e other
two to butcher the poor Christian, and bring him perhaps limb by limb to
their fire, and they were stooping down to untie the bands at his feet.
I turned to Friday. "Now, Friday," said I, "do as I bid thee." Friday
said he would. "Then, Friday," says I, "do exactly as you see me do;
fail in nothing." So I set down one of the muskets and the fowling-piece
upon the ground, and Friday did the like by his, and with the other
musket I took my aim at the savages, bidding him to do the like; then
asking him if he was ready, he said, "Yes." "Then fire at them," said I;
and at the same moment I fired also.

Friday took his aim so much better than I, that on the side that he shot
he killed two of them, and wounded three more; and on my side I killed
one, and wounded two. They were, you may be sure, in a dreadful
consternation: and all of them that were not hurt jumped upon their feet,
but did not immediately know which way to run, or which way to look, for
they knew not from whence their destruction came. Friday kept his eyes
close upon me, that, as I had bid him, he might observe what I did; so,
as soon as the first shot was made, I threw down the piece, and took up
the fowling-piece, and Friday did the like; he saw me cock and present;
he did the same again. "Are you ready, Friday?" said I. "Yes," says he.
"Let fly, then," says I, "in the name of God!" and with that I fired
again among the amazed wretches, and so did Friday; and as our pieces
were now loaded with what I call swan-shot, or small pistol-bullets, we
found only two drop; but so many were wounded that they ran about yelling
and screaming like mad creatures, all bloody, and most of them miserably
wounded; whereof three more fell quickly after, though not quite dead.

"Now, Friday," says I, laying down the discharged pieces, and taking up
the musket which was yet loaded, "follow me," which he did with a great
deal of courage; upon which I rushed out of the wood and showed myself,
and Friday close at my foot. As soon as I perceived they saw me, I
shouted as loud as I could, and bade Friday do so too, and running as
fast as I could, which, by the way, was not very fast, being loaded with
arms as I was, I made directly towards the poor victim, who was, as I
said, lying upon the beach or shore, between the place where they sat and
the sea. The two butchers who were just going to work with him had left
him at the surprise of our first fire, and fled in a