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Save for myself and divers of the dead the poop lay deserted, but forward such of the soldiers andfor the boats, and all was riot and confusion

As I stared about e of a disun; his face was towards me and looked as I had seen it an hundred tiazed his eyes met mine full and square For a moment he lay without motion, then (his face a-twitch with the effort) he caain Then I saw his hand creep down to the dagger at his hip, to fumble weakly there--howbeit, at the third essay he drew the blade and began to creep towards , and once I heard hi distance, yet was he sore wounded and so ithal that he was fain to rest him awhile And ever his impassive eyes looked up into(an it ht be so) Once lea the cords that bounddown into those i a feeble hand, he pointed to the tattered sails of the English ship hard by, and so, resting his head upon his arh I think the life passed out of hile leap, and, without a glance at the red havoc behindof the brine struck me like a myriad needle-points, but the sweet cool of the waters ondrous grateful toto the surface, I struck out for the English ship though sore ha beneath her lofty stern I found hanging therefroe whereby I contrived to clamber aboard, and so beheld a e of one of the quarter guns tying up a splinter-gash in his ar me he rolled a pair of blue eyes up atknotted the bandage to his liking "Be ye one as can understand good English?"