former, I judged had been concealed
in the earth) I was ordered to embark with them, but for what place
I then knew not.

About midnight I was landed on the rocky shores of an island which
they informed me was Cuba, they furnished me with a few hard biscuit
and a bottle of water, and directed me to proceed early in the
morning in a northeast direction, to a house about a mile distant,
where I was told I would be well treated and be furnished with a
guide that would conduct me to Mantansies. With these directions
they left me, and I never saw them more.

At daybreak I set out in search of the house to which I had been
directed by the Pirates, and which I had the good fortune to reach
in safety in about an hour and a half. It was a humble tenement
thatched with canes, without any flooring but the ground, and was
tenanted by a man and his wife only, from whom I met with a welcome
reception, and by whom I was treated with much hospitality. Although
Spaniards, the man could speak and understand enough English to
converse with me, and to learn by what means I had been brought so
unexpectedly alone and unprotected to his house. Though it was the
same to which I had been directed by the Pirates, yet he declared
that so far from being in any way connected with them in their
Piratical robberies, or enjoying any portion of their ill-gotten
gain, no one could hold them in greater abhorrence. Whether he was
sincere in these declarations or not, is well known to Him whom the
lying tongue cannot deceive--it is but justice to them to say that
by both the man and his wife I was treated with kindness, and it was
with apparent emotions of pity that they listened to the tale of my
sufferings. By their earnest request I remained with them until the
morning ensuing, when I set out on foot for Mantansies, accompanied
by the Spaniard who had kindly offered to conduct me to that place,
which we reached about seven in the evening of the same day.

At Mantansies I found many Americans and Europeans, by whom I was
kindly treated, and who proffered their services to restore me to my
friends, but as there were no vessels bound direct from thence to
Antigua or St. Johns, I was persuaded to take passage for Jamaica,
where it was the opinion of my friends I might obtain a passage more
speedily for one or the