elle then? The Fellow, it feems, had better Eyes than I, and he points juft to the Hill above my old House; and tho' we lay half a League off, he cries out, we fee! we fee! yes, we see much Men there, and there, and there. I look'd, but I could fee no body, no not with a Perspective Glass, which was, I fuppofe, because I could not hit the Place, for the Fellow was right, as I found upon Enquiry the next Day, and there was five or fix Men altogether, ftood to look at the Ship, not knowing what to think of us.

As foon as Friday had told me he faw People, I caus'd the English Antient to be fpread, and fir'd three Guns, to give them notice we were Friends, and in about half a quarter of an Hour after, we perceiv'd a Smoke rife from the Side of the Creek, fo I immediately order'd a Boat out, taking Friday with me, and hanging out a white Flag, or Flag of Truce, I went directly on Shore, taking with me the young Fryer I mention'd, to whom I had told the whole Story of my living there, and the manner of it, and every Particular both of my self, and thofe I left there; and who was on that Account extremely defirous to go with me. We had befides about fixteen Men very well arm'd, if we had found any new Guests there which we did not know of; but we had no need of Weapons.

As we went on Shore upon the Tide of Flood, near high Water, we row'd directly into the Creek, and the firft Man I fix'd my Eye upon, was the Spaniard whofe Life I had fav'd, and who I knew by his Face perfectly well; as to his Habit I fhall defcribe it afterwards. I order'd no body to go on Shore at first but my felf, but there was no keep

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ing Friday in the Boat; for the affectionate Creature had fpy'd his Father at a Distance, a good Way off of the Spaniards, where indeed I saw nothing of him; and if they had not let him go on Shore, he would have jump'd into the Sea. He was no fooner on Shore,but he flew away to his Father like an Arrow out of a Bow. It would have made any Man have fhed Tears in Spight of the firmest Resolution, to have seen the firft Transports of this poor Fellow's Joy when he came to his Father; how he embrac'd him, kifs'd him, ftrok'd his Face, took him up in his Arms, fet him down upon a Tree, and lay down by him, then stood and look'd at him, as any one would look at á strange Picture, for a Quarter of an Hour together; then lie down on the Ground, and ftroke his Legs, and kifs them, and then get up again, and ftare at him; one would ha' thought the Fellow bewitch'd: But it would ha' made a Dog laugh to see how the next Day his Paffion run out another Way: In the Morning he walk'd along the Shore,to and again,with his Father feveral Hours, always leading him by the Hand, as if he had been a Lady; and every now and then he would come to fetch fomething or other for him to the Boat, either a Lump of Sugar, or a Dram, a Bif ket Cake, or fomething or other that was good. In the Afternoon his Frolicks run another Way; for then he would fet the old Man down upon the Ground, and dance about him, and make a thousand antick Poftures and Geftures; and all the while he did this, he would be talking to him, and telling him one Story or another of his Travels, and of what had happen'd to him Abroad, to divert him. In fhort, if the fame filial Affection was to be found in Chriftians to their Parents, in our Part of the World, one would be tempted

to fay, there would hardly ha' been any Need of the fifth Commandment.

But this is a Digreffion; I return to my Landing: It would be endless to take Notice of all the Ceremonies and Civilities that the Spaniards receiv'd me with. The firft Spaniard, who, as I faid, I knew very well, was he who's Life I had fav'd; he came towards the Boat, attended by one more, carrying a Flag of Truce alfo; and he did not only not know me at firft, but he had no Thoughts, no Notion of its being me that was come, till I spoke to him: Seignior, faid I in Portuguese, Do you not know me? At which he fpoke not a Word; but giving his Musket to the Man that was with him, threw his Arms abroad; and faying fomething in Spanish, that I did not perfectly hear, comes forward, and embrac'd me, telling me he was inexcufable,not to know that Face again, that he had once feen, as of an Angel from Heaven fent to fave his Life: He faid abundance of very handfome Things, as a well bred Spaniard always knows how, and then beckoning to the Perfon that attended him, bad him go and call out his Comrades. He then ask'd me, ifI would walk to my old Habitation, where he would give me Poffeffion of my own House again, and where I fhould fee they had made but mean Improvements; fo I walk'd along with him; but alas I could no more find the Place again, than if I had never been there; for they had planted fo many Trees, and plac'd them in fuch a Pofture, fo thick and close to one another; and inten Years Time they were grown fo big, that in fhort the Place was inacceffible, except by fuch Windings and blind Ways, as they themfelves only, who made them, could find.

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I ask'd them what put them upon all these Fortifications? He told me, I would fay there was Need enough of it, when they had given me an Account how they had pafs'd their Time fince their Arriving in the land; efpecially after they had the Mistortune to find that I was gone; he told me he could' not but have fome Satisfaction in my good Fortune,when he heard that I was gone away in a good Ship, and to my Satisfaction, and that he had often-times a ftrong Perfuafion, that one Time or other he fhould fee me again: But nothing that ever befel him in his Life, he faid, was fo furprizing and afflicting to him at firft, as the Difappointment he was under when he came back to the Inland, and found I was not there.

As to the three Barbarians (fo he call'd them) that were left behind,and of whom he faid he had a long Story to tell me; the Spaniards all thought themselves much better among the Savages, only that their Number was fo finall. And, says he, had they been strong enough, we had been all long ago in Purgatory; and with that he çrofs'd himself on the Breaft: But Sir, fays he, I hope you will not be difpleas'd,when I fhall tell you how forc'd by Neceffity we were oblig'd, for our own Preservation, to difarm them, and make them our Subjects, who would not be content with being moderately our Mafters, but would be our Murtherers. I anfwer'd, I was heartily afraid of it when I left them there; and nothing troubled me at my par ting from the Ifland, but that they were not come back, that I might have put them in Poffeffion of every Thing firft, and left the other in a State of Subjection, as they deferv'd: But if they had reduc'd them to it, I was very glad, and fhould be

very far from finding any Fault with it; for I knew they were a Parcel of refractory, ungovern'd Vil lains, and were fit for any manner of Mifchief.

While I was faying this, came the Man whom he had fent back, and with him eleven Men more: In the Dress they were in it was impoffible to guess what Nation they were of: But he made all clear both to them and to me. First he turn'd to me, and pointing to them, faid, Thefe, Sir, are some the Gentlemen who owe their Lives to you; and then turning to them, and pointing to me, he let them know who I was; upon which they all came up one by one, not as if they had been Sailors and ordinary Fellows, and I the like, but really, as if they had been Ambassadors of Noblemen, and I a Monarch or a great Conqueror; their Behaviour was to the laft Degree obliging and courteous, and yet mix'd with a manly majestick Gravity, which very well became them; and in fhort, they had fo much more Manners than I, that I fcarce knew how to receive their Civilities, much less how to return them in kind.

The Hiftory of their coming to,and Condu& in the Ifland, after my going away, is fo very remarkable, and has fo many Incidents, which the former Part of my Relation will help to underftand, and which will in most of the Particulars, refer to that Account I have already given, that I cannot but commit them with great Delight to the reading of those that come after me.

I fhall no longer trouble the Story with a Relation in the firft Perfon, which will put me to the Expence of ten thousand said I's, and faid he's,

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