doing it, raise the ladder high enough to get it over the pales.
Finding their efforts ineffectual to raise the ladder over the fence, and hearing the poor fellow still groaning, they set about thinking what other means were left to dispatch him ; and, recollecting, they hunted about till they found two heavy logs of wood that had been gate-posts ; these they threw into the well, and then resolving to do their business effectually, they got together as many great stones as they could find, and threw them into the well. And, now hearing nothing of the unfortunate man, though they listened attentively, they concluded that he was quite dead, mounted their horses, and went to their respective homes.
Previously, however, they had consulted what was to be done with the two living witnesses against them , namely, the two horses that had been ridden by Galley and Chater, and they had agreed, after many plans had been suggested and abandoned, to kill them and take off their skins. Accordingly they killed the one, a grey on which Galley had ridden, flayed him, and cut up his hide into small pieces ; but when they came to look for the other, a bay, on which Chater had ridden, he was not to be found ; he got away, and was soon after delivered to his rightful owner ; but the grey, which had been hired for Galley by Mr. Shever of Southampton, was obliged to be paid for by him.
