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I brought out my clergyman; and though he had not
en a minister's gown, after the manner of England, or the
habit of a priest, after the manner of France, yet having
a black vest something like a cassock, with a sash round
it, he did not look very unlike a minister; and as for
his language, I was his interpreter. But the seriousness
of his behaviour to them, and the scruples he made of
marrying the women, because they were not baptized
and professed Christians, gave them an exceeding
reverence for his person; and there was no need, after
that, to inquire whether he was a clergyman or not.
Indeed, I was afraid his scruples would have been
carried so far as that he would not have married them
at all; nay, notwithstanding all I was able to say to
him, he resisted me, though modestly, yet very steadily,
and at last refused absolutely to marry them, unless he
had first talked with the men and the women too; and
though at first I was a little backward to it, yet at last I
agreed to it with a good will, perceiving the sincerity
of his design.
When he came to them, he let them know that I had
acquainted him with their circumstances, and with the
present design; that he was very willing to perform
that part of his function, and marry them, as I desired;
but that before he could do it, he must take the liberty
to talk with them. He told them, that in the sight of
all indifferent men, and in the sense of the laws of
society, they had lived all this while in a state of sin;
and that it was true, that nothing but the consenting
to marry, or effectually separating them from one
another, could now put an end to it; but there was a
difficulty in it too, with respect to the laws of Christian
matrimony, which he was not fully satisfied about, that
of marrying one, that is a professed Christian to a
savage, an idolator, and a heathen,-one that is not
baptized; and yet that he did not see that there was
time left to endeavour to persuade the women to be
baptized, or to profess the name of Christ, whom they
had, he doubted, heard nothing of, and without which
they could not be baptized. He told them he doubted
they were but indifferent Christians themselves; that
they had but little knowledge of God or of his ways,
and therefore he could not expect that they had said
much to their wives on that head yet; but that unless
they would promise him to use their endeavours with
their wives to persuade them to become Christians,
and would, as well as they could, instruct them in the
knowledge and belief of God that made them, and to
worship Jesus Christ that redeemed them, he could not
marry them; for he would have no hand in joining
Christians with savages, nor was it consistent with the
principles of the Christian religion, and was, indeed
expressly forbidden in God's law.

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said, for he was impatient to know, "Oh," said the where or other talking seriously to his wife, and teaching
priest, "tell him there is one thing will make him the her already something of religion." I began to be of
best minister in the world to his wife, and that is, the same mind; so we went out together, and I carried
repentance; for none teach repentance like true him a way which none knew but myself, and where the
penitents. He wants nothing but to repent, and then trees were so very thick that it was not easy to see
he will be so much the better qualified to instruct his through the thicket of leaves, and far harder to see in
wife; he will then be able to tell her that there is not than to see out: when, coming to the edge of the wood,
only a God, and that he is the just rewarder of good I saw Atkins and his tawny wife sitting under the shade
and evil, but that he is a merciful being, and with of a bush, very eager in discourse: I stopped short till
infinite godness and long-suffering forbears to punish my clergyman came up to me, and then having showed
those that offend; waiting to be gracious, and willing him where they were, we stood and looked very steadily
not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should at them a good while. We observed him very earnest
return and live; and even reserves damnation to the with her, pointing up to the sun, and to every quarter
general day of retribution; that it is a clear evidence of of the heavens, and then down to the earth, then out to
God and of a future state, that righteous men receive the sea, then to himself, then to her, to the woods, to
not their reward, or wicked men their punishment, till the trees. "Now," says the clergyman, “you see my
they come into another world; and this will lead him to words are made good, the man preaches to her; mark
teach his wife the doctrine of the resurrection and of him now, he is telling her that our God has made him,
the last judgment. Let him but repent himself, he her, and the heavens, the earth, the sea, the woods, the
will be an excellent preacher of repentance to his wife." trees, &c."-" I believe he is," said I. Immediately, we
I repeated all this to Atkins, who looked very serious perceived Will Atkins start upon his feet, fall down on
all the while, and, as we could easily perceive, was more his knees, and lift up both his hands. We supposed he
than ordinarily affected with it; when being eager, and said something, but we could not hear him; it was too
hardly suffering me to make an end-"I know all this, far for that. He did not continue kneeling half a
master," says he, "and a great deal more; but I have minute, but comes and sits down again by his wife, and
not the impudence to talk thus to my wife, when God talks to her again; we perceived then the woman very
and my conscience know, and my wife will be an un-attentive, but whether she said anything to him we
deniable evidence against me, that I have lived as if I could not tell. While the poor fellow was upon his
had never heard of a God or future state, or anything knees, I could see the tears run plentifully down my
about it; and to talk of my repenting, alas (and with clergyman's cheeks, and I could hardly forbear myself;
that he fetched a deep sigh, and I could see that the but it was a great affliction to us both that we were not
tears stood in his eyes); 'tis past all that with me."- near enough to hear anything that passed between them.
"Past it, Atkins?" said I: "what dost thou mean by Well, however, we could come no nearer for fear of dis-
that?""I know well enough what I mean," says he; turbing them: so we resolved to see an end of this piece
"I mean 'tis too late, and that is too true."
of still conversation, and it spoke loud enough to us
without the help of voice. He sat down again, as I
have said, close by her, and talked again earnestly to
her, and two or three times we could see him embrace
her most passionately; another time we saw him take
out his handkerchief and wipe her eyes, and then kiss
her again with a kind of transport very unusual; and
after several of these things, we saw him on a sudden
jump up again, and lend her his hand to help her up,
when immediately leading her by the hand a step or
two, they both kneeled down together, and continued
so about two minutes.

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I told the clergyman, word for word, what he said, and this affectionate man could not refrain from tears; but, recovering himself, said to me, "Ask him but one question: Is he easy that it is too late; or is he troubled, and wishes it were not so?" I put the question fairly to Atkins; and he answered, with a great deal of passion, How could any man be easy in a condition that must certainly end in eternal destruction? that he was far from being easy; but that, on the contrary, he believed it would one time or other ruin him."-" What do you mean by that?" said I. "Why," he said, "he believed he should one time or other cut his throat, to put an end to the terror of it."

The clergyman shook his head, with great concern in his face, when I told him all this; but turning quick to me, upon it, says, "If that be his case, we may assure him it is not too late; Christ will give him repentance. But pray," says he, "explain this to him; that as no man is saved but by Christ, and the merit of his passion procuring divine mercy for him, how can it be too late for any man to receive mercy? Does he think he is able to sin beyond the power or reach of divine merey? Pray tell him, there may be a time when provoked mercy will no longer strive, and when God may refuse to hear, but that it is never too late for men to ask mercy; and we, that are Christ's servants, are commanded to preach mercy at all times, in the name of Jesus Christ, to all those that sincerely repent: so that it is never too late to repent."

