Only that I might tell how the voyage progressed, did I go on deck,
or have speech with Nathaniel Peacock, and only through me did my
master know when we were come to this island or that, together with
what was to be seen in such places.
SEVERAL ISLANDS VISITED
Therefore it was that when, on the next day after he was made a
prisoner, we were come to anchor off that island which the savages
called Gaudaloupe, and Nathaniel had been permitted to go on shore
in one of the boats, I could tell my master of the wondrous waters
which were found there.
Nathaniel told me that water spouted up out of the earth so hot,
that when Captain Newport threw into it a piece of pork tied to a
rope, the meat was cooked in half an hour, even as if it had been
over a roaring hot fire.
After that we passed many islands, the names of which I could not
discover, until we came to anchor within half a musket shot from
the shore of that land which is known as Nevis. Here we lay six
days, and the chief men of the company went on shore for sport and
to hunt, save always either Captain Martin or Captain Kendall, who
remained on board to watch the poor prisoner, while he, my master,
lay in his narrow bed sweltering under the great heat.
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