Eben-ezer, or, A small monument of great mercy appearing in the miraculous deliverance of William Okeley, Williams Adams [brace] John Anthony, John Jephs, John ----, carpenter, from the miserable slavery of Algiers, with the wonderful means of their escape in a boat of canvas ... / by me William Okeley.
Okeley, William.
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Eben-ezer, or, A small monument of great mercy appearing in the miraculous deliverance of William Okeley, Williams Adams [brace] John Anthony, John Jephs, John ----, carpenter, from the miserable slavery of Algiers, with the wonderful means of their escape in a boat of canvas ... / by me William Okeley.
Okeley, William.
Deane, James.
The second edition,
[32], 100 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill.
Printed for Nath. Ponder ...,
London :
1684.
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EBEN-EZER
:
OR
,
A
SMALL
MONUMENT
OF
GREAT
MERCY
,
APPEARING
IN
THE
Miraculous
Deliverance
OF
William
Okeley
,
Williams
Adams
,
John
Anthony
,
John
Jephs
,
John
—
Carpenter
,
From
the
Miserable
Slavery
of
ALGIERS
,
with
the
wonderful
Means
of
their
Escape
in
a
Boat
of
Canvas
;
the
great
Distress
,
and
utmost
Extremities
which
they
endured
at
Sea
for
Six
Days
and
Nights
;
their
safe
Arrival
at
Mayork
;
With
several
Matters
of
Remarque
during
their
long
Captivity
,
and
the
following
Providences
of
God
which
brought
them
safe
to
ENGLAND
.
By
me
William
Okeley
.
The
Second
Edition
,
with
a
Further
Narrative
of
James
Deane
and
others
.
London
,
Printed
for
Nath.
Ponder
,
at
the
Peacock
in
the
Poultrey
,
over-against
Stocks-Market
1684.
depiction of two ships
Turks
taking
the
English
depiction of slave market
Selling
slaves
in
Algers
depiction of execution
Execution
with
A
batvone
depiction of burning
Turks
burning
of
A
Frier
er
depiction of torture
Divers
Cruelties
depiction of escape
Making
the
boat
&
their
,
Escape
to
Mayork
Upon
this
Book
,
and
its
Author
.
THis
Author
never
was
in
Print
before
,
And
(
let
this
please
or
not
)
will
never
more
.
If
all
the
Press-Oppressors
of
this
Age
Would
so
Resolve
,
't
would
Happiness
presage
:
He
should
as
soon
another
Voyage
take
,
As
be
Oblig'd
another
Book
to
make
.
His
Canvas
Boat
Escaped
Seas
and
Wind
,
He
fears
this
Paper-Vessel
will
not
find
Such
gentle
Gales
,
when
every
Reader
hath
Pow'r
with
a
puff
to
sink
the
Writers
Faith.
For
who
so
Prints
a
Book
,
goes
off
from
Shore
,
To
hazard
that
which
was
his
own
before
:
As
one
poor
Pinnace
Over-match'd
,
that
fights
With
an
Armado
,
so
doth
he
who
Writes
:
If
Books
(
like
goodly
Merchant-Ships
)
set
forth
,
Laden
with
Riches
of
the
greatest
worth
;
With
Councels
,
Fathers
,
Text-men
,
School-Men
Mann'd
,
With
Sacred
Canon
Mounted
at
each
Hand
;
Are
hard
beset
,
and
forc'd
to
make
Defence
Against
Arm'd
Atheism
,
Pride
and
Impudence
.
How
can
this
little
Cock-Boat
hope
and
Escape
,
When
Scripture
Suffers
Piracy
and
Rape
?
Noe's
Ark
(
wherein
the
World
Epitomiz'd
,
And
Mankind
in
Octavo
was
Compriz'd
.
)
Though
in
the
Deluge
't
was
preserved
sound
,
By
Infidelity
it self
lyes
drown'd
.
That
Moses
with
a
Rod
the
Sea
should
Cane
,
And
Beat
the
Coward
streams
into
a
Plain
;
With
the
same
Cane
should
broach
a
Flint
,
and
bring
Out
of
its
Fiery
Womb
a
flowing
Spring
:
That
a
dry
stick
assign'd
for
Levie's
share
,
Should
Bud
,
and
Blossom
,
and
Ripe
Almonds
bear
;
That
Sampson
with
the
Jaw-Bone
of
an
Ass
(
And
Atheists
think
Him
one
that
lets
it
pass
Without
a
Scomme
)
should
slay
a
Thousand
Men
,
And
being
weary
with
the
Slaughter
;
then
The
kind
Jaw-Bone
,
that
was
his
Faulchion
first
,
Should
turn
a
Flaggon
,
and
allay
his
Thirst
.
These
Miracles
,
and
all
the
Sacred
store
.
Which
Faith
should
grasp
,
and
Piety
adore
,
Met
with
Arrests
,
Arraignments
,
and
a
Doom
More
harsh
than
Tales
of
Heathen
Greece
or
Rome
.
Yet
O
the
Folly
of
Confounded
Man
!
Who
cannot
Truth
believe
,
but
Fathers
can
.
When
Truth
that
cannot
Lye
,
shall
be
bely'd
,
Its
Pow'r
defy`d
,
and
Weakness
Deify'd
:
When
our
Diseased
Appetite
shall
Lust
For
Egyts
Leek
,
or
Gibeons
Mouldy
Crust
;
Ephraim
will
feed
on
Ashes
,
and
disdain
The
Manna
Comfits
,
and
the
Candy'd
Rain
.
An
Heaven-born
Truth
(
like
poor
Mens
Infants
)
may
For
lack
of
God-Fathers
,
unchrist'ned
stay
,
And
find
no
Priest
;
when
every
stander
by
Will
be
a
Gossip
to
a
Great
Mans
Lye.
O
Miracle
of
Love
!
God-Man
was
fain
Each
Miracle
he
wrought
,
to
make
it
twain
,
The
Fact
,
and
Faith
too
,
else
the
Fact
in
vain
.
There
is
a
Generation
alive
,
That
Live
on
Lying
Miracles
and
thrive
,
There
is
a
Guild
of
Priests
will
undertake
To
make
that
God
who
doth
all
Wonders
make
:
Can
make
Him
,
Bake
Him
,
Break
Him
,
Eat
him
too
,
And
with
a
Thought
can
All
again
undo
.
Had
but
some
Monk
this
History
to
Dress
,
He
would
have
made
the
Iron-Teeth
of
th'
Press
Turn
Edge
,
and
grin
,
to
chew
the
stuff
and
stile
;
Compar'd
with
which
,
all
's
Pap
in
Mandevile
.
Had
these
Five
Comrades
been
good
Sons
of
Rome
,
Nothing
but
Miracles
had
brought
them
home
.
Okely
hae
been
inspired
;
Jephs
had
Seen
An
Apron
dropt
down
from
Heavens
Virgin-Queen
To
make
a
Sail
;
Carpenter
should
have
pray'd
Saint
Joseph
to
assist
him
at
his
Trade
;
And
the
next
Morn
did
in
the
Cellar
find
The
Keel
,
Ribbs
,
Pins
;
all
Model'd
to
his
Mind
.
An
Holy
Sea-Calf
in
St.
Peters
Coat
,
Had
then
appear'd
,
and
danc'd
before
the
Boat
:
Saint
Christopher
with
a
Sweet
Babe
on
's
Back
,
Had
stalkt
along
to
save
from
Rock
and
Wrack
:
Saint
Nicholas
(
or
in
his
Shape
,
Old
Nick
)
Had
with
a
straw
steer'd
the
Boat
Catholick
.
The
Tortoise
taken
napping
in
the
Flood
,
Had
first
said
Grace
,
and
then
become
their
Food
:
Yea
,
and
his
Sacred
Shell
had
been
preferr'd
To
make
fine
Combs
for
Wilgefortu
Beard
.
And
who
can
tell
(
for
now
't
is
Thirty
Years
Since
this
strange
Expedition
from
Algiers
)
What
Use
the
Fryars
of
Mayork
have
made
Of
the
poor
Skiff
to
raise
their
Legend
Trade
?
But
,
be
it
as
it
will
;
Buy
,
or
not
Buy
;
This
Book
is
Protestant
,
and
hates
a
Lye.
The
Reader
shall
find
in
this
Breviary
All
Pater
Nosters
,
not
one
Ave
Mary
.
If
Gentleman
and
Christian
may
avail
,
If
Honour
and
Religion
can
be
bail
For
this
poor
Pilgrims
Truth
and
Faithfulness
,
It
may
with
Leave
and
safety
past
the
Press
.
Let
him
who
scorns
to
Read
,
or
Reads
to
Scorn
,
And
thinks
this
Story
might
have
been
forborn
;
First
,
buy
the
Book
,
theu
give
Security
To
do
the
like
;
The
Book-Seller
and
I
Will
give
him
Bond
,
when
he
Returns
to
Land
,
To
pay
a
Thousand
pounds
into
his
Hand
.
Mean
while
this
Narative
(
all
plain
and
True
)
Is
worth
its
Shilling
to
a
Turk
or
Jew
;
But
to
a
Christian
(
were
the
Story
gone
)
The
Preface
is
a
Penny-worth
alone
.
The
whole
hath
no
Errata's
or
Mistakes
,
Save
what
the
Printer
aud
the
Poet
makes
.
To
his
Ingenions
Friend
,
Mr.
William
Okely
,
upon
his
Miraculous
Deliverance
in
his
Canvas
Boat.
THY
Boat
,
thy
Coffin
call
;
and
Greet
The
Canvas
as
thy
Winding-Sheet
:
From
Coffin
,
Shrowd
Delivered
,
Call
't
Resurrectiod
from
the
Dead
!
And
since
thy
Life
's
the
Great
,
thy
Lines
present
,
As
God's
Great
Mercies
Lesser
Monument
.
A
PREFACE
To
the
following
NARRATIVE
.
Courteous
Reader
,
I
DO
readily
agree
with
thee
,
that
there
is
no
sort
of
Writings
more
lyable
to
abuse
than
this
of
the
Narrative
:
Lying
much
at
the
Mercy
of
the
Composer
to
be
Corrupted
;
and
as
much
in
danger
to
be
mis-improved
by
the
Reader
:
The
Reader
therefore
I
am
sure
will
demand
good
Security
that
he
is
not
imposed
upon
in
the
ensuing
Relation
,
and
the
Writer
craves
leave
too
,
to
maintain
a
modest
Jealousie
,
lest
the
Reader
should
miss
the
benefit
that
is
designed
to
him
in
it
:
The
Author
will
engage
,
and
pawn
his
Credit
not
to
wrong
the
Narrative
,
and
he
would
take
some
care
also
that
the
Reader
may
not
wrong
himself
.
It
is
very
true
,
that
every
Narrator
is
under
a
strong
Temptation
to
Season
his
Discourse
to
the
Gusto
of
the
Time
,
not
imposing
a
severe
Law
upon
himself
,
to
Report
what
is
true
,
but
accomodating
his
Story
to
the
Liquorish
Appetite
of
others
:
I
have
observed
that
some
Men
are
ashamed
to
Recount
mean
and
humble
Matters
;
if
they
bring
us
any
thing
below
Prodigy
and
Miracle
;
if
they
stuff
not
their
Farces
with
Gorgons
,
Harpies
,
Centaures
,
and
Enchanted
Islands
,
they
neither
please
themselves
,
nor
hope
to
take
their
Readers
by
the
Heart-strings
.
Hence
it
is
,
that
we
have
so
many
lean
,
barren
Stories
,
larded
with
the
Additaments
of
Fruitful
Invention
,
as
if
they
had
been
Penn'd
by
the
Pattern
of
Xenophon's
Cyrus
.
Non
ad
Historiae
fidem
,
sed
ad
justi
Imperii
Exemplar
:
Not
for
Counter-panes
of
Truth
,
but
Counterfeits
of
Fancy
:
They
tell
us
not
what
was
really
done
,
but
what
they
would
have
had
done
,
if
they
might
have
had
the
Contrivance
of
the
Scene
and
Tragedy
:
They
first
form
Idaea's
of
Ingenious
Romances
in
their
own
Heads
,
and
then
obtrude
them
upon
the
World
for
Historical
Verieties
.
Just
as
our
Hydrographers
in
the
Delineating
of
Countries
,
with
one
wanton
Extravagant
Frolick
of
their
Graver
can
raise
Mountains
,
where
Nature
left
us
Vallies
;
and
sink
deep
Vallies
,
where
God
has
stretch'd
out
a
Champagn
;
can
create
Bays
,
and
Creeks
,
where
the
Creator
made
firm
Land
;
and
jut
out
Promontories
,
and
Capes
,
where
there
's
nothing
in
Nature
to
answer
them
;
and
to
fill
up
Vacuities
(
out
of
pure
good
Husbandry
,
that
not
an
inch
of
Ground
may
be
lost
)
present
us
with
Flying
Fishes
,
Tritons
,
and
Mermaids
,
which
spend
their
hours
inter
Pectinem
&
Speculum
;
and
lest
Mare
del
zur
should
still
be
a
Desolate
Wilderness
,
have
courteously
stock'd
it
with
the
Painter's
Wifes
Island
,
and
Terra
Incognita
;
at
this
rate
are
we
dealt
with
,
by
this
kind
of
Men
,
who
love
to
blow
up
lank
sttories
into
huge
Bladders
,
and
then
put
something
in
them
to
make
them
Rattle
to
please
Children
,
and
yet
they
are
but
Bladders
still
,
though
swelled
with
the
Tympany
,
and
Wind-Cholick
.
There
are
also
a
sort
of
Stories
,
which
,
by
the
way
of
Courtesie
,
we
mis-call
Histories
,
that
scorn
to
give
us
an
account
of
any
thing
but
dreadful
,
and
terrible
Battels
,
and
how
one
great
Man
above
all
the
rest
,
chopt
off
Heads
and
Arms
,
and
cut
off
some
sheer
by
the
Waste
,
and
with
his
Trenchant-blade
mowed
down
whole
Files
of
Armed
Enemies
;
the
Fields
all
this
while
running
with
streams
of
Blood
,
and
purple
Gore
;
and
all
this
,
with
as
much
confidence
,
and
exactness
in
every
Minute
Circumstance
,
as
if
,
like
the
Familiar
Daemon
of
Paracelsus
,
they
had
been
inclosed
in
the
pommel
of
the
General
's
Sword
;
or
had
hover'd
,
like
Victory
with
her
doubtful
Wings
,
over
both
the
Armies
,
where
they
might
securely
take
notes
of
all
that
was
said
or
done
,
in
Shelton's
Brachygraphy
:
but
from
what
Principles
or
Interests
these
Warriers
were
Acted
;
by
what
Rules
they
proceeded
,
with
what
Councels
and
Intrigues
,
designs
were
managed
;
and
to
what
Point
all
these
Policies
steered
;
is
as
much
below
their
Spirits
as
above
their
Abilities
,
to
inform
us
.
To
secure
the
Reader
against
the
fear
of
such
Entertainment
in
this
Narrative
,
let
him
know
,
that
he
shall
meet
with
nothing
in
Fact
but
what
is
precisely
true
;
what
of
wonderment
he
may
Encounter
,
was
of
God's
own
working
,
not
of
Man's
inventing
;
let
others
make
Tragedies
to
gratifie
the
Book-seller
,
and
cheat
the
simple
Buyer
;
we
need
not
Peter
Lillicrap's
Essex
Serpent
,
nor
Livewell
Chapman's
Greater
Monsters
,
to
Aggrandize
our
Title
Page
;
God's
Works
need
no
foyl
to
set
them
off
,
the
greatest
Beauty
of
Truth
,
is
its
nakedness
,
and
Symmetry
.
There
is
a
vast
difference
between
the
most
elaborate
products
of
Art
,
and
the
most
homely
pieces
of
Nature
;
for
though
the
former
will
needs
Ape
the
latter
,
yet
how
pitifully
does
she
bungle
in
the
imitation
!
Look
upon
the
subtle
Point
of
the
finest
Needle
through
a
Microscope
,
and
you
will
soon
be
satisfied
that
Art
is
but
a
Dunce
,
for
the
Needle
will
appear
as
blunt
,
and
dull
as
a
Drum-stick
;
but
come
and
view
one
of
Gods
Handy-works
in
the
same
Glass
,
V.
G.
The
sting
of
a
Bee
,
and
you
shall
see
it
perpetually
Acuminated
till
it
ends
in
something
,
which
the
Eye
must
either
confess
to
be
a
Point
,
or
Nothing
;
The
same
difference
we
may
observe
between
those
Romances
,
which
are
the
Issues
of
fine
Wits
,
and
the
serious
,
grave
Contrivances
of
Divine
Providence
;
what
clumz'd
things
are
the
Cassandra's
to
one
of
those
pieces
of
proportion
,
to
be
seen
in
God's
Government
of
this
lower
World
!
So
that
it
were
unpardonable
to
strive
to
Recommend
the
wonderful
Providences
of
God
to
the
Genius
of
this
Age
,
by
a
Lye
,
or
to
talk
deceitfully
for
him
;
whatever
therefore
this
Narrative
is
,
yet
it
's
a
naked
Account
of
his
own
workings
;
and
Gold
needs
no
Gilding
.
But
now
the
Readers
great
danger
lies
in
running
over
some
of
God's
Works
,
and
yet
not
seeing
God
in
his
Works
:
Little
Children
,
we
see
,
do
hugely
please
themselves
with
the
Gilded
Covers
,
and
Marbled
Leaves
of
Books
,
but
concern
not
themselves
,
what
is
within
;
and
if
they
chance
to
look
a
little
overly
upon
the
forms
and
shapes
of
the
Letters
,
yet
understand
not
the
sublime
matter
,
that
may
be
coucht
in
them
:
Now
,
to
divide
the
words
from
the
meaning
,
is
morally
to
Annihilate
them
,
and
so
whilst
they
see
Letters
,
and
Words
only
,
they
see
just
Nothing
:
There
are
a
great
many
such
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
such
Old
Children
in
the
World
,
that
gaze
upon
the
surface
of
Gods
Works
,
but
never
are
led
by
them
to
admire
the
Wisdom
,
Power
,
Goodness
,
and
Holiness
of
God
:
They
deal
with
the
Works
of
Providence
,
just
as
they
do
with
the
Works
of
Creation
:
God
has
Ingraven
his
own
Name
in
Legible
Characters
upon
the
Heavenly
Bodies
.
The
Stars
in
their
single
Beauties
,
their
Combined
Asterisms
,
their
Mutual
Aspects
,
their
Intricate
,
yet
Regular
Motions
,
speak
their
Author
;
nay
,
upon
the
lowest
Recreations
,
the
Leisure-sports
of
Nature
,
there
is
written
,
Deus
fecit
.
But
now
the
common
observer
,
whose
thoughts
are
terminated
by
his
Eye
,
and
his
Eye
with
the
visible
Heavens
,
as
't
is
bespangled
with
glittering
things
,
called
Planets
,
and
Stars
,
loseth
quite
their
main
design
,
which
is
to
conduct
and
argue
our
thoughts
up
to
a
first
Cause
;
for
they
were
not
so
much
out
who
cryed
up
the
Musick
of
the
Sphaeres
to
be
so
Ravishing
:
and
we
should
confess
it
,
could
we
but
hear
them
Sing
this
Antheme
,
Glory
be
to
God
on
High.
Can
we
be
so
Bruitish
,
as
once
to
imagine
,
that
the
wise
God
,
who
creates
nothing
little
,
nor
for
a
little
end
,
should
create
such
great
,
and
glorious
Bodies
only
to
be
the
Objects
of
Ignorant
,
and
Blind
Amazement
?
Surely
no
;
but
that
by
the
contemplation
of
them
,
we
might
be
led
into
the
Admiration
of
Him
,
whose
Being
,
Wisdom
,
Power
must
needs
be
infinitely
Glorious
,
when
his
very
works
are
excellently
so
:
Here
then
will
be
the
Readers
danger
,
lest
all
his
Spirits
should
evaporate
in
a
confused
Admiration
,
that
a
Boat
,
a
little
,
a
Canvas
Boat
should
,
like
the
Ark
,
convey
so
many
Persons
so
many
Leagues
safe
a
Shoar
,
whilst
he
misses
the
true
intent
,
and
meaning
of
it
,
to
behold
a
watchful
Providence
(
as
well
as
the
Being
of
a
Deity
,
)
over
all
Affairs
.
Now
,
that
he
may
not
split
upon
this
dangerous
Rock
,
but
improve
the
Narrative
to
his
best
Advantage
,
I
shall
submissively
lay
before
him
a
few
Directions
.
1.
Sect.
Learn
from
this
Narrative
to
trust
,
and
in
all
thy
ways
to
acknowledge
God
,
who
by
the
most
contemptible
means
,
can
effect
the
most
considerable
things
.
Created
Beings
,
as
they
cannot
act
beyond
the
Sphere
of
their
Activity
,
so
neither
can
they
Operate
further
than
the
suitableness
of
their
Instruments
will
enable
them
;
it
were
ridiculous
to
attempt
to
cut
down
a
Forrest
with
a
Pen-knife
,
or
Lave
the
Ocean
with
a
Spoon
;
but
if
the
great
God
can
make
the
dullest
Tool
to
cut
,
can
serve
himself
of
the
most
unfit
Instruments
,
and
accomplish
the
most
Noble
Works
with
the
most
Wooden
Engines
,
he
will
sure
deserve
our
greatest
trust
and
confidence
.
As
great
Princes
are
attended
with
a
numerous
Train
of
Servants
,
more
for
State
,
than
absolute
Necessity
;
so
God
uses
second
causes
,
not
because
he
cannot
work
without
them
,
but
to
teach
us
to
admire
his
strength
,
in
their
weakness
,
his
All-sufficiency
in
their
insufficiency
.
The
Grand
Seignior
had
heard
of
the
famous
Atchievemen
of
Castriots
Scimitar
,
and
was
very
desirous
to
make
an
Experiment
,
whether
its
excellency
answered
the
Report
;
he
sends
for
it
,
proves
it
,
it
does
no
Execution
;
he
sends
it
back
with
scorn
,
and
indignation
,
that
lying
Fame
should
magnifie
a
sorry
Ammunition
Sword
so
far
above
its
merits
,
but
Scanderbeg
,
before
the
Messenger's
Face
,
hews
in
pieces
Helmets
,
Corslets
;
Go
now
(
saies
he
)
and
tell
your
Master
,
Though
I
sent
him
my
Sword
,
I
did
not
send
him
my
Arm
;
none
can
work
with
God's
means
,
that
has
not
God's
Arm
:
Hast
thou
an
Arm
like
God
?
Job
40.
9.
Here
then
the
Reader
may
see
,
(
and
if
he
sees
not
,
he
forfeits
his
Eyes
)
the
same
God
who
in
an
Ark
of
Bulrushes
preserved
Moses
,
and
in
another
Ark
saved
Noah
,
in
a
small
Canvas
Sculler
(
which
was
our
Ark
,
though
in
a
lesser
Volume
)
waft
us
over
the
Ocean
,
and
bring
us
all
safe
to
Land
:
As
God
is
seen
in
the
smallest
works
of
Creation
,
so
in
the
smallest
Instruments
of
his
Providence
.
The
little
Fly
,
or
Ant
,
expresses
Creative
Power
,
and
Omnipotency
in
Miniature
,
as
well
as
the
great
,
Castle-bearing
Elephant
:
I
have
read
somewhere
of
a
Goldsmith
that
made
a
Lock
,
and
Key
,
and
Chain
so
small
,
and
subtle
,
that
a
Fly
would
draw
them
all
about
a
Table
,
and
never
be
stalled
;
surely
the
Spectator
would
not
praedicate
the
strength
of
the
poor
Fly
,
but
the
skill
of
the
Artist
.
Est
in
tenuibus
,
&
Pusillis
Reculis
Laus
Optimique
Maximique
Maxima
.
Gaz.
Pia
hilar
.
The
Glory
of
the
Great
wise
King
,
Shines
greatly
in
the
smallest
thing
.
Indeed
our
whole
passage
was
wonder
;
suppose
we
had
met
with
one
Night
of
Hazy
Weather
,
we
might
have
plyed
back
into
the
jaws
of
that
Destruction
which
we
had
so
far
escaped
.
Had
we
met
with
one
Storm
(
and
an
ordinary
puff
of
wind
had
been
a
Storm
to
us
)
it
had
presently
over-set
us
;
but
the
same
God
that
commands
a
calm
for
the
Halcyon
,
commanded
Halcyon
Days
and
Nights
for
us
,
till
under
the
wings
of
his
Gracious
care
he
had
hatcht
his
own
purposes
of
Mercy
,
into
perfect
Deliverance
.
It
was
a
wonder
too
,
that
in
our
six
Days
Voyage
,
in
the
Mediterranean
,
the
very
High
Road
of
Navigation
,
both
for
honest
Men
and
Knaves
,
Merchants
and
Pirates
,
we
should
not
meet
with
one
Vessel
,
Friend
or
Foe
:
Had
we
met
with
a
Friend's
Vessel
,
they
had
pityed
us
,
taken
us
up
,
and
then
the
Power
of
God
had
not
been
so
signalized
in
our
Preservation
;
had
we
fallen
in
with
an
Enemy
,
we
had
immediately
become
a
Prey
to
their
Teeth
,
they
had
swallowed
us
up
quick
,
we
had
made
but
one
poor
Morsel
to
their
greedy
Stomachs
,
and
thereby
defeated
a
work
of
God
gloriously
begun
,
and
rob'd
him
of
the
Revenue
of
his
praise
.
If
then
they
that
go
down
to
the
Sea
in
Ships
,
see
the
works
of
the
Lord
,
and
his
wonders
in
the
deep
,
Psal
.
107.
23
,
24.
What
Wonders
,
what
Miracles
of
Providence
have
we
seen
,
and
many
others
see
in
us
,
who
went
down
to
the
Sea
,
not
in
a
Ship
,
but
in
a
Canoe
,
which
for
want
of
a
better
Name
we
call
a
Boat
!
Let
the
Reader
therefore
admire
God
with
me
;
and
both
of
us
with
the
Psalmist
,
Psal
.
86.
8.
Among
the
Gods
there
is
none
like
unto
thee
,
O
Lord
;
neither
are
there
any
works
like
thy
works
.
He
deals
unrighteously
with
God
,
who
measures
him
:
by
the
smallness
of
the
means
that
he
uses
,
and
not
by
the
greatness
of
those
effects
he
produces
by
those
means
.
And
therefore
,
Disce
a
Cymbula
,
quisquises
;
&
Deo
Da
pro
tenuibus
,
&
pusillis
Reculis
,
Laudem
Optimoque
Maximoque
Maximam
.
Gaz.
Piahilar
.
Let
this
our
little
Sciff
thy
Spirits
raise
,
To
give
to
this
great
God
,
thy
greatest
Praise
.
2.
Sect.
Let
the
Reader
improve
this
Relation
to
fortisie
his
Faith
against
the
little
Cavils
of
Atheistical
Spirits
,
who
lay
out
their
ill
placed
wit
in
forgeing
Objections
against
Him
that
gave
it
.
There
is
a
Creature
famous
in
Prov.
6.
Qui
lacte
Materno
impletus
calcibus
petit
Lactantem
,
that
being
filled
with
the
liberal
Dug
,
ungratefully
kicks
his
Dam.
Thus
this
sort
of
Men
are
ambitious
to
be
accounted
witty
,
in
creating
knots
and
difficulties
in
the
Historical
passages
of
Gods
great
Providences
Recorded
in
Scripture
,
and
particularly
in
his
preservation
of
Noah
,
and
his
Family
in
the
Ark
:
But
he
that
had
seen
with
us
the
watchful
Eye
of
God
superintended
,
and
the
steddy
hand
of
God
to
hold
a
poor
Canvas
Boat
,
built
without
Regular
proportion
,
ill
Victualled
,
without
Anchor
,
Helm
,
Compass
,
or
Tackle
,
and
thereby
preserve
the
Lives
of
five
inconsiderable
persons
,
of
no
great
use
in
the
World
,
and
after
six
Days
great
extremity
and
distress
,
Land
them
all
safe
,
may
easily
Credit
the
Report
,
how
the
same
God
should
preserve
eight
Persons
,
upon
whose
Lives
the
re-peopling
of
the
whole
World
did
depend
,
in
a
Vessel
of
most
exact
proportions
,
strong
built
,
and
well
laid
in
with
all
manner
of
Provisions
.
He
that
can
see
a
Creator
in
the
works
of
Creation
,
and
a
Governor
in
the
works
of
Providence
,
may
reasonably
believe
all
Divine
Revelations
.
3.
Sect.
