406 PEACK IS CONCLUDED,

with him walking by the side of the ereek, they came up in a very
submissive, humble manner, and begged to be received again into
the family. ‘The Spaniards used them civilly, but told them they
had acted so unnaturally by their countrymen, and so very grossly
by them (the Spaniards), that they could not come to any conclusion
without consulting the two Englishmen and the rest; but, how-
ever, they would go to them and discourse about it, and they should
know in half an hour. Tt may be guessed that they were very hard
put to it: for it seems, as they were to wait this half hour for an
answer, they begged he would send them out some bread in the
meantime; which he did, and sent them at the same time a large
piece of goat's flesh and a broiled parrot, which they ate very
heartily, for they were hungry enough,

After half an hour’s consultation they were called in, and a long
debate had among them, their two countrymen charging them with
the ruin of all their labour, and a design to murder them—all
which they owned before, and therefore could not deny now,
Upon the whole, the Spaniard acted the moderator between them,
and as they had obliged the two Hnglishmen not to hurt the three
while they were naked and unarmed, so they now obliged the three
to go and build their fellows two huts, one of the same and the
other of larger dimensions, than they were before; to fence their
ground again where they had pulled up the fences, plant trees in
the room of those pulled up, dig up the land again for planting
corn, where they had spoiled it; and in a word, to restore every-
thing in the same state they found it, as near as they could, for
entirely it could not be, the season for the corn and the growth of
the trees and hedges not being possible to be recovered.

Well, they submitted to all this, and as they had plenty of pro-
visions given them all the while, they grew very orderly, and the
whole society began to live pleasantly and agreeably together, only
that these three fellows could never be persuaded to work, I mean
for themselves, except now and then a little, just as they pleased.
However, the Spaniards told them plainly, that if they would but
live sociably and friendly together, and study in the whole the
good of the plantation, they would be content to work for them,
and let them walk about and be as idle as they pleased; and thus,