voyage. When everything was ready, we sailed away to the
fishing-grounds. Purposely catching nothing, I said we had better go
farther out. The Moor agreed, and I ran the boat out near a league
farther; then I brought to as if I would fish. Instead of that, however,
I stepped forward, and, stooping behind the Moor, took him by surprise
and tossed him overboard. He rose to the surface, and called on me to
take him in. For reply I presented a gun at him, and told him if he came
nearer the boat I would shoot him, and that as the sea was calm, he
might easily swim ashore. So he turned about, and swam for the shore,
and I make no doubt but he reached it with ease.

About ten days afterwards, as I was steering out to double a cape, I
came in sight of a Portuguese ship. On coming nearer, they hailed me,
but I understood not a word. At last a Scotch sailor called to me, and I
answered I was an Englishman, and had made my escape from the Moors of
Salee. They then bade me come on board, and very kindly took me in, with
all my goods.

We had a very good voyage to the Brazils, and when we reached our
destination the captain recommended me to an honest man who had a sugar
plantation. Here I settled down for a while, and learned the planting of
sugar. Then I took a piece of land, and became a planter myself. My
affairs prospered, and had I continued in the station I was now in, I
had room for many happy things to have yet befallen me; but I was still
to be the agent of my own miseries.


_II.--Lord of an Island and Alone_