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Rh at the same time I found myself in an open, at least sixty leagues from any land, without  compass or any kind of nourishment whatsoever,  I might count such some tobacco I had in a  in one of my waistcoat pockets, and I believe  my conscience, it afforded a nourishment, that,  a great measure helped to preserve me.

It was a very great blessing for me, that weather followed the tempest, by which  I was enabled to keep the boat tolerably. I could not be less than thirty hours in situation, when I was taken up by a Spanish suspect my veracity, and I was kept two in prison; when, by what means I know, some of the wretches, with whom I left our , having been taken as pirates upon the  coasts in Europe, an order came to bring me  to Cadiz in Old Spain, in order to be an. When I came there, I was again for many months; but at length, when the  were brought to their trial, instead of being  use of as an evidence, I found myself  ed
 * but I hardly reckon that among accidents; for the same day that I entered the, one of the men, while I was asleep, hanged  my clothes among the shrouds to dry; in  it, emptied my pockets, and finding several  relative to the pirates' affairs, as soon as  arrived in Port-Royal, whither they were und, they seized me as one of that desperate g. I must observe to you, that when I first  taken into the ship, I gave a false account of ; which caution was my ruin; for now  the truth, and telling them I had been  into the pirate's service, with all that had  to me among them, my prevarications made