ad seen that all things were in a good state on the isle, I set
to work to put my ship to rights, to go home once more. One day, as I
was on my way to it, the youth whom I had brought from the ship that
was burnt, came up to me, and said, "Sir, you have brought a priest with
you, and while you are here, we want him to wed two of us."

I made a guess that one of these must be the maid that I had brought
to the isle, and that it was the wish of the young man to make her his
wife. I spoke to him with some warmth in my tone, and bade him turn it
well in his mind first, as the girl was not in the same rank of life as
he had been brought up in. But he said, with a smile, that I had made a
wrong guess, for it was "Jack of all Trades" that he had come to plead
for. It gave me great joy to hear this, as the maid was as good a girl
as could be, and I thought well of Jack; so on that day I gave her to
him. They were to have a large piece of ground to grow their crops on,
with a house to live in, and sheds for their goats.

The isle was now set out in this way: all the west end was left waste,
so that if the wild men should land on it, they might come and go, and
hurt no one. My old house I gave to the chief, with all its woods, which
now spread out as far as the creek, and the south end was for the white
men and their wives.

It struck me that there was one gift which I had not thought of, and
that was the book of God's Word, which I knew would give to those who
could feel the words in it, fresh strength for their work, and grace to
bear the ills of life.

Now that I had been in the isle quite a month, I once more set sail on
the fifth day of May; and all my friends told me that they should stay
there till I came to fetch them.

When we had been out three days, though the sea was smooth and calm, we
saw that it was quite black on the land side; and as we knew not what to
make of it, I sent the chief mate up the main mast to find out with his
glass what it could be. He said it was a fleet of scores and scores of
small boats, full of wild men who came fast at us with fierce looks.

As soon as we got near them, I gave word to furl all sails and stop the
ship, and as there was nought to fear from them but fire, to get the
boats out and man them both well, and so wait for them to come up.

In this way we lay by for them, and in a short time they came up with
us; but as I thought they would try to row round and so close us in, I