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for

ilh.

Royal

Conunentaries.

OOK

a!Ied

the

·fi ni ht,

l·

men

tin

l11s

affii

n \

·i

h a

ma1

1 bnchC?lY .·

on , as

may imagine, a abl

mer into the

·'

r<.tch m

Jik

trem ties;

on·

it grew day, he b gan to traverfe

hi~

Hand,

and

fo?nd on

rhe {bore ome

I Jes

hrimps, and mher reature

like natu e, \\ lu h he

ea had thrown up, and' hich he\ a

reed

eat .ra

\I.,

b a

lfe

he "an: d

fi~where\ ith tor afi them: And with

finall

entertammen~

hep ed

1:1

·tllne,

t~ll

obferving fome Turtle

not

far from che

1ore,

war h d a com emen e

.mm_

they came \' ithin hi rea h, and then

thro~

ing

them

on ch.

ba ks, ( wlu h

the

manner

of taking t

fort of

1 )

he uc the

ch~oat, ~rmkm

the b oud

u~fiead of water · and fiicmg out the

fleil1

with a knife \.\

v·a

fail

ed o

girdle he laid che pieces

dried, and r afi d

the uo ;

!hell he mad

ufe of to rake up rain-water, which lay in lit le uddl s, for that

ountrey

f–

ten fubjea to

reat and fudden rain .

this

manner

paKed

the firll:

days by killing all the Turtles chat he wa able, ome of' ·luch were

large, that

their {hells

'vere as

big

as Tar

ets or Buckler ; mher

:\ere

fo great,

that he

_was

not able to rum them, nor to fl:op them

their way to the

((

1at

ihort

time experience taught

him,' ·hi

h fort

he'

able

d al

ith,

an~

wh1

' ere too um\ ieldy for his fo:-ce : with his le er fhell

e poured \\acer mto the

greater, forne of ·hich contained

1 2

allons ;

th~t

ha\ in rnade

fuffio~nt

pro–

vilions both of meat and drink, he began

contr ve fame way to ftuke

··e,

chat

he might not one!y

dre~

h" meat with it,

but

alfo mak a fmoak

gi e

a fign to any hip, '' hich

,,·a

paffin

in thofi

eas · confidering of thi

invention,

(for Seamen are

much more

ingenious in all times of extremity.,

an men

ed at

Land)

fearched every-,,·here

find

out

couple

of hard

ebles inftead o

flin ,

hi knife

eiving

the place of a fieel ; buc the Ifland being all

ere

with a Dead and, and no fl:one appearing he

·am imo

e Sea and di ·ing

often to the bottom , he at length

found

a couple of fl:ones

for his urpofe,

hich he rubbed together, untill he got them ro an edge, with whi h bem able

to firike fire, he drew fome threads out of hi

!hire, \\

hich he

·orked

finall,

that

was like cotton, and ferv d for tinder

fo that having contri ed a means

to kindle fire, he then gathered

great quantity of ea-\\ eeds, thro

n u

waves, which with the

i11ells

of iih, and

lanks of hip, \

hich had been \\rec–

ked

on thofe fi1oles, afforded

nouriil1ment

for. his

and left fudden

10\.vres

fbould extinguifh h. fire, he made a little

covering,

like a fmall

Hut,

ldth the

1hel1s

of the largeft

Turtle

or Tortoifes that he had killed,

taking

great care that

his fire !hould not go out.

the f

pace

o months, and fooner, he \ ·as as

Unprovided of all things, as he ' as at firll:> for

ich the great

rain ,

hear nd moi–

fiure of that climate, hi pro ifions ' ere corru ted ; and the great h

of the

un was fo violent on

him,

having neither cloths ro cover him nor fhadm for a

!helter, chat when he \ as, as it

VI\

ere, broiled

the

un.,

he had

remedy buc

run into the ea.

th· mifery and care

paffed three ea , during

\\<

hich

time he

faw

feveral hips at ea, and as often made hi fmoak; but none rurned

out of their way to ee what

meant, for fear of thofe hel es and ands, " hich

wary Pilots avoid with all imaginable circum pe

ion ;

that the poor \

retd1

d.efpairing of al_l manner of relief, efieerned

a mercy for him co dye and ar–

rive

at.

tna~

enod

which

could onely put

end to

his

miferies ; and being e -

pofed

thIS

manner

to all

eather, the

hair

of h. body grew in that manner,

that

_he ' as covered all o er with brifl:les, the hair of his head

and

beard reaching

bIS

wafie, that he ap eared like Come wild and

age creature.

the end o

three

year Se

rrano

\\as firangely furprized with the appearance of a Man· in h.

Hland,

who.fe

hip had, the mght b

re, been

cafi:

upon

thofe Sands, an

had fa

ved h1m

fel_f

on. a. plank of the V ffel :

foon as it \vas day, he efp

moak, and

ima~pn~ng

hence

was, he made to\ ard

it.

o foon, as the}

f~w

each ch: other,

hard to

fay,

hich

·as the

mofi: amazed;

err:mo

.J–

gmed! that

was the D vil who came

the

1ape

a Ma

to tempt him ro

defpair: the . ew-comer belie

~ err~no

be the

.evil in his

O \"O

prorer

{ha

an~

figure, b mg covered over

with hair

and beard: m fine, they were oth a

ni ,

flymg one from.the

other.

Peter _e;·rano.

cried out, as he ran,

[,/its>

{efl-u,

de/hr

m.e

from

the Devil:

the other hearmg this, took courage, and retuminb again

lum,

called out,

Brother, lhother,

dtm

fly

from me, for I

P.111

a Chri(f)sm,

tho11 m· :

and,

bec~ufe h~

fav:

~hac

Serrano

fiill

:~m

from

im, he repea ed the

c~rdo,

A1 .o–

file s Creed, m \'

o.ds

aloud ; \

·hICh

when

Serr no

h ard, I e

kne\'

·i