ce
to set off with the boat, and get free. So in the first place, I took
all the food that I could lay my hands on, and I told the man that it
would be too bold of us to eat of the bread that had been put in the
boat for the Turk. He said he thought so too, and he brought down a
small sack of rice and some rusks.

While the man was on shore I put up some wine, a large lump of wax, a
saw, an axe, a spade, some rope, and all sorts of things that might be
of use to us. I knew where the Turk's case of wine was, and I put that
in the boat while the man was on shore. By one more trick I got all that
I had need of. I said to the boy, "the Turk's guns are in the boat, but
there is no shot. Do you think you could get some? You know where it is
kept, and we may want to shoot a fowl or two." So he brought a case and
a pouch which held all that we could want for the guns. These I put in
the boat, and then set sail out of the port to fish.

The wind blew, from the North, or North West, which was a bad wind for
me; for had it been South I could have made for the coast of Spain. But,
blow which way it might, my mind was made up to get off, and to leave
the rest to fate. I then let down my lines to fish, but I took care to
have bad sport; and when the fish bit, I would not pull them up, for
the Moor was not to see them. I said to him, "This will not do, we shall
catch no fish here, we ought to sail on a bit." Well, the Moor thought
there was no harm in this. He set the sails, and, as the helm was in my
hands, I ran the boat out a mile or more, and then brought her to, as if
I meant to fish.

Now, thought I, the time has come for me to get free! I gave the helm
to the boy, and then took the Moor round the waist, and threw him out of
the boat.

Down he went! but soon rose up, for he swam like a duck. He said he
would go all round the world with me, if I would but take him in.

I had some fear lest he should climb up the boat's side, and force his
way back; so I brought my gun to point at him, and said, "You can swim
to land with ease if you choose, make haste then to get there; but if
you come near the boat you shall have a shot through the head, for I
mean to be a free man from this hour."

He then swam for the shore, and no doubt got safe there, as the sea was
so calm.

At first I thought I would take the Moor with me, and let Xury swim to
land; but the Moor was not a man that I could trust. When he was gone I
said to Xury, "I