He was going, he said, into the country to make war; and the captain should have half of his booty.

So well understood were the practices of the trade, that his request was granted.

Quarmo, however, and his associates, finding things favourable to their design, suddenly seized the captain, threw him overboard, hauled him into their canoe, and dragged him to the shore; where another party of the natives, lying in ambush, seized such of the crew as were absent from the ship.

But how did these savages behave, when they had these different persons in their power?
Did they not instantly retaliate by murdering them all?
No--they only obliged the captain to give an order on the vessel to pay his debts.

This fact came out only two months ago in a trial in the court of common pleas--not in a trial for piracy and murder--but in the trial of a civil suit, instituted by some of the poor sailors, to whom the owners refused their wages, because the natives, on account of the villanous conduct of their captain, had kept them from their vessel by detaining them as prisoners on shore.