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第3章 强打

　　The fair or mart usually kept at this place had been over sometime; however, we found that there were three or four junks in theriver, and two ships from Japan, with goods which they had boughtin China, and were not gone away, having some Japanese merchants onshore.

　　As they expected it fell out; three of the routed army fled forlife, and crossing the creek, ran directly into the place, not inthe least knowing whither they went, but running as into a thickwood for shelter. The scout they kept to look abroad gave noticeof this within, with this comforting addition, that the conquerorshad not pursued them, or seen which way they were gone; upon thisthe Spanish governor, a man of humanity, would not suffer them tokill the three fugitives, but sending three men out by the top ofthe hill, ordered them to go round, come in behind them, andsurprise and take them prisoners, which was done. The residue ofthe conquered people fled to their canoes, and got off to sea; thevictors retired, made no pursuit, or very little, but drawingthemselves into a body together, gave two great screaming shouts,most likely by way of triumph, and so the fight ended; the sameday, about three o'clock in the afternoon, they also marched totheir canoes. And thus the Spaniards had the island again fr

ll advantages:I pleased myself with being the patron of the people I placedthere, and doing for them in a kind of haughty, majestic way, likean old patriarchal monarch, providing for them as if I had beenfather of the whole family, as well as of the plantation. But Inever so much as pretended to plant in the name of any governmentor nation, or to acknowledge any prince, or to call my peoplesubjects to any one nation more than another; nay, I never so muchas gave the place a name, but left it as I found it, belonging tonobody, and the people under no discipline or government but myown, who, though I had influence over them as a father andbenefactor, had no authority or power to act or command one way orother, further than voluntary consent moved them to comply. Yeteven this, had I stayed there, would have done well enough; but asI rambled from them, and came there no more, the last letters I hadfrom any of them were by my partner's means, who afterwards sentanother sloop to the place, and who sent me word, t

ed them.

　　The Spaniards were in no small consternation at this sight; and, asthey found that the fellows went straggling all over the shore,they made no doubt but, first or last, some of them would chop inupon their habitation, or upon some other place where they wouldsee the token of inhabitants; and they were in great perplexityalso for fear of their flock of goats, which, if they should bedestroyed, would have been little less than starving them. So thefirst thing they resolved upon was to despatch three men awaybefore it was light, two Spaniards and one Englishman, to driveaway all the goats to the great valley where the cave was, and, ifneed were, to drive them into the very cave itself. Could theyhave seen the savages all together in one body, and at a distancefrom their canoes, they were resolved, if there had been a hundredof them, to attack them; but that could not be done, for they weresome of them two miles off from the other, and, as it appearedafterwards, were of two different nations.

　　CHAPTER XII - THE CARPENTER'S WHIMSICAL CONTRIVANCE

　　WIFE. - What rule? What way you know Him?

　　I asked them what put them upon all these fortifications; he toldme I would say there was need enough of it when they had given mean account how they had passed their time since their arriving inthe island, especially after they had the misfortune to find that Iwas gone. He told me he could not but have some pleasure in mygood fortune, when he heard that I was gone in a good ship, and tomy satisfaction; and that he had oftentimes a strong persuasionthat one time or other he should see me again, but nothing thatever befell him in his life, he said, was so surprising andafflicting to him at first as the disappointment he was under whenhe came back to the island and found I was not there.

　　About two days after this they had the farther satisfaction ofseeing three of the savages' canoes come driving on shore, and, atsome distance from them, two drowned men, by which they had reasonto believe that they had met with a storm at sea, which had oversetsome of them; for it had blown very hard the night after they wentoff. However, as some might miscarry, so, on the other hand,enough of them escaped to inform the rest, as well of what they haddone as of what had happened to them; and to whet them on toanother enterprise of the same nature, which they, it seems,resolved to attempt, with sufficient force to carry all beforethem; for except what the first man had told them of inhabitants,they could say little of it of their own knowledge, for they neversaw one man; and the fellow being killed that had affirmed it, theyhad no other witness to confirm it to, them.