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the other two, there was the very face of industry and snecess upon
all they did; there was not a weed to be seen in all their corn, or
a gap in any of their hedges, And they, on the other hand, veri-
fied Solomon’s words in another place, “That the diligent: hand
maketh rich;”” for everything grew and thrived, and they had
plenty within and without; they had more tame cattle than the
other, more utensils and necessaries within doors, and yet more
pleasure and diversion too,

It is true, the wives of the three were very handy and cleanly
within doors, and having learned the Hneglish ways of dressing
and cooking from one of the other Knglishmen, who, as T said, was
cook’s-mate on board the ship, they dressed their husbands’ victuals
very nicely and well; whereas the other could not be brought to
understand it. But then the husband who, as Tsay, had been
cook’s-mate, did it himself; but as for the husbands of the three
wives, they loitered about, fetched turtles’ eggs, and caught fish
and birds; in a word, anything but labour, and they fared aceord-
ingly, The diligent lived well and comfortably, and the slothful
lived hard and beggarly; and so, TE believe, generally speaking, it
is all over the world,

     
 
 
 

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y er had happened before, either to them or to me;
i and the original of the story was this :—
Karly one morning there came on shore five
or six canoes of Indians, or savages, call them
which you please; and there is no room to
doubt that they came upon the old errand of
feeding upon their slaves. But that part was now so familiar to
the Spaniards, and to our men too, that they did not concern
themselves about it as I did; but having been made sensible by
their exporience that their only business was to lie concealed, and