Let
all
that
would
not
abuse
this
Narrative
beware
,
lest
whilst
they
are
admiring
Providence
in
this
instance
,
if
our
preservation
,
they
do
not
over-look
those
eminent
appearances
of
God
towards
themselves
every
moment
,
which
,
though
perhaps
they
carry
not
so
much
of
Rarity
in
them
,
yet
may
have
in
them
,
as
much
of
real
power
,
wisdom
,
and
goodness
.
We
are
apt
to
deal
with
our
Mercies
,
just
as
we
do
with
our
Sins
,
where
the
commonness
and
frequency
of
either
,
abates
and
takes
off
from
the
Observation
and
Notice
which
we
owe
them
;
we
gaze
,
and
wonder
at
Comets
,
and
their
Flaming
Beards
,
but
seldome
admire
the
Sun
,
a
far
more
Glorious
Body
,
because
he
rises
and
sets
every
Morning
and
Evening
upon
the
just
and
the
unjust
;
Dost
thou
admire
God
in
our
preservation
,
learn
to
admire
him
in
thy
own
:
Art
thou
surprized
with
wonder
,
that
we
were
kept
a
few
Days
,
when
there
was
not
half
an
inch
between
us
and
Death
?
Consider
,
God
has
kept
thee
many
Days
,
and
many
Years
,
,
and
every
minute
of
those
many
Days
and
Years
,
when
there
was
but
a
hairs
breadth
between
thee
and
Death
:
Dost
thou
then
admire
God
preserved
us
alive
in
a
Vessel
of
Cloth
?
Admire
that
God
that
holdeth
thy
Soul
in
Life
,
and
that
in
a
more
frail
Vessel
,
a
Vessel
of
Clay
:
Dost
thou
still
wonder
we
were
not
blown
over
with
every
breath
of
Wind
?
Admire
also
that
the
Lamp
of
thy
Life
which
thou
carriest
in
a
Paper-Lanthorn
,
is
not
blown
out
by
every
blast
of
Sickness
:
But
if
thou
wilt
still
wonder
how
such
a
Boat
should
carry
us
?
Then
wonder
also
how
thy
Food
nourishes
thee
,
how
thy
Cloaths
keep
thee
warm
,
how
thy
sleep
refreshes
thee
:
There
's
not
a
moment
in
our
Lives
but
is
filled
with
real
Miracle
and
Wonder
.
I
will
Praise
thee
(
saies
the
Psalmist
,
Psal
.
139.
14.
)
for
I
am
fearfully
and
wonderfully
made
:
Let
us
all
Praise
God
,
for
we
are
fearfully
and
wonderfull
preserved
.
If
Preservation
be
but
a
continued
Creation
,
how
should
we
adore
that
Power
that
Created
us
once
,
but
preserves
us
alwaies
!
God
expects
that
we
should
equally
magnifie
his
skill
in
making
us
out
of
Nothing
,
and
securing
us
that
we
drop
not
into
Nothing
:
and
as
much
admire
his
goodness
,
that
we
crumble
not
,
moulder
not
into
our
Dust
,
as
that
we
were
at
first
formed
out
of
Dust
.
4.
Sect.
Let
the
Reader
learn
from
our
Slavery
,
to
prize
,
and
improve
his
own
Liberty
.
If
we
serve
not
our
God
sincerely
,
and
chearfully
in
plenty
,
he
can
send
us
where
we
shall
serve
our
Enemies
in
want
.
If
we
glorifie
him
not
with
our
Liberty
,
but
turn
it
into
licentiousness
,
he
can
clap
us
up
close
,
where
we
shall
learn
to
prize
it
higher
,
and
wish
we
had
improved
it
better
.
It
argues
great
disinginuity
and
baseness
in
our
Spirits
,
that
we
provoke
our
God
to
teach
us
the
worth
of
Mercies
by
the
want
of
them
:
The
Lord
does
not
willingly
afflict
,
nor
grieve
the
Children
of
Men
,
Lam.
3.
33.
but
we
provoke
him
to
take
his
Rod
into
his
hand
,
and
lay
it
smartly
upon
our
backs
,
because
that
Folly
which
is
bound
up
in
our
Hearts
will
not
otherwise
be
lasht
out
of
us
.
Thus
God
threatned
his
people
of
Old
,
Deut.
28.
48.
Because
thou
servedst
not
the
Lord
thy
God
with
joyfulness
and
gladness
of
Heart
,
for
the
abundance
of
all
things
,
therefore
shalt
thou
serve
thine
Enemies
,
in
hunger
,
thirst
,
and
nakedness
,
and
in
the
want
of
all
things
.
Thus
he
taught
Judah
by
the
Captivity
of
Babylon
,
to
prize
the
freedom
of
Canaan
;
we
might
learn
our
Duty
much
cheaper
from
Gods
Word
,
but
we
like
Truants
,
will
not
learn
it
there
,
till
God
sends
us
to
School
with
a
Rod
at
our
backs
.
5.
Sect.
Let
all
Learn
from
hence
,
in
what
State
soever
the
Providence
of
God
shall
place
them
,
therewith
to
be
content
:
Perhaps
thou
art
a
Servant
to
a
Christian
;
dost
thou
murmur
?
It
shews
,
thou
little
knowest
what
it
is
to
be
a
Slave
to
an
imperious
Turk
.
Thou
servest
him
that
Prays
with
thee
,
and
for
thee
:
dost
thou
repine
?
God
might
have
made
thee
serve
one
who
would
Curse
and
Torture
thee
,
and
make
little
Provision
for
thy
Body
,
and
none
at
all
for
thy
Soul
:
The
Christian
Religion
is
surely
the
most
excellent
Religion
in
the
World
,
because
it
holds
the
ballance
so
even
between
Superiours
and
Inferiours
:
It
enjoyns
the
one
to
give
the
most
full
Obedience
,
and
yet
prohibits
the
other
to
exercise
Rigour
.
It
is
peremptory
for
Duty
,
and
yet
abhors
Tyranny
:
whoever
has
known
Turkish
Slavery
,
is
obliged
to
become
a
more
Loyal
Subject
,
a
more
Dutiful
Child
,
a
more
Faithful
Servant
;
and
whoever
has
not
known
it
,
is
yet
obliged
to
become
all
these
,
lest
God
make
him
know
it
,
and
whip
out
of
him
that
Restiff
Spirit
of
grumbling
,
and
Disobedience
with
the
Briars
,
and
Thorns
of
the
Wilderness
.
God
commanded
all
Masters
among
the
Jews
,
to
allow
their
Servants
a
Day
of
Rest
,
Deut.
5.
14.
and
he
gives
this
Reason
for
it
,
Remember
that
thou
wast
a
Servant
in
the
Land
of
Egypt
.
The
Equity
of
which
Reason
holds
stronger
for
the
Christian
:
Remember
thou
wast
a
Servant
to
the
worst
of
Masters
,
a
Drudge
in
the
basest
of
works
,
and
lyable
to
receive
the
worst
of
Wages
:
Has
Christ
set
thee
free
?
And
art
thou
become
a
Servant
to
the
best
of
Masters
?
Employed
in
the
most
reasonable
,
and
honourable
Services
?
And
in
expectation
of
the
most
glorious
Rewards
?
Let
it
teach
thee
if
thou
beest
a
Master
,
to
command
gently
;
and
if
a
Servant
,
to
obey
chearfully
.
6.
Sect.
Let
all
Learn
to
walk
worthy
of
the
Gospel
.
It
is
that
which
sweetens
all
our
mercies
,
and
mitigates
the
bitterness
of
all
Afflictions
;
and
if
we
sin
away
that
,
we
either
sin
away
all
the
rest
,
or
whatever
is
useful
,
and
desireable
in
all
the
rest
.
If
we
enjoy
the
Light
,
and
yet
walk
in
darkness
,
it
's
righteous
with
God
,
to
over-spread
our
Habitations
with
Egyptian
,
or
Babylonish
,
Turkish
,
or
Popish
darkness
.
God
can
carry
us
to
Rome
,
or
Algiers
;
or
else
send
Rome
,
and
Algiers
home
to
us
:
For
what
should
a
a
People
do
with
Light
,
that
only
intend
to
play
,
or
fight
by
it
?
The
once
Famous
Churches
of
Asia
,
are
now
swallowed
up
by
the
Ottoman
Sword
,
and
the
Mahumetan
Vnbelief
;
and
those
sometimes
Famous
Cities
,
Carthage
,
and
Hippo
,
which
knew
those
burning
and
shining
Lights
,
Cyprian
,
and
Augustine
,
are
now
possest
with
Moors
,
and
defiled
with
the
Abominations
of
the
greatest
Impostor
that
ever
seduced
the
Nations
,
but
One.
And
thinkest
thou
,
O
Man
,
O
Christian
,
that
do'st
these
things
,
so
Alien
from
the
Gospel
of
Christ
;
that
art
drunk
in
the
day
,
and
cursest
that
God
whom
thou
Worshippest
,
that
thou
shalt
escape
the
Judgment
of
God
?
I
tell
thee
,
nay
;
and
I
tell
all
those
that
read
these
lines
,
and
are
guilty
;
and
I
tell
my self
,
so
far
as
I
am
guilty
,
that
except
we
repent
,
we
shall
all
likewise
perish
.
The
Lord
Jesus
Christ
,
in
his
Epistle
to
the
Church
of
Ephesus
,
gives
her
this
Memorial
,
Rev.
2.
5.
Remember
therefore
from
whence
thou
art
fallen
,
and
Repent
,
and
do
thy
first
work
,
or
else
I
will
come
unto
thee
quickly
,
and
remove
thy
Candlestick
out
of
its
place
,
except
thou
Repent
:
But
Ephesus
would
none
of
his
Counsel
,
none
of
his
Caution
;
and
Christ
was
as
good
as
his
word
,
he
put
out
her
Candle
,
and
removed
her
Candlestick
.
I
have
often
wondered
,
what
should
be
the
grounds
of
their
confidence
,
who
speak
as
if
the
Gospel
were
entailed
upon
England
,
by
vertue
of
some
Ancient
Charter
;
as
if
God
would
make
us
Exceptions
from
his
General
Rule
,
which
is
to
take
away
abused
,
despised
means
,
and
mercies
,
and
we
must
own
much
of
prerogative
in
our
case
;
but
yet
let
us
Rejoyce
with
trembling
,
lest
when
Prophaneness
and
Debauchery
dog
Religion
so
close
at
the
heels
,
she
fly
not
thither
,
where
she
may
find
better
Quarter
:
It
has
made
great
Impression
upon
me
when
I
read
the
Divine
Herbert
,
in
his
Church
Militant
;
Religion
stands
on
Tip-toe
in
onr
Land
,
Ready
to
pass
to
the
American
Strand
;
When
height
of
Malice
,
and
Prodigious
Lusts
Impudent
sinning
;
Witchcrafts
,
and
Distrusts
,
(
The
Marks
of
future
bane
)
shall
fill
our
Cup
Vnto
the
Brim
,
and
make
our
Measure
up
,
&c.
7.
Sect.
Let
it
be
every
Man's
care
to
be
found
in
Gods
way
:
The
Promise
of
Protection
is
annext
to
Gods
way
,
Psal
.
91.
11.
He
shall
give
his
Angels
charge
over
thee
to
keep
thee
in
all
thy
ways
:
And
the
Blessing
of
God
is
annext
to
to
his
own
way
too
,
Psal
.
128.
1.
Blessed
is
every
one
that
feareth
God
,
and
walketh
in
his
ways
.
When
we
are
over-taken
with
the
evil
of
Affliction
,
let
the
first
Question
we
propound
to
our selves
be
this
.
Am
I
not
in
the
way
of
Transgression
?
Did
this
danger
find
me
in
my
Duty
?
Was
I
in
Gods
High-way
,
or
in
some
by
path
of
my
own
?
Was
I
doing
his
work
?
Serving
his
Glory
?
If
we
observe
not
the
way
of
his
Precepts
,
I
know
no
Reason
we
should
plead
the
Promise
of
his
Protection
.
There
are
two
things
upon
which
I
look
upon
it
as
my
great
Duty
to
Reflect
;
First
,
whether
we
were
in
the
way
Gods
Precepts
when
we
fell
into
our
Enemies
Hands
?
Secondly
,
whether
we
were
in
the
way
of
Gods
Promise
when
we
escaped
out
of
their
Hands
?
For
the
former
,
I
am
abundantly
satisfied
,
that
we
were
in
the
way
of
our
Duty
;
for
we
were
sent
out
by
Commission
from
the
Right
Honour
,
able
,
Robert
,
Earl
of
Warwick
,
the
Lord
Say
,
and
the
Lord
Brook
,
who
by
Patent
from
Hi●
Majesty
King
Charles
the
First
,
were
Governours
of
the
Isle
of
Providence
,
whither
we
were
bound
:
For
the
latter
,
If
the
more
severe
Reader
shall
make
it
a
Question
,
Whether
we
could
in
Faith
expect
Protection
in
an
Adventure
visibly
so
rash
,
and
praecipitous
?
And
shall
determine
it
against
us
,
that
we
tempted
God
by
casting
our selves
upon
extraordinary
Protection
,
expecting
deliverance
without
warrant
,
in
a
way
little
on
this
side
miracle
:
I
shall
first
say
,
Let
him
shun
that
Rock
in
his
own
Conversation
,
upon
which
he
supposes
us
to
have
dasht
:
Let
our
Ship-wrack
be
a
Buoy
to
warn
him
of
the
like
presumption
,
and
let
him
learn
more
wisdom
,
at
our
cost
and
charges
.
I
shall
further
say
,
let
him
not
discover
greater
rashness
in
censuring
our
Adventure
,
then
he
charges
upon
our
Adventure
,
but
modestly
consider
himself
,
lest
he
also
be
tempted
:
and
if
we
were
guilty
of
folly
,
he
may
thus
gain
wisdom
by
our
folly
.
But
I
shall
add
,
Extremity
of
Misery
is
none
of
the
best
Counsellers
;
let
him
put
himself
under
our
Circumstances
,
and
if
Cowardise
did
not
hinder
him
from
making
our
Attempt
,
I
am
confident
Conscience
would
not
:
Our
Lives
were
bitter
to
us
by
Reason
of
cruel
Bondage
,
and
(
though
mine
was
at
that
time
much
mitigated
)
yet
there
is
a
secret
Magnetisme
in
a
Native
Soil
,
with
which
our
Hearts
being
once
strongly
toucht
,
could
never
admit
of
the
leact
variation
,
but
still
pointed
directly
Homewards
;
and
such
a
Land
too
,
as
was
like
Goshen
,
all
Light
,
when
the
Land
of
our
Captivity
was
like
Egypt
,
both
for
Slavery
and
Darkness
,
that
might
both
be
felt
;
and
we
thought
it
below
Men
,
for
the
Love
of
Life
,
to
lose
the
Reasons
of
our
Lives
,
for
All
may
have
(
If
they
dare
try
)
a
Glorious
Life
or
Grave
.
Herb.
Ch.
Porch
.
In
a
word
,
though
success
will
not
warrant
an
evil
Action
,
yet
there
's
much
of
justification
in
it
,
on
the
behalf
of
those
which
are
not
so
;
nor
did
we
tempt
God
to
work
Miracles
,
but
trusted
him
to
afford
us
special
Protection
;
But
if
this
will
not
satisfie
,
let
none
imitate
us
wherein
we
failed
,
but
rather
admire
Divine
Condescention
,
that
engaged
in
our
Deliverance
,
notwithstanding
our
failing
.
8.
Sect.
Let
all
that
read
this
Narrative
be
instructed
never
to
promise
them selves
great
matters
from
Men
:
I
have
observed
it
in
the
whole
course
of
our
Captivity
,
and
constant
Tenour
of
those
Gracious
Providences
which
brought
us
thence
,
and
the
Series
of
Mercy
,
Wisdom
,
and
Power
,
that
was
our
Convoy
Home
,
that
we
ever
found
most
of
Favour
from
God
,
when
we
expected
least
from
Men
:
and
the
least
of
kindness
from
those
where
we
might
,
or
thought
we
might
in
Reason
have
promised
our selves
most
.
When
we
met
with
unexpected
Friendship
,
God
would
teach
us
to
own
himself
.
When
we
met
with
dis-appointment
,
God
would
teach
us
the
folly
of
Idolizing
the
Creature
:
I
have
seriously
admired
the
Compassion
and
Relief
we
found
at
Mayork
,
and
yet
we
knew
them
to
be
Romanists
,
and
they
knew
us
to
be
Protestants
,
and
haw
little
respect
we
found
frome
some
of
our
own
Countrey
,
at
Alicant
,
Cadiz
,
and
St.
Lucars
,
and
yet
we
were
tyed
together
in
the
strictest
Triple
Bonds
of
Vn
Dieu
,
Vn
Roy
,
Vn
Ley
,
One
God
,
One
King
,
One
Law
:
But
God
was
seen
in
both
.
I
could
Relate
a
Passage
during
our
Captivity
in
Algiers
,
that
had
more
of
bitterness
in
it
,
than
in
all
our
Slavery
;
and
yet
they
were
Christians
,
not
Algerines
;
Protestants
,
not
Papists
;
English-men
,
not
Strangers
,
that
were
the
cause
of
it
:
But
I
have
put
a
force
upon
my self
,
and
am
resolved
not
to
publish
it
.
In
our
Return
homewards
,
we
met
with
some
who
would
talk
to
the
grief
of
those
whom
God
had
wounded
,
and
was
now
in
a
way
to
heal
again
.
Some
would
interpretatively
say
,
with
the
Churlish
Nabal
,
1
Sam.
25.
10.
Who
are
these
?
And
whence
come
they
?
There
are
many
Servants
now
adays
that
break
away
,
every
one
from
his
Master
.
But
then
was
the
season
when
we
had
most
Experience
of
Gods
faithfulness
:
And
I
shall
never
cease
to
own
before
the
World
the
great
Respect
we
found
from
some
English
Merchants
,
to
whom
we
were
perfect
Strangers
;
and
the
Civilities
of
Captain
Goodson
,
Captain
Smith
,
his
Mate
,
and
his
Son
,
are
not
to
be
forgotten
.
Perhaps
,
after
all
this
,
the
Reader
will
be
earnest
to
be
satisfied
,
why
this
Narrative
has
lain
so
long
Dormant
,
and
appeared
no
sooner
in
the
World
?
And
I
shall
herein
also
endeavour
to
give
him
all
Reasonable
satisfaction
.
1.
When
we
return'd
into
England
,
we
found
our
Native
Country
embroyled
in
a
Civil
War
,
and
most
Men
had
enough
to
do
,
to
bear
their
own
personal
Calamities
,
and
had
little
need
to
be
troubled
with
the
miseries
of
others
;
they
were
other
kind
of
Declarations
that
flew
abroad
then
,
and
that
was
enough
to
super-sede
a
Narrative
of
this
Nature
,
for
some
Years
.
2.
The
great
Mercies
of
God
have
not
alwaies
their
due
weight
upon
our
Hearts
at
first
;
and
I
have
received
signal
Deliverances
from
eminent
dangers
since
that
great
one
;
and
it
's
well
if
all
the
mercies
of
our
Lives
,
all
our
Deliverances
put
together
,
will
amount
to
an
Argument
strong
enough
to
overcome
our
backwardness
to
make
publick
acknowledgments
.
3.
I
thought
a
long
while
that
it
was
not
worth
the
while
,
to
trouble
the
World
with
my
particular
Concerns
,
till
the
Importunity
of
several
Ministers
,
and
others
,
both
in
City
and
Country
,
overcame
my
reluctancy
,
in
whose
Reasons
I
did
acquiesce
.
4.
I
was
conscious
to
my self
of
great
unfitness
to
recommend
it
to
publick
view
,
in
such
a
garb
as
might
vindicate
it
from
Contempt
;
for
though
it
has
been
drawn
out
many
years
with
my
own
hand
,
and
many
have
had
the
perusal
of
it
,
have
approved
it
,
and
desired
it
;
yet
till
I
could
prevail
with
a
Friend
to
teach
it
to
speak
a
little
better
English
,
I
could
not
be
perswaded
to
let
it
walk
abroad
;
The
Stuff
and
Matter
is
my
own
,
the
Trimming
and
Form
is
anothers
,
for
whom
I
must
vouch
,
that
he
has
done
the
Truth
,
my self
,
and
the
Reader
Justice
.
Having
overcome
all
these
difficulties
,
I
do
here
Erect
my
Ebenezer
,
as
a
small
Monument
of
great
Mercy
,
and
as
an
Obligation
upon
my
Soul
to
great
Duty
,
and
do
pray
that
it
may
stand
as
an
Abiding
Witness
for
God
in
my
Conscience
;
that
when-ever
I
am
tempted
to
Sin
,
I
may
have
an
Answer
ready
to
stop
the
Mouth
of
the
Tempter
with
Indignation
;
How
can
I
do
this
great
Evil
,
and
Sin
against
my
good
God
?
When
I
am
tempted
to
distrust
,
I
may
encourage
my
Faith
from
my
own
Narrative
,
saying
,
Remember
that
God
who
delivered
thee
at
Sea
;
when
I
am
tempted
to
murmur
,
I
may
suppress
those
mutinous
thoughts
from
my
own
Narrative
,
saying
,
Remember
what
thou
endurest
in
Algiers
.
When
my
Heart
grows
cold
,
and
unthankful
,
I
may
chide
,
and
shame
it
,
from
my
own
Narrative
,
into
gratitude
to
God
;
That
God
,
who
remembred
us
in
our
low
Estate
,
for
his
Mercy
endureth
for
ever
!
who
preserved
us
at
the
Sea
,
the
Great
Sea
;
for
his
Mercy
endureth
for
ever
!
and
secured
us
in
a
Boat
,
a
Contemptible
Boat
,
for
his
Mercy
endureth
for
ever
!
who
gave
us
favour
in
the
Eyes
of
Strangers
,
for
his
Mercy
endureth
for
ever
!
and
opened
to
us
the
Hearts
of
Enemies
;
for
his
Mercy
endureth
for
ever
!
and
taught
us
to
look
up
to
his
never
failing
Mercy
,
when
Friends
failed
,
for
his
Mercy
endureth
for
ever
!
who
turned
us
safe
to
England
,
for
his
mercy
endureth
for
ever
!
we
called
upon
him
in
the
day
of
Trouble
,
he
delivered
us
,
and
we
will
glorifie
him
.
Reader
,
this
Narrative
is
true
,
peruse
it
seriously
,
and
let
not
Vanity
tempt
thee
to
say
,
Things
might
have
been
better
contrived
,
wiselier
managed
;
it
was
God
that
did
what
was
Good
in
All
;
call
not
his
Wisdom
in
Question
,
because
he
did
not
create
more
wonders
to
gratifie
thy
itching
Humour
;
perhaps
thou
wouldst
have
had
us
been
brought
over
upon
a
Floating
Island
,
or
in
a
Whales
Belly
,
but
I
do
not
understand
that
the
great
God
is
bound
to
work
Miracles
to
save
Mens
longings
:
God
has
done
his
work
well
,
and
none
can
mend
it
;
for
,
what
can
the
Man
do
that
comes
after
the
King
?
Eccl.
2.
12.
For
the
matter
of
Fact
Recorded
herein
,
I
might
safely
call
God
to
Record
upon
my
Soul
that
I
lye
not
:
The
thing
is
known
to
many
,
and
has
been
sifted
,
and
scann'd
by
such
Eyes
and
Ears
as
are
not
guilty
of
easie
Credulity
;
I
have
Evidence
that
may
storm
the
most
obstinate
unbelief
:
Mr.
Thomas
Saunders
,
my
Wife's
Brother
,
being
in
Mayork
not
long
after
we
came
from
thence
,
saw
our
Boat
hang
up
for
a
Monument
upon
the
side
of
the
great
Churh
there
.
Mr.
Robert
Hales
,
who
was
there
1671.
assures
me
he
saw
the
naked
Ribs
and
Skeleton
of
it
then
hanging
in
the
same
place
.
Now
,
I
assure
thee
,
Reader
,
I
should
be
much
ashamed
of
my self
,
if
Strangers
unconcerned
in
my
Personal
Deliverances
,
should
be
so
far
concerned
as
to
preserve
a
Memorial
of
them
,
and
yet
unthankful
I
should
Erect
no
Standard
or
Piller
as
an
Evidence
of
Gods
wonderful
appearing
for
me
.
It
's
true
,
I
am
informed
by
one
,
that
some
affirm
,
there
are
more
Boats
hanging
up
in
Mayork
,
in
Memory
of
some
such
like
escape
:
Now
,
if
others
have
really
escaped
the
same
danger
,
by
the
same
means
,
it
greatly
confirms
our
Narrative
;
and
I
do
heartily
rejoyce
,
Providence
has
appeared
in
the
same
Method
for
others
,
as
for
our selves
:
we
never
intend
to
Monopolize
Gods
Providences
to
our
sole
use
and
behoof
;
and
we
rejoyce
if
our
attempt
and
success
may
have
encouraged
others
to
make
the
like
attempt
,
and
have
found
the
like
success
;
but
I
do
assert
it
with
great
confidence
,
that
when
we
were
in
Mayork
,
there
was
no
such
Boat
hanging
up
,
but
the
Inhabitants
there
entertained
our
Deliverance
as
such
whereof
they
had
no
parallel
:
But
if
on
the
other
side
,
these
,
or
some
of
these
succeeding
Boats
were
but
Imposture
,
then
the
goodness
of
God
appears
more
remarkable
towards
us
,
that
we
really
were
the
Subjects
of
such
wonder
which
others
durst
only
pretend
to
;
and
it
sets
a
lustre
upon
this
great
Salvation
,
which
others
have
thought
so
considerable
,
that
they
judged
it
worth
the
while
to
tell
a
Lye
to
entitle
themselves
to
the
Credit
of
it
;
for
it's
Gold
and
Silver
,
not
Copper
,
or
baser
Metals
,
that
they
who
drive
the
Coyning
Trade
,
strive
to
Counterfeit
.
Let
then
every
one
that
reads
,
understand
,
and
seriously
sit
down
,
and
consider
with
himself
,
whether
he
has
not
had
many
eminent
Personal
Deliverances
in
one
kind
or
other
,
which
this
Marvellous
Providence
of
God
towards
us
may
not
refresh
his
Memory
withal
;
and
if
he
shall
hence
be
taught
to
blush
at
his
forgetfulness
of
lapsed
Mercies
;
if
this
Narrative
shall
recover
any
lost
Providencies
,
and
fix
them
on
,
and
rivet
into
his
Soul
;
if
he
shall
find
himself
awakened
to
do
thankfulness
to
God
for
all
his
benefits
towards
him
;
let
him
joyn
with
me
in
ascribing
all
the
Power
,
and
therefore
all
the
Glory
,
to
the
Almighty
,
and
let
him
kindly
accept
the
assistance
of
him
,
who
shall
reckon
it
amongst
his
other
Mercies
,
to
have
been
Serviceable
to
any
one
in
reviving
a
better
frame
of
Heart
.
Iam
,
Reader
,
Thy
Friend
,
and
Servant
,
W.
Okeley
.
A
SMALL
MONUMENT
OF
GREAT
MERCY
.
SECT
.
I.
A
Brief
Acconnt
of
those
Providences
Which
led
towards
our
Captivity
in
Algiers
.
THIS
Narrative
would
be
too
happy
,
if
it
should
not
meet
with
some
hasty
and
impatient
Spirits
,
that
grudge
the
time
that
's
spent
in
Preface
and
Introduction
;
and
such
as
these
,
are
wild
to
come
at
the
Story
of
the
Boat
;
all
the
rest
is
but
one
great
tedious
Impertinency
,
they
'l
not
give
a
Figg
for
all
the
other
.
I
shall
make
never
the
more
haste
for
unreasonable
Importunity
;
but
the
Remedy
is
in
their
own
hands
,
they
may
turn
over
a
few
leaves
,
and
meet
with
it
in
its
proper
place
,
if
they
sit
upon
Thorns
.
But
to
the
more
judicious
and
considerate
,
it
will
be
acceptable
to
know
how
our
Foot
was
taken
in
the
Snare
,
as
well
as
how
the
Snare
was
broken
,
and
we
delivered
.
In
the
Month
of
June
,
in
the
Year
of
Our
Lord
,
One
Thousand
,
Six
Hundred
,
Thirty
,
and
Nine
,
in
pursuance
of
a
Commission
from
the
Right
Honourable
,
the
Earl
of
Warwick
,
the
Lord
Say
,
and
the
Lord
Brook
,
we
took
Ship
at
Gravesend
,
in
the
Mary
of
London
,
carrying
Six
Guns
,
Mr.
Boarder
being
Master
,
and
James
Walker
the
Masters
Mate
;
the
Ship
was
chiefly
Laden
with
Linnen
and
Woollen
Cloath
,
having
in
her
,
Seamen
and
Passengers
,
above
Sixty
,
bound
for
the
Isle
of
Providence
in
the
West-Indies
.
