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to say: &quot;After stating that they at Monhiggon in captain John 



April, spent a long time in trying to catch whales 5 



without success; and as for gold, it was rather 



the Master s device that projected it ; that for 



trifles they got near 11,000 beaver skins, 100 



martin, and as many others, the most of them 



within twenty leagues.&quot; 



Count number four; for trifles they got the count Mum 

 riches of the New World. The evils of an un- ber Four 

 restrained and Godless commerce. 



&quot;The other ship stayed to fit herself for Spain 

 with the dry fish, which was sold at Malaga at four 

 rials the quintal, each hundred-weight two quin 

 tals and a half; but one, Thomas Hunt, the Master 

 of the ship, (when I was gone) thinking to prevent 

 that intent I had to make there a plantation, 

 thereby to keep this abounding country still in 

 obscurity, that only he and some few merchants 

 more might enjoy wholly the benefit of the trade, 

 and profit of this country, betrayed four-and- 

 twenty of those poor savages aboard his ship, and 

 most dishonestly and inhumanly, for their kind 

 usage of me and all our men, carried them with 

 him to Malaga ; and there for a little, sold those 

 silly savages for rials of eight; but this vile act 

 kept him ever after from any more employment 

 to those parts.&quot; 



Double count number ? O white race! But Double 

 why endeavour to pour more into an already ( 

 overflowing cup of iniquity and wrong? 



Lest we should imagine, vainly, that these 

 things were true only of early days, and took 



