till they had despatched the business for which they came.

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.

This when they could not persuade him unto (as who knew it to be utterly
impossible, at least very unlikely, that ever they should, for that
time, return again, to recover the state in which they now were: and
was of opinion, that it were more honourable for himself, to jeopard
his life for so great a benefit, than to leave off so high an enterprise
unperformed), they joined altogether and with force mingled with fair
entreaty, they bare him aboard his pinnace, and so abandoned a most rich
spoil for the present, only to preserve their Captain's life: and being