At last, finding himself obnoxious to many censures of his people, and fearing the consequence, he thought it unsafe to stay any longer at Chagre, but ordered the ordnance of the castle to be carried on board his ship; then he caused most of the walls to be demolished, the edifices to be burnt, and as many other things ruined as could be done in a short time. This done, he went secretly on board his own ship, without giving any notice to his companions, and put out to sea, being only followed by three or four vessels of the whole fleet. These were such (as the French pirates believed) as went shares with Captain Morgan in the best part of the spoil, which had been concealed from them in the dividend. The Frenchmen could willingly have revenged themselves on Captain Morgan and his followers, had they been able to encounter him at sea; but they were destitute of necessaries, and had much ado to find sufficient provisions for their voyage to Jamaica, he having left them unprovided for all things. THE END * * * * * Transcriber's Notes: Obvious punctuation errors were corrected. This text uses both main-mast and mainmast; French-man and Frenchman; sea-side and seaside; such-like and suchlike. Page xiii, "Robinsoe" changed to "Robinson" (Robinson Crusoe) Page xx, "West-Indies" was removed from the italics to match rest of usage (dominions of the_ West-Indies) Page xxi, "Soudiers" changed to "Souldiers" (either Souldiers or) Page xxi, "fortifie" moved into italics to match rest of usage (_both fortifie themselves) Page 9, "of" changed to "or" (or China root) Page 89, "chief" changed to "chiefs" (of the chiefs) Page 95, "fish" changed to "flesh" (eat human flesh) Page 116, "el" changed to "El" (of El Puerto del) Page 199, "then" changed to "than" (courage than ever)