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My friend could bear it no longer, but cries out aloud, St. Paul! St. Paul! behold, he prayeth." I was afraid Atkins would hear him, therefore I entreated him to withhold himself a while, that we might see an end of the scene, which to me, I must confess, was the most affecting that ever I saw in my life. Well, he strove with himself for a while, but was in such raptures, to think that the poor heathen woman was become a Christian, that he was not able to contain himself; he wept several times, then throwing up his hands and crossing his breast, said over several things ejaculatory, and by the way of giving God thanks for so miraculous a testimony of the success of our endeavours. Some he spoke softly, and I could not well hear others; some things he said in Latin, some in French; then two or three times the tears would interrupt him, that he could not speak at all; but I begged that he would contain himself, and let us more narrowly and fully observe I told Atkins all this, and he heard me with great what was before us, which he did for a time, the scene earnestness; but it seemed as if he turned off the dis-not being near ended yet; for after the poor man and course to the rest, for he said to me, he would go and his wife were risen again from their knees, we observed he have some talk with his wife; so he went out a while, stood talking still eagerly to her, and we observed her and we talked to the rest. I perceived they were all motion, that she was greatly affected with what he said, stupidly ignorant as to matters of religion, as much as by her frequently lifting up her hands, laying her hand I was when I went rambling away from my father; yet to her breast, and such other postures as express the there were none of them backward to hear what had greatest seriousness and attention; this continued about been said; and all of them seriously promised that they half a quarter of an hour, and then they walked away, would talk with their wives about it, and do their so we could see no more of them in that situation. endeavours to persuade them to turn Christians.

They heard all this very attentively, and I delivered it very faithfully to them from his mouth, as near his own words as I could; only sometimes adding something of my own, to convince them how just it was, and that I was of his mind; and I always very faithfully distinguished between what I said from myself, and what were the clergyman's words. They told me it was very true what the gentleman said, that they were very indifferent Christians themselves, and that they had never talked to their wives about religion. Lord, sir," says Will Atkins, "how should we teach them religion? Why, we know nothing ourselves; and besides, sir," said he," should we talk to them of God and Jesus Christ, and heaven and hell, it would make them laugh at us, and ask us what we believe ourselves? And if we should tell them that we believe all the things we speak of to them, such as of good people going to heaven, and wicked people to the devil, they would ask us where we intend to go ourselves, that believe all this, and are such wicked fellows as we indeed are? Why, sir, 'tis enough to give them a surfeit of religion at first hearing; folks must have some religion themselves before they begin to teach The clergyman smiled upon me when I reported what other people."-"Will Atkins," said I to him, "though answer they gave, but said nothing a good while; but I am afraid that what you say has too much truth in it, at last shaking his head, "We that are Christ's seryet can you not tell your wife she is in the wrong; that vants," says he, "can go no further than to exhort and there is a God, and a religion better than her own; instruct: and when men comply, submit to the reproof, that her gods are idols; that they can neither hear nor and promise what we ask, 'tis all we can do; we are speak; that there is a great Being that made all things, bound to accept their good words; but believe me, sir,” and that can destroy all that he has made; that he said he, "whatever you may have known of the life of rewards the good and punishes the bad; and that we that man you call Will Atkins, I believe he is the only are to be judged by him at last for all we do here? You sincere convert among them; I will not despair of the are not so ignorant, but even nature itself will teach rest; but that man is apparently struck with the sense you that all this is true; and I am satisfied you know of his past life, and I doubt not, when he comes to talk it all to be true, and believe it yourself."-"That is true, sir," said Atkins; "but with what face can I say any thing to my wife of all this, when she will tell me immediately it cannot be true?"-"Not true!" said I; "what do you mean by that?"-"Why sir," said he, "she will tell me it cannot be true that this God I shall tell her of can be just, or can punish or reward, since I am not punished and sent to the devil, that have been such a wicked creature as she knows I have been, even to her, and to everybody else; and that I should be suffered to live, that have been always acting so contrary to what I must tell her is good, and to what I ought to have done."-"Why, truly, Átkins," said I, "I am afraid thou speakest too much truth;" and with that I informed the clergyman of what Atkins had

of religion to his wife, he will talk himself effectually
into it: for attempting to teach others is sometimes the
best way of teaching ourselves. If that poor Atkins
begins but once to talk seriously of Jesus Christ to his
wife, he will assuredly talk himself into a thorough
convert, make himself a penitent, and who knows what
may follow!"

Upon this discourse, however, and their promising, as
above, to endeavour to persuade their wives to embrace
Christianity, he married the other two couple; but Will
Atkins and his wife were not yet come in. After this,
my clergyman, waiting a while, was curious to know
where Atkins was gone, and turning to me, said, "I
entreat you, sir, let us walk out of your labyrinth here,
and look; I dare say we shall find this poor man some-

I took this interval to say to the clergyman, first, that I was glad to see the particulars we had both been witnesses to; that, though I was hard enough of belief in such cases, yet that I began to think it was all very sincere here, both in the man and his wife, however ignorant they might both be, and I hoped such a beginning would yet have a more happy end: "But, my friend," added I, “will you give me leave to start one difficulty here? I cannot tell how to object the least thing against that affectionate concern which you show for the turning of the poor people from their Paganism to the Christian religion; but how does this comfort you, while these people are, in your account, out of the pale of the Catholic church, without which you believe there is no salvation? so that you esteem these but heretics, as effectually lost as the Pagans themselves."

To this he answered, with abundance of candour, thus: "Sir, I am a Catholic of the Roman church, and a priest of the order of St. Benedict, and I embrace all the principles of the Roman faith; but yet, if you will believe me, and that I do not speak in compliment to you, or in respect to my circumstances and your civilities; I say, nevertheless, I do not look upon you, who call yourselves reformed, without some charity. I dare not say (though I know it is our opinion in general) that you cannot be saved; I will by no means limit the mercy of Christ so far as to think that he cannot receive you into the bosom of his church, in a manner to us unperceivable; and I

hope you have the same charity for us: I pray daily for your being all restored to Christ's church, by whatsoever method he, who is all-wise, is pleased to direct. In the meantime, surely you will allow it consists with me, as a Roman, to distinguish far between a Protestant and a Pagan; between one that calls on Jesus Christ, though in a way which I do not think is according to the true faith, and a savage or barbarian, that knows no God, no Christ, no Redeemer; and if you are not within the pale of the Catholic church, we hope you are nearer being restored to it than those who know nothing of God or of his church: and I rejoice, therefore, when I see this poor man, who, you say, has been a profligate, and almost a murderer, kneel down and pray to Jesus Christ, as we suppose he did, though not fully enlightened; believing that God, from whom every such work proceeds, will sensibly touch his heart, and bring him to the further knowledge of that truth in his own time; and if God shall influence this poor man to convert and instruct the ignorant savage, his wife, I can never believe that he shall be cast away himself. And have I not reason, then, to rejoice, the nearer any are brought to the knowledge of Christ, though they may not be brought quite home into the bosom of the Catholic church just at the time when I desire it, leaving it to the goodness of Christ to perfect his work in his own time, and in his own way? Certainly, I would rejoice if all the savages in America were brought, like this poor woman, to pray to God, though they were all to be Protestants at first, rather than they should continue Pagans or Heathens; firmly believing, that He that had bestowed the first light on them would further illuminate them with a beam of his heavenly grace, and bring them into the pale of his church when he should see good."

