e ruined me, and sent me back as naked to England as I was
a little before I left it.

And now Amy and I were at leisure to look upon the mischiefs that we had
escaped; and had I had any religion or any sense of a Supreme Power,
managing, directing, and governing in both causes and events in this
world, such a case as this would have given anybody room to have been
very thankful to the Power who had not only put such a treasure into my
hand, but given me such an escape from the ruin that threatened me; but
I had none of those things about me. I had, indeed, a grateful sense
upon my mind of the generous friendship of my deliverer, the Dutch
merchant, by whom I was so faithfully served, and by whom, as far as
relates to second causes, I was preserved from destruction.

I say, I had a grateful sense upon my mind of his kindness and
faithfulness to me, and I resolved to show him some testimony of it as
soon as I came to the end of my rambles, for I was yet but in a state of
uncertainty, and sometimes that gave me a little uneasiness too. I had
paper indeed for my money, and he had showed himself very good to me in
conveying me away, as above; but I had not seen the end of things yet,
for unless the bills were paid, I might still be a great loser by my
Dutchman, and he might, perhaps, have contrived all that affair of the
Jew to put me into a fright and get me to run away, and that as if it
were to save my life; that if the bills should be refused, I was cheated
with a witness, and the like. But these were but surmises, and, indeed,
were perfectly without cause, for the honest man acted as honest men
always do, with an upright and disinterested principle, and with a
sincerity not often to be found in the world. What gain he made by the
exchange was just, and was nothing but what was his due, and was in the
way of his business; but otherwise he made no advantage of me at all.

When I passed in the ship between Dover and Calais and saw beloved
England once more under my view--England, which I counted my native
country, being the place I was bred up in, though not born there--a
strange kind of joy possessed my mind, and I had such a longing desire
to be there that I would have given the master of the ship twenty
pistoles to have stood over and set me on shore in the Downs; and when
he told me he could not do it--that is, that he durst not do it if I
would have given him a hundred pistoles--I secretly wished that a storm
would