Five
Weeks
we
lay
in
the
Downs
,
wishing
,
and
waiting
for
a
Wind
,
and
then
we
set
Sail
,
and
came
to
Anchor
near
the
Isle
of
Wight
;
but
by
this
time
all
our
Beer
in
the
Ship
stunk
,
and
we
were
forced
to
throw
it
over-board
,
and
to
take
in
Vinegar
to
mix
with
Water
for
our
Voyage
.
The
next
Lord's
Day
we
set
Sail
again
,
and
coming
between
the
Island
,
and
the
Main
Land
,
we
stuck
fast
in
the
Sands
,
but
the
Tide
coming
in
,
hove
us
off
.
These
Circumstances
seem
very
inconsiderable
to
those
that
were
not
concerned
in
the
Products
of
them
;
but
God
has
given
us
the
advantage
and
leisure
to
see
what
great
things
were
in
the
Womb
of
these
little
things
.
Had
the
Wind
stood
longer
against
us
,
it
had
been
more
for
us
,
and
the
danger
had
been
past
;
had
it
stood
less
while
against
us
,
it
had
been
for
us
too
,
and
we
had
been
gone
past
the
danger
:
But
God
appoints
it
the
Moment
when
it
should
come
about
to
blow
us
into
the
Mouths
of
our
Enemies
:
We
see
the
Truth
of
that
,
Ye
know
what
to
pray
for
:
We
prayed
for
a
Wind
,
and
we
had
a
Whirl-wind
:
If
we
alwaies
knew
what
mischief
the
Answer
of
our
Prayers
would
do
us
,
we
should
be
glad
to
eat
our
words
,
and
Pray
against
our
Prayers
.
Denyal
is
often
the
best
Answer
,
and
we
had
need
leave
all
Petitions
to
the
wisdom
of
God
to
be
Interpreted
,
according
to
his
good
pleasure
,
and
returned
as
they
may
be
good
for
us
,
and
make
most
for
his
own
Glory
:
we
were
also
taught
,
that
the
Sea
may
sometimes
be
our
best
Friend
,
and
the
Earth
our
worst
Enemy
;
and
that
nothing
can
do
us
good
or
hurt
,
but
by
the
Direction
and
Commission
of
the
Almighty
.
We
were
now
three
Ships
in
Company
,
and
one
of
the
other
I
remember
,
carried
Nine
Guns
,
Mr.
Church
,
Master
.
The
Sixth
Day
after
our
setting
Sail
from
the
Isle
of
Wight
,
by
break
of
Day
in
the
Morning
,
we
discovered
three
Ships
about
three
or
four
Leagues
to
Leeward
:
The
Masters
of
our
Ships
presently
consulted
,
what
was
most
adviseable
;
whether
to
stay
and
speak
with
them
,
or
to
make
the
best
of
our
way
;
at
last
(
upon
what
Reasons
I
know
not
)
it
was
determined
that
we
should
stay
;
It
was
not
long
before
we
discovered
those
other
three
Ships
to
be
Turks
Men
of
War
,
who
espying
their
Prey
,
endeavoured
to
come
up
with
us
,
which
about
Night
they
affected
:
Whilst
they
were
coming
up
,
the
Masters
of
our
Ships
seemed
resolved
to
Fight
them
,
and
accordingly
made
preparation
to
receive
them
,
but
in
the
Night
,
the
Master
and
Company
of
the
Ship
wherein
I
was
,
altered
their
Counsels
,
let
their
Resolutions
Dye
,
and
agreed
to
run
for
it
;
uncertain
Counsels
never
produce
better
success
;
when
we
might
have
gone
,
then
we
would
stay
;
and
when
there
was
no
way
to
escape
,
then
we
musts
needs
attempt
it
:
Had
we
either
at
first
Resolved
not
to
Fight
them
,
or
resolved
to
Fight
,
had
prosecuted
our
Resolutions
lie
Men
of
Courage
,
we
might
,
perhaps
,
either
have
avoided
the
danger
,
or
bravely
Master'd
it
.
The
Turks
perceiving
us
begin
to
run
,
sent
one
of
their
number
to
Chase
us
,
whilst
their
other
two
attended
the
remaining
two
of
our
Company
till
the
Morning
.
At
break
of
Day
they
began
to
Fight
us
,
and
after
a
short
Dispute
Boarded
us
,
and
took
us
all
three
:
In
the
Mary
,
six
were
slain
,
and
many
wounded
;
so
small
was
the
difference
between
Flight
and
Fight
;
but
that
the
Death
and
Wounds
of
those
that
flye
,
are
dishonourable
;
but
of
them
that
Fight
,
beautiful
,
and
Glorious
.
Many
Weeks
they
kept
us
close
Prisoners
at
Sea
!
we
found
many
Englishmen
in
their
Ships
,
Slaves
,
like
our selves
,
from
whom
we
had
no
other
Comfort
,
but
the
Condoling
of
each
others
Miseries
,
and
that
from
them
we
learnt
a
smattering
of
the
Common
Language
,
which
would
be
of
some
use
to
us
when
we
should
come
to
Algiers
,
whither
,
after
five
or
six
Weeks
we
were
brought
.
SECT
.
II.
The
Description
of
Algiers
,
with
their
Manner
of
Buying
,
and
Selling
Slaves
.
ALgier
is
a
City
very
pleasantly
scituated
on
the
side
of
the
Hills
,
over-looking
the
Mediterranean
,
which
lyes
North
of
it
;
and
it
lifts
up
its
proud
Head
so
Imperiously
,
as
if
it
Challenged
a
Soveraignty
over
those
Seas
,
and
expected
Tribute
from
all
that
shall
look
within
the
Streights
.
It
lyes
in
the
30th
.
Degree
of
Longitude
,
and
hath
somewhat
less
than
35
Degrees
of
North-Latitude
:
The
City
is
considerably
large
,
the
Walls
being
above
three
Miles
in
Compass
,
beautified
and
strengthned
with
five
Gates
:
Port-Marine
towards
the
North
,
and
Port
Piscadore
not
far
from
thence
,
and
Porta-Nova
towards
the
South
;
built
,
as
they
report
,
by
the
Spaniard
,
whilst
it
was
in
their
Possession
:
The
West-Gate
,
which
they
call
Bubawite
,
and
the
Eastern-Gate
,
which
in
their
Tongue
is
called
Bubazoon
:
They
have
also
several
strong
Castles
besides
that
upon
the
Point
of
the
Mole
,
so
that
the
Town
is
judged
impregnable
.
The
City
is
built
very
stately
,
and
yet
more
strong
than
stately
;
and
more
Famous
than
strong
,
but
not
more
Famous
for
any
thing
than
for
Infamy
,
being
the
Retreat
,
the
Nest
of
those
Turkish
Corsairs
,
which
have
long
Tyranniz'd
in
,
and
been
a
Terror
to
the
Neighbouring
Seas
.
It
is
supposed
by
some
to
contain
Four
Thousand
Families
,
by
others
,
Fourscore
Thousand
Persons
;
but
they
must
needs
be
very
short
in
their
Reckoning
,
it
having
been
Judged
,
that
of
all
Nations
there
could
be
no
less
than
Twenty
Five
Thousand
Slaves
.
The
Private
Buildings
are
very
beautiful
,
flat
Roof'd
.
Adorned
with
Galleries
towards
their
Courts
,
supported
by
Pillars
:
And
they
may
afford
to
Build
sumptuously
,
because
they
Build
at
other
Mens
cost
,
and
with
other
Mens
hands
:
Their
Temples
are
also
very
Magnificent
,
and
much
too
good
for
their
Religion
,
whose
Practice
and
Conversation
speaks
them
to
say
,
There
is
no
God.
And
yet
we
Read
of
a
Religious
Thief
,
who
never
went
about
the
works
of
his
Calling
(
for
so
he
called
stealing
)
but
he
would
solemnly
implore
the
assistance
of
his
Idol
;
A
strange
God
,
sure
;
that
would
be
accessary
to
his
Devoto's
Robberies
:
And
a
strange
Worshipper
,
that
either
hoped
to
flatter
to
his
God
become
his
Accomplice
in
Villany
,
with
the
Vow
of
a
good
round
share
of
the
Booty
,
or
would
be
such
a
Fool
,
to
think
that
God
worth
the
Worshipping
that
should
be
thus
flatter'd
.
They
have
also
many
stately
Baths
,
to
which
the
Men
resort
in
the
Morning
,
and
the
Women
in
the
Afternoon
;
But
they
want
one
,
worth
them
all
,
wherein
they
might
by
Faith
and
Repentance
was
away
their
filthiness
.
To
this
fair
City
we
were
brought
,
yet
in
our
Eyes
it
was
most
ugly
and
deformed
;
for
the
French
Proverb
is
universally
true
,
Il
n'y
a
point
de
bel
Prizon
.
There
is
no
such
thing
as
a
fair
Prison
.
I
confess
,
for
a
Goal
,
it
's
one
of
the
best
Built
that
I
have
seen
;
there
's
nothing
that
the
Soul
of
Man
bears
with
more
regret
than
Restraint
:
The
Body
it self
is
judged
by
some
to
be
but
the
Soul's
Little-ease
,
or
Cage
;
where
though
it
seems
to
Dwell
,
yet
't
is
but
in
Honourable
Durance
;
and
though
it
dares
not
break
the
Prison
,
yet
it
listens
;
and
longs
for
a
Goal-Delivery
:
There
can
be
nothing
large
enough
for
a
Soul
but
God
,
from
whom
since
it
once
at
first
came
,
it
must
needs
be
restless
till
it
return
to
him
again
;
and
surely
it
has
much
forgot
it self
,
and
extract
,
if
it
can
take
up
with
satisfaction
in
any
thing
on
this
side
its
Creator
.
As
soon
as
we
were
ashore
,
for
the
first
Night
we
were
lock'd
down
in
a
deep
nasty
Cellar
;
some
inconveniences
we
felt
,
but
they
were
nothing
to
what
we
feared
:
The
next
day
we
were
carried
,
or
led
,
or
rather
driven
to
the
Vice-Roys
,
or
Bashaw's
Palace
,
who
according
to
the
Custom
,
and
his
own
Right
,
is
to
have
the
Tenth
Man
for
his
Dividend
of
the
Slaves
.
When
the
next
Market-day
came
;
we
were
driven
like
Beasts
thither
,
and
exposed
to
Sale
;
and
there
is
a
great
deal
of
God's
goodness
in
that
one
word
,
that
it
was
not
to
the
Slaughter-house
to
be
Butcher'd
,
as
well
as
to
the
Market
to
be
Sold.
Their
Cruelty
is
great
,
but
their
Covetousness
exceeds
their
Cruelty
;
could
they
make
as
much
of
us
Dead
,
as
they
make
alive
,
that
so
both
the
Interests
of
Cruelty
,
and
of
Covetousness
,
might
be
secured
,
and
reconciled
,
we
were
well
assured
which
way
it
should
have
gone
with
us
.
But
it
must
be
a
great
deal
of
Tallow
and
Fat
,
that
will
answer
two
or
three
Dollers
a
Month.
Their
manner
of
selling
Slaves
,
is
this
.
They
lead
them
up
and
down
the
Fair
,
or
Market
;
and
when
a
Chapman
bids
any
Money
,
they
presently
cry
,
a-Rache
!
a-Rache
!
that
is
,
Here
's
so
much
Money
bidden
,
who
bids
more
?
They
that
cheapen
the
exposed
Slaves
are
very
circumspect
persons
,
they
carry
their
Eyes
in
their
Heads
,
as
well
as
their
Money
in
their
Purses
,
and
use
the
one
in
laying
out
the
other
;
for
they
are
loath
to
buy
a
Pig
in
a
Poke
;
their
first
Policy
is
to
look
in
their
Mouths
;
and
a
good
,
strong
,
entire
set
of
Grinders
will
advance
the
Price
considerably
,
and
they
have
good
Reason
for
this
Practice
:
for
first
,
they
are
Rational
Creatures
,
and
know
,
that
they
who
have
not
Teeth
,
cannot
eat
,
cannot
work
;
and
they
that
cannot
work
,
are
not
for
their
turn
;
and
they
that
are
not
for
their
turn
,
are
not
for
their
Money
.
And
Secondly
,
they
intend
to
keep
them
at
hard
meat
all
the
Year
,
and
it
must
not
be
Gums
,
but
solid
Teeth
(
nay
,
if
it
were
possible
,
case-hardn'd
Teeth
)
that
must
chew
it
;
and
when
all
is
done
,
they
had
need
of
the
Ostriches
Stomach
to
digest
it
.
Their
next
process
is
to
feel
their
Limbs
;
as
whether
there
be
any
Fracture
,
or
Dislocation
in
the
Bones
;
any
thing
Analogical
to
Spavin
,
or
Ring-bone
,
for
these
will
bring
down
the
Makret
wonderfully
;
And
to
be
clean
Limb'd
,
close
coupled
,
well
joynted
,
will
advance
it
as
much
.
The
Age
is
very
considerable
;
but
they
that
sell
them
,
did
not
breed
them
,
and
therefore
they
know
nothing
,
more
or
less
of
that
:
Two
waies
they
have
to
find
out
the
Age
;
the
one
is
,
to
stand
to
the
courtesie
of
the
Slaves
,
but
they
are
not
bound
to
make
any
such
Discovery
,
and
therefore
they
go
by
general
conjectures
from
the
Beard
,
Face
,
or
Hair
;
but
a
good
set
of
Teeth
will
make
any
one
Ten
Years
Younger
,
and
a
broken
one
Ten
Years
Older
than
the
Truth
;
for
if
they
were
Five
Hundred
Years
Old
all
is
a
Case
,
if
they
could
but
eat
and
work
;
or
if
they
could
not
eat
,
yet
if
they
could
but
work
,
or
if
they
neither
eat
nor
work
,
if
their
Skins
would
but
fetch
in
the
Mony
again
.
You
shall
have
the
Seller
commend
his
Goods
to
the
Sky
,
and
the
Buyer
on
the
other
hand
,
as
much
undervalue
them
,
and
the
true
Market-price
commonly
lies
just
between
them
;
but
so
it
is
all
the
World
over
.
Or
saies
the
Seller
,
mark
what
a
Back
he
has
,
what
a
breadth
he
bears
between
the
Shoulders
!
What
a
Chest
!
How
strong
set
!
How
fitted
on
the
nonce
for
Burdens
!
He
'l
do
but
e'ne
to
much
work
.
Pish
,
saies
the
Buyer
,
He
looks
like
a
Pillard
,
like
a
very
Meacock
at
his
Provinder
,
and
one
that
seems
to
be
surfeited
.
But
they
are
very
curious
in
examining
the
Hands
;
for
if
they
be
callous
and
brawny
,
they
will
shrewdly
guess
they
have
been
inured
to
Labour
;
if
delicate
and
tender
,
they
will
suspect
some
Gentleman
,
or
Merchant
,
and
then
the
hopes
of
a
good
Price
of
Redemption
makes
him
Saleable
.
When
any
are
sold
,
they
must
be
trotted
once
more
to
the
Vice-Roys
,
that
he
may
have
the
review
of
them
,
and
if
he
likes
any
of
them
at
the
prizes
they
went
off
at
,
there
's
no
more
Dispute
,
they
are
his
own
.
As
for
my self
,
I
was
sold
the
first
Marget-day
to
a
Tagareen
;
and
that
the
Reader
may
not
stumble
at
that
hard
word
,
he
may
understand
;
That
when
the
Moors
were
driven
out
of
Spain
by
Ferdinand
the
Great
,
they
,
upon
their
return
into
Africa
,
assumed
Names
that
might
argue
Gentility
,
and
be
an
Evidence
of
their
Ancient
Extract
,
from
such
places
where
they
had
been
great
Dons
,
and
accordingly
there
are
many
Families
thus
denominated
;
as
Tagareens
,
Jarbeens
,
&c.
SECT
.
III.
An
Account
of
some
Difficulties
that
I
met
witb
during
my
Captivity
in
Algiers
.
THose
Miseries
which
it
is
dreadful
to
endure
,
are
yet
delightful
to
be
remembred
;
and
there
's
a
secret
pleasure
to
chew
the
Cud
,
and
ruminate
upon
escaped
dangers
:
However
,
the
Reader
may
afford
to
run
over
with
his
Eye
in
an
hour
,
that
which
I
ran
through
in
five
Years
;
and
supposing
himself
safe
upon
the
Amphitheatre
,
may
behold
poor
Slaves
Combating
with
Beasts
below
.
The
first
Adventure
I
met
with
after
I
was
brought
to
my
Patron
's
House
(
for
so
I
must
now
stile
him
)
had
well
nigh
cost
me
my
Life
.
My
Patron
's
Father
being
desirous
to
see
his
Sons
Penny-worth
,
commanded
me
up
into
a
Gallery
,
which
looked
into
the
Court
;
he
began
to
insult
over
me
with
insupportable
scorn
,
reflecting
upon
me
because
I
was
a
Christian
,
and
cast
out
some
Expressions
which
did
really
reflect
upon
the
Person
of
my
Rdeemer
,
though
I
have
heard
worse
since
.
)
My
Neck
was
not
yet
bowed
,
nor
my
Heart
broken
to
the
Yoke
of
Bondage
;
I
could
not
well
brook
,
because
I
had
not
ben
used
then
to
such
Language
;
and
because
I
could
not
express
my self
in
the
Moresco
,
or
Lingua
Franc
,
I
supplyed
it
with
Signs
;
and
imitating
the
Coblers
Yarke
,
I
signified
both
waies
as
well
as
I
could
,
That
their
Prophet
was
but
a
Cobler
.
I
confess
,
my
meaning
was
no
more
,
but
that
Mahomet
,
by
the
help
of
Sergius
,
a
Nestorian
Monk
,
and
Abdalla
the
Jew
,
had
patch'd
up
a
Cento
of
Jewish
,
and
Monkish
Fopperies
,
which
was
now
their
Religion
.
But
he
,
without
the
preamble
of
many
Railing
words
,
fell
upon
me
with
severe
blows
;
whatever
Rage
and
Fury
his
Hands
or
Feet
could
Execute
,
that
I
felt
;
and
my
intreaties
did
but
enrage
his
Choler
,
so
that
I
saw
I
might
sooner
blow
out
the
Fire
with
a
pair
of
Bellows
,
than
lenifie
his
passion
with
Prayers
;
I
had
no
other
way
but
this
,
to
make
an
offer
of
leaping
down
out
of
the
Gallery
into
the
Court
,
and
therefore
clapping
my
hands
upon
the
Rails
,
as
if
I
would
throw
my self
head-long
down
over
them
,
and
rather
chuse
to
receive
my
Death
from
the
Pavement
,
than
his
Hands
,
he
presently
asswages
,
if
not
his
Rage
,
yet
the
Execution
of
it
.
The
Old
Gentleman
knew
very
well
,
that
if
I
lost
my
Life
,
his
Son
must
lose
his
present
Money
,
and
future
profit
;
for
there
's
little
made
out
of
a
Dead
Man's
Skin
:
and
therefore
he
respites
my
further
punishment
till
my
Patron
's
Return
,
and
then
indeed
this
reputed
Blasphemy
of
mine
with
full
cry
was
carried
to
his
Ears
,
and
it
lost
nothing
in
the
telling
,
but
was
aggravated
to
purpose
:
My
Patron
being
Naturally
a
very
passionate
Man
,
said
nothing
,
but
without
Examination
,
drew
out
his
long
Knife
,
(
which
they
constantly
wear
by
their
sides
)
and
made
at
me
;
and
had
there
doubtless
put
an
end
to
my
Life
and
Captivity
at
once
,
had
not
his
Wife
,
who
was
there
seasonably
present
,
taken
him
in
her
Arms
,
and
sweeten'd
him
into
more
moderate
Counsels
.
Some
will
be
ready
enough
to
say
,
that
I
was
but
a
Martyr
to
my
own
Folly
:
This
was
not
a
place
for
Dispute
,
but
Obedience
.
Well
,
I
learnt
from
hence
two
Lessons
:
One
,
That
when
the
Body
is
a
Slave
,
the
Reason
must
not
expect
to
be
free
;
and
where
the
whole
outward
Man
is
in
Bondage
,
the
Tongue
must
not
plead
Exemption
.
A
Second
,
That
it
's
fair
for
Slaves
to
enjoy
the
freedom
of
their
own
Consciences
,
without
Reviling
anothers
Religion
,
though
erroneous
;
and
this
Wit
I
bought
,
as
it
fell
out
,
a
pretty
good
Penny-worth
.
When
the
Storm
was
over
,
my
employment
was
assigned
me
(
for
they
had
rather
see
a
Slave
Dead
than
Idle
)
and
for
about
half
a
Year
it
lay
in
trudging
on
Errands
,
bearing
Burdens
,
and
discharging
other
Domestick
Services
at
Command
,
wherein
the
only
consideration
was
,
That
it
was
Commanded
,
and
not
What
was
Commanded
.
At
this
time
my
Patron
had
a
part
in
a
Man
of
War
,
which
carried
Twelve
Guns
:
She
being
at
Sea
,
(
with
some
others
of
the
same
place
)
met
with
an
English
Merchant
,
Laden
with
Plate
,
and
other
Rich
Commodities
from
Spain
,
and
Bound
for
London
,
(
one
Isaac
being
Master
)
and
after
a
very
sharp
,
though
short
Dispute
,
the
Algerines
carried
her
,
and
brought
her
safe
home
.
The
Adventurers
divide
their
Booty
,
and
being
high
flown
with
this
success
,
they
Resolve
to
fit
her
out
again
to
carry
more
Guns
;
and
from
hence
grew
my
new
employment
.
Upon
the
Capenters
I
attended
,
waited
on
the
Smiths
,
to
get
the
Iron-work
fitted
,
and
finished
;
and
truly
he
allowed
me
more
for
Portage
than
to
the
ordinary
Hammels
,
or
common
Porters
.
When
this
Ship
was
now
fitted
for
another
Adventure
,
my
Patron
tells
me
,
I
must
go
in
her
;
it
was
a
nipping
word
:
I
pleaded
,
that
I
was
no
Sea-man
,
understood
nothing
of
the
Mariners
Art
,
and
therefore
as
he
could
expect
little
Service
from
me
in
that
kind
,
so
I
must
expect
most
rigorous
treatment
,
because
I
could
not
acquit
my self
in
the
Service
as
well
as
others
;
he
removed
my
Pleas
,
and
promised
I
should
not
be
wronged
;
but
there
was
more
at
the
bottom
than
all
this
:
For
here
a
Case
of
Conscience
offered
it self
,
Whether
I
might
without
Sin
in
any
Case
fight
against
Christians
,
on
the
Port
of
the
common
Enemy
of
all
Christianity
?
The
best
Resolution
I
could
give
my self
,
was
this
;
That
first
,
my
employmy
employment
would
only
lie
in
managing
the
Tackle
,
which
will
kill
no
Body
;
but
it
was
replied
,
That
without
the
due
management
of
the
Tackle
,
all
the
Guns
in
the
Ship
would
kill
no
Body
:
Secondly
,
therefore
I
answered
,
That
it
was
not
evident
that
they
would
engage
against
Christians
more
than
all
the
rest
of
Mankind
,
for
all
the
World
are
their
Enemies
,
who
are
Rich
enough
to
invite
them
,
and
too
weak
to
resist
them
;
but
my
Patron
had
a
Solution
worth
all
these
:
He
told
me
peremptorily
,
I
must
,
and
should
go
;
I
found
my self
under
force
,
I
was
a
Prest
Man
:
who
could
not
examine
the
Justice
of
the
Cause
.
In
a
word
,
his
Commands
were
back'd
with
Compulsion
,
and
whatever
his
Authority
was
,
he
had
more
Power
,
than
I
had
Courage
to
deny
,
or
Strength
to
resist
;
and
go
I
did
.
Yet
this
I
will
say
for
him
,
he
spoke
to
the
Captain
and
Officers
of
the
Ship
,
to
treat
me
civilly
,
that
is
,
less
cruelly
than
other
Slaves
were
treated
:
He
gave
me
some
Money
also
in
my
Pocket
,
bought
me
Clothes
,
and
laid
me
in
Provision
above
the
Ships
allowance
.
Nine
Weeks
we
were
at
Sea
,
within
,
and
without
the
Streights
,
Cruising
,
and
Pickarooning
up
and
down
,
at
last
we
met
with
one
poor
Hungarian
French
Man
of
War
,
whom
we
took
,
and
so
returned
.
My
Patron
having
been
at
great
charges
in
fitting
,
and
manning
out
this
Ship
,
and
the
Reprisals
so
slenderly
answering
his
great
cost
,
and
greater
hopes
,
told
me
,
I
must
allow
him
two
Dollers
per
Month
,
and
Live
ashore
where
I
would
,
and
get
it
were
I
could
.
This
was
a
hard
Chapter
,
That
he
that
could
not
maintain
himself
,
should
be
compelled
to
contribute
to
the
maintenance
of
another
;
it
was
difficult
to
raise
encrease
out
of
no
stock
,
and
to
pay
Interest
out
of
no
Principal
;
but
there
was
no
contending
;
It
cost
me
much
debate
with
my self
,
and
I
turn'd
my
thoughts
into
all
forms
and
shapes
,
but
all
Projects
that
presented
themselves
were
incumbred
with
so
many
difficulties
,
that
they
amounted
very
near
to
impossibilities
.
The
more
I
consulted
,
the
further
I
found
my self
from
a
conclusion
,
and
I
could
see
no
way
but
one
,
(
but
that
was
worth
a
Thousand
,
could
I
have
made
the
best
of
it
,
)
and
that
was
to
commit
my self
to
God
,
who
had
brought
me
into
this
strait
,
beseeching
him
that
he
would
bring
me
out
of
it
.
But
that
my
trusting
to
God
might
not
be
a
Cloak
for
Laziness
,
or
a
Pillow
for
Sloath
to
rest
upon
,
I
addrest
my self
to
an
English-man
,
whose
condition
was
that
of
a
Slave
,
whose
Calling
was
that
of
a
Taylor
.
He
at
first
word
counselled
me
to
come
and
stay
with
him
,
and
he
would
teach
me
to
work
of
his
Trade
.
I
accounted
nothing
base
that
was
honest
,
and
necessity
would
ennoble
a
far
meaner
Emploiment
,
and
very
readily
closed
in
my
thoughts
with
his
motion
,
and
was
suddenly
elevated
into
huge
hopes
that
I
should
now
be
in
a
capacity
to
answer
my
Patron
's
demands
,
and
escape
his
lash
.
But
my
straits
were
not
(
it
seems
)
great
enough
to
glorifie
God
;
nor
my
condition
mean
enough
to
magnifie
his
Power
in
raising
me
;
I
was
not
reduced
to
that
Extremety
which
would
make
an
oportunity
to
exalt
his
appearing
Mercy
;
for
when
I
came
to
him
the
next
Day
,
I
perceived
by
his
silence
that
his
mind
was
changed
,
and
I
was
loth
,
either
out
of
Modesty
or
Pride
,
to
give
him
further
trouble
;
and
therefore
interpreting
his
silence
to
be
a
more
civil
way
of
denial
,
I
left
him
,
and
once
more
Launched
out
into
the
wide
World.
In
this
forlorn
posture
I
wandred
,
but
neither
knew
,
nor
much
cared
whither
,
though
the
wise
God
both
knew
,
and
cared
;
and
his
Providence
directed
me
to
another
English-man
,
who
was
sitting
in
a
little
Shop
:
He
asked
me
what
News
?
And
(
as
that
which
is
uppermost
alwaies
comes
out
first
)
I
presently
began
the
Story
of
my
desperate
Condition
;
how
the
Rigid
Law
of
my
Patron
had
imposed
two
Dollers
per
Month
upon
me
,
and
I
knew
not
where
to
levy
the
least
Mite
of
it
:
He
heard
,
considered
,
pityed
my
Condition
,
and
invited
me
to
come
and
sit
in
the
Shop
with
him
;
but
seeing
nothing
but
the
bare
Walls
,
I
asked
him
,
to
what
end
?
What
Trade
should
we
drive
there
?
There
's
not
much
difference
between
starving
in
the
Streets
,
and
in
the
Shop
.
Country-man
(
said
he
)
I
drive
here
an
unknown
Trade
;
here
I
sell
Lead
,
Iron
,
Shot
,
Strong-waters
,
Tobacco
,
and
many
other
things
.
This
motion
was
a
great
deal
to
good
to
be
refuesd
,
and
I
think
at
that
time
no
tolerable
condition
would
have
stck
with
me
.
I
acquainted
my
Patron
with
my
Design
,
pleaded
I
wanted
stock
to
set
up
with
;
he
lent
me
a
small
modicum
,
and
with
another
pittance
that
I
had
privately
reserved
of
my
own
,
I
began
to
Trade
.
