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Updated: May 19, 2025
Now then, take off your wet clothes, wring them out, and hang them up in the sun, while we look after this huge serpent and the gigantic monkeys. Draw the boat along by the boughs, Cross, till we can look through that opening. Be ready with your gun, Nat. Put in a couple of those swanshot cartridges. You shall do the shooting."
'I say, this would jolly well pepper a Red Indian, wouldn't it! cried Guy, showing a pistol, the tiny barrel of which was constructed to discharge swanshot with a steel watch-spring. 'I tell you what, said Jack, with the air of a trapper, 'I shall reserve my peas till I've fired away all the corks, and take a deliberate aim each time.
Being there to guard the ship, he bade them begone, and upon their disregarding the order, and closing in upon him with evident intent to take him, he clapped the blunderbuss, which was heavily charged with swanshot, to his shoulder and let fly into the midst of them. No jury thereafter ever found him guilty of a capital felony if by chance he killed a gangsman in self-defence.
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