoes of the party were now brought round, and they
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: all rode off Seraphina, taking a very affectionate leave of me.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: The guests were scarcely gone when the captain went below
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: and inquired of the least injured of the wounded men
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: the cause of their quarrel. He hesitated at first to tell,
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: and supplicated that he might be forgiven for his neglect
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: in not having furnished him with the important intelligence. Before
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: this being granted, he told the pirate that his antagonist
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: was one of the party formed by the chief mate
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: to assassinate him and the whole crew and take possession
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: of the ship and plunder. That officer, he informed him,
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: had gone to the Havana for the express purpose of
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: bringing some more men, and that they were to put
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: the plan into effect when himself and the crew were
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: either asleep or inebriated. I saw that his brutal temper
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: was excited by this information. His eyes flashed fire, and
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: his whole countenance was distorted. He vowed destruction against the
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: whole party, and, rushing upon deck, assembled the crew and
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: imparted what he had heard. The air rang with the
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: most dreadful imprecations. They simultaneously rushed below and dragged the helpless,
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: wounded wretch upon deck, and, without taking into consideration that
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: the accusation against him might be unfounded, proceeded to cut
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: off his legs and arms with a blunt hatchet, then,
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: angling his body with their knives, threw the yet warm
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: corpse overboard. Not contented with having destroyed their victim, they
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: next sated their vengeance on his clothes and everything belonging
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: to him, which they cut in pieces and threw into
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: the sea. Having glutted their vengeance in this summary manner,
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: they went below and questioned the informer as to his accomplices,
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: But he told him that the murdered man was the
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: only one of the conspirators on board, that he had
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: been persuading him to join them, and, on his threatening
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: to reveal the plot, had taunted him with cowardice, struck him,
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: and provoked the quarrel in order to put him out
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: of the way. The Ruffians seemed satisfied with this answer,
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: and the captain told me to pay particular attention to
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: his wounds and cure him as fast as possible. This
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: dreadful scene threw a damp over my spirits. All hope
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: of escape left me, and I looked upon every hour
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: as my last, for I knew not how soon I
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: might undergo the same fate. I determined, however, to be
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: upon my guard, and by a ready compliance in everything,
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: prolonged my existence until Serafina should have an opportunity of
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: proving the sincerity of her promise. When this fury had subsided,
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: the captain asked me what I thought of the Spanish
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: mode of fighting, and added that I must learn the
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: use of the knife, observing that it was the first
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: thing his father had taught him. He then told me
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: that if ever I knew or heard of anything inimical
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: to himself or his crew going on, and did not
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: give him information, I should undergo the same fate as
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: the man whom they had just punished for his perfidy.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: The watch was then set, the crew sharpened their knives
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: as if preparing for attack, and I was ordered down
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: below for the night end of Section two, Part two,
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: Section three, Part three A narrative, et cetera, et cetera.
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  Speaker 1: The night passed off quietly, and in the morning I
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: was directed to bend a new foretop sail. Every preparation
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: was then made to go outside the reef. About noon,
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: a sail was discovered, and I was ordered aloft to
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: examine and report what description of vessels she was. When
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: I had looked at her through my spyglass, I gave
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: notice that it was a schooner standing westward. The captain
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: asked me if she was a merchant or a man
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: of war, and added, mind, you do not deceive me,
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: for if you do, I will cut off your head.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: I have already killed several of your countrymen, and take
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: care you do not add yourself to the number. This
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: threat made me apprehensive, and I was determined to examine
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: her closely before I reported, and, having done so, told
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: him she was a merchantman. The pirate was already under way,
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: and she gave chase immediately. I was still at the
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: mast head and could perceive that the schooner was aware
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: of our intention and suspecting us to be a pirate,
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: was altering her course and standing to the north. I
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: informed him of this circumstance, and he abused me for
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: not doing so sooner. When we had passed through the
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: channels and were without the reef, the wind died away,
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: and the captain ordered out the sweeps, and the corsair
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: made great way through the water. The breeze, however, soon freshened,
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: and both vessels stood on under a press of sail.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: Before dark we were gaining rapidly upon her, but she
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: was still at a great distance, and the captain despaired
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: of reaching her, expressing his apprehension that she would escape,
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: as she would most certainly alter her course in the night.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: At ten o'clock at night, she was out of view,
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: and I was then ordered below. The captain declared, however,
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: that he would stand on that tack until two in
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: the morning, and if she was not then visible, he
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: would alter his course to the east. The fatigue I
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: had undergone by being tossed to and fro in the
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: tops made me sleep soundly, and I did not awake
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: till called in the morning. When I came on deck,
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: I found all at a loss to know whereabouts they were.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: The whole crew had been intoxicated, no light had been
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: in the binnacle, and no log had been thrown. No
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: one therefore knew what the ship had been doing through
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: the night or what sail had been set. In this dilemma,
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: I was called upon to give the captain information as
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: to the bearings of the harbor from which we had
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: sailed the preceding day. I replied that it was impossible
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: for me to inform him exactly, and was threatened with
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: instant massacre if I did not. I then informed him
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: if he would wait till noon, I would endeavor to
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: do so, and the same threat was repeated in case
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: of failure. It was a fortunate event for me that
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: at this time the sun was in distance, with the
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: moon and the sky being remarkably clear, the sea smooth,
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: and the schooner making very little way, I had an
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: opportunity at about nine o'clock to take a good lunar observation.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: After I had completed taking the sights, which I was
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: compelled to do above, as no one on board understood navigation,
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: I made my calculations, and at noon obtained the true
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: latitude by a good observation of the sun's altitude. To
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: my great astonishment, I found that we were about twenty
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: leagues to the west northwest of Cape Bona Vesta, a
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: distance of two hundred miles to the westward of where
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: I had imagined we were. The moment the captain perceived
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: that I had finished operations, he asked the situation of
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: the vessel, which I informed him. He then ordered me
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: to direct the helmsman and trim the sails according to
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: the course which we ought to steer. Having obeyed this order,
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: he asked me when we should see land, and I
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: told him in the afternoon, if the breeze was favorable.
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: He seemed to have some doubt, and declared with an
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: oath he would punish me if we did not. The
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: breeze in the meantime freshened and came more in our favor,
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: and all appeared anxious to prove the truth of my
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: information and be convinced of my skill as a navigator.
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: But no one was more anxious than myself, for the
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: least error in my calculation devoted me to destruction, and
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: I trembled for the consequences. At four in the afternoon,
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: to my great joy, the men on the look out
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: called land, and the coast. Pilot complimented me on my skill,
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: but the captain only abused me. You rascal, you pretended
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: not to know where the vessel was. But you see
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: you cannot deceive me, and I would advise you not
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: to attempt it. The pilot remarked that the current must
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: have been running very strong. A very material error seems
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: to exist in the charts as well as the books
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: of instructions on the subject of this current. Those which
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: I have seen agree in stating that it runs to
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: the eastward, whereas I have frequently found it to run
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: westward at the rate of three knots off Cape Roman,
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: the Bay of Onde, the Camoynais, and at some distance
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: from the land. Cape Bonavesta, too is erroneously laid down
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: as high and mountainous, whereas the land about it is
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: not more than eighteen feet from the surface of the ocean,
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: and that which is in general mistaken, for it lies
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: a great way to the interior of the island, and
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: six leagues to the eastward of the cape. The Colorados,
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: so little known and so much dreaded by mariners, is
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: also erroneously laid down, an error which frequently occasions a
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: serious loss of lives and property. The north side of
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: this reef may be approached without the smallest danger, in
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: the thickest darkness, by the precautionary throw of the lead,
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: as the soundings gradually decrease from the depth of fifty
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: fathoms till you come into three. But frequently there is
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: no dependence to be placed upon it, for at the
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: distance of six yards there may not be more than
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: three feet of water. Within the reef are a number
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: of fine bays and inlets capable of containing a large fleet.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: The whole coast indeed abounds with bays, creeks and inlets
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: little known to European navigators that seem as if formed
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: by nature for the reception and protection of those sanguinary hordes.
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: While I had the misfortune of being among those miscreants,
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: I have been in several instances in those places within
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: musket shot of British and American men of war, and
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: could plainly perceive the men in their tops from the
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: masthead of the Corsair without being perceived by them, the
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: vessel being completely screened from observation by the trees. The
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: coast pilot on board the Corsair had certainly a very
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: intimate knowledge of the whole coast, and knew every bay
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: and inlet in it, and indeed boasted that that knowledge
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: had for years been their protection and assisted them in
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: their depredations. Some had, according to their own confession, been
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: seven or eight years at this lawless occupation. The Corsair
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: pursued her course along the land to the eastward till dusk,
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: and then cast anchor. At daylight. On the following morning,
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: she again made sail for the harbor, which she did
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: not reach till eleven in consequence of the lightness of
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: the wind. In the afternoon, a boat full of men
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: appeared coming towards the schooner, which upon examination, was found
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: to contain some of the chief mate's party. No sooner
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: was this known than the captain declared he would kill
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: them all, and ordered thirty muskets to be loaded and
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: brought on deck. When the boat was about two hundred
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: yards from the schooner, the men ceased rowing and held
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: up a white handkerchief for a signal, as if doubtful
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: of their safety, which was answered by a similar one
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: from on board, and they again advanced. When within reach
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: of the musketry, the dreadful order of fire was given.
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: Five of the men fell in the boat. The sixth
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: leaped over and began to swim, after whom a boat
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: was dispatched. On his being brought on board, the captain
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: told him the accusation that was against him and his party,
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: and threatened him with a cruel and lingering death if
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: he did not confessed the whole truth. In vain did
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: he declare his innocence and ignorance of any plot. The
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: ruffian was resolved to glut his vengeance and ordered him
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: to be stripped and exposed, naked, wounded and bleeding as
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: he was to the scorching fervor of a July sun,
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: the July sun of a tropical climate. The feelings of
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: humanity got the better of my caution, and I entreated
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: the captain not to torture the poor wretch in that
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: dreadful manner, declaring that I firmly believed him innocent, for
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: had he been guilty, torture and terror would have wrung
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: a confession from him. In vain, I pleaded, in vain,
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: I represented the inhumanity of punishing a poor wretch, in
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: all probability innocent of the crime laid to his charge.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: He was deaf to my entreaties and threatened me with
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: vengeance for my interference, declaring that he had not done
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: half that he intended to do. Having said this, he
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: turned to the man, told him that he should be killed,
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: and therefore advised him to prepare for death or confess
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: himself to any of the crew whom I chose to
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: call aside for that purpose. The man persisted in his
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: plea of innocence, declared that he had nothing to confess,
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: and entreated them all to spare his life. They paid
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: no attention to his assertions, but by the order of
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: the captain, the man was put into the boat, pinioned
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: and lashed in the stern, and five of the crew
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: were directed to arm themselves with pistols and muskets and
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: to go in her. The captain then ordered me to
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: go with them, savagely remarking that I should now see
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: how he punished such rascals, and giving directions to the
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: boat's crew to row for three hours backwards and forwards
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: through a narrow creek formed by a desert island and
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: the island of Cuba. I will see, cried he exultingly,
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: whether the mosquitoes and the sand flies would not make
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: him confess. Prior to our leaving the schooner, the thermometer
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: was above ninety degrees in the shade, and the poor
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: wretch was now exposed naked to the full heat of
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: the sun. In this state. We took him to the channel,
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: one side of which was bordered by swamps full of
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: mangrove trees and swarming with the venomous insects before mentioned.
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: We had scarcely been half an hour in this place
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: when the miserable victim was distracted with pain. His body
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: began to swell, and he appeared one complete blister from
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: head to foot. Often in the agony of his torments
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: did he implore them to end his existence and release
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: him from his misery. But the inhuman wretches only imitated
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: his cries and mocked and laughed at him. In a
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: very short time, from the effects of the solar heat
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: and the stings of the mosquitoes and sandflies, his face
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: had become so swollen that not a feature was distinguishable.
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: His voice began to fail, and his articulation was no
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: longer distinct. I had long suspected that the whole story
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: of the conspiracy was a wicked and artful fabrication, and
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: the constancy with which this unfortunate being underwent these tortures
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: served to confirm my suspicions. I resolved therefore to hazard
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: my interference, and after much entreaty and persuasion, prevailed upon
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: them to endeavor to mitigate his sufferings and to let
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: the poor wretch die in peace, as the injuries which
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: he had already sustained were sufficient of themselves to occasion death.
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: At first they hesitated, but after consulting for some time
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: among themselves, they consented to go to the other side
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: of the island, where they would be secured from observation,
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 1: and untie him and put something over him. When we
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: had reached that place, we lay upon our oars and
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: set him loose. But the moment he felt the fresh
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: sea breeze, he fainted away. His appearance at this time
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: was no longer human, and my heart bled at seeing
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: a fellow creature thus tormented. When our time was expired,
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: we again tied him as before, to prevent the fury
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: of the captain for our lenity, and once more pulled
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: for the passage on our way to the vessel. On
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: our arrival. His appearance was the source of merriment to
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: all on board, and the captain asked if he had
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: made any confession. An answer in the negative gave him
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: evident disappointment, and he inquired of me whether I could
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: cure him. I told him he was dying, then he
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: shall have some more of it before he dies, cried
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: the monster, and directed the boat to be moored within
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: musket shot in the bay. This having been done, he
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: ordered six of the crew to fire at him. The
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: man fell, and the boat was ordered alongside. The poor
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: wretch had only fainted, and when they perceived that he breathed,
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: a pig of iron was fastened round his neck, and
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: he was thrown into the sea. Thus ended a tragedy which,
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: for the miseries inflicted on the victim, and for the
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: wanton and barbarous depravity of his fiend like tormentors, never
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: perhaps had its equal. The inhuman wretches, who had been
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: the chief participators in this horrid deed, seemed to regard
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: it as an everyday occurrence. The guitar tinkled and the
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: song went round as if nothing had happened, and the
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: torments which their victim had just undergone, and the cries
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: that he had uttered seemed to form the subject of
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: their jests and to be echoed in their barbarous mirth.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: At nine o'clock at night, I was ordered below as usual,
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: but the image of what had occurred haunted my slumbers,
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: and my sleep was broken by constant apprehensions of assassination.
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: Morning brought round my appointed task of attending the sick,
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: after which I was ordered to make a new gaff topsail.
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: I went aloft and took the measure of the sail,
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: and then informed the captain that it would be necessary
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: to take the canvas on shore to cut it out.
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: The very mention of the shore excited his fury, and
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: he immediately accused me of intending to escape, observing that
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: any endeavor would be fruitless, as he could have me
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: apprehended in less than two hours after I should go.
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: I told him I had merely said so with a
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: view of expediting the work, and then proceeded to cut
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: out the canvas upon deck in the best manner I could,
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: using all diligence in making the sail. My exertions seemed
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: to please him, and he frequently addressed me in a
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: cheerful manner. Our attention was now excited by a cry
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: of a sail, a sail from the masthead, and I
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: was driven up aloft with the usual threat to reconnoiter.
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: While the vessel got under way. I informed them that
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: she was a merchant brig, and orders were given to
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: go and chase immediately, the pilot undertaking to take her
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: through the channels, while I was called down and consulted
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: as to the best mode of fighting in case she
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: should resist. The corsair, having gained on the brig, fired
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: a gun and hoisted Spanish colors, which the other answered
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: by heaving to and displaying the English ensign from the
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: painted ports and figurehead of the brig. The pirate began
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: to suspect that she was a man of war, and
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: was fearful of approaching any nearer. He therefore ordered the
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: foretop sail to be laid aback, and said that he
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 1: should send the boat to board her under my direction.
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: This intimation greatly alarmed me, and I pointed out to
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: him the perils I should run in obeying his orders,
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: and that should I be captured hereafter, I should assuredly
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: suffer an ignominious death. And what are you, sir? Cried
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: he ferociously, that you should not suffer as well as myself.
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: The schooner shall never be captured, for when I can
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: no longer defend her, I shall blow her up. If
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: you do not instantly go, I will shoot you. I
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: told him that he might shoot me if he pleased,
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: but that I would not commit an act that might
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: subject me and my family to disgrace. Seeing me resolute
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: and inclined to dispute his authority, he ordered his crew
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: to blindfold me and carry me forward, and told me
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: to prepare myself for death. I was carried as he
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: had directed, and he then came to me and asked
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: me if I was prepared. I answered firmly yes. He
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: then left me, and immediately a volley of musketry was fired,
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: but evidently only with a view to frighten me. The
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: captain immediately came up to me and asked if I
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 1: was not desperately wounded. I answered I was not, but
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: begged if it was his intention to destroy me, to
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: do it at once, and not trifle with me, as
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: I preferred death to disgrace and ignominy. He then gave
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: directions that I should be taken and lashed to the mainmast,
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: and the bandage removed from my eyes. This order was
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: quickly obeyed by his mermidons. As soon as I was
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: fastened to the mast. The Captain cut up a number
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: of cartridges and placed the powder round me on the
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 1: deck with a train to it, and gave orders for
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: the cook to light a match and send it aft.
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: He then repeated his order and asked if I would
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 1: obey him. I persisted in my fusal, and without any
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 1: further hesitation, he communicated the fire to the powder. The
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: explosion deprived me of my senses and stunned me for
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: the moment, but I soon recovered to undergo the most
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 1: horrid torture. The flames had caught my clothes, which were
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: blazing round me, and my hands were so pinioned that
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: I could not relieve myself. I begged them, for God's
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: sake to dispatch me at once, but they only laughed
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 1: at me, and the captain tauntingly asked me if I
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 1: would obey him. Now the excruciating agony in which I
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: was extorted my acquiescence, and I was ordered to be released,
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: but I fainted before that could be done. When I
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: recovered my senses. I found myself stretched on a mattress
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: in the cabin and in the most dreadful pain. In
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: the frenzy and delirium of the moment, I meditated self destruction,
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: but no weapons were near me, and the shattered state
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: of my legs did not allow me to seek any.
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: The steward was below and I begged him to lend
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 1: me his knife, but he suspected my intention and informed
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: the captain, who descended in a fury. You want to
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 1: kill yourself, young man. I understand, cried he, but I
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: do not mean that you should die yet. I shall
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: blow you up again, for I see it is the
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 1: only way to make you obey me. He then ordered
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: them to keep a watch over me and help me
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: to sit up and dress my wounds. I found my
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: legs dreadfully injured, the flesh lacerated, and the bone in
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: some parts laid bare, and by this time large blisters
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: had risen on various parts of my body. I asked
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: for a sheet to cover me and a pillow for
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: my head, and the captain, who now seemed to relent,
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: ordered the steward to give me all that I required.
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: I begged that the medicine chest might be placed near me,
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: which they did, and I seized that opportunity of swallowing
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: the contents of a small vial of laudanum about one
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: hundred and thirty drops, hoping that I should wake no
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: more in this world. The cook, who seemed to pity
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: and feel for my sufferings, now brought me a little arrow,
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: root and wine, and made up my bed for me.
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: I asked him where the corsair was, and he told
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: me in the harbor at Anchor. I expressed my surprise
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: at the circumstance when he informed me. The captain was
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: so convinced that the brig was a man of war
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: and that I had meant to decoy them to be taken,
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: that he was afraid to attack, and had returned into
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: harbor shortly after I was brought down below. From this
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 1: poor fellow, I received a great deal of kindness, and
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: he seemed possessed of much humanity. The captain said, he,
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 1: bending over me with a look of compassion, is a
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: very bad man, and is killed more than twenty people
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 1: with his own hand in cool blood, and he would
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 1: kill you two were he not in want of your services.
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 1: He then cautioned me to appear cheerful and satisfied at
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: all times, and that then they would treat me well.
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: He also told me that he would prepare any little
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: thing for me that I might want, and attend me
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: by day and by night, and with this kind assurance
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: left me to my repose. I now began to feel
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: the soperiferous effects of the laudanum, and, laying myself down
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 1: upon my mattress, commended my soul into the hands of
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 1: the god who gave it, beseeching him to forgive me
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: for the act I had committed and resign myself, as
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: I thought, into the arms of death. I soon fell
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: into a profound sleep, which lasted the whole night, and
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: in the morning they found such difficulty to arouse me
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 1: that they imagined I had poisoned myself and was dead.
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 1: The captain accused me of having done so, and threatened
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: me with a second torturing if I ever made another attempt.
