unt in gold.

I might well say now, indeed, that the latter end of Job was better than
the beginning. It is impossible to express the flutterings of my very
heart when I found all my wealth about me; for as the Brazil ships come
all in fleets, the same ships which brought my letters brought my goods:
and the effects were safe in the river before the letters came to my
hand. In a word, I turned pale, and grew sick; and, had not the old man
run and fetched me a cordial, I believe the sudden surprise of joy had
overset nature, and I had died upon the spot: nay, after that I continued
very ill, and was so some hours, till a physician being sent for, and
something of the real cause of my illness being known, he ordered me to
be let blood; after which I had relief, and grew well: but I verily
believe, if I had not been eased by a vent given in that manner to the
spirits, I should have died.

I was now master, all on a sudden, of above five thousand pounds sterling
in money, and had an estate, as I might well call it, in the Brazils, of
above a thousand pounds a year, as sure as an estate of lands in England:
and, in a word, I was in a condition which I scarce knew how to
understand, or how to compose myself for the enjoyment of it. The first
thing I did was to recompense my original benefactor, my good old
captain, who had been first charitable to me in my distress, kind to me
in my beginning, and honest to me at the end. I showed him all that was
sent to me; I told him that, next to the providence of Heaven, which
disposed all things, it was owing to him; and that it now lay on me to
reward him, which I would do a hundred-fold: so I first returned to him
the hundred moidores I had received of him; then I sent for a notary, and
caused him to draw up a general release or discharge from the four
hundred and seventy moidores, which he had acknowledged he owed me, in
the fullest and firmest manner possible. After which I caused a
procuration to be drawn, empowering him to be the receiver of the annual
profits of my plantation: and appointing my partner to account with him,
and make the returns, by the usual fleets, to him in my name; and by a
clause in the end, made a grant of one hundred moidores a year to him
during his life, out of the effects, and fifty moidores a year to his son
after him, for his life: and thus I requited my old man.

I had now to consider which way to steer my course next, and what to do
with the es