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spir.:s into confusion ; at last it broke out into tears ; and, ina
little while after, I recovered my speech. I then took my turn,
and embraced him as my deliverer, and we rejoiced together.
I told him I looked upon him as a man sent from Heaven to
deliver me, and that the whole transaction seemed to be a chain
of wonders ; that such things as these were the testimonies we
had of asecret hand of Providence governing the world, and
an evidence that the eye of an infinite power could search into
the remotest corner of the world, and send help to the miser-
able whenever He pleased. I forgot not to lift up my heart
in thankfulness to Heaven ; and what heart could forbear to
bless Him, who had not only in a miraculous manner provided
for me in such a wilderness, and in such a desolate condition,
but from whom every deliverance must always be acknowl-
edged to proceed ?

When we had talked a while, the captain told me he had
brought me some little refreshment, such as the ship afforded,
and such as the wretches that had been so long hi. masters
had not plundered him of. Upon this, he called aloud to the
boat, and bade his men bring the things ashore that were for
the governor ; and, indeed, it was a present as if I had been
one that was not to be carried away with them, but as if I had
been to dwell upon the island still. First, he had brought me
a case of bottles full of excellent cordial waters, six large bot-
tles of Madeira wine (the bottles held two quarts each), two
pounds of excellent good tobacco, twelve good pieces of the
ship’s beef, and six pieces of pork, with a bag of peas, and
about a hundred-weight of biscuit ; he also brought me a box
of sugar, a box of flour, a bag full of lemons, and two bottles
of lime-juice, and abundance of other things. But besides
these, and what was a thousand times more useful to me, he
brought me six new clean shirts, six very good neck-cloths, two
pair of gloves, one pair of shoes, a hat, and one pair of stock-
ings, with a very good suit of clothes of his own, which had
been worn but very little: in a word, he clothed me from head
to foot. It was a very kind and agreeable present, as any
one may imagine, to one in my circumstances ; but never was
anything in the world of that kind so unpleasant, awkward,
and uneasy as it was to me to wear such clothes at first.

After these ceremonies were past, and after all his goed
things were brought into my little apartment, we began to con-
sult what was to be done with the prisoners we had ; for it was
worth considering whether we might venture to take them away
with us or no, especially two of them, whom he knew to be in-