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to his estate after my decease. The other I placed with the
captain of a ship; and after five years, finding him a sensible,
bold, enterprising young fellow, I put him into a good ship, and
sent him to sea; and this young fellow afterwards drew me in,
as old as I was, to further adventures myself.

In the mean time, I in part settled myself here ; for, first of
all, I married, and that not either to my disadvantage or dis-

satisfaction, and had three children, two sons and one daughter ;
but my wife dying, and my nephew coming home with good
success from a voyage to Spain, my inclination to go abroad,
and his importunity, prevailed, and engaged me to go in his
ship as a private trader to the East Indies; that was in the
year 1694.

In this voyage I visited my new colony in the island,—saw
my successors the Spaniards,—had the whole story of their
lives, and of the villains I left there,—how at first they insulted
the poor Spaniards,—how they afterwards agreed, disagreed,
united, separated, and how at last the Spaniards were obliged
to use violence with them,—how they were subjected to the
Spaniards,—how honestly the Spaniards used them ; a history,
if it were entered into, as full of variety and wonderful accidents
as my own part,—particularly, also, as to their battles with the
Caribbeans, who landed several times upon the island, and as
to the improvement they made upon the island itself,—and how
five of them made an attempt upon the main land, and brought
away eleven men and five women prisoners, by which, at my
coming, I found about twenty young children on the island.

Here I staid about twenty days, —left them supplies of
all necessary things, and particularly of arms, powder, shot,
clothes, tools, and two workmen, which I brought from England
with me,—viz.: a carpenter and a smith.

Besides this, I shared the lands into parts with them, re-
served to myself the property of the whole, but gave them such
parts respectively as they agreed on; and having settled all
things with them, and engaged them not to leave the place, I
left them there.

From thence I touched at the Brazils, from whence I sent
a bark, which I brought there, with more people to the island ;
and in it, besides other supplies, I sent seven women, being
such as I found proper for service, or for wives to such as
would take them. As to the Englishmen, I promised them to
send them some women from England, with a good cargo of
necessaries, if they would apply themselves to planting,—which
I afterwards could not perform, The fellows proved very