But fortune only partly favored
them, for many had lost all the wealth which they had gathered in their
career of piracy, their very clothes hanging in rags about their limbs.
Some, indeed, had been more fortunate or more adroit in their singular
navigation, but, as a whole, they were a woe-begone and miserable party
when, a few days afterwards, they reached the isle of Perlas. Here were
some friendly vessels, on which they embarked, and near the end of April
they reached the West Indies, with the little that remained of their
plunder.
Such was the end of this remarkable achievement, one which for boldness,
intrepidity, and skill in expedients has few to rival it in the annals of
history, and which, if performed by men of note, instead of by an obscure
band of robbers, would have won for them a high meed of fame.
THE CRUELTY OF THE SPANIARDS TO THE INDIANS.
Never were a people more terribly treated than the natives of America
under the Spanish adventurers. The often told story that the Indians of
Hispaniola were annihilated in one generation after the settlement of that
island is sufficient evidence of the frightfully inhuman treatment to
which they were subjected.
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