of the Gang, being killed, the reſt of the Crew carried the Ship into a Port of the Manilla Iſlands, belonging to the Spaniards; where, when her Story was known, ſhe was treated with great Reſpect, and courted by a young Gentleman, who was taken ill of a Fever, and died before the Marriage was agreed on, but left her his whole Fortune.
You ſee, my dear Sally how wonderfully theſe People were preſerved, and made happy after ſuch extreme Diſtreſs; we are therefore never to deſpair, even under the greateſt Miſfortunes, for God Almighty is All-powerful and can deliver us at any Time. Remember Job, but I think you have not read ſo far, take the Bible, Billy Jones, and read the Hiſtory of that good and patient Man. At this Inſtant ſomething was heard
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