loading these pieces, there happened a fierce
engagement between the Spaniard and one of the savages, who made at him
with one of their great wooden swords, the weapon that was to have killed
him before, if I had not prevented it. The Spaniard, who was as bold and
brave as could be imagined, though weak, had fought the Indian a good
while, and had cut two great wounds on his head; but the savage being a
stout, lusty fellow, closing in with him, had thrown him down, being
faint, and was wringing my sword out of his hand; when the Spaniard,
though undermost, wisely quitting the sword, drew the pistol from his
girdle, shot the savage through the body, and killed him upon the spot,
before I, who was running to help him, could come near him.

Friday, being now left to his liberty, pursued the flying wretches, with
no weapon in his hand but his hatchet: and with that he despatched 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 nimble for him; and though he was wounded,
yet had plunged himself into the sea, and swam with all his might off to
those two who were left in the canoe; which three in the canoe, with one
wounded, that we knew not whether he died or no, were all that escaped
our hands of one-and-twenty. The account of the whole is as follows:
Three killed at our first shot from the tree; two killed at the next
shot; two killed by Friday in the boat; two killed by Friday of those at
first wounded; one killed by Friday in the wood; three killed by the
Spaniard; four killed, being found dropped here and there, of the wounds,
or killed by Friday in his chase of them; four escaped in the boat,
whereof one wounded, if not dead--twenty-one in all.

Those that were in the canoe worked hard to get out of gun-shot, and
though Friday made two or three shots at them, I did not find that he hit
any of them. Friday would fain have had me take one of their canoes, and
pursue them; and indeed I was very anxious about their escape, lest,
carrying the news home to their people, they should come back perhaps
with two or three hundred of the canoes and devour us by mere multitude;
so I consent