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for fear they have seen you.” Having coneerted matters with the eaptain, and armed ourselves, we went to tho sailors, and the captain reserving his own pieee, the two men shot one of the villains dead, and wounded another. He who was wounded eried out for help, and I eoming up, gave orders for sparing thcir lives, on condition of their being bound hand and feet while they staid in tho island.
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A little after another boat eame. We formed an ambuscade, but one of the principal ringleaders of tho mutiny, with two of the crew coming towards us, the captain was so eager that he let fly, killed two on the spot, and thc third ran for it. I immediately advanced with my whole army, upon whieh Will Watkins, one of the ringleaders, called out, “For God’s sake, captain, spare my life.” The captain told him he must lay down his arms at discretion, and trust to the governor’s mercy;
