it. "Now, seigniors," said I, "let us give them a cheer." So I opened my
throat, and shouted three times, as our English sailors do on like
occasions. "And now follow me," said I to the seven that had not fired,
"and I'll warrant you we will make work with them," and so it proved
indeed; for, as soon as they saw us coming, away they ran, as above.

From this day forward they would call me nothing but Seignior Capitanio;
but I told them I would not be called seignior. "Well, then," said the
gunner, who spoke good English, "you shall be called Captain Bob;" and so
they gave me my title ever after.

Nothing is more certain of the Portuguese than this, take them nationally
or personally, if they are animated and heartened up by anybody to go
before, and encourage them by example, they will behave well enough; but if
they have nothing but their own measures to follow, they sink immediately:
these men had certainly fled from a parcel of naked savages, though even by
flying they could not have saved their lives, if I had not shouted and
hallooed, and rather made sport with the thing than a fight, to keep up
their courage.

Nor was there less need of it upon several occasions hereafter; and I do
confess I have often wondered how a number of men, who, when they came to
the extremity, were so ill supported by their own spirits, had at first
courage to propose and to undertake the most desperate and impracticable
attempt that ever men went about in the world.

There were indeed two or three indefatigable men among them, by whose
courage and industry all the rest were upheld; and indeed those two or
three were the managers of them from the beginning; that was the gunner,
and that cutler whom I call the artist; and the third, who was pretty well,