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[He was justly reproved by his wife, for she was more serious thanhe at first.]
It was not above a week after they had these arms, and went abroad,before the ungrateful creatures began to be as insolent andtroublesome as ever. However, an accident happened presently uponthis, which endangered the safety of them all, and they wereobliged to lay by all private resentments, and look to thepreservation of their lives.
ich theylost their masts. They told us they expected to have seen theBahama Islands, but were then driven away again to the south-east,by a strong gale of wind at NNW., the same that blew now: andhaving no sails to work the ship with but a main course, and a kindof square sail upon a jury fore-mast, which they had set up, theycould not lie near the wind, but were endeavouring to stand awayfor the Canaries.
But the next care was the poor maid: she lay all along upon thedeck, hard by her mistress, and just like one that had fallen downin a fit of apoplexy, and struggled for life. Her limbs weredistorted; one of her hands was clasped round the frame of thechair, and she gripped it so hard that we could not easily make herlet it go; her other arm lay over her head, and her feet lay bothtogether, set fast against the frame of the cabin table: in short,she lay just like one in the agonies of death, and yet she wasalive too. The poor creature was not only starved with hunger, andterrified with the thoughts of death, but, as the men told usafterwards, was broken-hearted for her mistress, whom she saw dyingfor two or three days before, and whom she loved most tenderly. Weknew not what to do with this poor girl; for when our surgeon, whowas a man of very great knowledge and experience, had, with greatapplication, recovered her as to life, he had her upon his handsstill; for she was little less than distracted for
Upon this discourse, however, and their promising, as above, toendeavour to persuade their wives to embrace Christianity, hemarried the two other couple; but Will Atkins and his wife were notyet come in. After this, my clergyman, waiting a while, wascurious to know where Atkins was gone, and turning to me, said, "Ientreat you, sir, let us walk out of your labyrinth here and look;I daresay we shall find this poor man somewhere or other talkingseriously to his wife, and teaching her already something ofreligion." I began to be of the same mind; so we went outtogether, and I carried him a way which none knew but myself, andwhere the trees were so very thick that it was not easy to seethrough the thicket of leaves, and far harder to see in than to seeout: when, coming to the edge of the wood, I saw Atkins and histawny wife sitting under the shade of a bush, very eager indiscourse: I stopped short till my clergyman came up to me, andthen having showed him where they were, we stood and looked verysteadily at
