When we had passed the castle, we fell a fishing; but though I knew there was a bite, I dissembled the matter, in order to put out further to sea.  Accordingly we ran a league further; when giving the boy the helm, and pretending to stoop for something, I seized Muley by surprise and threw him overboard.  As he was an excellent swimmer, he soon arose and made towards the boat; upon which I took out a fusee, and presented at him:  “Muley” said I, “I never yet designed to do you any harm, and seek nothing now but my redemption.  I know you are able enough to swim to shore, and save your life:  but if you are resolved to follow me to the endangering of mine, the very moment you proceed, I will shoot you through the head.”  The harmless creature at these words, turned himself from me, and I make no doubt got safe to land.  Them turning to the boy Xury, I perceived he trembled at the action:  but I put him out of all fear, telling him, that if he would be true and faithful to me, I would do well by him.  “And therefore,” said I, “you must stroke your face to be faithful:  and, as the Turks have learned you, swear by Mahomet, and the beard of your father, or else I will throw you into the sea also.”  So innocent did the child then look, and with such an obliging smile consented, that I readily believed him, and from that day forward began to love him entirely.

We then pursued our voyage:  and least they should think me gone to the Straits’ mouth, I kept to the southward to the truly Barbarian coast; but in the dusk of the evening, I changed my course, and steering directly S. and by E. that I might keep near the shore:  and, having a fresh gale of wind, with a pleasant smooth sea, by three o’clock next day I was one hundred and fifty miles beyond the Emperor of Morocco’s dominions.  Yet still having the dreadful apprehensions of being retaken, I continued sailing for five days successively, till such time as the wind shifting to the southward, made me conclude, that if any vessel was in the chase of me, they would proceed no farther.  After so much fatigue and thought, I anchored at the mouth of a little river, I knew not what or where:  neither did I then see, any people.  What I principally wanted was fresh water; and I was resolved about dusk to swim ashore.  But no sooner did the gloomy clouds of night begin to succeed the declining day, when we heard such barking, roaring, and howling of wild creatures, that one might have thought the very strongest monsters of nature, or infernal spirits had their residence there.  Poor Xury, almost dead with fear, entreated me not to go on shore that night.  “Supposing I don’t, Xury,” said I, “and in the morning we should see men who are worse than those we fear, what then?” “O den we may give dem de shoot gun,” replied Xury, laughing, “and de gun make dem all run away.”