But Caesar told him there was no faith in the white
men, or the gods they adored; who instructed them in principles so
false that honest men could not live amongst them; though no people
professed so much, none performed so little: that he knew what he
had to do when he dealt with men of honor, but with them a man ought
to be eternally on his guard, and never to eat and drink with
Christians, without his weapon of defense in his hand; and, for his
own security, never to credit one word they spoke. As for the rashness
and inconsiderateness of his action, he would confess the Governor
is in the right; and that he was ashamed of what he had done, in
endeavoring to make those free who were by nature slaves, poor
wretched rogues, fit to be used as Christian's tolls; dogs,
treacherous and cowardly, fit for such masters, and they wanted only
but to be whipped into the knowledge of the Christian gods, to be
the vilest of all creeping things; to learn to worship such deities as
had not power to make them just, brave, or honest. In fine, after a
thousand things of this nature, not fit here to be recited, he told
Byam he had rather die than live upon the same earth with such dogs.
But Trefry and Byam pleaded and protested together so much that
Trefry, believing the Governor to mean what he said, and speaking very
cordially himself, generously put himself into Caesar's hands, and
took him aside, and persuaded him, were with tears, to live, by
surrendering himself, and to name his conditions.
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