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the port, on which a houfe had been erected, to ferve as a forge, and a magazine fordifferent articles of merchandize.

This man was of higher ftature, and better made than the others; he was more-over of gentler manners; he danced and fprang fo high, and with fuch might, thathis feet funk feveral inches deep into the fand; he remained with us fome days ; wetaught him to pronounce the name of Jefus, to fay the Lord’s Prayer, &c. which hedid with equal eafe with ourfelves, but in a much ftronger tone of voice. Finally,we baptifed him by the name of John ; the captain-general made him a prefent of afhirt, a veil, cloth drawers, a cap, a looking-glafs, comb, fome little bells, and othertrifling things : he returned towards his own people, apparently well contented. Thenext day he brought us one of the large animals, of which we have made mention,and received other prefents to induce him to repeat his gift; but from that day wefaw nothing of him, and fufpe&ed his companions had killed him on account of hisattachment to us. At the end of a fortnight four other of thefe men repaired to usthey were without arms, but we afterwards found they had concealed them behindfome bufhes, where they were pointed out to us by two of the party, whom wedetained. They were all of them painted, but in a different manner to thofe we hadfeen before.

The captain wifhed to keep the two youngeft, who, as well, were of handfomeflform, to carry them with us on our voyage, and even take them to Sprain ; but, awareof the difficulty of fecuring them by forcible means, he made ufe of the followingartifice. He prefented them a number of knives, mirrors, glafs-beads, Sic. fo thatboth their hands were full; he afterwards offered them two of thofe iron rings ufed forchaining felons, and when he faw their anxiety to be poffefled of them (for they arepaflionately fond of iron), and moreover, that they could not hold them in theirhands, he propofed to fallen them to their legs, that they might more eafily carrythem home, to which they confented; upon this our people put on the irons andfaftened the rings, by which means they were fecurely chained. As foon as theybecame aware of the treachery ufed towards them they were violently enraged, andpuffed and roared aloud, invoking Setebos, their chief demon, to come to theiraffi fiance.

Not content with having thefe men, the captain was anxious of fecuring their wivesalfo, in order to tranfport a race of giants to Europe : with this view he ordered thetwo others to be arrelled, to oblige them to conduCl our people to the fpot where theywere; nine of our flrongefl men were fcarcely able to caff them to the ground, andbind them, and flill even one of them fucceeded in freeing nimfelf, while the otherexerted himfelf fo much that he received a flight wound, in the head from one of themen \ but they were in the end obliged to fhow our people the way to the abode ofthe wives of our two prifoners. Thefe women, on learning what had happened totheir hulbands, made fuch loud outcries as to be heard at a great diflance. JohanCarvajo, the pilot, who was at the head of our people, as night was drawing on, didnot choofe to bring away at that time the women to whofe houfe he had been con-ducted, but remained there till morning, keeping a good guard. In the mean timecame there two other men, who without exprefling any diffatisfaCtion or furprife,continued all night in the hut; but foon as dawn began to break, upon faying afew words, in an inllant every one took to flight, man, woman, and child ; thechildren even feampering away with greater fpeed than the reft. They abandonedtheir hut to us, and all that it contained ; in the mean time one of the men drove off,to a diflance, the little animals which they ufed in hunting j while another, concealed

behind