About noon
`` In the morning Mrs. Rossiter was buried ; the French captains allowing some of the surviving members of the crew of the _ Britannia _ to carry her body to her grave . There was a young Spanish woman -- the wife of the older captain -- on board the larger of the privateers , and she took care of us three children . I can not remember her name , but I do remember that she was a very beautiful woman and very kind to us , and told us through an interpreter that we should be well cared for , and some day go home to England ; and when she learned my own particular story she took me in her arms , kissed , and made much of me . `` About noon the crew of the _ Britannia _ were ranged on deck , and the elder of the two French captains called on Robert Eury to step out . `` ` This man here , ' he said in English , indicating the coloured steward , tells me that you have buried some money belonging to the prize . Where is it ? ' `` ` I can not tell you , ' replied Robert ; ` the captain 's wife told me it belonged to her children and to the little girl Mary . '