Artizabal, the story goes, threatened to hang a certain ringleader (name not given) at his yard-arm.

Chacon begged the man's life, and the fellow was 'spared to become the persecutor of his preserver, even to banishment, and death from a broken heart.' {65} At last the explosion came.

The English sloop Zebra was sent down into the Gulf of Paria to clear it of French privateers, manned by the defeated maroons and brigands of the French islands, who were paying respect to no flag, but pirating indiscriminately.

Chacon confessed himself glad enough to have them exterminated.

He himself could not protect his own trade.