It is well you found us here, for with four prizes on hand, and with half his strength dead or disabled, Ricord must be in sore need of aid.

We will start tomorrow morning at daybreak.

As all the ships were taken, there is little fear of any of the other pirates hearing news of what has happened." "I don't know," Sir John replied.

"There were, as I told you, some two hundred pirates left on the island.

About half those, we know, seized a fishing boat and escaped, for they chased us, and we have had as narrow an escape from death as has ever fallen to my lot, though I have been in over a score of hard fought battles.