 The warship caught them and defeated Francois and his buccaneers, who agreed to surrender "on condition that they should not be used as slaves to carry stones, or be employed in other labours for three or four years, as they served their negroes" and were instead set ashore.Another source (via Exquemelin, from a different translation) claims Francois and his men were sentenced to servitude anyway, eventually sent to Spain where they escaped and returned to France.The story of Pierre Francois is known from a single source, Alexandre Exquemelin's "History of the Buccaneers in America".