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　　As soon as the boatswain saw us, he set up a halloo like a shout oftriumph, for having, as he thought, more help come; and withoutwaiting to hear me, "Captain," says he, "noble captain! I am gladyou are come; we have not half done yet. Villainous hell-hounddogs! I'll kill as many of them as poor Tom has hairs upon hishead: we have sworn to spare none of them; we'll root out the verynation of them from the earth;" and thus he ran on, out of breath,too, with action, and would not give us leave to speak a word. Atlast, raising my voice that I might silence him a little,"Barbarous dog!" said I, "what are you doing! I won't have onecreature touched more, upon pain of death; I charge you, upon yourlife, to stop your hands, and stand still here, or you are a deadman this minute." - "Why, sir," says he, "do you know what you do,or what they have done? If you want a reason for what we havedone, come hither;" and with that he showed me the poor fellowhanging, with his throat cut.

pon a camel!"says the old pilot, holding up both his hands; "why, there is afamily of thirty people lives in it."

　　I was now, as near as I can compute, in the heart of China, aboutthirty degrees north of the line, for we were returned from Nankin.I had indeed a mind to see the city of Pekin, which I had heard somuch of, and Father Simon importuned me daily to do it. At lengthhis time of going away being set, and the other missionary who wasto go with him being arrived from Macao, it was necessary that weshould resolve either to go or not; so I referred it to my partner,and left it wholly to his choice, who at length resolved it in theaffirmative, and we prepared for our journey. We set out with verygood advantage as to finding the way; for we got leave to travel inthe retinue of one of their mandarins, a kind of viceroy orprincipal magistrate in the province where they reside, and whotake great state upon them, travelling with great attendance, andgreat homage from the people, who are sometimes greatlyimpoverished by them, being obliged to furnish provisions for themand all their attendants in their journeys. I parti

　　This was a strange account, and very affecting to us both, butparticularly to the young clergyman; he was, indeed, wonderfullysurprised with it, but under the greatest affliction imaginablethat he could not talk to her, that he could not speak English tomake her understand him; and as she spoke but very broken English,he could not understand her; however, he turned himself to me, andtold me that he believed that there must be more to do with thiswoman than to marry her. I did not understand him at first; but atlength he explained himself, viz. that she ought to be baptized. Iagreed with him in that part readily, and wished it to be donepresently. "No, no; hold, sir," says he; "though I would have herbe baptized, by all means, for I must observe that Will Atkins, herhusband, has indeed brought her, in a wonderful manner, to bewilling to embrace a religious life, and has given her just ideasof the being of a God; of His power, justice, and mercy: yet Idesire to know of him if he has said anything to her o

　　Before I went from their quarter they all came to me and told methey had been considering what I had said; that they were glad tohear I had a clergyman in my company, and they were very willing togive me the satisfaction I desired, and to be formally married assoon as I pleased; for they were far from desiring to part withtheir wives, and that they meant nothing but what was very honestwhen they chose them. So I appointed them to meet me the nextmorning; and, in the meantime, they should let their wives know themeaning of the marriage law; and that it was not only to preventany scandal, but also to oblige them that they should not forsakethem, whatever might happen.

　　We took twenty as stout fellows with us as any in the ship, besidesthe supercargo and myself, and we landed two hours before midnight,at the same place where the Indians stood drawn up in the eveningbefore. I landed here, because my design, as I have said, waschiefly to see if they had quitted the field, and if they had leftany marks behind them of the mischief we had done them, and Ithought if we could surprise one or two of them, perhaps we mightget our man again, by way of exchange.

o we all prepared for our journey.However, as it was with us, so it was with the other merchants:they had many things to do, and instead of being ready in fiveweeks, it was four months and some days before all things were gottogether.

appeared again:for they, believing we were still before them, pushed on till theycame to the Udda, a very great river when it passes farther north,but when we came to it we found it narrow and fordable.

　　They gave me an account how many ways they strove to civilise thesavages they were with, and to teach them rational customs in theordinary way of living, but in vain; and how they retorted uponthem as unjust that they who came there for assistance and supportshould attempt to set up for instructors to those that gave themfood; intimating, it seems, that none should set up for theinstructors of others but those who could live without them. Theygave me dismal accounts of the extremities they were driven to; howsometimes they were many days without any food at all, the islandthey were upon being inhabited by a sort of savages that lived moreindolent, and for that reason were less supplied with thenecessaries of life, than they had reason to believe others were inthe same part of the world; and yet they found that these savageswere less ravenous and voracious than those who had better suppliesof food. Also, they added, they could not but see with whatdemonstrations of wisdom and goodness the governing provide