The casualties were now inquired into, and it was found that six men had been shot dead, and that nine-and-twenty had received wounds more or less severe from the arrows of the pirates.
Francis had been twice wounded while superintending the placing of the bales.

One arrow had gone through his right leg, another had struck him in the side and glanced off a rib.
"This won't do, Messer Francisco," the captain said as he assisted Giuseppi to bandage the wounds.

"Signor Polani placed you on board to learn something of seamanship and commerce, not to make yourself a target for the arrows of pirates.

However, we have to thank you for the saving of the Bonito, for assuredly she would have been stove in, had not the happy thought of hanging those bales overboard struck you.

It would be of no use against war galleys, whose beaks are often below the waterline, but against craft like these pirates it acts splendidly, and there is no doubt that you saved the ship from destruction, and us from death, for after the burning of the two first vessels that attacked us, you may be sure they would have shown but little mercy.