That
very
Night
I
went
and
bought
a
parcel
of
Tobacco
,
the
next
Morning
we
dress'd
it
,
cut
it
,
and
fitted
it
for
Sale
;
and
the
World
seemed
to
smile
on
us
wonderfully
.
In
this
way
of
Partner-ship
we
continued
for
some
while
,
and
what
we
got
clear
,
we
divided
every
week
according
to
the
proportion
of
our
respective
stocks
.
In
a
while
,
finding
the
World
to
come
in
upon
us
,
we
ventured
upon
no
less
then
a
whole
Butt
of
Wine
,
some
Money
we
had
,
and
some
Credit
:
This
Wine
we
drew
out
,
and
got
considerably
by
it
.
But
it
's
very
difficult
to
maintain
moderation
in
an
exalted
State
,
for
even
our
State
was
capable
of
better
and
worse
;
for
my
Partner
being
elevated
with
our
good
success
,
grew
a
good
Fellow
,
and
a
bad
Husband
;
neglecting
his
business
,
went
tipling
,
and
fndling
up
and
down
,
and
the
Concerns
of
the
Shop
and
Trade
lay
wholly
upon
my
Shoulders
.
It
fell
out
,
that
one
John
Randal
,
who
with
his
Wife
and
Child
were
taken
in
the
same
Ship
with
my self
,
being
put
to
the
same
shifts
with
my self
,
and
,
as
't
is
very
common
,
having
a
Monthly
Tax
imposed
upon
him
by
his
Patron
,
which
he
must
scrape
out
where
he
could
,
and
besides
maintain
himself
,
his
Wife
,
and
Child
,
went
up
and
down
seeking
for
Relief
,
at
last
the
poor
Man
straggled
to
our
Shop
:
His
Case
made
great
impression
upon
me
,
I
could
not
but
consider
the
goodness
of
God
to
me
,
that
should
now
be
in
a
condition
to
advise
,
and
help
another
,
who
so
lately
wanted
both
my self
;
and
it
had
this
operation
upon
me
,
that
I
would
not
suffer
a
poor
distressed
Country-man
,
a
Fellow-Captive
,
a
Fellow-Christian
to
stand
begging
at
that
door
,
where
I
had
so
lately
stood
my self
:
Shall
I
shut
the
Door
,
or
my
Heart
upon
him
,
when
God
hath
opened
a
Door
of
hope
to
me
in
the
day
of
my
Trouble
?
Shall
I
so
ill
requite
the
Lord's
kindness
to
me
?
Surely
that
God
who
comforts
us
in
our
Tribulations
,
expects
that
we
should
comfort
others
in
theirs
,
2
Cor.
1.
4.
I
bad
him
therefore
come
in
,
and
knowing
him
to
be
a
Glover
by
Trade
,
advised
him
to
learn
to
make
Canvas
Cloaths
for
Sea-men
that
are
Slaves
;
and
for
my
own
part
,
he
should
sit
Rent-free
;
but
if
my
Partner
would
insist
upon
his
Moiety
,
he
must
be
willing
to
satisfie
him
,
for
I
had
no
power
to
determine
of
another's
Right
.
It
were
tedious
to
trouble
the
Reader
how
I
wore
out
three
or
four
irksome
Years
in
this
way
of
Trading
.
All
this
while
there
was
no
dawning
of
deliverance
from
our
Bondage
:
As
one
Year
left
us
,
another
found
us
,
and
delivered
us
over
Captives
to
the
next
:
Our
condition
was
bad
,
and
in
danger
every
day
of
being
worse
,
as
the
mutable
Humours
of
our
Patrons
determin'd
upon
us
,
for
our
Shop
and
Trade
was
no
free-hold
:
The
Truth
is
,
in
time
we
were
so
habituated
to
Bondage
,
that
we
almost
forgot
Liberty
,
and
grew
stupid
,
and
sensless
of
our
Slavery
;
like
Issachar
,
we
couched
down
between
our
burdens
,
we
bowed
our
Shoulders
to
bear
,
and
became
Servants
to
Tribute
,
Gen.
49.
14
,
15.
And
were
in
danger
to
be
like
those
Israelites
in
Babylon
,
who
being
once
settled
,
forgot
Canaan
,
and
dwelt
with
the
King
for
his
work
,
1
Chron.
4.
23.
We
seem'd
as
if
our
Ears
had
been
bored
,
and
we
had
vowed
to
serve
our
Patrons
for
ever
.
Long
Bondage
breaks
the
Spirits
,
it
scatters
hope
off
,
and
discourages
all
attempts
for
freedom
:
And
there
were
more
evils
attended
our
condition
than
the
bodily
torture
,
which
we
were
alwaies
liable
to
,
and
sometimes
endured
.
1.
We
were
under
a
perpetual
temptation
to
deny
the
Lord
that
bought
us
,
to
make
our
Souls
Slaves
,
that
our
Bodies
might
recover
Liberty
.
As
Satan
once
tempted
Job
to
Curse
God
,
and
Dye
;
so
he
knew
how
to
change
his
Note
to
us
,
and
accommodate
his
Snare
to
our
condition
,
to
Curse
God
,
that
we
might
Live.
How
many
have
made
Ship-wrack
of
Faith
,
that
they
might
not
be
Chained
to
the
Galliees
?
I
can
never
enough
admire
the
grace
of
that
Promise
,
Psal
.
1253.
The
Rod
of
the
wicked
shal
not
always
rost
upon
the
lot
of
the
Righteous
,
lest
the
Righteous
put
forth
their
hands
to
Iniquity
;
nor
ever
enough
adore
the
faithfulness
of
him
,
who
will
not
suffer
us
to
be
tempted
above
that
we
are
able
,
1
Cor.
10.
13.
And
2.
Evil
is
the
unmaning
,
and
dispiriting
of
the
Soul
to
worthy
Actions
;
for
we
are
apt
to
put
on
the
Temper
and
Spirit
of
Slaves
with
the
Habit
,
and
the
Christians
of
the
Greek
Communion
,
are
a
very
sad
instance
of
this
Truth
.
And
3.
We
were
very
much
at
a
loss
for
the
Preaching
of
the
World
:
And
yet
herein
the
Gracious
God
stept
in
for
our
Relief
.
SECT
.
IV.
How
God
Provided
for
our
Souls
,
by
sending
us
an
Able
Minister
to
Preach
the
Gospel
to
us
in
our
Bondage
.
THE
gracious
God
looking
upon
the
affliction
of
his
poor
Servants
,
and
Remembring
us
in
our
low
Estate
,
was
pleased
many
waies
to
mitigate
the
load
of
our
Captivity
:
We
have
Reason
to
say
,
with
the
Church
,
Ezra
9.
9.
We
were
Bondsmen
,
yet
our
God
hath
not
forsaken
us
in
our
Bondage
,
but
hath
extended
Mercy
to
us
,
to
give
us
a
reviving
,
and
a
Nail
in
his
Holy
place
:
And
thus
he
brought
about
his
Design
of
Grace
and
Mercy
.
There
was
an
English
Ship
taken
by
some
of
our
Algerine
Pirates
,
and
in
her
one
Mr.
Devereux
Sprat
,
a
Minister
of
the
Gospel
.
It
deserves
our
consideration
,
and
greatest
Admiration
,
that
the
wise
God
should
●upply
our
Necessities
at
the
cost
and
charges
of
others
of
his
dear
Servants
:
But
thus
Providence
sent
Joseph
into
Egypt
,
where
he
endured
thirteen
Years
Slavery
,
that
he
might
preserve
the
Lives
of
his
Fathers
Family
,
within
those
narrow
walls
the
most
visible
Church
of
God
in
those
daies
was
enclosed
,
Gen.
45.
5.
Now
,
some
of
us
observing
this
Mr.
Sprat
to
be
a
Person
of
very
Sober
,
Grave
,
and
Religious
Deportment
,
we
addressed
our selves
to
him
,
and
humbly
entreated
him
that
we
might
enjoy
the
benefit
of
his
Ministry
;
in
Order
whereto
,
we
desired
him
that
he
would
compound
with
his
Patron
at
so
much
a
month
as
he
could
,
and
because
we
were
abundantly
convinc'd
of
our
Duty
to
administer
to
him
of
our
Carnal
things
,
who
should
administer
to
us
of
his
Spirituals
,
we
engaged
to
allow
him
a
Competency
to
maintain
himself
,
and
satisfie
the
expectations
of
his
Patron
:
The
good
man
hearkned
to
us
with
much
readiness
;
and
now
indeed
we
found
our
burdens
much
lighter
,
and
our
conditions
not
prest
so
hard
upon
our
Spirrits
:
Thrice
a
week
this
Godly
,
painul
Servant
of
Jesus
Christ
prayed
with
us
,
and
Preach'd
to
us
the
Word
of
God
;
our
meeting-place
was
a
Cellar
,
which
I
had
hired
at
some
distance
from
our
Shop
,
where
I
stowed
some
Goods
that
were
peculiarly
my
own
when
we
fell
into
a
greater
stroke
of
trade
.
To
our
Meetings
resorted
many
,
sometimes
three
or
fourscore
,
and
though
we
met
next
the
Street
,
yet
we
never
had
the
least
disturbance
from
the
Turks
,
or
Moors
;
for
whilst
we
intermeddled
not
with
their
Superstitions
,
but
paid
our
Patrons
their
demands
,
we
might
,
without
any
disturbance
from
them
,
Worship
our
God
,
according
to
our
Consciences
:
It
's
true
,
that
such
were
the
circumstances
of
the
Slavery
of
many
poor
Christians
,
that
they
could
not
attend
;
and
such
the
wretched
carelessness
of
others
,
that
they
would
not
attend
,
and
such
the
Provisions
that
God
had
made
for
others
,
by
other
means
,
that
they
needed
not
,
perhaps
,
attend
upon
God's
Worship
with
us
;
but
thus
was
our
God
pleased
to
give
us
the
means
of
strengthning
our
Faith
,
and
Comforting
our
drooping
Spirits
.
At
length
came
one
Captain
Wildy
of
Ratcliff
to
Trade
there
,
who
,
with
the
Assistance
of
the
Legorn
Mercahnts
,
free'd
our
Minister
from
his
Patron
.
After
his
freedom
from
his
Patron
,
yet
there
remained
a
Duty
of
sixty
Dollers
,
which
was
a
particular
charge
payable
to
the
Publick
Treasury
,
before
he
could
be
fully
enlarged
from
the
City
:
We
Petitioned
therefore
the
Captain
,
that
he
might
,
and
Mr.
Sprat
himself
,
that
he
would
still
continue
to
be
Serviceable
to
our
poor
Souls
,
in
the
work
of
the
Gospel
,
and
we
easily
prevailed
,
and
had
the
benefit
of
his
Ministry
whilst
I
staid
there
.
SECT
.
V.
Some
Remarkable
Observations
that
I
gleaned
up
,
whilst
I
remained
in
Algires
.
THey
that
are
pressed
with
their
own
Personal
Grievances
,
have
little
leisure
to
look
abroad
,
and
observe
the
Motions
of
others
;
and
indeed
our
own
Afflictions
however
sweetned
,
lay
still
gnawing
,
and
grating
upon
our
Spirits
that
we
must
needs
be
very
ill
qualified
to
treasure
up
materials
to
make
a
History
.
Such
a
Design
required
Leisure
,
Liberty
,
Privacy
,
Retiredness
,
Intelligence
,
and
strict
Correspondence
,
to
all
which
we
were
perfect
Strangers
.
Yet
sometimes
I
could
make
a
truce
with
my
Troubles
,
and
obtain
so
long
a
cessation
from
my
vexatious
Pressures
,
as
to
make
Observation
.
And.
1.
The
Hypocrisie
of
their
Profession
was
so
notorious
,
that
he
must
put
out
his
Eyes
that
did
not
see
it
.
One
Month
in
the
year
they
Observe
their
Ramedam
,
which
is
their
Lent
;
and
indeed
rhey
Observe
it
by
day
with
more
Monkish
Austerity
,
imposing
upon
themselves
a
total
Abstinence
:
An
Observation
which
they
may
be
presumed
to
owe
to
that
Nestorian
Monk
,
who
clubb'd
with
Mahomet
in
the
cursed
invention
of
the
Alchoran
:
But
for
all
their
demure
Quadragesimal
looks
by
day
,
they
give
or
sell
themselves
to
commit
with
greediness
all
manner
of
the
most
execrable
Villanies
by
night
.
And
they
cheat
themselves
with
this
evasion
;
that
forsooth
Mahomet
Commanded
them
to
Fast
so
many
Days
,
but
not
so
many
Nights
;
For
now
they
beat
up
their
Drums
,
and
call
their
Friends
first
out
of
bed
,
then
out
of
Doors
,
they
provoke
,
challenge
,
dare
one
another
to
eat
,
drink
,
and
run
into
all
excess
of
Riot
.
They
will
neither
spare
Men
in
their
Rage
,
nor
Women
in
their
Lust
:
The
two
hungry
meals
of
the
Day
,
makes
the
third
of
the
Night
an
errand
Glutton
.
By
Day
they
create
themselves
a
Purgatory
,
and
by
night
the
poor
Slaves
find
a
Hell.
Now
when
they
have
cramm'd
their
Guts
all
Night
,
and
are
Maw-sick
in
the
morning
,
they
put
on
their
Lenten
face
again
;
and
call
that
a
Fast
,
which
is
but
Physick
;
and
pretend
Religion
for
that
which
they
are
compell'd
to
by
Nature
;
that
is
,
they
Fast
when
they
can
eat
and
drink
no
longer
:
But
indeed
their
Fast
by
Day
is
nothing
but
a
dry
Drunkenness
;
for
when
they
have
drunk
,
and
whored
themselves
into
sin
,
they
fancy
they
merit
a
pardon
by
Abstinence
.
A
piece
of
Hypocrisie
so
gross
,
that
whether
it
be
to
be
sampled
any
where
in
the
World
,
unless
,
perhaps
,
by
the
Popish
Carnevals
,
I
cannot
tell
.
2.
I
could
not
but
observe
,
that
though
they
allow
,
that
every
man
may
be
saved
in
that
Religion
he
professes
,
provided
he
walks
by
i'ts
Rules
,
;
and
therefore
that
at
last
,
the
Jews
,
under
the
Banner
of
Moses
;
the
Christians
,
under
the
Banner
of
Christ
;
and
the
Turks
,
under
the
Banner
of
Mahomet
,
shall
all
march
over
a
fair
bridg
,
into
I
know
not
what
Paradise
,
a
place
far
beyond
the
Elisian
Fields
;
yet
they
afford
no
mercy
to
one
,
who
having
once
professed
,
afterwards
Revolts
from
Mahumetanism
;
an
Instance
whereof
I
shall
now
present
the
Reader
with
.
The
Spaniards
every
year
return
a
considerable
sum
of
mony
to
Algires
,
to
be
employed
in
the
Redemption
of
such
of
their
own
Countrey
as
are
there
in
Slavery
:
Some
say
,
there
is
a
●articular
Treasury
set
apart
for
that
Service
;
but
this
I
know
,
that
they
use
the
Charitable
benevolence
of
well
disposed
Persons
,
to
advance
it
.
Now
,
there
was
a
Spanish
Friar
,
that
was
a
Slave
,
who
being
passed
by
in
the
Redemption
that
Year
,
took
it
very
hainously
to
be
neglected
,
thought
himself
much
wronged
;
hereupon
he
grows
Discontented
,
and
the
Devil
(
who
never
works
with
greater
success
than
upon
that
Humor
)
takes
the
Advantage
to
push
him
on
;
and
he
in
a
pett
,
Renounces
the
Christian
Religion
,
declares
himself
a
Mussulman
,
and
accordingly
appears
in
his
Turkish
Habit.
I
knew
him
very
well
by
sight
he
was
a
fat
,
corpulent
person
;
but
after
he
had
turned
Renegado
,
I
observed
him
to
become
strangely
lean
,
and
dejected
in
his
Countenance
.
but
I
little
suspected
,
that
the
Root
of
his
Distemper
lay
in
his
Conscience
:
but
it
seems
he
had
severely
reflected
upon
his
Apostacy
,
for
he
had
not
Renounced
onely
his
Popery
,
but
his
Christianity
:
His
own
Conscience
,
which
was
a
Thousand
Witnesses
against
him
,
was
a
Thousand
Tormentors
to
him
:
Long
he
bore
i'ts
secret
and
stinging
lashes
,
but
when
he
could
no
longer
stand
under
them
,
he
goes
to
the
Vice-Roy's
Palace
,
and
there
openly
declares
himself
a
Christian
,
and
protests
against
the
Superstition
and
Idolatry
of
Mahomet
,
as
a
most
Execrable
,
and
damnable
Imposture
:
Immediatly
he
is
conveyed
before
the
Councel
,
and
there
strictly
Examined
,
he
persists
resolutely
in
his
Profession
,
whereupon
he
is
clapt
in
Irons
,
and
for
some
time
there
secured
:
Now
,
they
pretended
this
reason
for
their
proceedure
.
That
there
had
been
some
practising
and
tampering
with
him
,
either
Morally
by
Argument
,
or
Naturally
by
some
Dose
of
intoxicating
Drugs
,
that
had
thus
distempered
him
;
for
loth
they
were
it
should
be
thought
,
that
any
Man
of
sound
mind
,
or
master
of
his
Reason
,
would
ever
revolt
from
their
Religion
:
But
when
they
saw
him
fixt
in
his
Resolution
,
and
that
neither
what
he
felt
,
or
might
fear
,
what
they
had
inflicted
,
or
could
threaten
,
did
unhinge
him
from
his
Profession
,
they
proceeded
to
the
last
remedy
,
and
inexorably
Condemned
him
to
the
Fire
:
A
way
of
Punishment
which
they
learnt
from
the
Spaniards
themselves
who
first
set
up
the
Inquisition
against
the
Moors
,
and
have
now
turned
the
edg
of
it
against
the
Protestants
.
And
now
they
proceed
to
the
Execution
of
the
Sentence
,
which
was
performed
with
some
Pomp
,
and
State.
And
first
,
they
formed
a
Crown
with
a
Cross
upon
the
top
of
it
,
within
the
Plates
,
and
Bars
whereof
they
put
Flax
;
thus
Crowned
,
they
guard
him
through
the
City
,
out
of
the
West-Gate
,
about
half
a
mile
,
which
was
the
appointed
place
of
Execution
:
and
first
,
one
puts
Fire
to
the
Flax
in
his
mock-Crown
,
to
take
possession
of
his
Head
,
in
the
Name
of
the
rest
of
his
Body
:
at
first
he
shook
it
off
,
but
another
put
Fire
again
to
it
with
a
Cane
,
and
then
the
poor
man
stood
patiently
,
and
presently
they
put
Fire
to
the
whole
Pile
,
and
there
burnt
him
:
I
saw
some
of
his
Bones
,
and
scorched
Flesh
after
he
was
dead
;
and
the
same
Evening
came
a
Zealous
Spaniard
,
and
carried
away
some
of
his
scorched
Flesh
,
and
Bones
,
as
the
Holy
Reliques
of
a
Martyr
,
saying
I
have
now
done
enough
to
make
satisfaction
for
all
the
sins
that
I
have
committed
.
3.
It
's
worth
Admiration
,
to
see
in
what
great
awe
they
stand
of
the
meanest
Officer
,
who
is
known
to
be
such
by
his
Turbant
,
and
Habit
.
If
any
Affray
be
made
,
or
a
murder
committed
in
the
Streets
,
the
Chiaux
,
or
Officer
presently
comes
without
any
Weapon
or
Person
to
assist
him
;
and
if
he
seizes
the
Offenders
,
none
is
so
hardy
as
to
resist
even
unarmed
Authority
.
4.
The
great
Reverence
which
the
Moors
pay
to
the
Turks
,
though
both
Mahumetans
,
is
remarkable
:
If
a
Moor
shall
dare
to
strike
a
Turk
,
he
is
punisht
with
great
severity
:
I
saw
two
Moors
whilst
I
was
there
,
whose
right
Hands
were
chopt
off
for
this
one
Crime
,
and
hung
about
their
necks
in
strings
;
the
one
was
set
upon
an
Asse
,
the
other
walkt
by
on
foot
,
the
Common
Cryer
proclaiming
before
them
their
Offence
,
through
the
chief
Streets
of
the
City
.
I
saw
another
also
with
his
heels
tyed
to
a
Horses
Tayl
;
he
was
wholly
naked
,
onely
he
had
on
a
pair
of
linnen
Drawers
,
and
thus
was
he
dragg'd
through
the
Streets
?
It
was
a
most
lamentable
Spectacle
,
to
see
his
Body
all
torn
with
the
rugged
way
,
and
stones
;
the
skin
torn
off
his
Back
and
Elbows
,
his
Head
broken
,
and
all
covered
with
blood
,
and
dirt
,
and
thus
was
he
dragg'd
through
the
City
out
at
Bubazoon
,
or
the
East-gate
,
where
he
ended
his
miserable
Life
.
Two
others
of
their
own
Country-men
I
saw
Executed
in
a
most
terrible
,
and
dreadful
manner
,
(
but
either
I
did
not
know
,
or
do
not
remember
their
Crimes
:
)
The
one
was
thrown
off
from
a
high
Wall
,
and
in
his
fall
he
was
caught
by
the
way
,
by
one
of
the
great
sharp
Hooks
,
which
were
fastned
in
the
Wall
;
It
caught
him
just
under
the
Ribs
,
and
there
he
hung
roaring
in
unspeakable
pain
till
he
dyed
.
The
other
was
fastned
to
a
Ladder
,
his
wrists
,
and
ankles
being
nailed
through
with
Iron
spikes
,
in
such
a
posture
as
somewhat
resembles
the
Celebrated
Cross
of
St.
Andrew
;
and
least
his
Flesh
and
Sinews
should
fail
,
and
the
Nails
not
hold
;
his
Wrists
and
Ankles
were
bound
fast
with
small
Cords
to
the
Ladder
:
Two
days
I
saw
him
alive
under
this
Torture
,
how
much
longer
he
lived
under
it
I
cannot
tell
.
5.
They
are
generally
great
Enemies
to
Debauchery
in
publick
:
It
's
a
great
scandal
to
them
when
they
see
any
Christians
,
who
brought
that
Beastiality
out
of
their
own
Countries
with
them
,
to
be
guilty
of
it
.
I
have
heard
them
say
,
of
a
Drunken
Slave
;
A
Christian
?
No
,
He
's
a
Swine
.
And
though
they
will
indulge
themselves
by
Night
(
especially
in
their
Ramedam
Month
)
yet
woe
be
to
him
,
that
shall
Offend
by
Day
in
that
Kind
.
There
was
an
Englishman
,
who
had
brought
over
with
him
his
drunken
Humour
,
and
his
Captivity
had
not
made
him
Sober
:
and
when
Religion
has
not
firm
hold
of
the
Heart
,
a
little
matter
will
make
such
a
one
let
go
his
hold
of
Religion
:
This
English-man
turn'd
a
Renegado
,
and
of
a
Drunken
Christian
became
a
Drunken
Turk
,
and
was
not
able
to
keep
the
Pot
from
his
Head
,
during
their
Holy
time
of
Ramedam
;
being
one
day
found
thus
like
a
Sot
,
he
was
brought
into
the
Cassabal
,
or
Chief
Court
of
Judicature
,
where
he
was
adjudged
to
receive
many
hundreds
of
violent
blows
;
some
upon
his
naked
Back
and
Reins
,
others
upon
his
naked
Belly
;
he
could
not
creep
from
the
place
of
punishment
,
but
was
carried
away
by
the
Hammels
;
his
Belly
,
and
Back
were
so
excoriated
,
that
Sampson
Baker
,
an
English-man
,
who
was
his
Chirurgeon
,
assured
me
he
was
forced
to
cut
off
abundance
of
his
Flesh
before
he
could
be
Cured
.
6.
What
Cruelties
they
Exercise
upon
poor
Slaves
,
needs
not
be
mentioned
,
and
there
will
be
an
Occasion
to
speak
of
the
most
Ordinary
way
of
punishment
e're
long
.
Let
it
suffice
,
that
all
is
Arbitrary
,
and
unlimitted
.
If
a
Patron
shall
kill
his
Slave
,
for
ought
I
could
perceive
,
he
suffers
no
more
for
it
,
than
if
he
should
kill
his
Horse
:
There
was
a
Dutch
Youth
,
a
Slave
to
a
Turk
,
who
,
upon
some
provocation
,
drew
his
Knife
at
his
Patron
;
for
this
Offer
,
he
was
Sentenced
to
be
dragg'd
out
at
one
of
the
Gates
,
and
there
to
have
his
Arms
and
Legs
broken
in
pieces
with
the
great
Sledg
Hammer
,
which
Sentence
was
accordingly
Executed
,
for
though
I
could
not
see
his
face
for
the
Crowd
,
yet
I
heard
the
blows
,
and
the
miserable
Cries
of
the
poor
dying
Young
Man.
SECT
.
VI.
The
grievous
Punishment
Inflicted
upon
John
Randal
;
the
Authors
Danger
,
and
Deliverance
from
the
same
,
upon
pretence
that
they
had
attempted
to
make
an
Escape
.
IT
is
time
to
re-assume
my
own
concerns
,
and
look
a
little
into
my
own
Condition
,
which
,
through
the
good
providence
of
God
,
was
much
better
than
that
of
many
of
my
poor
Brethren
and
Fellow-Captives
;
and
yet
I
met
with
great
ebbings
and
flowings
in
my
Tranquility
:
whilst
I
was
managing
my
Trade
very
stoutly
and
successfully
,
(
John
Randal
working
with
me
in
my
Shop
)
my
Partner
now
having
knockt
off
,
and
left
all
to
me
:
One
day
I
changed
a
twenty
shilling-piece
of
Gold
for
Silver
with
a
Friend
,
and
having
the
mony
chinking
in
my
hand
,
John
Randal
asked
me
,
what
I
did
with
so
much
mony
?
I
desired
him
to
keep
it
for
me
,
till
our
return
,
and
he
should
know
:
For
he
being
not
very
well
,
we
agreed
to
walk
out
of
the
Town
to
take
the
fresh
Air
;
a
liberty
,
which
for
somewhat
above
a
mile
,
is
indulged
to
the
Slaves
:
When
we
had
walked
almost
to
the
end
of
our
Tedder
,
I
was
desirous
to
walk
a
little
further
to
view
the
Coasts
,
if
,
perhaps
,
any
advantage
might
offer
it self
afterwards
for
an
Escape
,
though
we
Actually
designed
no
such
thing
.
As
we
were
prying
about
the
Sea-side
,
one
of
the
Spies
appointed
constantly
to
watch
,
lest
any
of
the
Slaves
should
run
away
,
came
to
us
,
and
charged
us
with
an
attempt
to
make
an
Escape
?
we
flatly
denied
it
,
but
he
laid
hold
on
us
;
there
was
no
resisting
;
Obey
we
must
,
and
accordingly
attended
his
Mastership
towards
the
City
:
As
we
drew
near
,
I
espyed
some
English-men
at
Quoits
(
for
with
such
Recreations
and
Diversions
,
they
are
willing
now
and
then
to
beguile
the
tedious
minutes
of
lingring
thraldom
)
I
beckoned
to
one
of
them
whom
I
knew
,
and
pretending
only
to
whisper
to
him
,
I
secretly
conveyed
to
him
my
purse
,
wherein
were
seven
pieces
of
eight
?
we
were
presently
met
by
another
Spy
,
and
those
two
led
us
to
a
little
blind
House
,
where
they
search'd
us
,
they
took
away
the
twenty
shillings
,
which
I
had
put
into
my
Friends
hand
,
and
finding
nothing
upon
me
,
took
away
my
Doublet
,
and
then
brought
us
before
the
Vice-roy
,
and
his
Council
:
We
were
straightly
Examined
,
and
strongly
charged
with
an
attempt
to
Escape
:
We
peremptorily
denyed
all
,
and
stood
upon
our
Innocency
,
affirming
,
that
our
onely
design
of
walking
abroad
,
was
to
take
the
fresh
Air
,
occasioned
by
my
Fellows
Sickness
.
This
Purgation
would
not
be
Accepted
,
and
the
Battoon
was
commanded
to
be
brought
forth
,
we
answered
,
we
durst
not
falsely
accuse
our selves
,
nor
make
our selves
Criminal
,
when
we
were
not
so
,
and
therefore
if
such
was
their
will
and
pleasure
,
we
must
abide
by
it
,
and
so
we
sat
down
by
the
sticks
.
The
way
of
Punishment
by
the
Battoon
,
or
Cudgel
,
as
this
,
They
have
a
strong
staff
,
about
six
Foot
long
,
in
the
middle
whereof
are
bored
two
holes
;
Into
these
Holes
a
Cord
is
put
,
and
the
ends
of
the
●●rd
fastned
on
the
one
side
the
staff
,
with
knots
,
so
that
it
makes
a
Loop
on
the
other
side
.
