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the gain of our ship andcargo, worth altogether four or five thousand pounds. We did notconsider that the captains of ships have no authority to act thus;and if we had surrendered prisoners to them, they could not answerthe destroying us, or torturing us, but would be accountable for itwhen they came to their country. However, if they were to act thuswith us, what advantage would it be to us that they should becalled to an account for it? - or if we were first to be murdered,what satisfaction would it be to us to have them punished when theycame home?
It was now the beginning of the year 1693, when my nephew, whom, asI have observed before, I had brought up to the sea, and had madehim commander of a ship, was come home from a short voyage toBilbao, being the first he had made. He came to me, and told methat some merchants of his acquaintance had been proposing to himto go a voyage for them to the East Indies, and to China, asprivate traders. "And now, uncle," says he, "if you will go to seawith me, I will engage to land you upon your old habitation in theisland; for we are to touch at the Brazils."
