1 69 1.] DEPAIITUKE OF THE SHIP. 55 



When we had finish'd our Preparations for building our 

 little Houses, the Captain who stay'd fifteen days in the 

 Eoad weigh'd Anchor, after having deliver'd us the greatest 

 part of the Necessaries we brought for a Settlement, and 

 taken fresh Provisions Aboard. We sent Letters by him to 

 our Friends in Holland, wherein we had set out his Panegy- 

 rick as he deserv'd, but he was not such a Fool as to deliver 

 them, as we understood afterwards, and, indeed, as we ex- 

 pected from him. What he left us was chiefly — 



Biskets, Fuzees,^ and other i\rms. Powder and Bullets, 

 Tools for Husbandry and building our Cabbins, as Saws, 

 Hatchets, Nails, Hammers, and Sheers, Household-stuff, a 

 Turn-broach, Fishing-Nets and Lines ; in short, every thing 

 except Drugs, which I believe, the Captain rather forgot, 

 than maliciously kept from us : Besides this, every Man had 

 his particular Goods, Necessaries and Provisions. 



Peter Thomas, whom I have mention'd, having quarrell'd 

 with the Captain, and fearing to return with him, resolv'd to 

 stay in the Island, and that wou'd have made up the loss of 

 one of our Companions who dy'd at Sea near Mascaregne, if the 

 Captain, the Night before he left us, had not taken away two 

 of our Company {Jacques Guiguer and Pierrot) so that we had 

 but eight left. 



When the Ship was gone, and each of us were well re- 

 cover'd of the Fatigues of the Sea, we made the tour of the 

 Island to see whether we cou'd discover any better Place to 

 settle in, than that wliere we first Arriv'd ; but we found 

 'twas much the same all over it, and even tho' there were 

 about twenty several sorts of level Land, and almost as Com- 

 modious as Ours, yet we met with none that was not some- 

 what Inferior to it in Beauty and in Goodness ; so that we 

 resolv'd to stay in the place where we first sat. down. 



As soon as we had clear'd the Earth as much as was neces- 

 sary for Tillage, we dug it, and sow'd our Grain. We had 



1 Fusee, a small, light musket or lirelock, commonly written '* fusil". 



