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The tall ship that accompanied the Arabella was a Spanish vessel
of twenty-six guns, the Santiago from Puerto Rico with a hundred
and twenty thousand weight of cacao, forty thousand pieces of eight,
and the value of ten thousand more in jewels. A rich capture of
which two fifths under the articles went to Levasseur and his crew.
Of the money and jewels a division was made on the spot. The cacao
it was agreed should be taken to Tortuga to be sold.
Then it was the turn of Levasseur, and black grew the brow of
Captain Blood as the Frenchman's tale was unfolded. At the end
he roundly expressed his disapproval. The Dutch were a friendly
people whom it was a folly to alienate, particularly for so paltry
a matter as these hides and tobacco, which at most would fetch a
bare twenty thousand pieces.
But Levasseur answered him, as he had answered Cahusac, that a ship
was a ship, and it was ships they needed against their projected
enterprise. Perhaps because things had gone well with him that
day, Blood ended by shrugging the matter aside.


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