and bade him turn it well in his mind first, as the girl was not
in the same rank of life as he had been brought up in. But he
said, with a smile, that I had made a wrong guess, for it was
"Jack of all Trades" that he had come to plead for. It gave me
great joy to hear this, as the maid was as good a girl as could
be, and I thought well of Jack; so on that day I gave her to him.
They were to have a large piece of ground to grow their crops on,
with a house to live in, and sheds for their goats.

The isle was now set out in this way: all the west end was left
waste, so that if the wild men should land on it, they might come
and go, and hurt no one. My old house I gave to the chief, with
all its woods, which now spread out as far as the creek, and the
south end was for the white men and their wives.

It struck me that there was one gift which I had not thought of,
and that was the book of God's Word, which I knew would give to
those who could feel the words in it, fresh strength for their
work, and grace to bear the ills of life.

Now that I had been in the isle quite a month, I once more set
sail on the fifth day of May; and all my friends told me that
they should stay there till I came to fetch them.

When we had been out three days, though the sea was smooth and
calm, we saw that it was quite black on the land side; and as we
knew not what to make of it, I sent the chief mate up the main
mast to find out with his glass what it could be. He said it was
a fleet of scores and scores of small boats, full of wild men who
came fast at us with fierce looks.