大飞在洪兴什么地位

《 大飞在洪兴什么地位》

ee tothemselves, their fright was over, and they saw no savages forseveral years after.

　　They were going on in this little thriving position when the threeunnatural rogues, their own countrymen too, in mere humour, and toinsult them, came and bullied them, and told them the island wastheirs: that the governor, meaning me, had given them thepossession of it, and nobody else had any right to it; and thatthey should build no houses upon their ground unless they would payrent for them. The two men, thinking they were jesting at first,asked them to come in and sit down, and see what fine houses theywere that they had built, and to tell them what rent they demanded;and one of them merrily said if they were the ground-landlords, hehoped if they built tenements upon their land, and madeimprovements, they would, according to the custom of landlords,grant a long lease: and desired they would get a scrivener to drawthe writings. One of the three, cursing and raging, told them theyshould see they were not in jest; and going to a little place at adistance, where the honest men had made a fire to dress t

　　The governor, who found that the having women among them wouldpresently be attended with some inconvenience, and might occasionsome strife, and perhaps blood, asked the three men what theyintended to do with these women, and how they intended to use them,whether as servants or as wives? One of the Englishmen answered,very boldly and readily, that they would use them as both; to whichthe governor said: "I am not going to restrain you from it - youare your own masters as to that; but this I think is but just, foravoiding disorders and quarrels among you, and I desire it of youfor that reason only, viz. that you will all engage, that if any ofyou take any of these women as a wife, he shall take but one; andthat having taken one, none else shall touch her; for though wecannot marry any one of you, yet it is but reasonable that, whileyou stay here, the woman any of you takes shall be maintained bythe man that takes her, and should be his wife - I mean," says he,"while he continues here, and that none else shal