- Hey, there's a quote from Spenser. Hello quote from Spenser.
- Melville tells you that Barrington Island was the home of pirates, or buccaneers.
- Its isolation meant that pirates could hang out without fear of being hunted down and arrested.
- Barrington Island has trees and fruit and is generally pleasant, unlike all the other islands around. Thus a happy place for pirates.
- The narrative quotes some unknown sentimental traveler. Why? Maybe because random quotation is fun?
- Anyway, the random quotation and Melville agree that pirates are awful, but argue that some of them are maybe not so bad.
- You wonder what the random quotation person would say if pirates robbed him. But that we shall never know.