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some pistolets, he smiling said, &quot; He must not be twice 

 paid for one labour : &quot; meaning (as I take it) .that he 

 had salary sufficient of the state for his service. For 

 (as I after learned) they call an officer that taketh re 

 wards, twice paid. 



The next morning early, there came to us the same 

 officer that came to us at first with his cane, and told 

 us, &quot; He came to conduct us to the Strangers House ; 

 and that he had prevented the hour, because we might 

 have the whole day before us for our business. For,&quot; 

 said he, &quot; if you will follow my advice, there shall 

 first go with me some few of you, and see the place, 

 and how it may be made convenient for you ; and 

 then you may send for your sick, and the rest of your 

 number which ye will bring on land.&quot; We thanked 

 him, and said, &quot; That this care which he took of deso 

 late strangers God would reward.&quot; And so six of us 

 went on land with him : and when we were on land, 

 he went before us and turned to us, and said, 1 &quot; He 

 was but our servant and our guide.&quot; He led us 

 through three fair__streets ; and all the way we went 

 there were gathered some people on both sides stand 

 ing in a row ; but in so eivil^ a fashion, as if it had 

 been not to wonder at us 2 but to welcome us ; and 

 divers of them, as we passed by them, put their arms 

 a little abroad ; which is their gesture when they bid 

 any welcome. The Strangers House is a fair and 

 spacious house, built of brick, of somewhat a bluer 

 colour than our brick ; and with handsome windows, 

 some of glass, some of a kind of cambric oiled. He 

 brought us first into a fair parlour above stairs, and 



1 et dixit, per humane certe, &amp;lt;f c. 



2 ut vidercntur non tarn ad otiosum speclaculum convenisse quam &amp;lt;f c. 



