"تقرير جديد عن جزر الهند الشرقية: يتناول ملاحظات وتعليقات النقيب أليكساندر هاميلتون الذي كان يسكن في تلك الأجزاء من ١٦٨٨ إلى ١٧٢٣، حيث كان يتاجر ويسافر بحرًا وبرًا إلى معظم البلاد والجزر المعنية بالتجارة والملاحة، بين رأس الرجاء الصالح وجزيرة اليابان. الطبعة الثانية. المجلد II." [‎٢‎٠‎٦] (٣٦٢/٢٣٥)

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106 A new Account
He made a bad Choice of a Place for a
Colony, that Ifland producing nothing but
Wood, Water, and Fifh for catching. He
got lome jMaccafJeys to fcrve for Soldiers
and help to build a Fortification, and made
a firm Contract with them to difcharge them
at the End of three Years if they were min
ded to quit his Service, but did not perform
what was contrafted, which was the Caufe of
his own Ruin, and the Lofs of the Colony,
joi thole Eaitern Defperadoes are veryfaith-
where Contrads and Covenants are duly
obferved when made with them, but in De-
taihance, they are revengeful and cruel. Mr
Ketchpole haying detained the Maccajfers be
yond their Time of Agreement, ftill entrufted
them with the Guard of his own Perfonand
the Ganfon, and they taking the Oppor
tunity of the Night, when all the Enghjh were
in their Jkds, who lodged in the Fort, thev
inhumanely murdered them all. There was
lome Noife made by thofe who were awake
which a few who lodged without the
1; on, hearing, took the Alarm, and ran to the
^ ca bide, where kind Providence direded
them to a Boat ready fitted with Oars and
bails, which they imbarked in, and put off
e Shore ' and were not a Stone's-throw
oft, till the bloody Villains on the Shore were
in Queft of them. So thofe in the Boat, with
much fatigue, Hunger, and Thirf! in failing,
and rowing above 100 Leagues, got to fome
i 'lee of the King of J chores Dominions,
where they were treated with Humanity.
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