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gagged, as otherwise. Nor could we perceive that they had any
occasion either for teeth, tongue, lips, or palate, but formed their
words just as a hunting-horn forms a tune with an open throat.
He told us, however, some time after, when we taught him to
speak a little English, that they were going with their kings to
fight a great battle. When he said kings, we asked him how many
kings? He said they were rive NaTIoN,—we could not make him
understand the plural s,—and that they all joined to go against
‘wo NATION. We asked him what made them come up to us? He
said, “‘ To makee te great wonder look; ”’ where it is to be observed
that all those natives, as also those of Africa, when they learn
English, they always add two e’s at the end of the words where
we use one, and make the accent upon them, as makée, takéeé, and
the like; and we could not break them of it; nay, I could hardly
make Friday leave it off, though at last he did.

And now I name the poor fellow once more, I must take my
last leave of him; poor, honest Friday! We buried him with all
the decency and solemnity possible, by putting him into a coffin,
and throwing him into the sea. And I caused them to fire eleven
guns for him; and so ended the life of the most grateful, faithful,
honest, and most affectionate servant that ever man had.

We went now away with a fair wind for Brazil, and in about
twelve days’ time we made land in the latitude of five degrees south
of the line, being the north-easternmost land of all that part of
America. We kept on south by east in sight of the shore four
days, when we made Cape St. Augustine, and in three days came
to an anchor off of the Bay of All Saints, the old place of my de-
liverance, from whence came both my good and evil fate.

Never ship came to this part that had less business than I had:
and yet it was with great difficulty that we were admitted to hold
the least correspondence on shore. Not my planter himself, who
was alive, and made a great figure among them; not my two mer-
chants’ trustees; not the fame of my wonderful preservation in that
island, could obtain me that favour. But my partner, remember-
ing that I had given five hundred moidores to the prior of the
monastery of the Augustines, and two hundred and seventy-two to
the poor, went to the monastery, and obliged the prior that then