THE COLONY AT PEACK, 449

{Indian slaves, and old Friday, marched to the place where they
were. The three Indian slaves carried them a large quantity of
bread, some rice boiled up to cakes and dried in the sun, and
three live goats; and they were ordered to go to the side of a hill,
where they sat down, ate the provisions very thankfully, and were
the most faithful fellows to their words that could be thought of ;
for except when they came to beg victuals and directions, they

never came out of their bounds, and there they lived when I came
to the island, and I went to see them.

  
 

   

\) bread, biesd tame goats, and milk sera: they
or wanted nothing but wives, and they soon a,
<= have been a nation. They were confined to a
— neck of land, surrounded with high rocks be-
\ hind them, and lying plain towards the sea
"before them, on the south-east corner of the
island. They had land enough, and it was very good and fruitful;
they had a piece of land about a mile and a half broad, and three
or four miles in length.

Our men taught them to make wooden spades, such as I made
for myself; and gave them among them twelve hatchets, and three
or four knives; and there they lived, the most subjected, innocent
creatures that ever were heard of.

After this, the colony enjoyed a perfect tranquillity with respect
to the savages till I came to revisit them, which was about two
years. Not but that now and then some canoes of savages came
on shore for their triumphal unnatural feasts; but as they were of
several nations, and perhaps had never heard of those that came
before, or the reason of it, they did not make any search or inquiry

after their countrymen; and if they had, it would have been very
hard to have found them out.