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第5章 歌舞升平，杀人之夜

　　At the same time I ordered the mate to go into the great cabin, andsee what condition the poor passengers were in; and if they werealive, to comfort them, and give them what refreshment was proper:and the surgeon gave him a large pitcher, with some of the preparedbroth which he had given the mate that was on board, and which hedid not question would restore them gradually. I was not satisfiedwith this; but, as I said above, having a great mind to see thescene of misery which I knew the ship itself would present me with,in a more lively manner than I could have it by report, I took thecaptain of the ship, as we now called him, with me, and wentmyself, a little after, in their boat.

m. They toldme I was a father to them; and that having such a correspondent asI was in so remote a part of the world, it would make them forgetthat they were left in a desolate place; and they all voluntarilyengaged to me not to leave the place without my consent.

　　I walked it on foot, with my old pilot and a Chinese, being verydesirous of a little variety. When we came to the place it was alow, marshy ground, walled round with stones, piled up dry, withoutmortar or earth among them, like a park, with a little guard ofChinese soldiers at the door. Having bought a camel, and agreedfor the price, I came away, and the Chinese that went with me ledthe camel, when on a sudden came up five Tartars on horseback. Twoof them seized the fellow and took the camel from him, while theother three stepped up to me and my old pilot, seeing us, as itwere, unarmed, for I had no weapon about me but my sword, whichcould but ill defend me against three horsemen. The first thatcame up stopped short upon my drawing my sword, for they are arrantcowards; but a second, coming upon my left, gave me a blow on thehead, which I never felt till afterwards, and wondered, when I cameto myself, what was the matter, and where I was, for he laid meflat on the ground; but my never-failing old pilot,

　　As this is the only excursion of the kind which I have made in allthe accounts I have given of my travels, so I shall make no moresuch. It is none of my business, nor any part of my design; but togive an account of my own adventures through a life of inimitablewanderings, and a long variety of changes, which, perhaps, few thatcome after me will have heard the like of: I shall, therefore, sayvery little of all the mighty places, desert countries, andnumerous people I have yet to pass through, more than relates to myown story, and which my concern among them will make necessary.

　　About half-an-hour afterwards they all came up in a body astern ofus, and so near that we could easily discern what they were, thoughwe could not tell their design; and I easily found they were someof my old friends, the same sort of savages that I had been used toengage with. In a short time more they rowed a little farther outto sea, till they came directly broadside with us, and then roweddown straight upon us, till they came so near that they could hearus speak; upon this, I ordered all my men to keep close, lest theyshould shoot any more arrows, and made all our guns ready; butbeing so near as to be within hearing, I made Friday go out uponthe deck, and call out aloud to them in his language, to know whatthey meant. Whether they understood him or not, that I knew not;but as soon as he had called to them, six of them, who were in theforemost or nighest boat to us, turned their canoes from us, andstooping down, showed us their naked backs; whether this was adefiance or challenge we knew not, or whether

　　WIFE. - Then you God no God; me no think, believe He be such one,great much power, strong: no makee kill you, though you make Himmuch angry.

　　Leaving the poor wretch to please himself with our looking at him,as if we admired his idle pomp, we pursued our journey. FatherSimon had the curiosity to stay to inform himself what dainties thecountry justice had to feed on in all his state, which he had thehonour to taste of, and which was, I think, a mess of boiled rice,with a great piece of garlic in it, and a little bag filled withgreen pepper, and another plant which they have there, somethinglike our ginger, but smelling like musk, and tasting like mustard;all this was put together, and a small piece of lean mutton boiledin it, and this was his worship's repast. Four or five servantsmore attended at a distance, who we supposed were to eat of thesame after their master. As for our mandarin with whom wetravelled, he was respected as a king, surrounded always with hisgentlemen, and attended in all his appearances with such pomp, thatI saw little of him but at a distance. I observed that there wasnot a horse in his retinue but that our carrier's pac

　　After half-an-hour's consultation they were called in, and a longdebate ensued, their two countrymen charging them with the ruin ofall their labour, and a design to murder them; all which they ownedbefore, and therefore could not deny now. Upon the whole, theSpaniards acted the moderators between them; and as they hadobliged the two Englishmen not to hurt the three while they werenaked and unarmed, so they now obliged the three to go and rebuildtheir fellows' two huts, one to be of the same and the other oflarger dimensions than they were before; to fence their groundagain, plant trees in the room of those pulled up, dig up the landagain for planting corn, and, in a word, to restore everything tothe same state as they found it, that is, as near as they could.

e down at the water'sedge, on the side of the creek, and it was afterwards above twohundred yards to the place; and the other was up a ladder at twice,as I have already described it; and they had also a large wood,thickly planted, on the top of the hill, containing above an acre,which grew apace, and concealed the place from all discovery there,with only one narrow place between two trees, not easily to bediscovered, to enter on that side.