t ready to follow after him. Having none but the black
Boy with me, I bad him ask the People of the Town for help to carry my
Father to the Grave, because I could not understand their Language. Who
immediately brought forth a great Rope they used to tye their Cattle
withal, therewith to drag him by the Neck into the Woods, saying,
They could afford me no other help, unless I would pay for it. This
Insolency of the Heathen grieved me much to see, neither could I with
the Boy alone do what was necessary for his Burial, though we had
been able to carry the Corps, having not wherewithal to dig a Grave,
and the ground very dry and hard. Yet it was some comfort to me that
I had so much Ability as to hire one to help; which at first I would
not have spared to have done, had I known their meaning.

[The Place where he lyes.] By this means I thank God, in so decent
a manner as our present condition would permit, I laid my Father's
Body in the Grave. Most of which I digged with my own hands; the place
being in a Wood, on the North-side of a Corn Field, where heretofore
we had used often to walk, going up to Handapoul: that Division,
as I have said, being called Bonder Cooswat, because formerly it had
belonged to the Revenues or Jointure of the Queen, Bonder implying
something relating to the King. It lyes towards the Northwest of the
middle of the Island in the County Hotcurly.

Thus was I left Desolate, Sick, and in Captivity, having no earthly
Comforter, none but only He who looks down from Heaven to hear
the groaning of the Prisoners, and to shew himself a Father of the
Fatherless, and a present help to them that have no helper.

[Upon the Captain's death, a Message sent his Son from Court.] The
News of my Father's Death being carried to Court, presently two
Messengers were sent from thence to see me, and to know of me, How
and in what manner my Father died, and what he had left. Which was
a Gold Ring, a Pagoda, and some two or three Dollars and a few old
Cloths; God knows but a very little, yet it scared me not a little,
fearing they would take it away from me, and my want being so great;
but they had no such order nor intent. But the chief occasion of
their coming was to renew the former order unto the People of that
Town, that they should be kind to me and give me good Victuals, left
I might dye also as my Father had done. So for a while I had better
entertainment than formerly.

CHAP. III.

How I lived afte