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told us was but too true; an innumerable multitude of frightful
savages, covered all over with red hair, and about two feet high, came
swimming towards us, and in a little time encompassed our ship.
They spoke to us as they came near, but we understood not their
language; they climbed up the sides of the ship with an agility
that surprised us. We beheld all this with mortal fear, without daring -
“ to offer to defend ourselves, or to speak one word to divert them from _
their mischievous design. In short, they took down our sails, cut the
cable, and, hauling to the shore, made us all get out, and afterwards
carried the ship into another island, from whence they had come.
All travellers carefully avoided that island where they left us, it being
‘very dangerous to stay there, for a reason you shall hear anon; but
we were forced to bear our affliction with patience.
‘We went forward into the island, where we found some fruits and
herbs to prolong our lives as long as we could; but we expected
nothing but death. As we went on we perceived at a distance a great
pile of building, and made towards-it. We found it to be a palace,
well built, and very lofty, with a gate of ebony with double doors,
which we thrust ‘open.. We entered the court, where-we saw before
us a vast apartment with a porch, having on one side a heap of men’s
bones, and on the other a vast number of roasting spits. We trem-
bled at, this spectacle, and, being weary with: travelling, our legs
failed under us: we fell. to the. Enea seized with: deel ce and
lay a long time motionless. eee
The sun had set, and whilst we were in ‘the lamentable’ condition
just mentioned, the gate of the apartment opened with a great noise,
and there came out the horrible figure of a black man, as high
as a tall palm tree. He had but one eye, and that in the middle
of his forehead, where it looked as red as a burning. coal. His
- fore-teeth were very long and sharp, and -stood out of his mouth,
which was as deep as that of a horse; his upper lip hung downi
upon his breast; his ears resembled those of an ‘elephant, and.