small, were split and sunk--three or four by one shot. The men
who were not dead had to swim, and those who had wounds were left
to sink, for all the rest got off as fast as they could. Our boat
took up one poor man who had to swim for his life, when the rest
had fled for the space of half an hour. In three hours' time, we
could not see more than three or four of their boats, and as a
breeze sprang up we set sail.

At first the man whom we took on board would not eat or speak,
and we all had fears lest he should pine to death. But when we
had taught him to say a few words, he told us that his friends--
the wild men-had come out with their kin to have a great fight,
and that all they meant was to make us look at the grand sight.
So it was for this that poor Friday fell! He who had been as
good and true to me as man could be! And now in deep grief I
must take my leave of him.

We went on with a fair wind to All Saints' Bay, and here I found
a sloop that I had brought with me from home, that I might send
men and stores for the use of my friends in the isle. I taught
the mate how to find the place, and when he came back, I found
that he had done so with ease.

One of our crew had a great wish to go with the sloop, and live
on the isle, if the chief would give him land to plant. So I told
him he should go by all means, and gave him the wild man for his
slave. I found, too, that a man who had come with his wife and
child and three slaves, to hide from the king of Spain, would
like to go, if he could have some land there, though he had but a
small stock to take with him; so I put them all on board the