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own coin, and some in smallwedges, of about ten or twelves ounces each. While we were dealingwith him for our opium, it came into my head that he might perhapsdeal for the ship too, and I ordered the interpreter to propose itto him. He shrunk up his shoulders at it when it was firstproposed to him; but in a few days after he came to me, with one ofthe missionary priests for his interpreter, and told me he had aproposal to make to me, which was this: he had bought a greatquantity of our goods, when he had no thoughts of proposals made tohim of buying the ship; and that, therefore, he had not money topay for the ship: but if I would let the same men who were in theship navigate her, he would hire the ship to go to Japan; and wouldsend them from thence to the Philippine Islands with anotherloading, which he would pay the freight of before they went fromJapan: and that at their return he would buy the ship. I began tolisten to his proposal, and so eager did my head still run uponrambling, that I could not b

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　　But let that be how it will, these were our apprehensions; and bothmy partner and I scarce slept a night without dreaming of haltersand yard-arms; of fighting, and being taken; of killing, and beingkilled: and one night I was in such a fury in my dream, fancyingthe Dutchmen had boarded us, and I was knocking one of their seamendown, that I struck my doubled fist against the side of the cabin Ilay in with such a force as wounded my hand grievously, broke myknuckles, and cut and bruised the flesh, so that it awaked me outof my sleep. Another apprehension I had was, the cruel usage wemight meet with from them if we fell into their hands; then thestory of Amboyna came into my head, and how the Dutch might perhapstorture us, as they did our countrymen there, and make some of ourmen, by extremity of torture, confess to crimes they never wereguilty of, or own themselves and all of us to be pirates, and sothey would put us to death with a formal appearance of justice; andthat they might be tempted to do this for
　　But to return to our particular affairs, being now to part with theship and ship's company, it came before us, of course, to considerwhat recompense we should give to the two men that gave us suchtimely notice of the design against us in the river Cambodia. Thetruth was, they had done us a very considerable service, anddeserved well at our hands; though, by the way, they were a coupleof rogues, too; for, as they believed the story of our beingpirates, and that we had really run away with the ship, they camedown to us, not only to betray the design that was formed againstus, but to go to sea with us as pirates. One of them confessedafterwards that nothing else but the hopes of going a-roguingbrought him to do it: however, the service they did us was not theless, and therefore, as I had promised to be grateful to them, Ifirst ordered the money to be paid them which they said was due tothem on board their respective ships: over and above that, I gaveeach of them a small sum of money in gold, which contente