However, I said no more to the boy, but bade him lie still, and I took our biggest gun, which was almost musket-bore, and loaded it with a good charge of powder, and with two slugs, and laid it down; then I loaded another gun with two bullets; and the third (for we had three pieces) I loaded with five smaller bullets.
Tomé el arma de mayor tamaño, que era casi como un mosquete, la cargué con abundante pólvora y dos trozos de plomo y la dejé aparte. Entonces cargué otro fusil con dos balas y luego un tercero, pues teníamos tres armas.