what that Countrey afforded:
insomuch that my Neighbours and Townsmen no more suspected my running
away; but earnestly advised me to marry, saying, It would be an ease
and help to me, knowing that I then dressed my Victuals my self:
having turned my Boy to seek his Fortune when we were at the City:
They urged also, That it was not convenient for a young man as I
was to live so solitarily alone in a house: and if it should so
come to pass that the King should send me hereafter to my Country,
their manner of Marriage, they said, was not like ours, and I might
without any Offence discharge my Wife, and go away.

[Which he seemed to listen to.] I seemed not altogether to slight
their counsel, that they might the less suspect I had any thoughts of
mine own Countrey, but told them, That as yet I was not sufficiently
stocked, and also, That I would look for one that I could love: tho
in my heart I never purposed any such matter; but on the contrary,
did heartily abhor all thoughts tending that way.

[Here he lived two years.] In this place I lived two years; and all
that time could not get one likely occasion of running for it. For I
thought it better to forbear running too great a hazard by being over
hasty to escape, than to deprive my self of all hopes for the future,
when time and experience would be a great help to me.

[A Fort built near him, but afterward taken by the King.] In the year
MDCLXVI. the Hollanders came up and built a Fort just below me, there
being but a ridge of Mountains between them and me. But tho so near,
I could not come to them, a Watch being kept at every passage. The
King sent down against them two great Commanders with their Armies,
but being not strong enough to expel them, they lay in these Watches
to stop them from coming up higher. The name of this Fort was called
Arrandery. Which altho they could not prevent the Dutch from building
at that time. Yet some years after when they were not aware, they fell
upon it and took it, and brought all the People of it up to Cande,
where those that remained alive of them were, when I came from thence.

[He and three more removed thence] In this Countrey of Hotteracourly,
where the Dutch had built this Fort, were four English men placed,
whereof I was one. All whom the King immediately upon the News of the
Dutche's Invasion, sent order to bring up out of the danger of the
War into Cande Uda, fearing that which we were indeed intended to do,
viz. to run