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.
Messa giù tosto con ogni possibile prestezza la mia scala per prendermi i due moschetti che, come ho osservato dianzi, stavano al piede della medesima, e risalitala con uguale rapidità, tornai alla cima del monte, donde calai pigliando una scorciatoia verso la marina, sinchè mi trovassi tra coloro che inseguivano e l’inseguìto. A questo che fuggiva a più non posso, gridai sì forte da farlo voltare addietro; ma in quel primo istante gli faceva forse altrettanta paura io quanta i suoi due persecutori.