f would give him land to plant. So I told him he should
go by all means, and gave him the wild man for his slave. I found, too,
that a man who had come with his wife and child and three slaves, to
hide from the king of Spain, would like to go, if he could have some
land there, though he had but a small stock to take with him; so I put
them all on board the sloop, and saw them safe out of the bay, on their
way to the isle. With them I sent three milch cows, five calves, a horse
and a colt, all of which, as I heard, went safe and sound.

I have now no more to say of my isle, as I had left it for the last
time, but my life in lands no less far from home was not yet at an end.
From the Bay of All Saints we went straight to the Cape of Good Hope.
Here I made up my mind to part from the ship in which I had come from
the Isle, and with two of the crew to stay on land, and leave the rest
to go on their way. I soon made friends with some men from France, as
well as from my own land, and two Jews, who had come out to the Cape to
trade.

As I found that some goods which I had brought with me from home were
worth a great deal, I made a large sum by the sale of them. When we had
been at the Cape of Good Hope for nine months, we thought that the best
thing we could do would be to hire a ship, and sail to the Spice Isles,
to buy cloves, so we got a ship, and men to work her, and set out. When
we had bought and sold our goods in the course of trade, we came back,
and then set out once more; so that, in short, as we went from port to
port, to and fro, I spent, from first to last, six years in this part of
the world.

At length we thought we would go and seek new scenes where we could get
fresh gains. And a strange set of men we at last fell in with, as you
who read this tale will say when you look at the print in front of this
page.

When we had put on shore, we made friends with a man who got us a large
house, built with canes, and a small kind of hut of the same near it.
It had a high fence of canes round it to keep out thieves, of whom, it
seems, there are not a few in that land. The name of the town was Ching,
and we found that the fair or mart which was kept there would not be
held for three or four months. So we sent our ship back to the Cape, as
we meant to stay in this part of the world for some time, and go from
place to place to see what sort of a land it was, and then come back to
the fair at Ching.

We first went to a