I thought this was but a reasonable request on their part, andtherefore I inclined to agree to it; for indeed I considered thatto carry this whole company to the East Indies would not only be anintolerable severity upon the poor people, but would be ruining ourwhole voyage by devouring all our provisions; so I thought it nobreach of charter-party, but what an unforeseen accident madeabsolutely necessary to us, and in which no one could say we wereto blame; for the laws of God and nature would have forbid that weshould refuse to take up two boats full of people in such adistressed condition; and the nature of the thing, as wellrespecting ourselves as the poor people, obliged us to set them onshore somewhere or other for their deliverance. So I consentedthat we would carry them to Newfoundland, if wind and weather wouldpermit: and if not, I would carry them to Martinico, in the WestIndies.