Donna Quibab exacts revenge on the Brethren of the Coast

1. Donna Quibab’s Revenge –
2016

2. • With her husband away up country Donna Quibab summons the

3. • Some time later the Pernambuco finds herself hove-to and alone

4. • They are hove-to so that Don Rohas and Don Garcia can settle a bet about
sleeping whales

5. • No one seems to have noticed the sleek brig running down on them

6. • It is the pirate ‘Walrus’

7. • Commanded by the Reverend Obidiah Flint, who even now is urging his men on with scripture

8. • Belatedly the Pernambuco fires her deck guns, killing Rohas and
Garcia in the process, but leaving Flint unharmed

9. • Not bothering to return fire the Walrus sweeps in for the kill

10. • The Spaniards meet them blade to blade

11. • And even as
battle is joined a
new sail crests
thwe horizon –
the heavy galleon
Cacafuego,
summoned by the
Pernambuco’s
cannon

12. Coming about she delivers a full broadside of hot-shot point blank into
the now defenceless Walrus

13. • Reducing the pirate to a blood-soaked inferno in a single salvo

14. Disheartened the remaining pirates surrender – Donna Quibab orders them taken to the nearest Spanish
port – La Hachada

15. • Three weeks on the survivors are brought out to the gallows. Learning from past
events Donna Quibab has ordered a curfew - no crowds for a rescue to hide
behind, no dignitaries to be taken hostage

16. But the delay has given the Brethren of the Coast time to organise and
even now Gaspard Le Phew and Happy Dan Pugh are overwhelming
the guards at the landward gate.

17. • With cat-like tread and no sound at all the desperadoes hasten through the
shuttered streets

18. • Bursting into the plaza they unleash a ragged volley

19. • Enough to down two of the guards and send the rest running
– too late for ‘Cookie’ and ‘Mad Hamish’ but a genuine
miracle for Josh Kipperfeet

20. • But even as the rescuers surge into the square the doors of
Santa Ignacio and the surrounding shops swing open and a
female voice barks…
• Fuego!