of John Cock burn, \f 



keep off flic h Filth. After Ibme Time, they 

 ordered me to go in a Canoe, with two of 

 their own People, up the Lagoon, to fetch 

 Water out of a large Piragua that mounted 

 ten Fedteroes, and would carry forty Men, 

 with which I fuppofed they might lome- 

 times take Ships, it lay at Anchor conceal- 

 ed amongft Mangroves, which grew fa 

 thick about it, that it had been impoffible 

 for Strangers to have found it out. After 

 we returned with our Lading, I took my 

 Station as before, not daring to ftir without 

 a Command foto do* and I believe had the 

 braveftMan living been in my CiVcum fiances, 

 he would have yielded as implicitly to what 

 had been im poled on him, 



Before this Recruit of Water, I fuppofe, 

 it was very llarce with 'cm ; for on my 

 offering to drink out of a Calabafh, a Ne- 

 groe did actually fhoot at me. Another Ne- 

 groe there was who could fpeak *Engttfh t and 

 laid, he was born in Jamaica ^ and therefore 

 challenged me as his Countryman. This 

 Man advifed me as a Friend to go hide my 

 felf in the Woods, faying, they would alt 

 get drunk, and knock me on the Head, and 



G thai 