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: I told him I had merely taken some opiate medicine
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 1: to render me insensible to the pain I suffered, and
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: that it had taken an unusually powerful effect upon me.
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 1: He then asked me if I could attend to the sick.
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: I said that I would endeavor to do so. But
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 1: upon attempting to rise, I found my strength fail, and
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: my limbs so stiff and in such a state that
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 1: I began to think that I had lost their use.
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 1: A mattress was however, placed under me to help me
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: to sit up, and the medicine chest placed by my side.
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: And in this manner, although it put me to excruciating agony,
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 1: I began to perform my task. Having attended to the sick,
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: I next dressed my own wounds, which had assumed a
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: dangerous appearance. While thus occupied below, the master of a
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: coasting schooner brought intelligence that the Zephyr had arrived at
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: the Havana, and that all the circumstances of her capture
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: and plunder had been made known. Frantic at this information,
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: he rushed into the cabin see cried he, what dependence
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 1: can be placed on your countrymen? That old rascal has
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 1: gone to the Havana and broken a solemn promise. But
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 1: for this I should not care. Had he told the truth.
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 1: He has told the authorities there that I have plundered
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: him of specie to the amount of fifteen hundred pounds sterling,
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 1: whereas I did not obtain half that amount. He has
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: said also that I maltreated the children, and he must
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 1: have known that it was only on their account that
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: I did not destroy the vessel, but allowed him to
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: proceed on his voyage. But this will be a lesson
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: to me not to trust the English again, for I
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 1: now find them as treacherous as the Americans. This he
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 1: uttered all in a breath, and then paused, as if
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 1: considering something. A malignant scowl passed over his face, and
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 1: he proceeded. He thinks he is out of my reach,
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 1: but mark me, if he remains a few days longer
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 1: at the Havana, I shall never live to see England.
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 1: I have three or four already on the watch to
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 1: assassinate him. They must be new to the trade, or
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: it would have been done ere this. But there is
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: one on board who will soon accomplish it, a man
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: who has already despatched several I shall send him there
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 1: in an hour, and to make sure of his performing it,
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: I will give him ten doubloons for the deed. Nay,
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 1: should he be fortunate enough to escape this time, I
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: may take him again at some other and then I
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 1: will tie him to a tree in the forest and
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 1: let him starve. During this conversation, the villain had been
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: preparing himself, and now announced that he was ready to
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 1: proceed on his sayinginary mission. The boat was then ordered
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 1: to put him on shore, where he was to procure
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 1: a horse and direct his course to the Havana, and
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: the savage entered it with an air of exultation and
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 1: with loud promises of his performing his task faithfully. The
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: hope of revenge seemed to have calmed his turbulence, and
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 1: he began asking me how soon I should be able
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: to proceed with the sail and to go up aloft,
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: adding that my own foolish obstinacy had occasioned all my sufferings.
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 1: I told him that I was very ill and could
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 1: not then attempt it, to which he coolly answered that
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: he was anxious to have the vessel completely fitted with
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 1: new sails, and hoped that I should be able to
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 1: do so very soon. He then turned about and left
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: the cabin. The whole schooner's company now went to their
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: evening meal, and, as was usual, to drink, play the
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 1: guitar and carrouse. Their merriment was However, soon interrupted by
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 1: the dashing of approaching oars, they instantly flew to quarters
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 1: and made every preparation for acting on the defense, and
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 1: I was dragged on deck, wounded as I was to
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: hail the boat in English. Immediately on my doing so,
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 1: the boat stopped, and I repeated the hail, but they
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: did not answer, upon which the captain called to them
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: in Spanish. His voice was soon recognized, and they came alongside.
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 1: All were eager to learn the object of their visit,
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 1: and rapid in their inquiries. They then informed the captain
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 1: that a boat containing some more of the chief mate's
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 1: party had arrived, and, having heard of the fate of
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: their associates, had vowed revenge. For this purpose, they had
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 1: gone in pursuit of the man, who had been just
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: set on shore, of whose arrival they were informed, and had,
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 1: when they left, followed him towards the masts registrate's house,
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 1: where he had gone to procure a pass for his journey.
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: They added that if he wished to preserve the man's life,
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: he must lose no time in sending him assistance. A
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: general panic seemed to have seized the whole crew at
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 1: this intelligence, and no one seemed inclined to go upon
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 1: this hazardous enterprise. The captain now upbraided, now threatened, and
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 1: now abused them by turns, but with no visible effect,
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 1: and was on the point of abandoning his emissary to
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 1: his fate, when one man, apparently bolder than the rest,
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 1: but evidently with hesitation, offered his services and even declared
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 1: his resolution to perish in the attempt. This example had
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 1: the desired effect, and nine more stepped forward. They were
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 1: hastily supplied with arms and ammunition, and dispatched on shore,
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 1: strictly charged by the captain to give the assailants no quarter.
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 1: When this expedition was dispatched, the pirate asked me whether,
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 1: if I had been well, I would have volunteered to
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 1: rescue Stromita. For so the man was called, wishing for
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 1: an opportunity to lull his suspicions against me, I answered
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: in the affirmative, adding at the same time that he
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: ought to be on his guard, for this report might
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 1: have been a stratagem to withdraw part of the crew
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 1: in order to attack the schooner more easily. The hint
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: staggered him. He confessed the idea had never occurred to
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 1: him and thanked me for my precautionary advice, adding, I
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 1: see now that necessity is the best teacher, and I
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 1: shall at last make something of you. I was then
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 1: sent below again, and the captain proceeded to take measures
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 1: to guard against surprise. A watch was set on deck,
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 1: and everyone lay down with his arms by his side.
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 1: All was silence and watchful anxiety till midnight, when the
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 1: boat returned with only five of the men. These informed
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 1: the captain that on the beach they had met a
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 1: servant dispatched by the magistrate, who informed them that Stromaida
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 1: was a prisoner, and that the captors had vowed to
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 1: put him to death, and bade them hasten to his rescue.
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: The party had, on hearing this, taken a circuitous route
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: through the wood, and, having eluded the scouts of the
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: chief mate's gang, had surprised four of them playing at
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 1: cards and drinking under a tree. Having secured these, they
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 1: proceeded to the Magistrate's residence, and, firing through the doors
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 1: and windows, discharged their blunderbusses into the house regardless of
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 1: who might be within, whether friend or foe, and had
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 1: in doing so, unfortunately wounded the magistrate himself Stromida they
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 1: found bound hand and foot lying on the floor, but
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 1: as he had not been injured, and having loosed him,
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 1: he proceeded on his journey. Two of the chief mate's party,
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 1: they said, had been killed, two more were prisoners, and
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 1: two who were acting as scouts perceiving what had happened,
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 1: had escaped. After firing their muskets and wounding one of
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 1: the Corsair's crew. They concluded this long narration with an
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 1: earnest request on the part of the magistrate and wounded
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: man that I might be instantly despatched to dress their wounds,
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 1: as there was no medical man near them. I was,
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: in consequence, ordered to prepare for my new task as
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 1: quick as possible. In vain did I remonstrate on the
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 1: cruelty of the measure and try to move their pity
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 1: by showing them the mangled and deplorable state in which
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 1: I was. I was told in reply that as much
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 1: care as possible should be taken not to hurt me
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: in moving, but that go I must. Seeing them resolved,
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 1: I prepared to comply. A mattress stretched on one of
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 1: the hatches was placed in the boat, and I was
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 1: lowered down upon it, and the party who had charge
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 1: of me, having received orders to be careful and gentle
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 1: in their usage, shoved off the boat and rowed towards shore.
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 1: End of Section three, Part three, Section four, Part four
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 1: A narrative, et cetera, et cetera. It was past two
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: in the morning before we reached the shore and landed
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 1: close to a house, where we found a horse and
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 1: a man in waiting for us. I was taken into
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 1: the house while they formed a sort of a litter
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 1: for me, with a bed fastened on the animal's back.
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: Upon this I was placed, and the party proceeded about
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 1: two miles and a half through a forest to the
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 1: magistrate's residence. On our arrival at the door, I was
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 1: taken off the litter, and the first object that at
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: my view was Sarafina, who rushed into my arms, crying,
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 1: for God's sake, take me, for they have just killed
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 1: my father, and burst into tears. The distress in which
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 1: she was made me conclude that he was dead. And
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 1: when I was carried into a miserable apartment meanly furnished,
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 1: I was met by her mother, to whom Sarapina exclaimed,
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 1: oh my dear mother, this is the good Englishman come
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 1: to cure my father. In the room, there were only
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 1: two beds and a leather bottomed chair. Upon one of
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 1: the beds was stretched the magistrate covered with blood, and
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 1: on the other the wounded pirate. Being placed by the
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 1: side of the former, I gave directions to have him stripped,
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 1: and then proceeded to examine his wound. One ball had
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 1: slightly fractured his left arm and passed into the shoulder,
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 1: and another had lodged in the arm. The latter I
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 1: easily extracted and reduced the fracture in the best manner
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 1: I was able and bound up the wound. The wife
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 1: and daughter remained silent but anxious spectators of my operations,
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 1: and when I had concluded, asked me if the old
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 1: man would survive, to which I gave a favorable answer,
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 1: and then dressed the wounds of the other sufferer. The house,
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 1: while I was attending to the wounded man, was thronged
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 1: with the villagers, part of whom had come from curiosity
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 1: to see me, and part to inquire after their magistrate.
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 1: During these operations, the pirates who had accompanied me had
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 1: been absent, but on their return, they told me that
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 1: they had been burying Pepe, one of their comrades, who
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 1: had been killed in the Rene Comtre. They had with
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 1: them the two prisoners they had taken, bound hand and foot,
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 1: and beside them on the ground were the bleeding corpses
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 1: of the other two, mangled in a dreadful manner. One
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 1: of these they threw across a horse, and taking the
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 1: two prisoners, they proceeded towards the beach, leaving four men
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 1: to take care of me. The prisoners were fastened on
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 1: each side of the horse to the dead body, and
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 1: in this manner they marched in triumph through the village
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 1: without being interfered with. After they were gone, I was
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 1: removed and placed on a bed in another room, where
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 1: Seraphina came to me. When I had related to her
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 1: how I had been reduced to my present miserable situation,
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 1: I reminded her of her promise and asked her if
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 1: her sentiments had undergone any change. She replied not at all,
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 1: but while her father's life remained in a state of uncertainty,
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 1: she could not bear the idea of leaving him, strong
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 1: as her affection for me was. And besides, she added
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: in your present state, you are unfit to perform so
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 1: long and so fatiguing a journey. I commended the first reason,
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 1: and acquiesced in the last, and told her that I should,
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 1: no doubt be frequently sent ashore to attend to her father,
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 1: who was in no real danger, and that a favorable
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 1: opportunity might offer on one of those visits. I begged her, therefore,
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 1: if she did really love me, to endeavor and make
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 1: such preparations that we might be enabled to go at
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: the shortest notice, adding at the same time that I
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 1: had been robbed of all my money and must depend
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 1: upon her for finding the means for our journey. Do
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 1: not let these considerations make you uneasy, cried she, pressing
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 1: my hand in the most affectionate manner and smiling in
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 1: my face. I have resolved to accompany you, and will
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 1: remove every obstacle in the best way I can. But
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 1: caution is necessary, and therefore you must learn to be
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 1: patient and not think me insincere, because my movements do
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 1: not keep pace with your wishes. The horses had now
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 1: returned from conveying the prisoners, and the men entering to
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 1: inform me of their arrival, interrupted our conversation, I bade
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 1: Saraphina adieu, and with a light heart, suffered them to
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 1: carry me to the litter, which was made the same
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 1: as formerly Before we set off. The magistrates sent word
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 1: to beg that I might be allowed to visit him
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 1: on the following day. The body of the other men
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 1: was now fastened across one of the horses, and the
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 1: party proceeded towards the beach. When we arrived at the
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 1: place where the boat was stationed, the dead body was
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 1: cut from the horse and flung into the sea. A
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 1: line was then fastened to the neck and attached to
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 1: the boat for the purpose of towing it into deep water,
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 1: where they intended to sink it, and had brought a
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 1: stone with them for that purpose. It was at this
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 1: time broad daylight, and we had scarce rowed a hundred
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 1: and fifty yards from the shore when we perceived a man,
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 1: closely pursued by the inhabitants, rushed towards the shore, plunge
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 1: into the sea, and swim after the boat. The crew
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 1: pulled towards him and took him in. On inquiry, he
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 1: proved to be one of the chief Mate's party, and
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 1: they deliberately told him that he must die, pointing out
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 1: to him. At the same time the mangled body of
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 1: his late associate. The poor wretch, seeing that he had
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 1: only escaped from one set of barbarians to fall into
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 1: the hands of a worse burst into an agony of
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 1: tears and implored them to have mercy on him. The inhabitants,
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 1: in the meantime demanded with loud cries that he should
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 1: be delivered up, and the boat returned apparently for that purpose.
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 1: But after some altercation they resolved to keep and murder
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 1: him themselves, and again left the shore with the determination
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 1: to torture him in the swampy passage, where they had
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 1: already destroyed one victim. When they had arrived at the
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 1: entrance of that pestiferous spot, they sunk the dead body
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 1: after inflicting some indignities upon it, and thence proceeded to
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 1: strip their lately acquired prisoner, whom they lashed on the boat,
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 1: gagged and pinioned, and pulled into the channel. The body
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 1: of the miserable being was soon covered with mosquitoes and
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 1: sand flies, and he writhed with the agony of their stings.
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 1: In this state. They carried him to where a tree
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 1: projected into the waters, on which they placed him blindfolded,
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 1: shot him, and then made the best of their way
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 1: to the Corsair. On their arrival, they exultingly told their
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 1: companions of their cruelty, not only what I had witnessed,
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 1: but what they had inflicted on the other two captives
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 1: whom I had seen bound at the magistrate's residence. These
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 1: poor wretches, they had fastened to trees and fired at
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 1: them as targets, and one monster boasted that he had
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 1: lost a bed of a doubloon because he had not
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 1: killed his man first. Weak and fatigued as I was
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 1: from want of rest, I was ordered to attend to
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 1: the sick on board. The wounded man I found was
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 1: now quite well, and I endeavored to impress upon his
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 1: mind that he owed his life entirely to my exertions,
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 1: which he verily believed, for he declared that I should
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 1: never want a friend while he was on board. Having
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 1: performed this office, I addressed my own wounds, which I
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 1: found less painful, and assuming a more favorable aspect. The
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 1: captain came in and examined them, and expressed a hope
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 1: that I should soon be able to make the sale
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 1: and go up aloft, which I told him I should
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 1: be able to do in three or four days. He
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 1: then questioned me on the subject of the magistrate's disaster,
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 1: and told me that I must pay every possible attention
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 1: to him, as he was a very worthy man and
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 1: his best friend. In order to lull his suspicions, I
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 1: pretended unwillingness to go so frequently ashore and recommended him
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 1: to send for a medical man. But he overruled my
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 1: objections and said that he was quite confident in my skill.
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 1: On this day, he was perfectly sober, which was seldom
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 1: the case, and he began to display a feeling of
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 1: kindness towards me. Remarked I must be fatigued, and recommended
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 1: me to take a few hours sleep, a recommendation that
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 1: I willingly followed, and slept till I was called up
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 1: to dinner. After dinner, I tried to continue making the sale,
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 1: with which he was highly pleased. I worked at it
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 1: till near nine in the evening, when he told me
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: that I had done enough and had better go to bed.
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 1: At five o'clock on the following morning, I resumed my labors,
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 1: and by breakfast time had got the hole put together.
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 1: After breakfast, I attended to the sick as usual, and
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 1: in the meantime the sale was hoisted up by the
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 1: captain's desire to see whether it would answer, and he
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 1: expressed himself highly pleased with it. In the afternoon I
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 1: was to visit the magistrate, but another event prevented me.
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 1: About eleven in the forenoon there was a cry of
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 1: a sail, and notwithstanding my wounds, I was ordered aloft
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 1: to look out and examine. With great torture and much difficulty,
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 1: I reached my post and discovered a ship close hauled,
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 1: standing towards land, with their larboard tax aboard, and having
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 1: the appearance of a merchantman. The moment I gave this information,
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 1: the schooner was got under way and proceeded in chase.
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 1: The motion of the vessel now became extremely painful to me,
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 1: and I came down on deck, which the captain no
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 1: sooner perceived than he rushed up to me and beat
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 1: me over the head and shoulders with the flat part
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 1: of a cutlass, exclaiming when I was on board an
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 1: english man of war. If I had come down without orders,
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 1: I should have got six dozen lashes and I will
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 1: serve you as your countrymen served me. I was then
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 1: forced up aloft a second time, and might have suffered
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 1: harsher usage but for the interference of some of the
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 1: officers who interposed between us. In a few minutes, the
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 1: Ruffian followed me up and told me to examine and
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 1: tell him what vessel she was. I endeavored to do
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 1: so as well as I could, and told him that
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 1: it was a Dutch vessel, which he imparted to his crew,
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 1: who gave three cheers. He himself was highly pleased at
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 1: the intelligence, called me a good fellow, expressed his sorrow
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 1: for maltreating me, and said the Dutch vessels were good prizes,
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 1: as they always carried specie to purchase their cargo. I
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 1: thought this a good opportunity to get released from my
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 1: painful situation, and asked his leave to go down on deck,
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 1: which he granted me. The Dutchman appeared suspicious of the
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 1: Corsair and now endeavored to bear away, but it was
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 1: too late for the pirates sailed very fast, and was
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 1: nearly up to him to decoy them. English colors were
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 1: run up and a gun fired, upon which they hauled
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 1: up their mainsail and tacked towards the corsair. The captain
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 1: suspected that they meant to resist, and therefore hauled his
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 1: wind until the Dutchman was within reach of the long gun,
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 1: which he fired at him, pulling down the English colors
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 1: and running up the red flag at the same time.
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 1: The shot struck close under his bows, and he instantly
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 1: laid aback the main topsail. When we were within hail,
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 1: I was ordered to hail her in English and desire
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 1: the captain to bring his papers on board. The Dutchmen
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 1: was rather slow in obeying the order, and a volley
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 1: of musketry was fired over their heads, which quickened their movements.
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 1: When they came on board, they exhibited symptoms of the
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 1: greatest terror, and their papers were taken from them and
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 1: given to me to examine. It was in vain for
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 1: me to plead ignorance of their language, as I was
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 1: compelled to know everything. I therefore pretended to read them
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 1: and attempted to guess at their contents. The captain of
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 1: the Dutchman was, in the meantime interrogated as to what
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 1: money he had on board, and the same threat held
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 1: out to him that had been held out to the
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 1: master of the Zephyr. The pirate then went on board
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 1: the Prize with a pilot and four of his crew,
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 1: leaving the Dutch captain a prisoner on board the schooner,
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 1: and immediately on his arrival, they made sail and both
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 1: vessels steered for the harbor, but were prevented by the
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 1: current from beating into the channel and anchored without the
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 1: reef for the night. Two carronades were then taken out
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 1: of her and brought on board the Corsair, and the
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 1: captain was ordered to go to his ship, where the
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 1: pirate wanted him. I was compelled to accompany him in
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 1: the boat, and as we approached, one of the pirates
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 1: on board threw a Dutch sailor into the sea. We
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 1: picked up the poor wretch, and the Dutch captain put
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 1: some question to him, at the reply to which they
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 1: all gave a dismal groan and exhibited the greatest terror
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 1: and distress. When we reached the ship, the captain was
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 1: ordered on deck first, which he no sooner reached than
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 1: he was knocked down and threatened with destruction if he
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 1: did not reveal where the money was concealed, And the
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 1: most dreadful threats made because he denied that there was
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 1: any I was then appealed to and asked if I
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 1: thought there was any I answered in the negative. This
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 1: seemed to pacify the pirate, who, however, said that he
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 1: would detain the vessel and discharge the cargo consisting of gin, butter, cheese,
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 1: and bales of canvas, and then burn her, and with
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 1: the most horrid imprecations, threatened the whole crew with death
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 1: if he found money afterwards. The mate of the vessel had,
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 1: during the pirate's stay on board, denied all knowledge of
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 1: the English language, and had no doubt by that artifice
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 1: escaped very many awkward questions of this circumstance. However, I
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 1: was not aware, and addressed some questions to him, which
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 1: he unwittingly answered me. His replies were overheard by the captain,
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 1: who always alive to suspicions, now suspected that he had
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 1: had some object in view in concealing his knowledge of
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 1: our language. I endeavored to protect the poor fellow, as
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 1: I had been the cause of his detection, by saying
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 1: that he spoke so badly that I could scarcely understand him,
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 1: and that therefore he had only spoken the truth. My
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 1: interferences saved his life, but did not secure him from blows,
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 1: of which he received his share. The suspicions of the
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 1: pirate had however, been roused, and nothing could persuade him
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 1: but that the whole of the crew under stood English
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 1: more or less. In consequence of this unfortunate circumstance, the
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 1: ship's cook underwent a great deal of rough usage and
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 1: ill treatment, because he could not answer in English to
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 1: some questions which were put to him, and which the captain,
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 1: who was drunk, insisted should be answered in that language.
