"We quite understood, sir, that we should share with the _Tigre_ in all that we captured. It would have been too bad if, in addition to our luck in having an independent cruise on board the _Tigress_, we were to get an advantage over our comrades in the way of prize-money. We have, as I told you in my last report, received twelve thousand five hundred pounds, the result of the sale of the thirty-two craft we sent into Smyrna and Rhodes. It is in gold, and I thought that it would be better for you to send off a boat for it than for me to bring it myself now. What are we to do with the cargo, sir?"