I was astonished at the sincerity and temper of this pious Papist, as much as I was oppressed by the power of his reasoning; and it presently occurred to my thoughts, that if such a temper was universal, we might be all Catholic Christians, whatever church or particular profession we joined in; that a spirit of charity would soon work us all up into right principles; and as he thought that the like charity would make us all Catholics, so I told him I believed, had all the members of his church the like moderation, they would soon all be Protestants. And there we left that part; for we never disputed at all. However, I talked to him another way, and taking him by the hand, "My friend," says I, "I wish all the clergy of the Romish church were blessed with such moderation, and had an equal share of your charity. I am entirely of your opinion; but I must tell you, that if you should preach such doctrine in Spain or Italy, they would put you into the Inquisition."-"It may be so," said he; "I know not what they would do in Spain or Italy; but I will not say they would be the better Christians for that severity; for I am sure there is no heresy in abounding with charity." Well, as Will Atkins and his wife were gone, our business there was over, so we went back our own way; and when we came back, we found them waiting to be called in: observing this, I asked my clergyman if we should discover to him that we had seen him under the bush or not; and it was his opinion we should not, but that we should talk to him first, and hear what he would say to us: so we called him in alone, nobody being in the place but ourselves, and I began by asking him some particulars about his parentage and education. He told me frankly enough that his father was a clergyman who would have taught him well, but that he, Will Atkins, despised all instruction and correction; and by his brutish conduct cut the thread of all his father's comforts and shortened his days, for that he broke his heart by the most ungrateful, unnatural return for the most affectionate treatment a father ever gave.

In what he said there seemed so much sincerity of repentance, that it painfully affected me. I could not but reflect that I, too, had shortened the life of a good tender father by my bad conduct and obstinate self-will. I was, indeed, so surprised with what he had told me, that I thought, instead of my going about to teach and instruct him, the man was made a teacher and instructor to me in a most unexpected manner.

I laid all this before the young clergyman, who was greatly affected with it, and said to me," Did I not say, sir, that when this man was converted he would preach to us all? I tell you, sir, if this one man be made a true penitent, here will be no need of me; he will make Christians of all in the island."--But having a little composed myself, I renewed my discourse with Will Atkins. "But Will," said I, "how comes the sense of this matter to touch you just now?"

W. A.-Sir, you have set me about a work that has struck a dart through my very soul: I have been talking about God and religion to my wife, in order, as you directed me, to make a Christian of her, and she has preached such a sermon to me as I shall never forget

while I live.

R. C.-No, no, it is not your wife has preached to you; but when you were moving religious arguments to her, conscience has flung them back upon you.

W. A.-Ay, sir, with such force as is not to be resisted.

R. C.-Pray, Will, let us know what passed between Wife.-How me tink you have great much God up you and your wife; for I know something of it already. there [she points up to heaven], and yet no do well, no W. A.-Sir, it is impossible to give you a full account do good thing? Can he tell? Sure he no tell what of it; I am too full to hold it, and yet have no tongue you do? to express it; but let her have said what she will, though I cannot give you an account of it, this I can tell you, that I have resolved to amend and reform my life.

R. C.-But tell us some of it: how did you begin, Will? For this has been an extraordinary case, that is certain. She has preached a sermon, indeed, if she has wrought this upon you.

W. A.-Why, I first told her the nature of our laws about marriage, and what the reasons were that men and women were obliged to enter into such compacts, as it was neither in the power of one nor other to break; that otherwise, order and justice could not be maintained, and men would run from their wives, and abandon their children, mix confusedly with one another, and neither families be kept entire, nor inheritances be settled by legal descent.

R. C.-You talk like a civilian, Will. Could you make her understand what you meant by inheritance and families? They know no such things among the savages, but marry anyhow, without regard to relation, consanguinity, or family; brother and sister, nay, as I have been told, even the father and the daughter, and the son and the mother.

W. A.-I believe, sir, you are misinformed, and my wife assures me of the contrary, and that they abhor it; perhaps, for any further relations, they may not be so exact as we are; but she tells me never in the near relationship you speak of.

R. C.-Well, what did she say to what you told her? W. A.--She said she liked it very well, as it was much better than in her country.

R. C.-But did you tell her what marriage was? W. A.-Ay, ay, there began our dialogue. I asked her if she would be married to me our way. She asked me what way that was; I told her marriage was appointed by God; and here we had a strange talk together, indeed, as ever man and wife had, I believe.

N.B. This dialogue between Will Atkins and his wife, which I took down in writing just after he had told it me, was as follows:

Wife.-Appointed by your God! Why, have you a God in your country?

W. A.-Yes, my dear, God is in every country. Wife.-No your God in my country; my country have the great old Benamuckee God.

W. A.- Child, I am very unfit to show you who God is; God is in heaven, and made the heaven and the earth, the sea, and all that in them is. Wife. No makee de earth; no you God makee all earth; no makee my country. Will Atkins laughed a little at her expression of God not making her country.

Wife. No laugh; why laugh me? This no ting to laugh.

[He was justly reproved by his wife, for she was more serious than he at first.]

W. A.-That's true, indeed; I will not laugh any more, my dear.

Wife. Why, you say you God makee all?

W. A.-Yes, child, our God made the whole world, and you, and me, and all things; for he is the only true God, and there is no God but him; he lives for ever in heaven.

Wife. Why you no tell me long ago?

W. A.-That's true, indeed; but I have been a wicked wretch, and have not only forgotten to acquaint thee with anything before, but have lived without God in the world myself.

Wife. What, have you a great God in your country, you no know him? No say O to him? No do good ting for him? That no possible.

W. A.-It is true; though, for all that, we live as if there was no God in heaven, or that he had no power on earth.

Wife. But why God let you do so? Why he no makee you good live?

W. A.-It is all our own fault.

Wife. But you say me he is great, much great, have much great power; can makee kill when he will: why he no makee kill when you no serve him? no say O to him? no be good mans?

W. A.-That is true, he might strike me dead; and I ought to expect it, for I have been a wicked wretch, that is true; but God is merciful, and does not deal with us as we deserve.

Wife. But then do you not tell God thankee for that too?

W. A.-No, indeed, I have not thanked God for his mercy, any more than I have feared God for his power.

Wife. Then you God no God; me no think, believe he be such one, great much power, strong: no makee kill you, though you make him much angry.

W. A.-What, will my wicked life hinder you from believing in God? What a dreadful creature am I! and what a sad truth is it, that the horrid lives of Christians hinder the conversion of heathens!

W. A.-Yes, yes, he knows and sees all things; he hears us speak, sees what we do, knows what we think, though we do not speak.

Wife.-What! he no hear you curse, swear, speak de great damn?

W. A.-Yes, yes, he hears it all.

Wife. Where be then the much great power strong? W. A. He is merciful, that is all we can say for it; and this proves him to be the true God; he is God, and not man, and therefore we are not consumed.

[Here Will Atkins told us he was struck with horror, to think how he could tell his wife so clearly that God sees, and hears, and knows the secret thoughts of the heart, and all that we do, and yet that he had dared to do all the vile things he had done.]

Wife.-Merciful! What you call dat?

