[Who now live miserably.] They were all ready to go, their Arms and Ammunition ready with Guns prepared to send down, but before they went, Tydings came that the Fort yeilded at the Kings Mercy.  After this the Whites thought they had got an advantage of the King in having these gifts for nothing, but the King did not intend to part with them so; but kept them to watch at his Gate.  And now they are reduced to great Poverty and Necessity.  For since the Kings first Gift they have never received any Pay or Allowance; tho they have often made their Addresses to him to supply their wants, signifying their forwardness to serve him faithfully.  He speaks them fair, and tells them he will consider them, but does not in the least regard them.  Many of them since, after three or four years service, have been glad to get other Poor run away Dutch men to serve in their steads, giving them as much mony and cloths as they received of the King before; that so they might get free, to come home to their Wives and Children.

The Dutch Captain would afterwards have forced the rest of the English to have come under him, and called them Traytors because they would not, and threatned them.  But they scorned him, and bid him do his worst, but would never be persuaded to be Soldiers under him, saying, that it was not so much his zeal to the Kings Service as his own Pride to make himself greater by having more men under him.

[He returns to speak of himself.  Plots and Consults about an Escape.] I will now turn to the Progress of my own Story.  It was now about the year MDCLXXII.  I related before, that my family was reduced to two, my self and one honest man more, we lived solitarily and contentedly being well setled in a good House of my own.  Now we fell to breeding up Goats:  we began with two, but by the blessing of God they soon came to a good many; and their Flesh served us instead of Mutton.  We kept Hens and Hogs also:  And seeing no sudden likelihood of Liberty, we went about to make all things handsome and convenient about us:  which might be serviceable to us, while we lived there, and might farther our Liberty whensoever we should see an occasion to attempt it:  which it did, in taking away all suspition from the People concerning us:  who not having Wives as the others had, they might well think, lay the readier to take any advantage to make an escape.  Which indeed we two did Plot and Consult about, between our selves with all imaginable Privacy, long before we go away:  and therefore we laboured by all means to hide our designs; and to free them from so much as suspition.