n commanded them to be placed in due order, according to
their custom, and caused every one to be sworn, that they had reserved
nor concealed nothing privately to themselves, even not so much as the
value of sixpence. This being done, Captain Morgan having had some
experience that those lewd fellows would not much stickle to swear
falsely in points of interest, he commanded them every one to be
searched very strictly, both in their clothes and satchels and
everywhere it might be presumed they had reserved anything. Yea, to the
intent this order might not be ill taken by his companions, he permitted
himself to be searched, even to the very soles of his shoes. To this
effect by common consent, there was assigned one out of every company to
be the searchers of all the rest. The French Pirates that went on this
expedition with Captain Morgan were not well satisfied with this new
custom of searching. Yet their number being less than that of the
English, they were forced to submit unto it, as well as the others had
done before them. The search being over, they re-embarked in their
canoes and boats, which attended them on the river, and arrived at the
Castle of Chagre.[314] ... Here they found all things in good order,
excepting the wounded men, whom they had left there at the time of their
departure. For of these the greatest number were dead, through the
wounds they had received.

"From Chagre, Captain Morgan sent presently after his arrival, a great
boat unto Porto Bello, wherein were all the prisoners he had taken at
the Isle of St. Catherine, demanding by them a considerable ransom for
the Castle of Chagre, where he then was, threatening otherwise to ruin
and demolish it even to the ground. To this message those of Porto Bello
made answer: they would not give one farthing towards the ransom of the
said castle, and that the English might do with it as they pleased. This
answer being come, the dividend was made of all the spoil they had
purchased in that voyage. Thus every company and every particular person
therein included received their portion of what was gotten; or rather
what part thereof Captain Morgan was pleased to give them. For so it
was, that the rest of his companions, even of his own nation, complained
of his proceedings in this particular, and feared not to tell him openly
to his face, that he had reserved the best jewels to himself. For they
judged it impossible that no greater share should belong unto them t