The Novels of Daniel Defoe Author:Daniel Defoe 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: 40 he would not only do what in him lay, but woulcf engage all the ships in the road to do the like, and the governor also on shore. I thanked him very sincer... more »ely, and told him, that what at present was the. circumstance I thought lay before me, was this, viz. that the chief conspirators would be on shore on the marrow, with one, or perhaps two, of our boats, to fetch water, and get some fresh provisions, and I should be very glad to have them seized upon by surprise, when they were on shore, nnd that then I thought I could master the rest oa board well enough. Leave that to me, says he, I will give the governor notice this evening, and as soon as they come on shore they shall be all seized; but, says he, if you think they may incline to make any resistance, I will write a line to the governor, and give it you now ; then, when your men go on shore, order two of the principal rogues to go and wait on the governor with the letter from you, and whea he receives it, he shall secure them there ; so they will be divided, and taken with the more ease. In the mean time, added he, while this is doing on shore, I will come on board your ship, with my lung boat and pinnace, and as many men as you please, to repay you the compliment of this visit, and assist you in reducing the rest. This was so kind, and so completely what I dealfed, that I could have asked nothing more; and I accepted his visit in his barge, whichl thought would be enough, but was afraid that, if more came, our men might be alarmed, and take arms before I was ready; so we agreed upon that, and, if I desired more help, I should haug out a signal, viz. a red antient, on the mizen top. All things being thus consulted, I returned on board, pretending to our men that I had spent so much time on board the Dutch ship...« less