1 4 The D ijtrefes and Adventures 

 Diftance, we faw a large Tent, and a great 

 many Men with Guns planted thick round 

 them. When we came within hearing, my 

 Friend, as I may now ftile him, called out, 

 defiring them not to flioot at us, telling his 

 Name, which I perceived was well known 

 to them. Upon their Promife of not firing, 

 we marched up Arm in Arm naked as we 

 were; they inquired how he came there in 

 that Manner, and what Dog he had brought 

 with him. Upon his anfwering I was an 

 Englijhman lately taken with our Ship and 

 Crew by Henricus Johnfon^ and Pedro Po- 

 t?as y and that they had marooned me with 

 .twelve more, which we had juft left upon 

 the Ifland ; and adding an Account pf their 

 ill Ufage of himfelf, they immediately fell 

 to curfing, fwearing, and demeaning them- 

 felves in all Reipe&s (as I thought) like fo 

 many Furies of Hell, offering to flioot me. 

 With that turning fwiftly about, he fnatcht 

 a Pair of Piftols from a Negroe who Hood 

 near him, and then fwore as vehemently as 

 they, that the firft Man that offer'd the leaft 

 Injury to me, he wou'd that Moment Ihoot 

 through the Head, and continued his Rant 

 till he had bullied 'em into a feeming good 



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