and he told me's, and I told him's, and the like, but I fhall collect the Facts Hiftorically, as near as I can gather them out of my Memory from what they related to me, and from what I met with in my converfing with them and with the Place.

In order to do this fuccinely, and as intelligibly as I can, I must go back to the Circumftance in which I left the Ifland, and in which the Per fons were, of whom I am to speak. And first, it is neceffary to repeat, that I had fent away Friday's Father and the Spaniard, the two whofe Lives I had refcued from the Savages, I fay, I had fent them away in a large Canoe to the Main, as I then thought it, to fetch over the Spaniard's Companions who he had left behind him, in order to fave them from the like Calamity that he had been in; and in order to fuccour them for the prefent, and that, if poffible, we might together find fome Way for our Deliverance afterward.

When I fent them away, I had no vifible Appearance of, or the leaft room to hope for my own Deliverance any more than I had twenty Year before, much lefs had I any fore Knowledge of what afterward happened, I mean of an English Ship coming on Shore there to fetch me off; and it could not but be a very great Surprize to them when they came back, not only to find that I was gone, but to find three Strangers left on the Spot, poilefs'd of all that I had left behind me, which would otherwife have been their own.

The first Thing, however, which I enquir'd into, that I might begin where I left off, was of their own Part; and I defir'd he would give me a particular Account of his Voyage back to his

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Countrymen with the Boat, when I fent him to fetch them over: He told me there was little Variety in that Part, for nothing remarkable happen'd to them on the Way, they having very calm Weather, and a smooth Sea; for his Countrymen it could not be doubted, he faid, but that they were overjoy'd to fee him: (It seems he was the principal Man among them, the Captain of the Veffel they had been fhipwreck'd in, having been dead fome Time) they were, he faid, the more furpriz'd to fee him, because they knew that he was fallen into the Hands of the Savages, who, they were fatisfy'd, would devour him as they did all the rest of their Prisoners, that when he told them the Story of his Deliverance, and in what Manner he was furnish'd for carrying them away, it was like a Dream to them; and their Aftonishment, they faid, was fomewhat like that of FoSeph's Brethren, when he told them who he was, and told them the Story of his Exaltation in Pharaoh's Court But when he fhew'd them the Arms, the Powder, the Ball, and the Provifions that he brought them for their Journey or Voyage, they were reftor'd to themselves, took a juft Share of the Joy of their Deliverance, and immediately prepar'd to come away with him.

Their first Business was to get Canoes, and in this they were oblig'd not to stick so much upon the honeft Part of it, but to trefpafs upon their friendly Savages, and to borrow two large Canoes or Periaguas, on Pretence of going out a fihing, or for Pleasure.

In these they came away the next Morning, it feems they wanted no Time to get themselves ready; for they had no Baggage, neither Cloaths or

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Provifions, or any Thing in the World, but what they had on them, and a few Roots to cat, of which they used to make their Bread.

They were in all three Weeks abfent, and in that Time, unluckily for them, I had the Occafion offer'd for my Escape, as I mention'd in my other Part, and to get off from the Island, leaving three of the moft impudent, harden'd, ungovern'd, difagreeable Villains behind me, that any Man could defire to meet with, to the poor Spaniards great Grief and Disappointment, you may be fure.

The only juft Thing the Rogues did, was, That when the Spaniards came on Shore, they gave my Letter to them, and gave them Provifions and other Relief, as I had order'd them to do, alfo they gave them the long Paper of Directions which I had left with them, containing the particular Methods which I took for managing every Part of my Life there, the Way how I baked my Bread, bred up tame Goats, and planted my Corn, how I cur'd my Grapes, made my Pots, and, in a Word, every Thing I did, all this being written down, they gave to the Spaniards, two of whom underftand English well enough; nor did they refufe to accommodate the Spaniards with every Thing elfe, for they a greed very well for fome Time; They gave them an equal Admiffion into the Houfe, or Cave, and they began to live very fociably, and the HeadSpaniard, who had feen pretty much of my Methods, and Friday's Father together, manag'd all their Affairs; for, as for the English Men, they did nothing but ramble about the Iland, fhoot Parrots, and ketch Tortoifes, and when they

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came home at Night, the Spaniards provided their Suppers for them.

The Spaniards would have been fatisfy'd with this, would the other but have let them alone, which, however, they could not find in their Hearts to do long; but, like the Dog in the Manger, they would not eat themfelves, and would not let others cat neither; The Differences nevertheless, were at firft but trivial, and fuch as are not worth relating; but at laft, it broke out into open War, and it begun with all the Rudenefs and Infolence that can be imagin'd, without Reason, without Provocation, contrary to Nature, and indeed, to common Sence; and tho' it is true the first Relation of it came from the Spaniards themselves, who I may call the Accufers, yet when I came to examine the Fellows, they could not deny a Word of it.

But before I come to the Particular of this Part, I must supply a Defect in my former Relation, and this was, that I forgot to fet down among the reft, that juft as we were weighing the Anchor to fet Sail, there happen'd a little Quarrel on board our Ship, which I was afraid once would have turn'd to a fecond Mutiny; nor was it appeas'd, 'till the Captain rouzing up his Courage, and taking us all to his Affiftance, parted them by Force, and making two of the most refractory Fellows Prifoners, he laid them in Irons, and as they had been active in the former Diforders, and let fall fome ugly dangerous Words the fecond Time, he threaten'd to carry them in Irons to England, and have them hang'd there for Mutiny, and running away with the Ship.

This, it feems, tho' the Captain did not intend to do it, frighted fome other Men in the Ship, and fome of them had put it into the Heads of the reft, that the Captain only gave them good Words for the prefent, 'till they fhould come to fome English Port, and that then they should be all put into Jayl, and Tryed for their Lives.

The Mate got Intelligence of this, and acquainted us with it, upon which it was defir'd, that I, who ftill pafs'd for a great Man among them, fhould go down with the Mate, and fatisfy the Men, and tell them, that they might be af fur'd, if they behaved well the reft of the Voyage, all they had done for the Time paft fhould be pardon'd. So I went, and after paffing my Honour's Word to them, they appear'd easy, and the more fo, when I caufed the two Men who were in I rons to be released, and forgiven.

But this Mutiny had brought us to an Anchor for that Night, the Wind alfo falling calm, next Morning we found, that our two Men who had been laid in Irons, had ftole each of them a Muf ket, and fome other Weapons, what Powder or Shot they had we know not; and had taken the Ship's Pinnace, which was not yet hal'd up, and ran away with her to their Companions in Roguery on Shore.

As foon as we found this, I order'd the LongBoat on Shore, with twelve Men and the Mate, and away they went to seek the Rogues, but they could neither find them; or any of the reft, for they all fled into the Woods when they faw the Boat coming on Shore. The Mate was once re folv'd, in Juflice to their Roguery, to have destroy'd