at the entrance.

The other prisoners had better usage; two of them were kept pinioned,
indeed, because the captain was not able to trust them; but the other two
were taken into my service, upon the captain's recommendation, and upon
their solemnly engaging to live and die with us; so with them and the
three honest men we were seven men, well armed; and I made no doubt we
should be able to deal well enough with the ten that were coming,
considering that the captain had said there were three or four honest men
among them also. As soon as they got to the place where their other boat
lay, they ran their boat into the beach and came all on shore, hauling
the boat up after them, which I was glad to see, for I was afraid they
would rather have left the boat at an anchor some distance from the
shore, with some hands in her to guard her, and so we should not be able
to seize the boat. Being on shore, the first thing they did, they ran
all to their other boat; and it was easy to see they were under a great
surprise to find her stripped, as above, of all that was in her, and a
great hole in her bottom. After they had mused a while upon this, they
set up two or three great shouts, hallooing with all their might, to try
if they could make their companions hear; but all was to no purpose.
Then they came all close in a ring, and fired a volley of their small
arms, which indeed we heard, and the echoes made the woods ring. But it
was all one; those in the cave, we were sure, could not hear; and those
in our keeping, though they heard it well enough, yet durst give no
answer to them. They were so astonished at the surprise of this, that,
as they told us afterwards, they resolved to go all on board again to
their ship, and let them know that the men were all murdered, and the
long-boat staved; accordingly, they immediately launched their boat
again, and got all of them on board.

The captain was terribly amazed, and even confounded, at this, believing
they would go on board the ship again and set sail, giving their comrades
over for lost, and so he should still lose the ship, which he was in
hopes we should have recovered; but he was quickly as much frightened the
other way.

They had not been long put off with the boat, when we perceived them all
coming on shore again; but with this new measure in their conduct, which
it seems they consulted together upon, viz. to leave three men in the
boat, and the rest to go on shore, and go