Just then two big wild cats came down to the shore from the mountains. I think they were leopards. The people were afraid of these wild cats, and the women cried out. Quickly, I took a gun, and shot one of the animals. The second wild cat ran back up into the mountains.
Guns were new to these African people, and they were afraid of the loud noise and the smoke. But they were happy about the dead wild cat. I gave them the meat of the dead animal,and they gave us more food and water.
We now had a lot of food and water, and we sailed on. Eleven days later we came near the Cape Verde Island. We could see them, but we couldn't get near because there was no wind. We waited.
Suddenly Xury called to me, look, a ship!
He was right! We called and shouted and sailed our little boat as fast as we could. But the ship did not see us.