Commend me to him, and say that I venture to remind him that he must blame himself for all the ills that have befallen him.

The evil has recoiled upon him which he loosed when he sent his brother unofficially to make a raid upon the island of Barbados.

Bid him think twice before he lets his devils loose upon an English settlement again." With that he dismissed the Captain, who went over the side of the Santo Nino, and Captain Blood proceeded to investigate the value of this further prize.

When her hatches were removed, a human cargo was disclosed in her hold.
"Slaves," said Wolverstone, and persisted in that belief cursing Spanish devilry until Cahusac crawled up out of the dark bowels of the ship, and stood blinking in the sunlight.
There was more than sunlight to make the Breton pirate blink.

And those that crawled out after him--the remnants of his crew--cursed him horribly for the pusillanimity which had brought them into the ignominy of owing their deliverance to those whom they had deserted as lost beyond hope.
Their sloop had encountered and had been sunk three days ago by the Santo Nino, and Cahusac had narrowly escaped hanging merely that for some time he might be a mock among the Brethren of the Coast.
For many a month thereafter he was to hear in Tortuga the jeering taunt: "Where do you spend the gold that you brought back from Maracaybo ?".