This after some little hesitation, fearful of thus setting his heart upon his sleeve.

But his Barbados friends accounted it merely an expression of the ever-ready irony in which their leader dealt.
To the score of followers he already possessed, he added threescore more, picking his men with caution and discrimination--and he was an exceptional judge of men--from amongst the adventurers of Tortuga.

With them all he entered into the articles usual among the Brethren of the Coast under which each man was to be paid by a share in the prizes captured.

In other respects, however, the articles were different.
Aboard the Arabella there was to be none of the ruffianly indiscipline that normally prevailed in buccaneering vessels.

Those who shipped with him undertook obedience and submission in all things to himself and to the officers appointed by election.