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The pirates appear upon the frozen river dragging a raft, on which reclines among cushions that dark and fearful man,. ''A more villainous-looking brotherhood of men never hung in a row on Execution dock. Here, his great arms bare, pieces of eight in his cars as ornaments, is the handsome , who cut his name on the back of the governor of the prison at Gao. Heavier in the pull is the gigantic black who has had many names since the first one terrified dusky children on the banks of the Guidjo-mo. comes next, every inch of him tattooed, the same  who got six dozen on the Walrus from . Following these are , said to be brother (but this was never proved); and , once an usher in a school; and  (Morgan’s Skylights); and , whose hands are fixed on backwards; and the spectacled boatswain, , the only Nonconformist on  crew; and other ruffians long known and feared on the Spanish main.''