W. A.-He is our father and maker, and he pities and spares us.

Wife. So then he never makee kill, never angry when you do wicked; then he no good himself, or no great able.

W. A.-Yes, yes, my dear, he is infinitely good and infinitely great, and able to punish too; and sometimes, to show his justice and vengeance, he lets fly his anger to destroy sinners and make examples; many are cut off in their sins.

Wife. But no makee kill you yet; then he tell you, may be, that he no makee you kill: so you makee de bargain with him, you do bad thing, he no be angry at you when he be angry at other mans.

W. A.-No, indeed, my sins are all presumptions upon his goodness; and he would be infinitely just if he destroyed me, as he has done other men.

Wife.-Well, and yet no kill, no makee you dead; what you say to him for that? You no tell him thankee for all that too?

W. A.-I am an unthankful, ungrateful dog, that is true.

Wife. Why he no makee you much good better? you say he makee you.

W. A.-He made me as he made all the world; it is I have deformed myself and abused his goodness, and made myself an abominable wretch.

Wife. I wish you makee God know me. I no makee him angry-I no do bad wicked thing.

[Here Will Atkins said his heart sunk within him, to hear a poor untaught creature desire to be taught to know God, and he such a wicked wretch, that he could not say one word to her about God, but what the reproach of his own carriage would make most irrational to her to believe; nay, that already she had told him that she could not believe in God, because he, that was so wicked, was not destroyed.]

W. A.-My dear, you mean, you wish I could teach you to know God, not God to know you; for he knows you already, and every thought in your heart.

Wife. Why, then, he know what I say to you now: he know me wish to know him. How shall me know

who makee me?

W. A.-Poor creature, he must teach thee: I cannot teach thee. I will pray to him to teach thee to know him, and forgive me, that am unworthy to teach thee.

[The poor fellow was in such an agony at her desiring him to make her know God, and her wishing to know him, that he said he fell down on his knees before her, and prayed to God to enlighten her mind with the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, and to pardon his sins, and accept of his being the unworthy instrument of instructing her in the principles of religion: after which he sat down by her again, and their dialogue This was the time when we saw him kneel down, and hold up his hands.] Wife.-What you put down the knee for? What you hold up the hand for? What you say? Who you speak to? What is all that?

went on.

W. A.--My dear, I bow my knees in token of my submission to him that made me: I said O to him, as you call it, and as your old men do to their idol Benamuckee; that, is, I prayed to him.

Wife.-What say you O to him for?

W. A.-I prayed to him to open your eyes and your understanding, that you may know him, and be accepted by him.

Wife.-Can he do that too?

W. A.-Yes, he can: he can do all things.
Wife.-But now he hear what you say?

W. A.-Yes, he has bid us pray to him, and promised to hear us.

Wife.-Bid you pray? When he bid you? How he bid you? What you hear him speak?

W. A.-No, we do not hear him speak; but he has revealed himself many ways to us.

[Here he was at a great loss to make her understand that God has revealed himself to us by his word, and what his word was; but at last he told it her thus:-]

W. A.-God has spoken to some good men in former

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days, even from heaven, by plain words; and God has
inspired good men by his Spirit; and they have written
all his laws down in a book.
Wife.-Me no understand that; where is book?
W. A.-Alas! my poor creature, I have not this book;
but I hope I shall one time or other get it for you, and
help you to read it.
[Here he embraced her with great affection, but with
inexpressible grief that he had not a Bible.]
Wife. But how you makee me know that God
teachee them to write that book?

W. A.-By the same rule that we know him to be
God.

Wife. What rule? What way you know him? W. A.-Because he teaches and commands nothing but what is good, righteous, and holy, and tends to make us perfectly good, as well as perfectly happy; and because he forbids, and commands us to avoid, all that is wicked, that is evil in itself, or evil in its consequence.

Wife. That me would understand, that me fain see; if he teachee all good thing, he makee all good thing, he give all thing, he hear me when I say O to him, as you do just now; he makee me good, if I wish to be good; he spare me, no makee kill me, when I no be good: all this you say he do, yet he be great God: me take, think, believe him to be great God; me say O to him with you, my dear. Here the poor man could forbear no longer, but raised her up, made her kneel by him, and he prayed to God aloud to instruct her in the knowledge of himself, by his Spirit; and that by some good providence, if possible, she might, some time or other, come to have a Bible, that she might read the Word of God, and be taught by it to know him. This was the time that we saw him lift her up by the hand, and saw him kneel down by her, as above.

They had several other discourses, it seems, after this; and particularly she made him promise that, since he confessed his own life had been a wicked, abominable course of provocations against God, that he would reform it, and not make God angry any more, lest he should make him dead, as she called it, and then she would be left alone, and never be taught to know this God better; and lest he should be miserable, as he had told her wicked men would be, after death.

This was a strange account, and very affecting to us both, but particularly to the young clergyman; he was, indeed, wonderfully surprised with it, but under the greatest affliction imaginable that he could not talk to her, that he could not speak English, to make her understand him; and as she spoke but very broken English, he could not understand her; however, he turned himself to me, and told me that he believed that there must be more to do with this woman than to marry her. I did not understand him at first; but at length he explained himself, viz. that she ought to be baptized. I agreed with him in that part readily, and wished it to be done presently. "No, no; hold, sir," says he; "though I would have her be baptized, by all means, for I must observe that Will Atkins, her husband, has indeed brought her, in a wonderful manner, to be willing to embrace a religious life, and has given her just ideas of the being of a God; of his power, justice, and mercy: yet I desire to know of him if he has said anything to her of Jesus Christ, and of the salvation of sinners; of the nature of faith in him, and redemption by him; of the Holy Spirit, the resurrection, the last judgment, and the future state."

