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 Pox on’t, ays the Captain, I thought you had had a woman with you here; I could have worn I had heard one cry out as if he had been ravihing, and yet the Devil mut have been in you, if you could convey her in here without my knowledge.

I defy the Devil and all his works, anwered the He Methodit. He has no power but over the wicked; and if he be in the hip, thy oaths mut have brought him hither: for I have heard thee pronounce more than twenty ince I came on board; and we hould have been at the bottom before this, had not my prayers prevented it.

Don’t abue my veel, cried the Captain, he is as afe a veel, and as good a ailer as ever floated, and if you had been afraid of going to the bottom, you might have tay’d on hore and been damn’d.

The Methodit made no anwer, but fell a groaning, and that o loud, that the Captain giving him a hearty cure or two, quitted the cabbin, and reumed his pipe.

He was no ooner gone, than the Methodit gave farther tokens of brotherly love to his companion, which oon became o importunate and troubleome to her, that after having gently rejected his hands everal times, he at lat recollected the ex he had aumed, and gave him o violent a blow in the notrils, that the blood iued from them with great Impetuoity.

Whether fighting be oppoite to the tenets of this ect (for I have not the honour to be deeply read in their doctrines) or from what other motive it proceeded, I will not determine; but the Methodit made no other return to this rough treatment, than by many groans, and prayed heartily to be delivered oon from the converation of the wicked; which prayers were at length o ucceful, that,