My friend, however, was now too much injured to render us any aid whatever, and I was so encumbered with my disguise that I could do but little.

The dog would not leave his hold upon the throat of Jones--Peters, nevertheless, was far more than a match for the two men who remained, and would, no doubt, have dispatched them sooner, had it not been for the narrow space in which he had to act, and the tremendous lurches of the vessel.

Presently he was enabled to get hold of a heavy stool, several of which lay about the floor.

With this he beat out the brains of Greely as he was in the act of discharging a musket at me, and immediately afterward a roll of the brig throwing him in contact with Hicks, he seized him by the throat, and, by dint of sheer strength, strangled him instantaneously.

Thus, in far less time than I have taken to tell it, we found ourselves masters of the brig.
The only person of our opponents who was left alive was Richard Parker.
This man, it will be remembered, I had knocked down with a blow from the pump-handle at the commencement of the attack.