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nbeing moved by her entreaties; and to the last degree desolate anddislocated in the world by the loss of her.

　　But my sage counsellor was gone; I was like a ship without a pilot,that could only run afore the wind. My thoughts ran all away againinto the old affair; my head was quite turned with the whimsies offoreign adventures; and all the pleasant, innocent amusements of myfarm, my garden, my cattle, and my family, which before entirelypossessed me, were nothing to me, had no relish, and were likemusic to one that has no ear, or food to one that has no taste. Ina word, I resolved to leave off housekeeping, let my farm, andreturn to London; and in a few months after I did so.

ich theylost their masts. They told us they expected to have seen theBahama Islands, but were then driven away again to the south-east,by a strong gale of wind at NNW., the same that blew now: andhaving no sails to work the ship with but a main course, and a kindof square sail upon a jury fore-mast, which they had set up, theycould not lie near the wind, but were endeavouring to stand awayfor the Canaries.

　　It was not above a week after they had these arms, and went abroad,before the ungrateful creatures began to be as insolent andtroublesome as ever. However, an accident happened presently uponthis, which endangered the safety of them all, and they wereobliged to lay by all private resentments, and look to thepreservation of their lives.

urs they were entirely outof our sight, and we never heard any more of them, nor whether theywent to Sibeilka or no. So we passed away safely on to Jarawena,where there was a Russian garrison, and there we rested five days.

　　The Spaniards were in no small consternation at this sight; and, asthey found that the fellows went straggling all over the shore,they made no doubt but, first or last, some of them would chop inupon their habitation, or upon some other place where they wouldsee the token of inhabitants; and they were in great perplexityalso for fear of their flock of goats, which, if they should bedestroyed, would have been little less than starving them. So thefirst thing they resolved upon was to despatch three men awaybefore it was light, two Spaniards and one Englishman, to driveaway all the goats to the great valley where the cave was, and, ifneed were, to drive them into the very cave itself. Could theyhave seen the savages all together in one body, and at a distancefrom their canoes, they were resolved, if there had been a hundredof them, to attack them; but that could not be done, for they weresome of them two miles off from the other, and, as it appearedafterwards, were of two different nations.

　　I told Atkins all this, and he heard me with great earnestness; butit seemed as if he turned off the discourse to the rest, for hesaid to me he would go and have some talk with his wife; so he wentout a while, and we talked to the rest. I perceived they were allstupidly ignorant as to matters of religion, as much as I was whenI went rambling away from my father; yet there were none of thembackward to hear what had been said; and all of them seriouslypromised that they would talk with their wives about it, and dotheir endeavours to persuade them to turn Christians.

d themvery well. I then made the Englishman gunner in the ship, thegunner being now made second mate and purser; the Dutchman I madeboatswain; so they were both very well pleased, and proved veryserviceable, being both able seamen, and very stout fellows.

owntime, and in his own way? Certainly, I would rejoice if all thesavages in America were brought, like this poor woman, to pray toGod, though they were all to be Protestants at first, rather thanthey should continue pagans or heathens; firmly believing, that Hethat had bestowed the first light on them would farther illuminatethem with a beam of His heavenly grace, and bring them into thepale of His Church when He should see good."