sloop, and saw them safe out of the bay, on their way to the
isle. With them I sent three milch cows, five calves, a horse and
a colt, all of which, as I heard, went safe and sound.

I have now no more to say of my isle, as I had left it for the
last time, but my life in lands no less far from home was not yet
at an end. From the Bay of All Saints we went straight to the
Cape of Good Hope. Here I made up my mind to part from the ship
in which I had come from the Isle, and with two of the crew to
stay on land, and leave the rest to go on their way. I soon made
friends with some men from France, as well as from my own land,
and two Jews, who had come out to the Cape to trade.

As I found that some goods which I had brought with me from home
were worth a great deal, I made a large sum by the sale of them.
When we had been at the Cape of Good Hope for nine months, we
thought that the best thing we could do would be to hire a ship,
and sail to the Spice Isles, to buy cloves, so we got a ship, and
men to work her, and set out. When we had bought and sold our
goods in the course of trade, we came back, and then set out once
more; so that, in short, as we went from port to port, to and
fro, I spent, from first to last, six years in this part of the
world.

At length we thought we would go and seek new scenes where we
could get fresh gains. And a strange set of men we at last fell
in with, as you who read this tale will say when you look at the
print in front of this page.

When we had put on shore, we made friends with a man who got us a