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the hopes of finding even a calm and fafe 
retreat ; having no other refources but my 
fufee, ten ducats in my purfe, and the thin 
drefs which I then wore — what courfe could I 
purfue, and what could I expeft was to become 
of me ? All thefe ideas rufhed into my mind 
at once, and I felt the tears trickle down my 
cheeks. In this deplorable fituation I turned 
my eyes towards the fhore ; but I there faw 
that the conquerors, who were purfuing the 
fugitives, would have my life in their power, 
and with one difcharge of their mufkets 
might free me from all my miferles. That 
moment, therefore, I formed a barbarous 
wifh, and for the firft time found my heart 
fteeled with ferocity. 
Recovering however the ufe of my rea- 
fon, and refiefting upon my youth, which 
prefented a confoling fupport in my own 
ftrength, I at laft formed my refolutlon, and 
began to be a little eafier refpefting my fate. 
It ftruck me in the mind that a planter, 
w^hom I had feen feveral times in my excur- 
fions, and v/ho lived only at the diftance of 
four leagues, v/ould perhaps fufier me to re- 
fide at his houfe till I fhould receive afiiftance 
from 
