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THE inhabitants came wondering down the shore to look at us; andseeing the ship lie down on one side in such a manner, and heelingin towards the shore, and not seeing our men, who were at work onher bottom with stages, and with their boats on the off-side, theypresently concluded that the ship was cast away, and lay fast onthe ground. On this supposition they came about us in two or threehours' time with ten or twelve large boats, having some of themeight, some ten men in a boat, intending, no doubt, to have come onboard and plundered the ship, and if they found us there, to havecarried us away for slaves.
The sight, you may be sure, was something uncouth to our Spaniards,who were, to give them a just character, men of the most calm,sedate tempers, and perfect good humour, that ever I met with:and, in particular, of the utmost modesty: I say, the sight wasvery uncouth, to see three naked men and five naked women, alltogether bound, and in the most miserable circumstances that humannature could be supposed to be, viz. to be expecting every momentto be dragged out and have their brains knocked out, and then to beeaten up like a calf that is killed for a dainty.
But my frequent preaching to them on this subject had worseconsequences than I expected; and the boatswain, who had been thehead of the attempt, came up boldly to me one time, and told me hefound that I brought that affair continually upon the stage; that Imade unjust reflections upon it, and had used the men very ill onthat account, and himself in particular; that as I was but apassenger, and had no command in the ship, or concern in thevoyage, they were not obliged to bear it; that they did not knowbut I might have some ill-design in my head, and perhaps to callthem to an account for it when they came to England; and that,therefore, unless I would resolve to have done with it, and alsonot to concern myself any further with him, or any of his affairs,he would leave the ship; for he did not think it safe to sail withme among them.
