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ertthese thirty-seven men to the faith of Jesus Christ, it is notworth my time, though I should never be fetched off the islandagain? - nay, is it not infinitely of more worth to save so manysouls than my life is, or the life of twenty more of the sameprofession? Yes, sir," says he, "I would give God thanks all mydays if I could be made the happy instrument of saving the souls ofthose poor men, though I were never to get my foot off this islandor see my native country any more. But since you will honour mewith putting me into this work, for which I will pray for you allthe days of my life, I have one humble petition to you besides." -"What is that?" said I. - "Why," says he, "it is, that you willleave your man Friday with me, to be my interpreter to them, and toassist me; for without some help I cannot speak to them, or they tome."
The governor, unwilling to make a breach, or to have any cause ofwar alleged to be given by him, the Czar having strictly chargedhim to treat the conquered country with gentleness, gave them allthe good words he could. At last he told them there was a caravangone towards Russia that morning, and perhaps it was some of themwho had done them this injury; and that if they would be satisfiedwith that, he would send after them to inquire into it. Thisseemed to appease them a little; and accordingly the governor sentafter us, and gave us a particular account how the thing was;intimating withal, that if any in our caravan had done it theyshould make their escape; but that whether we had done it or no, weshould make all the haste forward that was possible: and that, inthe meantime, he would keep them in play as long as he could.
Upon inquiry we found it was a French merchant ship of three-hundred tons, home-bound from Quebec. The master gave us a longaccount of the distress of his ship; how the fire began in thesteerage by the negligence of the steersman, which, on his cryingout for help, was, as everybody thought, entirely put out; but theysoon found that some sparks of the first fire had got into somepart of the ship so difficult to come at that they could noteffectually quench it; and afterwards getting in between thetimbers, and within the ceiling of the ship, it proceeded into thehold, and mastered all the skill and all the application they wereable to exert.
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