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the boatswain, who was the ringleader of the mutiny.
On this I advanced with my army, myself Captain General, Friday my Lieutenant General, and the rest of my officers and soldiers, and called out to them to surrender, which upon the promise of sparing their lives, they did.
In short, at length we got their consent to recover the ship, and so going on board, the captain shot the pirate captain dead, the mate shot another, and then the rest of them surrendered.
Soon after the captain came on shore, and thanked me for his preservation, offering me the ship at command.
After due punishment had been inflicted on the offenders, taking my man Friday with me, together with my parrot and some other relics, I sailed away in Dec. 1680 having lived there 28 years, 2 months, and 8 days and landed in England the 18th of June 1690; having not seen my own country in 35 years.
When I came into Yorkshire I found both my parents dead, and none of my family but two sisters living. The captain whom I had saved, acquainted the owners of the manner in which I had saved the ship at Desolate Island, and they made me a present of 700l.
I went afterwards to Lisbon, where I met the Portuguese captain, who took me on board on the African coast, and discovered myself, he told me how my plantation was improved, but that it was in the King’s hands, it being supposed I was dead. He lent me an hundred
