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at night, and they were all at supper, he took the freedom to
reprove the three Englishmen, though in very gentle and mannerly
terms, and asked them, “ How they could be so cruel, they being
harmless inoffensive fellows, and that they were only putting them-
selves in a way to subsist by their labour, and that it had cost
them a great deal of pains to bring things to such perfection as
they had ?”

One of the Englishmen returned very briskly, ‘‘ What had they
to do there? That they came on shore without leave, and they
should not plant or build upon the island; it was none of their
ground.” “Why,” says the Spaniard, very calmly, “ Seignior
Inglese, they must not starve.’ The Englishman replied like a
true rough-hewn Tarpaulin, “‘ They might starve...... they should
not plant nor build.” “ But what must they do, then, seignior?”
said the Spaniard. Another of the brutes returned, ‘“‘ Do!......
They should be servants, and work for them.” ‘“ But how can
you expect that of them?” says the Spaniard, “that are not
bought with your money; you have no right to make them ser-
vants.’ The Englishman answered, “ The island was theirs, the
governor had given it to them, and no man had anything to do
there but themselves ;” and with that swore by his Maker “ that
they would go and burn all their new huts, they should build none
upon their land.”

“Why, seignior,” says the Spaniard, “ by the same rule we must
be your servants too.” ‘“ Ah,” says the bold dog, “and so you
shall, too, before we have done with you;”
oaths in the proper intervals of his speech. The Spaniard only
smiled at that, and made him no answer. However, this little
discourse had heated them, and starting up, one says to the
other (I think it was he they called Will Atkins), “Come,
Jack, let us go and have t’other brush with them ; we’ll demolish
their castle, I'll warrant you, they shall plant no colony in our
dominions.”

mixing two or three

Upon this they went all trooping away, with every man a gun, a
pistol, and a sword, and muttered some insolent things among
themselves of what they would do to the Spaniards too, when
opportunity offered; but the Spaniards, it seems, did not so per-