Into
this
Loop
of
the
Cord
both
the
Feet
of
the
Person
Condemned
to
this
Punishment
are
put
;
then
two
lusty
Fellows
,
one
at
each
end
of
the
staff
,
lifts
it
up
in
their
Arms
,
and
twisting
the
Staff
about
,
till
his
Feet
are
fast
pinc'd
with
the
Cord
by
the
Ankles
,
they
raise
up
his
Feet
with
the
Soles
upwards
,
well
nigh
as
high
as
their
shoulders
,
and
in
this
posture
they
hold
them
,
the
poor
man
the
mean
while
resting
only
with
his
Neck
and
Shoulders
on
the
Ground
:
Then
comes
another
lusty
,
sturdy
Knave
behind
him
,
and
with
a
tough
,
short
Truncheon
gives
him
as
many
violent
blows
on
the
Soles
of
his
Feet
as
the
Council
shall
order
.
But
the
Vice-Roy
,
with
his
Council
,
gathering
from
circumstances
,
and
induced
to
believe
us
by
our
constant
and
resolute
denial
of
the
Fact
,
omitted
at
present
any
further
punishment
▪
and
only
commanded
us
to
be
laid
in
chains
in
the
Vice-Roy's
Prison
till
our
Patrons
should
demand
our
Liberty
,
and
fetch
us
out
.
And
the
next
day
we
were
both
delivered
,
though
with
differing
Fates
;
as
Pharaoh's
Chief
Butler
,
and
Chief
Baker
were
both
taken
from
Prison
,
the
One
to
be
Advanced
,
the
Other
to
be
Hanged
:
For
John
Randal's
Patron
being
a
very
Termergant
,
used
that
absolute
and
unlimitted
Sovereignty
which
they
pretend
to
,
over
their
Slaves
,
and
commanded
him
to
receive
three
hundred
blows
upon
the
Soles
of
his
Feet
with
the
Battoon
,
in
manner
before
described
:
As
for
my self
,
when
I
was
brought
home
,
the
Spie
that
seized
us
,
came
and
demanded
Money
of
my
Patron
for
his
good
service
(
not
reckoning
that
he
had
any
thing
of
me
)
which
put
him
into
a
most
desperate
fit
of
Passion
,
and
calling
me
Dog
and
Jew
,
and
all
to
naught
,
commanded
me
to
go
work
in
the
Looms
with
two
other
English-men
that
were
Slaves
,
and
Linnen-Cloth-Weavers
:
But
alas
,
I
was
a
very
Bungler
,
and
understood
nothing
of
the
Craft
and
Mystery
of
Weaving
more
or
less
;
but
there
I
wrought
till
I
had
spoiled
all
that
I
laid
my
Hands
on
:
Now
,
when
he
saw
that
my
labour
this
way
would
not
turn
to
Account
,
he
rated
me
for
a
Loggerhead
,
and
bad
me
fill
Quills
for
the
other
two
;
being
now
degraded
from
a
bungling
Weaver
to
an
excellent
●iller
of
Quills
,
I
continued
about
a
month
;
my
Shop
all
this
while
lay
at
sixes
and
seavens
,
what
was
become
of
it
I
knew
not
,
and
durst
not
for
my
Life
discover
any
desire
to
return
to
that
employment
.
At
last
,
my
Patron
asked
me
for
the
money
that
he
had
lent
me
when
I
first
began
to
Trade
:
I
answered
submissively
,
that
I
had
not
a
farthing
,
all
my
small
Estate
lay
in
a
few
Goods
,
and
till
they
were
sold
,
I
could
not
possibly
repay
him
:
He
calls
one
of
his
Slaves
,
a
Dutch
man
,
and
commands
him
to
go
with
me
,
and
turn
all
into
ready
money
,
and
bring
it
him
:
When
I
came
to
my
Old
Shop
,
there
was
the
Nest
indeed
,
but
all
the
Birds
were
slown
;
for
in
my
absence
,
(
poor
John
Randal
being
Lame
,
and
not
able
to
work
,
my
Partner
sometime
before
having
left
me
,
and
I
confined
to
another
Employment
)
some
of
these
Rascals
had
broken
open
my
Shop
,
and
thence
carried
the
best
of
my
Goods
,
though
my
Cellar
was
still
safe
,
and
some
of
my
Goods
I
heard
of
,
and
recovered
;
what
money
I
had
was
hid
in
the
Ground
,
as
it
was
my
constant
way
:
That
night
the
Dutch
man
and
my self
returned
to
our
Patron
,
and
told
him
we
could
sell
nothing
;
whereupon
he
remanded
me
to
my
Shop
,
there
to
Trade
,
paying
him
the
two
Dollars
a
moneth
,
as
I
had
done
before
.
SECT
VII
.
The
Authors
Patron
growing
poor
,
he
is
Sold
,
or
Mortgaged
to
another
;
the
wonderful
kindness
that
he
found
from
his
second
Patron
.
HEre
was
nothing
yet
working
towards
a
Deliverance
,
nor
could
I
yet
see
the
least
glimmering
of
possibility
which
might
so
much
as
flatter
my
willing
mind
with
a
hope
of
escaping
:
But
it
's
Observed
,
that
the
Night
is
always
darkest
towards
Day-break
;
and
God
is
often
drawing
nearer
to
us
in
Mercy
,
when
we
conceive
he
is
departing
further
off
in
Displeasure
.
My
Patron
had
been
sincking
in
his
Estate
a
pretty
while
,
the
last
Ship
he
had
put
to
Sea
broke
his
back
:
At
last
he
was
grown
(
insensibly
)
so
low
,
that
it
could
no
longer
be
daubed
up
with
his
Repute
,
but
he
must
be
forced
to
sell
all
his
Slaves
to
pay
his
Debts
:
It
was
not
much
to
me
whither
I
was
chopt
and
changed
;
I
might
change
my
Goaler
,
and
my
Goal
,
but
still
I
was
like
to
be
a
Prisoner
:
I
might
be
bought
and
sold
,
and
sold
again
,
but
still
my
Condition
was
Slavery
;
yet
one
thing
methought
was
comfortable
,
that
the
last
Instrument
of
my
Bondage
was
come
into
Misery
as
well
as
my self
.
In
the
partage
of
his
Slaves
,
it
fell
to
my
Lot
and
anothers
to
be
Mortgaged
for
a
certain
sum
of
Money
,
joyntly
to
two
Persons
,
the
one
a
Cap-maker
,
the
other
a
Grave
Old
Gentleman
,
who
amongst
his
own
People
had
the
Repute
or
a
good
Natur'd
and
moderate
Person
,
(
as
good
Nature
,
and
Moderation
go
at
Algier
.
)
The
Day
of
Payment
came
,
the
Mony
was
not
paid
;
the
Cap-maker
and
the
Old
Gentleman
seize
on
us
,
and
hold
us
in
Common
,
but
in
a
While
they
resolved
to
divide
us
,
that
each
of
them
might
know
his
proper
Goods
and
Chattels
,
and
each
of
us
might
know
whom
to
call
Master
,
and
whose
whistle
we
were
bound
to
Obey
:
We
are
both
summoned
to
appear
in
a
certain
place
at
mid
day
,
and
much
ado
there
was
about
our
Dividing
:
At
last
they
agreed
to
Cast
Lots
for
us
,
onely
because
I
was
in
a
handsome
way
of
Trade
,
it
was
accorded
,
that
he
to
whose
share
I
should
fall
,
should
pay
the
other
fifty
Doubles
,
which
,
if
I
compute
aright
,
is
something
more
then
fifty
shillings
Sterling
.
I
was
exceeding
fearful
I
should
fall
to
this
Cap-maker
,
for
he
had
the
Character
of
a
brutish
,
ill-humour'd
Creature
and
therefore
I
was
concern'd
to
lift
my
Petition
to
God
,
that
seeing
,
when
the
Lot
should
be
cast
into
the
lap
,
yet
the
whole
Disposition
thereof
is
of
God
,
he
would
give
me
forth
a
gracious
Lot
:
Whatever
there
is
of
Contingency
as
to
us
there
's
nothing
accidental
to
God.
Well
,
God
Delivered
me
from
that
Tyrant
,
and
I
was
adjudged
by
the
decision
of
the
Lot
to
the
Old
Gentleman
:
And
if
I
should
be
silent
here
,
I
should
be
the
most
ungrateful
wretch
Living
:
I
found
not
onely
pity
and
compassion
,
but
Love
and
Friendship
from
my
New
Patron
?
had
I
been
his
Son
,
I
could
not
have
met
with
more
respect
,
nor
been
treated
with
more
tenderness
:
I
could
not
wish
a
Friend
a
better
Condition
then
I
was
then
in
,
except
my
Bonds
.
If
any
thing
could
be
mingled
with
Bondage
to
make
it
sweet
?
if
any
thing
could
Reconcile
Slavery
to
Nature
?
if
any
thing
could
beget
an
Acquiescence
in
such
a
state
,
I
did
not
,
I
could
not
want
it
.
And
indeed
the
Freedom
that
I
found
in
Servitude
,
the
Liberty
I
enjoyed
in
my
Bonds
was
so
great
that
it
took
off
much
of
the
Edg
of
my
desire
to
obtain
,
and
almost
blunted
it
from
any
vigorous
attempt
after
Liberty
,
that
carried
hazard
in
it's
Face
;
till
at
last
I
was
awakened
upon
this
Occasion
.
My
Patron
had
a
fair
Farm
in
the
Countrey
,
about
twelve
miles
from
the
City
,
whither
he
took
me
along
with
him
?
he
had
me
to
their
Markets
,
shewed
me
the
manner
of
them
,
&
at
my
return
,
he
loaded
me
home
with
all
manner
of
good
Provisions
,
that
I
might
make
merry
with
my
Fellow-Christians
?
I
had
some
Reason
to
conclude
from
his
great
kindness
to
me
,
that
he
intended
to
●end
me
thither
to
manage
the
Farm
for
him
.
I
saw
now
evidently
,
that
if
I
once
quitted
my
shop
▪
I
should
lose
with
it
all
means
,
all
helps
,
and
therefore
all
hopes
to
rid
my self
out
of
this
Slavery
:
And
though
I
might
have
been
there
a
petty
Lord
,
and
Bashaw'd
it
over
the
rest
of
my
Fellow-Servants
,
yet
Slavery
had
in
it
something
of
I
know
not
what
harshness
that
I
could
not
brook
.
Fetters
of
Gold
do
not
lose
their
Nature
,
they
are
Fetters
still
:
Had
Bajazet's
Cage
been
of
Gold
,
as
't
was
of
Iron
,
yet
it
was
a
Cage
;
and
that
was
provocation
enough
to
a
haughty
Spirit
to
beat
out
his
own
Brains
against
it's
Bars
.
This
therefore
quickned
my
dull
temper
,
and
I
began
to
Resolve
to
make
an
Attempt
once
for
all
.
Now
therefore
mustering
those
few
Wits
Captivity
had
left
me
,
I
set
them
on
work
,
and
ran
through
all
things
possible
,
and
impossible
;
he
that
will
find
what
he
has
lost
,
must
look
where
't
is
not
,
as
well
as
where
't
is
;
and
forming
stratagems
in
my
Head
,
some
Idle
,
and
Vain
;
some
Desperate
,
others
impossible
;
at
last
pitcht
upon
one
,
that
seemed
to
me
feizable
and
practicable
.
SECT
.
VIII
.
The
Contrivance
for
our
Escape
,
the
Persons
Acquainted
with
it
,
and
also
those
that
were
Engaged
in
it
;
some
Debates
about
leaving
my
Patron
.
HAving
Formed
the
Design
,
or
at
least
,
the
rude
draught
,
and
general
Model
of
it
,
my
first
care
was
to
open
it
to
some
skilful
and
faithful
Counsellers
,
who
might
more
impartially
discover
to
me
it's
inconveniences
,
where
it
was
like
to
prove
leaky
,
or
take
wind
;
And
first
I
acquainted
Mr.
Sprat
,
our
Minister
,
with
it
,
and
laid
before
him
the
whole
of
the
Contrivance
;
and
he
so
far
approved
it
,
that
he
judged
it
possible
:
Next
,
I
acquainted
one
Robert
Lak●
,
a
very
wise
and
Religious
Person
,
who
bestowed
his
Blessings
on
it
,
and
wish'd
it
all
good
Success
:
And
lastly
,
I
acquainted
my
Friend
John
Randal
,
who
approved
it
:
Yet
none
of
these
could
,
or
would
run
the
risque
of
it's
miscarriage
.
Mr.
Sprat
was
already
delivered
from
his
Patron
,
and
in
a
fair
way
to
be
absolutely
enlarged
,
in
a
more
safe
and
Regular
way
,
for
not
long
after
our
Escape
came
Captain
Pack
,
of
London
,
and
paid
the
sixty
Dollars
and
took
him
along
with
him
for
England
:
John
Randal
had
a
Wife
,
and
Child
and
these
were
too
dear
pledges
to
be
left
behind
,
and
yet
too
tender
things
to
undergo
our
Difficulties
:
Robert
Lake
was
an
Ancient
Person
,
and
neither
able
passively
to
be
carried
in
,
nor
actively
to
carry
on
a
Design
that
required
much
hardness
of
Body
and
Mind
to
endure
,
and
much
strength
to
go
through
with
it
?
we
had
nothing
more
from
them
then
Prayers
and
Counsels
,
which
yet
was
the
mane
?
and
then
my
next
care
was
,
to
take
in
Partners
,
and
Accomplices
in
the
Design
▪
And
herein
I
had
a
three
fold
Respect
:
First
to
such
as
were
necessarily
required
to
Form
the
Instrument
of
our
Escape
and
Deliverance
▪
Secondly
,
to
such
,
whose
tryed
,
and
approved
Fidelity
I
might
presume
would
be
obstinately
,
and
Religiously
secret
in
concealing
it
:
Thirdly
,
to
such
,
whose
Courage
of
Mind
,
and
strength
of
Body
would
render
them
capable
to
pursue
the
ends
of
it
,
to
put
it
in
Execution
,
and
go
through
with
it
.
But
before
I
would
reveal
the
Project
to
any
of
them
in
particular
,
I
Required
an
Oath
of
Secresie
:
That
whereas
I
should
now
reveal
to
him
,
or
them
,
a
matter
of
great
concernment
to
their
Happiness
and
Well-fare
,
they
should
solemnly
promise
,
and
swear
,
that
in
case
they
did
not
approve
it
,
or
would
not
joyn
in
it
,
yet
they
should
,
neither
directly
,
nor
indirectly
,
;
for
fear
,
or
flattery
,
discover
it
,
or
the
Persons
engaged
in
it
,
to
any
Person
whatsoever
.
When
a
Project
was
once
mentioned
,
which
promised
in
general
their
Happiness
and
Well-fare
,
I
needed
not
tell
them
in
particular
what
it
drove
at
,
they
could
smell
out
that
with
ease
;
for
what
could
be
Good
,
or
Happy
to
Slaves
without
Liberty
?
This
Oath
therefore
they
willingly
took
:
I
judged
seven
Persons
would
be
enough
to
manage
,
carry
on
,
and
Execute
it
;
and
therefore
except
the
three
fore-mentioned
,
I
communicated
it
to
no
one
Person
but
these
following
,
who
engaged
in
it
,
though
all
of
them
did
not
go
through
with
it
.
John
Anthony
,
a
Carpenter
,
who
had
been
a
Slave
fifteen
years
:
his
Trade
sufficiently
shews
,
how
useful
he
would
prove
in
the
Design
.
William
Adams
,
who
since
his
Captivity
,
had
learnt
and
used
the
Trade
of
a
Bricklayer
;
his
Serviceableness
in
it
will
be
evident
in
the
sequel
;
he
had
been
a
Slave
eleven
Years
.
John
Jephs
,
who
was
a
Sea-man
,
and
must
therefore
be
presumed
one
of
the
Quorum
is
a
Project
of
this
Nature
;
he
had
endured
Slavery
about
five
Years
.
John
—
a
Carpenter
,
who
was
a
skilful
Man
in
his
Trade
,
Lusty
of
Body
,
and
therefore
must
be
a
good
Wheel
in
this
Engine
,
and
he
had
been
a
Slave
five
Years
:
And
two
others
,
whose
Employment
it
was
to-wash
small
Cloaths
at
the
Sea-side
,
and
those
had
also
their
parts
in
carrying
on
the
work
,
though
they
went
not
along
with
us
;
and
William
Okeley
,
who
presents
the
Reader
with
this
Narrative
,
who
was
taken
August
11
▪
1639
▪
and
Escaped
June
30.
1644
▪
these
made
up
the
Number
of
7.
There
arose
a
Scruple
,
nay
,
it
amounted
to
a
Question
,
whether
to
attempt
an
Escape
from
my
Patron
,
one
that
so
dearly
Loved
me
,
so
courteously
treated
me
,
had
so
fairly
bought
me
,
were
justifiable
before
God
and
Men
?
And
1.
It
might
be
a
Question
in
point
of
Prudence
;
for
,
where
could
I
hope
to
mend
my self
?
Or
better
my
Condition
?
I
might
possibly
find
worse
Quarter
in
England
,
where
the
Civil
Wars
were
now
broke
out
,
and
to
that
height
of
exasperation
,
that
those
of
the
same
Nation
,
and
,
perhaps
Blood
,
would
hardly
give
Quarter
of
Life
one
to
another
:
If
the
Name
of
Native
Countrey
bewitcht
me
,
if
That
dazled
my
Eyes
;
surely
where-ever
we
are
well
is
our
Countrey
,
and
all
the
World
is
Home
to
him
that
thrives
all
over
the
World
:
And
why
should
the
Name
of
Bondage
,
why
should
a
word
grate
so
harshly
upon
my
delicate
Spirit
,
when
the
sting
of
it
was
taken
away
?
Liberty
is
a
good
word
;
but
a
Man
cannot
buy
a
Meals
meat
with
a
word
:
And
Slavery
is
a
hard
word
,
but
it
breaks
no
mans
back
.
Thousands
are
more
Slaves
then
I
,
who
are
yet
their
own
Masters
,
and
less
at
Liberty
then
my self
,
who
have
the
free
rake
and
range
of
the
whole
World.
But
yet
my
Patron
's
Favour
was
no
free
hold
;
I
held
not
my
Happy
time
in
fee
simple
,
all
was
advoluntatem
Domini
;
besides
,
he
might
dye
,
and
leave
me
to
another
;
or
Live
to
Sell
me
to
another
,
who
might
be
of
another
Character
,
and
then
my
Condition
would
be
therefore
wose
because
I
had
known
a
better
.
2.
I
might
be
Questioned
in
point
of
Ingenuity
,
how
I
could
be
so
unworthy
to
leave
him
,
who
had
Loved
me
?
Would
not
all
that
should
hear
of
it
,
Condemn
me
of
ill
Nature
,
to
leave
without
taking
leave
,
one
that
had
been
a
Father
to
me
,
who
might
have
used
the
Right
of
a
Lord
;
and
used
me
as
a
Child
,
who
might
have
treated
me
as
a
Slave
?
But
really
I
thought
there
was
more
of
Manners
and
Courtship
in
the
Objection
,
than
of
weight
,
and
Cogency
;
Still
I
dwelt
with
Meshech
,
and
had
my
Habitation
amongst
the
Tents
of
Kedar
;
and
one
thought
of
England
,
and
of
its
Liberty
and
Gospel
confuted
a
thousand
such
Objections
,
and
routed
whole
Legions
of
these
little
Scruples
.
It
was
no
time
to
stand
upon
the
Punctilio's
of
Honour
and
Ingenuity
;
no
time
to
Complement
,
and
strain
courtesie
;
here
was
no
Farewel
Patron
,
in
the
Case
,
and
therefore
I
soon
overcame
that
.
But
,
3.
It
might
be
Questioned
in
the
Court
of
Conscience
,
whether
it
were
not
down-right
Theft
to
with-draw
my self
from
his
Service
,
who
had
bought
me
,
paid
for
me
,
enter'd
upon
me
,
possess'd
and
enjoy'd
me
,
as
his
own
proper
Goods
,
and
now
I
was
not
my
own
,
had
no
right
to
my
self
:
Whether
might
not
a
Man
be
felo
de
se
,
in
stealing
himself
,
as
well
as
killing
himself
?
And
whether
he
is
not
the
greater
self-robber
,
that
steals
away
himself
,
then
he
that
steals
away
from
himself
?
But
I
much
questioned
their
propriety
to
me
;
my
Patron
's
Title
was
rotten
at
the
Foundation
:
Man
is
too
noble
a
Creature
to
be
made
subject
to
a
deed
of
bargain
and
Sale
;
and
my
consent
was
never
ask'd
to
all
their
bargains
,
which
is
Essential
,
to
create
a
right
of
Dominion
over
a
Rational
Creature
,
where
he
was
not
born
a
Subject
.
If
I
had
forfeited
my
Life
or
Liberty
,
the
Law
might
take
it
;
but
I
was
not
Conscious
to
my self
of
any
such
forfeiture
,
but
that
I
was
at
my
own
Disposal
.
Thus
all
was
clear
and
quiet
,
and
we
went
on
with
our
Design
,
which
I
now
first
opened
to
them
:
That
I
had
contrived
the
Model
of
a
Boat
,
which
being
formed
in
parcels
,
and
afterwards
put
together
,
might
,
by
the
super-intendency
of
Divine
Providence
,
prove
an
Ark
to
deliver
us
out
of
the
hands
of
our
Enemies
.
This
was
soon
said
,
and
greedily
entertained
;
to
Escape
was
a
pleasant
word
,
the
Name
of
Liberty
made
Musick
in
our
Ears
,
and
our
wishing
hearts
danced
to
the
Tune
of
it
;
and
a
Boat
was
as
promising
a
means
as
any
thing
could
be
imagined
:
But
when
once
their
thoughts
cooled
,
and
came
more
sedately
to
look
into
the
difficulties
of
it
;
they
appeared
innumerable
,
and
some
of
them
seemed
insuperable
;
and
some
things
that
had
past
currant
in
my
own
thoughts
,
and
I
went
clever
away
with
them
,
without
any
rub
;
yet
when
they
came
to
be
pierced
into
with
more
Eyes
,
and
scann'd
upon
more
Fingers
,
they
were
attended
with
considerable
impediments
:
where
this
Boat
should
be
built
,
was
one
staggering
Question
:
Where
it
should
be
Lanched
,
and
where
put
to
Sea
,
was
a
Choaking
Objection
:
How
we
should
escape
those
Argus-eyes
,
which
are
always
observing
us
by
Day
,
was
a
gravelling
Qhaery
;
or
how
to
get
out
of
the
City
by
Night
,
whose
Walls
are
so
high
,
whose
Gates
are
so
close
shut
,
and
strongly
Guarded
was
another
vexatious
Quaery
:
How
we
should
be
Rigged
and
Victualled
for
such
a
Voyage
,
was
a
considerable
enquiry
:
and
whether
we
should
design
,
was
not
to
be
slighted
.
But
how
such
a
little
Skiff
,
rather
than
Boat
,
should
be
able
to
Weather
all
the
Accidents
of
the
Sea
,
was
a
Neck
Question
,
enough
to
strangle
Faith
,
and
stifle
with
us
with
Despair
.
To
these
Objections
,
I
Answered
.
That
I
had
designed
my
own
Cellar
,
as
the
meetest
place
wherein
to
build
the
Boat
;
that
when
it
was
there
Built
,
it
might
be
taken
in
pieces
again
,
and
carried
out
of
the
City
in
parcels
,
and
bestowed
in
private
places
till
things
were
ripe
for
Execution
.
That
for
a
place
where
to
put
to
Sea
,
it
●ould
be
time
enough
to
determine
upon
that
when
we
had
finish'd
our
Vessel
:
That
Mayork
was
the
most
commodious
place
to
design
to
Land
in
:
But
in
general
I
told
them
to
this
purpose
;
That
if
we
never
attempted
any
thing
till
we
had
Answered
all
Objections
,
we
must
sit
with
our
Fingers
in
our
Mouths
all
our
days
,
and
pine
,
and
languish
out
our
tedious
Lives
in
Bondage
,
Let
us
be
up
and
doing
,
and
God
would
be
with
us
.
To
begin
is
one
half
of
our
work
;
Let
us
make
an
Essay
,
and
Answer
particular
Objections
as
they
Offer'd
themselves
,
and
as
we
met
with
them
in
our
work
.
That
the
Project
had
its
difficulties
,
was
confessed
;
but
what
has
not
,
that
is
Commendable
,
and
Glorious
?
Yet
whatever
difficulties
&
dangers
we
could
meet
with
,
Liberty
,
kept
in
our
Eye
,
would
sweeten
the
dangers
we
might
encounter
in
Attempting
▪
They
were
all
well
sati●fied
with
what
was
said
and
all
engaged
to
venture
the
utmost
they
were
,
and
had
,
to
accomplish
it
.
SECT
.
IX
.
The
Model
of
the
Boat
,
Carrying
it
out
of
the
City
,
and
bestowing
it
in
convenient
Places
.
IN
the
Cellar
where
we
had
Worship'd
God
,
we
began
our
Work
;
and
it
was
not
the
Holiness
,
but
the
Privacy
of
the
place
that
invited
us
,
and
advised
us
to
it
.
And
first
,
we
provided
a
piece
of
Timber
about
twelve
Foot
long
,
to
make
the
Keel
:
But
because
it
was
impossible
to
convey
a
piece
of
Timber
of
that
length
out
of
the
City
,
but
it
must
be
seen
;
and
of
that
shape
,
but
it
must
be
suspected
,
and
that
Suspition
would
bring
us
into
Examination
,
and
the
Rack
,
or
Battoon
might
extort
a
Confession
out
of
the
mo●t
resolved
,
and
obstinate
breast
;
we
therefore
cut
it
in
two
pieces
,
and
fitted
it
for
Joynting
thus
in
the
middle
.
Our
next
care
was
the
Timbers
or
Ribs
of
the
Poat
,
which
we
contrived
thus
;
every
one
of
the
Timbers
was
made
of
three
pieces
,
and
joynted
in
two
places
,
because
a
whole
Rib
at
its
full
length
,
would
be
lyable
to
the
same
inconveniences
with
the
Keel
.
Now
understand
,
that
the
joynts
of
the
Ribs
were
not
made
with
Mortice
and
Tenon
,
but
the
flat
side
of
one
of
the
three
Pieces
was
laid
over
the
other
,
and
two
holes
were
bored
at
every
joynt
,
into
which
two
Nails
were
to
be
put
,
when
we
should
joyn
the
parcels
of
our
Boat
together
:
You
must
understand
further
,
that
these
two
holes
at
every
joynt
were
not
made
in
a
strait
line
,
parallel
with
the
sides
of
the
pieces
,
for
then
the
three
pieces
,
which
make
one
Rib
,
being
joyned
together
would
have
made
one
strait
piece
;
a
Form
which
would
by
no
means
comport
with
the
Use
and
Design
of
the
Timbers
;
But
so
,
that
when
both
the
Nails
were
in
the
holes
,
each
Joynt
would
make
an
obtuse
angle
,
and
so
incline
so
near
towards
a
Semi-Circular
Figure
,
as
our
Occasion
required
.
All
this
while
here
is
no
visible
Provision
made
for
boards
,
to
cloath
the
naked
Ribs
of
our
Boat
,
without
which
,
the
Keel
and
Timbers
looked
but
like
an
useless
Anatomy
;
but
neither
had
we
,
nor
was
it
possible
we
should
have
any
boards
in
our
Vessel
:
Necessity
is
the
best
Artificer
when
all
is
done
,
if
we
accept
her
Sister
Contingency
;
to
which
two
the
World
has
been
beholden
for
the
most
useful
inventions
,
which
at
this
day
do
ease
the
Labour
and
Toyl
of
wearied
Mankind
.
For
the
Joynting
of
these
Boards
;
and
the
Nailing
of
them
,
to
make
the
Boat
Water-tite
,
would
require
such
Hammering
,
and
that
Hammering
would
make
such
a
clamarou●
Echo
in
the
Cellar
,
as
must
have
drawn
upon
us
the
Jealous
Eyes
of
the
Algerines
,
who
about
their
Wives
and
Slaves
are
insupportably
suspicious
:
And
therefore
from
the
first
Conception
of
the
Design
,
I
always
resolved
upon
a
Canvas
:
In
pursuance
of
which
thought
,
being
all
satisfied
that
it
was
practicable
;
we
bought
as
much
strong
Canvas
as
would
cover
our
Boat
twice
over
,
upon
the
Convex
of
the
Carine
;
We
provided
also
as
much
Pitch
,
Tar
,
and
Tallow
as
would
serve
to
make
it
a
kind
of
a
Tawparlin
Sear-cloth
,
to
swaddle
the
naked
body
of
our
Infant-Boat
:
With
Earthen
pots
to
melt
done
our
Materials
in
;
and
prefixt
a
night
wherein
we
might
Execute
that
part
of
our
Labour
.
