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`` I would say more than that if it were not for these poisonous Indians , '' replied Tollemache . `` Here they come now , a whole canoe load of 'em . I have never seen such rotters . '' And , indeed , Francisco Suarez , detailed to keep watch and ward over the ship until noon , ran up the companion and cried excitedly : `` Four head men have just put off from Otter Creek . They have missed me , I expect . They will want me to go back . I beseech you , señor captain , not to give me up to them , but rather to send a bullet through my miserable heart . ''