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him, but I was very loath to sell the poor boy’s liberty, who had
assisted me so faithfully in procuring my own. However,
when IJ let him know my reason, he owned it to be just, and
offered me this medium, that he would give the boy an obliga-
tion to set him free in ten years, if he turned Christian: upon
this, and Xury saying he was willing to go to him, I let the
captain have him.

We had a very good voyage to the Brazils, and I arrived in
the Bay de Todos los Santos, or All Saints’ Bay, in about
twenty-two days after. And now I was once more delivered
from the most miserable of all conditions of life; and what ta
do next with myself I was to consider.

The generous treatment the captain gave me I can never
enough remember: he would take nothing of me for my pas-
sage, gave me twenty ducats for the leopard’s skin, and forty
for the lion’s skin, which I had in my boat, and caused
everything I had in the ship to be punctually delivered to me;
and what I was willing to sell, he bought of me; such as
the case of bottles, two of my guns, and a piece of the lump
of beeswax,—for I had made candles of the rest: in a word,
I made about two hundred and twenty pieces of eight
of all my cargo; and with this stock, I went on shore in
the Brazils.

I had not been long here, before I was recommended to the
house of a good, honest man, like himself, who had an ingenzo,
as they call it (that is, a plantation and a sugar-house). I lived
with him some time, and acquainted myself, by that means, with
the manner of planting and making of sugar ; and seeing how
well the planters lived, and how they got rich suddenly, I
resolved, if I could get a license’to settle there, I would turn
planter among them ; resolving, in the mean time, to find out
some way to get my money, which I had left in London,
remitted to me. ‘To this purpose, getting a kind of letter of
naturalization, I purchased as much land that was uncured as
my money would reach, and formed a plan for my plantation
and settlement; such a one as might be suitable to the stock
which I proposed to myself to receive from England. ;

I had a neighbor, a Portuguese, of Lisbon, but born of
English parents, who name was Wells, and in much such cir-
cumstances as I was. I call him my neighbor, because his
plantation lay next to mine, and we went on very sociably to-
gether. My stock was’but low, as well as his; and we rather
planted for food than anything else, for about two years. How-
ever, we began to increase, and our land began ‘o come into