nty of excellent Cogniac and
Bordeaux wine. During supper the schooner approached the Dolphin, and
lay alongside. It was now perfectly dark, and they showed us a place
close by the cabin door, where we could sleep.

The following morning we were invited to breakfast, which consisted of
coffee with goat's milk, broiled fish, smoked pork, very good biscuit,
and sweet brandy. After breakfast we were sent back to the Dolphin,
which, as the captain still persisted in his obstinate assertion that
there was no money on board, was being emptied of her contents by the
robber captain's commands. First of all I slipped into the cabin to
look after my chest; it had been broken open and robbed of all
articles of value, among which were two diamond rings. Some suits of
clothes, and some shirts, were all that remained. In unloading the
vessel they began first with the cow; then they threw over the
poultry, and all the other provisions, and then the wine and brandy
casks. They next came to the actual cargo of the brig, out of which
only what was very valuable was preserved, for there was no room to
stow any thing away in the pirate ship. Thus they worked until towards
evening, when we were again invited to supper, and again shown to our
sleeping place. The sailors had already become intoxicated, and were
singing and rioting upon deck, without either officers or captain
daring to check them, for on board such ships discipline is not to be
thought of.

The next day, right after breakfast, the pirate called the captain to
the after deck.

"I speak now," said he, "in kindness to you, for the last time; give
up your money, or tell where it is concealed. Do it, or, God d--n me,
the Dolphin, yourself, and all on board are lost."

The captain answered as before, that there was no money on board.

"Well then," cried the captain in a rage, "you shall find out who you
have to deal with. Ho there!" he cried to his men, "down with him into
the hold, tie up the pumps, and bring fire!"

The command was instantly obeyed, and a quantity of dry wood was
heaped up around the unfortunate man, which they were just about to
kindle, when his agony wrung from him the confession that under a
board in the cabin floor there was a box containing about five hundred
doubloons. He was unbound, and the gold was found.

"Well," said the pirate, "that is something. But you have more--I know
it! Give it up, or by all the devils, you shall be burnt."

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