4 The Titjlrejjes and Adventures 



Now the firft Man they defigned to fa- 

 crifice to their Cruelty, was Mr. Ball y who 

 feemed very uneafy at his approaching Fate, 

 and could not help intimating, that he thought 

 our prefent Calamities were, in a great mea- 

 fure, owing* to Captain Burt y by his having 

 been too ready to deliver up the Ship; for 

 (fays he) had we continued the Engagement 

 but a few Minutes longer, which we might 

 have done, and was what I fo much defired, 

 we, in all Probability, fhould never have 

 come to this End. He fpoke after this Man- 

 ner, becaufe we found, after we were taken, 

 that, had we done as he faid, the Spaniards 

 muft have yielded to us, they having no 

 more than eight Shot left. 



But this was no Time for Difputes ; for 

 we were now, (according to all human Proba- 

 bility) about to refign our laft Breath, and 

 thought of nothing lefs than a Reverfing of 

 the rigorous Sentence pronounced againft us. 

 Juft then going to be executed, Captain 

 Johnfon^ and one EcJblin y another Englijh- 

 man, who bore a great Sway over their Com- 

 panions, ftrenuoufly and at once interpofed. 

 When thefe two came to our Relief, they 



found 