The
two
Carpenters
,
and
my self
were
appointed
to
this
Service
,
and
the
Cellar
was
the
place
where
we
met
.
Matters
had
hitherto
run
very
evenly
,
and
smoothly
,
but
here
we
met
with
some
discouraging
rubs
.
For
when
we
had
stopt
all
the
Chinks
and
Crannies
of
the
Cellar
,
that
the
streame
of
the
melted
Materials
might
not
creep
out
and
betray
us
,
(
there
being
no
Chimney
,
)
we
had
not
been
long
at
our
work
before
I
felt
my self
exceeding
sick
,
with
the
strong
,
and
unusual
scent
of
the
melted
Liquor
;
I
was
forced
to
go
out
into
the
streets
to
gasp
for
breath
,
where
meeting
with
the
cool
Air
,
it
over-came
me
,
I
swooned
,
fell
down
brake
my
face
,
and
there
lay
:
My
Companions
missing
me
,
made
out
to
seek
me
,
found
me
in
this
sad
plight
,
and
carried
me
in
again
,
though
exceeding
sick
,
and
unserviceable
.
They
had
not
proceeded
much
further
before
I
heard
one
of
them
complain
he
was
sick
,
and
cou'd
proceed
no
further
,
and
now
our
work
stood
still
:
I
plainly
saw
that
our
hopeful
Project
,
that
had
hitherto
so
smoothly
proceeded
,
must
needs
miscarry
,
and
Prove
Abortive
;
for
it
would
be
impossible
to
finish
it
this
night
:
and
if
we
once
parted
,
and
suffered
our
Spirits
to
cool
over
the
Design
,
they
would
never
cease
cooling
till
they
were
stone-cold
,
and
hard
frozen
;
and
therefore
I
advised
to
set
open
the
Door
,
and
commit
our selves
,
and
our
work
to
Gods
Protection
:
For
I
told
them
they
could
not
but
know
,
that
if
any
Discovery
were
made
,
the
burden
would
fall
heaviest
upon
my
shoulders
;
and
my
Back
or
Feet
must
pay
for
all
.
At
length
,
we
resolved
to
set
the
Cellar-door
wide
open
,
and
as
soon
as
that
was
done
,
and
the
stream
pretty
well
gone
out
,
we
came
to
our selves
again
,
couragiously
went
on
with
our
business
,
and
pitched
one
half
that
Night
.
The
next
night
we
met
again
,
set
open
the
Door
,
and
whilst
they
plyed
the
work
,
I
stood
Sentinel
at
the
Door
to
give
Notice
of
approaching
danger
;
but
we
happily
finish'd
the
whole
,
and
while
it
was
yet
dark
,
carried
it
to
my
Shop
,
which
was
about
a
Furlong
from
the
Cellar
,
and
there
at
present
secured
it
.
I
shall
not
question
the
Readers
Ingenuity
so
much
,
but
that
he
will
suppose
there
goes
a
great
deal
more
to
a
Boat
than
I
have
described
;
but
what
should
I
trouble
him
with
those
things
that
are
common
to
all
other
Boats
,
I
mention
only
what
was
Peculiar
to
our
own
;
and
I
do
not
intend
to
trouble
him
with
the
Boat-wright's
Lecture
.
In
our
Cellar
we
fitted
all
things
,
we
made
the
Timbers
fit
to
the
Keel
,
and
the
Canvas
fit
for
the
Timbers
,
and
the
Seats
fit
to
the
whole
,
and
then
took
all
in
pieces
again
,
and
laying
our
Heads
together
,
plotting
how
to
convey
all
out
of
the
Town
,
and
lodg
them
in
secure
and
trusty
places
.
And
first
▪
for
our
Keel
,
we
all
with
unanimous
consent
judged
Will.
Adams
the
fittest
Person
to
execute
that
part
of
the
Design
,
for
he
had
long
Exercised
the
Trade
of
a
Brick-layer
,
and
his
Employment
lay
much
without
the
Town
;
and
besides
,
he
used
such
pieces
in
levelling
his
work
.
He
therefore
;
accourted
with
his
Apron
before
him
,
his
Trowel
in
his
hand
,
and
one
of
the
pieces
upon
his
shoulder
,
undertook
it
,
and
without
the
least
Observation
went
cleverly
away
with
it
,
and
as
he
saw
his
Opportunity
,
hid
it
in
the
bottom
of
a
Hedg
;
and
not
long
after
conveyed
out
its
Fellow
,
and
Lodged
it
in
the
same
place
.
This
succeeding
so
happily
,
we
saw
no
great
difficulty
in
the
Timbers
,
for
we
put
one
nail
into
a
hole
of
every
joynt
,
and
then
you
will
easily
conceive
,
that
the
two
extream
pieces
of
one
Rib
being
folded
inwards
upon
the
middlemost
,
will
lye
in
the
room
of
one
of
the
pieces
for
length
,
excepting
that
litile
that
the
ends
of
each
piece
were
beyond
the
holes
:
Now
,
by
general
consent
,
the
conveying
these
out
of
the
City
was
committed
to
one
,
whose
Employment
was
to
wash
small
Clothes
by
the
Sea-side
:
He
puts
them
into
his
bag
amongst
his
Clothes
,
and
so
very
orderly
carried
them
out
,
and
hid
them
where
he
could
find
most
commodious
stowage
,
but
yet
with
Respect
to
nearness
to
that
Place
where
the
Keel
was
laid
.
But
how
to
convey
our
Tarpawlin
safe
out
of
Town
seemed
most
difficult
;
by
night
it
was
impossible
,
and
by
day
the
difficulties
very
considerable
,
and
the
danger
proportionable
;
for
the
Gates
are
strictly
watch'd
,
the
Streets
crowded
,
the
Spies
pickering
in
every
corner
,
and
the
bulk
of
the
Canvas
thus
dressed
was
very
great
.
To
divide
it
had
been
to
ruin
our selves
,
for
no
stitching
together
again
,
could
so
cheat
the
searching
water
,
but
it
would
find
out
the
needle-holes
.
At
last
we
ventured
upon
this
way
;
we
put
it
into
a
large
Sack
,
and
committed
it
to
him
that
used
to
wash
Clothes
,
and
lest
any
should
clap
a
jealous
hand
upon
it
,
we
put
a
Pillow
over
our
Canvas
within
the
bag
,
that
so
its
softness
might
delude
the
Inquisitor
,
and
make
it
pass
for
Clothes
.
Let
none
dispise
,
or
condemn
these
as
low
,
mean
pieces
of
contrivance
,
for
we
had
not
Polititians
tools
to
work
withal
;
but
the
less
was
our
Policy
,
the
more
glorious
does
the
wisdom
of
God
shine
in
succeeding
it
,
and
yet
even
that
little
Policy
we
were
guilty
of
,
was
of
his
bestowing
also
;
what
of
sin
was
in
all
of
it
,
was
entirely
our
own
;
what
of
Power
,
Wisdom
,
and
Success
,
was
all
his
:
But
our
Agent
escaped
happily
with
it
,
and
Lodging
it
in
a
secret
place
,
returned
.
We
had
yet
many
things
to
provide
,
and
Oars
are
absolutely
necessary
,
they
were
of
the
Quorum
to
an
Escape
by
sea
:
As
Finns
are
the
Fishes
Oars
,
so
Oars
are
the
Boats
Finns
,
by
help
whereof
she
makes
her
way
:
Now
,
to
supply
this
defect
,
we
took
two
Pipe-staves
,
and
slitting
them
a
cross
from
corner
to
corner
with
a
Hand-saw
,
we
made
of
each
Pipe-staff
two
Rude
things
,
which
Necessity
was
pleased
to
entitle
The
blades
for
a
pair
of
Oars
,
and
these
were
easily
conveyed
out
,
without
suspition
.
Next
,
we
considered
,
that
Provision
must
be
laid
in
for
our
Voyage
;
and
therefore
we
provided
a
small
,
and
but
a
small
quantity
of
Bread
,
presuming
our
stay
at
Sea
must
be
but
short
;
for
either
we
should
speedily
recover
Land
,
or
speedily
be
drown'd
,
or
speedily
be
brought
back
again
:
Two
Goats
skins
also
,
stript
off
whole
,
and
so
Tann'd
(
a
kind
of
Bottle
much
used
by
the
Algerines
to
carry
Milk
and
Water
in
)
we
had
,
which
we
lived
with
fresh
water
,
and
we
know
that
must
needs
be
a
great
Rarity
in
the
Mediterranean
.
We
remembred
also
that
a
Sail
might
be
of
right
good
use
to
us
for
expedition
,
and
therefore
we
bought
as
much
Canvas
as
would
Answer
that
End
;
and
when
some
Dispute
was
made
abou●
carrying
it
out
,
I
Offered
to
undertake
that
last
part
of
our
work
:
I
had
not
gone
a
quarter
of
a
Mile
,
but
as
I
cast
my
wary
eye
back
,
I
espyed
the
same
spie
,
who
once
before
had
seized
me
,
and
given
me
trouble
,
following
me
very
roundly
.
My
Heart
began
to
ake
;
I
was
loth
a
Design
of
so
near
,
and
dear
concernment
to
all
of
us
,
should
be
brought
to
the
Birth
,
and
there
should
be
no
strength
to
bring
forth
.
It
's
sad
,
after
a
Voyage
,
to
ship-wrack
in
the
Haven
,
but
me-thought
it
was
more
sad
to
sink
a
Vessel
before
it
could
be
Launched
:
And
here
I
first
found
the
difference
between
Innocence
and
Guilt
;
for
how
boldly
could
I
hold
up
my
head
to
this
Spie
,
and
his
betters
,
(
at
least
,
his
Masters
)
when
I
was
not
Conscious
of
any
such
Design
in
hand
?
Where
as
now
the
Reflection
of
my
Conscience
.
was
enough
to
write
guilt
in
my
Countenance
,
(
for
some
things
are
sin
there
which
are
not
so
in
other
places
:
)
and
this
had
betray'd
me
,
had
I
not
suddenly
pluckt
up
my
spirits
,
and
spying
an
English-man
washing
Clothes
by
the
Sea
,
I
went
the
ready
way
to
him
,
and
desired
him
to
help
me
wash
that
Canvas
;
as
we
were
washing
it
,
the
learing
Spye
came
and
stood
upon
the
Rock
just
over
our
Heads
to
watch
our
motions
:
As
soon
as
we
had
a
little
formally
wash'd
it
,
to
cast
a
Mist
before
his
Observing
Eyes
,
I
took
the
Canvas
and
spred
it
before
his
Face
upon
the
top
of
the
Rock
to
dry
;
he
staid
his
own
Time
,
and
then
march'd
off
.
But
I
was
as
Jealous
of
him
,
as
he
could
be
of
me
for
his
Heart
;
and
therefore
fearing
he
might
lye
in
Ambush
for
me
,
took
it
when
't
was
dry
,
and
very
fairly
carried
it
back
into
the
City
,
and
faithfully
acquainted
my
Accomplices
how
the
Matter
squared
.
This
Discoraged
them
not
a
little
,
for
that
they
seemed
timorous
to
proceed
in
the
Enterprize
.
At
last
we
comforted
,
and
encouraged
one
another
,
and
entred
into
close
Counsel
,
where
we
should
meet
that
Night
?
At
what
time
?
Where
we
should
put
our
Boat
together
,
and
where
put
to
Sea
?
The
Time
was
an
hour
within
Night
;
the
Rendevouz
on
a
Hill
,
about
half
a
Mile
from
the
Sea
;
and
so
we
dispersed
,
some
one
way
,
some
another
;
and
privily
lurking
in
Hedges
and
Ditches
,
lay
close
till
the
time
appointed
.
There
is
one
thing
that
the
Reader
will
be
ready
to
ask
;
and
I
shall
be
more
ready
to
Answer
him
for
a
special
Reason
:
viz.
What
I
did
with
my
Shop
and
Goods
?
When
I
had
once
Resolved
upon
this
Adventure
,
and
saw
it
go
on
hopefully
,
I
gave
my
Patron
my
wonted
Visits
;
kept
fair
Correspondence
,
paid
him
his
demands
duly
,
but
secretly
I
made
off
my
Goods
as
fast
as
I
could
,
and
turn'd
all
into
ready
Money
:
I
had
a
Trunk
,
for
which
John
Anthony
made
me
a
false
bottom
;
into
which
I
put
what
Silver
or
Gold
I
had
?
and
into
the
Body
of
the
Trunk
,
what
ever
it
would
hold
,
and
was
worthy
holding
:
This
Trunk
I
committed
privately
to
the
Fidelity
of
our
dear
Minister
,
Mr.
Sprat
;
he
took
the
charge
of
it
,
and
he
was
now
ready
to
receive
his
full
Discharge
.
This
Trunk
he
Faithfully
Secured
,
and
carefully
brought
over
,
and
as
honestly
delivered
to
me
when
he
heard
I
was
come
safe
to
London
;
and
I
was
willing
to
move
that
Question
,
merely
for
the
Answers
sake
,
which
witnesses
his
Fidelity
,
SECT
.
X.
The
putting
off
our
Boat
together
,
the
Difficulties
we
met
with
therein
;
and
our
putting
out
to
Sea
,
June
30.
1644.
AS
soon
as
we
were
met
all
together
at
the
appointed
place
;
we
began
to
think
of
Executing
our
long
intended
Design
;
but
we
were
divided
in
our
Counsels
,
where
to
begin
our
work
:
It
had
been
a
Question
propounded
before
,
and
we
thought
we
had
fully
resolved
upon
the
place
;
but
at
our
Meeting
we
were
strangely
discomposed
:
There
were
two
places
which
stood
in
Competition
,
each
pretending
good
Conveniences
for
that
end
.
The
one
was
a
Hill
,
about
half
a
Mile
from
the
Sea
;
the
other
was
a
Valley
,
encompassed
with
two
Hedges
,
about
a
Furlong
from
the
Hill
,
but
of
the
same
distance
with
it
from
the
Sea
:
It
was
urged
for
the
Valley
,
that
it
was
a
place
of
more
Secrecy
and
Privacy
,
less
obvious
to
view
;
but
then
it
was
objected
,
that
we
might
there
be
surprized
,
and
seized
by
the
Churches
of
our
Enemies
,
e're
we
could
have
notice
to
shift
for
our selves
:
For
the
Hill
,
it
had
been
argued
,
that
we
might
there
make
better
Discovery
of
Danger
,
and
make
Provision
to
avoyd
it
;
and
in
short
,
we
all
agreed
over
night
,
to
put
our
Boat
together
upon
the
Hill
;
promising
our selves
much
Advantage
from
its
Scituation
:
But
when
we
were
met
,
we
all
altered
our
Resolution
without
any
visible
Reason
,
and
carried
it
for
the
Valley
▪
God
is
much
in
the
dark
to
us
,
but
all
our
wayes
are
in
the
open
Light
to
him
.
It
's
very
difficult
to
give
an
Account
what
God
is
doing
at
present
,
but
we
shall
know
,
if
we
can
but
patiently
wait
till
future
Providences
Comment
upon
the
former
:
And
in
a
while
we
saw
the
Reason
why
God
over-ruled
our
purposes
.
We
had
hid
several
of
our
Materials
near
the
top
of
the
Hill
,
where
also
grew
a
small
Fig-tree
,
which
we
had
marked
with
our
Eye
,
as
Judging
it
would
be
useful
to
strengthen
the
Keel
of
our
Boat
:
Two
of
our
Company
were
immediately
dispatcht
to
saw
down
this
Fig-Tree
,
and
bring
it
,
and
the
parcels
of
our
Boat
there
disposited
away
with
them
:
They
were
hardly
come
to
the
place
,
but
we
heard
Dogs
bark
about
the
top
of
the
Hill
,
and
indeed
two
Men
with
Dogs
came
very
near
them
;
but
our
Men
being
aware
lay
close
and
still
,
and
so
they
passed
by
without
making
any
Discovery
,
and
then
our
Men
bestirr'd
themselves
,
and
brought
away
the
Fig-Tree
,
and
the
other
Materials
,
and
returned
to
us
.
And
now
we
had
once
more
brought
the
scatter'd
Limbs
of
our
Boat
into
one
place
,
which
,
like
those
of
Absyrtus
,
had
been
dispersed
up
and
down
the
Fields
:
It
was
no
time
to
trifle
,
&
therefore
we
all
buckled
to
our
work
in
good
earnest
:
But
we
were
so
nigh
some
that
were
at
work
in
the
Neighbouring
Gardens
,
that
we
could
hear
them
speak
,
and
therefore
must
needs
suppose
they
might
hear
us
too
;
and
therefore
we
Acted
by
Signs
,
and
pointed
,
and
pulled
,
and
nodded
,
but
were
all
Mutes
:
It
might
have
been
an
Expedient
for
the
Builders
of
Babel
,
when
their
Languages
were
Divided
,
to
have
carried
on
their
great
Project
by
Signs
:
but
certainly
there
was
Confusion
poured
out
upon
their
Hearts
and
Counsels
,
as
well
as
Division
in
their
Tongues
and
Languages
.
The
two
parts
of
our
Keel
we
soon
joyned
;
then
opening
the
Timbers
,
which
had
already
one
Nail
in
every
Joynt
,
we
groped
out
for
the
other
hole
;
and
put
its
Nail
into
it
:
Then
we
open'd
them
at
their
full
length
,
and
applyed
them
to
the
top
of
the
Keel
,
fastning
them
with
Rope-Yarn
,
and
small
Cords
;
and
so
we
served
all
the
Joynts
to
keep
them
firm
and
stable
;
then
we
bound
small
Canes
all
along
the
Ribs
length-ways
,
both
to
keep
the
Ribs
from
vering
,
and
also
to
bear
out
the
Canvas
very
stiff
against
the
pressing
water
:
Then
we
made
Notches
upon
the
ends
of
the
Ribs
,
or
Timbers
,
wherein
the
Oars
might
plye
;
and
having
tyed
down
the
Seats
,
and
strengthned
our
Keel
with
the
Fig-Tree
,
we
lastly
drew
on
our
double
Canvas
Case
,
already
fitted
;
and
really
the
Canvas
seemed
a
Winding-sheet
sheet
for
our
Boat
;
and
our
Boat
a
Coffin
for
us
all
.
This
done
,
four
of
our
Company
took
it
upon
their
shoulders
,
and
carried
it
down
towards
the
Sea
,
which
was
about
half
a
Mile
off
:
It
was
a
little
Representation
of
a
Funeral
,
to
see
the
four
Barers
Marching
in
deep
silence
with
something
very
like
a
Herse
,
and
Coffin
,
upon
their
shoulders
,
and
the
rest
of
us
decently
attending
the
Ceremony
;
but
we
wanted
Torches
,
and
besides
,
it
's
not
usual
for
any
to
wait
upon
their
own
Coffins
:
But
we
durst
not
grudg
our
Boat
that
small
,
and
last
Office
,
to
carry
it
half
a
Mile
,
for
we
expected
,
it
should
repay
us
that
Service
and
Civilty
with
Interest
,
in
carrying
us
many
a
League
:
We
carried
it
at
Land
,
where
it
could
not
swim
;
that
it
might
carry
us
at
Sea
,
where
we
could
not
walk
.
As
we
went
along
,
they
that
were
in
the
Gardens
heard
us
passing
by
,
and
called
to
us
,
who
comes
there
?
But
it
was
dark
,
and
we
had
no
mind
to
prate
,
and
therefore
without
any
Answer
,
we
silently
held
on
our
way
.
When
we
came
to
the
Sea-side
,
we
immediately
stript
ourselves
naked
,
and
putting
our
Clothes
into
the
Boat
,
carried
it
,
and
them
,
as
far
into
the
Sea
as
we
could
wade
;
and
this
we
did
,
lest
our
tender
Boat
should
pe
toren
against
the
Stones
or
Rocks
;
and
then
all
seven
of
us
got
into
her
:
But
here
we
soon
found
how
our
Skill
in
Calculating
the
Lading
of
our
Vessel
failed
us
:
For
we
were
no
sooner
Embarqued
,
but
she
was
ready
to
sink
under
us
,
the
water
coming
in
over
the
sides
?
so
that
once
again
we
must
entertain
new
Counsels
▪
at
last
,
one
whose
Heart
most
failed
him
,
was
willing
to
be
shut
out
;
and
rather
hazard
the
uncertain
Torments
of
the
Land
,
than
certainly
be
drown'd
at
Sea
;
then
we
made
a
second
Experiment
,
but
still
she
was
so
deep
Laden
,
that
we
all
concluded
there
was
no
venturing
out
to
Sea
:
At
length
,
another
went
a
shore
,
and
then
she
held
up
her
Head
very
stoutly
,
and
seem'd
hearty
enough
for
our
Voyage
.
It
was
time
now
to
commit
,
and
Commend
our selves
,
and
Vessel
to
the
Protection
,
and
Conduct
of
that
God
who
Rules
the
Winds
and
the
waves
,
and
whose
Kingdom
is
in
the
deep
Waters
,
imploring
Mercy
for
the
Pardon
of
our
Sins
,
and
resigning
up
our
souls
to
God
,
as
if
we
had
been
presently
to
suffer
Death
by
the
Hand
of
the
Executioner
.
and
taking
our
Solemn
Farewel
of
our
two
Companions
,
whom
we
left
behind
,
and
wishing
them
as
much
Happiness
as
could
be
hoped
for
in
Slavery
,
and
they
to
us
as
long
a
Life
as
could
be
expected
by
Men
going
to
their
Graves
;
we
Launched
out
,
upon
the
thirtieth
day
of
June
,
in
the
Year
of
our
Lord
,
One
Thousand
,
Six
Hundred
,
Forty
,
and
Four
:
A
Night
for
ever
to
be
remembred
by
his
poor
Creatures
,
who
are
our selves
Great
Monuments
of
Divine
Providence
,
and
do
set
up
this
Littile
Monument
of
his
Goodness
and
Mercy
,
that
may
survive
us
and
bear
up
the
Name
of
God
to
after-times
,
that
by
us
Men
may
Learn
to
Put
their
Trust
in
God
:
And
the
Bill
of
Lading
is
as
followeth
;
John
Anthony
,
William
Adams
,
John
Jephs
,
John
—
Carpenter
,
and
William
Okley
.
SECT
.
XI
.
The
great
Extremities
we
Endured
at
Sea
for
Six
Dayes
,
and
Nights
,
with
the
Coincident
Providences
of
God
that
appeared
for
us
in
our
Extremities
,
and
our
Miraculous
Landing
at
Mayork
,
July
6.
1644.
WE
are
now
out
at
Sea
without
Helm
,
or
Pilot
;
without
Anchor
,
Tackle
,
or
Compass
;
but
God
was
these
.
all
these
,
and
more
then
all
these
.
Our
Number
was
Small
,
our
Work
was
Great
,
we
could
not
afford
one
Idle
Hand
,
not
one
idle
Finger
:
Four
of
the
Company
continually
wrought
at
the
Oars
;
and
indeed
we
wrought
for
our
Lives
,
and
then
I
shall
not
need
to
say
how
we
wrought
:
But
this
I
shall
say
,
I
can
truly
say
it
,
I
never
saw
strength
so
strained
,
nor
the
utmost
of
what
Nature
could
do
for
Life
and
Liberty
,
exerted
so
much
in
all
my
Life
.
The
Employment
of
the
fifth
Man
was
more
easie
,
but
no
less
necessary
,
which
was
to
free
the
Boat
of
that
water
,
which
by
Degrees
leak't
through
our
Canvas
.
We
Labour'd
the
harder
that
Night
,
because
we
would
gladly
be
out
of
the
Ken
of
our
Old
Masters
by
Day
;
but
when
Day
appear'd
,
we
were
yet
within
sight
of
the
Ships
that
lay
in
the
Haven
,
and
Road
,
and
off
the
Land
:
But
our
Boat
being
small
,
and
lying
close
,
and
snug
upon
the
Sea
,
either
was
not
at
all
discovered
,
or
else
seemed
something
that
was
not
worth
the
taking
up
:
A
little
hope
in
the
midst
of
great
Fears
,
made
us
double
,
and
re-double
our
Diligence
;
we
tugg'd
at
the
Oars
like
those
who
are
Chain'd
to
the
Gallies
,
because
we
had
no
mind
to
be
Slaves
to
our
Old
Patrones
in
their
Gallies
.
But
upon
all
Occasions
we
found
our
want
of
fore-cast
,
for
now
our
Bread
,
which
was
to
be
the
staff
of
our
decayed
strength
,
had
lie
soaking
in
the
Salt
water
,
like
a
drunken
Toast
sopt
in
Brine
,
and
was
quite
spoiled
:
And
our
fresh
water
in
the
Bottles
stank
of
the
Tann'd
Skins
,
and
Owze
,
having
lye
sobbing
in
the
Salt
water
which
made
it
nauceous
:
But
yet
that
hope
that
hover'd
over
us
,
and
flatter'd
us
that
we
should
one
day
mend
our
Commons
,
sweeten'd
all
again
;
so
long
as
Bread
was
Bread
,
we
complained
not
:
Three
days
with
good
Husbandry
it
lasted
,
but
then
pale
Famine
(
which
is
the
worst
sheap
Death
can
be
painted
in
)
stared
us
in
the
Face
;
And
there
was
no
substitute
for
Bread
at
Sea
:
At
Land
,
the
Roots
of
Grass
the
tops
of
Trees
,
and
the
vilest
Excrements
have
served
to
stop
the
clamour
of
a
Ravenous
Stomach
,
but
that
which
Slaves
despised
,
we
should
have
admired
,
and
prized
:
Water
indeed
we
might
have
,
either
cold
,
or
hot
;
we
had
choice
,
but
it
was
a
hard
choice
:
Either
the
cold
salt
weter
out
of
the
Sea
,
or
that
warmer
which
had
been
strained
through
our
Bodies
,
and
that
we
chose
of
the
two
,
but
we
must
not
have
that
,
after
a
while
,
unless
we
would
first
accept
the
other
:
And
the
Misery
was
,
these
did
not
asswage
our
thirst
,
but
increase
it
;
nor
increase
our
strength
,
but
diminish
it
;
yet
these
were
the
means
of
Life
:
Strange
means
,
that
would
destroy
the
End.
Several
things
added
to
our
Misery
;
for
trouble
seldom
comes
solitary
:
For
first
,
we
had
the
Wind
for
some
time
full
against
us
:
And
this
was
both
an
evil
in
its
self
,
an
evil
in
its
effect
,
and
an
evil
in
its
cause
.
It
was
a
great
evil
in
it self
;
it
increased
our
Labour
,
and
then
defeated
it
:
We
Rowed
harder
to
less
purpose
:
we
moved
,
but
did
not
advance
!
we
s●ent
our
strength
for
nought
,
and
in
vain
.
It
was
an
evil
in
its
effect
;
for
it
engaged
the
Waters
against
us
,
and
drew
them
into
its
prey
,
The
Sea
is
a
perfect
Neuter
of
it self
,
and
willing
to
maintain
its
Neutrality
;
but
the
powerful
Winds
drew
her
into
the
Faction
:
And
that
Sea
which
serves
the
North
to
day
,
shall
comply
with
the
more
prevailing
South
to
Morrow
;
for
the
Waves
are
the
greatest
time-servers
in
the
World
:
But
it
was
far
the
greatest
evil
in
its
Cause
;
for
the
Winds
being
against
us
,
argued
that
God
was
against
us
;
for
the
Wind
we
know
was
his
:
He
brings
the
Winds
out
of
his
Magazines
.
We
were
now
so
dispirited
,
that
we
debated
,
whether
we
should
bare
up
with
the
Wind
,
or
make
the
best
of
our
way
,
and
Row
against
it
?
That
is
,
whether
it
were
not
better
to
go
back
to
Algires
with
ease
,
then
painfully
make
towards
Freedom
?
At
last
like
Persons
that
though
we
knew
not
what
to
do
,
yet
resolved
not
to
return
;
we
resolved
whilst
we
had
Life
,
and
strength
,
and
Breath
,
we
would
struggle
with
it
:
And
now
the
great
God
interposed
;
he
rebuked
his
Wind
;
it
was
not
against
us
;
nay
he
reconciled
his
Wind
,
and
it
became
our
Friend
.
He
that
can
turn
the
Rivers
in
the
South
,
could
turn
the
Winds
out
of
the
North
:
Here
we
might
have
had
a
notable
demonstration
of
Gods
Soverignty
.
He
determined
the
Quarter
of
the
Wind
,
the
Quantity
of
the
Wind
,
and
the
Continuance
of
the
Wind.
The
Quarter
,
whence
it
should
blow
The
;
Quantity
,
how
much
it
should
blow
,
and
the
Continuance
,
how
long
it
should
blow
.
