Captain ordered us to be all call’d aloft: which was speedily performed. He went all round the company, viewing every man particularly, and very heedfully. At last he came to me, & there made a stand, (which had like to have made my heart start out of my breast:) he lookt upon me on this side, and on the other side; and to say truly, on every side: and having thorowly eyed me, he ran to our Captain, saying, That should be the man (pointing to me) but that he is a _white man_, & hath _two sees_ (_id est_) two eyes. Whereupon I was strictly examined: but for all this sifting, I would not let drop any thing of a confession, that should convict me of guilt; but with lifting up hands and eyes to Heaven, I utterly denyed that ere I saw this man, or ever had any dealing with him. I had now forgot what promises and vows I made to Heaven, (when in _Newgate_, and sentenced to be hang’d at _Tyburn_) what a serious, pious, and honest life I would lead, if I escaped that eminent danger the concerns of this life and that to come were then in. Herein I see the old Proverb verified: _Quo semel est imbuta recens servabit odorem Testa, diu_, &c.... That Cask will savour of that liquor still, With which at first the Cask a man did fill. Or according to that thred-bare expression so commonly used: _Naturam expellas furca, licet usque recurret._ Though man should stop his nature from its course, It will o’reflow again with greater force. In short, the _Bannyan_, since he could not say positively I was the man, was dismist, not without a solemn vow he would be revenged of us all in general; and clear’d of the Indictment. CHAP. LXXV. _The next going ashore of the Sea-men, this _Bannyan_ (for the injury was done him) caused a _Running_ a _Muck_, that is, he instigated a great many people to kill all they met of that ship. The loss of several men thereupon: but he is out of danger, having cunningly kept himself aboard that time. He afterwards had like to have been killed by a _Crease_ the _Bannyan_ had hired for that purpose. His enemies being destroyed, he marrieth an _Indian Punce-woman_._