Candide invoked the name of Pangloss and declared that he must renounce optimism, which he now saw as "a mania for insisting that everything is all right, when everything is going wrong." The sight of the maimed man made him weep.
In Surinam, they first asked a Spanish captain if any ship in the harbor could be sent to Buenos Aires. The captain offered to give them passage for a fair price, and a meeting at an inn was arranged. At that meeting, Candide, with his free and open disposition, told the captain all that had happened to him. When the captain learned that the youth wanted to rescue Cunégonde, he declared that he would never take Candide to Buenos Aires because if he did, both would be hanged since the lady was the governor's favorite. Candide, crushed by this decision, drew Cacambo aside and instructed him to go to Buenos Aires with gold and jewels and to pay what price he must for the release of Cunégonde. Candide himself would take another ship to the free state of Venice, where he would have no fear of Bulgars, Abars, Jews, or Inquisitors. Although grieved at the thought of leaving his master, Cacambo agreed to the plan. "A fine man, that Cacambo," wrote Voltaire.
A master of a large ship who introduced himself to Candide turned out to be Mynheer Vanderdendur. He agreed to take the youth to Italy for 10,000 piasters, but when Candide readily agreed to pay that amount, the Hoilander successively raised the price to 30,000, aware as he was that Candide's sheep must be laden with immense treasures. Candide paid the fare in advance. The two sheep were put aboard, and the young man followed in a small boat to join the ship in the harbor. But the unscrupulous captain set sail without him. "Alas!" cried Candide. "That's a trick worthy of the Old World!" The loser of enough to enrich twenty monarchs, he disconsolately turned back to shore.
