858 A VISIT 'TO 'THE ISLAND, ‘

good ship, and sent him to sea, And this young fellow afterwarda
drew me in, as old as T was, to further adventures myself,

In the meantime, T in part settled myself here; for, first of all,
T married, and that not either to my disadvantage or Sinkatiatooton,
and had three children, two sons and one daughter. But my wife
dying, and my nephew coming home with good success from a
voyage to Spain, my inclination to go abroad and his Importunity
prevailed, and engaged me to go in his ship as a private trader to
the Kast Indies. This was in the year 169-4.

In this voyage I visited my new colony in the island, saw
my successors the Spaniards, had the whole stor y of their lives,
and of the villains T left there; how at first they insulted the
poor Spaniards; how they afterwards avreed, disagreed, united,
separated ; and how at last the Spaniards were obliged to use
violence with them ; how they were subjected to the Spaniards ;
how honestly the Spaniards used them: a history, if it were
entered into, as full of variety and wonderful accidents as my own
part, particularly also as to their battles with the Caribbeans, who
landed several times upon the ishind; and as to the i Mnprovement
they made upon the island itself; and how five of them made an
attempt upon the mainland, and BeotahE away eleven men and five
women prisoners, by which, at my coming, T found about twenty
young children on the island.

Here T stayed about twenty days, left them supplies of all
necessary things, and particularly of arms, powder, shot, clothes,
tools, and two workmen, which T brought from Kngland with
me; namely, a carpenter and a smith,

Besides this, T shared the island into parts with them, reserved
to myself the property of the whole, but gave them such parts re-
spectively as they agreed on; and having settled all things with
them, and engaged them not to leave the place, T left them there.

From thence 1 touched at the Brazils, from whence T sent a
bark, which T bought there, with more people to the island; and
in it, besides other supplies, I sent seven w omen, being such as T
found proper for service, or for wives to such as would take them.
As to the Nnglishmen, T promised them to send them some women
from England, with a good cargo of necessaries, if they would