We can expect no care from the Genoese leeches, who will have their hands full, for a long time to come, with their own men.

There are some among us who will soon bleed to death, unless their wounds are staunched.

Let us, therefore, take the most serious cases first, and so on in rotation until all have been attended to." It was fortunate for them that in the hold, in which they were confined, there were some casks of water; for, for hours the Genoese paid no attention whatever to their prisoners, and the wounded were beginning to suffer agonies of thirst, when the barrels were fortunately discovered.

The head of one was knocked in, and some shallow tubs, used for serving the water to the crew, filled, and the men knelt down and drank by turns from these.

Many were too enfeebled by their wounds to rise, and their thirst was assuaged by dipping articles of clothing into the water, and letting the fluid from these run into their mouths.
It was not until next morning that the prisoners were ordered to come on deck.