om Mr. Carew in a passion, telling him, He
was certain he deceived him, and belied his good brother of England: for
how, added he, can he be the king of a people whom he hath no knowledge
of? or how can he be beloved by his subjects who have never seen him? how
can he redress their grievances, or provide for their wants? how can he
lead his people against their enemies? or how know what his subjects
stand in need of, in the distant parts of the kingdom, if he so seldom
stirs out of his wigwam? Being told that the king of England was
informed of, and transacted all this by means of the officers that were
about him, he replied, It might be so; but if he should ever chance to go
to England, he should talk with his good friend the king upon these
matters, as he could not clearly apprehend how they could be. For my
part, added he, I know and am known by all my subjects. I appear daily
among them, hear their complaints, redress their grievances, and am
acquainted with every place in my kingdom. Being told the people of
England paid their king, yearly, vasts sums out of the profits of their
labour, he laughed, and cried, O poor king! adding, I have often given to
my subjects, but never received any thing from them.

Hunting being the principal employment and diversion of the Indians, at
which they are very expert, Mr. Carew had an opportunity of gratifying,
to the utmost, his taste for this diversion, there scarcely passing a day
but he was a party amongst them at some hunting match or other, and most
generally with the king himself. He was now grown into such great
respect among them, that they offered him a wife out of the principal
families of the place, nearly related to the king; but our hero,
notwithstanding these honours, could not forget his native country, the
love of which glowed within his breast; he had therefore, for some time,
formed the design of leaving them, and, very soon after, found an
opportunity of doing so.

One day, being out a hunting, they chanced to fall in company with some
other Indians, near the river Delaware. When the chase was over, they
sat down to be merry together, and having got some rum amongst them, they
drank pretty freely, and fell to singing and dancing after their country
fashion.

Mr. Carew took this opportunity of slipping away, and, going down to the
river side, seized one of the canoes. Though he was entirely
unacquainted with the method of managing them, he boldly pushed