Roman church, if possible, because of other ill conse- it very suitable. The character of that man I have
quences which might attend a difference among us in given already; and as for the maid, she was a very
that very religion which we were instructing the other honest, modest, sober, and religious young woman: had
in. He told me that as he had no consecrated chapel, a very good share of sense, was agreeable enough in her
nor proper things for the office, I should see he would person, spoke very handsomely and to the purpose,
do it in a manner that I should not know by it that he always with decency and good manners, and was neither
was a Roman Catholic myself, if I had not known it too backward to speak when requisite, nor impertinently
before; and so he did; for saying only some words over forward when it was not her business; very handy and
to himself in Latin, which I could not understand, he housewifely, and an excellent manager; fit, indeed, to
poured a whole dishful of water upon the woman's have been governess to the whole island; and she knew
head, pronouncing in French, very loud, "Mary (which very well how to behave in every respect.
The match being proposed in this manner, we married
was father at the altar,
was the name her husband desired me to give her, for I
was her godfather), I baptize thee in the name of the them the same day; and as
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost;" so and gave her away, so I gave her a portion; for I ap-
that none could know anything by it what religion he pointed her and her husband a handsome large space of
was of. He gave the benediction afterwards in Latin, ground for their plantation; and, indeed, this match,
a small property in the island, put me upon parcelling
but either Will Atkins did not know but it was French, and the proposal the young gentleman made to give him
or else did not take notice of it at that time.
As soon as this was over, we married them; and it out amongst them, that they might not quarrel
after the marriage was over, he turned to Will Atkins, afterwards about their situation.
This sharing out the land to them I left to Will
and in a very affectionate manner exhorted him, not
only to persevere in that good disposition he was in, Atkins, who was now grown a sober, grave, managing
but to support the convictions that were upon him by a fellow, perfectly reformed, exceedingly pious and re-
resolution to reform his life: told him it was in vain to ligious; and, as far as I may be allowed to speak
say he repented if he did not forsake his crimes; re-positively in such a case, I verily believe he was a true
presented to him how God had honoured him with being penitent. He divided things so justly, and so much to
the instrument of bringing his wife to the knowledge every one's satisfaction, that they only desired one
of the Christian religion, and that he should be careful general writing under my hand for the whole, which I
he did not dishonour the grace of God; and that if he caused to be drawn up, and sigued and sealed, setting
did, he would see the heathen a better Christian than out the bounds and situation of every man's plantation,
himself; the savage converted, and the instrument cast and testifying that I gave them thereby severally a
away. He said a great many good things to them both; right to the whole possession and inheritance of the re-
and then, recommending them to God's goodness, gave spective plantations or farms, with their improvements,
I island as my own property, and a certain rent for every
them the benediction again, I repeating everything to to them and their heirs, reserving all the rest of the
them in English; and thus ended the ceremony.
think it was the most pleasant and agreeable day to me particular plantation after eleven years, if I, or any one
that ever I passed in my whole life. But my clergyman from me, or in my name, came to demand it, producing
had not done yet: his thoughts hung continually upon an attested copy of the same writing. As to the
the conversion of the thirty-seven savages, and fain he government and laws among them, I told them I was
would have stayed upon the island to have undertaken not capable of giving them better rules than they were
it; but I convinced him, first, that his undertaking was able to give themselves; only I made them promise me
impracticable in itself; and, secondly, that perhaps I to live in love and good neighbourhood with one
would put it into a way of being done in his absence to another; and so I prepared to leave them.
his satisfaction.

Having thus brought the affairs of the island to a
narrow compass, I was preparing to go on board the
had taken out of the
ship, when the young man
famished ship's company came to me, and told me he
understood I had a clergyman with me, and that I had
caused the Englishmen to be married to the savages:
that he had a match too, which he desired might be
finished before I went, between two Christians, which
he hoped would not be disagreeable to me.

I knew this must be the young woman who was his mother's servant, for there was no other Christian woman on the island: so I began to persuade him not to do anything of that kind rashly, or because he found himself in this solitary circumstance. I represented to him that he had some considerable substance in the world, and good friends, as I understood by himself, and the maid also; that the maid was not only poor, and a servant, but was unequal to him, she being six or seven and twenty years old, and he not above seventeen or eighteen; that he might very probably, with my assistance, make a remove from this wilderness, and come into his own country again; and that then it would be a thousand to one but he would repent his choice, and the dislike of that circumstance might be disadvantageous to both. I was going to say more, but I called Will Atkins again, and asked him; but the he interrupted me, smiling, and told me, with a great poor fellow fell immediately into tears, and told us he deal of modesty, that I mistook in my guesses,-that had said something to her of all those things, but that he had nothing of that kind in his thoughts; and he was very glad to hear that I had an intent of putting he was himself so wicked a creature, and his own conscience so reproached him with his horrid, ungodly life, them in a way to see their own country again: and that he trembled at the apprehensions that her know-nothing should have made him think of staying there, ledge of him should lessen the attention she should give but that the voyage I was going was so exceeding to those things, and make her rather contemn religion long and hazardous, and would carry him quite out of than receive it; but he was assured, he said, that her the reach of all his friends; that he had nothing to mind was so disposed to receive due impressions of all desire of me, but that I would settle him in some little those things, and that if I would but discourse with her, property in the island where he was, give him a servant she would make it appear to my satisfaction that my or two, and some few necessaries, and he would live here like a planter, waiting the good time when, if ever labour would not be lost upon her. Accordingly I called her in, and placing myself as in- I returned to England, I would redeem him. He hoped terpreter between my religious priest and the woman, II would not be unmindful of him when I came to Engentreated him to begin with her; but sure such a land: that he would give me some letters to his friends sermon was never preached by a Popish priest in these in London, to let them know how good I had been to latter ages of the world; and, as I told him, I thought him, and in what part of the world, and what circumhe had all the zeal, all the knowledge, all the sincerity stances I had left him in: and he promised me that of a Christian, without the error of a Roman Catholic; whenever I redeemed him, the plantation, and all the and that I took him to be such a clergyman as the improvements he had made upon it, let the value be Roman bishops were, before the church of Rome what it would, should be wholly mine. assumed spiritual sovereignty over the consciences of

men.

In a word, he brought the poor woman to embrace the knowledge of Christ, and of redemption by him, not with wonder and astonishment only, as she did the first notions of a God, but with joy and faith; with an affection, and a surprising degree of understanding, scarce to be imagined, much less to be expressed; and, at her own request, she was baptized.

When he was preparing to baptize her, I entreated him that he would perform that office with some caution, that the man might not perceive he was of the

His discourse was very prettily delivered, considering his youth, and was the more agreeable to me, because he told me positively the match was not for himself. I gave him all possible assurances that if I lived to come safe to England, I would deliver his letters, and do his business effectually; and that he might depend I should never forget the circumstances I had left him in; but still I was impatient to know who was the person to be married; upon which he told me it was my Jack-of-alltrades and his maid Susan. I was most agreeably surprised when he named the match; for, indeed, I thought

One thing I must not omit, and that is, that being now settled in a kind of commonwealth among themselves, and having much business in hand, it was odd to have seven-and-thirty Indians live in a nook of the island, independent, and, indeed, unemployed; for, excepting the providing themselves food, which they had difficulty enough to do, sometimes they had no manner of business or property to manage. I proposed, therethem, with Friday's father, and proposed to them to refore, to the governor Spaniard, that he should go to move, and either plant for themselves, or be taken into their several families as servants, to be maintained for their labour, but without being absolute slaves; for I would not permit them to make them slaves by force, by any means; because they had their liberty given them by capitulation, as it were articles of surrender, which they ought not to break.

They most willingly embraced the proposal, and came all very cheerfully along with him: so we allotted them land and plantations, which three or four accepted of, but all the rest chose to be employed as servants in the several families we had settled. Thus my colony was in a manner settled as follows:-The Spaniards possessed my original habitation, which was the capital city, and extended their plantations all along the side of the brook, which made the creek that I have so often described, as far as my bower; and as they increased their culture, it went always eastward. The English lived in the north-cast part, where Will Atkins and his comrades began, and came on southward and south-west, towards the back part of the Spaniards ; and every plantation had a great addition of land to take in, if they found occasion, so that they need not jostle one another for want of room. of the island was left uninhabited, that if any of the savages should come on shore there only for their usual customary barbarities, they might come and go; if they disturbed nobody, nobody would disturb them: and no doubt but they were often ashore, and went away again; for I never heard that the planters were ever attacked or disturbed any more.

