I should happen to meet the like deliverance.  And should I take from you what you have, and leave you at Brazil, why, this would be only taking away a life I had given.  My charity teaches me better.  Those effects you have will support you there, and provide you a passage home again.”  And, indeed, he acted with the strictest justice in what he did, taking my things into his possession, and giving me an exact inventory, even to my earthen jars.  He bought my boat of me for the ship’s use, giving me a note of eighty pieces of eight, payable at Brazil; and if any body offered more, he would make it up.  He also gave me 60 pieces for my boy Xury.  It way with great reluctance I was prevailed upon to sell the child’s liberty, who had served me so faithfully; but the boy was willing himself; and it was agreed, that after ten years he should be made free, upon his renouncing Mahometanism, and embracing Christianity.

Having a pleasant voyage to the Brazils, we arrived in the Bay de Todos los Santos, or All Saints Bay, in twenty-two days after.  And here I cannot forget the generous treatment of the captain.  He would take nothing for my passage, gave me twenty ducats for the leopard’s skin, and thirty for the lion’s.  Every thing he caused to be delivered, and what I would sell he bought.  In short I made about 220 pieces of my cargo; and with this stock I entered once more, as I may say into the scene of life.

Being recommended to an honest planter, I lived with him till such time as I was informed of the manner of their planting and making sugar; and seeing how well they lived, and how suddenly they grew rich, I was filled with a desire to settle among them, and resolved to get my money remitted to me, and to purchase a plantation.

To be brief, I bought a settlement next door to an honest and kind neighbour, born at Lisbon, of English parents, whose plantation joining to mine, we improved it very amicably together.  Both our stocks were low, and for two years we planted only for food:  but the third year we planted some tobacco, and each of us dressed a large piece of ground the ensuing year for planting canes.  But now I found how much I wanted assistance, and repented the loss of my dear boy Xury.

Having none to assist me, my father’s words came into my mind; and I used to ask myself, if what I sought was only a middle station of life, why could it not as well be obtained in England as here?  When I pondered on this with regret, the thoughts of my late deliverance forsook me.  I had none to converse with but my neighbour; no work to be done but by my own hands; it often made me say, my condition was like to that of a man cast upon a desolate island.  So unhappy are we in our reflections, so forgetful of what good things we receive ourselves, and so unthankful for our deliverance from these calamities that others endure.

I, was in some measure settled, before the captain who took me up departed from the Brazils.  One day I went to him, and told him what stock I had in London, desiring his assistance in getting it remitted; to which the good gentleman readily consented, but would only have me send for half my money, lest it should miscarry; which, if it did, I might still have the remainder to support me:  and so taking letters of procuration of me, bid me trouble myself no farther about it.