406 NIGHTS IN THE GALLKY. 



" Ay, sure ; did you get that at Egina ?" 



" Yes. Well, the blood began to run down my face at a nice rate ; 

 but I got a cut at one of the fellers' heads, and sent him sprawling. 

 Directly I.had done this, I felt somebody fall against my back ; I turned 

 round, and somebody fell to the ground it was one of the Greeks ; 

 the captain had given him one cut on the right temple, and he never 

 spoke again. The third one took to his heels, and we chased him 

 through the garden, but couldn't catch him ; so, after a bit, the cap- 

 tain says, c Murray/ says he, ' we'll return and see if either of those 

 fellers are alive / and so back we went, and found them both lying 

 on the ground ; the one the captain had cut down was as dead as a 

 door-nail ; the other was still alive ; so we lifted him in our arms, and 

 carried him through the garden to the watering-place, and began to 

 bathe his temples, and all that ; but it was of no use he died in about 

 ten minutes. The moon was very bright, and, as I laid him down 

 on the edge of the well, I had a full view of his face, and who should 

 it be but old Pothalimo ! ' I know this man, Sir/ says I. ' The 

 devil you do/ said the skipper; ' who is it ?' ( It's the pirate, Sir/ 

 says I, * as took us. Perhaps if we return, Sir,' says I, ' to where the 

 other man is lying, I may know him/ so we returned to the road, and 

 looked at the man. I knew him again directly ; it was one of the men 

 that met me at the entrance of the village when first I was taken. 

 We then went down to the boat, brought the boat's crew up, and car- 

 ried the men on board, where we kept them till the morning, when 

 we sent to tell the English resident who the two dead men were, 

 then sent them on shore and buried them. After this, the captain 

 sent for me in his cabin, and said, ' Now, Murray, I have not asked 

 you to tell me any thing that you promised others you would keep 

 secret ; but it is necessary I should know if we are likely to be ex- 

 posed to any more of these midnight attacks.' e I don't know, Sir/ 

 says I ; ' nor did I know that we should have met with one last 

 night ; but after what has past, I shall tell you every thing that has 

 happened to me, and how I made my escape ; but I hope, Sir/ says 

 I, ' you will not take advantage of it, to go in search of the pirates, 

 because, as I told you, I gave them a promise that I would not betray 

 them.' ' You may depend upon it, my man/ said he, ' I will not ; and 

 though I confess I should like to hear the whole account, yet I will 

 not press you to tell me if you don't like to trust me.' f Well, so I 

 told him all about it ; and he said it was a daring thing of Yarnio to 

 run into the lion's mouth, coming just under our guns. And then 

 he dismissed me, and the next day we got under weigh for England 

 We had a fine breeze, and we soon got to Malta, where we only hove 

 to, to send a boat in with some letters, and off we went again, and in 

 seven days we anchored at Gib. Here we remained a week, and then 

 started for England with stunsails (studding-sails) set alow and aloft, 

 wind right aft. We went on well enough for a little while, but after 

 we had been out two or three days, the wind chopped round, and we 

 were soon on a bowline with double-reefed topsails. The fourth 

 morning after we left Gib, we saw something to windward of us ; 'so 

 we hugged the wind as close as we could, taking care to keep her 

 clean full tho', and after spying at her for a long while, the skipper 



