h their rice. They used to sit four, and
six, or eight together; they also gave me some by myself, on a plantain
leaf. This they did at every town where the King came. But as I was
coming back with them I was taken lightheaded, so that sometimes I fell
down, and could not stir without extreme pain.

About a week after we reached our own town the King asked me if I could
make powder. I told him 'No;' he then asked if I could make shot. I said
'Yes;' and he told his men to fetch some lead, and clay for the moulds,
and as well as I could I made three or four hundred shot. The King was
pleased with these, and while I was making them I had victuals given me,
and some of their best drink.

But afterwards the King bid me go about the island with some of his men
to find flint stones; and when I could find none he took no more notice
of me, but turned me out of his house, and would not let me come into it
any more. Then I had to seek for my own food to save myself from being
starved, and it pleased God that I found such food as the natives
eat--yams and potatoes, which I dug out of the earth with a piece of
sharp stone, having neither knife nor any other tool. And I made fire as
the natives did, rubbing together two pieces of stick, and roasted my
yams, and gathered bananas and oranges and other fruit. Then sometimes I
caught fish with a small, sharp-pointed stick, and crabs, and now and
then a turtle. I also found turtles' eggs. I used to keep yams and
potatoes by me to serve five or six days, and when they were gone I
hunted for more.

My lodging was under a tree on the hard ground, where I slept for two
years and nine months and sometimes in the year it would rain for three
months together, or only become fine for an hour or so--yet for all that
I lay under the tree still. I always had a fire on each side of me to
keep me warm, because I had no covering but the branches and leaves of
the tree. Sometimes in the night I crept outside the cottage of one of
the natives for shelter, but I was forced to be gone before they were up
for fear they would do me harm.

When I wanted water I went almost a mile for a drink, and had nothing to
bring back a little water in to keep by me and drink whenever I was
thirsty. Also, I had to see that there were no blacks near the water,
lest they should set upon me.

Two years after I had come to the country I suffered terrible pain with
sores that broke out upon me, but finding some honey in