As soon as they came within call of the ship, he made Robinson hail them, and tell them they had brought off the men and the boat, but that it was a long time before they had found them, and the like, holding them in a chat till they came to the ship’s side; when the captain and the mate entering first with their arms, immediately knocked down the second mate and carpenter with the butt-end of their muskets, being very faithfully seconded by their men; they secured all the rest that were upon the main and quarter decks, and began to fasten the hatches, to keep them down that were below; when the other boat and their men, entering at the forechains, secured the forecastle of the ship, and the scuttle which went down into the cook-room, making three men they found there prisoners.
Il jasa avec eux jusqu'à ce qu'ils eussent accosté le vaisseau. Alors le capitaine et son second, avec leurs armes, se jetant les premiers à bord, assommèrent sur-le-champ à coups de crosse de mousquet le bosseman et le charpentier; et, fidèlement secondés par leur monde, ils s'assuraient de touts ceux qui étaient sur le pont et le gaillard d'arrière, et commençaient à fermer les écoutilles pour empêcher de monter ceux qui étaient en bas, quand les gens de l'autre embarcation, abordant par les porte-haubans de misaine, s'emparèrent du gaillard d'avant et de l'écoutillon qui descendait à la cuisine, où trois hommes qui s'y trouvaient furent faits prisonniers.