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 1: At dusk I was sent on board the Corsair for
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 1: the night, which passed without any remarkable occurrence. At four
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 1: in the morning, the vessels weighed anchor and went to
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 1: the mouth of the channel, where they again brought to
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 1: and waited for the sea breeze, as they could not
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 1: enter without a leading wind. At ten o'clock the sea
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 1: breeze blew rather fresh, and they entered the harbor, where
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 1: the Corsair was brought to an anchor and the Dutch
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 1: ship run on shore. A boat was then dispatched for me,
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 1: and on my arrival, the captain, who had passed the
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 1: night on board, desired me to go below and dressed
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 1: the wounds of one of the pirates whom he had
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 1: punished for insolence during the night. When I went, I
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 1: found the man had received a very severe cut with
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 1: a sword on the side of the head, the wound
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 1: extending from the left temple to the ear. When I
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 1: had cleaned and dressed the wound, the fellow seemed very
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 1: grateful for my attention, and said that when he was well,
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 1: he would assist me to escape, But I was too
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 1: fearful of treachery to intimate a wish to that effect
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 1: to him. After dinner, I was sent ashore to the magistrate,
• 1:57:31
  Speaker 1: but on our way thither became an unwilling participant in
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 1: an unexpected rencontree. As our boat was approaching the entrance
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 1: of the narrow passage, which I have had occasion to
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 1: mention before, we perceived another with six men rowing rapidly
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 1: towards us from the shore. Our first idea was that
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 1: it was a man of war's boat, and the pirates
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 1: made immediate preparation for defense, being apparently determined to sell
• 1:57:59
  Speaker 1: their lives, very worried, dearly consulting me upon what mode
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 1: of fighting they should adopt, and insisting upon my being
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 1: their leader. One of the men, however, recognized the chief
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 1: mate as one of the party, and from their movements
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 1: it appeared they were going to attack us. Knowing that
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 1: indiscriminate slaughter would ensue and that I should suffer the
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 1: same as the rest, I consented to direct them how
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 1: to defend their boat, and while considering on the best
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 1: means of doing so, a musket was fired across our bows,
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 1: and signals made for us to go to them. No
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 1: time was to be lost, so I desired two of
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 1: the men to lie down in the boat with their blunderbusses,
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 1: and the other two to keep at the oars, having
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 1: theirs ready by them to use at a preconcerted signal. Then,
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 1: taking the helm in my hand, guided the boat direct
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 1: upon the others. When I found that the boat had
• 1:58:55
  Speaker 1: sufficient way upon her, I desired the rowers to desist
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 1: and take their weapons and be ready to jump into
• 1:59:01
  Speaker 1: the other with their cutlasses. The instant that they had
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 1: discharged their pieces. My instructions were fully obeyed, and the
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 1: result was in our favor. The suddenness of our attack
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 1: completely disconcerted them. Three of them fell by our fire.
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 1: The rest made but a feeble resistance, two of whom
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 1: were instantly massacred by the pirates, and the other leaped
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 1: into the sea, wounded as he was, and endeavored to
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 1: swim off, but was followed and taken. We only lost
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 1: one man, who received a ball in the head and
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 1: instantly expired. The unfortunate prisoner was interrogated as to the
• 1:59:39
  Speaker 1: cause that had induced him to join the chief mate
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 1: in his designs. He replied that he had left the
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 1: havana with no other view than to join the pirate,
• 1:59:49
  Speaker 1: but having heard on shore of the unprovoked slaughter of
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 1: their associates, they had determined to be revenged. When they
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 1: observed the corsair bring in her prize, they knew that
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 1: there would be frequent communications with the shore, and resolved
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 1: to cut off the boats seriatum as fast as they
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 1: were sent. He then declared that he had told them
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 1: the truth, and hoped that as he was not the
• 2:00:13
  Speaker 1: instigator of the deed, they would be satisfied with having
• 2:00:16
  Speaker 1: taken the lives of his companions and spare his own.
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 1: But the appeal was made in vain, for he was
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 1: almost instantaneously stabbed to the heart by one of the crew.
• 2:00:29
  Speaker 1: Thus did I become the unwilling actor in a scene
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 1: of blood, and assist, by my advice, in the destruction
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 1: of six of my fellow creatures. I did then, and
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 1: do now often reflect upon it with horror, but I
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 1: had no alternative, and must have been massacred myself had
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 1: I not complied with the mandates of the ferocious wretches,
• 2:00:49
  Speaker 1: among whom it was the misfortune of my life to
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 1: be thrown. On our arrival on shore, A hole was
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 1: dug and the murdered man buried. I was then placed
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 1: upon a litter as before, and taken to the magistrate's house.
• 2:01:05
  Speaker 1: Sarafina and her mother met me at the door, and
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 1: seemed rejoiced to see me, particularly the former. I found
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 1: the old man in a very favorable state, and, having
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 1: dressed his wounds and informed his wife and daughter that
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 1: there was no danger to be apprehended, retired to another room,
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 1: where Sarafina joined me to my inquiries. She told me
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 1: that she had made preparations for our departure and had
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 1: engaged a guide who had undertaken to conduct us for
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 1: a hundred dollars, and that in eight or ten days
• 2:01:38
  Speaker 1: we should be able to proceed. She was in raptures
• 2:01:42
  Speaker 1: at the prospect of going to England, but not more
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 1: so than myself. The prize master had been instructed to
• 2:01:49
  Speaker 1: remain as short a time as possible on shore, and
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 1: seeing that I had performed the service upon which I
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 1: had been sent, informed me he was waiting for me.
• 2:01:59
  Speaker 1: I begged a short delay, which he with much and
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 1: evidently sincere regret, denied his ability to grant, and I
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 1: was consequently compelled to take an unwilling leave of my
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 1: fair consoler. No accident befell us on our return, and
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 1: as soon as we had arrived, the whole affair of
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 1: our rene contree was detailed to the captain, who had
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 1: been alarmed at the firing, and the success of it
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 1: entirely attributed to the advice and skill of the Englishman.
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 1: The captain appeared displeased when we first came on board,
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 1: but this intelligence pleased him, and he told me that
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 1: he had intended to punish me very severely for having
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 1: told the Dutchman that he was a pirate, but on
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 1: account of the services which I had rendered his boat's crew,
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 1: he should forgive me and look it over. Yet if
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 1: ever I did so again, nothing should save me. I
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 1: now advanced more and more in the pirate's confidence, and
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 1: hoped that this would at some time be favorable to
• 2:03:00
  Speaker 1: my intended attempt to escape. Two small coasting schooners which
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 1: the captain had seized for the purpose, were at this
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 1: time receiving the prize's cargo on board to convey to
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 1: the Havana for sale, and I was ordered to go
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 1: and take account of it, as well as to superintend
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 1: the unlading and make the Dutch sailors work by two
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning, until which time they kept constantly
• 2:03:26
  Speaker 1: at work. The lading of the schooners was completed and
• 2:03:29
  Speaker 1: I returned on board to sleep. The following morning was
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 1: a dead calm, and the sails of the Dutch ship
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 1: were all unbent and her top gallant masts sent down
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 1: over deck. About nine o'clock a breeze sprung up from
• 2:03:44
  Speaker 1: the east, and soon after a large schooner hove in sight.
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 1: I was ordered to the mast head as usual to
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 1: examine her, and reported her to be a large coasting
• 2:03:54
  Speaker 1: schooner very full of men. The whole of the Dutch
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 1: vessel's crew were then ordered on board, with the exception
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 1: of the captain, cook, the carpenter who was lame, and
• 2:04:06
  Speaker 1: the little boy. Several guns were brought up out of
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 1: the hold and the ship prepared for action. The captain
• 2:04:13
  Speaker 1: then went aloft himself and soon discovered the schooner to
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 1: be an old acquaintance, a fellow pirate. He, however, suspected
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 1: the peaceful disposition of the approaching Corsair and asked me,
• 2:04:25
  Speaker 1: in case of attack, whether it would be prudent for
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 1: him to remain at anchor. I answered in the negative,
• 2:04:32
  Speaker 1: and the vessel was got under way, and the Dutchmen
• 2:04:35
  Speaker 1: informed that they would be expected to take an active
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 1: share in the engagement. They remonstrated and some even cried
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 1: at the mandate, but this only produced blows, and they
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 1: were obliged to take their station at the guns. The schooner,
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 1: having hove to in a wide passage through which the
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 1: Stranger was to pass, awaited her arrival. As she drew near,
• 2:04:58
  Speaker 1: we perceived a white flat at the masthead as an
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 1: amicable signal, which was answered by the red flag at
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 1: the foretop masthead, and a Spanish ensign at the peak,
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 1: upon which the other hoisted out and dispatched a boat
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 1: with five men. When about musket shot from us, they paused,
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 1: as if in doubt, and the helmsman waved a white flag,
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 1: to which the captain replied with a white handkerchief and
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 1: beckoned him on board. The boats then came alongside. The
• 2:05:29
  Speaker 1: two captains recognized each other, and the strangers smiled at
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 1: our warlike preparations. Both vessels then stood into the harbor
• 2:05:38
  Speaker 1: and came to anchor, and were no sooner moored than
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 1: the officers of the other came on board the Corsair
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 1: and were well entertained before they proceeded to corrouse. The
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 1: captain informed me, I must go on shore to the
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 1: magistrate and take with me such medicines as I thought
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 1: he might require for the next four or five days,
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 1: as he should convoy the two small schooners with the
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 1: Dutchman's cargo on their way to the Havana, and should
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 1: not return for that time. I willingly obeyed this order
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 1: and was conveyed in the usual manner on shore and
• 2:06:14
  Speaker 1: from thence to the village. After dressing the old man's wounds,
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 1: I had an interview as usual with Sarafina. I informed
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 1: her of the probability of my being absent for some days,
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 1: and begged her to expedite the preparations for our departure.
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 1: In the meantime, she was proceeding to assure me of
• 2:06:33
  Speaker 1: her willingness to do everything in her power, when a
• 2:06:36
  Speaker 1: hasty messenger arrived and brought orders for my instant return
• 2:06:40
  Speaker 1: to the Corsair in consequence of an alarming accident on board.
• 2:06:45
  Speaker 1: When I arrived, I found that the whole party had
• 2:06:48
  Speaker 1: got extremely intoxicated and the cry of a sail being made.
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 1: The captain of the Stranger had gone up into the
• 2:06:54
  Speaker 1: rigging of his own ship to look out, and having
• 2:06:57
  Speaker 1: lost his hold, had fallen on deck and was much bruised.
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 1: He seemed dreadfully alarmed, but I pacified him, telling him
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 1: that there was no danger, and having bled him, put
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 1: him to bed. He was very grateful for what I did,
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 1: and offered to exert his interest for my release. As
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 1: I knew the application would be fruitless and might lead
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 1: to ill treatment, I declined it. He then offered me money,
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 1: which I also refused. The Corsair now came to visit him,
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 1: and the other begged I might be allowed to remain
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 1: with him. For this cruise until he was recovered, pledging
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 1: his word to bring me safe back, but the other
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 1: refused on the plea that he could not spare me.
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 1: After we had supped, the captain returned to his own vessel,
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 1: taking me with him. Although during the day they had
• 2:07:50
  Speaker 1: been upon the most friendly terms, and the stranger had
• 2:07:53
  Speaker 1: received large presents of cheese, gin, butter, and even sails
• 2:07:57
  Speaker 1: and spars, and almost everything he might have deemed necessary.
• 2:08:01
  Speaker 1: Yet so suspicious was the pirate of the other, having
• 2:08:05
  Speaker 1: some sinister design upon him, that he took every precautionary
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 1: measure in his power. Springs were put on his cable,
• 2:08:12
  Speaker 1: the watch was doubled, the guns loaded, and the men
• 2:08:16
  Speaker 1: ordered to lie with their arms upon the deck, which
• 2:08:19
  Speaker 1: was cleared as if for immediate action. Whether it was
• 2:08:23
  Speaker 1: that the other had really had any hostile designs upon
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 1: the Corsair and was prevented from putting them into execution
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 1: by the activity and watchfulness of his rival, or that
• 2:08:33
  Speaker 1: the suspicions of the captain were unjust or ill founded,
• 2:08:37
  Speaker 1: I do not know. But both parties remained tranquil for
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 1: the night, although both appeared to be on their guard.
• 2:08:46
  Speaker 1: End of Section four, Part four, Section five, Part five
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 1: A narrative, et cetera, et cetera. In the morning, I
• 2:08:57
  Speaker 1: visited my new patient in the other vessel, who very
• 2:09:00
  Speaker 1: carefully offered to do all he could in his power
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 1: for me. The captain arrived soon after, having been sent
• 2:09:07
  Speaker 1: for by him, and I was very warmly recommended to
• 2:09:10
  Speaker 1: his good graces. Both vessels, in a short time began
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 1: to prepare for their respective cruises, and the two pirates
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 1: now took leave of one another, and the captain and
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 1: myself returned on board our own schooner, after having left
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 1: four of the crew as a guard in the prize,
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 1: her own crew being on board the Corsair. The pirate
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 1: proceeded on his voyage to the Havana, accompanied by the
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 1: two small schooners. All three stood up within the reef
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 1: till the afternoon, when we discovered a small schooner rigged
• 2:09:44
  Speaker 1: vessel very full of men, coming down towards us. As
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 1: she was too insignificant to cause any apprehension, the captain
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 1: kept on his course until within gunshot, and fired to
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 1: bring her too. A boat was then dispatched on board
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 1: with ten of the dutchmen armed with orders to search
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 1: for arms and ammunition, but on no account to injure
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 1: the people on board of her. In boarding her, the
• 2:10:13
  Speaker 1: Dutchmen drew their swords, which so alarmed some of the
• 2:10:16
  Speaker 1: Spaniards that they jumped overboard, at which the captain, who
• 2:10:19
  Speaker 1: was watching them with a glass, laughed most heartily, pointing
• 2:10:23
  Speaker 1: them out to me. He had the humanity, however, to
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 1: dispatch another boat to their assistance, and the prize master,
• 2:10:32
  Speaker 1: who went on this last service informed us when he
• 2:10:35
  Speaker 1: returned that he knew most of the people on board,
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 1: who were inhabitants of some of the villages along the coast.
• 2:10:42
  Speaker 1: At dusk, the convoy anchored for the night, and at
• 2:10:45
  Speaker 1: daybreak again pursued their voyage. We had proceeded but a
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 1: very little way when we perceived a large schooner on
• 2:10:53
  Speaker 1: the outer edge of the reef, and I was sent
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 1: to my usual post on such occasions to reconnoiter. She
• 2:11:01
  Speaker 1: proved to be a merchantman, and as the wind was light,
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 1: sweeps were got out to go in chase of her.
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 1: We were approaching her very fast when we observed that
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 1: she had dispatched a small canoe with three men towards
• 2:11:14
  Speaker 1: the shore. The captain no sooner perceived this than he
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 1: manned and dispatched a boat in pursuit, as he conjectured
• 2:11:23
  Speaker 1: that they had specie on board. Having taken this measure,
• 2:11:27
  Speaker 1: he hoisted the red flag and fired a gun at
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 1: the schooner to bring her too. She immediately wore round
• 2:11:35
  Speaker 1: and hoisted Spanish colors, which made the pirate believe she
• 2:11:38
  Speaker 1: would engage him. He cleared the vessel for action accordingly,
• 2:11:42
  Speaker 1: and fired a second shot with intent to strike her,
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 1: but it fell short, though well directed. The stranger now
• 2:11:50
  Speaker 1: hauled down her colors and hove too, and the pirate
• 2:11:53
  Speaker 1: hailed and ordered the captain on board with his papers.
• 2:11:57
  Speaker 1: On his arrival on board, they recognized one another his
• 2:12:00
  Speaker 1: old friends, and when the pirate asked him what had
• 2:12:03
  Speaker 1: induced him to dispatch his canoe ashore, he found by
• 2:12:06
  Speaker 1: the reply that his conjecture had been true. The stranger
• 2:12:11
  Speaker 1: had taken him for a Carthaginian privateer, and had sent
• 2:12:14
  Speaker 1: what little money he had on board away. The boat
• 2:12:18
  Speaker 1: in the meantime had gained upon the canoe, and, having
• 2:12:21
  Speaker 1: fired wantonly too a volley of musketry at her, had
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 1: compelled the rowers to stop. But no mischief, fortunately had ensued.
• 2:12:31
  Speaker 1: After an interchange of civilities, the captain of the Stranger returned,
• 2:12:36
  Speaker 1: taking with him two cases of gin and half a
• 2:12:38
  Speaker 1: dozen cheeses as a present. At night, we anchored in
• 2:12:43
  Speaker 1: a small bay called by the Spaniards Morillia, about two
• 2:12:47
  Speaker 1: leagues southwest of the Bay of nda As there were
• 2:12:51
  Speaker 1: several piratical row boats that frequently capture small vessels, and
• 2:12:56
  Speaker 1: infested the latter place. The pirate did not think his
• 2:13:00
  Speaker 1: out of danger until they had passed it, and therefore
• 2:13:03
  Speaker 1: accompanied them thus far, and then giving them in charge
• 2:13:07
  Speaker 1: of the prize, Master returned towards the harbor, which we
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 1: reached on the following evening. On his arrival there, he
• 2:13:17
  Speaker 1: ran the Corsair alongside the Dutch prize, and, having taken
• 2:13:20
  Speaker 1: out her guns and stores, had her hove down to
• 2:13:23
  Speaker 1: repair some trifling damage done to her coppering, upon which
• 2:13:27
  Speaker 1: the Dutch carpenter and the one belonging to the pirate
• 2:13:31
  Speaker 1: were jointly employed. On the following afternoon, while they were
• 2:13:35
  Speaker 1: thus occupied and the Corsair was defenseless, an American sloop
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 1: of war hove in sight and stood close along the
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 1: outer edge of the reef. I felt confident that she
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 1: would send in her boats to attack the pirates, and
• 2:13:50
  Speaker 1: tremble between hope and fear. Hope because that event might
• 2:13:55
  Speaker 1: procure me my liberty, and fear lest being found among
• 2:13:59
  Speaker 1: this horde of miscres, my tale should be disbelieved, and
• 2:14:02
  Speaker 1: myself confounded with them and subjected to the same ignominious
• 2:14:06
  Speaker 1: and disgraceful end. That she could not see the pirates
• 2:14:11
  Speaker 1: and distinctly discern all their movements, I will never believe,
• 2:14:15
  Speaker 1: for I could plainly perceive her men and officers walking
• 2:14:18
  Speaker 1: the deck. Nay, so apprehensive were the pirates that they
• 2:14:22
  Speaker 1: would be attacked that they all gathered round and entreated
• 2:14:25
  Speaker 1: the captain to right the schooner and take measures of defense.
• 2:14:29
  Speaker 1: The captain, however, appeared to know his man and to
• 2:14:33
  Speaker 1: hold him in thorough contempt. When I see them hoist
• 2:14:36
  Speaker 1: out their boats, cried he, I will believe they are
• 2:14:40
  Speaker 1: in earnest. But the Americans always boast more than they perform,
• 2:14:44
  Speaker 1: and they will not attempt to attack us. Were they English,
• 2:14:47
  Speaker 1: I should be afraid his conclusions were just, for the
• 2:14:53
  Speaker 1: American took no notice whatever, and very quietly pursued his
• 2:14:57
  Speaker 1: way with them. Ceased my hopes and my apprehensions, but
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 1: Sarafina appeared to me in the shape of my delivering angel.
