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and down the world till I tire you; for I shall pursue it soeagerly, I shall never let you lie still."

　　Immediately we halted, and though it was at a great distance, wefired, and sent them leaden bullets for wooden arrows, followingour shot full gallop, to fall in among them sword in hand - for soour bold Scot that led us directed. He was, indeed, but amerchant, but he behaved with such vigour and bravery on thisoccasion, and yet with such cool courage too, that I never saw anyman in action fitter for command. As soon as we came up to them wefired our pistols in their faces and then drew; but they fled inthe greatest confusion imaginable. The only stand any of them madewas on our right, where three of them stood, and, by signs, calledthe rest to come back to them, having a kind of scimitar in theirhands, and their bows hanging to their backs. Our brave commander,without asking anybody to follow him, gallops up close to them, andwith his fusee knocks one of them off his horse, killed the secondwith his pistol, and the third ran away. Thus ended our fight; butwe had this misfortune attending it, that all o

　　[Here Will Atkins said his heart sunk within him to hear a pooruntaught creature desire to be taught to know God, and he such awicked wretch, that he could not say one word to her about God, butwhat the reproach of his own carriage would make most irrational toher to believe; nay, that already she had told him that she couldnot believe in God, because he, that was so wicked, was notdestroyed.]

　　The youth, who was preserved at the price of his most affectionatemother's life, was not so far gone; yet he lay in a cabin bed, asone stretched out, with hardly any life left in him. He had apiece of an old glove in his mouth, having eaten up the rest of it;however, being young, and having more strength than his mother, themate got something down his throat, and he began sensibly torevive; though by giving him, some time after, but two or threespoonfuls extraordinary, he was very sick, and brought it up again.

　　When they came there, and found the men gone, Atkins, who it seemswas the forwardest man, called out to his comrade, "Ha, Jack,here's the nest, but the birds are flown." They mused a while, tothink what should be the occasion of their being gone abroad sosoon, and suggested presently that the Spaniards had given themnotice of it; and with that they shook hands, and swore to oneanother that they would be revenged of the Spaniards. As soon asthey had made this bloody bargain they fell to work with the poormen's habitation; they did not set fire, indeed, to anything, butthey pulled down both their houses, and left not the least stickstanding, or scarce any sign on the ground where they stood; theytore all their household stuff in pieces, and threw everythingabout in such a manner, that the poor men afterwards found some oftheir things a mile off. When they had done this, they pulled upall the young trees which the poor men had planted; broke down anenclosure they had made to secure their cattle and their co

d upon inquiry thenext day; and there were five or six men all together, who stood tolook at the ship, not knowing what to think of us.

ght, when, within thecompass of three hours, I had all the several circumstances overagain, one after another, viz. sick, sleepy, eagerly hungry, painin the stomach, then ravenous again, then sick, then lunatic, thencrying, then ravenous again, and so every quarter of an hour, andmy strength wasted exceedingly; at night I lay me down, having nocomfort but in the hope that I should die before morning.

khorses inEngland seemed to me to look much better; though it was hard tojudge rightly, for they were so covered with equipage, mantles,trappings, &c., that we could scarce see anything but their feetand their heads as they went along.

　　Here they built themselves two handsome huts, and contrived them ina manner like my first habitation, being close under the side of ahill, having some trees already growing on three sides of it, sothat by planting others it would be very easily covered from thesight, unless narrowly searched for. They desired some dried goat-skins for beds and covering, which were given them; and upon givingtheir words that they would not disturb the rest, or injure any oftheir plantations, they gave them hatchets, and what other toolsthey could spare; some peas, barley, and rice, for sowing; and, ina word, anything they wanted, except arms and ammunition.