They were a big un and two little uns, and I feel sure if I were to see them again I should know them.' "'Very well,' the captain said, 'I shall make for port at once, and hand over the prisoners to the Spanish authorities, then I will start on a cruise with you, and see if we can find your trees.' "From the description I could give him of the islands we passed after we had been at sea a few hours, and the time it took us to sail from them to some known points, the captain was able to form a sort of idea as to which group of islands it belonged to, and when he had reached port and got rid of his prisoners, all of whom were garroted--that's a sort of strangling, you know--by the Spaniards, a week afterward, we set out again on our search for the island.".