n Board the next time upon our other Quarter, ”This’ll keep Madam Pomfrey happy, he entred 60 Men upon our Decks,cheap jordan shoes, who immediately fell to cutting and hacking the Decks and Rigging. We ply’d them with Small-shot, Half-Pikes, Powder-Chests, and such like, and clear’d our Deck of them twice. However, to cut short this melancholly Part of our Story,custom usb drives, our Ship being disabled, and three of our Men kill’d, and eight wounded, we were obliged to yield, and were carry’d all Prisoners into Sallee, a Port belonging to the Moors.
The Usage I had there was not so dreadful as at first I apprehended, nor was I carried up the Country to the Emperor’s Court, as the rest of our Men were, but was kept by the Captain of the Rover, as his proper Prize, and made is Slave, being young and nimble, and fit for his Business. At this surprising Change of my Circumstances from a Merchant to a miserable Slave, I was perfectly overwhelmed; and now I look’d back upon my Father’s prophetick Disourse to me, that I should be miserable, and have none to relieve me, which I thought was now so effectually brought pass, that it could not be worse; that now the Hand of Heaven had overtaken me, and I was undone without Redemption. But alas! this was but a Taste of the Misery I was to go thro’, as will appear in the Sequel of this Story.
As my new Patron or Master had taken me Home to his House, so I was in hopes that he would take me with him hen he went to Sea again, believing that it would some time or other be his Fate to be taken by a Spanish or Portugal an of War; and that then I should be set at Liberty. But his Hope of mine was soon taken away; for when he went to Sea, he left me on Shoar to look after his little Garden, and do the common Drudgery of Slaves about his House; and when he came home again from his Cruise,custom usb, he order’d me to lye in the Cabbin to look after the Ship.
Here I meditated nothing but my Escape; and what Method I might take to effect it, but found no Way that had the least Probability in it: Nothing presented to make the Supposition of it rational; for I had no Body to communicate it to,louis vuitton bags, that would embark with me; no Fellow-Slave, no Englishman, Irishman, or Scotsman there but my self; so that for two Years,but some strange combination of the two., tho’ I often pleased my self with the Imaginaion, yet I never had the least encouraging Prospect of putting it in Practice.
After about two Years an odd Circumstance presented it self which put the old Thought of making some Attempt for my Liberty, again in my Head: My Patron lying at Home lon