I begged him to understand that I knew right well he would do no
manner of wrong to any man, and asked the privilege of being with
him all the time, to serve him when he could not serve himself
because of the irons that fettered his legs.

And so it was that I had opportunity to do that which made my master
as true a friend as ever lad had, for in the later days when we
were come to Virginia and beset by savages more cruel than wild
beasts, he ventured his own life again and again to save mine,
which was so worthless as compared with his.

Only that I might tell how the voyage progressed, did I go on deck,
or have speech with Nathaniel Peacock, and only through me did my
master know when we were come to this island or that, together with
what was to be seen in such places.



SEVERAL ISLANDS VISITED


Therefore it was that when, on the next day after he was made a
prisoner, we were come to anchor off that island which the savages
called Gaudaloupe, and Nathaniel had been permitted to go on shore
in one of the boats, I could tell my master of the wondrous waters
which were found there.

Nathaniel told me that water spouted up out of the earth so hot,
that when Captain Newport threw into it a piece of pork tied to a
rope, the meat was cooked in half an hour, even as if it had been