However, before I touch'd her, I order'd the Lieutenant to place a Guard at
the Cabin-door; and fastening the Door, shut us both in, which he did: The
Lady was young, and, I suppose, in their Country Esteem, very handsome, but
she was not very much so in my Thoughts: At first, her Fright, and the
Danger she thought she was in of being kill'd, taught her to do every Thing
that she thought might interpose between her and Danger; and that was to
take off her Jewels as fast as she could, and give them to me; and I,
without any great Compliment, took them as fast as she gave them me, and
put them into my Pocket, taking no great Notice of them, or of her, which
frighted her worse than all the rest, and she said something which I could
not understand; however, two of the other Ladies came, all crying, and
kneel'd down to me with their Hands lifted up: What they meant I knew not
at first, but by their Gestures and Pointings I found at last it was to beg
the young Queen's Life, and that I would not kill her.
I have heard that it has been reported in _England_ that I ravish'd this
Lady, and then used her most barbarously; but they wrong me, for I never
offer'd any Thing of that Kind to her, I assure you; nay, I was so far from
being inclin'd to it, that I did not like her; and there was one of her
Ladies who I found much more agreeable to me, and who I was afterwards
something free with, but not even with her either by Force, or by Way of
Ravishing.
We did, indeed, ravish them of all their Wealth, for that was what we
wanted, not the Women; nor was there any other Ravishing among those in the
great Cabin, that I can assure you: As for the Ship where the Women of
inferior Rank were, and who were in Number almost two hundred, I cannot
answer for what might happen in the first Heat; but even there, after the
first Heat of our Men was over, what was done, was done quietly, for I have
heard some of the Men say, that there was not a Woman among them but what
was lain with four or five Times over, that is to say, by so many several
Men; for as the Women made no Opposition, so the Men even took those that
were next them, without Ceremony, when and where Opportunity offer'd.
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