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 upon which they all submitted, and with their assistance, we seized the ship.

Having brought the prisoners before me, I asked them what they had to say in their defeneedefence [sic], telling them I had power to exeeuteexecute [sic] them there. They pleaded the eaptain’scaptain’s [sic] promise of mereymercy [sic]. I then told them that I intended to go passenger in the ship, with all my men; but that they eouldcould [sic] only go as prisoners; observing, however, that they might, if they ehosechose [sic] it, stay in the island. This they gladly aeeeptedaccepted [sic]. The eaptaincaptain [sic] returning to the ship, got every thing ready for my reeeptionreception [sic].



When he was gone, I talked to the men, told them my story, and how I managed all my household business; left a letter for the fifteen Spaniards, and made them promise to treat them in eommoncommon [sic] with themselves. The next day I went on board the ship, taking Friday with me: thus I left the island, after being on it twenty-eight years, and arrived safely in England.