Part 6 (2/2)

Harrison, the very sa an account he had been either killed by the wild beasts or drowned in soreat oath, I'll take care he shall not be at home before me By this time several of the prisoners were sold, the boent ave Mr

Carew a glass, but none of the a great ht it not impossible to make himself master of one them, and by that ht conceal hih this was a very hazardous attereat deal of hard usage, and probably put it out of his power of ever regaining his liberty, yet he was resolved to venture He now recollected the common maxim, that 'fortune favours the bold,' and therefore took an opportunity, just as it grew dark, of slipping nimbly down the shi+p's side into one of the canoes, which he paddled with as much silence and expedition as possible towards the shore: but he had not gone far before the noise he ave the alarm, that one of the prisoners had escaped Harrison immediately called out to inquire which of theone off, swore that he would much rather have lost half of the prisoners than him

All hands were then called upon to pursue; the captain and planters left their bowl; the river was soon covered with canoes, and every thing was in confusion Mr Careithin hearing of this, but, by plying his canoe well, had the good fortune to get on shore before any of them; he immediately took himself to the woods as soon as he landed, and clireat tree, where he had not been many minutes before he heard the captain, sailors, and planters, all in pursuit of him; the captain fretted and stormed, the sailors d---d their blood, and the planters endeavoured to pacify every thing, by telling the captain not to fear his getting off He heard all this, though not un their search fruitless, the captain, sailors, and planters returned; the planters still assuring the captain they would have hian to reflect upon his present situation, which, indeed, was h, for he had no provisions, was beset on every side, quite incapable of judging what to undertake, or what course to steer: however, he at last resolved to steer farther into the woods, which he accordingly did, and got up into another tree: here he sat all the succeeding day, without a reatfroun, he could have shot hundreds of pigeons, there was so great a plenty of theer became too powerful, and he was almost spent for want of food; in this necessity he knew not what to do; at last, happening to spy a planter's house at a distance, he was resolved to venture down in the night, thinking he ht chance to find food of soreeable to this resolution, he ca into the planter's yard, to his great joy he found there a parcel of milk cows penned in, which he soona ain, cli up into a tree, where he passed the dayfound out this , he proceeded forwards in the sa hiht,the cows as often as he had an opportunity; and steering his course as near as he could guess towards Duck's Creek

On the fifth night he heard the voices of several people near him in the woods, upon which he stepped on one side, and concealed himself behind a tree, till they had passed by When he cauish their words, he heard them say, ill make the best of our way to Duck's Creek, and there we shall certainly have hied that these were soht hi so narrowly escaped the upon a tree, he discovered a lone house, near the skirts of the woods, and saw all the fa following theht to hihts, met with any cows, and consequently had been without food As soon, therefore, as the faht, he came down from the tree, and ventured in the house, where he found not only enough to satisfy his hunger, but what ht be deemed luxury in his present condition: for there was a jolly cake, powell, a sort of Indian corn bread, and good oround with Indian corn, sifted, then put into a pot to boil, and eat with , but, hunger pressing, sat down and ate the omani with as much composure as if he had been invited thereto by the owner of it: and knowing that hunger and necessity are bound by no laws of honour, he took the liberty of borrowing the jolly cake, powell, and a leg of fine pork, then hastened back to the tree with his booty What the people thought when they returned at night with good appetites, and found their dainty omani, their jolly cake, and their pork, all vanished, we know not, but suppose they were not a little surprised

Being thus stocked with provisions, he ht, and so to Old-town In the dawn of the ht of Duck's Creek; but being afraid he reat way into the woods towards Tuck Hoe; where staying all the day in a tree, he caht to Duck's Creek As soon as he came here, he ran to the water side to seek for a canoe, but found the the chain, but found it too strong, and all endeavours to break it were in vain Never was man more thunder-struck than he was now, just at the tier, to meet with so unforeseen and insur, but by passing the river Delaware, and could not think of a itation of , but the river being so wide, he thought he could not reach the opposite shore; at last, reflecting what one of his ancestors had done in swirazing thereabout, he resolved to atte the Delaware in that ht death preferable to slavery Being thus resolved, he soon caught one of the horses, and, ht the horse to the water side; he walked for so for a proper place to enter the horse: at last, espying a little streareat river Deleware, he stripped hi his frock and trowsers about his shoulders,hi, and the water cas as near as possible to the horse, and in this reat river Delaware

The horse snorted and neighed to his companions, but th he could Mr Carew did not iine the horse would be able to reach it, but proposed to save hi when the horse failed, for the river was three miles over: however the horse reached the shore, but finding no place to land, it being a sandythe shore, till he caot sure footing, to the great joy of Mr Careho, dis hio into the woods

