1 He beckoned, and straightway the new-comers were encompassed by four-and-twenty soldiers.
2 A Bulgarian captain came in, saw me all bleeding, and the soldier not in the least disconcerted.
3 This Jew was much attached to my person, but could not triumph over it; I resisted him better than the Bulgarian soldier.
4 He was a quarter Spaniard, born of a mongrel in Tucuman; he had been singing-boy, sacristan, sailor, monk, pedlar, soldier, and lackey.
5 Four soldiers stood opposite to this man; each of them fired three balls at his head, with all the calmness in the world; and the whole assembly went away very well satisfied.
6 Our men defended themselves like the Pope's soldiers; they flung themselves upon their knees, and threw down their arms, begging of the corsair an absolution in articulo mortis.
7 The slaves, my companions, those who had taken them, soldiers, sailors, blacks, whites, mulattoes, and at last my captain, all were killed, and I remained dying on a heap of dead.
8 A Moor seized my mother by the right arm, while my captain's lieutenant held her by the left; a Moorish soldier had hold of her by one leg, and one of our corsairs held her by the other.