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upon which they all submitted, and with their assistance, we seized the ship.
Having brought the prisoners before me, I asked them what
they had to say in their defence, telling them I had power to execute them there. They pleaded the captain’s promise of mercy. I then told them that I intended to go passenger in the ship, with all my men ; hut that they could only go as prisoners ; observing, however, that they might, if they chose it, stay in the island. This they gladly accepted. The captain returning to the ship, got every thing ready for my reception.
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When he was gone, I talked to the men, told them my story, and how I managed all my household business ; left a letter for the fifteen Spaniards, and made them promise to treat them in common with themselves. The next day I went on board the ship, taking Friday with me : thus 1 left the island, after being on it twenty-eight years, and arrived safely in England.
