They hadn't caught them, and the Brazilians thought that they had shifted their quarters and gone for a cruise in other latitudes.
"'The description they gave of them answered to these two--a brig and a schooner, with low hulls and tall spars.

One of them carries ten guns, the other two on each side, and a heavy piece mounted on a swivel amidship.

It was said that before they went down to Brazil they had been carrying on their games among the West India Islands, and had made it so hot for themselves that they had been obliged to move off from there.
It was like enough that, now the hue and cry after them had abated, they would return to their old quarters.
"'Well, my lads, I needn't tell you what we have to expect if they take us.

Every man Jack will either get his throat cut or be forced to walk the plank.

So we will fight her to the last; for if the worst comes to the worst, it's better to be killed fighting like men than to be murdered in cold blood.