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, "If you will swear to be true to me,
you shall be a great man in time; if not, I must throw you out of
the boat too."

The poor boy gave me such a sweet smile as he swore to be true to
me, that I could not find it in my heart to doubt him.

While the man was still in view (for he was on his way to the
land), we stood out to sea with the boat, so that he and those
that saw us from the shore might think we had gone to the
straits' mouth, for no one went to the South coast, as a tribe of