1 8 The Dififejfes and Adventures 

 that he, having been taken by them three 

 Years before, was often forced to do fo • but 

 I thought it more advifeable to run the Ha- 

 zard of dying by their Hands, than, by 

 endeavouring to prolong a miferable Life, 

 perifh in the Woods, or be torn in Pieces by 

 wild Beafts. 



About two of the Clock the next Morn- 

 ing arrived all our Men, who had been left 

 on Tiger IJhnd, fo called from the great 

 Number of thofe Creatures in the Woods 

 there ; from the Time I left them they de- 

 fpaired of ever feeing me, or the Face of 

 Mankind any more; nor were we a little 

 rejoiced at this Meeting, forlorn as we were, 

 not a Man of us having a Rag to cover him, 

 but Mr. Rounce, whofe Shirt was fo bloody, 

 by reafon of his many Wounds, that it * 

 could not be got off ; and it is remarkable, 

 that moil of his Wounds had been given 

 him by the very Man, whom Providence 

 had ordained to be the Means of our De- 

 liverance, 



But as pleafed as we were at the Sight of 

 each other, there was one Thing which 



troubled 



