Part 33 (1/2)

And now I name the poor fellow once more, I must take my last leave of him; poor honest Friday! We buried hi hi hiuns for hirateful, faithful, honest, and most affectionate servant that ever man had

We noent aith a fair wind for Brasil, and, in about twelve days tirees south of the line, being the north-easternmost land of all that part of Aht of the shore four days, e ustine, and in three days came to an anchor off the bay of All Saints, the old place of ood and evil fate

Never did a shi+p come to this part that had less business than I had; and yet it ith great difficulty that ere admitted to hold the least correspondence on shore Not ure a them, not my two merchant trustees, nor the fame of my wonderful preservation in the island, could obtain iven five hundred ustines, and three hundred and seventy-two to the poor, went to the overnor, and beg leave for ht seamen, to come on shore, and no more; and this upon condition absolutely capitulated for, that we should not offer to land any goods out of the shi+p, or to carry any person aithout licence

They were so strict with us, as to landing any goods, that it ith extreoods, such as fine broad-cloths, stuffs, and soht for a present to enerous, broad-hearted h he knew not that I had the least design of giving hi, he sent me on board a present of fresh provisions, wine, and sweet soold But I was even with him in my present, which, as I have said, consisted of fine broad-cloth, English stuffs, lace, and fine Hollands Also, I delivered hioods, for other uses: and I obliged hiland, as I have said, for the use of my colony, in order to send the refreshot hands, and finished the sloop in a very few days, for she was already fraave the master of her such instruction as he could not miss the place; nor did he ot hio I had sent them; and one of our seao with the sloop, and settle there, upon overnor Spaniard, to allot hi hi work, which he said he understood, having been an old planter in Maryland, and a buccaneer into the bargain

I encouraged the fellow by granting all he desired; and, as an addition, I gave hie which we had taken prisoner of war, to be his slave, and ordered the governor Spaniard to give hi he wanted, with the rest

When we came to fit this man out, my old partner told me, there was a certain very honest fellow, a Brasil planter of his acquaintance, who had fallen into he displeasure of the church: ”I know not what the matter is with him,” says he, ”but, on my conscience, I think he is a heretic in his heart; and he has been obliged to conceal hilad of such an opportunity to hters; and if I would let theive thein with; for the officers of the Inquisition had seized all his effects and estate, and he had nothing left but a little household stuff, and two slaves; ”And,” adds he, ”though I hate his principles, yet I would not have him fall into their hands, for he will assuredly be burnt alive if he does”

I granted this presently, and joined lishhters, on board our shi+p, till the sloop put out to go to sea; and then (having put all their goods on board the sloop some tiot out of the bay

Our seahtily pleased with this new partner; and their stock, indeed, was much alike, rich in tools, and in preparations, for a farin with, but as above However, they carried over with the sugar-canes, with soalthe rest of the supplies sent my tenants in the island, I sent them, by this sloop, threethe, twoto o; and recommended it to them to marry them, and use them kindly I could have procured more women, but I rehters, and there were but five of the Spaniards that wanted; the rest had wives of their own, though in another country

All this cargo arrived safe, and, as you may easily suppose, very welcome to my old inhabitants, ere noith this addition) between sixty and seventy people, besides little children; of which there were a great many: I found letters at London froland, being sent back to the Brasils by this sloop; of which I shall take some notice in its place

I have now done with my island, and all manner of discourse about it; and whoever reads the rest of hts entirely from it, and expect to read only of the follies of an old man, not warned by his own harms, much less by those of other men, to beware of the like; not cooled by almost forty years misery and disappointments; not satisfied with prosperity beyond expectation; not made cautious by affliction and distress beyond irritation

I had no o to the East Indies, than a o to the turnkey at Newgate, and desire hi the prisoners there, and starve hione directly to the island; had I loaded her, as I did the other vessel, with all the necessaries for the plantation, and for overnment here, to have secured land, which, to be sure, I ht have obtained; had I carried over cannon and a possession of the place, fortified and strengthened it in the naht easily have done; had I then settled ood rice, as I ht also have done in six ain for our supply; had I done this, and staid there myself, I had, at least, acted like aspirit, scorned all advantages, pleasedthe patron of these people I had placed there, and doing for thehtyfor them, as if I had been father of the whole family, as well as of the plantation: but I never so overne any prince, or to call my people subjects to any one nation ave the place a na to no overnh I had an influence over them as father and benefactor, had no authority or power to act or command one way or other, farther than voluntary consent moved them to comply: yet even this, had I staid there, would have done well enough; but as I rambled from them, and came thither no more, the last letters I had from any of them, were by my partner's means, who afterwards sent another sloop to the place; and who sent h I had not the letter till five years after it ritten, that they went on but poorly, werestay there; that Will Atkins was dead; that five of the Spaniards were coh they had not been es, yet they had had soed of him to write to me to think of the proht see their own country again before they died

But I was gone a wild-goose chase indeed, and they ill have any h a new variety of follies, hardshi+ps, and wild adventures; wherein the justice of Providence orge us with our own desires, est of our wishes to be our affliction and punish us s which we think it would be our utmost happiness to be allowed in

Let no wise ment, as if he was able to choose any particular station of life for hihted creature, sees but a very little way before him; and as his passions are none of his best friends, so his particular affections are generally his worst counsellors

I say this with respect to the impetuous desire I had from a youth to wander into the world, and how evident it noas that this principle was preserved in me for my punishment How it came on, the manner, the circuive you historically, and with its utmost variety of particulars But the secret ends of Divine Providence, in thus per us to be hurried down the stream of our own desires, are only to be understood of those who can listen to the voice of Providence, and draw religious consequences from God's justice and their own mistakes

Be it had I business or no business, away I went It is no tie any farther upon the reason or absurdity of my own conduct; but to coe, and the voyage I went

I shall only add here, that yo to Lisbon, he askedstill as he observed, bound never to finish any voyage he began How happy had it been for one with his Heaven appoints are best Had I gone with his to be thankful for, and you had never heard of the Second Part of the Travels and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; so I o on with e

From the Brasils we made directly away over the Atlantic sea to the Cape de Bonne Esperance, or, as we call it, the Cape of Good Hope; and had a tolerable good voyage, our course generally south-east; now and then a storm, and some contrary winds But my disasters at sea were at an end; my future rubs and cross events were to befal ht appear the land was as well prepared to be our scourge as the sea, when Heaven, who directs the circus, pleases to appoint it to be so

Our shi+p was on a trading voyage, and had a supercargo on board, as to direct all herlimited to a certain number of days for stay, by charter-party, at the several ports she was to go to This was none of my business, neither did I meddle with it at all;all those things between theer than was needful to take in fresh water, but made the best of our way for the coast of Coromandel; ere indeed infore one for the Indies; and as I kneere at ith France, I had some apprehensions of them; but they went their oay, and we heard no more of them

I shall not pester my account, or the reader, with descriptions of places, journals of our voyages, variations of the compass, latitudes, meridian distances, trade-winds, situation of ports, and the like; such as alation are full of, and which h, and are perfectly unprofitable to all that read, except only to those who are to go to those places theh to name the ports and places which we touched at, and what occurred to us upon our passing froascar, where, though the people are fierce and treacherous, and, in particular, very well armed with lances and bohich they use with inconceivable dexterity, yet we fared very ith them awhile; they treated us very civilly; and for soave theood fat bullocks, ood in flesh, which we took in, partly for fresh provisions for our present spending, and the rest to salt for the shi+p's use