And what good can gold do a man with a conscience haunted by crimes committed in getting it?
Gold can do me no good; but man is a mean animal at best; and you can so teach him in crime that he will commit the most revolting out of sheer wantonness.
"We soon had more gold and jewels than we knew what to do with.

Some of our men left us and went home with enough to make them rich for the rest of their lives.

And we have buried enough on these islands to buy a city.

Gold lost its charms with us, and crime became an excitement and an entertainment.
"We discovered this island while cruising from one ocean to the other, and found on it some sailors, whose vessel had been wrecked near where you landed.

They had been seven years here, and it is to them we are indebted for these animals and fowls.