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　　We did not come to the other port (the wind being contrary) forfive days; but it was very much to our satisfaction, and I wasthankful when I set my foot on shore, resolving, and my partnertoo, that if it was possible to dispose of ourselves and effectsany other way, though not profitably, we would never more set footon board that unhappy vessel. Indeed, I must acknowledge, that ofall the circumstances of life that ever I had any experience of,nothing makes mankind so completely miserable as that of being inconstant fear. Well does the Scripture say, "The fear of manbrings a snare"; it is a life of death, and the mind is so entirelyoppressed by it, that it is capable of no relief.

　　W.A. - Yes, my dear, God is in every country.

　　N.B. - This dialogue between Will Atkins and his wife, which I tookdown in writing just after he told it me, was as follows:-

one hundred and fiftypeople, men, women, and children, and left not a house standing inthe town. As for the poor fellow Tom Jeffry, as he was quite dead(for his throat was so cut that his head was half off), it would dohim no service to bring him away; so they only took him down fromthe tree, where he was hanging by one hand.

　　The wind continued fresh easterly, but the weather pretty good; andas the winds had continued in the points between NE. and SE. a longtime, we missed several opportunities of sending them to France;for we met several ships bound to Europe, whereof two were French,from St. Christopher's, but they had been so long beating upagainst the wind that they durst take in no passengers, for fear ofwanting provisions for the voyage, as well for themselves as forthose they should take in; so we were obliged to go on. It wasabout a week after this that we made the banks of Newfoundland;where, to shorten my story, we put all our French people on board abark, which they hired at sea there, to put them on shore, andafterwards to carry them to France, if they could get provisions tovictual themselves with. When I say all the French went on shore,I should remember that the young priest I spoke of, hearing we werebound to the East Indies, desired to go the voyage with us, and tobe set on shore on the coast of Coromandel; wh

　　After we had passed this desert we came into a country pretty wellinhabited - that is to say, we found towns and castles, settled bythe Czar with garrisons of stationary soldiers, to protect thecaravans and defend the country against the Tartars, who wouldotherwise make it very dangerous travelling; and his czarishmajesty has given such strict orders for the well guarding thecaravans, that, if there are any Tartars heard of in the country,detachments of the garrison are always sent to see the travellerssafe from station to station. Thus the governor of Adinskoy, whomI had an opportunity to make a visit to, by means of the Scotsmerchant, who was acquainted with him, offered us a guard of fiftymen, if we thought there was any danger, to the next station.

　　The road all on this side of the country is very populous, and isfull of potters and earth-makers - that is to say, people, thattemper the earth for the China ware. As I was coming along, ourPortuguese pilot, who had always something or other to say to makeus merry, told me he would show me the greatest rarity in all thecountry, and that I should have this to say of China, after all theill-humoured things that I had said of it, that I had seen onething which was not to be seen in all the world beside. I was veryimportunate to know what it was; at last he told me it was agentleman's house built with China ware. "Well," says I, "are notthe materials of their buildings the products of their own country,and so it is all China ware, is it not?" - "No, no," says he, "Imean it is a house all made of China ware, such as you call it inEngland, or as it is called in our country, porcelain." - "Well,"says I, "such a thing may be; how big is it? Can we carry it in abox upon a camel? If we can we will buy it." - "U

　　To their slaves they did not give either musket or fusee; but theyhad each a halberd, or a long staff, like a quarter-staff, with agreat spike of iron fastened into each end of it, and by his side ahatchet; also every one of our men had a hatchet. Two of the womencould not be prevailed upon but they would come into the fight, andthey had bows and arrows, which the Spaniards had taken from thesavages when the first action happened, which I have spoken of,where the Indians fought with one another; and the women hadhatchets too.

dog, "and so youshall, too, before we have done with you;" mixing two or threeoaths in the proper intervals of his speech. The Spaniard onlysmiled at that, and made him no answer. However, this littlediscourse had heated them; and starting up, one says to the other.(I think it was he they called Will Atkins), "Come, Jack, let's goand have t'other brush with them; we'll demolish their castle, I'llwarrant you; they shall plant no colony in our dominions."