plants of canes; which he (I mean the Portugal man) understood very well.

Among the rest of the supplies fent my tenants in the island, I fent them, by this floop, three milch cows and five calves, about twenty-two hogs among them, three fows big with pig, two mares, and a ftone-horse.

For my Spaniards, according to my promise, I engaged three Portugal women to go; and recommended it to them to marry them, and use them kindly. I could have procured more women, but I remembered that the poor perfecuted man had two daughters, and there were but five of the Spaniards that wanted; the reft had wives of their own, tho' in another country.

All this cargo arrived fafe, and as you may easily fuppofe, very welcome to my old inhabitants, who were now (with this addition) between fixty and feventy people, besides little children; of which there were a great many: I found letters at London from them all, by way of Lisbon, when I came back to England, being sent back to the Brafils by this floop; of which I fhall take fome notice in its place.

I have now done with my island, and all manner of discourse about it; and whoever reads the rest of my memorandums, would do well to turn his thoughts entirely from it, and expect to read only of the follies of an old man, not warned by his own harms, much less by thofe of other men, to beware of the like; not cooled by almost forty years mifery and difappointments; not fatisfied with profperity beyond expectation; not made cautious by affliction and diftress beyond imitation.

I had no more business to go to theEast Indies, than a man at full liberty, and having committed no crime, has to go to the turn-key at Newgate, and defire him to lock him up among the prisoners there, and ftarve him. Had I taken a fmall veffel from England, and went directly to the ifland; had I loaded her, as I did the other veffel, with all the neceffaries for the plantation, and for my people; took a patent from the government here, to have secured my property, in fubjection only to that of England, which, to be fure, I might have obtained; had I carried over cannon and ammunition, fervants, and people to plant, and, taking poffeffion of the place, fortified and ftrengthened it in the name of England, and increased it with people, as I might easily have done; had I then fettled myself there, and sent the ship back, loaded with good rice, as I might also have done in fix months time, and ordered my friends to have fitted her out again for our supply; had I done this, and stayed there myself, I had, at least, acted like a man of common fenfe; but I was poffeffed with a wandering fpirit, scorned all advantages, pleased myself with being the patron of these people I had placed there, and doing for them in a kind of haughty majestic way, like an old patriarchal monarch; providing for them, as if I had been father of the whole family, as well as of the plantation: but I never fo much as pretended to plant in the name of any government or nation, or to acknowledge any prince, or to call my people fubjects to any one nation more than another; nay, I never fo much as gave the place a name; but left it as I found it, belonging to no man; and the people under no difcipline or go

vernment but my own; who, though I had an in fluence over them as father and benefactor, had no authority or power to act or command one way or other, farther than voluntary confent moved them to comply: yet even this, had I staid there, would have done well enough; but as I rambled from them, and came thither no more, the laft letters I had from any of them, were by my partner's means, who afterwards fent another floop to the place; and who fent me word, though I had not the letter till five years after it was written, that they went on but poorly, were malecontent with their long stay there; that Will Atkins was dead; that five of the Spaniards were come away; and that though they had not been much molested by the savages, yet they had had fome fkirmishes with them; that they begged of him to write to me, to think of the promise I had made to fetch them away, that they might fee their own. country again before they died.

But I was gone a wild-goofe chafe indeed; and they who will have any more of me, must be content to follow me through a new variety of follies, hardfhips, and wild adventures; wherein the juftice of Providence may be duly obferved, and we may fee how eafily Heaven can gorge us with our own defires, make the strongest of our wishes to be our affliction, and punish us most severely with thofe very things which we think it would be our utmost happinefs to be allowed in.

Let no wife man flatter himself with the ftrength of his own judgment, as if he was able to chufe any particular ftation of life for himfelf. Man is a fhort. fighted creature, fees but a very little way before

him; and as his paffions are none of his best friends, fo his particular affections are generally his worst

counsellors.

I fay this with refpect to the impetuous defire I had from a youth, to wander into the world; and how evident it now was, that this principle was preferved in me for my punishment. How it came on, the manner, the circumftance, and the conclufion of it, it is easy to give you historically, and with its utmost variety of particulars. But the fecret ends of Divine Providence, in thus permitting us to be hurried down the ftream of our own defires, are only to be understood of those who can liften to the voice of Providence, and draw religious confequences from GOD's justice, and their own mistakes.

Be it, had I business, or no business, away I went; it is no time now to enlarge any farther upon the reafon or abfurdity of my own conduct; but to come to the history; I was embarked for the voyage, and the voyage I went.

I fhall only add here, that my honeft and truly pious clergyman left me here; a fhip being ready to go to Lisbon, he asked me leave to go thither, being still, as he observed, bound never to finish any voyage he began. How happy had it been for me, if I had gone with him!

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But it was too late now; all things Heaven appoints are best: had I gone with him, I had never had so many things to be thankful for, and you had never heard of the second part of the Travels and Adventures of Robinson Crufoe; fo I must leave here the fruitlefs exclaiming at myfelf, and go on with my voyage. From

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From the Brafils we made directly away over the Atlantic fea, to the Cape de Bonne Efperance, or, as we call it, the Cape of Good Hope; and had a tolerable good voyage, our course generally fouth-east; now and then a ftorm, and fome contrary winds. But my disasters at fea were at an end; my future rubs and cross events were to befal me on fhore; that it might appear, the land was as well prepared to be our fcourge as the fea, when Heaven, who directs the circumstances of things, pleases to appoint it to be fo.

Our ship was on a trading voyage, and had a fuper-cargo on board, who was to direct all her motions, after she arrived at the Cape; only being limitted to a certain number of days for ftay, by charter-party, at the feveral ports fhe was to go to: this was none of my business, neither did I meddle with it at all; my nephew, the captain, and the fupercargo, adjusting all thofe things between them as they thought fit.

We made no stay at the Cape, longer than was needful to take in fresh water, but made the best of our way for the coaft of Coromande; we were indeed informed that a French man of war of fifty guns, and two large merchant fhips, were gone for the Indics; and, as I knew we were at war with France, I had fome apprehenfions of them; but they went their own way, and we heard no more of them.

I fhall not pefter my account, or the reader, with defcriptions of places, journals of our voyages, variations of the compafs, latitudes, meridian diftances, trade winds, fituation of ports, and the like; fuch

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