In a few months he became as wicked and abandoned as any on the island.  He made a present of me to a poor native, who could read a little English.  I frequently conversed with him, but he could not understand what I said.  He often desired me to speak to his companions.  A few were greatly affected with what I said.  They often called upon me.  Sometimes they pleasantly said my words made them very happy, they desired to go to that happy world which I commended so highly.  They fervently prayed to Jesus to take them to it.  An old slave creeped in one day, inquiring if Jesus could do any thing for very bad people.  I replied, It is a faithful saying, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, even the chief.  He is able to save unto the very uttermost all who come unto God through him.  The black man, bathed in tears, exclaimed, Good book! tell me good news!  Like the Ethiopian eunuch, he went away rejoicing.

After some years I was sent for in great haste to visit my old proprietor George, who by his intemperance was brought to the gates of death.  In his affliction he remembered me.  I told him fools make a mock at sin, but sin finds them out.  God had been long angry with him every day.  He confessed he had been a great sinner.  He said that bad company had been his ruin:  that by following their example he had destroyed a fine constitution; that in his distress his bottle companions had all forsaken him; they could not bear the thought of death.  Had I my days to begin again, said he, I would flee from a swearer or a drunkard, as I would from the plague.  He prayed fervently that God would forgive his iniquity for the sake of his Son Jesus Christ.  His fever increased, and in a few days he went the way of all the earth.

After this I became the inmate of a respectable family which had long been on the island.  The master and mistress were professors of religion, but during their residence in the island they had neglected many of its most important duties.

At length one of their children became ill and died.  They came to me for consolation.  I gave them to understand, that it was because they had gone astray that they were afflicted, and that their affliction was designed to call them back to duty.  They were at length persuaded of their error, and praised God that he had loved them so much as to chastise them.  They now strove to serve God with all their hearts.  They listened to me when I told them that they should instruct their children in religion on every proper occasion, both when they sat in the house and when they walked by the way.  The youth of that family became at length distinguished throughout the island for every virtuous and amiable quality.