魔兵传奇百科　　THE inhabitants came wondering down the shore to look at us; andseeing the ship lie down on one side in such a manner, and heelingin towards the shore, and not seeing our men, who were at work onher bottom with stages, and with their boats on the off-side, theypresently concluded that the ship was cast away, and lay fast onthe ground. On this supposition they came about us in two or threehours' time with ten or twelve large boats, having some of themeight, some ten men in a boat, intending, no doubt, to have come onboard and plundered the ship, and if they found us there, to havecarried us away for slaves.

　　Being now on the march, we felt little of the ground we trod on;and being guided by the fire, we kept no path, but went directly tothe place of the flame. If the noise of the guns was surprising tous before, the cries of the poor people were now quite of anothernature, and filled us with horror. I must confess I was never atthe sacking a city, or at the taking a town by storm. I had heardof Oliver Cromwell taking Drogheda, in Ireland, and killing man,woman, and child; and I had read of Count Tilly sacking the city ofMagdeburg and cutting the throats of twenty-two thousand of allsexes; but I never had an idea of the thing itself before, nor isit possible to describe it, or the horror that was upon our mindsat hearing it. However, we went on, and at length came to thetown, though there was no entering the streets of it for the fire.The first object we met with was the ruins of a hut or house, orrather the ashes of it, for the house was consumed; and just beforeit, plainly now to be seen by the light of th

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heirvictuals, he takes a firebrand, and claps it to the outside oftheir hut, and set it on fire: indeed, it would have been allburned down in a few minutes if one of the two had not run to thefellow, thrust him away, and trod the fire out with his feet, andthat not without some difficulty too.
n I wasidle, and had nothing to do, nor anything of moment immediatelybefore me. To this purpose, I bought a little farm in the countyof Bedford, and resolved to remove myself thither. I had a littleconvenient house upon it, and the land about it, I found, wascapable of great improvement; and it was many ways suited to myinclination, which delighted in cultivating, managing, planting,and improving of land; and particularly, being an inland country, Iwas removed from conversing among sailors and things relating tothe remote parts of the world. I went down to my farm, settled myfamily, bought ploughs, harrows, a cart, waggon-horses, cows, andsheep, and, setting seriously to work, became in one half-year amere country gentleman. My thoughts were entirely taken up inmanaging my servants, cultivating the ground, enclosing, planting,&c.; and I lived, as I thought, the most agreeable life that naturewas capable of directing, or that a man always bred to misfortuneswas capable of retreating to.