midnight
Nearly a score of the negroes were killed . Exclusive of those by the balls , many were mangled ; their wounds -- mostly inflicted by the long-edged sealing-spears , resembling those shaven ones of the English at Preston Pans , made by the poled scythes of the Highlanders . On the other side , none were killed , though several were wounded ; some severely , including the mate . The surviving negroes were temporarily secured , and the ship , towed back into the harbor at midnight , once more lay anchored . Omitting the incidents and arrangements ensuing , suffice it that , after two days spent in refitting , the ships sailed in company for Conception , in Chili , and thence for Lima , in Peru ; where , before the vice-regal courts , the whole affair , from the beginning , underwent investigation . Though , midway on the passage , the ill-fated Spaniard , relaxed from constraint , showed some signs of regaining health with free-will ; yet , agreeably to his own foreboding , shortly before arriving at Lima , he relapsed , finally becoming so reduced as to be carried ashore in arms . Hearing of his story and plight , one of the many religious institutions of the City of Kings opened an hospitable refuge to him , where both physician and priest were his nurses , and a member of the order volunteered to be his one special guardian and consoler , by night and by day .