Chapter IX The “Most Dangerous Voyage” of Captain Sharp 150
More desertions. Captain Sharp tells his plans. An amazing program. An awful trip. What happened to Wafer. The transformed galleon starts on its cruise. Raids on the coast. At Juan Fernandez. The men want religion. Sharp is deposed. Watling and his ways. Sharp’s prophecy. The prophecy fulfilled. Watling’s death. Sharp takes command. The buccaneers repulsed. Mutinies and deserters. Sharp refits the Blessed Trinity. The buccaneers set forth on their most dangerous voyage. The buccaneers miss the Straits of Magellan. Around the Horn through unchartered seas. Up the Atlantic. At the journey’s end. The treasure the buccaneers threw away.