• 2:15:06
  Speaker 1: In the course of the afternoon, I went on shore
• 2:15:08
  Speaker 1: to visit her father, whom I found much better, and,
• 2:15:12
  Speaker 1: having discharged my duty towards him, had my usual interview
• 2:15:16
  Speaker 1: with my fair and amiable friend. Her eyes and her
• 2:15:21
  Speaker 1: countenance beamed love and joy when she entered the room,
• 2:15:24
  Speaker 1: and I immediately perceived that she had some welcome intelligence
• 2:15:28
  Speaker 1: to communicate I have arranged all, cried she, passionately, throwing
• 2:15:33
  Speaker 1: herself into my arms. The guide is in readiness, and
• 2:15:37
  Speaker 1: it only remains for us to fix the time and
• 2:15:39
  Speaker 1: find the opportunity. I clasped the dear, lovely creature in
• 2:15:44
  Speaker 1: my arms. I was too agitated to speak, and while
• 2:15:48
  Speaker 1: I held her to my heart, shed over her tears
• 2:15:50
  Speaker 1: of joy and gratitude. She was the first who recovered
• 2:15:55
  Speaker 1: her self, possession and blushing to find herself in that situation.
• 2:16:00
  Speaker 1: Gently disengaged herself from my arms and advised me to
• 2:16:03
  Speaker 1: be on my guard and not let anyone see my emotion.
• 2:16:07
  Speaker 1: Do not be so agitated, cried she. The time is
• 2:16:10
  Speaker 1: short and we have much to think of. Therefore, let
• 2:16:14
  Speaker 1: us make the most of it to render our plans effective.
• 2:16:18
  Speaker 1: After many schemes had been proposed and rejected by turns,
• 2:16:22
  Speaker 1: it was agreed that I should come over late on
• 2:16:25
  Speaker 1: the second evening under pretense of performing some surgical operation
• 2:16:29
  Speaker 1: on her father. That she would, in the meantime have
• 2:16:32
  Speaker 1: the horses and guide in waiting at a short distance,
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 1: and take every precaution to prevent a discovery. Our conversation
• 2:16:40
  Speaker 1: was now interrupted by the entrance of several villagers, who,
• 2:16:44
  Speaker 1: having heard of my cures, had come to me for
• 2:16:46
  Speaker 1: medical advice. As I was cautious of giving umbrage to
• 2:16:50
  Speaker 1: the captain, I declined giving any advice without his consent, and,
• 2:16:55
  Speaker 1: to avoid importunity, told the prize master, who always accompanied
• 2:16:59
  Speaker 1: me as a guard, that I was ready to return
• 2:17:02
  Speaker 1: on board the schooner. On our arrival at the vessel,
• 2:17:06
  Speaker 1: we found a boat alongside, belonging to the magistrate of
• 2:17:09
  Speaker 1: a village about ten miles off, who had sent to
• 2:17:13
  Speaker 1: beg some gin, cheese and other articles from the pirate.
• 2:17:19
  Speaker 1: Anxious to keep on good terms at all times with
• 2:17:21
  Speaker 1: these authorities, the boat was laden with presents and sent back.
• 2:17:26
  Speaker 1: Can it be a matter of surprise that these miscreants
• 2:17:29
  Speaker 1: have committed their lawless depredations for so long a time,
• 2:17:33
  Speaker 1: and with such impunity, when the very men whose duty
• 2:17:36
  Speaker 1: it was to extirpate them were daily encouraging them. When
• 2:17:40
  Speaker 1: the pirate could boast that the magistrate was his friend,
• 2:17:43
  Speaker 1: and receive, in the face of all the laws of
• 2:17:45
  Speaker 1: his country and of nations, such proofs of his friendship
• 2:17:49
  Speaker 1: as to be enabled to thwart all hostile measures adopted
• 2:17:52
  Speaker 1: against him. European nations may send out their crusades against them,
• 2:17:57
  Speaker 1: But while the execution of the laws is play in
• 2:18:00
  Speaker 1: such hands, while pirates plunder and the magistrates and his
• 2:18:04
  Speaker 1: mermidan share, all their efforts will be vain, and like
• 2:18:09
  Speaker 1: the hydra, when they destroy one head, a fresh one
• 2:18:12
  Speaker 1: will supply its place. The night passed without any particular occurrence,
• 2:18:19
  Speaker 1: and in the morning the American sloop of war again
• 2:18:21
  Speaker 1: hove in sight. The Corsair's repairs had been completed the
• 2:18:26
  Speaker 1: preceding day, and she had been righted. The captain, therefore,
• 2:18:30
  Speaker 1: out of bravado, said, as the Yankee will not come
• 2:18:33
  Speaker 1: to me, I will go to him. I certainly expected
• 2:18:38
  Speaker 1: that the experiment would cost him dear, but of his
• 2:18:41
  Speaker 1: real object I was not aware until we had got
• 2:18:44
  Speaker 1: without the reef. Having attracted the attention of the American
• 2:18:48
  Speaker 1: and induced him to chase the Corsair, he ran into
• 2:18:51
  Speaker 1: an intricate channel with the hopes of destroying him on
• 2:18:54
  Speaker 1: the rocks. This he could do with impunity, as the
• 2:18:58
  Speaker 1: pilots were well acquainted with every part of the reef.
• 2:19:02
  Speaker 1: He made the experiment three or four times, but the
• 2:19:05
  Speaker 1: American was too wary and perceived his object. I thought
• 2:19:11
  Speaker 1: at least that after this he would send in his boats,
• 2:19:14
  Speaker 1: but no, he took no further notice of him, and
• 2:19:17
  Speaker 1: stood quietly on, although the pirate had actually fired at
• 2:19:20
  Speaker 1: him and insulted his flag. In the evening, I finished
• 2:19:25
  Speaker 1: the sale which I had commenced some time before, at
• 2:19:28
  Speaker 1: which I worked till bedtime, and then stretched myself on
• 2:19:32
  Speaker 1: my mattress in anxious expectation of the day that was
• 2:19:36
  Speaker 1: to restore me to liberty and deliver me from the
• 2:19:38
  Speaker 1: hands of these miscreants. The greatest part of the night
• 2:19:42
  Speaker 1: was passed in sleepless agitation between hope and fear, weighing
• 2:19:47
  Speaker 1: in my mind every obstacle that might arise to oppose
• 2:19:50
  Speaker 1: my escape, and the means to obviate them. Towards morning,
• 2:19:55
  Speaker 1: I sunk into a profound sleep, from which I did
• 2:19:58
  Speaker 1: not wake till to visit the sick The wished for
• 2:20:03
  Speaker 1: and important moment was now fast approaching, and I told
• 2:20:07
  Speaker 1: the pirate that I should want to go on shore
• 2:20:09
  Speaker 1: to perform some necessary operations upon the magistrate. After some
• 2:20:14
  Speaker 1: trifling questions, leave was granted, and at five in the evening,
• 2:20:19
  Speaker 1: with a beating heart, I descended the Corsair's side, as
• 2:20:22
  Speaker 1: I hoped for the last time. On our arrival at
• 2:20:26
  Speaker 1: the house, I found my reception unusually cold and formal.
• 2:20:31
  Speaker 1: The mother looked at me with an air of anger
• 2:20:33
  Speaker 1: and distrust, and Seraphina stood behind her, pale and her
• 2:20:37
  Speaker 1: cheeks bathed in tears. The moment she caught my eye,
• 2:20:41
  Speaker 1: she made a signal to me to be silent, and
• 2:20:44
  Speaker 1: in the most anxious agitation, I passed into the sick
• 2:20:47
  Speaker 1: man's chamber. Well, Sir said he, I have detected you
• 2:20:52
  Speaker 1: in your base and nefarious plans. My presence of mind
• 2:20:57
  Speaker 1: did not forsake me. I pretended not to understand, and
• 2:21:00
  Speaker 1: with an assumed appearance of alarm and surprise, exclaimed, good sir,
• 2:21:06
  Speaker 1: I hope you are not delirious I hope your wound
• 2:21:09
  Speaker 1: has not taken an unfavorable turn, and taking him by
• 2:21:13
  Speaker 1: the pulse, immediately pulled out a lancet, saying I must
• 2:21:17
  Speaker 1: bleed him as he was in a high fever. The
• 2:21:21
  Speaker 1: coolness and presence of mind with which I uttered this
• 2:21:24
  Speaker 1: completely staggered him, and he actually seemed to believe himself
• 2:21:28
  Speaker 1: to be delirious, and that all was the effect of
• 2:21:30
  Speaker 1: a disordered mind. He then asked me if I had
• 2:21:34
  Speaker 1: made such proposals to his daughter. Sir, I replied, with
• 2:21:39
  Speaker 1: my former coolness, Your suspicions are an insult to your daughter,
• 2:21:44
  Speaker 1: for had I been bold and villainous enough to have
• 2:21:47
  Speaker 1: made such a proposal, she would have rejected it with contempt,
• 2:21:51
  Speaker 1: and been the first to have informed you of it. Sarafina,
• 2:21:56
  Speaker 1: who had been listening, now entered the room, and he
• 2:21:59
  Speaker 1: addressed himself to her, and she boldly and with an
• 2:22:02
  Speaker 1: indignant air, denied the accusation. What exclaimed the astonished father
• 2:22:09
  Speaker 1: did not the very guide you hired inform me, Sir, replied, she,
• 2:22:15
  Speaker 1: bursting into tears. That guide, as you call him, is
• 2:22:18
  Speaker 1: a base and infamous wretch, and I will no longer
• 2:22:22
  Speaker 1: screen him from your displeasure. He met me in the
• 2:22:25
  Speaker 1: forest the other day and took some very indecent liberties
• 2:22:28
  Speaker 1: with me, and because I threatened to make it known
• 2:22:31
  Speaker 1: to you, declared he would tell you that I wanted
• 2:22:34
  Speaker 1: to elope with the Englishman, that I highly esteem him.
• 2:22:38
  Speaker 1: I do not deny, and it would be ungrateful if
• 2:22:41
  Speaker 1: I did not. After he has saved your life. Here
• 2:22:45
  Speaker 1: she sobbed loudly, and the old magistrate so completely believed
• 2:22:49
  Speaker 1: her that the mother was called in and all matters
• 2:22:53
  Speaker 1: amicably settled, the old man vowing vengeance against the rascally guide.
• 2:22:58
  Speaker 1: The report of my intention to escape had, however, transpired,
• 2:23:02
  Speaker 1: and as mine not performing any operation on the magistrate
• 2:23:06
  Speaker 1: might give a color to it, I thought proper to
• 2:23:09
  Speaker 1: bleed him, telling him that his blood was in a
• 2:23:11
  Speaker 1: bad state and required it. Sarafina took an opportunity of
• 2:23:17
  Speaker 1: informing me that the guide she had engaged had insisted
• 2:23:20
  Speaker 1: upon having fifty dollars in advance, and having paid it him,
• 2:23:24
  Speaker 1: he had no sooner received the money than he basely
• 2:23:27
  Speaker 1: betrayed her secret. She told me, however, that she would
• 2:23:31
  Speaker 1: endeavor to obtain a more faithful one, and in the
• 2:23:35
  Speaker 1: meantime begged I would place the utmost reliance on her
• 2:23:38
  Speaker 1: exertions and on her discretion. She had now given such
• 2:23:42
  Speaker 1: proofs of her sincerity as well as of her firmness,
• 2:23:46
  Speaker 1: that I did not doubt her. And although I left
• 2:23:49
  Speaker 1: her disappointed, still I was not hopeless. I saw that
• 2:23:54
  Speaker 1: my attendants were grown excessively suspicious of me, and watched
• 2:23:58
  Speaker 1: my motions closely, but I took no notice of it,
• 2:24:01
  Speaker 1: and proceeded as usual to the boat. One thing, however,
• 2:24:06
  Speaker 1: threw a gloom over my mind. The captain had declared
• 2:24:10
  Speaker 1: that when my services were no longer wanted, he would
• 2:24:13
  Speaker 1: kill me, as it would be dangerous to let me escape.
• 2:24:16
  Speaker 1: Now I had obtained a knowledge of the reefs, for
• 2:24:20
  Speaker 1: I should lead the Englishmen of war there. This proposal
• 2:24:24
  Speaker 1: had been rejected by the prize Master and some of
• 2:24:27
  Speaker 1: the crew, whose good will I had gained. This intelligence
• 2:24:32
  Speaker 1: I had received in confidence from the cook, and I
• 2:24:35
  Speaker 1: now dreaded that this report would afford a pretext for
• 2:24:38
  Speaker 1: my murder. The captain's behavior, however, was different from what
• 2:24:43
  Speaker 1: I expected. At first, he was violent, but on my
• 2:24:47
  Speaker 1: repeating Seraphina's statement to the magistrate and the prize Master,
• 2:24:51
  Speaker 1: confirming mine of having bled the old man. He became pacified,
• 2:24:55
  Speaker 1: but declared that the magistrate must come to me for
• 2:24:58
  Speaker 1: the future. He then ordered me to go below to bed.
• 2:25:03
  Speaker 1: On the following day, the crew were chiefly employed in
• 2:25:07
  Speaker 1: lading boats sent by the priests and magistrates of the
• 2:25:10
  Speaker 1: different villages with gin cheeses and other presents, and nothing
• 2:25:15
  Speaker 1: of consequence occurred. On the day after the other prize
• 2:25:20
  Speaker 1: master returned from the Havana with a merchant schooner, the
• 2:25:23
  Speaker 1: owner of which was come to purchase the remainder of
• 2:25:26
  Speaker 1: the dutchman's cargo. The assassin, who had been dispatched to
• 2:25:30
  Speaker 1: murder mister Lumsden, returned on board of her and reported
• 2:25:34
  Speaker 1: that his intended victim had sailed some time before his arrival.
• 2:25:38
  Speaker 1: The schooner was loaded in the course of that day,
• 2:25:41
  Speaker 1: and on my making up the account of the purchase,
• 2:25:44
  Speaker 1: the captain desired me to tell the crew that the
• 2:25:46
  Speaker 1: amount was eight hundred dollars less than it really was,
• 2:25:50
  Speaker 1: with a threat to murder me if I betrayed the secret.
• 2:25:54
  Speaker 1: On the following morning, the schooner, having completed her cargo,
• 2:25:58
  Speaker 1: sailed for the Havana and was convoyed by the pirate
• 2:26:01
  Speaker 1: as far as the Mourilia, when he left her to
• 2:26:04
  Speaker 1: proceed by herself and anchored in the bay. On that afternoon,
• 2:26:09
  Speaker 1: the third mate of the Corsair left the vessel to
• 2:26:12
  Speaker 1: proceed over land on a party of pleasure, and was
• 2:26:15
  Speaker 1: to stop for that evening at a small village called Kavancas.
• 2:26:20
  Speaker 1: I have reason to believe, however, that it was something
• 2:26:22
  Speaker 1: more than a mere party of pleasure that had taken
• 2:26:25
  Speaker 1: him to the Havana. The succeeding day presented another scene
• 2:26:30
  Speaker 1: of atrocity and murder. In the morning, while at anchor,
• 2:26:34
  Speaker 1: a sail was discovered in the offing, and in order
• 2:26:37
  Speaker 1: to alter the sailing of the schooner, the crew were
• 2:26:40
  Speaker 1: employed in removing some of the ballast more aft. In
• 2:26:45
  Speaker 1: this place, the French cook of the Dutch Prize was
• 2:26:47
  Speaker 1: placed for security, as since his capture, the ill treatment
• 2:26:51
  Speaker 1: which he had undergone and terror combined had affected his
• 2:26:55
  Speaker 1: mind and he had shown evident symptoms of insanity. In
• 2:27:00
  Speaker 1: human wretches teased the poor maniac until they made him rave,
• 2:27:04
  Speaker 1: and in his frenzy he caught hold of a hatchet
• 2:27:06
  Speaker 1: and wounded one of his tormentors. The blow was no
• 2:27:11
  Speaker 1: sooner given than the rest plunged their knives into his
• 2:27:14
  Speaker 1: body and threw him overboard, while yet breathing, accompanying their
• 2:27:18
  Speaker 1: barbarity with most horrid expressions. I was on the top
• 2:27:22
  Speaker 1: during this scene, but was called down to dress the
• 2:27:24
  Speaker 1: wounded man. Having performed this task, I returned to my station,
• 2:27:30
  Speaker 1: but the morning was hazy and it was long before
• 2:27:32
  Speaker 1: I could obtain a distinct view of the stranger. The captain, however,
• 2:27:37
  Speaker 1: had been up and ascertained her to be an English
• 2:27:40
  Speaker 1: brig with full quarters and a white streak. The vessel
• 2:27:45
  Speaker 1: was then got under way and the deck cleared for action.
• 2:27:50
  Speaker 1: While this was doing, the gunner informed him that there
• 2:27:53
  Speaker 1: were not cartridges enough made up for a long action
• 2:27:56
  Speaker 1: should she resist, and the novel task was assigned to
• 2:27:59
  Speaker 1: me to assist in making more. While thus employed, another
• 2:28:04
  Speaker 1: vessel was seen, and I was called up to look
• 2:28:07
  Speaker 1: at her. She also proved to be an English brig.
• 2:28:11
  Speaker 1: The vessel of which we were in chase, however, still
• 2:28:13
  Speaker 1: continued her course and took no notice of the corsair.
• 2:28:17
  Speaker 1: Although several guns had been fired and American colors hoisted,
• 2:28:22
  Speaker 1: the captain was furious and ordered another gun to be fired,
• 2:28:25
  Speaker 1: of which she took no notice. The wind was light,
• 2:28:29
  Speaker 1: and sweeps were then ordered out to gain upon her.
• 2:28:33
  Speaker 1: As we approached, the long gun was shotted and fired,
• 2:28:36
  Speaker 1: which produced the desired effect, and the brig brought two
• 2:28:41
  Speaker 1: The American colors were then hauled down and the red
• 2:28:44
  Speaker 1: flag hoisted, and the boat let down to board her.
• 2:28:48
  Speaker 1: Six armed men were ordered into her for that purpose,
• 2:28:52
  Speaker 1: and myself and a pilot directed to accompany them. I
• 2:28:57
  Speaker 1: wished to avoid this unpleasant duty, but on appearing to hesitate,
• 2:29:01
  Speaker 1: I was threatened with a repetition of the cruelties I
• 2:29:04
  Speaker 1: had already undergone. With a bursting heart, I complied and
• 2:29:10
  Speaker 1: was enjoined with the most dreadful threats to hold no
• 2:29:14
  Speaker 1: communication with the captain or crew, while the pilot was
• 2:29:17
  Speaker 1: directed to throw the former overboard, and when he had
• 2:29:21
  Speaker 1: tacked the brig towards shore, to send me back on
• 2:29:26
  Speaker 1: our way. I prevailed upon the pilot, with whom I
• 2:29:29
  Speaker 1: had some influence, to disobey the dreadful mandate. When we
• 2:29:33
  Speaker 1: reached her, we were met by the captain of the
• 2:29:36
  Speaker 1: brig at the gangway, who asked us who and what
• 2:29:39
  Speaker 1: we were, to which I was obliged to give an
• 2:29:42
  Speaker 1: evasive answer by saying that the Corsair was a privateer.
• 2:29:47
  Speaker 1: After we had been on board the brig a short
• 2:29:50
  Speaker 1: time and had tacked her towards the shore, a musket
• 2:29:53
  Speaker 1: was fired from the Corsair, and I was desired by
• 2:29:56
  Speaker 1: the pilot to tell the captain and his crew to
• 2:29:59
  Speaker 1: go into the boat and go on board the pirate.
• 2:30:03
  Speaker 1: The captain, who had been regarding me steadfastly for some time,
• 2:30:07
  Speaker 1: now claimed acquaintance with me. His face appeared familiar to me,
• 2:30:11
  Speaker 1: I must confess, but his name I did not know,
• 2:30:15
  Speaker 1: And being well aware that all my motions were watched,
• 2:30:19
  Speaker 1: I deemed it most prudent for the present to plead ignorance.
• 2:30:24
  Speaker 1: Fearful that the pirate's boat would be too crowded, I
• 2:30:27
  Speaker 1: recommended the captain to lower his own boat, but he declined,
• 2:30:31
  Speaker 1: saying it was leaky and not in a condition to
• 2:30:34
  Speaker 1: go on the water. We then left the brig, the
• 2:30:38
  Speaker 1: captain expressing a wish that he should not be long detained,
• 2:30:41
  Speaker 1: and still apparently ignorant of the schooner being a pirate,
• 2:30:45
  Speaker 1: to which I replied I could not answer, as the
• 2:30:48
  Speaker 1: captain was angry with him for having given so much trouble.
