Note XXX‑63 — Chapter XXX · FURTHER PIRATICAL RAIDS. 1681-1687.

The sick and wounded with the baggage and horses were left with a guard in camp, with orders to fire their muskets frequently during the night that the enemy might think them all there. Lussan says there were 80 thus left in camp, but as there were only 280 in the first place, and some had died, there must have been a mistake. Exquemelin, Hist. Flib., iii. 312-4.