508 FAREWELL TO THE ISLAND,

   
  
 

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E'ITAV Is now done with the scleains I left them
al in good circumstances, and in a flourishing
condition, and went on board my ship again
‘the 5th ie of May, having been five and twenty
t\)\,sdays among them; and as they were all re-
solved to stay upon the island until I came
3 to remove them, I promised to send some
further relief’ from the Brazils, if T ae possibly find an opportu-
nity; and particularly, I promised to send them some cattle, such
as sheep, hogs, and cows; for as to the two cows and calves which
I brought from England, we had been obliged by the length of
our voyage to kill them at sea, for want of hay to feed them.

The next day, giving them a salute of five guns at parting, we
set sail, and arrived at the Bay of All Saints in the Brazils in
about twenty-two days, meeting nothing remarkable in our passage
but this,—that about three days after we sailed, being becalmed,
and the current setting strong to the east-north-east, running, as
it were, into a bay or gulf on the land side, we were driven some-
thing out of our course, and once or twice our men cried, “ Land
to the eastward; ” but whether it was the continent or islands we
could not tell by any means.

But the third day towards evening, the sea smooth, and the
weather calm, we saw the sea as it were covered towards the land
with something very black. Not being able to discover what it
was until after some time, our chief mate going up the main
shrouds a little way and looking at them with a perspective, cried
out it was an army. I could not imagine what he meant by an
army, and spoke a Eee > hastily, calling the fellow a fool, or some such
word. “ Nay, sir,” says he, “don’t be angry, for ’tis an army and
a fleet too, for I believe there are a thousand canoes; and you may
see them paddle along, and they are coming towards us, ton, apiace. ’