731部队之女体标本suchconfusion; nor had we had any conversation with the ship's companyfor twelve days, they having told us that they had not a mouthfulof anything to eat in the ship; and this they told us afterwards -they thought we had been dead. It was this dreadful condition wewere in when you were sent to save our lives; and how you found us,sir, you know as well as I, and better too."

ual course tothe eastward. This, however, put us to some inconvenience: for,first, the winds, when we came that distance from the shore, seemedto be more steadily against us, blowing almost trade, as we callit, from the E. and ENE., so that we were a long while upon ourvoyage, and we were but ill provided with victuals for so long arun; and what was still worse, there was some danger that thoseEnglish and Dutch ships whose boats pursued us, whereof some werebound that way, might have got in before us, and if not, some othership bound to China might have information of us from them, andpursue us with the same vigour.

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　　I must confess I was now very uneasy, and thought myself, includingthe late escape from the longboats, to have been in the mostdangerous condition that ever I was in through my past life; forwhatever ill circumstances I had been in, I was never pursued for athief before; nor had I ever done anything that merited the name ofdishonest or fraudulent, much less thievish. I had chiefly been myown enemy, or, as I may rightly say, I had been nobody's enemy butmy own; but now I was woefully embarrassed: for though I wasperfectly innocent, I was in no condition to make that innocenceappear; and if I had been taken, it had been under a supposed guiltof the worst kind. This made me very anxious to make an escape,though which way to do it I knew not, or what port or place wecould go to. My partner endeavoured to encourage me by describingthe several ports of that coast, and told me he would put in on thecoast of Cochin China, or the bay of Tonquin, intending afterwardsto go to Macao, where a great many European fam
　　The match being proposed in this manner, we married them the sameday; and as I was father at the altar, and gave her away, so I gaveher a portion; for I appointed her and her husband a handsome largespace of ground for their plantation; and indeed this match, andthe proposal the young gentleman made to give him a small propertyin the island, put me upon parcelling it out amongst them, thatthey might not quarrel afterwards about their situation.