ere I recounted to him the ungenerous usage I had
met with from Potion; at which relation he started up, stalked across
the room three or four times in a great hurry, and, grasping his cudgel,
cried, "I would I were alongside of him--that's all--I would I were
alongside of him!" I then gave him a detail of my adventures and
sufferings, which affected him more than I could have imagined; and
concluded with telling him that Captain Oakun was still alive, and that
he might return to England when he would to solicit his affairs, without
danger or molestation. He was wonderfully pleased with this piece of
information, of which, however, he said he could not at present avail
himself, for want of money to pay for his passage to London. This
objection I soon removed, by putting five guineas into his hand, and
telling him I thought myself extremely happy in having an opportunity
of manifesting my gratitude to him in his necessity. But it was with the
utmost difficulty I could prevail upon him to accept of two, which he
affirmed were more than sufficient to defray the necessary expense.

After this friendly contest was over, he proposed we should have a mess
of something; "For," said he, "it has been banyan day with me a great
while. You must know I was shipwrecked, five days ago, near a place
called Lisieux, in company with those Dutchmen who are now drinking
below; and having but little money when I came ashore, it was soon
spent, because I let them have share and share while it lasted.
Howsomever, I should have remembered the old saying, every hog his own
apple; for when they found my hold unstowed, they went all hands to
shooling and begging; and, because I would not take a spell at the same
duty, refused to give me the least assistance; so that I have not broke
bread these two days." I was shocked at the extremity of his distress,
and ordered some bread, cheese, and wine, to be brought immediately, to
allay his hunger, until a fricassee of chickens could be prepared. When
he had recruited his spirits with this homely fare, I desired to
know the particulars of his peregrination since the accident at Cape
Tiberoon, which were briefly these: The money he had about him being all
spent at Port Louis, the civility and hospitality of the French cooled
to such a degree, that he was obliged to list on board one of their
king's ships as a common foremast man, to prevent himself from starving
on shore. In this situation he continued two