When the Spanish governor heard this, he calls to Will Atkins,"How, Seignior Atkins, would you murder us all? What have you tosay to that?" The hardened villain was so far from denying it,that he said it was true, and swore they would do it still beforethey had done with them. "Well, but Seignior Atkins," says theSpaniard, "what have we done to you that you will kill us? Whatwould you get by killing us? And what must we do to prevent youkilling us? Must we kill you, or you kill us? Why will you put usto the necessity of this, Seignior Atkins?" says the Spaniard verycalmly, and smiling. Seignior Atkins was in such a rage at theSpaniard's making a jest of it, that, had he not been held by threemen, and withal had no weapon near him, it was thought he wouldhave attempted to kill the Spaniard in the middle of all thecompany. This hare-brained carriage obliged them to considerseriously what was to be done. The two Englishmen and the Spaniardwho saved the poor savage were of the opinion that they should