"My two arms will give you each a meal; cut them off for to-day, and to-morrow you shall have the rest of me." "Agreed!" cried Dowlas; and as M.Letourneur held out his bare arms, quick as lightning the carpenter raised his hatchet.
Curtis and I could bear this scene no longer; whilst we were alive to prevent it, this butchery should not be permitted, and we rushed forwards simultaneously to snatch the victim from his murderers.

A furious struggle ensued, and in the midst of the MELEE I was seized by one of the sailors, and hurled violently into the sea.
Closing my lips, I tried to die of suffocation in the water; but in spite of myself, my mouth opened, and a few drops trickled down my throat.
Merciful Heaven! the water was fresh!.