The people of the French ship bitterly opposed any such view of the case, but their protestations were of no use; they might declare as much as they pleased that it was impossible for them to make the waters muddy, being lower down in the stream than the wolfish pirate who was accusing them, but it availed nothing.

Morgan sprang upon them and their ship, and sent them to Jamaica, where, upon his false charge, they were shut up in prison, and so remained for a long time.
Such atrocious wickedness as the treatment of the nuns and monks, described in this chapter, would never have been countenanced in any warfare between civilized nations.

But Morgan's pirates were not making war; they were robbers and murderers on a grand scale.

They had no right to call themselves civilized; they were worse than barbarians.
[Illustration: "Morgan began to upbraid them, and ordered them taken below."-- p.

151.].