His clothes were not very wet; however, he staid on the banks so sun, then went up into the country The first house he came to was a miller's, whose wife came out and asked him from whence he came? He told her he had been a prisoner some time in the Havannah, froe of prisoners, and was now going hoood woman pitied him much, and told hi in, said, he believed he was an Irishland; so they gave hi of ru very thirsty, it threw hied to stop at a neighbouring house, where he lay sick for three or four days From hence he went to Newcastle, where he raised contributions froentlemen, as he had done before, but not under the former name, from hence to Castle, Brandywine Ferry, Chester, and Derby, where he got relief from the same miller that Mr Whitfield hen he was there before, and lodged at the sauise hiot a pass from the justice as a sick man bound to Boston Froot relief from Mr Matthews, the miller, who treated him so hospitably the first tiain now

From hence he proceeded to New London, where he chanced to see the captain who had taken him home before, but he avoided hiot a twenty-shi+lling bill from one Mr Goyf, and several half-crown bills from other people He then inquired of his landlord his way to Rhode-island, who accompanied him about two miles of the hen they chanced to fall into the co a number of bullocks, for the use of some privateers that lay at Rhode-island; he therefore joined the, they came to a ferry, where they stopped at a public-house for some time, till the bullocks were taken over; but neither the tavern-, they pitying his unfortunate condition: and passing over this ferry, they came to Rhode-island

Rhode-island, by the natives called Aquetnet, near the Narraganset Bay, is fourteen or fifteen , and four or five lish in the year 1639 Those that withdrew to this island were such as espoused the covenant of grace, and were under great persecution from them that sided with the covenant of works There is a very considerable trade froar colonies for butter and cheese, a sure sign of the fruitfulness and beauty of the place, for horses, sheep, beef, pork, tallow, and timber, from which the traders have been enriched It is deservedly called the Paradise of New England, for the great fruitfulness of the soil, and the teh it be not above fifty-fivesurrounded by the ocean, is not so much affected in summer with the hot land-breezes as the towns on the continent They live in great ah every ht in his own eyes, it is rare that any notorious crimes are committed by thereat veneration for the Holy Scriptures, which they all read, froh they have neither istrates to recommend it to them

Here Mr Carew found many of his old acquaintance, particularly one Mr

Perkins, a stay-roes for distilling ruworthy, a pewterer, all natives of Exeter, and one Mr Martin, of Honiton, in Devon, they were all very glad to see hi them, that he was taken by the Spaniards, and had escaped froave hiland

Froh Piscataqua and Marblehead to Boston, the capital of New England, and the largest city in America, except two or three on the Spanish continent It is pleasantly situated on a peninsula, about four miles in couarded fro above water, and by above a dozen islands, many of which are inhabited One of these, called Nettle's island, within these few years, was esteemed worth two or three hundred pounds a year to the owner, Colonel Shrie into the bay, and that not very broad, there being hardly roo once in, there is rooe of five hundred sail

The most remarkable of these islands is called Castle-island, froue fro to it, and is so conveniently situated, that no shi+p of burden can approach the toithout the hazard of being torn in pieces by its cannon It was now called Fort Willia mounted with one hundred pieces of ordnance: two hundred iven to the province of Queen Anne, are placed on a platforh water mark, so as to rake a shi+p fore and aft, before she can bring her broadsides to bear against the castle Some of these cannon are forty-two pounders

Five hundred able men are exempt from all military duty in time of war, to be ready to attend the service of the castle at an hour's warning, upon any signal of the approach of an eneer at Boston; where in twenty-four hours' tiht be ready for their defence To prevent all possible surprise, there is a light-house built on the rock appearing above water, about a long league fronal to the castle, and the castle to the town, by hoisting and lowering the union flag, so , which, if they exceed a certain nuuns, to alarovernor, if need be, orders a beacon to be fired, which alarms all the adjacent country; so that unless an enemy can be supposed to sail by so , the town of Boston must have six orthey ht pass the castle, there are two batteries at the north and south end of the town that command the whole bay, and make it impossible for an enemy's shi+p of any burden to ride there in safety, while the merchant-men and small craft may retire up into Charles-river, out of the reach of cannon

It is equally impossible for any shi+p to be run aith out of this harbour by a pirate; for the castle suffers no shi+ps outward-bound to pass, without a perranted without a clearing fro, by loosening the fore-top sail

The bay of Boston is spacious enough to contain, in a land The masts of shi+ps here, at the proper season of the year, make a kind of a wood of trees, like that which we see upon the river Thained, e consider, that, by the coht-house, it appeared that there were twenty-four thousand tons of shi+pping cleared annually

There is a larger pier at the bottoht hundred, or two thousand feet in length, with a roarehouses on the north side The pier runs so far into the bay, that shi+ps of the greatest burden hters The chief streets of the town come down to the head of the pier At the upper end of it is the town-house, or exchange, a fine building, containing, besides the walk for merchants, the council-chambers, the house of commons, and a spacious rooe is surrounded with booksellers' shops, who have a good trade

There are several printing-houses, where the presses are generally full of work, which is in a greatin New England

The town of Boston lies in the for of between three and four thousand houses, andhigh, the streets long, and the buildings beautiful The goodness of the paveallop a horse on it is three shi+llings and fourpence forfeit