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　　This was so positively insisted on by the governor Spaniard, thatthere was no gainsaying it; and as merciful counsels are most aptto prevail where they are so earnestly pressed, so they all cameinto it. But then it was to be considered what should be done tokeep them from doing the mischief they designed; for all agreed,governor and all, that means were to be used for preserving thesociety from danger. After a long debate, it was agreed that theyshould be disarmed, and not permitted to have either gun, powder,shot, sword, or any weapon; that they should be turned out of thesociety, and left to live where they would and how they would, bythemselves; but that none of the rest, either Spaniards or English,should hold any kind of converse with them, or have anything to dowith them; that they should be forbid to come within a certaindistance of the place where the rest dwelt; and if they offered tocommit any disorder, so as to spoil, burn, kill, or destroy any ofthe corn, plantings, buildings, fences, or cattl

l have anything todo with her." All this appeared so just, that every one agreed toit without any difficulty.

　　The Spaniards, indeed, despised them, and especially, having thusdisarmed them, made light of their threatenings; but the twoEnglishmen resolved to have their remedy against them, what painssoever it cost to find them out. But the Spaniards interposed heretoo, and told them that as they had disarmed them, they could notconsent that they (the two) should pursue them with firearms, andperhaps kill them. "But," said the grave Spaniard, who was theirgovernor, "we will endeavour to make them do you justice, if youwill leave it to us: for there is no doubt but they will come tous again, when their passion is over, being not able to subsistwithout our assistance. We promise you to make no peace with themwithout having full satisfaction for you; and upon this conditionwe hope you will promise to use no violence with them, other thanin your own defence." The two Englishmen yielded to this veryawkwardly, and with great reluctance; but the Spaniards protestedthat they did it only to keep them from bloodshed, and

d be left; for I toldthem it was a mad thing they were going about, and supposed most ofthem would have the fate of Tom Jeffry.

　　As brutish and barbarous as these fellows were at home, theirstomachs turned at this sight, and they did not know what to do.To refuse the prisoners would have been the highest affront to thesavage gentry that could be offered them, and what to do with themthey knew not. However, after some debate, they resolved to acceptof them: and, in return, they gave the savages that brought themone of their hatchets, an old key, a knife, and six or seven oftheir bullets; which, though they did not understand their use,they seemed particularly pleased with; and then tying the poorcreatures' hands behind them, they dragged the prisoners into theboat for our men.

　　In pursuit of this odd sort of game it was our hap to meet withabout forty Tartars: whether they were hunting mutton, as we were,or whether they looked for another kind of prey, we know not; butas soon as they saw us, one of them blew a hideous blast on a kindof horn. This was to call their friends about them, and in lessthan ten minutes a troop of forty or fifty more appeared, at abouta mile distance; but our work was over first, as it happened.

　　CHAPTER VI - THE FRENCH CLERGYMAN'S COUNSEL

l day: it wasuppermost in all my thoughts, and my fancy worked so steadily andstrongly upon it that I talked of it in my sleep; in short, nothingcould remove it out of my mind: it even broke so violently intoall my discourses that it made my conversation tiresome, for Icould talk of nothing else; all my discourse ran into it, even toimpertinence; and I saw it myself.

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