That was the one, I think, that came down on the top of us.
"I have been wondering since then how it was that that fellow fell, for you did not fire till they jumped up." Dick explained that he had felled one with a blow from the stick, and not having time to strike with it again, had sent the second staggering over the group with a blow of his fist; "those are the two that got away, I expect," he said.
"I expect so; there were four bodies on the ground--yours, the two fellows you shot, and the one I wiped out to begin with." "Has there been any row about it ?" Dick asked.
"No; they take these things quietly.

If it had been one of my mates and me who had killed three Mexicans, our story that we had been attacked might not have been believed, but as it was certain a young ship's officer would not have joined me in falling foul of three natives, they just took and buried them, and there was an end of it.".