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be hanged. I showed them the new captain hanging at the yard
arm of the ship, and told them they had nothing less to expect.

When they had all declared their willingness to stay, I then told
them I would let them into the story of my living there, and put
them into the way of making it easy to them. Accordingly I
gave them the whole history of the place and of my coming to it ;
showed them my fortifications, the way I made my bread, planted
my corn, cured my grapes; and in a word, all that was necessary
to make them easy. I told them the story also of the sixteen
Spaniards that were to be expected; for whom I left a letter, and
made them promise to treat them in common with themselves.

I left them my firearms, namely, five muskets, three fowling-
pieces, and three swords. I had above a barrel and half of powder
left ; for after the first year or two I used but little and wasted
none. I gave them a description of the way I managed the goats,
and directions to milk and fatten them, and to make both butter
and cheese.

In a word, I gave them every part of my own story. And I
told them I would prevail with the captain to leave them two
barrels of gunpowder more, and some garden-seeds, which I told
them I would have been very glad of; also I gave them the bag
of pease which the captain had brought me to-eat, and bade them
be sure to sow and increase them.

Having done all this I left them the next day, and went on
board the ship. We prepared immediately to sail, but did not
weigh that night. The next morning early two of the five men
came swimming to the ship’s side, and making a most lamentable
complaint of the other three, begged to be taken into the ship, for
God’s sake, for they should be murdered, and begged the captain
to take them on board though he hanged them immediately.

Upon this the captain pretended to have no power without me.
But after some difficulty, and after their solemn promises of amenid-
ment, they were taken on board, and were some time after soundly
whipped and pickled ; after which they proved very honest and
quiet fellows. i‘

Some time after this the boat was ordered on shore, the tide
being up, with the things promised to the men; to which the