They robbed Indians, they robbed villages; they devastated little towns, taking everything that they cared for, and burning what they did not want, and treating the people they captured with viler cruelties than any in which the buccaneers had yet indulged.

Their great object was to take everything they could find, and then try to make the people confess where other things were hidden.

Men and women were hacked to pieces with swords; it was L'Olonnois' pleasure, when a poor victim had nothing to tell, to tear out his tongue with his own hands, and it is said that on some occasions his fury was so great that he would cut out the heart of a man and bite at it with his great teeth.

No more dreadful miseries could be conceived than those inflicted upon the peaceful inhabitants of the country through which these wretches passed.

They frequently met ambuscades of Spaniards, who endeavored to stop their progress; but this was impossible.