Deſire of being entertain'd there, went to it, but was immediately converted into Stone, or at leaſt had the Appearance of it: ſo implacable an Enemy was the wicked Maſter of it to all his own Species, being ſerved only by infernal Spirits. He became at length ſo much the Terror of the whole Iſland, that no Perſon would venture to live, or paſs within ſeveral Leagues of his Habitation, ſo that all that ſide of the Country was in a manner deſolate, to the great Loſs and Detriment of the Place in general. This had continued for the Space of three Years, when an Accident, or rather the peculiar. Direction of Divine Providence was pleaſed in mercy to deliver them from the Terrors of ſo cruel a Neighbour.
A poor Man whom one may juſtly term a Pilgrim, having nothing to ſubſiſt on but what he procured by imploring the Charity of thoſe able to afford him. Succour, happening to travel on that ſide the Iſland, not knowing any thing of the Fame of this Enchanter, and perceiving no Houſe inhabited, nor any Cottage even where he might get a lodging, and it growing dark, he was in terrible Appre-
