The tall man at my side was waving his arms in the air, exclaiming: "Shoot the sixteen!"

immediately cried the whole sixteen, without waiting for further information.

"According to the account of the pirate, there could not have been much less than thirty thousand dollars, and nearly all of it in good doubloons of the coin of the kingsdoubloons that will weigh their full sixteens to the pounday, and to spare!"