The
Quarter
was
our
Enemy
,
the
Continuance
had
quite
brought
us
to
Despair
;
but
had
he
opened
his
Hand
,
and
let
out
one
blast
more
,
the
proud
Waters
had
gone
over
our
Souls
,
we
had
perished
in
the
deep
:
But
we
see
that
our
times
are
in
Gods
Hand
;
the
Ocean
in
the
hollow
of
the
same
Hand
,
and
the
Winds
in
the
same
hand
;
and
Happy
it
was
for
us
,
that
we
,
and
they
,
were
all
there
.
A
Second
great
Inconveniency
was
,
that
our
Labour
was
without
Intermission
,
though
we
advanced
not
forwards
at
many
stroaks
,
yet
cessation
had
driven
us
backwards
.
The
poor
Sentinel
that
stands
upon
the
Watch
,
yet
comforts
himself
that
another
will
Relive
him
;
but
we
had
none
to
take
the
toyl
off
our
Hands
,
and
give
us
Respite
:
We
might
shift
our
places
,
but
not
our
pains
.
A
Third
great
Evil
that
lay
sore
upon
us
,
was
the
extremity
of
the
heat
by
day
;
the
Season
was
Raging
hot
,
being
the
beginning
of
July
;
the
Climent
was
hot
,
being
under
,
or
about
the
Fourth
Climate
;
we
wanted
fresh
Water
to
cool
the
Heat
,
and
were
engagad
in
continual
Labour
to
enrage
the
heat
,
and
all
these
made
it
insupportable
to
our
Bodies
,
and
our
little
,
or
no
hope
,
(
which
now
like
a
Candle
burnt
down
to
the
Socket
,
did
rather
blink
,
than
burn
)
made
it
grievous
to
our
Souls
.
One
small
help
we
had
(
if
it
was
a
help
)
that
the
fifth
Man
,
who
emptyed
the
Boat
of
the
Salt
Water
,
threw
it
upon
the
Bodies
of
the
rest
to
cool
them
;
But
this
was
a
Miserable
Remedy
,
for
our
Bodies
were
so
bleached
between
the
scorching
Sun
,
and
the
cooling
Water
,
that
they
rose
up
in
Blisters
all
over
.
Great
pain
we
felt
,
great
danger
we
were
in
,
great
Miseries
were
endured
,
great
wants
we
were
under
,
and
had
nothing
little
,
but
hope
,
food
,
and
strength
.
By
Day
we
were
all
stark
Naked
,
by
Night
we
had
our
Shirts
,
or
loose
Coats
,
and
that
was
all
our
Cloathing
,
the
rest
we
left
a
shore
to
ease
our
Boat.
If
any
shall
be
so
Inquisitive
,
as
to
ask
,
by
what
Directions
we
steared
our
Course
,
that
we
did
not
tack
about
insensibly
in
the
dark
Night
or
Day
?
He
may
know
,
that
for
the
Day
,
one
of
the
Company
had
a
Pocket-Dyal
,
which
supplyed
the
place
of
the
Compass
,
ee'n
well
enough
for
such
a
Vessel
,
and
such
Mariners
.
By
Night
when
the
Stars
appeared
,
we
had
our
advice
from
them
,
and
when
they
dis-appeared
,
we
ghessed
at
our
way
by
the
Motions
of
the
Clouds
.
In
this
sad
&
woeful
plight
we
continued
four
Dayes
and
Nights
;
on
the
fifth
Day
,
we
were
on
the
brink
of
the
brink
of
despair
,
and
all
hope
that
we
should
be
saved
,
utterly
perished
.
And
now
,
as
persons
despairing
of
the
End
,
we
ceased
to
pursue
the
means
;
laid
by
our
Oars
,
left
off
our
Labour
;
either
we
had
no
strength
left
,
or
were
loth
to
throw
away
that
little
we
had
to
no
purpose
,
only
we
kept
still
emptying
the
Boat
;
loth
to
drown
,
loth
to
dye
,
yet
knew
no
wayes
to
avoyd
Death
:
When
the
End
is
removed
,
all
means
perish
with
it
.
They
that
act
least
,
commonly
wish
the
most
:
thus
when
we
had
left
fruitless
Labour
,
we
fell
upon
fruitless
wishes
,
that
we
might
meet
with
some
Vessel
,
some
Ship
to
take
us
up
▪
If
it
was
but
a
Ship
,
we
considered
no
further
;
English
,
or
African
,
Tross
,
Tyriusve
;
all
was
a
Case
:
Or
if
not
,
yet
the
worst
was
better
than
our
bad
case
;
and
therefore
resolved
,
could
we
have
Discovered
any
Ship
,
to
have
made
towards
her
,
though
it
had
been
one
of
Algiers
:
How
many
wisht
themselves
again
in
Egypt
,
when
they
Combated
with
the
un-expected
Difficulties
of
the
Wilderness
!
How
oft
have
the
People
of
God
been
more
afraid
of
the
means
of
thier
Deliverance
,
than
of
their
Danger
!
When
Christ
came
to
save
his
Disciples
from
the
Storm
,
yet
because
he
came
in
a
way
uncouth
,
and
unexpected
,
they
cryed
out
for
fear
,
Mat.
14.
26.
Whether
the
Reader
will
pity
,
or
condemn
us
,
I
know
not
;
but
to
that
pass
were
we
now
brought
,
that
we
would
have
accepted
Life
upon
any
terms
,
not
base
and
sinful
;
and
whether
we
should
have
stuck
at
such
or
no
,
I
have
no
such
security
from
my
own
Heart
as
to
resolve
him
.
Whilst
we
were
at
this
dead
Ebbe
of
Hope
,
the
Great
God
,
whose
most
Glorious
Opportunity
to
help
,
is
his
Creatures
greatest
Extremity
:
He
that
appeared
for
Abraham
in
the
Mount
,
and
to
the
three
Young
Men
in
the
Fiery
Furnace
;
he
that
Delivered
Israel
at
the
Sea
,
at
the
Red
Sea
;
he
who
times
all
his
Mercies
for
their
Advantage
:
even
He
sent
us
some
Relief
,
and
a
little
Relief
is
great
,
in
great
exigencies
.
As
we
lay
hulling
up
and
down
,
we
Discovered
a
Tortoise
not
far
from
us
asleep
in
the
Sea.
Had
the
great
Drake
Discovered
the
Spanish
Plate-Fleet
,
he
could
not
have
more
Rejoyced
;
once
again
we
bethought
our selves
of
our
Oars
;
and
now
our
little
Boat
shewed
it self
to
be
of
the
right
breed
of
Algiers
,
made
of
Piratick
Timber
,
and
to
its
poor
Abbility
would
become
a
Corsair
;
we
silently
Rowed
to
our
Prey
,
took
it
into
the
Boat
with
great
Triumph
,
we
cut
off
her
Head
,
and
let
her
bleed
into
a
Pot
;
we
drank
the
Blood
,
eat
the
Liver
,
and
suck'd
the
Flesh
;
warm
Flesh
,
and
hot
Liquor
(
except
our
own
)
had
been
a
great
Rarity
with
us
a
long
time
,
it
was
a
Novelty
of
Providence
;
and
really
it
wonderfully
refresh'd
our
Spirits
,
repaired
our
decayed
strength
and
recruited
Nature
;
at
least
,
poor
exhausted
Nature
was
willing
to
be
cheated
,
and
fancy
her self
recruited
:
But
there
was
no
cheat
in
't
we
were
really
refresh'd
,
and
with
fresh
vigour
and
courage
fell
to
our
Work
;
we
left
our
fears
behind
us
,
we
pickt
up
some
scatter'd
crumbs
of
hope
,
and
about
Noon
,
we
Discovered
,
or
thought
we
Discovered
Land.
It
's
impossible
to
express
the
Joy
,
and
Triumph
of
our
raised
Souls
at
this
apprehension
.
The
Poets
tell
us
,
that
as
often
as
Hercules
threw
the
great
Giant
against
the
Earth
,
his
Mother
Earth
gave
him
new
strength
against
the
next
Encounter
:
It
was
new
strength
,
new
Life
to
us
,
though
not
to
touch
yet
to
see
;
or
if
not
to
see
,
to
think
we
saw
it
.
It
brought
fresh
Blood
into
our
Veins
,
fresh
coour
into
our
pale
Cheeks
;
we
look'd
not
like
Men
awaked
from
sleep
,
not
like
Captives
broke
from
the
Chains
of
Algiers
,
but
like
Persons
raised
from
the
Dead
.
But
Hope
and
Fear
made
a
strange
Medly
Passion
in
our
Souls
;
like
the
Reparties
of
two
contrary
jostling
Tides
,
or
the
struggling
of
the
Eddy
with
the
main
Stream
;
Hope
would
perswade
us
that
we
saw
the
Land
;
but
I
hill
Fear
bad
us
pause
upon
it
,
for
as
we
easily
believe
,
what
we
desire
to
be
true
,
so
we
are
as
ready
to
fear
lest
it
should
not
prove
true
;
for
fear
had
got
long
possession
of
our
Souls
,
and
would
hardly
admit
Hope
to
stir
,
but
was
ready
to
suppress
it
as
a
disturber
of
its
Empire
:
We
had
seen
nothing
but
Air
,
and
Sea
;
Sea
,
and
Air
in
five
Dayes
and
Nights
;
that
though
our
Reason
tould
us
there
was
such
a
thing
as
Land
,
yet
the
Impressions
that
fear
had
made
upon
us
,
made
it
Questionable
,
whether
ever
we
should
see
it
.
And
we
durst
not
give
too
much
Credence
to
our
Eyes
,
that
had
been
used
to
bring
sadder
stories
to
our
Hearts
.
Yet
still
we
wrought
hard
:
Hope
did
us
that
kindness
it
put
us
upon
an
earnest
desire
to
see
,
whether
we
were
deceived
or
no.
After
some
further
Labour
,
we
grew
more
confident
,
and
at
last
,
fully
satisfied
that
it
was
Land
:
I
hope
I
shall
never
foeget
what
a
sense
we
had
of
Gods
goodness
upon
that
Assurance
.
Extreams
do
equally
annoy
,
and
sometimes
infatuate
the
mind
:
They
tell
us
,
that
in
Greenland
,
the
extremity
of
Cold
will
make
the
Iron
stick
to
the
Fingers
,
as
our
Experience
assures
extremity
of
Heat
will
do
;
for
now
like
Distracted
Persons
,
we
all
leapt
into
the
Sea
,
quitting
our
Boat
,
and
being
all
good
Swimmers
,
we
there
Bathed
,
and
cooled
our
heated
Bodies
.
An
Adventure
,
which
,
if
well
considered
,
had
as
much
of
the
Desperado
in
it
as
our
putting
to
Sea
:
For
now
we
were
at
the
Mercy
of
the
Sharks
;
which
might
have
sheared
off
a
Leg
,
or
Arm
;
and
now
our
over-heated
Bodies
were
open
to
receive
the
Impressions
of
that
Cold
Element
:
But
as
we
never
considered
our
Danger
,
the
great
and
good
God
delivered
us
from
the
Ordinary
effects
of
such
Folly
;
we
presently
returned
to
our
Boat
,
and
being
both
wearied
with
Labour
,
and
cooled
a
little
with
the
Sea
,
we
lay
us
all
down
to
Sleep
in
as
much
security
,
as
if
we
had
been
in
our
own
Beds
:
Nature
being
almost
spent
,
must
have
a
Truce
;
she
will
not
undertake
to
keep
our
Bodies
upon
their
Legs
,
if
we
will
not
submit
to
her
great
standing
Ordinance
of
Rest
;
and
here
we
saw
still
more
of
Divine
Goodness
,
that
our
Leaky
Vessel
did
not
bury
us
in
the
Sea
,
and
we
awaking
find
our selves
in
the
other
World
:
But
he
that
gave
us
Sleep
,
measured
it
;
and
he
measured
it
exactly
,
not
suffering
us
to
out-sleep
the
Season
of
plying
our
Pump
,
or
that
which
supplyed
the
place
of
it
.
Being
thus
refresh'd
with
sleep
,
we
found
new
strength
for
our
Work
,
and
God
found
us
new
Work
for
our
strength
:
We
tugged
the
harder
at
the
Oar
,
because
we
hoped
e'er
Night
to
sleep
upon
a
more
stable
,
and
faithful
Element
.
But
we
made
our
way
very
slowly
,
and
when
we
cast
up
the
Account
of
our
Progress
,
found
that
we
had
gone
but
little
way
in
a
long
time
;
towards
Evening
we
discovered
another
Island
:
The
first
we
saw
was
Mayork
,
the
second
,
Fromentere
;
and
some
of
our
Company
that
had
Sailed
in
these
Seas
,
would
undertake
to
assure
us
of
it
:
We
debated
not
long
to
which
of
these
we
should
direct
our
Course
,
for
the
latter
being
much
infested
with
venemous
Serpents
,
and
little
,
if
at
all
Inhabited
,
we
resolved
all
for
Mayork
:
All
that
Night
we
Rowed
very
hard
,
and
the
next
,
being
the
sixth
of
July
,
and
from
our
putting
to
Sea
;
we
kept
within
sight
of
it
all
Day
,
and
about
Ten
a
Clock
at
Night
we
came
under
the
Island
,
but
the
Rocks
were
there
so
craggy
,
and
steep
,
that
we
could
not
climb
up
.
Whilst
we
were
under
these
Rocks
there
came
a
Vessel
,
very
near
us
.
Let
the
Reader
put
himself
in
our
stead
,
let
him
but
Copy
out
our
Thoughts
,
let
him
imagine
how
loth
we
were
to
lose
all
our
toil
and
Travel
,
to
forego
our
Deliverance
,
to
have
this
Rich
Mercy
,
which
God
had
put
into
our
Hands
,
wrested
out
of
them
again
by
some
Turkish
Pickaroon
,
or
Corsair
,
that
are
alwayes
skimming
those
Seas
:
It
concerned
us
therefore
to
lye
close
,
and
when
they
were
passed
by
,
we
gently
crept
along
the
Coast
as
near
the
shoar
as
we
durst
,
till
we
found
a
convenient
place
,
where
we
might
thrust
in
our
Weather-beaten
Boat.
If
these
Papers
should
fall
into
the
hands
of
some
that
are
great
Clerks
in
the
Art
of
Navigation
,
and
have
conn'd
the
Mariners
Terms
of
Art
,
they
will
smile
at
my
improper
wording
of
these
Maters
,
and
say
,
I
am
one
of
Paul's
Mariners
.
But
I
can
be
content
to
be
Accounted
one
of
his
Mariners
,
whilst
I
have
shared
in
his
Mercies
:
How
many
of
those
that
spake
the
Language
of
the
Sea
,
yet
have
found
her
Billows
deaf
to
their
Cries
and
Prayers
,
and
their
stately
Ships
made
the
Scorn
of
Winds
,
and
the
Reproach
of
Waves
,
when
we
,
who
had
none
of
their
Ships
,
and
little
of
their
skill
,
have
had
Experience
of
those
Providences
,
to
which
rhey
have
been
Strangers
.
SECT
.
XII
.
The
great
kindness
we
received
at
Mayork
from
the
Vice-Roy
,
and
the
Inhabitants
of
that
Island
and
City
.
WHen
we
were
come
to
Land
,
we
were
not
unsensible
of
our
Deliverance
,
though
like
Men
newly
awakened
out
of
a
Dream
,
we
had
not
the
true
Dimensions
of
it
;
We
confessed
God
had
done
great
things
for
us
,
but
how
great
things
he
had
done
was
beyond
our
Comprehension
:
We
had
escaped
the
Sea
,
but
yet
Death
might
be
found
at
Land
;
and
we
were
ready
to
say
,
with
Sampson
,
Judg.
15.
18.
Lord
,
thou
hast
given
this
great
Deliverance
into
the
hands
of
thy
Servants
,
and
now
shall
we
dye
for
Thirst
?
We
had
had
no
Food
since
we
eat
the
Liver
,
and
drank
the
Blood
of
the
Tortoise
,
and
therefore
leaving
three
of
our
Company
with
the
Boat
,
the
other
too
,
viz.
John
Anthony
,
and
my self
were
sent
out
to
scout
abroad
for
fresh
Water
:
And
the
rather
were
we
sent
,
because
this
John
Anthony
could
speak
both
the
Spanish
,
and
Italian
Tongues
very
perfectly
;
and
I
had
as
much
of
the
Spanish
as
might
serve
to
express
our
wants
,
and
desires
,
if
perhaps
we
might
meet
with
any
persons
there
abouts
.
We
were
not
far
gone
,
before
we
fell
into
a
Wood
,
and
we
were
in
a
Wilderness
in
our
thoughts
,
which
way
to
take
:
He
will
needs
go
his
way
,
and
I
mine
.
Good
Lord
!
what
a
frail
impotent
thing
is
Man
!
That
they
whom
common
dangers
by
Sea
,
common
Deliverances
from
Sea
had
United
,
should
now
about
our
own
wills
fall
out
at
Land.
And
yet
thus
we
did
:
He
gave
me
reproachful
words
,
and
it
's
well
we
came
not
to
blows
:
But
I
went
my
own
way
,
and
he
seeing
me
resolute
,
followed
me
,
and
the
Providence
of
God
,
not
dealing
with
us
according
to
our
frowardness
,
followed
us
both
:
This
way
led
us
to
a
Watch-Tower
of
the
Spaniards
many
of
which
they
keep
upon
the
Sea-Coasts
,
to
give
the
Countrey
timely
notice
of
any
Pickaroons
that
come
ashoar
to
Rob
,
and
Spoyl
.
When
we
came
within
call
,
fearing
he
might
Discharge
at
us
,
we
spoke
to
him
upon
the
Watch
,
told
him
our
Condition
,
what
we
were
,
whence
we
came
,
how
we
escaped
;
and
earnestly
begged
of
him
to
direct
us
to
some
fresh
Water
,
and
in
the
mean
time
to
bestow
upon
us
some
Bread.
He
very
kindly
threw
us
down
an
old
mouldy
Cake
,
but
so
long
as
it
was
a
Cake
,
and
not
a
stone
,
nor
a
Bullet
,
Hunger
did
not
consider
it's
Mouldiness
:
Then
he
directed
us
to
fresh
Water
,
which
was
hard
by
?
We
stood
not
telling
Stories
;
we
remembred
our selves
,
we
remembred
our
Brethren
left
with
our
Boat
,
and
observing
the
Sentinels
Directions
,
came
to
a
Well
,
where
there
was
a
Pot
with
strings
to
draw
with
:
We
drank
a
little
Water
,
and
eat
a
bit
of
our
Cake
,
but
the
passage
was
so
dis-used
,
that
we
had
much
ado
to
force
our
Throats
to
relieve
our
clamourous
stomachs
:
But
here
we
staid
not
,
but
,
with
the
four
Lepers
in
the
Tents
of
the
Syrians
,
2
Kings
7.
9.
Rebuked
our selves
,
We
do
not
well
,
we
have
glad
Tidings
to
carry
,
and
do
we
hold
our
peace
?
We
return
to
our
Boat
,
are
welcomed
by
our
Companions
,
acquaint
them
with
the
good
success
of
our
Embassy
,
and
all
prepare
to
make
to
the
Well
.
And
now
we
must
leave
our
Boat
;
that
faithful
Instrument
of
God's
Providence
,
which
had
so
trustily
served
his
purpose
to
deliver
us
:
It
was
not
without
some
recoylings
upon
our
Spirits
,
that
we
should
so
much
as
in
appearance
imitate
the
ingratitude
of
those
,
who
having
served
their
private
ends
on
their
Friends
,
and
have
now
no
further
use
of
them
,
most
ungratefully
shake
them
off
:
That
we
should
be
like
the
water-dog
,
which
uses
the
water
to
pursue
his
Game
;
and
when
he
comes
to
Land
,
shakes
it
off
as
troublesome
,
and
burdensome
.
But
it
was
no
time
to
stand
upon
Complements
;
Hunger
,
Thirst
,
Weariness
,
desire
of
Refreshment
and
Rest
▪
those
importunate
Duns
,
Commanded
us
away
;
and
tying
our
Boat
as
fast
as
we
could
to
the
Shoar
,
we
left
her
to
Mercy
,
which
had
been
so
good
to
us
.
As
we
were
going
,
or
rather
creeping
,
or
crawling
towards
the
Well
,
another
Quarrel
started
amongst
us
,
the
Memory
whereof
is
so
ungrateful
,
that
I
shall
give
it
a
Burial
in
silence
,
the
best
Tomb
for
Controversies
.
And
now
we
are
at
the
Well
,
and
the
Well
is
provided
of
Water
,
and
we
have
something
to
draw
;
all
these
helps
God
has
given
us
,
but
he
must
give
us
one
more
,
even
a
throat
to
swallow
it
,
without
which
,
all
the
rest
signifie
nothing
.
This
was
the
evil
Disease
Solomon
had
observed
in
his
Daies
,
Eccles
.
6.
2.
A
Man
to
whom
God
had
given
Riches
,
Wealth
,
and
Honour
,
so
that
he
wanteth
nothing
for
his
Soul
,
of
all
that
he
desireth
;
yet
God
giveth
him
not
Power
to
eat
thereof
:
He
that
gives
us
water
to
drink
,
and
meat
to
eat
,
must
give
us
Power
to
eat
and
drink
also
.
How
totally
do
we
depend
upon
him
for
Life
,
and
Breath
,
and
all
things
!
One
of
our
Company
,
William
Adams
,
attempting
to
drink
,
after
many
Essays
was
not
able
to
swallow
it
,
but
still
the
water
returned
,
so
that
he
sunk
down
to
the
Ground
,
faintly
saying
,
I
am
a
dead
Man
?
we
forgot
our selves
,
to
remember
him
,
and
after
much
striving
,
and
forcing
,
he
took
a
little
;
and
when
he
and
we
were
refresh'd
with
our
Cake
and
water
,
we
lay
down
by
the
Well-side
till
the
Morning
.
None
of
us
could
watch
for
the
rest
,
but
One
God
watched
over
us
all
:
There
we
lay
lockt
up
,
and
buried
in
Sleep
:
The
Heavens
covered
us
,
when
we
wanted
a
Canopy
:
Each
might
say
in
the
Morning
,
with
David
,
Psal
.
3.
5.
I
laid
me
down
and
slept
;
I
awaked
,
for
the
Lord
sustained
me
.
When
it
was
clear
day
,
we
addrest
our selves
once
more
to
the
man
upon
the
watch-Tower
,
entreating
him
to
direct
us
the
ready
way
to
the
next
House
,
or
Town
,
where
we
might
find
relief
.
He
civily
points
us
towards
a
House
about
two
Miles
off
,
whither
,
with
wearied
steps
,
and
joyful
Hearts
,
we
now
began
to
Travel
:
Our
Feet
had
been
so
parboyled
,
and
quodled
with
the
Suns
heat
,
in
the
Salt-water
pickle
,
that
they
were
very
raw
,
and
more
blister'd
;
and
long
it
was
before
we
could
overcome
the
tediousness
of
those
two
Miles
.
When
we
approach'd
the
House
,
the
Owner
espying
us
,
and
concluding
by
our
shabby
garb
,
that
we
were
some
Pilfering
Rascals
,
presented
a
Fowling
Piece
at
us
,
and
chatged
us
to
stand
.
The
foremost
of
our
Company
,
who
could
speak
that
Language
well
,
meekly
told
him
,
he
might
spare
that
Language
,
we
were
not
able
if
we
had
so
wicked
a
will
;
nor
willing
if
we
had
been
able
,
to
offer
him
the
least
injury
;
That
we
were
a
Company
of
poor
Creatures
,
whom
the
wonderful
Providence
of
God
had
rescued
from
he
Slavery
of
Algiers
,
and
hoped
he
would
shew
Mercy
to
the
Afflicted
.
The
honest
Farmer
,
moved
with
our
Relation
,
sent
us
out
Bread
,
Water
,
and
Olives
,
with
which
when
we
had
refresh'd
our selves
,
we
lay
down
,
and
rested
three
or
four
hours
in
the
Field
;
and
returning
thanks
for
his
Charity
,
prepared
to
crawl
away
at
our
lame
rate
.
He
seeing
us
thankful
Beggers
,
enlarged
his
Civility
to
us
,
called
us
into
his
House
,
and
gave
us
good
warm
Bean
Pottage
,
which
seemed
to
me
the
most
Pleasant
Food
that
ever
I
eat
in
my
Life
:
Our
Leave
once
more
taken
,
we
advanced
towards
the
City
of
Mayork
,
which
from
this
place
is
about
ten
Miles
:
No
water
could
we
meet
with
upon
our
way
,
but
towards
Evening
,
we
discoverd
one
drawing
water
at
a
Well
,
we
hasted
to
him
,
and
he
drew
for
us
;
that
was
our
Supper
,
and
there
was
our
Lodging
that
Night
.
The
next
Morning
we
came
iuto
the
Suburbs
of
the
City
,
the
strangeness
of
our
Attire
,
being
bare-foot
,
bare-legg'd
,
having
nothing
on
but
loose
Coats
over
our
Shirts
;
drew
a
croud
of
enquirers
about
us
,
who
we
were
?
whence
we
came
?
whither
we
went
?
We
gave
them
a
particular
account
of
our
Deliverance
,
with
its
Circumstances
;
and
they
as
willing
to
pity
,
as
to
know
our
Estate
,
and
as
ready
to
Relieve
,
as
pity
,
accommodated
us
for
the
present
with
food
;
they
gave
us
Wine
,
and
Strong-waters
,
and
whatever
else
might
recover
our
exhausted
Spirits
;
but
told
us
,
we
must
be
obliged
to
tarry
in
the
Suburbs
,
till
the
Vice-Roy
had
notice
that
such
strangers
were
Arrived
:
He
had
soon
Information
of
us
,
and
we
as
soon
a
Command
to
appear
before
him
:
He
Examined
us
about
many
Affairs
;
what
Men
of
War
the
Algerines
had
at
Sea
?
what
strength
they
were
of
at
Land
?
But
above
all
,
he
was
most
curious
,
and
exact
in
satisfying
himself
about
our
Escape
,
our
Boat
,
our
hazzards
at
Sea
,
wherein
when
we
had
fully
obeyed
him
,
he
ordered
we
should
be
maintained
at
his
own
Cost
till
we
could
have
passage
to
our
own
Country
.
In
this
while
the
People
gathered
us
Money
to
buy
us
Clothes
and
Shooes
,
and
we
wanted
nothing
that
Nature
called
for
,
but
thankful
Hearts
to
God.
And
they
endeavoured
to
help
to
that
Mercy
too
:
As
I
was
walking
in
the
Streets
viewing
the
City
,
a
young
Man-steps
to
me
,
Friend
(
said
he
)
are
you
one
of
those
that
came
lately
over
in
the
Canvas
Boat
?
I
Answered
Yes
,
I
was
one
of
them
:
well
(
replyed
the
young
Man
)
It
was
not
the
little
Boat
,
but
the
great
God
that
brought
you
Over
.
I
must
needs
say
,
I
often
think
on
this
young
man's
words
,
and
as
often
as
I
think
on
them
they
chide
me
,
that
I
have
not
hitherto
more
publickly
owned
God
in
his
Gracious
and
wonderful
Deliverance
.
However
others
may
be
concern'd
to
read
,
I
know
not
,
yet
I
am
concern'd
to
Write
of
the
great
things
God
has
done
for
me
.
SECT
.
XIII
.
The
Providences
of
God
which
attended
us
,
and
Conducted
us
all
safe
to
England
.
IT
may
not
prove
ungrateful
to
the
Reader
,
to
see
how
the
great
God
,
who
begun
to
work
for
us
,
perfected
his
work
concerning
us
:
How
he
that
had
,
and
did
deliver
,
would
still
deliver
us
;
as
single
Stars
have
their
Glories
,
yet
Constellations
are
more
Glorious
:
So
each
Providence
of
God
is
admirable
,
but
taken
together
,
as
one
serving
another
,
and
this
helping
forwards
that
,
so
indeed
they
are
most
admirable
;
when
the
Creator
viewed
his
each
daies
work
,
it
so
punctually
answered
its
Idaea
according
to
which
,
and
Obeyed
the
Power
by
which
it
was
Created
that
he
pronounced
it
Good
;
but
when
he
reviewed
the
Product
of
the
six
daies
,
he
pronounced
all
to
be
very
good
:
Each
Letter
in
a
Book
speaks
skill
,
but
when
those
Letters
form
words
,
those
words
,
sentences
,
there
is
a
greater
Excellency
,
and
more
skill
Discovered
:
Separate
Providences
speak
out
eminently
some
of
God's
Attributes
;
but
when
we
put
them
together
,
all
the
Attributes
of
God
shine
forth
in
them
,
and
one
Illustrate
another
,
which
refl
〈…〉
a
light
upon
the
former
.
