 Between May 6 and 24, the French plundered the city, accumulating loot valued at ten to twenty million livres.Pointis then set sail directly for France, cheating his buccaneer allies of their promised share of the loot.Outraged, the buccaneers returned and plundered the city once more, this time untempered by the French regular soldiers, in an orgy of rape, extortion and murder.