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 when immediately the poor fellow kissed him, sung, hallooed, cried, laughed, danced, jumped, and capered so long that I could not get an answer from him. At length he told me it was his father.

I took them all home, and entertained them as my subjects.

We kept upon our guard lest any more canoes should come, but there was no danger, for those that had escaped, reported to the other savages, that the island was inhabited by spirits, and would soon be burnt to ashes. After several considerations, I was resolved that Friday, his father, and the Portuguese, should go over in one of the canoes we had taken, and bring those men over to dwell in the island. Accordingly they went, after I had furnished them with provisions to sustain them, and fire arms for their defence.

AITING very impatiently for their returning one morning early, Friday came running to me, saying, Master, they are come.

But through my perspective glass I espied an English ship at anchor, and the long boat coming on shore, and when they landed I saw three unarmed and one bound, encompassed by four or five armed.