All the east end

It now came into my thoughts that I had hinted to my friend the clergyman that the work of converting the savages might perhaps be set on foot in his absence to his satisfaction, and I told him that now I thought that it was put in a fair way; for the savages, being every one of them do their part with those which came thus divided among the Christians, if they would but under their hands, I hoped it might have a very good effect.

He agreed presently in that, if they did their part "But how," says he, "shall we obtain that of them?" I told him we would call them all together, and leave it in charge with them, or go to them, one by one, which he thought best; so we divided it, -he to speak to the Spaniards, who were all Papists, and I to speak to the English, who were all Protestants; and we recommended it earnestly to them, and made them promise that they would never make any distinction of

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LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE.

The woman was surprised, and was like to have run as they told me, stupid and senseless, as one drunk, for Papist or Protestant in their exhorting the savages to turn Christians, but teach them the general knowledge into a mistake that none of us were aware of: for she some time. The third day, in the morning, after a of the true God, and of their Saviour Jesus Christ; firmly believed God had sent the book upon her night of strange, confused, and inconsistent dreams, and they likewise promised us that they would never husband's petition. It was true that providentially it and rather dozing than sleeping, I awaked ravenous have any differences or disputes one with another about was so, and might be taken so in a consequent sense; and furious with hunger; and I question, had not my but I believe it would have been no difficult matter at understanding returned and conquered it, whether, if religion When I came to Will Atkins's house, I found there that time to have persuaded the poor woman to have I had been a mother, and had had a little child with the young woman I have mentioned above, and Will believed that an express messenger came from Heaven me, its life would have been safe or not. This lasted Atkings wife, were become intimates; and this pru-on purpose to bring that individual book. But it was about three hours, during which time I was twice raging dent, religious young woman had perfected the work too serious a matter to suffer any delusion to take mad as any creature in Bedlam, as my young master Will Atkins had begun; and though it was not above place, so I turned to the young woman, and told her told me, and as he can now inform you. we did not desire to impose upon the new convert in her four lays after what I have related, yet the newbaptised savage woman was made such a Christian as I first and more ignorant understanding of things, and have seldom heard of in all my observation or con- begged her to explain to her that God may be very versation in the world. It came next into my mind in properly said to answer our petitions, when, in the the norning before I went to them, that amongst all course of his providence, such things are in a particular the reedful things I had to leave with them, I had not manner brought to pass as we petitioned for: but we left hem a Bible, in which I showed myself less con- did not expect returns from Heaven in a miraculous and sidering for them than my good friend the widow was particular manner, and it is a mercy that it is not so. This the young woman did afterwards effectually, so for me when she sent me the cargo of a hundred pounds from Lisbon, where she packed up three Bibles that there was no priestcraft used here; and I should But the effect upon Will anda Prayer-book. However, the good woman's charity have thought it one of the most unjustifiable frauds in hada greater extent than ever she imagined, for they the world to have had it so. wer reserved for the comfort and instruction of Atkins is really not to be expressed; and there we may thoe that made much better use of them than I had be sure was no delusion. Sure no man was ever more thankful in the world for anything of its kind than he dore. I took one of the Bibles in my pocket, and when I was for the Bible,-nor, I believe, never any man was cane to Will Atkins's tent, or house, and found the glad of a Bible from a better principle; and though he young woman and Atkins's baptized wife had been had been a most profligate creature, headstrong, furious, and desperately wicked, yet this man is a standing rule to us all for the well instructing children, viz. that parents should never give over to teach and instruct, nor ever despair of the success of their endeavours, let the children be ever so refractory, or to appearance insensible to instruction; for, if ever God, in his providence, touches the conscience of such, the force of their education returns upon them, and the early instruction of parents is not lost, though it may have been many years laid asleep, but some time or other they may find the benefit of it. Thus it was with this poor man however ignorant he was of religion and Christian knowledge, he found he had some to do with now more ignorant than himself, and that the least part of the instruction of his good father that now came to his mind was of use to him.

Among the rest, it occurred to him, he said, how his father used to insist so much on the inexpressible value of the Bible, and the privilege and blessing of it to nations, families, and persons; but he never entertained the least notion of the worth of it till now, when being to talk to heathens, savages, and barbarians, he wanted the help of the written oracle for his assistance. The young woman was glad of it also for the present occasion, though she had one, and so had the youth, on board our ship among their goods, which were not yet brought on shore. And now, having said so many things of this young woman, I cannot omit telling one story more of her and myself, which has something in it very instructive and remarkable.

I have related to what extremity the poor young woman was reduced; how her mistress was starved to death, and died on board that unhappy ship we met at sea, and how the whole ship's company was reduced to the last extremity. The gentlewoman, and her son, and this maid, were first hardly used as to provisions, and at last totally neglected and starved, that is to say, brought to the last extremity of hunger. One day, being discoursing with her on the extremities they suffered, I asked her if she could describe, by what she had felt, what it was to starve, and how it appeared? She said she believed she could, and told her tale very distinctly thus:

"In one of these fits of lunacy or distraction I fell down and struck my face against the corner of a palletbed, in which my mistress lay, and with the blow the blood gushed out of my nose: and the cabin-boy bringing me a little basin, I sat down and bled into it a great and so did the ravenous part of the hunger. Then I deal; and as the blood came from me, I came to myself, and the violence of the flame or fever I was in abated, grew sick, and retched to vomit, but could not, for I had nothing in my stomach to bring up. After I had bled but I came to myself soon after, and then had a most some time I swooned, and they all believed I was dead; dreadful pain in my stomach not to be described-not like the colic, but a gnawing, eager pain for food; and towards night it went off with a kind of earnest wishing or longing for food. I took another draught of water with sugar in it; but my stomach loathed the sugar, and brought it all up again; then I took a draught of water without sugar, and that stayed with me; and I laid me down upon the bed, praying most heartily that it would please God to take me away: and composing my mind in hopes of it, I slumbered a while, and then waking, thought myself dying, being light with vapours from an empty stomach. I recommended my soul then to God, and then earnestly wished that somebody would throw me into the sea.

