"I didn't hear that you ever captured the city."
"We came within an ace of it. Luckily for himself, the governor found out how few of us there were in the party before we got our hands on his throat."
"So you returned whence you came."
"It's easy enough for you to talk; the governor sent two hundred men after us in a warship, while we had only two boats. He also sent along an executioner to hang us to the trees on the coast when we were caught."
"We waited for them and, after having lured them far enough from Havana, I and another dare-devil, who, however, did not live to grow old, like me, slipped overboard and, swimming under the ship with our augers, bored eight holes in her bottom. Ho! ho! how quickly she sunk, how the soldiers roared for help, splashed about in the water and held out their hands for aid. Then Olonais went back with the boats and wherever a soldier's head rose out of the water he slashed it off with a huge sabre, all but the executioner, whom he recognized by his red cap and sent back to the governor with his compliments and the message that he did not need him."
"Your captain was a bold fellow, Moody. What became of him?"
"H'm! H'm! he had a strange end."
"I suppose he was captured at last."
"Far stranger than that. In a fight with savages, he was wounded and taken prisoner. The scoundrels ate the poor man."