• 2:30:52
  Speaker 1: On our reaching the corsair's deck, the pirate, in a
• 2:30:55
  Speaker 1: rough tone, asked him his name, and he replied Cook.
• 2:31:01
  Speaker 1: I then recognized him as a casual acquaintance. From the
• 2:31:05
  Speaker 1: fury in which I saw the pirate, I anticipated the
• 2:31:08
  Speaker 1: most serious consequences to the poor fellow, and, in order
• 2:31:11
  Speaker 1: to save him if possible, claimed relationship and told him
• 2:31:15
  Speaker 1: he was my cousin, and that therefore, for my sake
• 2:31:19
  Speaker 1: and in consideration of the services that I had done
• 2:31:21
  Speaker 1: for him, he would not maltreat Captain Cook for once
• 2:31:27
  Speaker 1: I prevailed over his brutal disposition, and he promised not
• 2:31:31
  Speaker 1: to do so if the other told him the whole
• 2:31:33
  Speaker 1: truth as to what money he had and what was
• 2:31:36
  Speaker 1: his cargo. The bills of lading were then handed to me,
• 2:31:40
  Speaker 1: and I informed him that it consisted of rum only.
• 2:31:45
  Speaker 1: Having been informed by Captain Cook that the vessel in
• 2:31:48
  Speaker 1: sight was either a transport with troops or the Brig
• 2:31:51
  Speaker 1: Vittoria from Black River, Jamaica, I was sent up to examine,
• 2:31:55
  Speaker 1: and from her appearance, pronounced her to be the transport.
• 2:32:00
  Speaker 1: Captain Cook was however, ordered to look at her, and he,
• 2:32:04
  Speaker 1: being better acquainted with the vessel said it was the Vittoria,
• 2:32:07
  Speaker 1: and chase was given immediately, much however, against the will
• 2:32:11
  Speaker 1: of the crew, who were afraid of her being the transport.
• 2:32:16
  Speaker 1: The crew of the Industry, the vessel he had just captured,
• 2:32:19
  Speaker 1: were ordered to the guns in case of an engagement,
• 2:32:23
  Speaker 1: and the corsair for the breeze had now freshened fast
• 2:32:27
  Speaker 1: approached her chase. Notwithstanding the promise he had made, the
• 2:32:31
  Speaker 1: pirate still exhibited an inclination to vent his fury on
• 2:32:35
  Speaker 1: Captain Cook, and I was occasionally obliged to interfere to
• 2:32:39
  Speaker 1: save him from its effects. I have been told since
• 2:32:43
  Speaker 1: my arrival in this country that Captain Cook has declared
• 2:32:47
  Speaker 1: and boasted that he resisted the pirate and did not
• 2:32:50
  Speaker 1: quit his vessel until a round shot had been fired
• 2:32:53
  Speaker 1: between his masts and a volley of musketry on his deck.
• 2:32:58
  Speaker 1: I am willing to give him every credit for his
• 2:33:00
  Speaker 1: anxiety to save his vessel, and am ready to acknowledge
• 2:33:03
  Speaker 1: that he did all that an unfortunate man in his
• 2:33:06
  Speaker 1: situation could do, but I must deny the truth of
• 2:33:09
  Speaker 1: his assertions on this point. The shot that was fired
• 2:33:14
  Speaker 1: was across the bow of the Industry, and fell short
• 2:33:17
  Speaker 1: by more than a hundred yards, and as to musketry,
• 2:33:21
  Speaker 1: with the solitary exception of the signal to the captain
• 2:33:24
  Speaker 1: and crew on board, none was discharged. As for resistance,
• 2:33:30
  Speaker 1: none whatever was made, and for a good reason it
• 2:33:35
  Speaker 1: was out of his power to make any. The Corsair,
• 2:33:40
  Speaker 1: being a very rapid sailor, soon came within range of
• 2:33:43
  Speaker 1: the Vittoria, and the long gun was fired athwart her bows,
• 2:33:47
  Speaker 1: which she answered by hoisting her colors and breaking her
• 2:33:50
  Speaker 1: main yard. A pilot, for we had several, was then
• 2:33:54
  Speaker 1: ordered to repair on board, accompanied by me, with directions
• 2:33:58
  Speaker 1: to send the Briggs officers and part of her crew
• 2:34:01
  Speaker 1: on board. Our arrival was a signal for a repetition
• 2:34:06
  Speaker 1: of the same brutal act towards the unfortunate crew of
• 2:34:09
  Speaker 1: this vessel that had been exercised towards those of the other,
• 2:34:13
  Speaker 1: and the officers and some of the men were driven
• 2:34:15
  Speaker 1: into the boat. The sails were then filled and the
• 2:34:19
  Speaker 1: brig steered after the Corsair, who was now returning towards
• 2:34:23
  Speaker 1: the coast in the direction of Cape Blanco. Soon after this,
• 2:34:27
  Speaker 1: the atmosphere became dense and hazy, and it began to
• 2:34:31
  Speaker 1: rain and we were suddenly thrown into great alarm by
• 2:34:34
  Speaker 1: the appearance of a strange schooner who seemed to chase us.
• 2:34:40
  Speaker 1: The man who was at first at the wheel had
• 2:34:42
  Speaker 1: been changed, and his successor was not so good as steersman.
• 2:34:47
  Speaker 1: As the wind was abaft the beam, we set steering
• 2:34:50
  Speaker 1: sails by the pilot's direction to get away from the stranger.
• 2:34:54
  Speaker 1: But the man steered so badly that the pirate began
• 2:34:57
  Speaker 1: to be apprehensive of capture and rated him for his awkwardness.
• 2:35:02
  Speaker 1: The furious gesticulations of the spaniard only confused the poor
• 2:35:05
  Speaker 1: fellow and made him steer worse. This added fuel to fire,
• 2:35:10
  Speaker 1: and he began to suspect it was I that was
• 2:35:12
  Speaker 1: making him do so to enable the schooner to overtake us.
• 2:35:17
  Speaker 1: He then turned upon me and told me that if
• 2:35:19
  Speaker 1: I did not make him steer more steadily, he would
• 2:35:22
  Speaker 1: take his knife and kill him. I knew that to
• 2:35:26
  Speaker 1: threaten with these wretches was to perform in order Therefore,
• 2:35:30
  Speaker 1: to save the man's life, I pretended to be enraged
• 2:35:34
  Speaker 1: with him and struck him lightly across the back with
• 2:35:36
  Speaker 1: the flat part of a cutlass. This act, though done
• 2:35:41
  Speaker 1: with the best and purest of motives, and from a
• 2:35:43
  Speaker 1: desire to save the life of a fellow creature. Has
• 2:35:46
  Speaker 1: since been adduced against me as a proof that I
• 2:35:49
  Speaker 1: joined in the brutalities of these blood stained miscreants and
• 2:35:53
  Speaker 1: took a delight in them. Such is the gratitude that
• 2:35:57
  Speaker 1: man has to expect from his fellow man. End of
• 2:36:02
  Speaker 1: Section five, Part five, Section six, Part six, A narrative,
• 2:36:09
  Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. It was now late in the day.
• 2:36:15
  Speaker 1: The rain had ceased, and the atmosphere had become more clear,
• 2:36:18
  Speaker 1: and with it our apprehensions had vanished, for we could
• 2:36:22
  Speaker 1: perceive that the stranger was no man of war, nor
• 2:36:26
  Speaker 1: was she in pursuit of us. But standing a different course,
• 2:36:31
  Speaker 1: I began to wish that night would come on, for
• 2:36:33
  Speaker 1: I had resolved in my own mind to attempt my
• 2:36:36
  Speaker 1: escape under cover of the darkness, to kill the pilot
• 2:36:39
  Speaker 1: and the other Spaniard, for only two were on board,
• 2:36:43
  Speaker 1: and take the vessel to New Orleans. This I hoped
• 2:36:47
  Speaker 1: to accomplish, as I counted upon the assistance of the
• 2:36:50
  Speaker 1: two men who had been left on board. The pirate, however,
• 2:36:54
  Speaker 1: was too guarded, for at dusk the gunner of the
• 2:36:57
  Speaker 1: Corsair was sent on board, and I was taken back.
• 2:37:02
  Speaker 1: The prisoners on board were ordered down into the hold,
• 2:37:05
  Speaker 1: with the exception of the steward of the Industry, who
• 2:37:07
  Speaker 1: was sent into the cabin. Sentries were then placed over
• 2:37:11
  Speaker 1: the hatchways, and the prisoners charged, on the peril of
• 2:37:14
  Speaker 1: their lives, not to come upon deck. All three vessels
• 2:37:20
  Speaker 1: came to an anchor close by each other outside the reef,
• 2:37:23
  Speaker 1: and as soon as the necessary arrangements were made for
• 2:37:26
  Speaker 1: their safety, a council was held to deliberate on the
• 2:37:30
  Speaker 1: disposal of the prisoners. Some question having arisen, I was
• 2:37:35
  Speaker 1: sent for to inform them what quantity of coffee was
• 2:37:38
  Speaker 1: in the Victoria and how much rum on board the industry,
• 2:37:42
  Speaker 1: with the relative value of each. On being informed, the
• 2:37:47
  Speaker 1: captain declared the rum not worth their attention and talked
• 2:37:50
  Speaker 1: of destroying the latter vessel. I remained to hear the
• 2:37:54
  Speaker 1: result of their deliberations, anxious for the safety of the
• 2:37:57
  Speaker 1: unfortunate wretches, who, like myself, had fallen into their hands.
• 2:38:03
  Speaker 1: The debate was warm. Part wished to put them to
• 2:38:06
  Speaker 1: death and throw them overboard, and part, more merciful, wished
• 2:38:10
  Speaker 1: that the industry might be suffered to proceed and take
• 2:38:13
  Speaker 1: them whither. I joined my entreaties to this effect, and
• 2:38:18
  Speaker 1: after much altercation, the latter alternative was chosen, much to
• 2:38:22
  Speaker 1: the dissatisfaction of the more sanguinary party. The sentinels prevented
• 2:38:28
  Speaker 1: any communication with the English prisoners, so that I could
• 2:38:31
  Speaker 1: not inform them of their fate. I was then ordered below,
• 2:38:35
  Speaker 1: and the captain left the corsair to visit the two brigs,
• 2:38:38
  Speaker 1: leaving her in charge of the prize Master. On his return,
• 2:38:43
  Speaker 1: he told me that he should grant my request and
• 2:38:46
  Speaker 1: give up the industry, and then gave orders to the
• 2:38:49
  Speaker 1: prize Master to that effect, giving strict injunctions, however, to
• 2:38:53
  Speaker 1: detain the clothes of both the crews. He then went
• 2:38:57
  Speaker 1: on shore, as he said, to Overton, the third mate
• 2:39:00
  Speaker 1: at the cavanias, and to give him instructions to send
• 2:39:04
  Speaker 1: vessels down from the havana with bags for the purpose
• 2:39:07
  Speaker 1: of sending the Vittoria's coffee to market. I dreaded much
• 2:39:12
  Speaker 1: that the captain's absence would be the cause of the
• 2:39:15
  Speaker 1: ill treatment, if not of the murder of the prisoners
• 2:39:18
  Speaker 1: on board. Nor were my fears without foundation. One of
• 2:39:22
  Speaker 1: the fiends who had wished to put them to death,
• 2:39:25
  Speaker 1: now proposed to carry the diabolical plan into immediate execution,
• 2:39:30
  Speaker 1: but was opposed by the prize master in charge, deeming
• 2:39:34
  Speaker 1: him the only obstacle. He watched his opportunity, and while
• 2:39:38
  Speaker 1: he was reclining against one of the guns, made an
• 2:39:41
  Speaker 1: attempt to despatch him with his knife. The blow, fortunately
• 2:39:46
  Speaker 1: for us, all failed, and the cries of his intended
• 2:39:50
  Speaker 1: victim roused the crew to his assistants, who inflicted summary
• 2:39:54
  Speaker 1: justice on the bloodthirsty miscreant, and in their fury, put
• 2:39:57
  Speaker 1: him instantly to death. This attempt so alarmed me that
• 2:40:02
  Speaker 1: I kept awake the remainder of the night, as also
• 2:40:05
  Speaker 1: did the industry's steward, who was in the cabin with me.
• 2:40:10
  Speaker 1: We drew as close together as we dared, and conversed
• 2:40:13
  Speaker 1: in low whispers during the night, ceasing, however, when we
• 2:40:16
  Speaker 1: heard any one approach, and I took that opportunity of
• 2:40:20
  Speaker 1: communicating my unfortunate situation and what I had suffered since
• 2:40:24
  Speaker 1: I had been a prisoner, with which he seemed much affected,
• 2:40:28
  Speaker 1: and sincerely pitied my case. In the morning, the crew
• 2:40:33
  Speaker 1: of both vessels, with the exception of Captain Hearne, his mate,
• 2:40:37
  Speaker 1: a passenger, and the industry's steward were employed in getting
• 2:40:41
  Speaker 1: the Vittoria under way. Seeing Captain Hearne upon deck, I
• 2:40:46
  Speaker 1: obtained leave of the prize Master to address him. I
• 2:40:50
  Speaker 1: then informed him of my unfortunate situation and told him
• 2:40:54
  Speaker 1: that I should escape the first favorable opportunity. At his request,
• 2:40:59
  Speaker 1: I obtained his coffee certificates for him from the prize Master,
• 2:41:03
  Speaker 1: but could not succeed in obtaining the restoration of any
• 2:41:06
  Speaker 1: part of their clothes, which the pirates were resolved to
• 2:41:09
  Speaker 1: keep between one and the other. I was often placed
• 2:41:13
  Speaker 1: in an awkward dilemma. If I applied for the restoration
• 2:41:16
  Speaker 1: of any part of the plunder, the pirates became exasperated,
• 2:41:20
  Speaker 1: and I incurred the risk of ill treatment. If, on
• 2:41:24
  Speaker 1: the other hand, for the sake of my personal safety,
• 2:41:27
  Speaker 1: I declined any interference, I was immediately charged with a
• 2:41:31
  Speaker 1: want of feeling, and the motives misrepresented that such has
• 2:41:36
  Speaker 1: been the case. I have had good reason to know,
• 2:41:39
  Speaker 1: and the prejudices which these misrepresentations excited were nearly fatal
• 2:41:44
  Speaker 1: to me. On a recent occasion, the Corsair and the
• 2:41:48
  Speaker 1: Vittoria were now under way, and the prisoners, except the Dutchmen,
• 2:41:53
  Speaker 1: having performed the task assigned to them, had been transferred
• 2:41:56
  Speaker 1: on board the Industry. The prize master therefore desired me
• 2:42:01
  Speaker 1: to hail Captain Cook and to tell him that he
• 2:42:04
  Speaker 1: was at liberty to pursue his voyage, although it was
• 2:42:09
  Speaker 1: in a great measure, owing to my interference, and that
• 2:42:12
  Speaker 1: too at the risk of my own life and personal safety,
• 2:42:16
  Speaker 1: that the lives of himself and the rest had been
• 2:42:19
  Speaker 1: spared and his vessel given back to him. Yet since
• 2:42:23
  Speaker 1: my return to this country, when I was standing on
• 2:42:25
  Speaker 1: peril of my life, this man did not show the
• 2:42:28
  Speaker 1: common feelings of gratitude. I received even more kindness from
• 2:42:33
  Speaker 1: the pirates themselves, brutes as they were, than from this man.
• 2:42:38
  Speaker 1: Not content with misrepresentations and misstatements, wilful and premeditated, he
• 2:42:44
  Speaker 1: has even had the audacity to invent most atrocious falsehoods
• 2:42:49
  Speaker 1: in order to poison the minds of those whose duty
• 2:42:51
  Speaker 1: it was to sit in judgment upon me. The corsair
• 2:42:56
  Speaker 1: and her prize stood along the reef towards Rio Omedia,
• 2:43:00
  Speaker 1: but as the former was the fastest sailor, she soon
• 2:43:03
  Speaker 1: shot ahead, and the other was left to come up
• 2:43:06
  Speaker 1: after her. In the afternoon, another English vessel hove in sight,
• 2:43:12
  Speaker 1: but as she was too far in the offing to
• 2:43:14
  Speaker 1: come up with her before dark, the pirates would not
• 2:43:17
  Speaker 1: go in chase, but continued on their course to the harbor,
• 2:43:21
  Speaker 1: where she arrived in the evening, and let go her
• 2:43:23
  Speaker 1: anchor near their former prize. As the Vittoria was not
• 2:43:28
  Speaker 1: expected till the morning, in consequence of her heavy sailing,
• 2:43:32
  Speaker 1: no anxiety was felt on her account during the night,
• 2:43:36
  Speaker 1: but her non appearance in the morning excited surprise as
• 2:43:39
  Speaker 1: well as fear, and conjecture was busy deciding on her fate.
• 2:43:44
  Speaker 1: A messenger in the meantime arrived from the magistrate from me,
• 2:43:48
  Speaker 1: but the prize master replied that the captain had forbidden
• 2:43:51
  Speaker 1: my going on shore. About two o'clock in the afternoon,
• 2:43:55
  Speaker 1: the Corsair's boat, containing the men that had been left
• 2:43:58
  Speaker 1: in charge of the Vittoria, was seen coming towards us,
• 2:44:02
  Speaker 1: and it was then imagined that she had been recaptured
• 2:44:05
  Speaker 1: and that they had therefore abandoned her. On inquiry, however,
• 2:44:10
  Speaker 1: it appeared that they had taken the vessel we had
• 2:44:12
  Speaker 1: seen the day before for a ship of war, and
• 2:44:15
  Speaker 1: fearful of the consequences, had run the Vittoria on the reef,
• 2:44:20
  Speaker 1: and having abandoned her, left the Dutchman on board to
• 2:44:23
  Speaker 1: be retaken. This act of cowardice highly exasperated the pirates
• 2:44:28
  Speaker 1: on board, who rated them severely and would have returned
• 2:44:31
  Speaker 1: in the corsair to the spot had not the captain
• 2:44:34
  Speaker 1: been hourly expected. During the confusion excited by this event,
• 2:44:40
  Speaker 1: the old magistrate arrived and was received with due honors
• 2:44:43
  Speaker 1: by the prize master. He descended into the cabin to
• 2:44:47
  Speaker 1: have his wound dressed, and while I was so employed,
• 2:44:50
  Speaker 1: informed me that he had taken measures to have the
• 2:44:52
  Speaker 1: man punished who had circulated the scandalous report about his
• 2:44:56
  Speaker 1: daughter and myself. After apologizing using for his conduct on
• 2:45:01
  Speaker 1: that occasion, he informed me that he should pay me
• 2:45:04
  Speaker 1: a visit. Shortly accompanied by Sarathina, He then returned on shore,
• 2:45:09
  Speaker 1: taking with him presents of gin and cheeses. About midnight,
• 2:45:15
  Speaker 1: the pirates were thrown into an alarm by the arrival
• 2:45:17
  Speaker 1: of a boat, which proved to be the Dutchman who
• 2:45:20
  Speaker 1: had been driven out of the Victoria by fishermen who
• 2:45:23
  Speaker 1: came to plunder her. A boat with eight armed men
• 2:45:27
  Speaker 1: was immediately dispatched to protect the prize, but she had
• 2:45:31
  Speaker 1: already been plundered of eight tierces of coffee. I have
• 2:45:35
  Speaker 1: been informed that Captain Herne and his crew were put
• 2:45:38
  Speaker 1: on board a man of war by the industry a
• 2:45:41
  Speaker 1: few days after her release. If so, why was not
• 2:45:45
  Speaker 1: search made after the pirates and their prizes, and the
• 2:45:48
  Speaker 1: latter recaptured For seven days she remained not five leagues
• 2:45:53
  Speaker 1: from the place where she was captured, and what is
• 2:45:56
  Speaker 1: still more important, on the exterior edge of the reef
• 2:46:00
  Speaker 1: and exposed to view. Perhaps it was anticipated that the
• 2:46:04
  Speaker 1: pirates had plundered her of her cargo, and that therefore
• 2:46:08
  Speaker 1: the salvage would not have been sufficient to repay them
• 2:46:11
  Speaker 1: for their trouble. Is not this a very strong proof
• 2:46:15
  Speaker 1: of the gross and culpable negligence of the admiral and
• 2:46:18
  Speaker 1: officers upon that station. Ships of war, forsooth could be
• 2:46:23
  Speaker 1: found at all times and ready at a very short
• 2:46:25
  Speaker 1: notice to convey specie, and when so employed, would make
• 2:46:29
  Speaker 1: direct voyage and pay no attention to that duty upon
• 2:46:32
  Speaker 1: which they had been sent the protection of mercantile property.
