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第8章 这家伙，太坏了！

came homeat night, the Spaniards provided their suppers for them.

fectually as not aman of them should have escaped, which could only have been bygetting in between them and their boats; but this presence of mindwas wanting to them, which was the ruin of their tranquillity for agreat while.

, and seewhat posture they were in. This necessarily led them over theplace where the fight had been, and where they found several of thepoor creatures not quite dead, and yet past recovering life; asight disagreeable enough to generous minds, for a truly great manthough obliged by the law of battle to destroy his enemy, takes nodelight in his misery. However, there was no need to give anyorders in this case; for their own savages, who were theirservants, despatched these poor creatures with their hatchets.

ffliction to us both that we were not near enoughto hear anything that passed between them. Well, however, we couldcome no nearer for fear of disturbing them: so we resolved to seean end of this piece of still conversation, and it spoke loudenough to us without the help of voice. He sat down again, as Ihave said, close by her, and talked again earnestly to her, and twoor three times we could see him embrace her most passionately;another time we saw him take out his handkerchief and wipe hereyes, and then kiss her again with a kind of transport veryunusual; and after several of these things, we saw him on a suddenjump up again, and lend her his hand to help her up, whenimmediately leading her by the hand a step or two, they bothkneeled down together, and continued so about two minutes.

　　CHAPTER I - REVISITS ISLAND

　　W.A. - Because He teaches and commands nothing but what is good,righteous, and holy, and tends to make us perfectly good, as wellas perfectly happy; and because He forbids and commands us to avoidall that is wicked, that is evil in itself, or evil in itsconsequence.

　　I looked upon their case to have been worse at this time than minewas at any time, after I first discovered the grains of barley andrice, and got into the manner of planting and raising my corn, andmy tame cattle; for now they had, as I may say, a hundred wolvesupon the island, which would devour everything they could come at,yet could be hardly come at themselves.

　　I thought this was but a reasonable request on their part, andtherefore I inclined to agree to it; for indeed I considered thatto carry this whole company to the East Indies would not only be anintolerable severity upon the poor people, but would be ruining ourwhole voyage by devouring all our provisions; so I thought it nobreach of charter-party, but what an unforeseen accident madeabsolutely necessary to us, and in which no one could say we wereto blame; for the laws of God and nature would have forbid that weshould refuse to take up two boats full of people in such adistressed condition; and the nature of the thing, as wellrespecting ourselves as the poor people, obliged us to set them onshore somewhere or other for their deliverance. So I consentedthat we would carry them to Newfoundland, if wind and weather wouldpermit: and if not, I would carry them to Martinico, in the WestIndies.

bt but theywere as fully satisfied of our being pirates as we were satisfiedof the contrary; and, as I often said, I know not but I should havebeen apt to have taken those circumstances for evidence, if thetables were turned, and my case was theirs; and have made noscruple of cutting all the crew to pieces, without believing, orperhaps considering, what they might have to offer in theirdefence.