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making the negro their sentry , they slept soundly all ni ght , having been without sleep for several ni ghts before . The next day , after being well refreshed with sleep ,, the-wind ceasing , and the weather being warm , they went down from the rocks on the sands , at low water , where they found a great part of the ship ' s lading , either on shore , or floating near it . Mr . Pine , with the help of his companionsdragged ' most of it on shore ; and what was too
, heavy for them they broke ; and unbinding the casks and chests , and taking out the goods , they secured all ; so that they wanted neither clothes , nor other necessaries for house-keeping : but the salt water had spoiled all the victuals except one cask of biscuit , which being lighter , and perhaps better secured than the rest , was undamaged ; this served them for bread a while , and a fowl of about the
bigness of a swan , very heavy and fat , which by reason of its weight coukl not fly , served them for present subsistence . . The poultry ° 6 f the ship , by some means getting on shore , bred exceedingly , and were a great help to them . They found also in the flags by a little river plenty of eggs of fowl much like our clucks , which were very nourishing foodso that they wanted for nothing to keep them aliye
, . Mr . Pine , being now less apprehensive of any thing to disturb him , looked out for a convenient place to build a hut to shelter him and his famil y from the weather ; and , in about a week ' s time , made a room large enough to hold them all and their goods ; and put up hammocks for his family to sleep in . Having lived in this manner full four months , without seeino- or
hearing any thing to disturb them , they found the land they were in possession of to be an island , disjoined , and out of si ght of any other land , uninhabited by any but ' themselves , and that there was no hurtful beast to annoy them : but , on the contrary , the country was very pleasant , being always clothed in green , and full of agreeable fruits , and variety of birds , ever warm , and never colder thanln Eno--laud in that this
September ; so place ( had it the culture that skilful people mi ght bestow on it ) would prove a paradise . The woods afforded them a sort of nuts as big as large apples ; whose kernel , being pleasant and dry , they made ^ use of instead of bread , together with the fowl before-mentioned , and a sort of waterfowl hke clucksand their and beast about the size of
, eggs ; a a ° oat , and almost such a like creature , which brought forth two youno-ones at a time , and that twice a year , of which the lowlands and woods are very full ; and being harmless and tame , they could easily take and kill'them : fish also , especially shell-fish , were " in great plenty : so that , in effect , they wanted nothing of food for subsistence . After being in possession of this country full six months nature Put them in mind of the
great command of the Almighty to our first patents , as if they had been conducted thither b y the hand of Providence to people a new world ; and in this respect they proved not inti-uittnl for in less than a twelvemonth , from their first arrival on | ns island , the females proved all to be with child , and comino- at dif--erent seasons they were a great hel p to one another . The women VOL . VI . , j
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Biography.
making the negro their sentry , they slept soundly all ni ght , having been without sleep for several ni ghts before . The next day , after being well refreshed with sleep ,, the-wind ceasing , and the weather being warm , they went down from the rocks on the sands , at low water , where they found a great part of the ship ' s lading , either on shore , or floating near it . Mr . Pine , with the help of his companionsdragged ' most of it on shore ; and what was too
, heavy for them they broke ; and unbinding the casks and chests , and taking out the goods , they secured all ; so that they wanted neither clothes , nor other necessaries for house-keeping : but the salt water had spoiled all the victuals except one cask of biscuit , which being lighter , and perhaps better secured than the rest , was undamaged ; this served them for bread a while , and a fowl of about the
bigness of a swan , very heavy and fat , which by reason of its weight coukl not fly , served them for present subsistence . . The poultry ° 6 f the ship , by some means getting on shore , bred exceedingly , and were a great help to them . They found also in the flags by a little river plenty of eggs of fowl much like our clucks , which were very nourishing foodso that they wanted for nothing to keep them aliye
, . Mr . Pine , being now less apprehensive of any thing to disturb him , looked out for a convenient place to build a hut to shelter him and his famil y from the weather ; and , in about a week ' s time , made a room large enough to hold them all and their goods ; and put up hammocks for his family to sleep in . Having lived in this manner full four months , without seeino- or
hearing any thing to disturb them , they found the land they were in possession of to be an island , disjoined , and out of si ght of any other land , uninhabited by any but ' themselves , and that there was no hurtful beast to annoy them : but , on the contrary , the country was very pleasant , being always clothed in green , and full of agreeable fruits , and variety of birds , ever warm , and never colder thanln Eno--laud in that this
September ; so place ( had it the culture that skilful people mi ght bestow on it ) would prove a paradise . The woods afforded them a sort of nuts as big as large apples ; whose kernel , being pleasant and dry , they made ^ use of instead of bread , together with the fowl before-mentioned , and a sort of waterfowl hke clucksand their and beast about the size of
, eggs ; a a ° oat , and almost such a like creature , which brought forth two youno-ones at a time , and that twice a year , of which the lowlands and woods are very full ; and being harmless and tame , they could easily take and kill'them : fish also , especially shell-fish , were " in great plenty : so that , in effect , they wanted nothing of food for subsistence . After being in possession of this country full six months nature Put them in mind of the
great command of the Almighty to our first patents , as if they had been conducted thither b y the hand of Providence to people a new world ; and in this respect they proved not inti-uittnl for in less than a twelvemonth , from their first arrival on | ns island , the females proved all to be with child , and comino- at dif--erent seasons they were a great hel p to one another . The women VOL . VI . , j