Thus terrible as the sudden appearance of the pirates must have been to them , they remained stationary for a moment , not a muscle moving ; as if the foe had come by invitation . Then , indeed , the tradition gallantly upheld , they seized their weapons , and the air was torn with the war-cry ; but it was now too late . It is no part of ours to describe what was a massacre rather than a fight . Thus perished many of the flower of the Piccaninny tribe . Not all unavenged did they die , for with Lean Wolf fell Alf Mason , to disturb the Spanish Main no more , and among others who bit the dust were Geo . Scourie , Chas . Turley , and the Alsatian Foggerty . Turley fell to the tomahawk of the terrible Panther , who ultimately cut a way through the pirates with Tiger Lily and a small remnant of the tribe . To what extent Hook is to blame for his tactics on this occasion is for the historian to decide . Had he waited on the rising ground till the proper hour he and his men would probably have been butchered ; and in judging him it is only fair to take this into account . What he should perhaps have done was to acquaint his opponents that he proposed to follow a new method . On the other hand , this , as destroying the element of surprise , would have made his strategy of no avail , so that the whole question is beset with difficulties . One can not at least withhold a reluctant admiration for the wit that had conceived so bold a scheme , and the fell -LSB- deadly -RSB- genius with which it was carried out . What were his own feelings about himself at that triumphant moment ? Fain -LSB- gladly -RSB- would his dogs have known , as breathing heavily and wiping their cutlasses , they gathered at a discreet distance from his hook , and squinted through their ferret eyes at this extraordinary man . Elation must have been in his heart , but his face did not reflect it : ever a dark and solitary enigma , he stood aloof from his followers in spirit as in substance . The night 's work was not yet over , for it was not the redskins he had come out to destroy ; they were but the bees to be smoked , so that he should get at the honey . It was Pan he wanted , Pan and Wendy and their band , but chiefly Pan . Peter was such a small boy that one tends to wonder at the man 's hatred of him . True he had flung Hook 's arm to the crocodile , but even this and the increased insecurity of life to which it led , owing to the crocodile 's pertinacity -LSB- persistance -RSB- , hardly account for a vindictiveness so relentless and malignant .
The truth is that there was a something about XXXXX which goaded the pirate captain to frenzy .
Chas Foggerty Geo Hook Lily Peter Scourie pertinacity tomahawk war-cry