m tottering, they cry'd out, _Will none venture on him?_ A
bold _Englishman_ cry'd, _Yes, if he were the Devil_, (taking Courage
when he saw him almost dead) and swearing a horrid Oath for his farewel
to the World, he rush'd on him. _Caesar_ with his arm'd Hand, met him so
fairly, as stuck him to the Heart, and he Fell dead at his feet.
_Tuscan_ seeing that, cry'd out, _I love thee, O +Caesar+! and therefore
will not let thee die, if possible_; and running to him, took him in his
Arms; but, at the same time, warding a Blow that _Caesar_ made at his
Bosom, he receiv'd it quite through his Arm; and _Caesar_ having not
Strength to pluck the Knife forth, tho' he attempted it, _Tuscan_
neither pull'd it out himself, nor suffer'd it to be pull'd out, but
came down with it sticking in his Arm; and the Reason he gave for it,
was, because the Air should not get into the Wound. They put their Hands
a-cross, and carry'd _Caesar_ between six of 'em, fainting as he was, and
they thought dead, or just dying; and they brought him to _Parham_, and
laid him on a Couch, and had the Chirurgeon immediately to him, who
dressed his Wounds, and sow'd up his Belly, and us'd Means to bring him
to Life, which they effected. We ran all to see him; and, if before we
thought him so beautiful a Sight, he was now so alter'd, that his Face
was like a Death's-Head black'd over, nothing but Teeth and Eye-holes:
For some Days we suffer'd no Body to speak to him, but caused Cordials
to be poured down his Throat; which sustained his Life, and in six or
seven Days he recovered his Senses: For, you must know, that Wounds are
almost to a Miracle cur'd in the _Indies_; unless Wounds in the Legs,
which they rarely ever cure.

When he was well enough to speak, we talk'd to him, and ask'd him some
Questions about his Wife, and the Reasons why he kill'd her; and he then
told us what I have related of that Resolution, and of his Parting, and
he besought us we would let him die, and was extremely afflicted to
think it was possible he might live: He assur'd us, if we did not
dispatch him, he would prove very fatal to a great many. We said all we
could to make him live, and gave him new Assurances; but he begg'd we
would not think so poorly of him, or of his Love to _Imoinda_, to
imagine we could flatter him to Life again: But the Chirurgeon assur'd
him he could not live, and therefore he need not fear. We were all (but
_Caesar_) afflicted at this News, and the Sight w