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* Qe eee — = ee ene we woe www — oe - ——-—~--—- —~ — -- — - 28 a LL EE it Ca nt $ ood gentlewoman. And now [ began to think of lea with this woman, and setting out for to the Brazils. way, and some doubts about the Roman , and now to the end, in the unspotted integrit of this & woman a Relig! & my effects | n, and so ut now another scruple came in my t was religion; for as I had entertained religion, even while I was abroad, especially in my state of solitude, so I knew there was no going to the Brazils for me, much less going to settle there, unless I resolved to em- brace the Roman Catholic religion, without Boy EY ea serve, except, on the other hand, 1 resolved to sacrifice to my principles, be a paint #3 for religion, and die in the nui tion; so IT resolved to. stay at home, and if I could find means for it, dispose of my plantation. To this purpose I wrote to my old friend at Lisbon, who, in return, gave me notice that he could easily dispose of it there; but that, if I thought fit to give | aeabe ve to offer it in my. name to the two merehants, e who must fully understand the value of it, who liv just upon the ae and whom I knew to be very rich, so that he believed they would be fond of buying it; he did not doubt but Ishould make four or five thou- ay pieces sieht oa more Ms it. Hi oli caver te ei ecordingly IL agreed, gave him orders to offer i them, and he did 8 more, the ship being then returned, he sent me an account that < Mm accepted the offer, and had remitted thirty-three thousand pieces of eight to a correspondent of theirs at Lisbon to pay for if, In ret I signed the instrument of sale in the form which they sent from Lisbon, and sent it to my old man, who sent me bills of exchange cok ey two thousand eight hundred pieces of eight, for the estaté, reserving the payment of one hun moi- dores a year to him, the old man, d his life, and fifty moidores afterward to his son for his life, which I had ape them; and which the plantation was to make good as a rent charge. And thus I have given the histo tune and adventure—a life work, and of a variety which the world will seldom show the like of—beginning foolishly, but closing much more happily than any part of it ever gave me leave so much as to hope for, Any one would think, that in this state of compli- ca fortune, I was past running any more s; and so indeed I had been, if other circum- stances had concurred; but I was inured to a wan- dering life, had no family, nor many relations, nor, however rich, had I contracted much acquaintance; and although I had sold my estate in the Brazils, yet I pescvene’ oe “ye be eagle out my head, ane a min upon the Mab ain; orpec as 1 could not resist the strong inclination | had to see my island, and to know if the poor Spaniards were in being there, and how the rogues I left there had used them, My true friend the widow earnestly dissuaded me from it, and so far prevailed with me that foralmost seven years she prevented my running abroad; dur- ing which time I took my two nephews, the children of one of my brothers, into my care. The eldest hav- ing something of his own, I bred up as a gentleman, and gave him a settlement of some addition to his estate after my decease; the other I put out to a captain of a ship; and after five years, finding him a sensible, bold, enterprising young fellow, I put him into a good ship, and sent him tosea. And this young fellow afterward drew me in, old as I was, to further adventures myself. In the meantime, Tin part settled myself here; for first of all I married, and that not either to my dis- advantage or dissatisfaction; and had three’ chil- dren, two sons and one daughter. But my wife dy- ing, and my nephew coming home, with good suc- cess, from a voyage to Spain, my inclination to zo abroad, and his eo he , prevailed, and engaged me to go in his ship as private trader to the Indies. This was in the year 1694. In this voyage I visited my new colony in the island, saw my successors, the Spaniards: had the whole story of their lives, and of the villains I left there; td aes bon Soe the poor mee rhe? ee ey afterw agreed, disagreed, un , Separat- ed, Yond how at last the Spaniards were obliz to the Spaniels, how ionestly the Spaniurt-tised tS) ; how honestly pania them; a ‘ , if it were entered into, as full of variety and wonderful incidents, as my own part; iculary also as to their battles with the Carrib- ans, who landed several times upon the island it- self; and how five of them made an attempt upon the main land, and brought away eleven men and five women prisoners, by which, at my coming, I found about twenty young children on the island, Here I staid about twenty days, left them sup- plies of all necessary things, and particularly of arms, enor shot, clothes, tools, and two workmen whom brought from England with me: viz., a carpenter and a smith. Besides this, I shared the island into with of a life of for- f Providence’s checker- them, reserved to myself the pro of the whole, Me tie they agreed but gave them such Me be respecti on; and having settled all things with them, and engaged them not to leave the place, I left them there. From thence I touched at the Brazils, from whence I sent a bark, which I bought there, with more peo- ple to the island; and in it, besides other supplies, I sent seven women, being such as I found proper for service, or for wives to such as would take them. As to the Englishmen, I promised them to send them some women from Bngianc, with a good of necessaries, if they would apply themselves to plant- ing, which I afterward co not perform. e fel- lows proved very honest and ent, after they were mastered, and had their property set apart for o; and in about eight months emer EE Beadle’s Half-Dime Library. them, Isent them also from the Brazils five cows— | three of them with calves—some sheep, and some hogs, which, when I came again, were considerably increased, After this, however, three hundred Carribbees cameé and invaded them, and ruined their plantati and they fought with that whole number twice, an were 2 at last newed and recovered the possession of their planta- tions, and still lived upon the island. I had some very surprising incidents, in some new adventures of my own, for several years more, but now, hav- ing lived seventy-two years a life of infinite variety, and learned sufticiently to know the value of retire- ment and the blessing of ending our days in peace, I have resolved to harass myself no more, and am therefore preparing for a longer journey than any I | _ have yet undertaken. vors of my trustees, who lived in the Brees | THE END. BEADLE'S Half-Dime Library. Splendid Stories by Authors of Celebrity, oapal in quantity ey a par hinesgebise ane in ml acter unsurpassed for exc n 0 Y Rens Border, eMininy and the v spirit of We ‘ Mountain, Plains, Hunters, Indians, porting, Trap- e. ping, and Sea and Land Adventure ‘* Live “’ stories, every one of them, by ‘‘ Live” Au- Meaehes hekat at the cocatcitaart ton ok Ane com. at the extraordinary price of a - Dime—this HALF-DIME LIBRARY distances all competitors and has an immense circulation. 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