But as he stepped forward, his strength and sight and speech failed him,
and he began to faint for want of blood, which, as then we perceived,
had, in great quantity, issued upon the sand, out of a wound received
in his leg in the first encounter, whereby though he felt some pain, yet
(for that he perceived divers of the company, having already gotten
many good things, to be very ready to take all occasions, of winding
themselves out of that conceited danger) would he not have it known to
any, till this his fainting, against his will, bewrayed it: the blood
having first filled the very prints which our footsteps made, to the
great dismay of all our company, who thought it not credible that one
man should be able to spare so much blood and live.
And therefore even they, which were willing to have ventured the most
for so fair a booty, would in no case hazard their Captain's life; but
(having given him somewhat to drink wherewith he recovered himself, and
having bound his scarf about his leg, for the stopping of the blood)
entreated him to be content to go with them aboard, there to have his
wound searched and dressed, and then to return on shore again if he
thought good.
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