460 EXHIBITING THE STORES,

The Spaniards added to our feast five whole kids, which the
cooks roasted ; and three of them were sent covered up close on
board the ship to the seamen, that they might feast on fresh meat
from on shore, as we did with their salt meat from on board.

After this feast, at which we were very innocently merry, I
brought out my cargo of goods, wherein, that there might be no
dispute about dividing, I showed them that there was sufficient
for them all; and desired that they might all take an equal
quantity of the goods that were for wearing—that is to say, equal
when made up; as first, I distributed linen sufficient to make
every one of them four shirts, and at the Spaniard’s request after-
wards made them up six. These were exceeding comfortable to
them, having been what, as I may say, they had long since forgot
the use of, or what it was to wear them.

I allotted the thin English stuffs which I mentioned before to
make every one a light coat, like a frock, which I judged fittest
for the heat of the season, cool and loose ; and ordered that when-
ever they decayed they should make more as they thought fit. The
like for pumps, shoes, stockings, and hats, &e.

I cannot express what pleasure, what satisfaction, sat upon the
countenances of all these poor men when they saw the care I had
taken of them, and how well I had furnished them. They told
me I was a father to them, and that having such a correspondent
as I was in so remote a part of the world, it would make them
forget that they were left in a desolate place; and they all volun-
tarily engaged to me not to leave the place without my consent.

Then I presented to them the people I had brought with me,
particularly the tailor, the smith, and the two carpenters—all of
them most necessary people; but above all, my general artificer,
than whom they could not name anything that was more useful
to them. And the tailor, to show his concern for them, went to
work immediately, and, with my leave, made them every one a
shirt the first thing he did; and which was still more, he taught
the women, not only how to sew and stitch, and use the needle,
but made them assist to make the shirts for their husbands and
for all the rest.

As to the carpenters, I scarce need mention how useful they