Therefore I took some advice with them about Knitting, my Boy having Skill therein.

Likewise they advised me to take my Victuals raw, wherein they found great Profit.

For all this while here being no signs of releasing us, it concerned me now to bethink my self how I should live for the future.

For neither had I, any more than my Countreymen, any allowance for Cloths, but Victuals only.
Having stayed here some two or three days, we did take leave of one another, hoping to see one another oftner, since we knew each others Habitations: and I departed to my House, having a Keeper with me.
[The difficulty he met with of having raw Rice.] By this time I began to speak the Language of the Countrey.

Whereby I was inabled the better to speak my mind unto the People that brought me my Victuals.