麦兜故事(国语版)

《 麦兜故事(国语版)》

istrates allowedus a little guard, and we had a soldier with a kind of half-pike,who stood sentinel at our door, to whom we allowed a pint of riceand a piece of money about the value of three-pence per day, sothat our goods were kept very safe.

　　When the poor women saw themselves set in a row thus, and fetchedout one by one, the terrors of their condition returned upon themagain, and they firmly believed they were now going to be devoured.Accordingly, when the English sailor came in and fetched out one ofthem, the rest set up a most lamentable cry, and hung about her,and took their leave of her with such agonies and affection aswould have grieved the hardest heart in the world: nor was itpossible for the Englishmen to satisfy them that they were not tobe immediately murdered, till they fetched the old man, Friday'sfather, who immediately let them know that the five men, who wereto fetch them out one by one, had chosen them for their wives.When they had done, and the fright the women were in was a littleover, the men went to work, and the Spaniards came and helped them:and in a few hours they had built them every one a new hut or tentfor their lodging apart; for those they had already were crowdedwith their tools, household stuff, and provisions.