"All this while my mistress lay by me, just, as I thought, expiring, but she bore it with much more patience than I, and gave the last bit of bread she had left to her child, my young master, who would not have taken it, but she obliged him to eat it; and I believe it saved his life. Towards the morning I slept again; and after that had a second fit of violent hunger. I and when I awoke I fell into a violent passion of crying, got up ravenous, and in a most dreadful condition; and once or twice I was going to bite my own arm. At last I saw the basin in which was the blood I had bled at my nose the day before: I ran to it, and swallowed it with such haste, and such a greedy appetite, as if I wondered nobody had taken it before, and afraid it should be taken from me now. After it was down, though the thoughts of it filled me with horror, yet it checked the fit of hunger, and I took another draught of water, and was composed and refreshed for some hours after. This was the fourth day; and thus I kept up till towards night, when, within the compass of three hours, I had all the several circumstances over again, one after another, viz. sick, sleepy, eagerly hungry, pain in the stomach, then ravenous again, then sick, then lunatic, then crying, then ravenous again, and so every quarter of an hour, and my strength wasted exceedingly; at night I lay me down, having no com"All this night I had no sleep; but the hunger was fort but in the hope that I should die before morning. now turned into a disease; and I had a terrible colic and griping, by wind, instead of food, having found its way into the bowels; and in this condition I lay till morning, when I was surprised by the cries and lamentations of my young master, who called out to me that his mother was dead. I lifted myself up a little, for I had not strength to rise, but found she was not dead, though she was able to give very little signs of life. I had then such convulsions in my stomach, for want of some sustenance, as I cannot describe; with such frequent throes and pangs of appetite, as nothing but the tortures of death can imitate; and in this condition I was when I heard the seamen above cry out, A sail! a sail!' and halloo and jump about as if they were distracted. I was not able to get off from the bed, and my mistress much less: and my young master was so when I lay down; after being about three hours awake, sick, that I thought he had been expiring; so we could it being about five o'clock in the morning, I found my- not open the cabin door, or get any account what it self empty, and my stomach sickish, and lay down was that occasioned such confusion; nor had we had again, but could not sleep at all, being very faint and any conversation with the ship's company for two days, ill; and thus I continued all the second day with a they having told us that they had not a mouthful of We talked a little, and I did not perceive that they strange variety,-first hungry, then sick again, with anything to eat in the ship; and this they told us had any book among them, though I did not ask; but retchings to vomit. The second night, being obliged afterwards, they thought we had been dead. It was I put my hand into my pocket, and pulled out my to go to bed again without any food, more than a this dreadful condition we were in when you were sent This was her own relation, and is such a distinct Bible; "Here," said I to Atkins, "I have brought you draught of fresh water, and being asleep, I dreamed I to save our lives; and how you found us, sir, you know an assistant that perhaps you had not before." The was at Barbadoes, and that the market was mightily as well as I, and better too." man was so confounded, that he was not able to speak stocked with provisions; that I bought some for my for some time; but, recovering himself, he takes it with mistress, and went and dined very heartily. I thought account of starving to death, as, I confess, I never met both his hands, and turning to his wife, "Here, my my stomach was full after this, as it would have been with, and was exceeding instructive to me. I am the dear," says he, "did not I tell you our God, though he after a good dinner; but when I awaked, I was exceed-rather apt to believe it to be a true account, because lives above, could hear what we have said? Here's ingly sunk in my spirits to find myself in the extremity the youth gave me an account of a good part of it; kneeled down of famine. The last glass of wine we had I drank, and though I must own, not so distinct and so feeling as the book I prayed for when you and under the bush; now God has heard us, and sent it." put sugar in it, because of its having some spirit to the maid; and the rather, because it seems his mother When he had said so, the man fell into such passionate supply nourishment; but there being no substance in fed him at the price of her own life: but the poor transports, that between the joy of having it, and the stomach for the digesting office to work upon, I maid, whose constitution was stronger than that of her giving Gods thanks for it, the tears ran down his face found the only effect of the wine was to raise disagree- mistress, who was in years, and a weakly woman too, able fumes from the stomach into the head; and I lay, might struggle harder with it; nevertheless, she might like a child that was crying.

CRUSOE GIVES WILL ATKINS A BIBLE.

First, we had for some days fared exceeding hard, and discoursing of religion together-for Will Atkins told it me with a great deal of joy-I asked if they were suffered very great hunger; but at last we were wholly together now, and he said, yes; so I went into the without food of any kind, except sugar, and a little house, and he with me, and we found them together wine-and-water. The first day after I had received no very earnest in discourse. "Oh, sir," says Will Atkins, food at all, I found myself, towards evening, empty and "when God has sinners to reconcile to himself, and sick at the stomach, and nearer night much inclined to aliens to bring home, he never wants a messenger; my yawning and sleep. I lay down on the couch in the wife has got a new instructor: I knew I was unworthy great cabin to sleep, and slept about three hours, and as I was incapable of that work; that young woman awaked a little refreshed, having taken a glass of wine has been sent hither from heaven,-she is enough to convert a whole island of savages." The young woman blushed, and rose up to go away, but I desired her to sit still; I told her she had a good work upon her hands, and I hoped God would bless her in it.

be supposed to feel the extremity something sooner chief mate, going up the main-shrouds a little way, and
than her mistress, who might be allowed to keep the looking at them with a perspective, cried out it was an
last bit something longer than she parted with any to army. I could not imagine what he meant by an army,
relieve the maid. No question, as the case is here and thwarted him a little hastily. "Nay, sir," says he,
related, if our ship, or some other, had not so provi-" don't be angry, for 'tis an army, and a fleet too; for
dentially met them, but a few days more would have I believe there are a thousand canoes, and you may
ended all their lives. I now return to my disposition of see them paddle along, for they are coming towards us
things among the people. And, first, it is to be ob-apace."
served here, that for many reasons I did not think fit I was a little surprised then indeed, and so was my
to let them know anything of the sloop I had framed, nephew, the captain; for he had heard such terrible
and which I thought of setting up among them; for stories of them in the island, and having never been in
I found, at least at my first coming, such seeds of those seas before, that he could not tell what to think
division among them, that I saw plainly, had I set up of it, but said, two or three times, we should all be
the sloop, and left it among them, they would upon devoured. I must confess, considering we were be-
every light disgust, have separated, and gone away from calmed, and the current set strong towards the shore,
one another; or perhaps have turned pirates, and so I liked it the worse; however, I bade them not be afraid,
made the island a den of thieves, instead of a planta-but bring the ship to an anchor as soon as we came so
tion of sober and religious people, as I intended it; near as to know that we must engage them. The
nor did I leave the two pieces of brass cannon that I weather continued calm, and they came on apace towards
had on board, or the extra two quarter-deck guns that us, so I gave orders to come to an anchor, and furl all
my nephew had provided, for the same reason. I our sails; as for the savages, I told them they had
thought it was enough to qualify them for a defensive nothing to fear but fire, and therefore they should get
war against any that should invade them, but not to their boats out, and fasten them, one close by the head,
set them up for an offensive war, or to go abroad to and the other by the stern, and man them both well,
attack others; which, in the end, would only bring ruin and wait the issue in that posture: this I did, that the
and destruction upon them. I reserved the sloop, there- men in the boats might be ready with sheets and
fore, and the guns, for their service another way, as I buckets to put out any fire these savages might endeavour
shall observe in its place.
to fix to the outside of the ship.

CRUSOE BIDS A LAST FAREWELL TO THE ISLAND.

before God and man, but would have been very glad if I could have overset every canoe there, and drowned every one of them.

I can neither tell how many we killed nor how many we wounded at this broadside, but sure such a fright and hurry never were seen among such a multitude; there were thirteen or fourteen of their canoes split and overset in all, and the men all set a-swimming: he rest, frightened out of their wits, scoured away as fast as they could, taking but little care to save those whose boats were split or spoiled with our shot; so I suppose that many of them were lost; and our men took up one poor fellow swimming for his life, above an hour after they were all gone. The small shot from our cannon must needs kill and wound a great many; but, in short, we never knew how it went with them, for they led so fast, that in three hours, or thereabouts, we could not see above three or four straggling canoes, nor aid we ever see the rest any more; for a breeze of wind springing up the same evening, we weighed, and set sal for the Brazils.

