en set to work
to pull down both the huts, and left not a stick, nor scarce a sign on
the ground to show where the tents had stood. They tore up, too, all the
goods and stock that they could find, and when they had done this, they
told it all to the men of Spain, and said, "You, sirs, shall have the
same sauce, if you do not mend your ways."

They then fell to blows and hard words, but Carl had them bound in
cords, and took their arms from them. The men of Spain then said they
would do them no harm, and if they would live at peace they would help
them, and that they should live with them as they had done till that
time, but they could not give them back their arms for three or four
months.

One night Carl--whom I shall call "the chief," as he took the lead of
all the rest--felt a great weight on his mind, and could get no sleep,
though he was quite well in health. He lay still for some time, but as
he, did not feel at case, he got up, and took a look out. But as it was
too dark to see far, and he heard no noise, he went back to his bed.
Still it was all one, he could not sleep; and though he knew not why,
his thoughts would give him no rest.

He then woke up one of his friends, and told him how it had been with
him. "Say you so?" said he "What if there should be some bad plot at
work near us!" They then set off to the top of the hill, where I was
wont to go, and from thence they saw the light of a fire, quite a short
way from them, and heard the sounds of men, not of one or two, but of a
great crowd. We need not doubt that the chief and the man with him now
ran back at once, to tell all the rest what they had seen; and when they
heard the news, they could not be kept close where they were, but must
all run out to see how things stood.

At last they thought that the best thing to do would be, while it was
dark, to send old Jaf out as a spy, to learn who they were, and what
they meant to do. When the old man had been gone an hour or two, he
brought word back that he had been in the midst of the foes, though they
had not seen him, and that they were in two sets or tribes who were at
war, and had come there to fight. And so it was, for in a short time
they heard the noise of the fight, which went on for two hours, and at
the end, with three loud shouts or screams, they left the isle in their
boats. Thus my friends were set free from all their fears, and saw no
more of their wild foes for some time.

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