were. Then being brought before him, one
by one, he asked if there was no other way to town but that. This he did
to avoid if possible those ambuscades. But they all constantly answered
him they knew none. Having asked them all, and finding they could show
him no other way, Lolonois grew outrageously passionate; so that he drew
his cutlass, and with it cut open the breast of one of those poor
Spaniards, and pulling out his heart began to bite and gnaw it with his
teeth, like a ravenous wolf, saying to the rest, "I will serve you all
alike, if you show me not another way."

Hereupon, those miserable wretches promised to show him another way, but
withal, they told him, it was extremely difficult, and laborious. Thus
to satisfy that cruel tyrant, they began to lead him and his army; but
finding it not for his purpose as they had told him, he was forced to
return to the former way, swearing with great choler and indignation,
"Mort Dieu, les Espagnols me le payeront. By God's death, the Spaniards
shall pay me for this."

Next day he fell into another ambuscade, which he assaulted with such
horrible fury, that in less than an hour's time he routed the Spaniards,
and killed the greatest part of them. The Spaniards thought by these
ambuscades better to destroy the pirates, assaulting them by degrees,
and for this reason had posted themselves in several places. At last he
met with a third ambuscade, where was placed a party stronger, and more
advantageously, than the former: yet notwithstanding, the pirates, by
continually throwing little fire-balls in great numbers, for some time,
forced this party, as well as the former, to flee, and this with so
great loss of men, that before they could reach the town, the greatest
part of the Spaniards were either killed or wounded. There was but one
path which led to the town, very well barricaded with good defences; and
the rest of the town round was planted with shrubs called raqueltes,
full of thorns very sharp pointed. This sort of fortification seemed
stronger than the triangles used in Europe, when an army is of necessity
to pass by the place of an enemy; it being almost impossible for the
pirates to traverse those shrubs. The Spaniards posted behind the said
defences, seeing the pirates come, began to ply them with their great
guns; but these perceiving them ready to fire, used to stoop down, and
when the shot was made, to fall upon the defendants with fire-balls and
naked swords, k