514 CRUSOE AND HIS PARTNER.

was to go to the governor and get leave for me personally, with
the captain and one more, besides eight seamen, to come on shore,
and no more; and this upon condition, absolutely capitulated for,
that we should not offer to land any goods out of the ship, or to
carry any person away without license.

They were so strict with us as to landing any goods, that it was
with extreme difficulty that I got on shore three bales of English
goods, such as fine broadcloths, stuffs, and some linen, which I had
brought for a present to my partner.

He was a very generous, broad-hearted man, though like me, he
came from little at first; and though he knew not that I had the
least design of giving him anything, he sent me on board a present
of fresh provisions, wine, and sweetmeats, worth above thirty
moidores, including some tobacco, and three or four fine medals in
gold. But Twas even with him in my present, which, as T have
said, consisted of fine broadcloth, English stuffs, lace, and fine
Hollands, Also I delivered him about the value of one hundred
pounds sterling in the same goods, for other uses; and I obliged
him to set up the sloop which I had brought with me from Hng-
land, as I have said, for the use of my colony, in order to send the
refreshments I intended to my plantation.

Accordingly he got hands, and finished the sloop in a very few
days, for she was ready framed; and I gave the master of her such
instructions as he could not miss the place, nor did he miss them,
as I had an account from iay partner afterwards. I got him soon
loaded with the small cargo I sent them; and one of our seamen
that had been on shore with me there offered to go with the sloop
and settle there, upon my letter to the governor Spaniard to allot
him a sufficient quantity of land for a plantation, and giving him
some clothes, and tools for his planting work, which he said he
understood, having been an old planter at Maryland, and a bucca-
necr into the bargain.

I encouraged the fellow, by granting all he desired; and as an
addition, I gave him the savage which we had taken prisoner of
war to be his slave, and ordered the governor Spaniard to give him
his share of everything he wanted with the rest.

When we came to fit this man out, my old partner told me