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But they cried the more fiercely ` No Espania , Nickalees ! ' and being greatly enraged thereat , seized upon all Trunks and Chests and our cloathes upon our Backs , leaving us each only a pair of old Breeches , except Robert Barrow , my wife , and child , from whom they took nothing . '' The king , or Cassekey , as Dickenson calls him , distinguished by a horse-tail fastened to his belt behind , took possession of their money and buried it , at which the good Quaker spares not his prayers for punishment on all pagan robbers , quite blind to the poetic justice of the burial , as the money had been made on land stolen from the savages . The said Cassekey also set up his abode in their tent ; kept all his tribe away from the woman and child and aged man ; kindled fires ; caused , as a delicate attention , the only hog remaining on the wreck to be killed and brought to them for a midnight meal ; and , in short , comported himself so hospitably , and with such kindly consideration toward the broad-brimmed Quaker , that we are inclined to account him the better-bred fellow of the two , in spite of his scant costume of horse-tail and belt of straw . As for the robbery of the ship 's cargo , no doubt the Cassekey had progressed far enough in civilization to know that to the victors belong the spoils . Florida , for two years , had been stricken down from coast to coast by a deadly famine , and in all probability these cannibals returned thanks to whatever God they had for this windfall of food and clothes devoutly as our forefathers were doing at the other end of the country for the homes which they had taken by force . There is a good deal of kinship among us in circumstances , after all , as well as in blood .