- You always fight the better; how came you to be taken
prisoner, then, Friday?
FRIDAY. - My nation beat much for all that.
MASTER. - How beat? If your nation beat them, how came you to be
taken?
FRIDAY. - They more many than my nation, in the place where me was;
they take one, two, three, and me: my nation over-beat them in the
yonder place, where me no was; there my nation take one, two, great
thousand.
MASTER. - But why did not your side recover you from the hands of
your enemies, then?
FRIDAY. - They run, one, two, three, and me, and make go in the
canoe; my nation have no canoe that time.
MASTER. - Well, Friday, and what does your nation do with the men
they take? Do they carry them away and eat them, as these did?
FRIDAY. - Yes, my nation eat mans too; eat all up.
MASTER. - Where do they carry them?
FRIDAY. - Go to other place, where they think.
MASTER. - Do they come hither?
FRIDAY. - Yes, yes, they come hither; come other else place.
MASTER. - Have you been here with them?
FRIDAY. - Yes, I have been here (points to the NW. side of the
island, which, it seems, was their side).
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