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me twenty ducats for the leopard’s skin and forty for the lion’s
skin which I had in my boat, and causéd everything I had in the
ship to bé punctually delivered me; and what I was willing to
sell hé bought, such as the case of bottles, two of my guns, and a
piece of the lump of bees-wax, for I had made candles of the rest.
In @ word, I miade about two hundred and twenty pieces of eight
of all my eatgo; and with this stock I went on shore in the
Brazils.

Thad not been long here, but being recommended to the house
of a good honest man like himself, who had an “ingeino,” as they
call it—that is, a plantation and a sugar-housé—I lived with him
some time, and acquainted myself by that means with the manner
of their planting and making of sugar. And seeing how well the
planters: lived, and how they grew rich suddenly, I resolved, if I
could get license to settle there, I would turn planter among them ;
resolving in the meantime to find out sume way to get my money
which I had left in London remitted to me. To this purpose,
gétting a kind of a letter of naturalization, I purchased as much
land that was uncured as my money would reach, and formed a plan
for my plantation and settlement, and such a one as might be suit-
able to the stock which I proposed to myself to receive fro:
England. ;

I had a neighbour—a Portuguese of Lisbon, but born of English
patents— whose namie was Wells, and in much such circumstances
az F was. I call him my neighbour, because his plantation lay
next to mine, and we went on very sociably together. My stock:
was but low as well as his; and we rather planted for food than
atiything else for about two years. However, we began to increase,
and our land began to come into order ; so that the third year we
planted some tobacco, and made each of us a large piece of ground
ready for planting canes in the year to come. But we both wanted
help; and now I found, more than before, 1 had done wrong in
parting with my boy Xury.

But alas! for me to do. wrong that never did right was no great
wonder. I had no remedy but to go on. I was gotten into an
employment quite remote to. my genius, and directly contrary to
the life I delighted: in, and for which I forsook my father’s house,