they had spent their time since they had come to the isle.

He brought twelve men to the spot where I stood, and said, "Sir,
all these men owe their lives to you." Then, one by one, they
came up to me, not as if they had been the mere crew of a ship,
but like men of rank who had come to kiss the hand of their king.

The first thing was to bear all that had been done in the isle
since I had left it. But I must first state that, when we were on
the point to set sail from the isle, a feud sprang up on board
our ship, which we could not put down, till we had laid two of
the men in chains. The next day, these two men stole each of them
a gun and some small arms, and took the ship's boat, and ran off
with it to join the three bad men on shore.

As soon as I found this out, I sent the long-boat on shore, with
twelve men and the mate, and off they went to seek the two who
had left the ship. But their search was in vain, nor could they
find one of the rest, for they had all fled to the woods when
they saw the boat. We had now lost five of the crew, but the
three first were so much worse than the last two, that in a few
days they sent them out of doors, and would have no more to do
with them, nor would they for a long while give them food to eat.

So the two poor men had to live as well as they could by hard
work, and they set up their tents on the north shore of the isle,
to be out of the way of the wild men, who were wont to land on
the east side. Here they built them two huts, one to lodge in,
and one to lay up their stores in; and the men from Spain gave
them some corn for seed, as well as some peas which I had left