Having achieved the capture of this incredible prize, our captain
scuttled the great ship and left her to sink with all on board.
Three Lascars of the crew alone escaped to bear the news of this
tremendous disaster to an astounded world.
As may readily be supposed, it was now no longer possible for
Captain Keitt to hope to live in such comparative obscurity as he
had before enjoyed. His was now too remarkable a figure in the
eyes of the world. Several expeditions from various parts were
immediately fitted out against him, and it presently became no
longer compatible with his safety to remain thus clearly outlined
before the eyes of the world. Accordingly, he immediately set
about seeking such security as he might now hope to find, which
he did the more readily since he had now, and at one cast, so
entirely fulfilled his most sanguine expectations of good-fortune
and of fame.
Thereafter, accordingly, the adventures of our captain became of
a more apocryphal sort. It was known that he reached the West
Indies in safety, for he was once seen at Port Royal and twice at
Spanish Town, in the island of Jamaica. Thereafter, however, he
disappeared; nor was it until several years later that the world
heard anything concerning him.
One day a certain Nicholas Duckworthy, who had once been gunner
aboard the pirate captain's own ship, The Good Fortune, was
arrested in the town of Bristol in the very act of attempting to
sell to a merchant of that place several valuable gems from a
quantity which he carried with him tied up in a red bandanna
handkerchief.
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