《疾速天使》小说　　IT was the beginning of February, new style, when we set out fromPekin. My partner and the old pilot had gone express back to theport where we had first put in, to dispose of some goods which wehad left there; and I, with a Chinese merchant whom I had someknowledge of at Nankin, and who came to Pekin on his own affairs,went to Nankin, where I bought ninety pieces of fine damasks, withabout two hundred pieces of other very fine silk of several sorts,some mixed with gold, and had all these brought to Pekin against mypartner's return. Besides this, we bought a large quantity of rawsilk, and some other goods, our cargo amounting, in these goodsonly, to about three thousand five hundred pounds sterling; which,together with tea and some fine calicoes, and three camels' loadsof nutmegs and cloves, loaded in all eighteen camels for our share,besides those we rode upon; these, with two or three spare horses,and two horses loaded with provisions, made together twenty-sixcamels and horses in our retinue.

　　They were far from being satisfied with this for an answer: and agreat crowd of them came running down in the morning, by break ofday, to our camp; but seeing us so well posted, they durst come nofarther than the brook in our front, where they stood in suchnumber as to terrify us very much; indeed, some spoke of tenthousand. Here they stood and looked at us a while, and then,setting up a great howl, let fly a crowd of arrows among us; but wewere well enough sheltered under our baggage, and I do not rememberthat one of us was hurt.

《疾速天使》小说 

　　W.A. - Yes, yes, He hears it all.
　　They were now in as great concern as before, not knowing whatcourse to take, or how near the enemy might be, or in what number;so they resolved to go away to the place where their wives were, tosee if all was well there, and to make them easy. These were infright enough, to be sure; for though the savages were their owncountrymen, yet they were most terribly afraid of them, and perhapsthe more for the knowledge they had of them. When they came there,they found the savages had been in the wood, and very near thatplace, but had not found it; for it was indeed inaccessible, fromthe trees standing so thick, unless the persons seeking it had beendirected by those that knew it, which these did not: they found,therefore, everything very safe, only the women in a terriblefright. While they were here they had the comfort to have seven ofthe Spaniards come to their assistance; the other ten, with theirservants, and Friday's father, were gone in a body to defend theirbower, and the corn and cattle that were kept t