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unsufferable usage of the three Englishmen; and their justice and
humanity appeared now in the case of the savages, as above. After
some consultation, they resolved upon this, that they would lie
still a while longer, until, if possible, these three men might be
gone; but then the governor Spaniard recollected that the three
savages had no boat, and that if they were left to rove about the
island they would certainly discover that there were inhabitants in
it, and so they should be undone that way.

Upon this, they went back again, and there lay the fellows fast
asleep still; so they resolved to waken them, and take them
prisoners; and they did so. The poor fellows were strangely
frighted when they were seized upon and bound, and afraid, like
the women, that they should be murdered and eaten; for it seems
those people think all the world does as they do, eating men’s
flesh: but they were soon made easy as to that, and away they
carried them.

It was very happy to them that they did not carry them home
to their castle, I mean to my palace under the hill; but they car-
ried them first to the bower, where was the chief of their country
work, such as the keeping the goats, the planting the corn, &ec.;
and afterwards they carried them to the habitation of the two
Englishmen.

Here they were set to work, though it was not much they had
for them to do; and whether it was by negligence in guarding
them, or that they thought the fellows could not mend themselves,
I know not, but one of them ran away, and taking into the woods,
they could never hear of him more.

They had good reason to believe he got home again soon after,
in some other boats or canoes of savages, who came on shore three
or four weeks afterwards, and who, carrying on their revels as
usual, went off again in two days’ time. This thought terrified
them exceedingly ; for they concluded, and that not without good
cause indeed, that if this fellow came safe home among his com-
rades, he would certainly give them an account that there were
people in the island, as also how few and weak they were: for
this savage, as I observed before, had never been told, and it was

very happy that he had not, how many there were, or where they
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