Next, Cahusac having inspected the cargo, put a quartermaster and a score of men aboard the Jongvrow, and left her to follow La Foudre, which he now headed south for the Leeward Islands.
Cahusac was disposed to be ill-humoured.

The risk they had run in taking the Dutch brig and doing violence to members of the family of the Governor of Tortuga, was out of all proportion to the value of their prize.

He said so, sullenly, to Levasseur.
"You'll keep that opinion to yourself," the Captain answered him.

"Don't think I am the man to thrust my neck into a noose, without knowing how I am going to take it out again.

I shall send an offer of terms to the Governor of Tortuga that he will be forced to accept.