chance 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