There was an easy, comfortable path along the shore under the bluff, but it lacked the advantages of difficulty and danger so valued by a pirate.
The Terror of the Seas had brought a side of bacon, and had about worn himself out with getting it there.

Finn the Red-Handed had stolen a skillet and a quantity of half-cured leaf tobacco, and had also brought a few corn-cobs to make pipes with.

But none of the pirates smoked or "chewed" but himself.

The Black Avenger of the Spanish Main said it would never do to start without some fire.

That was a wise thought; matches were hardly known there in that day.