828 TH CAPTAIN'S PRESENT,

we rejoiced together, L told him [looked upon him as a man sent
from Heaven to deliver me, and that the whole transaction seemed
to be a chain of wonders; that such things as these were the testi-
monies we had of a secret hand of Providence governing the world,
and an evidence that the eyes of an Infinite Power could search
info the remotest corner of the world, and send help to the miser-
able whenever he pleased.

T forgot not to lift up my heart in thankfulness to Heaven: and
what heart could forbear to bless him, who had not only in a
miraculous manner provided for one in such a wilderness, and in
such a desolate condition, but from whom every deliverance must
always be acknowledged to proceed 7

When he had talked a while, the captain told me he had brought
me some litle refreshment, such as the ship afforded, and such as
the wretches that had been so long his masters had not plundered
him of. Upon this, he called aloud to the boat, and bid his men
bring the things ashore that were for the governor; and indeed it
was a present, as if [had been one not that was to be carried away
along with them, but as if [ had been to dwell upon the island
still, and they were to go without me.

Wirst he had brought mea case of bottles full of excellent cordial
waters, six large bottles of Madeira wine (the bottles held two
quarts apiece), two pounds of excellent good tobacco, twelve good
pieces of the ship's beef, and six pieces of pork, with a bag of
pease, and about a hundredweight of biscuit.

Le brought me also a box of sugar, a box of flour, a bag full of
lemons, and two bottles of lime-juice, and abundance of other
things. But besides these, and what was a thousand times more
useful to me, he brought me six clean new shirts, six very good
neckcloths, two pair of gloves, one pair of shoes, a hat, and one
pair of stockings, and a very good suit of clothes of his own, which
had been worn but very little. In a word, he clothed me from
head to foot.

It was a very kind and agreeable present, as any one may
imagine, to one in my circumstances. But never was anything in
the world of that kind so unpleasant, awkward, and uneasy, as it
was to me to wear such clothes at their first putting on.