Mayork
is
a
City
where
our
English
S
〈…〉
did
seldom
Trade
,
and
we
being
full
of
desir
〈…〉
see
our
Native
Countrey
,
preferr'd
our
hum
〈…〉
Petition
to
the
Vice-Roy
,
That
we
might
〈…〉
Passage
in
the
King
of
Spains
Gallies
,
wh
〈…〉
were
then
in
the
Road
,
bound
for
Alican
〈…〉
Spain
,
which
he
graciously
granted
us
:
W
〈…〉
cold
Entertainment
we
met
with
there
〈…〉
some
of
our
own
Countrey
,
I
shall
draw
a
〈…〉
over
;
yet
even
there
we
found
the
Mercie
〈…〉
God.
One
Merchant
took
Compassion
on
〈…〉
and
Conducted
us
to
an
English-mans
Hou
〈…〉
where
we
Lodged
,
and
gave
us
half
a
Do
〈…〉
to
defray
our
Charges
.
The
next
day
,
understa
〈…〉
ing
that
there
was
an
English-man
in
the
Ro
〈…〉
bound
for
England
,
we
went
aboard
to
see
〈…〉
Passage
;
we
made
our
Condition
our
best
〈…〉
gument
to
prevail
:
The
Master
told
us
,
he
〈…〉
but
little
Provision
,
but
if
we
would
be
con
〈…〉
with
Bread
,
and
Beverage
,
we
might
go
〈…〉
accounted
that
,
Royal
Fare
,
and
accordin
〈…〉
waited
till
he
set
Sail
:
Whilst
we
were
aboa
〈…〉
two
English
Merchants
came
thither
also
,
〈…〉
were
very
earnest
that
we
would
give
them
〈…〉
short
of
our
Adventure
:
We
gratified
them
〈…〉
one
of
them
said
;
Countrey-men
,
we
have
he
〈…〉
your
story
.
After
a
few
days
,
we
set
Sail
,
〈…〉
when
we
were
at
Sea
,
were
hotly
Chased
〈…〉
two
Turkish
Men
of
War
,
but
being
near
〈…〉
A
Further
Narrative
of
James
Deane
and
others
.
THe
Methods
of
Gods
Providence
are
Various
,
yet
all
equally
fraight
with
,
and
guided
with
adorable
Wisdom
,
Justice
,
and
goodness
towards
the
Children
of
Men
;
sometimes
by
His
Blessing
Hee
is
pleased
to
Crown
weak
and
unlikely
means
with
strange
and
Amazing
success
:
At
other
times
to
Blast
Hopefull
projects
,
and
divert
or
overthrow
promising
designs
when
they
seem
full
ripe
for
Execution
.
By
the
one
Hee
encourages
our
Faith
in
Himself
;
by
the
other
,
corrects
our
presumption
on
our
own
Inventions
,
and
by
Both
,
Glorifies
his
own
Omnipotency
,
Teaching
us
,
That
in
and
by
Him
we
can
do
all
things
,
but
without
Him
,
Nothing
.
The
foregoing
Narrative
of
a
Stupendious
Deliverance
,
is
a
signal
Instance
of
the
First
.
And
that
which
is
here
subjoin'd
(
referring
in
diverse
Respects
to
the
like
Subject
,
tho
failing
in
an
equal
Success
)
may
serve
as
an
Example
of
the
second
.
And
tho'
our
Relation
abound
not
in
such
Varieties
of
Wonder
,
yet
may
the
same
be
of
some
Satisfaction
and
Use
to
the
Reader
,
as
well
for
acquainting
him
with
the
Miserie
's
poor
Christians
endure
under
the
Tyranny
of
cruel
Mahumetans
,
thereby
to
awaken
his
Compassion
,
as
also
to
raise
his
pious
thoughts
to
an
Adoration
of
the
Divine
power
and
Wisdom
,
so
Visibly
,
tho
Differently
manifested
,
in
these
two
Cases
,
wherein
as
farr
as
mans
Eye
could
reach
,
the
Contrivance
the
Conduct
,
and
probability
,
seemed
Equal
,
or
rather
to
have
excell'd
in
the
latter
,
tho
frustrated
of
Effect
.
On
the
25.
of
June
1679.
we
Sailed
from
Bristol
in
a
Vessel
called
the
Robert
and
Hester
,
Captain
William
Stoakes
Commander
,
bound
for
Barbado's
.
Those
that
go
down
to
the
Sea
in
Ships
behold
the
Wonders
of
the
Lord
in
the
deep
,
says
the
Royal
Psalmist
;
And
I
could
wish
that
all
such
would
lay
those
Wonders
more
to
heart
,
so
as
better
to
Improve
their
Lives
:
To
Consider
,
that
they
are
every
minute
within
a
few
Inches
of
certain
Death
,
nothing
but
a
poor
plank
(
the
daily
Embl●●
of
their
Coffin
)
between
them
and
a
watry
Grave
;
That
every
hour
they
are
subject
to
Storms
and
Tempests
,
ready
to
become
a
prey
between
the
fury
of
contending
Winds
and
Waves
;
besides
the
hazard
of
Enemies
and
Pyrates
,
and
a
Thousand
other
Casualties
,
all
which
were
enough
one
would
think
to
keep
them
in
the
most
sober
frame
,
an
Holy
Conversation
and
strict
Dependence
on
that
all-sufficient
Power
,
who
alone
can
protect
them
from
so
many
immediate
and
Round-threatning
Dangers
;
But
so
incorrigibly
hard
and
wicked
is
the
Heart
of
Man
,
that
we
find
too
many
under
the
prospect
of
all
these
Wonders
and
Perils
utterly
insensible
;
Mariners
that
fill
their
Sails
with
the
Breath
of
Cursing
and
Blasphemies
,
and
encrease
the
raging
of
the
Sea
with
the
Vomits
of
their
Surfeiting
and
Drunkenness
;
And
what
can
such
expect
but
swift
Destruction
,
even
to
be
Swallowed
up
by
an
Ocean
of
Water
,
and
delivered
over
to
a
Deluge
of
everlasting
Flames
?
I
speak
this
not
as
reflecting
on
our
Ships
Crew
in
particular
(
wherein
most
were
at
least
Civiliz'd
Persons
)
but
for
a
General
Caution
;
Nor
yet
dare
I
excuse
my self
and
our
Company
from
many
neglects
of
our
Duty
,
for
which
it
appears
in
the
Sequel
,
God
had
a
Controversie
with
us
,
whose
Justice
always
punishes
us
,
that
we
should
not
Sin
,
and
never
but
for
Sinning
.
After
a
week
pleasant
Sailing
,
on
the
2d
.
of
July
at
Day
light
,
we
saw
two
Ships
standing
towards
us
,
and
soon
discovered
them
to
be
Turkish
Men
of
Warr
,
which
put
us
into
a
great
and
General
Consternation
,
as
knowing
how
unprepared
we
were
for
resistance
,
both
for
our
small
strength
,
and
for
that
ours
was
a
Pesterd
Ship
by
reason
of
a
quantity
of
Hay
we
had
on
Deck
and
elsewhere
,
for
a
dozen
Horses
we
carried
with
us
;
However
we
resolv'd
to
Sell
our
Liberty
at
the
best
rate
we
could
,
and
prepared
to
Entertain
them
;
within
an
hour
and
an
half
,
one
of
them
was
came
up
along
by
our
side
,
and
for
the
First
Complement
fired
in
his
Broad-side
and
a
lustly
Volley
of
small
Shott
,
which
shot
off
our
Taller
,
and
wounded
us
three
Men
,
but
none
mortally
;
Kild
also
one
of
our
Horses
in
the
Hold
,
and
having
received
two
Shots
more
between
Wind
and
Water
,
we
quickly
had
about
4
or
5
foot
Water
in
the
Hold
:
we
Answered
them
with
our
Guns
,
but
to
little
purpose
;
for
having
soon
spent
all
the
Powder
we
had
up
out
of
our
Powder-Room
,
and
it
being
Impossible
for
us
at
that
instant
to
come
at
any
more
;
and
at
the
same
time
perceiving
the
other
Ship
almost
with
us
,
and
that
it
was
impossible
we
should
make
good
our
Defence
against
2
of
the
best
Ships
of
Algeirs
(
For
they
proved
to
be
the
Golden
Horse
,
old
Canaria
Captain
,
and
the
other
the
Golden
Rose
,
young
Canaria
Captain
,
)
we
thought
best
to
Compound
for
our
Lives
at
the
price
of
our
Liberties
,
and
surrendred
our
Ship.
Hereupon
their
Boat
came
aboard
and
fetcht
us
all
away
,
except
two
whom
they
left
aboard
with
some
of
their
Turks
and
Moors
.
When
we
came
on
Board
the
Turks
man
of
Warr
,
the
Captain
by
an
Interpreter
inquired
our
Lading
,
and
with
many
menaces
exacted
a
full
Account
to
the
best
of
our
knowledge
,
soon
after
they
took
2
Ships
more
,
and
ere
they
went
off
our
Coast
,
they
surpriz'd
in
all
9
Ships
,
wherein
were
about
170
Souls
.
And
having
taken
the
men
out
,
and
pillag'd
their
pleasure
;
some
of
the
Ships
they
Burnt
,
and
others
Sunk
,
having
not
Men
enough
to
spare
to
Man
so
many
,
but
three
of
the
best
they
sent
away
home
;
And
having
now
been
out
of
the
Straights
near
six
Weeks
,
they
are
afraid
to
venture
in
without
clearing
their
Ships
,
and
therefore
went
on
the
South
Coast
of
Barbary
to
Magadore
,
touching
also
at
Saphe
and
other
Towns
to
take
in
fresh
Provisions
;
All
this
time
we
poor
Captive
Christians
were
put
every
night
in
Irons
.
The
manner
whereof
was
thus
,
between
2
spare
Top-Masts
between
the
Decks
placed
about
6
asunder
,
we
sat
close
to
one
another
on
each
side
,
and
in
the
middle
went
a
long
Iron
Bolt
between
our
Shackles
,
so
that
we
were
constrained
to
sleep
sitting
(
when
the
necessitie
of
Nature
could
Charm
our
perplexed
Spirits
into
any
kind
of
Repose
;
)
not
being
afforded
Room
to
lye
down
;
And
the
weather
being
extream
hot
,
and
the
place
close
and
Sultry
,
we
were
forced
to
sit
naked
;
The
Provisions
alotted
to
keep
us
alive
,
(
who
now
began
rather
to
Court
and
wish
for
Death
)
was
only
a
small
pittance
of
Bread
,
and
some
Vinegar
,
with
a
few
drops
of
Oyl
,
and
this
was
all
our
Allowance
for
24
Hours
;
and
that
which
yet
added
more
to
our
misery
was
,
that
they
afforded
us
not
much
above
a
pint
of
Water
a
Day
,
so
that
thro'
very
extremit●
of
Thirst
,
we
were
frequently
forc'd
to
beg
and
intreat
of
the
Moors
boys
,
to
bring
us
salt
Water
,
and
could
but
seldome
obtain
that
favour
of
them
neither
;
Nay
when
we
were
in
Magadore
,
tho
we
could
(
like
Tantalus
for
our
greater
Torture
)
see
the
Fresh-Water
plentifully
on
the
shore
,
and
were
almost
Dead
with
Drought
,
in
working
and
continual
heaving
in
of
Ballast
,
yet
we
could
not
be
allow'd
but
about
3
pints
for
four
and
twenty
Hours
,
and
half
of
that
too
,
Salt
or
brackish
;
whereby
we
became
so
faint
that
we
could
hardly
stand
on
our
Legs
;
but
it
was
vain
to
Intreat
or
expect
any
other
usage
from
those
whose
tenderest
Mercies
were
the
Extremities
of
Cruelly
,
unless
we
would
have
abandon'd
all
fear
of
God
,
and
respect
to
modesty
and
the
Dignity
of
Humane
Nature
,
by
Condescending
to
the
detestable
sollicitations
of
their
most
unnatural
Lusts
,
to
which
they
were
not
wanting
in
their
cursed
Importunities
;
so
that
our
very
Souls
were
not
free
from
their
Tortures
;
They
being
so
filthy
as
to
mix
with
Brute
Beast
,
having
seen
such
Evidences
of
their
abominations
in
that
kind
,
with
some
Creatures
that
were
on
Board
,
as
fill'd
our
Hearts
with
horror
,
and
are
not
fit
to
be
named
amongst
Christians
:
At
length
the
Wind
standing
fair
,
they
resolv'd
to
Sail
Homewards
;
but
first
must
perform
their
Orisons
;
(
for
these
Filthy-Infidels
at
to
the
outward
Ceremonies
and
observances
of
their
wicked
Religion
are
Extraordinary
Punctual
;
)
Therefore
for
a
Peace-Offering
to
the
Sea
,
(
or
whether
it
were
to
Mahomet
,
to
send
them
an
Happy
passage
,
I
know
not
,
they
offered
their
Sacrifice
of
a
Sheep
,
having
first
cut
in
the
midst
,
one
half
they
heaved
Over-Board
on
the
one
side
,
the
other
on
the
other
;
with
certain
Muttering
Prayers
which
we
understood
not
;
This
fit
of
Devotion
being
past
,
they
make
all
the
Sail
they
could
,
and
in
they
stand
through
the
Streights-Mouth
,
and
in
two
or
three
days
Arrived
at
their
Desired
Port
;
Nor
was
it
undesired
by
us
:
For
as
we
long'd
to
know
the
worst
of
our
Condition
,
so
we
flattered
our selves
that
it
must
needs
be
better
than
that
on
Board
,
at
least
that
there
we
should
have
Water
enough
,
the
Want
of
which
here
was
intollerable
.
Being
brought
ashore
we
were
sent
to
the
Armidore's
House
,
and
the
next
day
carried
to
the
Pallace
of
the
Dey
,
Bashaw
,
or
King
,
who
by
his
Prerogative
out
of
every
Eight
Slaves
brought
in
,
Chuses
one
,
and
commonly
elects
the
Captains
,
as
supposing
they
are
able
to
procure
the
best
Ransome
,
or
if
there
happen
to
be
taken
any
young
Lady
of
Extraordinary
Beauty
or
Youth
,
well
Featur'd
,
and
of
a
promising
Aspect
,
these
he
snaps
,
and
sends
away
as
most
Acceptable
Presents
to
the
Grand
Seignior
;
for
whom
there
is
never
any
Redemption
.
The
next
day
about
eight
of
us
were
carried
into
the
Market
,
and
one
or
two
of
the
Kings
Slaves
with
us
,
where
about
one
a
Clock
we
were
led
about
the
Market
,
one
by
one
by
a
Negro
,
who
in
the
Turkish
Language
cryed
out
as
he
went
,
to
this
effect
—
Here
is
a
brave
Captain
,
a
Mate
,
a
Merchant
,
&c.
(
as
the
Person
is
quallified
)
one
has
bid
so
much
,
who
bids
more
?
And
when
they
have
been
the
Market
round
,
and
none
will
give
more
,
then
they
put
him
by
;
And
so
proceed
till
all
are
sold
.
And
then
they
have
us
to
the
Kings
House
again
,
and
if
He
or
any
else
there
,
will
give
more
but
to
the
value
of
a
shilling
then
was
bid
in
the
Market
,
he
shall
have
the
Slave
;
otherwise
the
Market
Chapman
takes
him
,
and
he
is
thenceforth
absolutely
His
,
It
was
my
hard
fortune
to
be
sold
to
a
Tagareen
(
or
Moor
,
whose
Ancestors
formerly
came
out
of
Spain
,
and
ever
since
assume
the
Title
of
that
City
from
whence
they
were
driven
)
but
his
Name
was
Haly
Hammet
Ben
Jejilee
,
and
for
his
Temper
it
was
well
known
,
for
as
I
came
out
with
him
from
the
Kings
House
,
several
told
me
I
had
got
a
Cursed
Patroon
.
But
I
was
now
in
,
for
better
for
worse
,
and
followed
him
very
obsequiously
to
his
House
,
where
after
a
day
or
two
,
I
with
others
of
his
Slaves
(
whereof
several
were
English
)
were
set
to
gather
dung
out
of
a
Fondack
,
as
they
call
it
,
being
the
place
where
Horses
,
Asses
,
Mules
,
and
Cows
and
other
Cattel
,
sometimes
to
the
number
of
100
or
more
were
kept
,
and
also
the
place
of
Slaughter
,
where
they
killed
Beasts
as
oft
as
they
had
occasion
,
whose
Blood
mixt
with
their
Dung
in
that
hot
Climate
,
made
it
very
noisome
and
offensive
;
but
we
must
not
be
Dainty-Nosed
,
but
rake
it
up
into
Baskets
,
and
carry
it
out
on
our
Heads
or
Shoulders
,
to
a
Dunghil
at
a
great
distance
.
This
Jobb
being
finisht
,
we
were
put
to
work
in
the
Mould
,
abord
Prizes
,
for
sometime
,
and
after
that
sent
to
the
Garden
or
Vineyard
(
for
it
was
both
)
about
four
miles
from
the
Town
,
where
instead
of
digging
with
a
Spade
,
we
had
only
a
Chopp
of
8.
or
10l
.
weight
which
we
were
forced
to
work
vvith
at
Arms-end
,
and
I
think
vvas
as
hard
Labour
as
any
could
be
,
unless
grinding
at
their
Silk-Mills
;
and
if
vve
Loitered
,
or
they
vvere
pleased
to
think
vve
did
so
,
presently
vve
had
many
blovvs
on
the
back
,
and
sides
,
and
sometimes
on
the
Soles
of
the
feet
,
and
our
hair
torn
off
our
heads
,
with
other
inexpressible
Cruelties
,
whilst
in
the
mean
time
,
we
had
many
times
but
one
poor
Cake
of
Course
Bread
allowed
us
per
day
for
our
diet
,
and
our
Lodging
at
night
most
hard
and
miserable
,
for
frequently
when
we
were
in
the
City
,
we
were
driven
into
a
Nasty
Cellar
,
where
was
an
House
of
Office
that
stank
intollerably
;
and
the
room
so
small
,
that
there
being
near
twenty
of
us
,
it
would
not
afford
breadth
or
length
enough
for
us
to
Ly●
Down
,
but
there
were
some
Bords
put
up
and
a
Platoon
made
about
thre
foot
from
the
Ground
,
where
some
lay
a
top
,
and
the
rest
under
neath
.
Thus
for
many
long
moneths
we
continued
as
miserable
,
as
to
this
World
,
as
't
was
possible
for
the
Envy
and
Cruelty
of
our
Patroon
to
make
us
.
You
need
not
doubt
but
we
had
often
thoughts
of
making
our
Escape
,
but
the
manner
how
to
do
it
,
seemed
next
to
impossible
;
yet
as
N●cessity
is
the
Mother
of
Invention
,
variety
of
ways
were
proposed
,
some
that
were
men
of
Courage
heated
by
these
Cruelties
to
a
degree
of
▪
Desperation
,
were
for
taking
a
Boat
from
the
Mould
at
Noon-day
,
&
going
away
maugre
all
their
Force
,
and
defying
them
to
Catch
us
,
but
this
was
lookt
upon
as
extravagant
,
others
had
other
projects
;
and
no
sooner
was
any
thing
offered
,
but
it
was
disliked
,
for
indeed
all
were
attended
with
insuperable
Difficulties
,
and
yet
so
greedy
were
we
of
Liberty
,
that
we
would
Catch
at
any
thing
that
seemed
to
promise
us
that
happiness
,
and
somewhat
eased
our
present
miseries
by
those
pleasing
thoughts
and
Idaeas
;
which
yet
our
recollected
Reason
told
us
were
vain
and
impracticable
.
At
length
one
of
my
Fellow-Slaves
told
me
of
a
design
that
He
and
some
others
had
of
getting
away
,
which
he
verily
believed
might
be
feazible
,
and
after
he
had
sworn
me
to
Secresy
,
acquainted
me
,
That
it
was
by
building
a
Boat
privately
,
but
that
they
wanted
strength
,
and
an
Artificer
for
the
Work
;
which
I
undertook
to
procure
;
The
Names
of
us
Concerned
in
his
Project
were
William
Johnson
,
Captain
Peter
Palmer
,
Doctor
John
Atwood
,
of
London
,
Captain
Thomas
Cheiney
,
William
Knight
of
Bristol
,
Henry
Bull
,
William
Phelps
,
Arnold
Showel
of
Bristol
,
Captain
,
Another
a
Carpenter
,
whose
name
I
know
not
,
though
I
brought
him
into
the
design
;
Three
Spaniards
,
a
Portuguez
Negro
,
who
were
with
us
in
the
Garden
,
and
my self
.
Matters
being
thus
resolved
on
,
we
applyed
our selves
to
getting
of
Thyme
,
some
of
which
we
furnisht
our selves
with
,
out
of
our
own
and
the
rest
from
other
Folks
Gardens
,
in
the
Night
(
wherein
if
we
had
been
Caught
,
we
should
have
had
Three
or
400
Bastinadoes
for
Breakfast
)
and
it
was
almost
a
miracle
,
how
those
which
lay
in
the
Garden
,
viz.
John
Atwood
and
the
Spaniards
,
escaped
it
,
the
Moors
lying
very
thick
up
and
down
the
Hedges
;
but
at
last
after
much
time
,
hazard
and
industry
,
we
had
formed
our
Keel
,
which
vvas
twenty
foot
long
,
six
foot
broad
and
three
foot
deep
,
and
our
Timbers
fitted
to
their
places
,
with
holes
ready
bored
,
that
there
should
not
want
much
knocking
,
when
vve
should
set
her
up
for
good
and
all
;
we
had
likewise
got
Canes
to
make
fast
with
Rope-yarns
from
Timber
to
Timber
,
as
also
,
Pitch
,
Tar
,
Tallow
,
and
other
requisites
,
For
providing
of
which
;
you
must
know
,
that
some
of
us
had
saved
privately
,
some
small
parcels
of
money
,
and
others
being
suffered
to
work
at
their
own
hand
,
and
follovv
Trades
,
paying
their
Patroons
so
much
a
Month
,
got
Money
,
which
they
expended
freely
on
this
occasion
▪
But
the
great
difficulty
was
to
get
the
dressed
Hides
wherewith
we
intended
to
cover
our
Boat
,
and
to
help
us
therein
we
were
beholding
to
Mr.
Showel
,
who
since
his
Slavery
,
upon
I
know
not
what
former
insight
into
that
Mystery
,
had
set
up
for
a
Cobler
,
and
lived
from
his
Patroon
under
Contribution
;
and
by
that
means
had
the
Opportunity
to
buy
them
,
which
were
privately
convey'd
into
those
things
in
which
we
carried
Dung
on
the
Mules
,
and
so
got
out
of
the
Tovvn
,
and
so
sovved
up
,
vvhich
vvas
most
artificially
performed
by
Mr.
Showel
and
Mr.
Bull
,
and
the
Boats
covering
most
conveniently
prepared
,
and
all
things
hid
in
parcells
near
the
Sea-side
ready
for
the
Voyage
.
Hitherto
things
going
on
thus
fairly
,
and
every
one
of
our
Cabal
expecting
no
less
than
Liberty
,
the
very
day
appointed
for
our
going
away
at
Evening
being
come
,
and
having
provided
Bread
and
Water
and
other
Necessaries
for
that
purpose
.
It
happen'd
our
Patroon
himself
,
who
had
not
been
in
the
Garden
for
sometime
,
did
,
by
I
know
not
what
ill-Fortune
,
or
rather
as
to
me
good
Providence
,
come
into
the
Garden
,
of
whose
approach
a
Spaniard
set
for
a
Spye
,
gave
them
notice
,
so
that
they
had
time
enough
to
hide
their
things
which
they
were
preparing
that
night
to
set
together
,
but
some
of
them
being
found
rambling
,
were
strictly
Examined
,
and
when
come
home
severely
Beaten
upon
Suspition
,
but
they
stood
it
out
stiffly
,
and
never
Impeached
any
.
In
the
mean
time
I
was
gone
to
call
some
more
of
our
Company
,
and
at
my
return
received
tidings
from
the
Spaniard
how
Cases
stood
▪
whereupon
we
consulted
,
whether
it
were
best
to
go
on
presently
,
or
deferr
it
for
some
time
,
and
it
was
carried
for
waiting
another
Opportunity
;
which
whilst
we
were
expecting
,
another
Accident
put
us
to
stand
,
which
was
thus
,
Some
of
our
Timbers
being
bound
together
,
and
put
into
the
next
Garden
by
Consent
of
a
Spaniard
,
vvho
of
Necessity
must
be
made
privy
to
the
Design
,
his
Patroon
happen'd
to
light
upon
them
so
out
to
pieces
,
and
violently
be●t
his
Slave
,
but
by
good
luck
this
old
Fellovv
and
our
Patroon
vvere
not
Friends
,
and
so
the
business
never
came
to
his
Ear.
Therefore
this
Disappointment
of
the
loss
of
our
Timber
did
not
vvholly
discourage
,
but
got
others
and
framed
them
,
and
had
brought
all
things
again
to
perfection
,
vvhen
once
more
our
project
vvas
Interrupted
,
and
by
other
hands
and
in
an
untimely
manner
put
in
Execution
.
For
about
the
latter
end
of
November
1681
there
came
from
other
Gardens
2
Dutchmen
▪
a
Spaniard
and
some
others
;
Who
,
by
I
cannot
guess
,
what
means
,
being
acquainted
with
our
Designs
,
and
the
forwardness
we
were
in
,
they
Ingratiated
themselves
with
the
Spaniards
that
lay
in
our
Garden
,
and
agree
with
them
forthwith
to
make
use
of
this
Expedient
for
their
Escape
,
And
thereupon
they
threaten
John
Atwood
,
who
also
lay
there
,
that
if
He
would
not
Consent
and
go
with
them
,
they
would
forthwith
Kill
him
to
prevent
his
making
a
Discovery
.
Poor
Mr.
Atwood
was
loth
to
abandon
his
Friends
,
and
Rob
them
of
that
means
which
they
so
long
and
with
such
Danger
and
Charge
had
been
Contriving
to
leave
them
behind
,
and
Embarque
himself
with
〈◊〉
as
were
for
the
most
part
Strangers
;
yet
dread
of
Death
and
Hopes
of
Liberty
prevailed
with
him
to
Comply
;
〈◊〉
under
pretence
of
some
〈…〉
another
Garden
where
was
an
Englishman
privy
to
the
Intrigue
and
〈…〉
was
and
that
the
Carpenter
was
at
Work
〈…〉
resolved
to
be
going
by
〈…〉
Clock
▪
〈…〉
poor
Mans
Patroon
being
in
the
Garden
,
he
could
not
come
till
Fight
,
and
finding
then
gone
runs
to
the
Sea●side
,
and
in
his
hast
set
several
Doggs
a
Barking
〈…〉
supposed
they
fearing
some
might
be
in
〈…〉
of
them
,
〈…〉
a
Jarr
of
Water
,
some
Figs
,
some
Bread
,
and
a
Blank
〈…〉
behind
them
;
and
so
the
before
mentioned
Englishman
lamenting
the
loss
of
this
Opportunity
,
returned
to
his
Garden
undiscovered
.
Next
morning
't
was
my
lot
vvith
one
of
my
Fellovv
Slaves
to
be
sent
into
the
Garden
,
but
finding
no
body
there
,
and
quickly
perceiving
other
Symptomes
,
I
concluded
they
vvere
gone
▪
But
Oh!
hovv
much
anger
did
I
svvell
vvith
against
them
for
leaving
me
behind
,
(
for
as
yet
I
understood
not
the
Truth
,
tho
aftervvards
I
did
,
from
the
before-mentioned
English-man
that
came
too
late
,
)
and
vvhat
an
Excess
of
Grief
and
sorrovv
did
possess
me
for
not
going
vvith
them
;
vvhen
yet
this
very
thing
which
I
so
much
fretted
my self
about
,
was
to
me
the
the
most
eminent
Mercy
of
Providence
;
for
those
that
went
off
,
were
never
any
of
them
heard
of
,
so
that
't
is
Justly
supposed
they
were
all
lost
and
cast
away
:
And
as
for
me
that
vvas
left
behind
,
vvithin
six
vveeks
after
,
my
Ransome-Money
came
from
England
,
being
400
pieces
of
Eight
,
besides
218
for
Charges
,
and
so
I
safely
returned
to
my
Native
Countrey
;
For
vvhich
Gratious
Providence
of
God
,
as
I
hope
I
shall
never
forget
to
return
him
continual
thanks
from
the
Centre
of
my
Soul
,
so
I
thought
it
no
less
than
my
Duty
to
give
this
Publique
Testimony
of
my
Gratitude
to
that
Divine
and
Adorable
Power
to
whom
be
all
praise
,
Glory
,
and
Honour
both
now
and
for
Ever-more
.
James
Deane
.
FINIS
.