% 5 © The Dlfirejfes and Adventures 

 who had fent them to Porto-bel^ in order to 

 embark for England. I told him, thefe were 

 my Fellow- Travellers, and likewife gave 

 him an Account how I came to be feparated 

 from them. After this, he return'd to the 

 Board, and informed the Gentlemen of what 

 he had learn'd from me. Then I was fent 

 for up Stairs, where were fitting the late 

 Prefident Mr. Johnfon y who was now on 

 leaving his Employment, the new Prefident 

 Mr. T'inke/ , who was come to officiate in his 

 Room, and likewife the Governor of Pana- 

 ma, before whom I gave a faithful Account 

 of my unfortunate Travels ; but when they 

 heard how long I had been alone, and what 

 I had undergone in general, they all agreed, 

 that they had never heard fo moving a Story, 

 which was real Matter of Fad, nor had ever 

 feen fo pitiful an Objed, faying, that no- 

 thing was more vifible than that I had been 

 near ftarving to Death. Then Mr. John/on 

 propofed, that if I was able to travel on a 

 Mule, he would take me with him to Porto- 

 bet, where one of the South-Sea Company's 

 Snows, called the Princefs of JJlurias, Capt, 

 Blackburn Matter, waited %o carry him to 



Jamaica^ 



