glad of, and returned the long-boat accordingly; and as to the men that
came with the pinnace, as the captain had singled out such men as he knew
would not come over to us, so they had positive orders not to bring any one
of us on board again, upon pain of death; and indeed both were so true to
our points, that we neither asked them to stay, nor they us to go.

We were now a good troop, being in all twenty-seven men, very well armed,
and provided with everything but victuals; we had two carpenters among us,
a gunner, and, which was worth all the rest, a surgeon or doctor; that is
to say, he was an assistant to a surgeon at Goa, and was entertained as a
supernumerary with us. The carpenters had brought all their tools, the
doctor all his instruments and medicines, and indeed we had a great deal of
baggage, that is to say, on the whole, for some of us had little more than
the clothes on our backs, of whom I was one; but I had one thing which none
of them had, viz., I had the twenty-two moidores of gold which I had stole
at the Brazils, and two pieces of eight. The two pieces of eight I showed,
and one moidore, and none of them ever suspected that I had any more money
in the world, having been known to be only a poor boy taken up in charity,
as you have heard, and used like a slave, and in the worst manner of a
slave, by my cruel master the pilot.

It will be easy to imagine we four that were left at first were joyful,
nay, even surprised with joy at the coming of the rest, though at first we
were frighted, and thought they came to fetch us back to hang us; but they
took ways quickly to satisfy us that they were in the same condition with
us, only with this additional circumstance, theirs was voluntary, and ours
by force.

The first piece of news they told us after the short history of their
coming away was, that our companion was on board, but how he got thither we