By my side was a large plate of victuals and a flask of spirits, and feeling stronger I ate and drank of them heartily.

I had scarcely finished my meal when the men on the foredeck lifted the body of the man, which I saw was black in colour, and cast it overboard.

Then three of them, whom from their port I took to be officers, came towards me and I rose to my feet to meet them.
'Senor,' said the tallest of them in a soft and gentle voice, 'suffer me to offer you our felicitations on your wonderful--' and he stopped suddenly.
Did I still dream, or did I know the voice?
Now for the first time I could see the man's face--it was that of JUAN DE GARCIA! But if I knew him he also knew me.
'Caramba!' he said, 'whom have we here?
Senor Thomas Wingfield I salute you.

Look, my comrades, you see this young man whom the sea has brought to us.

He is no Spaniard but an English spy.