418 A SECOND COLONY FOUNDED.

cattle belonging to the society, they should die without merey, and
they would shoot them wherever they could find them.

The governor, a man of great humanity, musing upon the sen-
tence, considered a little upon it, and turning to the two honest
Englishmen, said,“ Hold, you must reflect that it will be long ere
they can raise corn and cattle of their own, and they must not
starve. We must therefore allow them provisions.” So he caused
to be added, that they should have a proportion of corn given to
them to last them eight months, and for seed to sow, by which
time they might be supposed to raise some of their own; that they
should have six mileh-goats, four he-goats, and six kids given
them, as well for present subsistence as for a store; and that they
should have tools given them for their work in the fields, such as
six hatehets, an axe, a saw, and the like: but they should have
none of these tools or provisions unless they would swear solemnly
that they would not hurt or injure any of the Spaniards with them,
or of their fellow-Mnglishinen,

Thus they dismissed them the society, and turned them out to
shift for themselves. ‘They went away sullen and refractory, as
neither contented to go away nor to stay; but as there was no
remedy they went, pretending to go and choose a place where they
would settle themselves to plant and live by themselves, and some
provisions were given them, but no weapons,

About four or five days after, they came again for some victuals,
and gave the governor an account where they had pitched their
tents, and marked themselves out an habitation and plantation ;
and it was a very convenient place indeed, on the remotest part of
the island, north-east, much about the place where T landed in my
first voyage when T was driven out to sea, the Lord knows whither,
in my attempt to surround the island.

Hore they built themselves two handsome huts, and contrived
them in a manner like my first habitation, being close under the
side of a hill, having some trees growing already on three sides of
it, so that by planting others it would be very easily covered from
the sight, unless narrowly searched for. They desired some dried
goat skins for beds and covering, which were given them: and
upon giving their words that they would not disturb the rest, or