[How they passed their time.] We had with us a Practice of Piety, and
Mr. Rogers seven Treatises, called the Practice of Christianity. With
which companions we did frequently discourse; and in the cool of the
Evening walk abroad in the Fields for a refreshing, tyred with being
all day in our House or Prison.

[They both fall Sick.] This Course lasted until God was pleased to
visit us both with the Countrey Sickness, Ague and Feavour. The sight
of my Fathers misery was far more grievous unto me than the sence
of my own, that I must be a Spectator of his Affliction, and not any
ways able to help him. And the sight of me so far augmented his grief,
that he would often say, What have I done when I charged you to come
ashore to me again, your dutifulness to me hath brought you to be a
Captive. I am old and cannot long hold out, but you may live to see
many days of Sorrow, if the mercy of God do not prevent it. But my
prayers to God for you shall not be wanting, that for this cause he
would visit you with his Mercy, and bestow on you a Blessing.

[Deep Grief seizes the Captain.] My Father's Ague lasted not long,
but deep grief daily more and more increased upon him, which so
over-whelmed even his very heart, that with many a bitter sigh he
used to utter these words, These many years even from my youth have
I used the Seas, in which time the Lord God hath delivered me from
a multitude of Dangers; rehearsing to me what great Dangers he had
been in, in the Straits by the Turks and by other Enemies, and also in
many other places, too large here to insert, and always how merciful
God was to him in delivering him out of them all, So that he never
knew what it was to be in the hand of an Enemy; But now in his old
Age, when his head was grown grey, to be a Captive to the Heathen,
and to leave his Bones in the Eastern Parts of the World, when it was
his hopes and intention, if God permitted him to finish this Voyage,
to spend and end the residue of his days at home with his Children
in his Native Countrey, and to settle me in the Ship in his stead;
the thoughts of these things did even break his heart.

[Their Sickness continues.] Upwards of three Months my Father lay in
this manner upon his Bed, having only under him a Mat and the Carpet
he sat upon in the Boat when he came ashore, and a small Quilt I
had to cover him withall. And I had only a Mat upon the Ground and a
Pillow to lay on, and nothing to cover me but the Cloths on my