They got their vessels under sail, and stood back to
the devoted city, doomed by them to pay the forfeit
for the dishonesty of their countryman.
Digitized biVtS^som)



DISCONTENT OF THE BUCCANEERS. 371

The matter was consulted and determined upon
without M. du Casse being present, and the ship in
which he had embarked was left by the rest without
company. When he perceived what they were bent
upon, he sent orders to them to desist, which he
accompanied with a promise to demand redress for
them in France ; but neither the doubtful prospect of
distant redress held out, nor respect for his orders, had
any effect in restraining them. M. du Casse sent an
officer to M. de Pointis, who had not yet sailed from
the entrance of Carthagena harbour, to inform him
that the buccaneers, in defiance of all order and in
breach of the capitulation which had been granted to
the city, were returning thither to plunder it again ;
but M. de Pointis in sending the commissary's account
had closed his intercourse with the buccaneers and
with the colonists, at least for the remainder of his
expedition. M. du Casse's officer was told that the
general was so ill that he could not be spoken with.