• 2:46:37
  Speaker 1: Well might the merchants send the underwriters complain? But of
• 2:46:40
  Speaker 1: what avail were those complaints when such open and glaring
• 2:46:44
  Speaker 1: dereliction of duty was daily and hourly committed and glossed
• 2:46:48
  Speaker 1: over by the lords of the Admiralty. Instead of being
• 2:46:51
  Speaker 1: inquired into and severely punished. Pirate interest was however, considered
• 2:46:58
  Speaker 1: of more importance, and the public commerce the trade of
• 2:47:01
  Speaker 1: the country appeared as nothing when put in competition with it.
• 2:47:06
  Speaker 1: How many lives have been sacrificed, how many thousand pounds
• 2:47:10
  Speaker 1: worth of property plundered, and how much misery and suffering
• 2:47:13
  Speaker 1: to individuals has this daring breach of a public duty occasioned?
• 2:47:19
  Speaker 1: But to my narrative, the captain not having returned on
• 2:47:24
  Speaker 1: the following morning, the schooner weighed and ran down to
• 2:47:28
  Speaker 1: the Vittoria, and on the same day two vessels arrived
• 2:47:31
  Speaker 1: for the coffee from the Havana. These were immediately laden,
• 2:47:36
  Speaker 1: and the Vittoria, having become lighter in consequence of the
• 2:47:39
  Speaker 1: discharge of so much of her cargo, floated off the reef.
• 2:47:44
  Speaker 1: Sail was immediately made on her, and both vessels directed
• 2:47:47
  Speaker 1: their course towards Rio Omedia. The next day, in the afternoon, however,
• 2:47:54
  Speaker 1: the Jamaica fleet hove in sight and the Vittoria was
• 2:47:57
  Speaker 1: once more drawn on the outer edge of the reef,
• 2:48:00
  Speaker 1: while the Corsair stood in and anchored. Here again was
• 2:48:05
  Speaker 1: another culpable instance of neglect. The whole fleet, with the
• 2:48:09
  Speaker 1: man of war at their head, passed within a league
• 2:48:12
  Speaker 1: of the place where the Vittoria was lying, full in
• 2:48:15
  Speaker 1: their view and evidently a prize to the pirates, Yet
• 2:48:19
  Speaker 1: no notice whatever was taken at that moment. One boat
• 2:48:24
  Speaker 1: would have captured both vessels, as a great number of
• 2:48:26
  Speaker 1: the Corsair's crew were absent, and his means of defense
• 2:48:30
  Speaker 1: were consequently weakened. The pirates in the Rio Omedia had
• 2:48:36
  Speaker 1: now become too notorious for the government to countenance them
• 2:48:39
  Speaker 1: any longer, and a body of police was consequently dispatched,
• 2:48:44
  Speaker 1: bringing with them instructions to the magistrates to give them
• 2:48:47
  Speaker 1: every assistance in their search for plundered property. This information
• 2:48:52
  Speaker 1: no sooner reached the old Magistrate than he sent down
• 2:48:56
  Speaker 1: to the Dutch vessel, took out the men on board
• 2:48:59
  Speaker 1: and dispatch them to the Corsair, and then set fire
• 2:49:03
  Speaker 1: to her where she was. She soon burned to the
• 2:49:06
  Speaker 1: water's edge, and then floating, was carried away by the current,
• 2:49:10
  Speaker 1: so that not a vestige remained the Vittoria, in the meantime,
• 2:49:15
  Speaker 1: had been got off the reef a second time, and,
• 2:49:18
  Speaker 1: having been brought into the harbor, was run upon a
• 2:49:21
  Speaker 1: mud bank, while the Corsair gave notice to the inhabitants
• 2:49:25
  Speaker 1: of her safe return by discharging her guns. A message
• 2:49:30
  Speaker 1: soon after arrived from the captain at Cassoblanco, desiring that
• 2:49:34
  Speaker 1: the dutchmen might be instantly set at liberty and sent
• 2:49:38
  Speaker 1: away on board a small vessel belonging to the pirates,
• 2:49:41
  Speaker 1: and that a boat might be dispatched for him. This
• 2:49:45
  Speaker 1: messenger informed us that a party of police thirty in number,
• 2:49:49
  Speaker 1: had been searching through the villages for plundered property, but
• 2:49:53
  Speaker 1: as soon as the report of the Corsair's guns had
• 2:49:56
  Speaker 1: reached their ears, they made a precipitate retreat. Such was
• 2:50:00
  Speaker 1: the dependence that was to be placed on those cowardly wretches.
• 2:50:05
  Speaker 1: The Dutch prisoners were released and sent away the following day,
• 2:50:10
  Speaker 1: but what became of them I never heard, whether they
• 2:50:13
  Speaker 1: succeeded in reaching their native shore, or whether they were,
• 2:50:16
  Speaker 1: like myself, apprehended on charges of piracy. As they had
• 2:50:20
  Speaker 1: assisted as well in several captures, and were not so
• 2:50:23
  Speaker 1: fortunate in being able to establish their innocence is a
• 2:50:27
  Speaker 1: question that I am unable to answer. They were released, however,
• 2:50:31
  Speaker 1: according to the order, and I envied them their fate.
• 2:50:36
  Speaker 1: The magistrate and Seraphina soon after visited us. The former
• 2:50:40
  Speaker 1: confirmed the tale of the messenger relative to the conduct
• 2:50:43
  Speaker 1: of the police. They were accompanied by a number of
• 2:50:47
  Speaker 1: young ladies, who, Seraphina informed me, having heard of my case,
• 2:50:51
  Speaker 1: had come to consult me. She lamented bitterly our disappointment,
• 2:50:56
  Speaker 1: and told me that the cause of it was now
• 2:50:58
  Speaker 1: suffering for his perfidy in a prison. Two priests and
• 2:51:02
  Speaker 1: a magistrate, accompanied by four females, added to the number
• 2:51:06
  Speaker 1: of the company on board. These visits appeared to be
• 2:51:10
  Speaker 1: for the sake of getting what they could from the pirates.
• 2:51:13
  Speaker 1: The priests, as usual, exercised all the chicanery of their craft,
• 2:51:18
  Speaker 1: and were well paid for it. They visited the Vittoria
• 2:51:21
  Speaker 1: and took all her sharts and maps for household ornaments, and,
• 2:51:25
  Speaker 1: having returned on board, carroused till dusk when the whole
• 2:51:29
  Speaker 1: party took their leave. On the second day. The captain
• 2:51:33
  Speaker 1: returned and was furious when informed of the circumstances of
• 2:51:36
  Speaker 1: the Vittoria, so much so that the pilot who had
• 2:51:39
  Speaker 1: been on board of her narrowly escaped with his life.
• 2:51:44
  Speaker 1: The third mate soon after arrived with two coasting vessels
• 2:51:47
  Speaker 1: from the Havanna, which were speedily loaded with the remainder
• 2:51:50
  Speaker 1: of the vittorious cargo. The pirates at all times found
• 2:51:55
  Speaker 1: great facility in disposing of their plunder by these coasting vessels,
• 2:51:59
  Speaker 1: who were always ready not only to receive it, but
• 2:52:02
  Speaker 1: also frequently lent their crews to assist in the capture
• 2:52:06
  Speaker 1: and to board vessels. A whole week had nearly passed
• 2:52:10
  Speaker 1: without any remarkable occurrence when another piratical schooner entered Rio Omelia.
• 2:52:17
  Speaker 1: Her captain informed us that he had plundered three English vessels,
• 2:52:21
  Speaker 1: out of one of which he had detained a carpenter,
• 2:52:24
  Speaker 1: who he said was an excellent workman. This unfortunate wretch
• 2:52:29
  Speaker 1: I did not see, but I was informed that he
• 2:52:32
  Speaker 1: was assassinated as soon as he had completed the task
• 2:52:35
  Speaker 1: for which he had been detained, and I have no
• 2:52:38
  Speaker 1: reason to disbelieve it. From the conversation of the pirate
• 2:52:42
  Speaker 1: I learned the system on which these vessels are fitted out.
• 2:52:46
  Speaker 1: He informed our captain that he had entered into an
• 2:52:49
  Speaker 1: agreement with the owner to put guns, muskets and every
• 2:52:53
  Speaker 1: other article secretly on board at the havana, and then
• 2:52:57
  Speaker 1: clear her out as it were for a neighboring port
• 2:53:00
  Speaker 1: in charge of a master. At night, when she anchored
• 2:53:04
  Speaker 1: along the coast, he boarded and took possession of her,
• 2:53:08
  Speaker 1: setting the master ashore. The owner, on receiving the intelligence,
• 2:53:12
  Speaker 1: made a complaint to the governor that his vessel was
• 2:53:15
  Speaker 1: seized by pirates, and the master confirming it by his statement.
• 2:53:19
  Speaker 1: Everybody believed it to be the fact, while the other
• 2:53:22
  Speaker 1: was sharing the plunder without the suspicion of being partiseps Criminis.
• 2:53:29
  Speaker 1: Having completed her fitting out with sails and spars from
• 2:53:32
  Speaker 1: the Vittoria at the end of five days, the pirate
• 2:53:35
  Speaker 1: took his departure. A few days after, the Corsair captured
• 2:53:40
  Speaker 1: a French vessel from Vera Cruz with a large quantity
• 2:53:44
  Speaker 1: of specie on board. The Frenchman was rather obstinate in
• 2:53:48
  Speaker 1: his endeavor to conceal the money, and I witnessed a
• 2:53:51
  Speaker 1: repetition of the brutality practiced on former occasions, by which
• 2:53:55
  Speaker 1: means a confession was extorted and the specie found the
• 2:54:00
  Speaker 1: money on board was chiefly in dollars, and the captain
• 2:54:03
  Speaker 1: sent word on shore that he would give a premium
• 2:54:06
  Speaker 1: of four dollars on every dubloon. This favorable rate of
• 2:54:10
  Speaker 1: exchange soon brought priests and magistrates on board, particularly the former,
• 2:54:16
  Speaker 1: and these holy men, by these means became partakers of
• 2:54:19
  Speaker 1: one fourth of the plunder. I became at this time
• 2:54:24
  Speaker 1: very ill with an attack of fever, and my wounds
• 2:54:27
  Speaker 1: broke out afresh. I attributed this to the closeness of
• 2:54:31
  Speaker 1: the ship, from the prisoners being kept constantly below, and
• 2:54:35
  Speaker 1: for the sake of my own health, as well as others,
• 2:54:38
  Speaker 1: suggested it to the captain, who allowed them to walk
• 2:54:41
  Speaker 1: the deck during the day. When I had recovered a little,
• 2:54:45
  Speaker 1: an American brig fell into their hands. But the captain,
• 2:54:49
  Speaker 1: having at once delivered up his money and pointed out
• 2:54:52
  Speaker 1: the most valuable part of his cargo, was very well
• 2:54:55
  Speaker 1: treated by the pirate. His watch, however, had attracted the
• 2:54:58
  Speaker 1: notice of the prize master, and as he did not
• 2:55:01
  Speaker 1: surrender that so readily, he was on the point of
• 2:55:05
  Speaker 1: being assassinated. But to save his life he gave it up,
• 2:55:10
  Speaker 1: although he wanted to recover it when released, subsequently declaring
• 2:55:14
  Speaker 1: on that occasion that he had only lent it under
• 2:55:17
  Speaker 1: promise of having it restored when done with the crew
• 2:55:22
  Speaker 1: of the French vessel was transferred to the American on
• 2:55:25
  Speaker 1: the following day, and she was piloted out of the
• 2:55:28
  Speaker 1: reef and allowed to go on her voyage. An attack
• 2:55:32
  Speaker 1: of intermittent fever shortly after confined me to my mattress.
• 2:55:37
  Speaker 1: Under this fit of illness, I labored for fifteen days
• 2:55:40
  Speaker 1: and was much reduced. During all this time I was
• 2:55:45
  Speaker 1: left to shift for myself, but experienced much kindness and
• 2:55:49
  Speaker 1: attention from Seraphina, who, when she heard of my illness,
• 2:55:53
  Speaker 1: frequently visited me and brought with her every little thing
• 2:55:56
  Speaker 1: that she thought might conduce to my comfort. When I
• 2:56:00
  Speaker 1: had partially recovered, I solicited permission to go on shore,
• 2:56:04
  Speaker 1: but the request was brutally denied under the plea that
• 2:56:07
  Speaker 1: I only wished to escape. Soon after this refusal, while
• 2:56:11
  Speaker 1: I was on deck one very calm morning, a schooner
• 2:56:15
  Speaker 1: was discovered in the offing. I was peremptorily ordered aloft
• 2:56:19
  Speaker 1: to look at her, and had begun to ascend the rigging.
• 2:56:23
  Speaker 1: But so weak and exhausted was I that I expected
• 2:56:25
  Speaker 1: to fall every moment. The captain observed my condition and
• 2:56:30
  Speaker 1: for once had the humanity to desire me to remain
• 2:56:33
  Speaker 1: on deck, and went aloft himself. When he came down,
• 2:56:37
  Speaker 1: A boat with armed men was despatched to board. As
• 2:56:41
  Speaker 1: it was a dead calm and the corsair would have
• 2:56:43
  Speaker 1: made very little way herself had her anchor been weighed,
• 2:56:47
  Speaker 1: the boat's crew took possession of her without any resistance,
• 2:56:50
  Speaker 1: although the schooner was large and well manned. A breeze
• 2:56:55
  Speaker 1: springing up soon after they were in possession, they brought
• 2:56:58
  Speaker 1: their prize into the harbor when the captain when on
• 2:57:00
  Speaker 1: board of her. As soon as he returned, he informed
• 2:57:04
  Speaker 1: me that the prize was an American and that she
• 2:57:07
  Speaker 1: had on board of her as passengers a Spanish officer
• 2:57:11
  Speaker 1: and his wife. But the latter, he added, was extremely
• 2:57:15
  Speaker 1: ill from sea sickness and the bad treatment of the captain,
• 2:57:18
  Speaker 1: who had been brute enough to deny her many little comforts,
• 2:57:21
  Speaker 1: and requested I would go on board and prescribe for her.
• 2:57:26
  Speaker 1: He was much exasperated against the captain for this act,
• 2:57:29
  Speaker 1: and was determined to murder him, and the finding no
• 2:57:32
  Speaker 1: money on board tended not a little to confirm him
• 2:57:35
  Speaker 1: in his resolution. In a short time, however, the officer
• 2:57:39
  Speaker 1: and his wife were brought on board the Corsair, and
• 2:57:42
  Speaker 1: I was save the fatigue of visiting the prize. I
• 2:57:46
  Speaker 1: confess I had no difficulty in prescribing for her nourishment,
• 2:57:50
  Speaker 1: being all that she required, but she was evidently in
• 2:57:54
  Speaker 1: a delicate state of health. Her husband appeared to be
• 2:57:57
  Speaker 1: a great brute, and to care very little about her,
• 2:58:00
  Speaker 1: as he began to drink and carouse with the pirates
• 2:58:03
  Speaker 1: almost as soon as he came on board, paying no
• 2:58:06
  Speaker 1: attention to his wife. I took the opportunity of my
• 2:58:10
  Speaker 1: attending on her to inform her of the captain's threat,
• 2:58:14
  Speaker 1: and prevailed upon her to join her entreaties with mine,
• 2:58:17
  Speaker 1: that the American's life might be spared. She did so
• 2:58:22
  Speaker 1: when the pirate visited her, and at our joint solicitation,
• 2:58:25
  Speaker 1: he escaped that summary punishment which he had drawn down
• 2:58:29
  Speaker 1: upon his head for his unfeeling conduct to this poor woman.
• 2:58:34
  Speaker 1: It was customary with the pirate to make the crew
• 2:58:36
  Speaker 1: of a prize, if possible, drunk, in order in that
• 2:58:41
  Speaker 1: unguarded moment, to obtain from them a knowledge of all
• 2:58:44
  Speaker 1: that was on board. He had on this occasion been
• 2:58:48
  Speaker 1: very liberal in his allowance of spirits to the crew
• 2:58:51
  Speaker 1: of the schooner, who were prisoners on board and were
• 2:58:54
  Speaker 1: partly irish. Intoxication soon led to quarreling, and a fight
• 2:58:59
  Speaker 1: then took place, which afforded very great merriment to the pirates,
• 2:59:03
  Speaker 1: who laughed very heartily at it. The officer and his
• 2:59:08
  Speaker 1: wife had a mattress prepared for them next to mine
• 2:59:10
  Speaker 1: in the cabin where they slept that night. To the latter,
• 2:59:14
  Speaker 1: I was very assiduous in my attentions, and made up
• 2:59:17
  Speaker 1: little messes of arrow, root and wine, and did all
• 2:59:20
  Speaker 1: in my power to administer to her comfort. For these attentions,
• 2:59:25
  Speaker 1: she was remarkably grateful, but manifested a degree of warmth
• 2:59:29
  Speaker 1: in her gratitude that I was fearful would lead to
• 2:59:32
  Speaker 1: serious consequences. One night, after we had retired to our
• 2:59:37
  Speaker 1: respective mattresses, I was surprised when I awoke about midnight
• 2:59:41
  Speaker 1: to find the lady by my side and her arm
• 2:59:44
  Speaker 1: drown round my neck. Fast asleep. I awakened her gently
• 2:59:48
  Speaker 1: and respectfully informed her of her mistake. She made no reply,
• 2:59:52
  Speaker 1: but returned to the side of her lawful spouse. I
• 2:59:56
  Speaker 1: looked upon this as a mere accident arising from the
• 2:59:59
  Speaker 1: count guity of our mattresses, and therefore thought no more
• 3:00:03
  Speaker 1: of it. On the following night, however, I was again
• 3:00:06
  Speaker 1: roused from my slumbers by her caresses. But on this
• 3:00:10
  Speaker 1: occasion the consequences were nearly fatal to me. The husband
• 3:00:15
  Speaker 1: awoke just at the same instant, and, missing his wife,
• 3:00:18
  Speaker 1: and seeing her by my side, vociferated so loudly as
• 3:00:22
  Speaker 1: to awaken both her and the captain. But I thought
• 3:00:25
  Speaker 1: it most prudent for myself to counterfeit sleep. At her
• 3:00:29
  Speaker 1: first awakening, she gave a faint scream, but soon recovered
• 3:00:32
  Speaker 1: her presence of mind and succeeded in pacifying her enraged husband,
• 3:00:37
  Speaker 1: whom she convinced that the mistake had occurred in her sleep,
• 3:00:40
  Speaker 1: and that his honor remained uninjured, which he the more
• 3:00:43
  Speaker 1: readily believed from my being apparently asleep. The pirate, who
• 3:00:49
  Speaker 1: at first had felt inclined to treat the matter seriously,
• 3:00:52
  Speaker 1: now burst into a loud laugh, in which I could
• 3:00:55
  Speaker 1: scarce refrain from joining. For several days, the Corsair remained
• 3:01:00
  Speaker 1: out at sea, having on board the American crew and
• 3:01:04
  Speaker 1: crews backwards and forwards in hope of falling in with
• 3:01:07
  Speaker 1: the peacock of New York, which the captain of the
• 3:01:10
  Speaker 1: prize had informed the pirate was to touch at the Havana,
• 3:01:14
  Speaker 1: and was richly laden, having besides a large quantity of
• 3:01:17
  Speaker 1: specie on board. Whether the other had invented the information
• 3:01:22
  Speaker 1: with the hope of being more speedily liberated, or whether
• 3:01:25
  Speaker 1: the peacock had been fortunate enough to escape the pirate's vigilance,
• 3:01:29
  Speaker 1: I do not know. But after an ineffectual cruise of
• 3:01:33
  Speaker 1: some days, he returned into harbor and gave up the pursuit.
