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Royal
Commenlariei.
Devil,
chat would recite thofe W?rds, and chereup.on gave a flop
to
h~s
flight;
and
returning
to
him
with great kmdnc:fs, they embraced
ead~
other, wuh fighs
and tears
lamenting their
fad
Efl:ace w1th9ut any hopes of
~ehv~rance: Serr~no
fuppofing that his Guell: warlted refrefhment, enrertamed him w1th fuch prov1fi–
ons, as
his
miferable
life
afforded; and having a little comforted each mher> they
J:>egan co
recount the
ma~ner
and
occa~on
of their fad
difa~ers.
Then
for
the
better government in cheir way
<?f
livmg, they. defigned .the1: hours
of_
day
an~
hight to
certain
fervices; fuc.h a time was appornred
to
kill
F~fh
for
earrng,
fuch
hours for
gathering weeds,
F1fh
bones, al?d
oc~er
matters,
whICh
the Sea threw
up
to maintain their confiant fire; and efpeoal care they had to obferve their
watches
and relie\
e
each ocher at certain hours, that
fo
they might
be
fo re
theit
fire
we~t
not out.
In
this manner they lived amicably together for certain
days,
for
many
did not
pafs
before a quarrel arofe between
themj
fo
highj that they
were ready to
fight;
the occafion proceeded
from
fome
words that one gave the
other, that
he took not that care and labour as the extremity of their condition
required;
and this difference
fo
encreafed;
(for
to fuch mifery do our paffions ofien
betray
us) d1at at length they feparated, and lived apart one from the o her : how–
foever
in
a
!bore time having experienced the want of that comfort which
mu–
tual fociety
procure~
their choler was appeafedj and
fo
they rernrned co en joy
converfe, and
the
ai11flence
which
Friendiliip and Company afforded, in which
condition they pafled four Years; during all which
time
they
faw
many Ships
fail
near them, yet none would
be
fo
charitable or curious,
as
to
be
invited by
their :Smoak and Harne ;
fo
that being now almofl: defperate, they expetted no
other remedy befides
Death,
to put an end to their Miferies.
Howfoever at length a Ship adventuring to pafsnearer than ordinary, efpied the
Smoak, and rightly
judging,
tha_t
it
mufi
be
made
by
fome,Shipwrecked Perfons
elCaped to tbofe Sands, hoffied out their Boat to
take
them
in.
Ser~ano
and
bis
Companion readily ran
ro
the place where they
faw
the Boat corning; but
fo
foon
as
the Mariners were approached
fo
near, as to dill:inguiili
the
firange Figure
and Looks of rhefe two Men, they were
fo
affrighred, that they began to
rov
back;
but the poor men cryed out, and that they might believe them. too
rldt
tQ
be
Devils, or evil
Spi~irs,
they
rehearfed the Creed, and called aloud upon tbe
Name of Jefus;
witn
which
words the Mariners returned,
rook chem
into the
Boat,
and
carried
them
to
the Ship,
to
the great wonder of all there prefent,
":ho
with
admiration beheld
th~ir
hairy fhapes, not like Men,
but
Beafrs,
and
with
f
mgular pleafore heard
t"1em
relate the fiory of their pafl: misfortunes. The
Com-–
panion dyed
in
his Voyage to
Spain,
but
Serrano
lived to come thither , from
whence he travelled into
Germany,
where the Emperour then refided: all whidi
time he nourifhed
his
Hair and Beard, to ferve as an Evidence and Proof of
hig
pafi:
Life: wherefoever he came the People preffed, as
a
Sight,
ro
fee him for Mo–
ney;
Perfons ofQgality having alfo the fame G1riofiry, gave him fufficient
to
de–
fray
his
charges, and his
Imperial Majefl:y having
feen,
and heard
his
Difcourfes
.bellowed a Rent U_Pon
him
of
Fo~r
thoufand Pieces of Eight
a
Year, which
ma~e
4800
~ucats
m
Peru ;
a~d
gomg
tC5
the P?ifeffion of
this
Income, he dyed
at
Panama,
without far.ther
En1oym~nt.
All
this Story was related
to
me
by
a
Gentleman
c~lled
G
arci
Sane
he~
de
Figueroa,
one who was acquainted with
Se1·rano
and
heard
.it
fro~n
his
o\:
1
n
Mouth; and that
af~er
he
had
feen the Emperour
h~
then cut
h~ H~ur
and his Beard to fome converllent length, becaufe that it vvas
fo
long before, that when he turned himfelf on his Bed he often
Jay
upon it which
incommoded
him
fo
mu~h
as to difturb
his
fleep.
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