about midnight
As to the five in the cave , I resolved to keep them fast , but Friday went in twice a day to them , to supply them with necessaries ; and I made the other two carry provisions to a certain distance , where Friday was to take them . When I showed myself to the two hostages , it was with the captain , who told them I was the person the governor had ordered to look after them ; and that it was the governor 's pleasure they should not stir anywhere but by my direction ; that if they did , they would be fetched into the castle , and be laid in irons : so that as we never suffered them to see me as governor , I now appeared as another person , and spoke of the governor , the garrison , the castle , and the like , upon all occasions . The captain now had no difficulty before him , but to furnish his two boats , stop the breach of one , and man them . He made his passenger captain of one , with four of the men ; and himself , his mate , and five more , went in the other ; and they contrived their business very well , for they came up to the ship about midnight . As soon as they came within call of the ship , he made Robinson hail them , and tell them they had brought off the men and the boat , but that it was a long time before they had found them , and the like , holding them in a chat till they came to the ship 's side ; when the captain and the mate entering first with their arms , immediately knocked down the second mate and carpenter with the butt-end of their muskets , being very faithfully seconded by their men ; they secured all the rest that were upon the main and quarter decks , and began to fasten the hatches , to keep them down that were below ; when the other boat and their men , entering at the forechains , secured the forecastle of the ship , and the scuttle which went down into the cook-room , making three men they found there prisoners . When this was done , and all safe upon deck , the captain ordered the mate , with three men , to break into the round-house , where the new rebel captain lay , who , having taken the alarm , had got up , and with two men and a boy had got firearms in their hands ; and when the mate , with a crow , split open the door , the new captain and his men fired boldly among them , and wounded the mate with a musket ball , which broke his arm , and wounded two more of the men , but killed nobody . The mate , calling for help , rushed , however , into the round-house , wounded as he was , and , with his pistol , shot the new captain through the head , the bullet entering at his mouth , and came out again behind one of his ears , so that he never spoke a word more : upon which the rest yielded , and the ship was taken effectually , without any more lives lost .