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a house, or such a piece of basket-work, I believe, was not standing
in the world again; I say, when I came there, I found the young
woman I have mentioned above and Will Atkins’s wife were be-
come intimates; and this prudent religious young woman had
perfected the work William Atkins had begun. And though it
was not above four days after what I have related, yet the new
baptized savage woman was made such a Christian as I have
seldom heard of any like her in all my observation or conversation
in the world.

It came next into my mind, in the morning before I went to
them, that amongst all the needful things I had to leave with
them I had not left them a Bible; in which I showed myself less
considering for them than my good friend the widow was for me
when she sent me the cargo of an hundred pounds from Lisbon,
where she packed up three Bibles and a Prayer-book. However,
the good woman’s charity had a greater extent than ever she
imagined; for they were reserved for the comfort and instruction
of those that made much better use of them than I had done.

I took one of the Bibles in my pocket, and when I came to
Will Atkins’s tent or house, and found the young woman and
Atkins’s baptized wife had been discoursing of religion together ;
for Will Atkins told it me with a great deal of joy: I asked if
they were together now, and he said, ‘‘ Yes;” so I went into the
house, and he with me, and we found them together very earnest
in discourse. ‘Oh, sir,’ says Will Atkins, “when God has
sinners to reconcile to himself and aliens to bring home, he never
wants a messenger; my wife has got a new instructor. I knew I
was unworthy as I was incapable of that work. That young
woman has been sent hither from heaven; she is enough to convert
a whole island of savages!” The young woman blushed, and rose
up to go away, but I desired her to sit still. I told her she had
a good work upon her hands, and I hoped God would bless her
in it.

We talked a little, and I did not perceive they had any book
among them, though I did not ask; but I put my hand in my
pocket, and pulled out my Bible. ‘ Here,” says I to Atkins, ‘ T
have brought you an assistant that perhaps you had not before.”