• 3:01:38
  Speaker 1: In revenge, she plundered the schooner he had captured, and
• 3:01:41
  Speaker 1: having taken out everything of any value, he gave her
• 3:01:45
  Speaker 1: up to the crew and ordered them to go to
• 3:01:47
  Speaker 1: New Orleans, but on the peril of their lives, not
• 3:01:50
  Speaker 1: to pursue their voyage to the Havana. The Spanish officer,
• 3:01:55
  Speaker 1: when he heard the mandate, begged to be detained on
• 3:01:58
  Speaker 1: board and to be sent thither the first favorable opportunity.
• 3:02:02
  Speaker 1: As the pirate did not apprehend any bad consequences from
• 3:02:05
  Speaker 1: this indulgence, his request was granted, and the Americans sailed
• 3:02:10
  Speaker 1: without him. Ever since, the occurrences of that evening, the
• 3:02:15
  Speaker 1: spaniard kept a jealous eye upon his fair partner, and
• 3:02:19
  Speaker 1: I was equally reserved and cautious in my communications with her.
• 3:02:23
  Speaker 1: But her own imprudence had nearly rendered all my precautions abortive.
• 3:02:28
  Speaker 1: I was below in the cabin, mixing some medicine for
• 3:02:31
  Speaker 1: a sick man when the lady slipped from her husband
• 3:02:34
  Speaker 1: and came down. She had no sooner entered the cabin
• 3:02:37
  Speaker 1: than she seated herself on my knee, and, very familiarly,
• 3:02:41
  Speaker 1: putting her arm round my neck, gave me a kiss.
• 3:02:45
  Speaker 1: The officer, who had followed her almost the instant she
• 3:02:48
  Speaker 1: left him, entered at the moment, and with most furious gesticulation,
• 3:02:53
  Speaker 1: rushed upon deck and called upon the captain to inflict
• 3:02:56
  Speaker 1: summary punishment upon me. The lady, however, stood my friend
• 3:03:01
  Speaker 1: on this occasion as on the former, and declared that
• 3:03:04
  Speaker 1: her husband must have been mistaken, as no such thing
• 3:03:08
  Speaker 1: had occurred. She then explained the cause of being seen
• 3:03:12
  Speaker 1: on my knee, and said that she had slipped in
• 3:03:14
  Speaker 1: consequence of the motion of the vessel, and I had
• 3:03:17
  Speaker 1: caught her in my arms and had saved her from
• 3:03:19
  Speaker 1: falling and seriously hurting herself, as there was a swell
• 3:03:24
  Speaker 1: and the vessel occasionally gave a lurch. The tale had
• 3:03:27
  Speaker 1: the air of probability, and the captain declared that punishment
• 3:03:31
  Speaker 1: was out of the case. The officer put on a
• 3:03:34
  Speaker 1: constrained air of satisfaction, but I was convinced he would
• 3:03:38
  Speaker 1: watch an opportunity of revenge, and was not at all
• 3:03:40
  Speaker 1: sorry when on the following day he took his departure
• 3:03:44
  Speaker 1: in a coasting schooner, his expenses being defrayed by the pirate.
• 3:03:50
  Speaker 1: All this time, the Vittoria lay on the mud bank,
• 3:03:53
  Speaker 1: exposed to the full view of every ship that passed,
• 3:03:57
  Speaker 1: yet no attempts were made to recapture her. The pirate
• 3:04:00
  Speaker 1: used often to say in joke that the naval officers
• 3:04:04
  Speaker 1: on the station thought it better amusement to drink and
• 3:04:07
  Speaker 1: enter into every species of debauchery at the Havana than
• 3:04:11
  Speaker 1: to look after pirates or attempt to attack them. And
• 3:04:15
  Speaker 1: from what I myself experienced, I verily believed the assertion
• 3:04:19
  Speaker 1: to be fact. Nothing of importance occurred for several days,
• 3:04:23
  Speaker 1: and the Corsair remained quietly at anchor. One night, however,
• 3:04:27
  Speaker 1: a letter was brought from the magistrate intimating that the
• 3:04:31
  Speaker 1: governor of the Havana had adopted hostile measures, and that
• 3:04:35
  Speaker 1: one hundred soldiers were expected over land, and that five
• 3:04:39
  Speaker 1: gunboats were to come down inside the reef in four
• 3:04:42
  Speaker 1: or five days, and therefore advised him to be on
• 3:04:46
  Speaker 1: his guard. On the following morning, the Magistrate himself came
• 3:04:50
  Speaker 1: on board and added that he had received the most
• 3:04:53
  Speaker 1: positive orders to render every assistance, by information or otherwise
• 3:04:58
  Speaker 1: to this armament. He then advised the captain to destroy
• 3:05:02
  Speaker 1: the Vittoria as soon as ever the forces approached, of
• 3:05:05
  Speaker 1: which he would give him a signal. The pirate now
• 3:05:09
  Speaker 1: became apprehensive for his own safety and resolved to go
• 3:05:12
  Speaker 1: to Cape San Antonio for a while. This resolution, he
• 3:05:17
  Speaker 1: communicated to the magistrate and obtained a promise from him
• 3:05:20
  Speaker 1: to send a boat with communications of all that might
• 3:05:23
  Speaker 1: occur in his absence. These preliminaries having been arranged, preparations
• 3:05:29
  Speaker 1: were made for sailing, and the Magistrate took his leave.
• 3:05:33
  Speaker 1: On the following morning, we proceeded outside the reef down
• 3:05:36
  Speaker 1: to Cape sant Antonio and came to an anchor. Off
• 3:05:40
  Speaker 1: that place. The Magistrate, who was apprehensive of consequences, destroyed
• 3:05:45
  Speaker 1: the Vittoria the day after the pirate sailed. The Corsair
• 3:05:50
  Speaker 1: had lain at anchor for ten days, but still no
• 3:05:53
  Speaker 1: information reached her of the expected armament, and all began
• 3:05:57
  Speaker 1: to look upon it as a false alarm. About nine
• 3:06:00
  Speaker 1: o'clock of the evening of the eleventh day, however, the
• 3:06:04
  Speaker 1: promised boat arrived to inform the pirate that he might
• 3:06:07
  Speaker 1: expect the gunboats at Cape San Antonio on the following day.
• 3:06:12
  Speaker 1: After having performed his mission, the messenger immediately returned in
• 3:06:16
  Speaker 1: order to pass the boats unobserved while it was dark,
• 3:06:19
  Speaker 1: and every preparation was made on board to prevent surprise.
• 3:06:25
  Speaker 1: The morning was fine, clear and calm. There was not
• 3:06:29
  Speaker 1: a ripple on the sea. Its surface was like a mirror,
• 3:06:32
  Speaker 1: and not a breath of air was stirring. The gunboats
• 3:06:36
  Speaker 1: were discovered at an early hour, pulling towards the Corsair,
• 3:06:39
  Speaker 1: who did not seem disposed to wait their arrival. The
• 3:06:43
  Speaker 1: anchor was quickly weighed and whither sweeps She was taken
• 3:06:46
  Speaker 1: without the reef. The boats were about three miles from her,
• 3:06:50
  Speaker 1: and with a glass all the movements could be distinctly observed.
• 3:06:55
  Speaker 1: Had the officers who commanded them possessed the least spirit
• 3:06:58
  Speaker 1: of enterprise. The Thersair must have fallen into their hands.
• 3:07:02
  Speaker 1: But my firm belief is that they were as much
• 3:07:05
  Speaker 1: afraid of attacking the pirate as he was that they
• 3:07:08
  Speaker 1: would attack him. He had become desperate and had resolved
• 3:07:13
  Speaker 1: upon not yielding easily, declaring he would do his utmost
• 3:07:17
  Speaker 1: to sink them. At noon, a breeze sprung up, of
• 3:07:21
  Speaker 1: which the Corsair took advantage and ran for Rio Omedia,
• 3:07:26
  Speaker 1: while the gunboats came to an anchor. The anchor was
• 3:07:30
  Speaker 1: scarcely down when the magistrate was on board to inform
• 3:07:33
  Speaker 1: the captain that the victorious capture was unknown to the
• 3:07:36
  Speaker 1: troops and gunboats, as she was totally destroyed before their arrival,
• 3:07:41
  Speaker 1: and that the latter would remain off the cape for
• 3:07:43
  Speaker 1: some days. Having so far obliged his friend, he departed,
• 3:07:49
  Speaker 1: promising to repeat his visit on the following day, accompanied
• 3:07:52
  Speaker 1: by several others who were coming to congratulate him. The
• 3:07:57
  Speaker 1: night was spent in watchfulness, and the day brought the
• 3:08:00
  Speaker 1: promised party, consisting of the old magistrate and his daughter,
• 3:08:04
  Speaker 1: with three or four ladies, and several other magistrates and priests.
• 3:08:09
  Speaker 1: The whole were well entertained on board, and the latter
• 3:08:12
  Speaker 1: were by no means sparing of the wines and spirits
• 3:08:15
  Speaker 1: that were set before them. Seraphina seized the first opportunity
• 3:08:19
  Speaker 1: of informing me of all that she had done during
• 3:08:22
  Speaker 1: my absence, and raised my hopes by saying that she
• 3:08:25
  Speaker 1: had engaged another and more trustworthy guide for our escape,
• 3:08:29
  Speaker 1: and that it only wanted an opportunity to avail ourselves
• 3:08:33
  Speaker 1: of his services. We dwelt upon this interesting theme, devising
• 3:08:37
  Speaker 1: the means. When a general movement for departure broke off
• 3:08:41
  Speaker 1: our conversation. She took a warm and affectionate leave of
• 3:08:45
  Speaker 1: me for the night, and this was the last interview
• 3:08:49
  Speaker 1: I had with this kind, warm hearted and benevolent creature.
• 3:08:54
  Speaker 1: Her kindness soothed me in my captivity, and I shall
• 3:08:58
  Speaker 1: never forget her. End of Section six, Part six, Section seven,
• 3:09:05
  Speaker 1: Part seven, A narrative, et cetera, et cetera. On the
• 3:09:11
  Speaker 1: following morning, the Corsair sailed for the Morillia, where she
• 3:09:15
  Speaker 1: remained idle for nearly three weeks. At the end of
• 3:09:19
  Speaker 1: that time, a French vessel fell into the hands of
• 3:09:22
  Speaker 1: the pirate. The usual scene of cruelty and atrocity took place.
• 3:09:28
  Speaker 1: And when they had taken all the money and the
• 3:09:30
  Speaker 1: valuable part of her cargo, and destroyed and damaged the remainder,
• 3:09:34
  Speaker 1: they cut away her mizzen mast and starboard main rigging,
• 3:09:38
  Speaker 1: and in that crippled state, dismissed them to pursue their voyage.
• 3:09:42
  Speaker 1: Forbidding them, however, to go to the Havana. The pirate
• 3:09:46
  Speaker 1: returned with a splendor into the Morillia, where he anchored. Discord, however,
• 3:09:52
  Speaker 1: began to rear her head. Among this horde of savages.
• 3:09:56
  Speaker 1: Some one had insinuated that they had not been fairly
• 3:09:59
  Speaker 1: dealt by, and that the captain had secreted large sums
• 3:10:03
  Speaker 1: for himself. Discontent manifested itself, first in whispered insinuations, and
• 3:10:09
  Speaker 1: at last in open accusations, and two parties were consequently formed,
• 3:10:15
  Speaker 1: one who believed him innocent and the other guilty. Things
• 3:10:19
  Speaker 1: were in this state, and each waiting only for a
• 3:10:23
  Speaker 1: plausible pretext to attack the other. When murder and massacre
• 3:10:27
  Speaker 1: would have ensued, but an unexpected event suspended the quarrel.
• 3:10:32
  Speaker 1: The man at the masthead descried the gunboats steering towards
• 3:10:35
  Speaker 1: the Corsair, and they were shortly after heard to scale
• 3:10:39
  Speaker 1: their guns. These warlike preparations seemed to denote an immediate attack,
• 3:10:46
  Speaker 1: and their private animosities were forgotten in the hurry of
• 3:10:49
  Speaker 1: self defense. The alarm, however, was without foundation, for they
• 3:10:54
  Speaker 1: all passed on without noticing the pirate. A fisherman who
• 3:10:58
  Speaker 1: boarded the schooner soon out after informed us that the
• 3:11:02
  Speaker 1: commanding officer of the flotilla had told him that he
• 3:11:05
  Speaker 1: was well aware that the schooner was a pirate, but
• 3:11:07
  Speaker 1: that he had no time to go in chase of
• 3:11:09
  Speaker 1: her as he was on his return. Thus ended this
• 3:11:13
  Speaker 1: boasted expedition for the suppression of piracy, without effecting one
• 3:11:17
  Speaker 1: single object for which it was furnished and sent out,
• 3:11:21
  Speaker 1: and no wonder for I am convinced from personal observation
• 3:11:25
  Speaker 1: that from the governor to the mere clerk or officer,
• 3:11:29
  Speaker 1: all derived some degree of benefit from the acts of
• 3:11:31
  Speaker 1: those lawless ruffians, and therefore it is against their interests
• 3:11:35
  Speaker 1: to injure them. The discontent that existed previous to the
• 3:11:40
  Speaker 1: late alarm now broke out afresh, and the two parties
• 3:11:44
  Speaker 1: would have proceeded to extremities but for the timely arrival
• 3:11:47
  Speaker 1: of two gentlemen from the Havanna, who I understood were
• 3:11:50
  Speaker 1: the owners of the Corsair. By their interference, all differences
• 3:11:56
  Speaker 1: were arranged, and the newly acquired plunder being shipped on
• 3:11:59
  Speaker 1: board two coasting vessels. They returned with them. The captain,
• 3:12:05
  Speaker 1: on the following day was attacked by a fever and
• 3:12:08
  Speaker 1: felt himself so indisposed that he was apprehensive of death.
• 3:12:13
  Speaker 1: He sent for me in a terrible state of alarm,
• 3:12:15
  Speaker 1: and promised me my liberty if I cured him, the
• 3:12:19
  Speaker 1: promise I knew would be broken the moment he was well,
• 3:12:22
  Speaker 1: so I resolved to take advantage of his illness to
• 3:12:25
  Speaker 1: make my escape. For this I thought the best thing
• 3:12:29
  Speaker 1: would be to confine him to the cabin, and as
• 3:12:32
  Speaker 1: he promised to follow my directions implicitly, I gave this
• 3:12:35
  Speaker 1: injunction the first thing, and an opportunity soon after offered.
• 3:12:42
  Speaker 1: Two fishermen came on board on the following afternoon and
• 3:12:45
  Speaker 1: exchanged their cargo of fish for spirits. The evening being
• 3:12:49
  Speaker 1: wet and stormy, they remained on board, and the crew
• 3:12:52
  Speaker 1: inviting them to corrouse the whole were very shortly intoxicated.
• 3:12:58
  Speaker 1: No further danger from the gun banes being apprehended, the
• 3:13:01
  Speaker 1: watch was neglected, and the moment I perceived this fancied
• 3:13:04
  Speaker 1: state of security, hope dawned in my bosom. I knew
• 3:13:09
  Speaker 1: that intoxication would make the rest sleep sound, and in
• 3:13:12
  Speaker 1: order to secure the captain in making him a mess
• 3:13:15
  Speaker 1: of arrow, root and wine, I infused a quantity of opiate.
• 3:13:21
  Speaker 1: At midnight, all were asleep. The inclemency of the night
• 3:13:25
  Speaker 1: had driven the usual sleepers on deck below, and therefore
• 3:13:28
  Speaker 1: no one could see me. Not a sound was heard
• 3:13:31
  Speaker 1: save the sullen roar of the waters around me, or
• 3:13:34
  Speaker 1: the wind and the rain beating against the shrouds. Not
• 3:13:37
  Speaker 1: a star was to be seen, and the scud was
• 3:13:40
  Speaker 1: flying thick and heavy. With a palpitating heart, I seized
• 3:13:45
  Speaker 1: my bag that held my instruments and in which I
• 3:13:48
  Speaker 1: had secured some biscuit, and crept softly up the companion ladder,
• 3:13:53
  Speaker 1: and from thence to the stern of the corsair, where
• 3:13:55
  Speaker 1: the fisherman's canoe was moored. Into this, I gently dropped
• 3:14:00
  Speaker 1: my bag, and then letting myself down, cut the painter
• 3:14:04
  Speaker 1: and let her drift away with the current, in order
• 3:14:07
  Speaker 1: not to rouse them by any noise. When I judged
• 3:14:12
  Speaker 1: myself to be out of hearing. I trimmed the canoe
• 3:14:14
  Speaker 1: and set the sail, steering her in the direction as
• 3:14:17
  Speaker 1: I imagined, of the Havana, and committing my future fate
• 3:14:21
  Speaker 1: to the hands of that providence who had hitherto preserved me.
• 3:14:26
  Speaker 1: In the morning, according to my calculation, I found myself
• 3:14:29
  Speaker 1: about forty miles from the place where the pirate was
• 3:14:32
  Speaker 1: at anchor, and consequently out of the reach of pursuit.
• 3:14:36
  Speaker 1: The wind blew from the southwest, and what appeared to
• 3:14:39
  Speaker 1: me a special providence continued to do so the whole day,
• 3:14:43
  Speaker 1: a thing very unusual in that climate. All that day
• 3:14:47
  Speaker 1: and the following night, I was upon the ocean without
• 3:14:50
  Speaker 1: seeing a single vessel, and at the mercy of the waves,
• 3:14:53
  Speaker 1: in a frail canoe, in which at any other time,
• 3:14:56
  Speaker 1: and under any other circumstances, I should have been a
• 3:15:00
  Speaker 1: afraid to trust myself. At six o'clock of the second
• 3:15:05
  Speaker 1: morning of my escape, I entered the Havana, and, seeing
• 3:15:08
  Speaker 1: a person walking the deck of a schooner whose face
• 3:15:11
  Speaker 1: appeared familiar to me, I ran my canoe alongside and
• 3:15:14
  Speaker 1: found him to be a Captain Williams, whom I had
• 3:15:17
  Speaker 1: known some years before in America. He welcomed me on board,
• 3:15:23
  Speaker 1: gave me refreshments, and, seeing me weak and exhausted, begged
• 3:15:27
  Speaker 1: me to lie down and sleep, promising in the afternoon
• 3:15:30
  Speaker 1: to introduce me to the master of a vessel who
• 3:15:33
  Speaker 1: was in want of a mate. I willingly complied with
• 3:15:37
  Speaker 1: his request, for I was completely faint and exhausted with
• 3:15:40
  Speaker 1: my exertions of the day and night previous. I now
• 3:15:44
  Speaker 1: imagine my sufferings were at an end, But alas I
• 3:15:48
  Speaker 1: had yet to pass through another ordeal as cruel and
• 3:15:51
  Speaker 1: as severe as that from which I had just escaped.
• 3:15:56
  Speaker 1: When I awoke from a profound sleep in the afternoon,
• 3:15:58
  Speaker 1: I have found that Captain William had gone ashore, leaving
• 3:16:01
  Speaker 1: directions with his mate where I should find him. I
• 3:16:05
  Speaker 1: prevailed upon him to land me, and while proceeding up
• 3:16:09
  Speaker 1: the front street according to my directions, I met one
• 3:16:13
  Speaker 1: of the men belonging to the pirate, who, the moment
• 3:16:15
  Speaker 1: he saw me, ran on before till he arrived at
• 3:16:19
  Speaker 1: the corner of a street, up which he turned and
• 3:16:22
  Speaker 1: I saw no more of him. I had advanced a
• 3:16:25
  Speaker 1: very few paces further when the Spanish officer, who had
• 3:16:28
  Speaker 1: been on board the pirate came from that direction with
• 3:16:32
  Speaker 1: a file of soldiers and immediately arrested me as a pirate,
• 3:16:37
  Speaker 1: and charging me with having robbed him of specie to
• 3:16:39
  Speaker 1: a large amount, conducted me to the Governor's offices. From
• 3:16:45
  Speaker 1: thence I was taken to the prison, where I was
• 3:16:47
  Speaker 1: immured in a dark dungeon swarming with vermin, and there
• 3:16:51
  Speaker 1: left without anything to cover me, and nothing but the
• 3:16:54
  Speaker 1: bare floor to lie on. My daily allowance was two
• 3:16:58
  Speaker 1: ounces of meat, two of bread, and a pint of rice.
