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　　But the affair did not end so; the next day came a great number ofthe country people to the town gates, and in a most outrageousmanner demanded satisfaction of the Russian governor for theinsulting their priests and burning their great Cham Chi-Thaungu.The people of Nertsinkay were at first in a great consternation,for they said the Tartars were already no less than thirty thousandstrong. The Russian governor sent out messengers to appease them,assuring them that he knew nothing of it, and that there had not asoul in his garrison been abroad, so that it could not be fromanybody there: but if they could let him know who did it, theyshould be exemplarily punished. They returned haughtily, that allthe country reverenced the great Cham Chi-Thaungu, who dwelt in thesun, and no mortal would have dared to offer violence to his imagebut some Christian miscreant; and they therefore resolved todenounce war against him and all the Russians, who, they said, weremiscreants and Christians.

　　The next day, giving them a salute of five guns at parting, we setsail, and arrived at the bay of All Saints in the Brazils in abouttwenty-two days, meeting nothing remarkable in our passage butthis: that about three days after we had sailed, being becalmed,and the current setting strong to the ENE., running, as it were,into a bay or gulf on the land side, we were driven something outof our course, and once or twice our men cried out, "Land to theeastward!" but whether it was the continent or islands we could nottell by any means. But the third day, towards evening, the seasmooth, and the weather calm, we saw the sea as it were coveredtowards the land with something very black; not being able todiscover what it was till after some time, our chief mate, going upthe main shrouds a little way, and looking at them with aperspective, cried out it was an army. I could not imagine what hemeant by an army, and thwarted him a little hastily. "Nay, sir,"says he, "don't be angry, for 'tis an army, and a fleet too

　　We then set sail from Archangel the 20th of August, the same year;and, after no extraordinary bad voyage, arrived safe in the Elbethe 18th of September. Here my partner and I found a very goodsale for our goods, as well those of China as the sables, &c., ofSiberia: and, dividing the produce, my share amounted to 3475pounds, 17s 3d., including about six hundred pounds' worth ofdiamonds, which I purchased at Bengal.

　　The woman was surprised, and was like to have run into a mistakethat none of us were aware of; for she firmly believed God had sentthe book upon her husband's petition. It is true thatprovidentially it was so, and might be taken so in a consequentsense; but I believe it would have been no difficult matter at thattime to have persuaded the poor woman to have believed that anexpress messenger came from heaven on purpose to bring thatindividual book. But it was too serious a matter to suffer anydelusion to take place, so I turned to the young woman, and toldher we did not desire to impose upon the new convert in her firstand more ignorant understanding of things, and begged her toexplain to her that God may be very properly said to answer ourpetitions, when, in the course of His providence, such things arein a particular manner brought to pass as we petitioned for; but wedid not expect returns from heaven in a miraculous and particularmanner, and it is a mercy that it is not so.

　　WIFE. - Why, then, He know what I say to you now: He know me wishto know Him. How shall me know who makee me?

idnot perceive that they had any notion of anybody being on theisland but themselves. He had hardly made an end of telling hisstory, when they could perceive, by the unusual noise they made,that the two little armies were engaged in a bloody fight.Friday's father used all the arguments he could to persuade ourpeople to lie close, and not be seen; he told them their safetyconsisted in it, and that they had nothing to do but lie still, andthe savages would kill one another to their hands, and then therest would go away; and it was so to a tittle. But it wasimpossible to prevail, especially upon the Englishmen; theircuriosity was so importunate that they must run out and see thebattle. However, they used some caution too: they did not goopenly, just by their own dwelling, but went farther into thewoods, and placed themselves to advantage, where they mightsecurely see them manage the fight, and, as they thought, not beseen by them; but the savages did see them, as we shall findhereafter.

a considerabletime after.

　　I was then curious, indeed, to see it; and when I came to it, itwas nothing but this: it was a timber house, or a house built, aswe call it in England, with lath and plaster, but all thisplastering was really China ware - that is to say, it was plasteredwith the earth that makes China ware. The outside, which the sunshone hot upon, was glazed, and looked very well, perfectly white,and painted with blue figures, as the large China ware in Englandis painted, and hard as if it had been burnt. As to the inside,all the walls, instead of wainscot, were lined with hardened andpainted tiles, like the little square tiles we call galley-tiles inEngland, all made of the finest china, and the figures exceedingfine indeed, with extraordinary variety of colours, mixed withgold, many tiles making but one figure, but joined so artificially,the mortar being made of the same earth, that it was very hard tosee where the tiles met. The floors of the rooms were of the samecomposition, and as hard as the earthen floors we ha