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.

In the confession of which Duckworthy afterward delivered himself
he declared that Captain Keitt, after his great adventure, having
sailed from Africa in safety, and so reached the shores of the
New World, had wrecked The Good Fortune on a coral reef off the
Windward Islands; that he then immediately deserted the ship, and
together with Duckworthy himself, the sailing-master (who was a
Portuguese), the captain of a brig The Bloody Hand (a consort of
Keitt's), and a villainous rascal named Hunt (who, occupying no
precise position among the pirates, was at once the instigator of
and the partaker in the greatest part of Captain Keitt's
wickednesses), made his way to the nearest port of safety. These
five worthies at last fetched the island of Jamaica, bringing
with them all of the jewels and some of the gold that had been
captured from The Sun of the East.