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第4章 司空剑生已死！！！

　　He was a very generous, open-hearted man, although he began, likeme, with little at first. Though he knew not that I had the leastdesign of giving him anything, he sent me on board a present offresh provisions, wine, and sweetmeats, worth about thirtymoidores, including some tobacco, and three or four fine medals ofgold: but I was even with him in my present, which, as I havesaid, consisted of fine broadcloth, English stuffs, lace, and fineholland; also, I delivered him about the value of one hundredpounds sterling in the same goods, for other uses; and I obligedhim to set up the sloop, which I had brought with me from England,as I have said, for the use of my colony, in order to send therefreshments I intended to my plantation.

　　Two of those boats (which by our glasses we could see were English)outsailed the rest, were near two leagues ahead of them, and gainedupon us considerably, so that we found they would come up with us;upon which we fired a gun without ball, to intimate that theyshould bring to: and we put out a flag of truce, as a signal forparley: but they came crowding after us till within shot, when wetook in our white flag, they having made no answer to it, and hungout a red flag, and fired at them with a shot. Notwithstandingthis, they came on till they were near enough to call to them witha speaking-trumpet, bidding them keep off at their peril.

ere he sold hiscargo very well. Here, having made a good acquaintance at Manilla,he got his ship made a free ship, and the governor of Manilla hiredhim to go to Acapulco, on the coast of America, and gave him alicence to land there, and to travel to Mexico, and to pass in anySpanish ship to Europe with all his men. He made the voyage toAcapulco very happily, and there he sold his ship: and havingthere also obtained allowance to travel by land to Porto Bello, hefound means to get to Jamaica, with all his treasure, and abouteight years after came to England exceeding rich.

　　CHAPTER V - A GREAT VICTORY

　　We had now been almost seven months on our journey, and winterbegan to come on apace; whereupon my partner and I called a councilabout our particular affairs, in which we found it proper, as wewere bound for England, to consider how to dispose of ourselves.They told us of sledges and reindeer to carry us over the snow inthe winter time, by which means, indeed, the Russians travel morein winter than they can in summer, as in these sledges they areable to run night and day: the snow, being frozen, is oneuniversal covering to nature, by which the hills, vales, rivers,and lakes are all smooth and hard is a stone, and they run upon thesurface, without any regard to what is underneath.

　　First, we went ten days' journey to Nankin, a city well worthseeing; they say it has a million of people in it: it is regularlybuilt, and the streets are all straight, and cross one another indirect lines. But when I come to compare the miserable people ofthese countries with ours, their fabrics, their manner of living,their government, their religion, their wealth, and their glory, assome call it, I must confess that I scarcely think it worth mywhile to mention them here. We wonder at the grandeur, the riches,the pomp, the ceremonies, the government, the manufactures, thecommerce, and conduct of these people; not that there is really anymatter for wonder, but because, having a true notion of thebarbarity of those countries, the rudeness and the ignorance thatprevail there, we do not expect to find any such thing so far off.Otherwise, what are their buildings to the palaces and royalbuildings of Europe? What their trade to the universal commerce ofEngland, Holland, France, and Spain? What are their cit

　　The first thing they did was to cause the old Indian, Friday'sfather, to go in, and see first if he knew any of them, and then ifhe understood any of their speech. As soon as the old man came in,he looked seriously at them, but knew none of them; neither couldany of them understand a word he said, or a sign he could make,except one of the women. However, this was enough to answer theend, which was to satisfy them that the men into whose hands theywere fallen were Christians; that they abhorred eating men orwomen; and that they might be sure they would not be killed. Assoon as they were assured of this, they discovered such a joy, andby such awkward gestures, several ways, as is hard to describe; forit seems they were of several nations. The woman who was theirinterpreter was bid, in the next place, to ask them if they werewilling to be servants, and to work for the men who had broughtthem away, to save their lives; at which they all fell a-dancing;and presently one fell to taking up this, and another th

　　We were somewhat disordered by these extravagances among our newguests for the first day; but after they had retired to lodgingsprovided for them as well as our ship would allow, and had sleptheartily - as most of them did, being fatigued and frightened -they were quite another sort of people the next day. Nothing ofgood manners, or civil acknowledgments for the kindness shown them,was wanting; the French, it is known, are naturally apt enough toexceed that way. The captain and one of the priests came to me thenext day, and desired to speak with me and my nephew; the commanderbegan to consult with us what should be done with them; and first,they told us we had saved their lives, so all they had was littleenough for a return to us for that kindness received. The captainsaid they had saved some money and some things of value in theirboats, caught hastily out of the flames, and if we would accept itthey were ordered to make an offer of it all to us; they onlydesired to be set on shore somewhere in our way,

illed by anarrow, which struck him on the side of his head, just under thetemple, so that he never spoke more; and it was very remarkablethat this was the same barbarous fellow that cut the poor savageslave with his hatchet, and who afterwards intended to havemurdered the Spaniards.