We had a prisoner, indeed, but the creature was so sullen that he would neither eat nor speak, and we all fancied he would starve himself to death. But I trok a way to cure him: for I made them take him and turn him into the long-boat, and make him believe hey would toss him into the sea again, and so leave him wiere they found him, if he would not speak; nor would hat In this posture we lay by for them, and in a little do, but they really did throw him into the sea, and while they came up with us; but never was such horrid came away from him. Then he followed them, for he sight seen by Christians: though my mate was much swam like a cork, and called to them in his tongue, mistaken in his calculation of their number, yet when though they knew not one word of what he said; howthey came up we reckoned about a hundred and twenty-ever, at last they took him in again, and then he began six canoes; some of them had sixteen or seventeen men to be more tractable; nor did I ever design they should in them, and some more, and the least six or seven. drown him. When they came nearer to us, they seemed to be struck with wonder and astonishment, as at a sight which doubtless they had never seen before; nor could they at first, as we afterwards understood, know what to make of us; they came boldly up, however, very near to us, and seemed to go about to row round us; but we called to our men in the boats not to let them come too near them. This very order brought us to an engagement with them, without our designing it; for five or six of the large canoes came so near our long-boat, that our men beckoned with their hands to keep them back, which they understood very well, and went back: but at their retreat about fifty arrows came on board us from those boats, and one of our men in the long boat was very much wounded. However, I called to them not to fire by any means; but we handed down some deal boards into the boat, and the carpenter presently set up a kind of fence, like waste boards, to cover them from the arrows of the savages, if they should shoot again.

About half an hour afterwards they all came up in a body astern of us, and so near that we could easily discern what they were, though we could not tell their design; and I easily found they were some of my old friends, the same sort of savages that I had been used to engage with. In a short time more they rowed a little further out to sea, till they came directly broadside with us, and then rowed down straight upon us, till they came so near that they could hear us speak; upon this I ordered all my men to keep close, lest they should shoot any more arrows, and made all our guns ready; but being so near as to be within hearing, I made Friday go out upon the deck, and call out aloud to them in his language, to know what they meant. Whether they understood him or not, that I knew not; but as soon as he had called to them, six of them, who were in the foremost or nighest boat to us, turned their canoes from us, and stooping down, showed us their naked backs; whether this was a defiance or challenge we knew not, or whether it was done in mere contempt or as a signal to the rest: but immediately Friday cried out they were going to shoot, and, unhappily for him, poor fellow, they let fly about three hundred of their arrows, and, to my inexpressible grief, killed poor Friday, no other man being in their sight. The poor fellow was shot with no less than three arrows, and about three more fell very near him; such unlucky marksmen they

Having now done with the island, I left them all in good circumstances, and in a flourishing condition, and went on board my ship again on the 6th of May, having been about twenty-five days among them: and as they were all resolved to stay upon the island till I came to remove them, I promised to send them further relief from the Brazils, if I could possibly find an opportunity. were! I particularly promised to send them some cattle such as sheep, hogs, and cows: as to the two cows and calves which I brought from England, we had been obliged, by the length of our voyage, to kill them at sea, for want of hay to feed them.

I was so annoyed at the loss of my old trusty servant and companion, that I immediately ordered five guns to be loaded with small shot, and four with great, and gave them such a broadside as they had never heard in their lives before. They were not above half a cable's The next day, giving them a salute of five guns at length off when we fired; and our gunners took their parting, we set sail, and arrived at the bay of All Saints aim so well, that three or four of their canoes were in the Brazils, in about twenty-two days, meeting nothing overset, as we had reason to believe, by one shot only. remarkable in our passage but this: that about three The ill manners of turning up their bare backs to us days after we had sailed, being becalmed, and the current gave us no great offence; neither did I know for certain setting strong to the E.N.E., running, as it were, into a whether that which would pass for the greatest contempt bay, or gulf on the land side, we were driven something among us might be understood so by them or not; out of our course, and once or twice our men cried out, therefore, in return, I had only resolved to have fired "Land to the eastward!" but whether it was the four or five guns at them with powder only, which I continent or islands we could not tell by any means. knew would frighten them sufficiently; but when they But the third day, towards evening, the sea smooth, and shot at us directly with all the fury they were capable the weather calm, we saw the sea, as it were, covered of, and especially as they had killed my poor Friday, towards the land with something very black; not being whom I so entirely loved and valued, and who, indeed, able to discover what it was, till after some time, our so well deserved it, I thought myself not only justifiable

We were now under sail again, but I was the most disconsolate creature alive for want of my man Friday, and would have been very glad to have gone back to the island, to have taken one of the rest from thence for my occasion, but it could not be so we went on. Ve had one prisoner, as I have said, and it was a long time before we could make him understand anything; but, in time, our men taught him some English, and he began to be a little tractable. Afterwards, we inquired what country he came from, but could make nothing of what he said; for his speech was so odd, all gutturals, and he spoke in the throat in such a hollow, odd manner, that we could never form a word after him: and ve were all of opinion that they might speak that language as well if they were gagged as otherwise; nor could ve perceive that they had any occasion either for teeth, tongue, lips, or palate, but formed their words just as a hunting-horn forms a tune with an open throat. He told us, however, some time after, when we had taught him to speak a little English, that they were going with their kings to fight a great battle. When he sad kings, we asked him how many kings? He said they were five nation (we could not make him understand the plural s), and that they all joined to go against tvo nation. We asked him what made them come up to us? He said, "To makee te great wonder look." Here it is to be observed, that all those natives, as also those of Africa, when they learn English, always add two s at the end of the words where we use one; and they place the accent upon them, as makée, takée, and the like; nay, I could hardly make Friday leave it off, though at last he did.

And now I name the poor fellow once more, I must take my leave of him. Poor honest Friday! We buried him with all the decency and solemnity possible, by putting him into a coffin, and throwing him into the sea; and I caused them to fire eleven guns for him. So ended the life of the most grateful, faithful, honest, and most affectionate servant that ever man had.

We went now away with a fair wind for Brazil; and in about twelve days' time we made land, in the latitude of five degrees south of the line, being the northeasternmost land of all that part of America. We kept on S. by E., in sight of the shore four days, when we made Cape St. Augustine and in three days came to an anchor off the bay of All Saints, the old place of my deliverance, from whence came both my good and evil fate. Never ship came to this port that had less business than I had, and yet it was with great difficulty that we were admitted to hold the least correspondence on shore: not my partner himself, who was alive, and made a great figure among them, not my two merchant trustees, not the fame of my wonderful preservation in the island, could obtain me that favour. My partner, however, remembering that I had given five hundred moidores to the Prior of the Monastery of the Augustines, and two hundred and seventy-two to the poor, went to the monastery, and obliged the prior that then was to go to the governor, and get leave for me personally, with the captain and one more, besides eight seamen, to come on shore, and no more; and this upon condition, absolutely capitulated for, that we should not offer to land any goods out of the ship, or to carry any person away without licence. They were so strict with us, as to landing any goods, that it was with extreme difficulty that I got on shore three bales of English goods, such as fine broadcloths, stuffs, and

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