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W. A. Because He teaches and commands nothing but what is good, righteous, and holy, and tends to make us perfectly good, as well asperfectly happy; and because He forbids and commands us to avoid all thatis wicked, that is evil in itself, or evil in its consequence. Wife. That me would understand, that me fain see; if He teachee allgood thing, He makee all good thing, He give all thing, He hear me when Isay O to Him, as you do just now; He makee me good if I wish to be good;He spare me, no makee kill me, when I no be good: all this you say He do, yet He be great God; me take, think, believe Him to be great God; me sayO to Him with you, my . Here the poor man could forbear no longer, but raised her up, made herkneel by him, and he prayed to God aloud to instruct her in the knowledgeof Himself, by His Spirit; and that by some good providence, if possible, she might, some time or other, come to have a Bible, that she might readthe word of God, and be taught by it to know Him. This was the time thatwe saw him lift her up by the hand, and saw him kneel down by her, asabove. They had several other discourses, it seems, after this; and particularlyshe made him promise that, since he confessed his own life had been awicked, abominable course of provocations against God, that he wouldreform it, and not make God angry any more, lest He should make him dead, as she called it, and then she would be left alone, and never be taughtto know this God better; and lest he should be miserable, as he had toldher wicked men would be after death. All this while my mistress lay by me, just, as I thought, expiring, butshe bore it with much more patience than I, and gave the last bit ofbread she had left to her child, my young master, who would not havetaken it, but she obliged him to eat it; and I believe it saved his life. Towards the morning I slept again, and when I awoke I fell into a violentpassion of crying, and after that had a second fit of violent hunger. Igot up ravenous, and in a most dreadful condition; and once or twice Iwas going to bite my own arm. At last I saw the basin in which was theblood I had bled at my nose the day before: I ran to it, and swallowed itwith such haste, and such a greedy appetite, as if I wondered nobody hadtaken it before, and afraid it should be taken from me now. After it wasdown, though the thoughts of it filled me with horror, yet it checked thefit of hunger, and I took another draught of water, and was composed andrefreshed for some hours after. This was the fourth day; and this I keptup till towards night, when, within the compass of three hours, I had allthe several circumstances over again, one after another, viz. Sick, sleepy, eagerly hungry, pain in the stomach, then ravenous again, thensick, then lunatic, then crying, then ravenous again, and so everyquarter of an hour, and my strength wasted exceedingly; at night I lay medown, having no comfort but in the hope that I should die before morning. All this night I had no sleep; but the hunger was now turned into adisease; and I had a terrible colic and griping, by wind instead of foodhaving found its way into the bowels; and in this condition I lay tillmorning, when I was surprised by the cries and lamentations of my youngmaster, who called out to me that his mother was dead. I lifted myselfup a little, for I had not strength to rise, but found she was not dead, though she was able to give very little signs of life. I had then suchconvulsions in my stomach, for want of some sustenance, as I cannotdescribe; with such frequent throes and pangs of appetite as nothing butthe tortures of death can imitate; and in this condition I was when Iheard the seamen above cry out, 'A sail a sail' and halloo and jumpabout as if they were distracted. I was not able to get off from thebed, and my mistress much less; and my young master was so sick that Ithought he had been expiring; so we could not open the cabin door, or getany account what it was that occasioned such confusion; nor had we hadany conversation with the ship's company for twelve days, they havingtold us that they had not a mouthful of anything to eat in the ship; andthis they told us afterwardsthey thought we had been dead. It was thisdreadful condition we were in when you were sent to save our lives; andhow you found us, sir, you know as well as I, and better too. This was her own relation, and is such a distinct account of starving todeath, as, I confess, I never met with, and was exceeding instructive tome. I am the rather apt to believe it to be a true account, because theyouth gave me an account of a good part of it; though I must own, not sodistinct and so feeling as the maid; and the rather, because it seems hismother fed him at the price of her own life: but the poor maid, whoseconstitution was stronger than that of her mistress, who was in years, and a weakly woman too, might struggle harder with it; nevertheless shemight be supposed to feel the extremity something sooner than hermistress, who might be allowed to keep the last bit something longer thanshe parted with any to relieve her maid. No question, as the case ishere related, if our ship or some other had not so providentially metthem, but a few days more would have ended all their lives. I now returnto my disposition of things among the people. And, first, it is to beobserved here, that for many reasons I did not think fit to let them knowanything of the sloop I had framed, and which I thought of setting upamong them; for I found, at least at my first coming, such seeds ofdivision among them, that I saw plainly, had I set up the sloop, and leftit among them, they would, upon every light disgust, have separated, andgone away from one another; or perhaps have turned pirates, and so madethe island a den of thieves, instead of a plantation of sober andreligious people, as I intended it; nor did I leave the two pieces ofbrass cannon that I had on board, or the extra two quarterdeck guns thatmy nephew had provided, for the same reason. I thought it was enough toqualify them for a defensive war against any that should invade them, butnot to set them up for an offensive war, or to go abroad to attackothers; which, in the end, would only bring ruin and destruction uponthem. I reserved the sloop, therefore, and the guns, for their serviceanother way, as I shall observe in its place.

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