h hunger, but overcome with grief at
the loss of her mistress, whom she loved most tenderly. It was a great
while before the surgeon could bring her to life, and a much longer time
before she came to her senses.

After we had sailed with them some days, we sent them five barrels of
beef, one of pork, two hogsheads of biscuit, with peas, flour, and other
things; taking three casks of sugar, some rum, and some pieces of eight
as payment, we left them, but took the youth and maid with us, with all
their goods. The lad was about seventeen years old, very handsome,
modest, sensible, and well-bred, but mightily concerned for the loss
of his honoured mother, having lost his father at Barbadoes but a few
months before. He beseeched the surgeon to intercede with me to take him
out of the ship; for that the sailors, not sparing a small sustenance,
had starved his mother. But hunger has no bounds, no right, and
consequently is incapable of any compassion. When the surgeon told him,
our voyage might put him in bad circumstances, and farther from his
friends, he said _he did not care, if he was delivered from that terrible
crew; that as the Captain_ (meaning me) _had saved him from death, so he
was sure he would do him no harm; and, as for the maid, when she was
restored to her senses, she would be no less thankful, let us carry them
where we would_. And indeed the surgeon so represented their case to me,
that I consented, and took them on board with all their goods, except
eleven hogsheads of sugar; but the youth having a bill of lading, I made
the commander oblige himself to deliver a letter and the deceased widow's
goods to Mr. Rogers, a merchant in Bristol; but I believe the ship was
lost at sea, for we never could hear what became of her afterwards. We
were now in the latitude 19 deg. 32 min. having as yet a tolerable good
voyage. But, passing by several little incidents relating to wind and
weather, I shall relate what is most remarkable concerning my little
kingdom, to which I was then drawing near. I had great difficulty in
finding it, for as I came to, and went from it before, on the south and
east side of the island, as coming from the Brazils, so now approaching
between the main and the island, not having any chart for the coast, nor
land mark, it obliged us to go on shore on several islands in the mouth
of the river Oroonoko, but to the purpose. Thus I perceived, that what
I thought was a continent before, was no such thi