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Fight Between Friday and a Bear
FromthenceItouchedattheBrazils,fromwhenceIsentabark,whichIboughtthere,withmorepeople,totheisland; andinit,besidesothersupplies,Isentsevenwomen,beingsuchasIfoundproperforservice,orforwivestosuchaswouldtakethem. AstotheEnglishmen,IpromisedthemtosendthemsomewomenfromEngland,withagoodcargoofnecessaries,iftheywouldapplythemselvestoplanting;whichIafterwardsperformed; andthefellowsprovedveryhonestanddiligentaftertheyweremastered,andhadtheirpropertiessetapartforthem. IsentthemalsofromtheBrazilsfivecows,threeofthembeingbigwithcalf,somesheep,andsomehogs,which,whenIcameagain,wereconsiderablyincreased.
Butallthesethings,withanaccounthowthreehundredCaribbeescameandinvadedthem,andruinedtheirplantations,andhowtheyfoughtwiththatwholenumbertwice,andwereatfirstdefeatedandthreeofthemkilled; butatlastastormdestroyingtheirenemies’canoes,theyfamishedordestroyedalmostalltherest,andrenewedandrecoveredthepossessionoftheirplantation,andstilllivedupontheisland; —allthesethings,withsomeverysurprisingincidents,insomenewadventuresofmyown,foroftenyearsmore,Imayperhapsgiveafartheraccountofhereafter.
