《咒》游戏with thebutt-ends of their muskets, their swords, armed staves, andhatchets, and laid about them so well that, in a word, they set upa dismal screaming and howling, flying to save their lives whichway soever they could.

　　R.C. - Pray, Will, let us know what passed between you and yourwife; for I know something of it already.

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　　This deliverance tamed our ill-disposed Englishmen for a greatwhile; the sight had filled them with horror, and the consequencesappeared terrible to the last degree, especially upon supposingthat some time or other they should fall into the hands of thosecreatures, who would not only kill them as enemies, but for food,as we kill our cattle; and they professed to me that the thoughtsof being eaten up like beef and mutton, though it was supposed itwas not to be till they were dead, had something in it so horriblethat it nauseated their very stomachs, made them sick when theythought of it, and filled their minds with such unusual terror,that they were not themselves for some weeks after. This, as Isaid, tamed even the three English brutes I have been speaking of;and for a great while after they were tractable, and went about thecommon business of the whole society well enough - planted, sowed,reaped, and began to be all naturalised to the country. But sometime after this they fell into such simple measures a
　　They had no more to do then but to get into their boats, which, totheir great comfort, were pretty large; being their long-boat, anda great shallop, besides a small skiff, which was of no greatservice to them, other than to get some fresh water and provisionsinto her, after they had secured their lives from the fire. Theyhad, indeed, small hopes of their lives by getting into these boatsat that distance from any land; only, as they said, that they thusescaped from the fire, and there was a possibility that some shipmight happen to be at sea, and might take them in. They had sails,oars, and a compass; and had as much provision and water as, withsparing it so as to be next door to starving, might support themabout twelve days, in which, if they had no bad weather and nocontrary winds, the captain said he hoped he might get to the banksof Newfoundland, and might perhaps take some fish, to sustain themtill they might go on shore. But there were so many chancesagainst them in all these cases, such as storms,