But I suppose they couldn't do without excitement, and though every man talked of the time when the treasure would be divided and they were to scatter, I don't suppose as one ever expected as the time would really come.
"Well, arter everything was on board, and the women and children, the place was burned, and we sailed for the nearest Spanish port.

We had had a sort of court martial on board the frigate, and two or three young chaps like myself, and two men as was proved to have been captured in the pirates' last cruise, and who hadn't been to sea with them or taken part in any of their bloody doings, was kept on board ship, and the rest was handed over to the Spanish authorities.

Most of them was garroted, and a few was condemned to work on the roads for life.

I and the others was taken back to England in the frigate, whose foreign time was up, and when we got to Portsmouth we was drafted into a regiment there, and lucky we thought ourselves to get off so easy.

The captain's wife and some of the other white women came home to England on board the frigate.
She was very low at first, but she brightened up a good deal toward the end of the voyage, which lasted two months.