ed to pursue them by sea, and running to one of their canoes,
I jumped in and bade Friday follow me: but when I was in the canoe I was
surprised to find another poor creature lie there, bound hand and foot,
as the Spaniard was, for the slaughter, and almost dead with fear, not
knowing what was the matter; for he had not been able to look up over the
side of the boat, he was tied so hard neck and heels, and had been tied
so long that he had really but little life in him.

I immediately cut the twisted flags or rushes which they had bound him
with, and would have helped him up; but he could not stand or speak, but
groaned most piteously, believing, it seems, still, that he was only
unbound in order to be killed. When Friday came to him I bade him speak
to him, and tell him of his deliverance; and pulling out my bottle, made
him give the poor wretch a dram, which, with the news of his being
delivered, revived him, and he sat up in the boat. But when Friday came
to hear him speak, and look in his face, it would have moved any one to
tears to have seen how Friday kissed him, embraced him, hugged him,
cried, laughed, hallooed, jumped about, danced, sang; then cried again,
wrung his hands, beat his own face and head; and then sang and jumped
about again like a distracted creature. It was a good while before I
could make him speak to me or tell me what was the matter; but when he
came a little to himself he told me that it was his father.

It is not easy for me to express how it moved me to see what ecstasy and
filial affection had worked in this poor savage at the sight of his
father, and of his being delivered from death; nor indeed can I describe
half the extravagances of his affection after this: for he went into the
boat and out of the boat a great many times: when he went in to him he
would sit down by him, open his breast, and hold his father's head close
to his bosom for many minutes together, to nourish it; then he took his
arms and ankles, which were numbed and stiff with the binding, and chafed
and rubbed them with his hands; and I, perceiving what the case was, gave
him some rum out of my bottle to rub them with, which did them a great
deal of good.

This affair put an end to our pursuit of the canoe with the other
savages, who were now almost out of sight; and it was happy for us that
we did not, for it blew so hard within two hours after, and before they
could be got a quarter of their way, and continued blowi