them from Blood-fhed, and to make all easy at laft; for faid they, We are not fo many of us, here is room enough for us all, and it is great Pity we should not be all good Friends; at length they did confent and waited for the Iffue of the thing, living for fome Days with the Spaniards, for their own Habitation was destroy'd.

In about five Days time the three Vagrants, tyr'd with Wandring, and almoft ftarv'd with Hunger, having chiefly liv'd on Turtles Eggs all that while, came back to the Grove, and finding my Spaniard, who, as I have faid, was the Governour, and two more with him, walking by the Side of the Creek; they came up in a very fubmiffive humble Manner, and begg'd to be receiv'd again into the Family. The Spaniards ufed them civilly, but told them they had acted fo unnaturally by their Countrymen, and fo very grofly by them (the Spaniards) that they could not come to any Conclufion without confulting the two English Men and the reft; but however, they would go to them and difcourfe about it, and they fhould know in half an Hour. It may be guess'd, that they were very hard put to it, for it seems, as they were to wait this half Hour for an Anfwer, they begg'd he would fend them out fome Bread in the mean Time, which he did, and fent them at the fame Time a large Piece of Goats Flesh, and a broii'd Parrot, which they eat very heartily, for they were hungry enough.

After half an Hours Confultation they were call'd in, and a long Debate had among them, their two Countrymen charging them with the

Ruin of all their Labour, and a Defign to murther them; all which they own'd before, and therefore could not deny now; upon the whole, the Spaniard acted the Moderator between them, and as they had oblig'd the two English Men not to hurt the three while they were naked and unarm'd, fo they now oblig'd the three to go and build their Fellows two Huts, one of the fame, and the other of larger Dimensions, than they were before; to fence their Ground again where they had pull'd up the Fences, plant Trees in the room of thofe pull'd up, dig up the Land again for planting Corn, where they had fpoil'd it, and in a word, to restore every thing in the fame State as they found it, as near as they could, for entirely it could not be, the Seafon for the Corn, and the Growth of the Trees, and Hedges, not being poffible to be recover'd.

Well, they fubmitted to all this, and as they had plenty of Provifions given them all the while, they grew very orderly, and the whole Society began to live pleafantly and agreeably together, only that these three Fellows could never be perfuaded to work, I mean for themselves, except now and then a little, juft as they pleafed, however, the Spaniards told them plainly, that if they would but live fociably and friendly together, and ftudy in the whole the Good of the Plantation, they would be content to work for them, and let them walk about and be as idle as they pleas'd, and thus having liv'd pretty well together for a Month or two, the Spaiards gave them Arms again, and gave them Liberty to go abroad with them as before.

It was not above a Week after they had thefe Arms and went abroad, but the ungrateful Creatures began to be as Infolent and Troublefome as before; but however, an Accident happening prefently upon this, which endanger'd the Safety of them all, they were oblig'd to lay by all private Refentments, and look to the Prefervation of their Lives.

It happen'd one Night, that the Spaniard Governour, as I call him, that is to say, the Spaniard, whofe Life I had fav'd, who was now the Captain, or Leader, or Governour of the reft, found himself very uneafy in the Night, and could by no Means get any Sleep; he was perfectly well in Body, as he told me the Story, only found his Thoughts tumultuous, his Mind run upon Men fighting, and killing of one another, but was broad awake, and could not by any Means get any Sleep; in fhort, he lay a great while, but growing more and more uneafy, he refolv'd to rife: As they lay, being fo many of them, upon Goats-skins, laid thick upon fuch Couches and Pads, as they made for themselves, not in Hamocks and Ship-beds, as I did, who was but one, fo they had little to do, when they were willing to rife, but to get up upon their Feet, and perhaps put on a Coat, fuch as it was, and their Pumps, and they were ready for going any Way that their Thoughts guided them.

Being thus gotten up, he look'd out, but being dark, he could fee little or nothing, and befides the Trees which I had planted, as in my former Account is defcribed, and which were

now

grown

grown tall intercepted his Sight, fo that he could only look up, and fee that it was a clear Star-light Night, and hearing no Noife, he return'd and laid him down again, but it was all one, he could not fleep, nor could he compose himself to any thing like Reft, but his Thoughts were to the last Degree uneafy, and yet he knew not for what.

Having made fome Noife with rifing, and walking about, going out and coming in, another of them wak'd, and calling, ask'd, who it was that was up? The Governour told him, how it had been with him. Say you fo, fays the other Spaniard, fuch things are not to be flighted, I affure you; there is certainly fome Mischief working, fays he, near us, and prefently he ask'd him where are the English Men? They are all in their Huts, fays he, fafe enough. It feems, the Spaniards had kept Poffefion of the main Appartment, and had made a Place, where the three English Men, fince their laft Mutiny always quarter'd by themselves, and could not come at the reft. Well, fays the Spaniard, there is fomething in it, I am persuaded from my own Experience; I am fatisfied our Spirits embodied, have a Converse with, and receive Intelligence from the Spirits unembodied and inhabiting the invisible World, and this friendly Notice is given for our Advantage, if we know how to make use of it. Come, fays he, let us go out and look abroad, and if we find nothing at all in it to justify the Trouble, I'll tell you a Story to the Purpose, that shall convince you of the Juftice of my propofing it.

In a word, they went out, to go up to the top of the Hill, where I us'd to go, but they being ftrong and in good Company, not alone, as I was, us'd none of my Cautions, to go up by the Ladder, and then pulling it up after them, to go up a fecond Stage to the Top, but were going round thro' the Grove unconcern'd and unwary, when they were furpriz'd with feeing a Light, as of Fire, a very little Way off from them, and hearing the Voices of Men, not of one, or two, but of a great Number.

In all the Discoveries I had made of the Savages landing on the lfland, it was my constant Care to prevent them making the leaft Difcovery of there being any Inhabitant upon the Place; and when by any Occafion they came to know it, they felt it fo effectually, that they that got away, were fcarce able to give any Account of it, for we difappear'd as foon as poffible, nor did ever any that had feen me, efcape to tell any one elfe, except it was the three Savages in our laft Encounter, who jump'd into the Boat, of whom I mention'd, that I was afraid they fhould go Home and bring more Help.

Whether it was the Confequence of the Efcape of thofe Men, that fo great a Number came now together, or whether they came lgnorantly and by Accident on their ufual bloody Errand, they could not it feems understand but whatever it was, it had been their Bufinefs, either to have concealed themfelves, as not to have feen them at all, much lefs to have let the Savages have feen that there were any In

habitants