We will clear the vessel of everything except the man who is still alive.

At all events we may wait a little, and if at last there is no help for it, I will then agree with you to launch him overboard, even if he is not quite dead." "Agreed; even by your own making out, it will be no great sin.

He is half dead already--I only do half the work of tossing him over, so it will be only quarter murder on my part, and he would have shown no quarter on his." Here Jack left off arguing and punning, and went forward and lowered down the sail.

"I've half a mind to take my doubloons back," said Jack, as they launched over the body of the padrone, "but he may have them--I wonder whether they'll ever turn up again." "Not in our time, Jack," replied Gascoigne.

The other body, and all the basket, lumber, etc, were then tossed over, and the boat was cleared of all but the man who was not yet dead.
"Now let's examine the fellow, and see if he has any chance of recovery," said Gascoigne.