So over the side they tumbled as fast as they could go, leaving some of their number dead and wounded behind them.

They jumped into their own vessel, and then they put off to a short distance to take breath and get ready for a different kind of a fight.

The triumphant Spaniards now prepared to get rid of this boat load of half-naked wild beasts, which they could easily do if they should take better aim with their cannon than they had done before.
But to their amazement they soon found that they could do nothing with the guns, nor were they able to work their ship so as to get it into position for effectual shots.

Bartholemy and his men laid aside their cutlasses and their pistols, and took up their muskets, with which they were well provided.

Their vessel lay within a very short range of the Spanish ship, and whenever a man could be seen through the portholes, or showed himself in the rigging or anywhere else where it was necessary to go in order to work the ship, he made himself a target for the good aim of the pirates.