I immediately ran down the ladders with all possible expedition, fetched my two guns, for they were both at the foot of the ladders, as I observed before, and getting up again with the same haste to the top of the hill, I crossed towards the sea; and having a very short cut, and all down hill, placed myself in the way between the pursuers and the pursued, hallowing aloud to him that fled, who, looking back, was at first perhaps as much frightened at me as at them; but I beckoned with my hand to him to come back; and, in the meantime, I slowly advanced towards the two that followed; then rushing at once upon the foremost, I knocked him down with the stock of my piece.
Aussitôt je descendis en toute hâte par mes échelles, je pris deux fusils que j'y avais laissés au pied, comme je l'ai dit tantôt, et, remontant avec la même précipitation, je m'avançai vers la mer. Ayant coupé par le plus court au bas de la montagne, je me précipitai entre les poursuivants et le poursuivi, et j'appelai le fuyard.