The love that is never
to be realized will often remain a man's guiding ideal. The resolve
being taken, he went actively to work. Ogeron, most accommodating
of governors, advanced him money for the proper equipment of his
ship the Cinco Llagas, which he renamed the Arabella. This after
some little hesitation, fearful of thus setting his heart upon his
sleeve. But his Barbados friends accounted it merely an expression
of the ever-ready irony in which their leader dealt.
To the score of followers he already possessed, he added threescore
more, picking his men with caution and discrimination - and he was
an exceptional judge of men - from amongst the adventurers of
Tortuga. With them all he entered into the articles usual among the
Brethren of the Coast under which each man was to be paid by a share
in the prizes captured. In other respects, however, the articles
were different. Aboard the Arabella there was to be none of the
ruffianly indiscipline that normally prevailed in buccaneering
vessels. Those who shipped with him undertook obedience and
submission in all things to himself and to the officers appointed
by election.
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