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troy'd their Plantations, burn'd all their HoufholdStuff and Furniture, and left them to fhift without it; but having no Order, he let it all alone, left every Thing as they found it, and bringing the Pinnace away, came on board without them.

These two Men made their Number five, but the other three Villains were fo much wickeder than these, that after they had been 2 or 3 Days together, they turn'd their two New-Comers out of Doors to fhift for themfelves, and would have nothing to do with them, nor could they for a good while be perfwaded to give them any Food; as for the Spaniards they were not yet come.

When the Spaniards came firft on Shore, the Bufinefs began to go forward; the Spaniards would have perfuaded the three English Brutes to have taken in their two Country-men again, that, as they said, they might be all one Family; but they would not hear of it: So the two poor Fellows liv'd by themselves, and finding nothing but Industry and Application would make them live comfortably, they pitch'd their Tents on the North Shore of the Ifland, but a little more to the Weft, to be out of the Danger of the Savages, who always landed on the Eaft Parts of the liland.

Here they built them two Huts, one to lodge in, and the other to lay up their Magazines and Stores in, and the Spaniards having given them fome Corn for Seed, and efpecially fome of the Peas which I had left them, they dug, and planted, and enclosed, after the Pattern I had fet for them all, and began to live pretty well; their firft Crop of Corn was on the Ground, and tho' it was but a little Bit of Land which they had dug up at

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firft, having had but a little Time, yet it was enough to relieve them, and find them with Bread and other Eatables; and one of the Fellows being the Cook's Mate of the Ship, was very ready, at making Soup, Puddings, and fuch other Preparations, as the Rice, and the Milk, and fuch little Flesh as they got, furnish'd him to do.

They were going on in this little thriving Pofture when the three unnatural Rogues, their own Country-men too, in meer Humour, and to infult them, came and bully'd them, and told them, the Inland was theirs, that the Governor, meaning me, had given them Poffeffion of it, and no Body elfe had any Right to it, and damn 'em, they fhould build no Houfes upon their Ground unless they would pay them Rent for them.

The two Men thought they had jested at first, ask'd them to come in and fit down, and fee what fine Houfes they were that they had built, and tell them what Rent they demanded, and one of them merrily told them, if they were GroundLandlords, he hoped, if they built Tenements upon their Land, and made Improvements, they would, according to the Cuftom of Landlords, grant them a long Leafe, and bid them go fetch a Scrivener to draw the Writings. One of the three damning and raging, told them, they fhould fee they were not in Jeft, and going to a little Place at a Distance, where the honeft Men had made a Fire to drefs their Victuals, he takes a Fire-brand, and claps it to the Out-fide of their Hut, and very fairly fet it on Fire, and it would have been all burnt down in a few Minutes, if one of the two had not run to the Fellow, thruft him away,

away, and trod the Fire out with his Feet, and that not without fome Difficulty too.

The Fellow was in fuch a Rage at the honeft Man's thrufting him away, that he return'd upon him with a Pole he had in his Hand, and had not the Man avoided the Blow very nimbly, and run into the Hut, he had ended his Days at once; his Comrade feeing the Danger they were both in, run in after him, and immediately they came both out with their Muskets, and the Man that was firft ftruck at with the Pole knock'd the Fellow down, that had begun the Quarrel, with the Stock of his Musket, and that before the other two could come to help him, and then feeing the rest come at them they stood together, and presenting the other Ends of their Pieces to them, bad them ftand off.

The other had Fire-Arms with them too, but one of the two honest Men, bolder than his Comrade, and made defperate by his Danger, told them, if they offer'd to move Hand or Foot they were dead Men, and boldly commanded them to lay down their Arms: They did not indeed lay down their Arms, but seeing him fo refolute, it brought them to a Parley; and they confented to take their wounded Man with them, and be gone; and indeed it seems the Fellow was wounded fufficiently with the Blow; however, they were much in the wrong, fince they had the Advantage, that they did not difarm them effectually, as they might have done, and have gone immediately to the Spaniards, and given them an Account how the Rogues had treated them; for the three Villains ftudied nothing but Revenge, and every Day gave them fome Intimation that they did fo.

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But not to crowd this Part with an Account of the leffer Part of their Rogueries, fuch as, treading down their Corn, fhooting three young Kids and a She-Goat, which the poor Men had got to breed up tame for their Store; and, in a Word, plaguing them Night and Day in this Manner, it forced the two Men to fuch a Defperation, that they refolv'd to fight them all three the first Time they had a fair Opportunity; in Order to this they refolv'd to go to the Caftie, as they call'd it, that was my old Dwelling, where the three Rogues and the Spaniards all liv'd together, at that Time intending to have a fair Battle, and the Spaniards fhould ftand by to see fair Play, fo they got up in the Morning before Day, and came to the Place, and call'd the English Men by their Names, telling a Spaniard, that anfwer'd, that they wanted to fpeak with them.

It happen'd, that the Day before two of the Spaniards having been in the Woods, had feen one of the two English Men, who, for Distinction, I call the Honeft Men, and he had made a fad Complaint to the Spaniards, of the barbarous Ufage they had met with from their three Country-men, and how they had ruin'd their Plantation, and deftroy'd their Corn, that they had labour'd fo hard to bring forward, and kill'd the Milch-Goat and their three Kids, which was all they had provided for their Sustenance, and that if he and his Friends, meaning the Spaniards, did not affift them again, they fhould be ftarved. When the Spaniards came home, at Night, and they were all at Supper, he took the Freedom to reprove the three English Men, tho' in very gentle and mannerly Terms; and ask'd them, How they could be fo

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cruel, they being harmlefs innoffenfive Fellows, and that they were only putting themselves in a way to fubfift by their Labour, and that it had coft them a great deal of Pains to bring things to fuch Perfection as they had?

One of the English Men return'd very briskly, what had they to do there? That they came on Shore without Leave, and they should not Plant or Build upon the Ifland, it was none of their Ground. Why, fays the Spaniard very. calmly, Seignior Inglefe, they must not starve? The English Man reply'd like a true rough-hewn Tarpaulin, they might Starve and be Damn'd, they fhould not Plant nor Build. But what muft they do then, Seignior, faid the Spaniard? Another of the Brutes return'd, do! D....m 'em, they fhould be Servants and work for them. But how can you expect that of them, fays the Spaniard, they are not bought with your Money; you have no Right to make them Servants; The English Man anfwer'd, the Ifland was theirs, the Governour had given it to them, and no Man had any thing to do there but themselves; and with that fwore by his Maker, that they would go and burn all their new Huts, they fhould build none upon their Land.

Why, Seignior, fays the Spaniard, by the fame Rule we must be your Servants too? Ay, fays the bold Dog, and fo you shall too, before we have done with you, mixing two or three G. d Dame's in the proper Intervals of his Speech; the Spaniard only fmill'd at that, and made him no Answere However, this little Difcourfe had heated them, and ftarting up, one fays to the other, I think it was he they cali'd Will. Atkins, Come Jack, let

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