so
cleverly, no executioner in Germany could have done it sooner or better;
which I thought very strange for one who, I had reason to believe, never
saw a sword in his life before, except their own wooden swords: however,
it seems, as I learned afterwards, they make their wooden swords so
sharp, so heavy, and the wood is so hard, that they will even cut off
heads with them, ay, and arms, and that at one blow, too. When he had
done this, he comes laughing to me in sign of triumph, and brought me the
sword again, and with abundance of gestures which I did not understand,
laid it down, with the head of the savage that he had killed, just before
me. But that which astonished him most was to know how I killed the
other Indian so far off; so, pointing to him, he made signs to me to let
him go to him; and I bade him go, as well as I could. When he came to
him, he stood like one amazed, looking at him, turning him first on one
side, then on the other; looked at the wound the bullet had made, which
it seems was just in his breast, where it had made a hole, and no great
quantity of blood had followed; but he had bled inwardly, for he was
quite dead. He took up his bow and arrows, and came back; so I turned to
go away, and beckoned him to follow me, making signs to him that more
might come after them. Upon this he made signs to me that he should bury
them with sand, that they might not be seen by the rest, if they
followed; and so I made signs to him again to do so. He fell to work;
and in an instant he had scraped a hole in the sand with his hands big
enough to bury the first in, and then dragged him into it, and covered
him; and did so by the other also; I believe he had him buried them both
in a quarter of an hour. Then, calling away, I carried him, not to my
castle, but quite away to my cave, on the farther part of the island: so
I did not let my dream come to pass in that part, that he came into my
grove for shelter. Here I gave him bread and a bunch of raisins to eat,
and a draught of water, which I found he was indeed in great distress
for, from his running: and having refreshed him, I made signs for him to
go and lie down to sleep, showing him a place where I had laid some
rice-straw, and a blanket upon it, which I used to sleep upon myself
sometimes; so the poor creature lay down, and went to sleep.

He was a comely, handsome fellow, perfectly well made, with straight,
strong limbs, not too large; tall, and well-s