It brought me freedom from the rope and pardon for my chief offence.

Then, in company with a rogue, I got wealth from the depths of the sea, and here I am in the bottom of my luxury, drunken and obscene--yes, obscene, for I permit my overseers and my manager to keep black women and have children by them.

That I do not do so myself is no virtue on my part, but the virtue of a girl whom I knew in Connemara.

I fill myself with drink.

I have a bottle of madeira or port every night, and pints of beer or claret.
I am a creature of low habits, a man sodden with self-indulgence.
And when I am in drink, no slaver can be more cruel and ruthless.
Yet I am moderate in eating.