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Account of the captivity of Capt. Robert Knox
Account of the captivity of Capt Robert Knox Author:Robert Knox Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: be kind to me, and give me good victuals, lest I might die also, as my father had done. So, for a while, I had better entertainment than formerly. CHAP. III. ... more » Haw I lived after my Father's Death—And of the Condition of the %est of the English; and how it fared with them—And of our Interview. I Still remained where I was before, having none but the black boy, and my ague, to bear me company. Never found I more pleasure ia reading, meditating, and praying, than now. For there was nothing else could administer to me any comfort, neither had I any other business to be occupied about. I had read my two books so often over, that I had them .. almost by heart. For my custom was, after dinner, to take a book and go into the fields, and sit under a tree, reading and meditating until evening; excepting the day when my ague came, for then I could scarce hold up.. my head. Often have I prayed as Elijah, under the juniper-tree, that God would take away my life, for it was a burden to me. At length it pleased God, my ague began to be a little more moderate; and so by degrees it wore away, after it had held me sixteen months. Provisions falling short v/itn me, though rice, I thank God, I never wanted, and monies also growing low; as well to help out a meal as for recreation, sometimes I went with an angle to catch small nsh in tfae brooks, the aforesaid boy being with me. It chanced, as I was fishing, an old man passed by, and seeing me, asked of my boy if I could read in a book. He answered, Yes. " The reaton I ask," said the old man, " is because I have one, I got when the Portuguese lost Columbo; and if your master please to buy it, I will sell it him." Which when I heard of, I bade my boy go to his house with him, which was not far off, and bring it to me to see it, making n...« less