Their adventures can best be described in the story that Drake told to me on the evening of the day that they rejoined the _Gannet_: "You must know, Aubrey," said he, after telling me of their capture and forced embarkation on board the buccaneer’s ship, "that this Pedro was in reality a Cornishman, and second in command to the renegade Captain Lewis, then lying under sentence of death at Port Royal. The whole of this bad business had been carefully planned by the villain, and easily we fell into the trap. Three days after we left the island the _Sea Wolf_, for such is the name of the buccaneer’s ship, hove to in sight of Port Royal, and with the greatest audacity Pedro, or Red Peter, to give him the name he is generally known by, went ashore under a flag of truce, taking me with him as hostage. Would you believe it, he went straight to the castle and demanded to see the governor! Oddsfish! And his impudence took even the governor aback. ’I have on board,’ quoth Red Peter, ’twenty-five officers and men of his Britannic Majesty’s ship _Gannet_, not including this youngster (meaning me) and another; you have Captain Lewis and four other of our men. So, my lord, I think you’ll see we hold a good balance in hand. Now, sink me! ’tis a fair exchange: give us the five and take your enterprising’ (how he sneered when he said this) ’king’s men unhurt, or else, for every man of ours who dances at the end of a rope, five of yours shall dangle from our yardarm. Come now, your answer?’ "What could the governor say? He gave way so easily that Red Peter spoke again. ’And, taking into consideration our great magnanimity, ’twould not be amiss to grant a free pardon to us all; then, for our part, we do agree to cease from plundering and fighting, and become honest men once more. Right glad would I be to see Falmouth once more other than with a hempen rope round my neck, or with gyves and manacles to prevent my full enjoyment of my native place. How say you, my lord?’ "After all, I verily believe the governor was content, for he had succeeded in ridding the Indies of these buccaneers, even as it was ordered, though the manner of the fulfilment thereof was hardly as he had wished. So he sent for his secretary, ordered him to write out a general pardon, which he sealed and delivered to Red Peter with an elaborate bow, whereat the rogue as courteously took his leave. "The same day the _Sea Wolf_ came into the harbour and landed our people, Lewis and his companions were released, and, after a general carouse on shore, the ship sailed to communicate the news to her consorts. All the same, the trick was neatly done, and little harm came of it."