• 3:17:03
  Speaker 1: In this place I was a solitary prisoner for two days,
• 3:17:07
  Speaker 1: and on the third underwent an examination something similar in
• 3:17:11
  Speaker 1: mode to those at our own police offices, except that
• 3:17:14
  Speaker 1: in this instance a judge presided the governor's interpreter, and
• 3:17:19
  Speaker 1: irishman was the medium through whom I was interrogated. As
• 3:17:23
  Speaker 1: the judge did not understand English. This fellow, whose name
• 3:17:27
  Speaker 1: is Payne, I found to be a most unprincipled and
• 3:17:30
  Speaker 1: base scoundrel, a disgrace to any nation. The interrogations were
• 3:17:36
  Speaker 1: put to me by this man in English, and the
• 3:17:38
  Speaker 1: answers interpreted and committed to paper in Spanish. In the
• 3:17:43
  Speaker 1: course of the examination I detailed every circumstance of my
• 3:17:46
  Speaker 1: capture and forcible detention, and the cruelties I had endured,
• 3:17:51
  Speaker 1: and also, to different questions, gave a full account of
• 3:17:54
  Speaker 1: all the vessels at the capturing of which I either
• 3:17:57
  Speaker 1: assisted or had been present. This pain told me that
• 3:18:02
  Speaker 1: mister Lumsdon had already made every particular known. I represented
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  Speaker 1: to him the deplorable situation in which I was without friends, money,
• 3:18:10
  Speaker 1: or clothes in a foreign land. But the only consolation
• 3:18:14
  Speaker 1: I received was that I should most likely be liberated
• 3:18:18
  Speaker 1: after another examination, as the judge could not, under present
• 3:18:21
  Speaker 1: circumstances attach any guilt to me. My examination being concluded,
• 3:18:27
  Speaker 1: I was reconducted to my dungeon, where I was kept
• 3:18:30
  Speaker 1: closely confined till the following day, and then allowed to
• 3:18:34
  Speaker 1: go into a yard containing four or five hundred prisoners
• 3:18:37
  Speaker 1: of all nations and many of the very worst description.
• 3:18:42
  Speaker 1: I had scarcely entered the place when a sturdy looking
• 3:18:45
  Speaker 1: villain came up to me and demanded my trousers, insisting
• 3:18:48
  Speaker 1: that I should strip them off instantly. A Spaniard who
• 3:18:53
  Speaker 1: had formerly sailed with me in a brig of which
• 3:18:55
  Speaker 1: I was master, and who was also a prisoner at
• 3:18:57
  Speaker 1: the moment recognized me and endeavored to prevent him, but
• 3:19:02
  Speaker 1: the sturdy villain was determined to have them, and I
• 3:19:05
  Speaker 1: was actually obliged to battle and wound him with the
• 3:19:08
  Speaker 1: knife of which I learned the use to please the
• 3:19:11
  Speaker 1: pirate before he would forego his demand. I afterwards found
• 3:19:16
  Speaker 1: that it was the practice of these fellows to rob
• 3:19:18
  Speaker 1: all English and American sailors who were unfortunate enough to
• 3:19:23
  Speaker 1: become inmates of the jail, of whatever necessaries they might have.
• 3:19:28
  Speaker 1: From the Spanish sailor, I received many little acts of kindness.
• 3:19:32
  Speaker 1: He procured me a bedstead to lie upon, would bring
• 3:19:36
  Speaker 1: me my victuals, and, in order to put me in
• 3:19:38
  Speaker 1: the way of earning trifling sums to supply my little wants,
• 3:19:42
  Speaker 1: taught me to make cigars, at which trade he himself
• 3:19:46
  Speaker 1: earned several dollars a week, and worked for one of
• 3:19:48
  Speaker 1: the largest cigar shops in the town. Five weeks elapsed
• 3:19:54
  Speaker 1: instead of two days before I was called up for
• 3:19:56
  Speaker 1: a second examination. At this I was informed that the
• 3:20:01
  Speaker 1: only accusation against me was the affidavit of the Spanish officer,
• 3:20:05
  Speaker 1: who was now gone to Europe, and in this he
• 3:20:08
  Speaker 1: deposed on oath that I was one of a crew
• 3:20:11
  Speaker 1: of pirates who had robbed him of specie to a
• 3:20:14
  Speaker 1: large amount. My former deposition was then read over to me.
• 3:20:20
  Speaker 1: But what was my astonishment to find that every syllable
• 3:20:22
  Speaker 1: of that part which related to my capture and forcible detention,
• 3:20:26
  Speaker 1: had been omitted, and many other things inserted that I
• 3:20:29
  Speaker 1: had never uttered. I remarked this, when the Irishman, with
• 3:20:34
  Speaker 1: a degree of violence and in an authoritative tone, declared
• 3:20:38
  Speaker 1: that I had never asserted anything on the subject. A
• 3:20:42
  Speaker 1: warm altercation then took place, in which I accused him
• 3:20:45
  Speaker 1: as the author of my long imprisonment and my sufferings
• 3:20:49
  Speaker 1: while confined, while he, with all the voluble scurrility of
• 3:20:54
  Speaker 1: his countrymen, lavished every degrading epithet on me, and concluded
• 3:20:58
  Speaker 1: by a threat to represent me to the governor as
• 3:21:01
  Speaker 1: a piratical scoundrel. The judge now asked this fellow what
• 3:21:06
  Speaker 1: had occurred, to which he imprudently replied nothing. But to
• 3:21:11
  Speaker 1: his utter dismay, I immediately answered in Spanish and as
• 3:21:15
  Speaker 1: well as I could explain the whole matter in dispute.
• 3:21:19
  Speaker 1: The judge immediately answered me and said that as I
• 3:21:22
  Speaker 1: was a foreigner and unacquainted with their laws, he would
• 3:21:26
  Speaker 1: show me every indulgence in his power and allow me
• 3:21:29
  Speaker 1: to correct all misinterpretations. That he would then go on
• 3:21:33
  Speaker 1: with my examination, and that an additional interpreter should be employed,
• 3:21:37
  Speaker 1: as I had requested. I was then remanded to prison
• 3:21:42
  Speaker 1: and brought up the following day. On this day I
• 3:21:47
  Speaker 1: pointed out the objectionable passages in the former deposition, all which,
• 3:21:51
  Speaker 1: although strenuously opposed by this renegade Irishman, were erased from
• 3:21:55
  Speaker 1: the record. One of the additional interpreters on this occasion
• 3:22:01
  Speaker 1: was mister Gassier, the harbor master, who said he was
• 3:22:04
  Speaker 1: ready to depose on oath that mister Lumsden had declared
• 3:22:07
  Speaker 1: that I was forcibly detained, and that the substance of
• 3:22:11
  Speaker 1: that declaration was contained in a protest deposited in one
• 3:22:15
  Speaker 1: of the public notary's offices. The judge on this declared
• 3:22:19
  Speaker 1: that he would examine the protest, and that if such
• 3:22:22
  Speaker 1: was the fact, I should be recommended to the favorable
• 3:22:25
  Speaker 1: attention of the governor. Having said this, he remanded me
• 3:22:29
  Speaker 1: once more. During the interval between this and my final examination,
• 3:22:36
  Speaker 1: a serious quarrel took place among the prisoners in which
• 3:22:39
  Speaker 1: five were killed and several wounded, and it was not
• 3:22:42
  Speaker 1: until the military were called that order could be restored.
• 3:22:47
  Speaker 1: The imprecations, cries and groans during its continuance were truly appalling.
• 3:22:53
  Speaker 1: After languishing several weeks in this jail, I was at
• 3:22:56
  Speaker 1: last brought up before the Governor, who sat attended by
• 3:22:59
  Speaker 1: his second chariot war and two judges. Previous to being arraigned,
• 3:23:04
  Speaker 1: I was asked whether I would be tried by the
• 3:23:06
  Speaker 1: Spanish laws or given up to my own government, and
• 3:23:10
  Speaker 1: was informed that Captain Lelcroft of the Hyperion then in port,
• 3:23:15
  Speaker 1: had demanded to have me sent to Jamaica, but that
• 3:23:18
  Speaker 1: he had refused to comply with the demand as the
• 3:23:22
  Speaker 1: Pirate was a Spanish vessel and manned by Spaniards, and
• 3:23:26
  Speaker 1: that therefore I was amenable to the laws of Spain.
• 3:23:30
  Speaker 1: He said, however, that I should have my choice. I
• 3:23:34
  Speaker 1: immediately begged that, as the whole of the circumstances of
• 3:23:37
  Speaker 1: my case were known in the Havana, I might be
• 3:23:40
  Speaker 1: tried on the spot, the usual forms having been gone through.
• 3:23:46
  Speaker 1: I entered on my defense and recapitulated the whole of
• 3:23:49
  Speaker 1: the circumstances from the capture to the moment of my
• 3:23:52
  Speaker 1: escape and apprehension, dwelling forcibly upon every fact, and pointing
• 3:23:57
  Speaker 1: out the injury I had sustained, not only in loss
• 3:24:00
  Speaker 1: of property, but what was far dearer to me, the
• 3:24:03
  Speaker 1: loss of character, praying him to consider at the same
• 3:24:07
  Speaker 1: time that I was at a distance of four thousand
• 3:24:09
  Speaker 1: miles from my native country and destitute of every means.
• 3:24:15
  Speaker 1: The governor heard me with the greatest attention, and my
• 3:24:18
  Speaker 1: narrative evidently excited great interest in his mind. When I
• 3:24:22
  Speaker 1: had ceased speaking, he turned round and consulted the persons
• 3:24:26
  Speaker 1: upon the bench with him, And, having received an affirmative
• 3:24:29
  Speaker 1: answer from the judge who had examined me as to
• 3:24:31
  Speaker 1: the truth of my statements, he addressed me in nearly
• 3:24:35
  Speaker 1: the following words. In considering your case, and giving due
• 3:24:41
  Speaker 1: weight to all the circumstances set forth both in your
• 3:24:45
  Speaker 1: deposition and what you have this day laid before me,
• 3:24:49
  Speaker 1: I am decidedly of opinion that you are rather an
• 3:24:52
  Speaker 1: object for pity and commiseration than for prosecution. One point, must, however,
• 3:24:58
  Speaker 1: be inquired into, be for I can decide in what
• 3:25:01
  Speaker 1: way the court will dispose of you. The Admiral on
• 3:25:05
  Speaker 1: the Jamaica station has made a formal application that you
• 3:25:09
  Speaker 1: should be surrendered into his hands and be at his disposal.
• 3:25:13
  Speaker 1: As I know not what right he has to make
• 3:25:16
  Speaker 1: this demand, or if he has the right, whether it
• 3:25:18
  Speaker 1: would be consistent with the laws of Spain and my
• 3:25:21
  Speaker 1: own duty to comply with it, I must necessarily consult
• 3:25:25
  Speaker 1: with the law authorities upon the subject. Your case shall
• 3:25:29
  Speaker 1: have the earliest consideration and be brought to as speedy
• 3:25:32
  Speaker 1: a conclusion as the rules of this court will admit.
• 3:25:36
  Speaker 1: But in the meantime you must remain as you are.
• 3:25:41
  Speaker 1: I bowed when he had concluded, and was reconducted in
• 3:25:44
  Speaker 1: the usual manner to my prison I had been kept
• 3:25:48
  Speaker 1: in painful suspense for some days, when one forenoon one
• 3:25:52
  Speaker 1: of the judges entered the prison yard. Your case has
• 3:25:56
  Speaker 1: been decided, young men, said he coming up to me,
• 3:26:00
  Speaker 1: and you are to be surrendered into the hands of
• 3:26:02
  Speaker 1: the admiral. Be it so, said I. My conscience acquits
• 3:26:07
  Speaker 1: me of having committed any crime, and therefore I care
• 3:26:10
  Speaker 1: not into whose hands I am surrendered. It will be
• 3:26:14
  Speaker 1: a hard case for you, continued this upright judge, to
• 3:26:18
  Speaker 1: be dragged to Jamaica. A prisoner and be tried a
• 3:26:21
  Speaker 1: second time. But come, you know you have been among
• 3:26:25
  Speaker 1: the pirates and have plenty of money. If you will
• 3:26:27
  Speaker 1: give me and my brother Judge what you have, you
• 3:26:30
  Speaker 1: shall be released forthwith and go where you please. My
• 3:26:36
  Speaker 1: blood boiled within me. If my liberty depends, said I haughtily,
• 3:26:41
  Speaker 1: upon what money I can give, I must needs be
• 3:26:44
  Speaker 1: a prisoner all my life. I never partook of the
• 3:26:47
  Speaker 1: fruits of their iniquity, and have not wherewithal at this
• 3:26:50
  Speaker 1: moment to purchase the common necessaries of life. Way well
• 3:26:56
  Speaker 1: the proposal, young man, cried he with unblushing eff My
• 3:27:01
  Speaker 1: interest never fails to it. The four pirates who were
• 3:27:05
  Speaker 1: released the other day are indebted for their safety, and
• 3:27:08
  Speaker 1: from them I received four hundred doubloons. I replied that
• 3:27:13
  Speaker 1: I had no dobloons to give him. Then I cannot
• 3:27:18
  Speaker 1: interfere for you, said he coolly and departed. The pirates
• 3:27:24
  Speaker 1: whom he had liberated had actually been convicted, and for
• 3:27:28
  Speaker 1: this paltry bribe, had justice been violated, and they had
• 3:27:32
  Speaker 1: escaped the fate they merited. Thus are the laws of
• 3:27:36
  Speaker 1: Spain administered in the island of Cuba. Confinement, bad diet
• 3:27:43
  Speaker 1: and agitation of mind threw me shortly into a fever,
• 3:27:47
  Speaker 1: under the effects of which I labored for ten days,
• 3:27:50
  Speaker 1: and at one time I thought it would have released
• 3:27:52
  Speaker 1: me from my sufferings. But I recovered and recovered only
• 3:27:56
  Speaker 1: to meet within humanity where I least expected it from
• 3:28:00
  Speaker 1: an Englishman, an admiral in his Majesty's service. I was
• 3:28:05
  Speaker 1: one day called out of my bed to the gate,
• 3:28:08
  Speaker 1: where I found a lieutenant of the Sibyl, Admiral Sir
• 3:28:11
  Speaker 1: Charles Rowley's flagship, who informed me that he was going
• 3:28:14
  Speaker 1: to have me liberated and then left me. On the
• 3:28:18
  Speaker 1: following day, I found three naval officers at the gate, who,
• 3:28:22
  Speaker 1: with a guard of Spanish soldiers, took me down to
• 3:28:25
  Speaker 1: the beach where the Sibyl's boat was in waiting. I was, then,
• 3:28:30
  Speaker 1: in due form, surrendered to the British government and taken
• 3:28:33
  Speaker 1: on board. What was my astonishment when I reached the
• 3:28:37
  Speaker 1: deck to hear the order that I was to be
• 3:28:40
  Speaker 1: taken below and put into double irons. This was the
• 3:28:44
  Speaker 1: liberty that was promised. I was taken from where my
• 3:28:48
  Speaker 1: limbs at least were free, to be manacled like a
• 3:28:51
  Speaker 1: felon on board of a British Admiral's flagship. My wounds
• 3:28:55
  Speaker 1: were still open and my leg was swelled. I pointed
• 3:28:59
  Speaker 1: out the excrucion creating pain that irons upon it would cause,
• 3:29:02
  Speaker 1: and hope that if Sir Charles was determined to confine me,
• 3:29:06
  Speaker 1: he would not torture me. The petty officers pitied me,
• 3:29:10
  Speaker 1: but were obliged to obey their orders, and all they
• 3:29:13
  Speaker 1: could do was to promise to report my request and
• 3:29:16
  Speaker 1: inform the surgeon. The ship's corporal shortly after return saying
• 3:29:21
  Speaker 1: that no orders had been given on the subject of
• 3:29:24
  Speaker 1: my leg, but that the barber was to attend me,
• 3:29:26
  Speaker 1: and I was then to be taken to the forecastle
• 3:29:29
  Speaker 1: and washed with cold water. Remonstrance was fruitless. I was
• 3:29:35
  Speaker 1: compelled to submit to this order, and contracted so severe
• 3:29:38
  Speaker 1: a cold from the effects of my submersion that I
• 3:29:41
  Speaker 1: shall never completely recover from it. This order having been
• 3:29:45
  Speaker 1: complied with to the very letter, I was taken below
• 3:29:49
  Speaker 1: and again double ironed, and in this torture I was
• 3:29:52
  Speaker 1: kept till the following day, when the Admiral visited me,
• 3:29:55
  Speaker 1: accompanied by Captain Rowley. To the latter kind, generous and
• 3:30:00
  Speaker 1: truly humane man, I feel most grateful for alleviating my
• 3:30:05
  Speaker 1: misery and doing all in his power to render my
• 3:30:08
  Speaker 1: confinement as little irksome to me as was possible. The
• 3:30:12
  Speaker 1: iron from my wounded leg was removed by his interference,
• 3:30:15
  Speaker 1: and the surgeon sent to dress it. From this medical man,
• 3:30:20
  Speaker 1: also whose name I unfortunately have forgotten, I received the
• 3:30:24
  Speaker 1: greatest kindness and attention, and I take this opportunity of
• 3:30:27
  Speaker 1: expressing my gratitude to him. When the Sibyl arrived in
• 3:30:32
  Speaker 1: the higher latitudes, Captain Rowley's humanity was again conspicuously displayed.
• 3:30:38
  Speaker 1: Seeing me thinly clad, he procured me warmer clothing, and
• 3:30:42
  Speaker 1: when he found that the purser had no blankets, gave
• 3:30:45
  Speaker 1: me one from his own bed to cover me. During
• 3:30:48
  Speaker 1: the whole voyage I was kept out of irons, with
• 3:30:51
  Speaker 1: a sentry only over me to prevent me from conversing
• 3:30:55
  Speaker 1: with anyone. And even this restraint would, I am sure,
• 3:30:59
  Speaker 1: have been dispensed with had he been in command. On
• 3:31:03
  Speaker 1: the arrival of the Sibyl at the Isle of Wight,
• 3:31:06
  Speaker 1: I was put in single irons. The vessel went round
• 3:31:09
  Speaker 1: to Spithead, the admiral struck his flag, and she was
• 3:31:12
  Speaker 1: soon after brought to Deptford. A visible change took place
• 3:31:18
  Speaker 1: as soon as the Admiral left, and my situation was
• 3:31:21
  Speaker 1: rendered less irksome. In short, I cannot speak in two
• 3:31:26
  Speaker 1: high terms of the kindness and humanity of all the officers,
• 3:31:30
  Speaker 1: particularly Lieutenant Bennett. When the Sibyl was taken out of commission,
• 3:31:35
  Speaker 1: I was transferred to the ask tender commanded by Lieutenant Weeks,
• 3:31:40
  Speaker 1: and by him conveyed on board the Genoa Guardship at Sheerness.
• 3:31:45
  Speaker 1: Of the Wanton severity and petty insults which I received
• 3:31:49
  Speaker 1: from this officer during the few hours I was in
• 3:31:51
  Speaker 1: his charge, I shall say nothing. By the officers of
• 3:31:56
  Speaker 1: the Genoa. I was treated in the most humane and
• 3:31:59
  Speaker 1: gentlemanlike man and to Lieutenant Hopkins and them, my warmest
• 3:32:03
  Speaker 1: thanks are due. After being six days on board, I
• 3:32:08
  Speaker 1: was sent up to London in the charge of Lieutenant
• 3:32:11
  Speaker 1: Hallowell and another officer whose name has escaped me, and
• 3:32:15
  Speaker 1: was treated with uniform kindness and humanity. In London, I
• 3:32:20
  Speaker 1: was examined before mister Richbald, the Presiding Magistrate of the
• 3:32:24
  Speaker 1: Thames Police, and by him committed to Newgate and tried
• 3:32:28
  Speaker 1: and acquitted at the ensuing Admiralty sessions. Thus has ended
• 3:32:35
  Speaker 1: a series of unparalleled sufferings and persecutions, all occasioned by
• 3:32:39
  Speaker 1: the obstinate infatuation of a single individual, who had not
• 3:32:44
  Speaker 1: the common feelings of humanity. Afterwards to come forward himself
• 3:32:47
  Speaker 1: in my behalf, and God forbid that such should ever
• 3:32:51
  Speaker 1: fall to the lot of any man. End of the
• 3:32:55
  Speaker 1: Atrocities of the Pirates by Aaron Smith