ments on,
according to the repeated requests he had made in his life."

There was no treasure for the stout-hearted scoundrels who were
captured by the _Swallow_. They had diced with fortune and lost, and
Execution Dock was waiting for them, but they are worth a passing
acquaintance and it gives one a certain satisfaction to learn that
"they were impudently merry, saying when they viewed their nakedness,
'That they had not one half penny left to give old Charon to ferry them
over the Styx,' and at their thin commons they would observe that they
fell away so fast that they should not have weight enough to hang them.
Sutton used to be very profane, and he happening to be in the same
irons with another prisoner who was more serious than ordinary and read
and prayed often, as became his condition, this man Sutton used to
swear and ask him, 'What he proposed by so much noise and devotion?'
'Heaven, I hope,' says the other. 'Heaven, you fool,' says Sutton,
'Did you ever hear of any pirate going thither? Give me Hell. It is a
merrier place. I'll give Roberts a salute of thirteen guns at
entrance.'"

After Morgan had sacked the rich city of Porto Bello, John Esquemeling
wrote of the expedition:[8]

"With these (ships) he arrived in a few days at the Island of Cuba,
where he sought out a place wherein with all quiet and repose he might
make the dividend of the spoil they had got. They found in ready money
two hundred and fifty thousand pieces of eight, besides all other
merchandises, as cloth, linen, silks, and other goods. With this rich
booty they sailed again thence to their common place of rendezvous,
Jamaica. Being arrived, they passed here some time in all sorts of
vices and debauchery, according to their common manner of doing,
spending with huge prodigality what others had gained with no small
labor and toil."

"... Such of these Pirates are found who will spend two or three
thousand pieces of eight in one night, not leaving themselves,
peradventure, a good shirt to wear on their backs in the morning. My
own master would buy, on like occasions, a whole pipe of wine, and
placing it in the street, would force everyone that passed by to drink
with him; threatening also to pistol them in case they would not do it.
At other times, he would do the same with barrels of ale or beer. And,
very often, with both his hands, he would throw these liquors about the
streets and wet the clothes of such as walked by, withou