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recovered, let me know, by all the signs he could possibly make, how
much he was in my debt for his deliverance. ‘‘Seignior,”’ said I, with
as much Spanish as I could make up, “ we will talk afterwards, but wa
must fight now: if you have any strength left, take this pistol and
sword, and lay about you:” he took them very thankfully, and no
sooner had he the arms in his hands, but as if they had put new vigour
into him, he flew upon his murderers like a fury, and had cut two of
them in picces in an instant; for the truth is, as the whole was a sur-
prise to them, so the poor creatures were so much frighted with the
noise of our pieces, that they fell down for mere amazement and fear,:
and had no more power to attempt their own escape, than their flesh
had to resist our shot; and that was the case of those five that Friday
shot in the boat; for as three of them fell with the hurt they received,
so the other two fell with the fright.

I kept my piece in my hand still, without firing, being willing to
keep my charge ready, because I had given the Spaniard my pistol
and sword; so I called to Friday, and bade him run up to the tree
fiom whence we first fired, and fetch the arms which lay there, that
had been discharged, which he did with great swiftness; and then,
giving him my musket, I sat down myself to load all the rest again,
and bade them come to me when they wanted. While I was loading
these pieces, there happened a fierce engagement between the Spa-
niard and one of the savages, who made at him with one of their
great wooden swords, the same weapon that was to have killed him
bafore, if I had not- prevented it: the Spaniard, who was as-bold.and
as brave as could be imagined, though weak, had fought this Indian a
good while, and had cut him two yreat wounds on his head; but the
suvage, being a stout, lusty fellow, closing in with him, had thrown .
h'm down (being faint) and was wringing my sword out of his hand,
when the Spaniard, though undermost, wisely quitting his sword,
d-ew the pistol from his girdle, shot the savage through the body,
aud killed him upon the spot, before I, who was running to help,
could come near him. 3

Friday, being now left at his liberty, pursued the flying wretches
with no weapon in his hand but his hatchet; and with that he des-
patched those three, who, as I said before, were wounded at first, and
fallen, and all the rest he could come up with; and the Spaniard
coming to me for a gun, I gave him one of the fowling-pieces, with
which he pursued two of the savages and wounded them both; but as
he was not able to run, they both got from him into the wood, where
Friday pursued them, and killed one of them; but the other was too
uiable for him; and though he was wounded, yet he plunged into the