Part 19 (1/2)

”Well,” said I, ”I will send for them, and talk with thees, for they were now discharged, their co perforo to the cave, and bring up the five men, pinioned as they were, to the bower, and keep them there till I came

After some time, I caovernor again Being all ht before me, and I told them, I had had a full account of their villanous behaviour to the captain, and how they had run aith the shi+p, and were preparing to commit farther robberies; but that Providence, had ensnared them in their oays, and that they were fallen into the pit which they had digged for others

I let them know, that by my direction the shi+p had been seized, that she lay now in the road, and they ht see by and by, that their new captain had received the reward of his villany; for that theyat the yard-arm: that as to them, I wanted to knohat they had to say, why I should not execute them as pirates taken in the fact, as by my commission they could not doubt I had authority to do

One of the to say but this, that when they were taken, the captain promised them their lives, and they humbly implored my mercy: but I told them I knew not what mercy to shew them; for, as for myself, I had resolved to quit the island with all land: and as for the captain, he could not carry theland, other than as prisoners in irons to be tried foraith the shi+p; the consequence of which they allows; so that I could not tell which was best for them, unless they had a mind to take their fate in the island; if they desired that, I did not care, as I had liberty to leave it; I had soht they could shi+ft on shore They seemed very thankful for it; said they would land to be hanged; so I left it on that issue

However, the captain seemed to make some difficulty of it, as if he durst not leave thery with the captain, and told hi I had offered theood as my word; and that if he did not think fit to consent to it, I would set them at liberty as I found theain if he could catch them

Upon this they appeared very thankful, and I accordingly set them at liberty, and bade them retire into the woods, to the place whence they came, and I would leave them some fire-arms, some ammunition, and soht fit

Upon this, I prepared to go on board the shi+p; but told the captain, that I would stay that night to prepare o on board in the ht in the shi+p, and send the boat on shore the next day forhim in the ed at the yard-arone, I sent for the men up to me to my apartment, and entered seriously into discourse with theht they had ht choice; that if the captain carried theed: I shewed the at the yard-ar less to expect

When they had all declared their willingness to stay, I then told the there, and put theave the to it: shewed them my fortifications, the way I rapes; and, in a word, all that was necessary to make them easy I told them the story of the sixteen Spaniards that were to be expected; for whom I left a letter, and made them promise to treat them in common with themselves

I left the-pieces, and three swords: I had about a barrel of powder left; for after the first year or two I used but little, and wasted none I gave theoats, and directions to milk and fatten theave them every part of my own story; and I told them, I would prevail with the captain to leave thearden-seed, which I told the of peas which the captain had brought me to eat, and bade the done all this, I left them the next day, and went on board the shi+p: we prepared iht: the nextto the shi+p's side, and ed to be taken into the shi+p for God's sake, for they should be h he hanged them immediately

Upon this the captain pretended to have no poithout me; but after some difficulty, and after their solemn promises of amendment, they were taken on board, and were some time after soundly whipped and pickled; after which they proved very honest and quiet fellows

Some time after this, I ith the boat on shore, the tide being up, with the things promised to the men, to which the captain, at my intercession, caused their chests and clothes to be added, which they took, and were very thankful for: I also encouraged the them, that if it lay in et them

When I took leave of this island, I carried on board for relics the great goat-skin cap I had ot not to take theuseless that it was grown rusty or tarnished, and could hardly pass for silver, till it had been a little rubbed and handled; and also the money I found in the wreck of the Spanish shi+p

And thus I left the island the nineteenth of December, as I found by the shi+p's account, in the year 1686, after I had been upon it eight-and-twenty years, twodelivered from the second captivity the same day of the o, fro the Moors of Sallee

In this vessel, after a long voyage, I arrived in England the eleventh of June, in the year 1687; having been thirty and five years absent

When I caer to all the world, as if I had never been known there: my benefactor, and faithful steward, whoreat misfortunes in the world, was become athe second time, and very low in the world: I ive her no trouble; but on the contrary, in gratitude to her former care and faithfulness to me, I relieved her as my little stock would afford, which at that time would indeed allow me to do but little for her: but I assured her, I would never forget her foret her, when I had sufficient to help her; as shall be observed in its place

I went down afterwards into Yorkshi+re; but my father was dead, and my mother and all the family extinct; except that I found two sisters, and two of the children of one of iven over for dead, there had been no provisionto relieve or assist me; and that littlein the world

I ratitude indeed, which I did not expect; and this was, that the master of the shi+p, whom I had so happily delivered, and by the saiven a very handsome account to the owners, of the manner how I had saved the lives of the men, and the shi+p, they invited me to ether made me a very handsome compliment upon that subject, and a present of al several reflections upon the circuo towards settling ht not come by some information of the state of my plantation in the Brasils, and as become of ivenfor Lisbon, where I arrived in April following;a most faithful servant upon all occasions

When I came to Lisbon, I found out, by inquiry, and to my particular satisfaction, my old friend the captain of the shi+p, who first took rown old, and had left off the sea, having put his son, as far fro man, into his shi+p; and who still used the Brasil trade The old man did not know ht myself to his remembrance, when I told him who I was

After some passionate expressions of our old acquaintance, I inquired, you may be sure, after my plantation and my partner; the old man told me, he had not been in the Brasils for about nine years; but that he could assure ; but the trustees, whonizance of my part, were both dead; that, however, he believed that I would have a very good account of the ieneral belief of iven in the account of the produce of my part of the plantation, to the procurator fiscal; who had appropriated it, in case I never ca, and two thirds to the ustine, to be expended for the benefit of the poor, and for the conversion of the Indians to the Catholic faith; but that if I appeared, or any one for me, to claim the inheritance, it would be restored; only that the i distributed to charitable uses, could not be restored; but he assured 's revenue, (from lands) and the provedore, or steward of the , that the incuave every year a faithful account of the produce, of which they received duly ht of iht itthither, I should ht in the moiety