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　　He gave me a most diverting account of his life, and of the manyextraordinary events of it; of many adventures which had befallenhim in the few years that he had been abroad in the world; andparticularly, it was very remarkable, that in the voyage he was nowengaged in he had had the misfortune to be five times shipped andunshipped, and never to go to the place whither any of the ships hewas in were at first designed. That his first intent was to havegone to Martinico, and that he went on board a ship bound thitherat St. Malo; but being forced into Lisbon by bad weather, the shipreceived some damage by running aground in the mouth of the riverTagus, and was obliged to unload her cargo there; but finding aPortuguese ship there bound for the Madeiras, and ready to sail,and supposing he should meet with a ship there bound to Martinico,he went on board, in order to sail to the Madeiras; but the masterof the Portuguese ship being but an indifferent mariner, had beenout of his reckoning, and they drove to Fayal;

　　They then gave me an account how the savages whom they livedamongst expected them to go out with them into their wars; and, itwas true, that as they had firearms with them, had they not had thedisaster to lose their ammunition, they could have been serviceablenot only to their friends, but have made themselves terrible bothto friends and enemies; but being without powder and shot, and yetin a condition that they could not in reason decline to go out withtheir landlords to their wars; so when they came into the field ofbattle they were in a worse condition than the savages themselves,for they had neither bows nor arrows, nor could they use those thesavages gave them. So they could do nothing but stand still and bewounded with arrows, till they came up to the teeth of the enemy;and then, indeed, the three halberds they had were of use to them;and they would often drive a whole little army before them withthose halberds, and sharpened sticks put into the muzzles of theirmuskets. But for all this they were so

　　I stood still an hour or thereabouts without trespassing on ourorders (for so long the caravan was in passing the gate), to lookat it on every side, near and far off; I mean what was within myview: and the guide, who had been extolling it for the wonder ofthe world, was mighty eager to hear my opinion of it. I told himit was a most excellent thing to keep out the Tartars; which hehappened not to understand as I meant it and so took it for acompliment; but the old pilot laughed! "Oh, Seignior Inglese,"says he, "you speak in colours." - "In colours!" said I; "what doyou mean by that?" - "Why, you speak what looks white this way andblack that way - gay one way and dull another. You tell him it is

　　Then I presented to them the people I had brought with me,particularly the tailor, the smith, and the two carpenters, all ofthem most necessary people; but, above all, my general artificer,than whom they could not name anything that was more useful tothem; and the tailor, to show his concern for them, went to workimmediately, and, with my leave, made them every one a shirt, thefirst thing he did; and, what was still more, he taught the womennot only how to sew and stitch, and use the needle, but made themassist to make the shirts for their husbands, and for all the rest.As to the carpenters, I scarce need mention how useful they were;for they took to pieces all my clumsy, unhandy things, and madeclever convenient tables, stools, bedsteads, cupboards, lockers,shelves, and everything they wanted of that kind. But to let themsee how nature made artificers at first, I carried the carpentersto see Will Atkins' basket-house, as I called it; and they bothowned they never saw an instance of such natural ingenuity

ese stakesalso being of a wood very forward to grow, they took care to havethem generally much larger and taller than those which I hadplanted. As they grew apace, they planted them so very thick andclose together, that when they had been three or four years grownthere was no piercing with the eye any considerable way into theplantation. As for that part which I had planted, the trees weregrown as thick as a man's thigh, and among them they had placed somany other short ones, and so thick, that it stood like a palisadoa quarter of a mile thick, and it was next to impossible topenetrate it, for a little dog could hardly get between the trees,they stood so close.

　　When I came to him he told me I knew what had passed between us,and hoped I would not move him any more in that affair; but that,since I had made such a generous offer to him, he asked me if I hadkindness enough to offer the same to another person that he wouldname to me, in whom he had a great share of concern. In a word, hetold me it was his only son; who, though I had not seen him, was inthe same condition with himself, and above two hundred miles fromhim, on the other side of the Oby; but that, if I consented, hewould send for him.

evoyage, and his life, and all; and away he went.

　　In this interval the poor Chinese came in who had lost the camel,but he had no weapon; however, seeing the Tartar down, and hishorse fallen upon him, away he runs to him, and seizing upon anugly weapon he had by his side, something like a pole-axe, hewrenched it from him, and made shift to knock his Tartarian brainsout with it. But my old man had the third Tartar to deal withstill; and seeing he did not fly, as he expected, nor come on tofight him, as he apprehended, but stood stock still, the old manstood still too, and fell to work with his tackle to charge hispistol again: but as soon as the Tartar saw the pistol away hescoured, and left my pilot, my champion I called him afterwards, acomplete victory.

backalone; and which way shall I get to my port afterwards, without aship, without a horse, without PECUNE?" so he called money, beinghis broken Latin, of which he had abundance to make us merry with.In short, he told us there was a great caravan of Muscovite andPolish merchants in the city, preparing to set out on their journeyby land to Muscovy, within four or five weeks; and he was sure wewould take the opportunity to go with them, and leave him behind,to go back alone.