made for me to buy the Book,
praying in my heart for good success, which it pleased God to grant:
For that Cap purchased it, and the Boy brought it to me to my great
joy, which did not a little comfort me over all my Afflictions.

[Where the rest of the English were bestowed.] Having said all this
concerning my Father and my Self, it will be time now to think of the
rest of our poor Countreymen, and to see what is become of them. They
were carried into the County of Hotteracourly, Westward from the City
of Cande, and placed singly according to the King's Order aforesaid,
some four, some six Miles distant one from the other. It was the King's
Command concerning them that the People should give them Victuals, and
look after them. So they carried each man from house to house to eat,
as their turns came to give them Victuals, and where they Supped there
they Lodged that Night. Their Bedding was only a Mat upon the Ground.

[Kept from one another a good while, but after permitted to see
each other.] They knew not they were so near to one another a great
while; till at length Almighty God was pleased by their grief and
heaviness to move those Heathen to Pity and take Compassion on them:
So that they did bring some of them to one another. Which joy was
but Abortive, for no sooner did they begin to feel the Comfort of one
anothers Company, but immediately their Keepers called upon them to
go from whence they came: fearing they might consult and run away,
altho Columbo the nearest Port they could fly to was above two days
Journey from them. But as it is with wild Beasts beginning to grow
tame, their Liberty encreaseth: So it happened to our Men; so that at
length they might go and see one another at their pleasures; and were
less and less watched and regarded. And seeing they did not attempt
to run away, they made no matter of it, if they stayed two or three
days one with the other.

[No manner of work laid upon them.] They all wondered much to
see themselves in this Condition, to be kept only to eat, and the
People of the Countrey giving it unto them, daily expecting when they
would put them to work, which they never did, nor dared to do. For
the King's order was to feed them well only, and to look after them
until he pleased to send for them. This after some time made them
to change their minds, and not to think themselves Slaves any more,
but the Inhabitants of the Land to be their Servants, in that they
laboured to sustai