. The history of the buccaneers of America; containing detailed accounts of those bold and daring freebooters; chiefly along the Spanish main, in the great South sea, succeeding the civil wars in England . our women pris-oners, who, without offering them any violence, were not spar-ing of , and made appear, as I have already remarked,that, after they came once to know us, they did not retain allthe aversion for us that had been inculcated into them, whenwe were strangers unto them. All our people were so charmedwith this way of living, that they forgot their past miseries,and thoug
. The history of the buccaneers of America; containing detailed accounts of those bold and daring freebooters; chiefly along the Spanish main, in the great South sea, succeeding the civil wars in England . our women pris-oners, who, without offering them any violence, were not spar-ing of , and made appear, as I have already remarked,that, after they came once to know us, they did not retain allthe aversion for us that had been inculcated into them, whenwe were strangers unto them. All our people were so charmedwith this way of living, that they forgot their past miseries,and thought of no more danger from the Spaniards than ifthey had been in the middle of Paris. Amongst the rest, myself had one pretty adventure. Amongthe other prisoners we had a young gentlewoman lately becomea widow of the treasurer of the town, who was slain when itwas taken. Now this woman appeared so far comforted for herloss, out of a hard-heartedness they have in this country one foranother, that she proposed to hide me and herself in some cornerof the island till our people were gone, and then she would bringme to dueaquilla to marry her; that she would procure me her 420 THE BUCCANEERS OF THE BUCCANEERS OF. AMERICA. 421 husbands office, and vest me in his estate, which was verygreat. When I had returned her thanks for such obligingoffers, I gave her to understand that I was afraid her inter-est had not the mastery over the Spaniards resentments; andthat the wounds they had received from us were yet too freshand green for them easily to forget them. She went about tocure me of my suspicion, by procuring secretly from the gov-ernor and chief officers under their hands, how kindly I shouldbe used by them. I confess I was not a little perplexed here-with; and such pressing testimonies of good will and friend-ship towards me, brought me, after a little consultation withmyself, into such a quandary, that I did not know which sideto close with: nay, I found myself at length
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