[They still remain at the Governours, to prevent suspition.] But we must take care of that as well as we could when we came among them, for as yet our care was to get to Anarodgburro.  Where altho it was our desire to get, yet we would not seem to be too hasty, lest it might occasion suspition:  but lay where we were two or three dayes:  and one stay’d at the Governors House a knitting, whilst the other went about among the Towns to see for Flesh.  The Ponds in the Country being now dry, there was Fish every where in abundance, which they dry like red Herrings over a fire.  They offered to sell us store of them, but they, we told them, would not turn to so good profit as Flesh.  The which, we said, we would have, tho we stayed ten dayes longer for it.  For here we could live as cheap, and earn as much as if we were at home, by our knitting.  So we seemed to them as if we were not in any hast.

[An accident that now created them great fear.] In the mean time happened an Accident which put us to a great fright.  For the King having newly clapped up several Persons of Quality, whereof my old Neighbour Ova Matteral, that sent for me to Court, was one, sent down Souldiers to this High Sheriff or Governor, at whose house we now were, to give him order to set a secure Guard at the Watches, that no suspitious persons might pass.  This he did to prevent the Relations of these imprisoned persons from making an Escape, who thro fear of the King might attempt it.  This always is the Kings custome to do.  But it put us into an exceeding fear, lest it might beget an admiration in these Soldiers to see White men so low down:  which indeed is not customary nor allowed of:  and so they might send us up again.  Which doubtless they would have done, had it not been of God by this means and after this manner to deliver us.  Especially considering that the King’s Command came just at that time and so expresly to keep a secure Guard at the Watches, and that in that very Way that alwayes we purposed to go in:  so that it seemed scarcely possible for us to pass afterwards, tho we should get off fairly at present with the Soldiers.

[But get fairly rid of it.] Which we did.  For they having delivered their Message, departed, shewing themselves very kind and civil unto us.  And we seemed to lament for our hard fortune, that we were not ready to go upwards with them in their good company:  for we were Neighbours dwelling in one and the same County.  However we bid them carry our commendations to our Countrymen the English, with whom they were acquainted at the City, and so bad them farewel.  And glad we were when they were gone from us.  And the next day in the morning we resolved, God willing, to set forward.  But we thought not fit to tell our Host, the Governor, of it, till the very instant of our departing, that he might not have any time to deliberate concerning us.

That Night he being disposed to be merry, sent for people whose trade it is to dance and shew tricks, to come to his house to entertain him with their Sports.  The beholding them spent most part of the Night.  Which we merrily called our Old Host’s Civility to us at our last parting:  as it proved indeed, tho he, honest man, then little dreamed of any such thing.