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24 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 defence, telling them I had power to execute them there. They pleaded the captain’s promise of mercy. I then told them that I intended to go passenger in the ship, with all my men ; hut that they could only go as prisoners ; observing, however, that they might, if they chose it, stay in the island. This they gladly accepted. The captain returning to the ship, got every thing ready for my reception.

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 common with themselves. The next day I went on board the ship, taking Friday with me : thus 1 left the island, after being on it twenty-eight years, and arrived safely in England.