It happen d , being in company with some merchants and planters of my acquaintance , and talking of those things very earnestly , three of them came to me the next morning , and told me they had been musing very much urn what i had discoursed with them of , the last night , and they came to make a secret proposal to me ; and after enjoining me secrecy , they told me , that t to me to the brasils , among which , without my direction for i was too young in my business to think of them he had taken care to have all sorts of tools , iron - work , and utensils necessary for my plantation , and which were of great use to me 這位正直的葡萄牙船長到了里斯本之后,通過在里斯本的某個英國商人,設(shè)法把我的信以及我冒險經(jīng)歷的詳情,送達在倫敦的一位商人這位倫敦商人又把我的情況詳詳細(xì)細(xì)地轉(zhuǎn)告了那位寡婦。這位太太接到了信,獲知了我的遭遇后,不僅把錢如數(shù)交出,還從自己的私人積蓄中拿出一筆錢來酬謝葡萄牙船長,以報答他對我的恩情。