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contrary. I afked her what ſhe meant? She to me, in a little broken Engliſh he had got, that would money me (marry me ſhe meant: Ay, money me, ſaid I, that I like well: but without it, the devil have married her for me. I aſked h ſeveral queſtions to which ſhe gave me ſatisfaction and I enjoined her ſeveral things, which the readi conditioned to; whereupon I gave her the ſir fruits of her deſires.
Intereſt ſo blinded my reaſon, that I went inſtantly to my captain, and gave him information of m proceedings, deſiring his conſent in the marrying thi Indian, alledging how advantagrous it would be e me. He granted my requeſt upon my earneſt im portunity, and being diſmiſſed from his ſervice, to were married by an Engliſh prieſt, ſhe renouncin her Paganiſm.
What money was got by my wife's trade, I laid out in ſuch commodities the country afforded; a Calicoes, Pepper, Indigo, Green Ginger, &c. and ſold them immediately to the ſhips lying in the harbour, doubling what I laid out: ſo that in a ſhort time, I found my ſtock to increaſe beyond expectation. Such ſatisfaction my black received from me, that ſhe thought the could not do enough to pleaſe me. I was an abſolute monarch in my family; ſhe and her ſervants willingly condeſcending to be my vaſfals: yet though I thus enjoyed the prerogative of an huſband, yet I did not lord it too much; which won ſo much upon my wife's affections, and thoſe that were concerned with her, that as ſoon as I deſired any thing, it was immediately performed, with much alacrity and expedition; ſo that I could now conſider myſelf completely happy,
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