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第6章 热火朝天

urs they were entirely outof our sight, and we never heard any more of them, nor whether theywent to Sibeilka or no. So we passed away safely on to Jarawena,where there was a Russian garrison, and there we rested five days.

raging mad as any creature in Bedlam, as my youngmaster told me, and as he can now inform you.

　　We travelled near a month after this, the ways not being so good asat first, though still in the dominions of the Emperor of China,but lay for the most part in the villages, some of which werefortified, because of the incursions of the Tartars. When we werecome to one of these towns (about two days and a half's journeybefore we came to the city of Naum), I wanted to buy a camel, ofwhich there are plenty to be sold all the way upon that road, andhorses also, such as they are, because, so many caravans comingthat way, they are often wanted. The person that I spoke to to getme a camel would have gone and fetched one for me; but I, like afool, must be officious, and go myself along with him; the placewas about two miles out of the village, where it seems they keptthe camels and horses feeding under a guard.

　　Accordingly, he got hands, and finished the sloop in a very fewdays, for she was already framed; and I gave the master of her suchinstructions that he could not miss the place; nor did he, as I hadan account from my partner afterwards. I got him soon loaded withthe small cargo I sent them; and one of our seamen, that had beenon shore with me there, offered to go with the sloop and settlethere, upon my letter to the governor Spaniard to allot him asufficient quantity of land for a plantation, and on my giving himsome clothes and tools for his planting work, which he said heunderstood, having been an old planter at Maryland, and a buccaneerinto the bargain. I encouraged the fellow by granting all hedesired; and, as an addition, I gave him the savage whom we hadtaken prisoner of war to be his slave, and ordered the governorSpaniard to give him his share of everything he wanted with therest.

　　WIFE. - But no makee kill you yet; then He tell you, maybe, that Heno makee you kill: so you makee the bargain with Him, you do badthing, He no be angry at you when He be angry at other mans.

　　He was a very generous, open-hearted man, although he began, likeme, with little at first. Though he knew not that I had the leastdesign of giving him anything, he sent me on board a present offresh provisions, wine, and sweetmeats, worth about thirtymoidores, including some tobacco, and three or four fine medals ofgold: but I was even with him in my present, which, as I havesaid, consisted of fine broadcloth, English stuffs, lace, and fineholland; also, I delivered him about the value of one hundredpounds sterling in the same goods, for other uses; and I obligedhim to set up the sloop, which I had brought with me from England,as I have said, for the use of my colony, in order to send therefreshments I intended to my plantation.

　　[Here Will Atkins said his heart sunk within him to hear a pooruntaught creature desire to be taught to know God, and he such awicked wretch, that he could not say one word to her about God, butwhat the reproach of his own carriage would make most irrational toher to believe; nay, that already she had told him that she couldnot believe in God, because he, that was so wicked, was notdestroyed.]

　　Away runs the Englishman, frightened and amazed, as if he wasbewitched, to the governor Spaniard, and tells him they were allundone, for there were strangers upon the island, but he could nottell who they were. The Spaniard, pausing a while, says to him,"How do you mean - you cannot tell who? They are the savages, tobe sure." "No, no," says the Englishman, "they are men in clothes,with arms." "Nay, then," says the Spaniard, "why are you soconcerned! If they are not savages they must be friends; for thereis no Christian nation upon earth but will do us good rather thanharm." While they were debating thus, came up the threeEnglishmen, and standing without the wood, which was new planted,hallooed to them. They presently knew their voices, and so all thewonder ceased. But now the admiration was turned upon anotherquestion - What could be the matter, and what made them come backagain?

　　I carried on shore with me the young man whose mother was starvedto death, and the maid also; she was a sober, well-educated,religious young woman, and behaved so inoffensively that every onegave her a good word; she had, indeed, an unhappy life with us,there being no woman in the ship but herself, but she bore it withpatience. After a while, seeing things so well ordered, and in sofine a way of thriving upon my island, and considering that theyhad neither business nor acquaintance in the East Indies, or reasonfor taking so long a voyage, both of them came to me and desired Iwould give them leave to remain on the island, and be entered amongmy family, as they called it. I agreed to this readily; and theyhad a little plot of ground allotted to them, where they had threetents or houses set up, surrounded with a basket-work, palisadoedlike Atkins's, adjoining to his plantation. Their tents werecontrived so that they had each of them a room apart to lodge in,and a middle tent like a great storehouse to lay t