We returned to the palace towards evening, and the giant arrived a
little while after. We were forced to see another of our comrades
roasted. But at last we revenged ourselves on the brutish giant
thus. After he had made an end of his cursed supper, he lay down on
his back, and fell asleep. As soon as we heard him snore, according
to his custom, nine of the boldest among us, and myself, took each
of us a spit, and putting the points of them into the fire till
they were burning hot, we thrust them into his eye all at once, and
blinded him. The pain occasioned him to make a frightful cry, and
to get up and stretch out his hands in order to sacrifice some of
us to his rage, but we ran to places where he could not find us;
and after having sought for us in vain, he groped for the gate, and
went out, howling dreadfully.
We went out of the palace after the giant, and came to the shore,
where we had left our rafts, and put them immediately into the sea.
We waited till day in order to get upon them, in case the giant
came towards us with any guide of his own species; but we hoped
that if he did not appear by sunrise, and gave over his howling,
which we still heard, he would die; and if that happened to be the
case, we resolved to stay in the island, and not to risk our lives
upon the rafts.
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