408 ARRIVAL OF THE SAVAGES,

heen with him. Say you so,” says the other Spaniard. “ Such
things are not to be slighted, I assure you; there is certainly some
mischief working,” says he, “near us.” And presently he asked
him, “ Where are the Englishmen?” ‘Chey are all in their huts,”
says he, “safe enough.” Tt seems the Spaniards had kept. posses-
sion of the main apartment, and had made a place where the three
Knglishmen, since their last mutiny, always quartered by them-
selves, and could not come at the rest.  “ Well,” says the
Spaniard, © there is something in it, 1 am persuaded, from my own
experience, I am satisfied our spirits embodied have a converse
with, and receive intelligence {rom the spirits unembodied and
inhabiting the invisible world; and this friendly notice is given
for our advantage, if we know how to make use of it. Come,”
says he, “let us go out and look abroad; and if we find nothing at
all in it to justify the trouble, Twill teil you a story to the pur-
pose, that shall convinee you of the justice of my proposing it.”

In a word, they went out to go up to the top of the hill, where
T used to go. But they being strong and in good company, not
alone, as | was, used none of my caution to go up by the Jadder,
and then pulling it up after them, to go up a second stage to the
top, but were going round through the grove unconcerned and
unwary, when they were surprised with seeing a light, as of fire,
avery little way off from them, and hearing the voices of men—
not of one, or two, but of a great number.

In all the discoveries Thad made of the savages landing on the
island, it was my constant care to prevent. them making the least
discovery of there being any inhabitant upon the place. And
when by any occasion they came to know it, they felt it so effeet-
ually, that they that got away were scarce able to give any account
of it, for we disappeared as soon as possible. Nor did ever any
that had seen me escape to tell any one else, except it were the
three savages in our last encounter, who jumped into the boat, of
whom I mentioned that L was afraid they should go home and
bring more help.

Whether it was the consequence of the escape of those men that
so great a number came now together, or whether they came
ignorantly, and by accident, on their usual bloody errand, they