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de Todos los Santos, or All Saints' Bay, in about twenty-one days
after. And now I was once more delivered from the most miserable of
all conditions of life; and what to do next with myself I was now to
consider.
The generous treatment the captain gave me, I can never enough
remember. He would take nothing of me for my passage, gave me twenty
ducats for the leopard's skin, and forty for the lion's skin, which
I had in my boat, and caused everything I had in the ship to be
punctually delivered me; and what I was willing to sell he bought,
such as the case of bottles, two of my guns, and a piece of the lump
of beeswax, -for I had made candles of the rest; in a word, I made
about 220 pieces of eight of all my cargo, and with this stock I
went on shore in the Brazils.
I had not been long here, but being recommended to the house of a
good honest man like himself, who had an ingeino as they call it, that
is, a plantation and a sugar-house, I lived with him some time, and
acquainted myself by that means with the manner of their planting
and making of sugar; and seeing how well the planters lived, and how
they grew rich suddenly, I resolved, if I could get license to
settle there, I would turn planter among them, resolving in the
meantime to find out some way to get my money which I had left in
London remitted to me. To this purpose, getting a kind of a letter
of naturalization, I purchased as much land that was uncured as my
money would reach, and formed a plan for my planation and
settlement, and such a one as might be suitable to the stock which I
proposed to myself to receive from England.
I had a neighbor, a Portuguese of Lisbon, but born of English
parents, whose name was Wells, and in much such circumstances as I
was. I call him my neighbor, because his plantation lay next to
mine, and we went on very sociably together. My stock was but low,
as well as his; and we rather planted for food than anything else, for
about two years. However, we began to increase, and our land began
to come into order; so that the third year we planted some tobacco,
and made each of us a large piece of ground ready for planting canes
in the year to come. But we both wanted help; and now I found, more
than before, I had done wrong in parting with my boy Xury.
But alas! for me to do wrong that never did right was no great
wonder. I had no remedy but to go on. I was gotten into an
employment quite remote to my genius, and directly contrary to the
life I delighted in, and for which I forsook my father's house, and
broke through all his good advice; nay, I was coming into the very
middle station, or upper degree of low life, which my father advised
me to before; and which if I resolved to go on with, I might as well
have stayed at home, and never have fatigued myself in the world as
I had done. And I used often to say to myself I could have done this
as well in England among my friends, as have gone 5,000 miles off to
do it among strangers and savages, in a wilderness, and at such a
distance as never to hear from any part of the world that had the
least knowledge of me.
In this manner I used to look upon my condition with the utmost