84 AN HONEST SEA-CAPTAIN.

terms than I would be glad to be saved myself, and it may one time
or other be my lot to be taken up in the same condition ; besides,”
said he, “when I carry you to the Brazils, so great a way from
your own country, if I should take from you what you have, you.
will be starved there, and then I only take away that life I have
given. No, no, Seignor Inglese,” says he, “ Mr. Englishman, I
will carry you thither in charity, and those things will help you to
buy your subsistence there and your passage home again.”

As he was charitable in his proposal, so he was just in the
performance to a tittle; for he ordered the seamen that none
should offer to touch anything I had. Then he took everything
into his own possession, and gave me back an exact inventory of
them, that I might have them, even so much as my three earthen
jars.

As to my boat it was a very good one, and that he saw, and told
me he would buy it of me for the ship’s use, and asked me what I
would have for it? I told him he had been so generous to me in
everything, that I could not offer to make any price of the boat, :
but left it entirely to him; upon which he told me he would give me
a note of his hand to pay me eighty pieces of eight for it at Brazil,
and when it came there, if any one offered to give more he would
make it up. He offered me also sixty pieces of eight more for my
boy Xury; which I was loath to take: not that I was not willing to
let the captain have him, but I was very loath to sell the poor boy’s
liberty, who had assisted me so faithfully in procuring my own.
However, when I let him know my reason, he owned it to be
just, and offered me this medium—that he would give the boy
an obligation to set him free in ten years, if he turned Christian.
Upon this, and Xury saying he was willing to go to him, I let the
captain have him.

We had a very good voyage to the Brazils, and arrived in the
Bay de Todos los Santos, or All-Saints’ Bay, in about twenty-twe
days after. And now I was once more delivered from the most
miserable of all conditions of life; and what to do next with
myself I was now to consider.

The generous treatment the captain gave me I can never enough
remember. He would take nothing of me for my passage, gave