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 outside and top of the hut between them, to keep the cold out in the winter.

Having completed that piece of work, he goes and visits his plantations, which he finds in a thriving condition, the roots being, in six months time, grown from the bigness of a pea (as they were when first set) tcto [sic] that of an egg: his antelopes also were come to their full growth and complete beauty, which exceeded most fourfooted beasts, having a majestic presence, body and limbs representing a stag, and the noble march of a horse: so every thing concurred to his happiness. For which, having returned his most liberal benefactor his grateful acknowledgments, he thinks on means to prevent any obstructions that may intercept the continuation thereof, and as the want of clothes was the only cause he could think of to make him uneasy, having but the jacket and clothes which were given him on board; to save his own clothes which, when worn out, he could not recruit, therefore, to accustom himself to go without, he thinks on those he had, so takes away the lining from the outside of his clothing, in order to wear the thickest in the coldest weather, and so thins his dress by degrees, till at last he went quite naked.

Having thus concluded, as being the best shift necessity could raise him, he falls a ripping his jacket, in the lining whereof he finds seven peas, and three beans, which were got in at a hole in the corner of the pocket.

Those few made him wish for more, which yet he had no room to hope for, they being raised by saed which the island did not produce; these few, said he, which at present are hardly sufficient to satisfy a womans longing, may, with time and industry,