At this claim, Kikin rolled his eyes, and Orney let out a "Poh!" Isaac took no note of them, but sharpened his gaze, which remained locked on Arlanc’s face. "It is consistent," he announced. "Jack Shaftoe turned Turk in the late 1680s. His Corsairs are known to have raided Bonanza during the summer of 1690. Thence they fled through the Gates of Hercules into the Mediterranean. By late summer they had reached Cairo, as all the world now knows. Mr. Arlanc’s account is plausible."