Well, Jack and I looked at each other--and then we signed." "And you say others of this crew have been obtained in the same manner ?" I questioned, deeply interested, and perceiving in this a ray of hope.
"Not exactly--no, I wouldn't precisely say that.

It's true, perhaps, that most of the Britishers were forced to join in about the same way I was, and there may be a Scandinavian, or two, with a few Dutch, to be counted in that list; but the most of these cusses are pirates from choice.

It's their trade, and they like it.

Sanchez only aims to keep hold of a few good men, because he has got to have sailors; but most of his crew are nothing but plain cut-throats." "Where does he find them ?" "Where?
Why the West Indies are full of such devils; been breeding them down there for two hundred years---Indians and half-breeds, niggers, Creoles, Portuguese, Spanish, and every damned mongrel you ever heard of.

Sanchez himself is half French.