with his left hand (for his other was lame with the wound), and, pointing
up at the sun, broke the arrow in two, and set the point against his
breast, and then gave it to me. This was, as I understood afterwards,
wishing the sun, whom they worship, might shoot him into the breast with an
arrow, if ever he failed to be my friend; and giving the point of the arrow
to me was to be a testimony that I was the man he had sworn to: and never
was Christian more punctual to an oath than he was to this, for he was a
sworn servant to us for many a weary month after that.

When I brought him to the surgeon, he immediately dressed the wound in his
haunch or buttock, and found the bullet had only grazed upon the flesh, and
passed, as it were, by it, but it was not lodged in the part, so that it
was soon healed and well again; but, as to his arm, he found one of the
bones broken, which are in the fore-part from the wrist to the elbow; and
this he set, and splintered it up, and bound his arm in a sling, hanging it
about his neck, and making signs to him that he should not stir it; which
he was so strict an observer of, that he set him down, and never moved one
way or other but as the surgeon gave him leave.

I took a great deal of pains to acquaint this negro what we intended to do,
and what use we intended to make of his men; and particularly to teach him
the meaning of what we said, especially to teach him some words, such as
yes and no, and what they meant, and to inure him to our way of talking;
and he was very willing and apt to learn anything I taught him.

It was easy to let him see that we intended to carry our provision with us
from the first day; but he made signs to us to tell us we need not, for we
should find provision enough everywhere for forty days. It was very
difficult for us to understand how he expressed forty; for he knew no
figures, but some words that they used to one another that they understood