n orange, but of color between orange-tawney and
scarlet; which cast a most excellent odour. He used it (as it seemeth)
for a preservative against infection. He gave us our oath; "By the
name of Jesus, and his merits:" and after told us, that the next day,
by six of the Clock, in the Morning, we should be sent to, and brought
to the Strangers' House, (so he called it,) where we should be
accommodated of things, both for our whole, and for our sick. So he
left us; and when we offered him some pistolets, he smiling said, "He
must not be twice paid for one labour:" meaning (as I take it) that he
had salary sufficient of the State for his service. For (as I after
learned) they call an officer that taketh rewards, "twice paid."

The next morning early, there came to us the same officer that came to
us at first with his cane, and told us, He came to conduct us to the
Strangers' House; and that he had prevented the hour, because we might
have the whole day before us, for our business. "For," said he, "if
you will follow my advice, there shall first go with me some few of
you, and see the place, and how it may be made convenient for you; and
then you may send for your sick, and the rest of your number, which ye
will bring on land." We thanked him, and said, "That this care, which
he took of desolate strangers, God would reward." And so six of us
went on land with him: and when we were on land, he went before us, and
turned to us, and said, "He was but our servant, and our guide." He led
us through three fair streets; and all the way we went, there were
gathered some people on both sides, standing in a row; but in so civil
a fashion, as if it had been, not to wonder at us, but to welcome us:
and divers of them, as we passed by them, put their arms a little
abroad; which is their gesture, when they did bid any welcome.

The Strangers' House is a fair and spacious house, built of brick, of
somewhat a bluer colour than our brick; and with handsome windows, some
of glass, some of a kind of cambric oiled. He brought us first into a
fair parlour above stairs, and then asked us, "What number of persons
we were? And how many sick?" We answered, "We were in all, (sick and
whole,) one and fifty persons, whereof our sick were seventeen." He
desired us to have patience a little, and to stay till he came back to
us; which was about an hour after; and then he led us to see the
chambers which were provided for us, being in number nin