This place is a nest of pirates.

I will capture that battery and then join you." Fothergill and his sailors at once entered the village.

The men had already fled; the women were turned out of the houses, and these were immediately set on fire.

The tars regarded the whole affair as a glorious joke, and raced from house to house, making a hasty search in each for concealed valuables before setting it on fire.

In a short time the whole village was in a blaze.
"There is a house there, standing in that little grove a hundred yards away," Percy said.
"It looks like a temple," Fothergill replied.