Accidents > Dangers of the deep, or, Narratives of shipwreck and adventure at sea

202 SUFFERINGS AMONG THE INDIANS,
sistence they had lived upon; and these pro¬
cured by the cacique’s wife, in the manner I
mentioned before. This woman was the very
reverse of my hostess; and as she found her
husband was of so much consequence to us,
took upon her with much haughtiness, and
treated us as dependents and slaves. He was
not more engaging in his carriage towards us;
he would give no part of what he had to spare
to any but Captain Cheap, whom his interest
led him to prefer to the rest, though our wants
were often greater. The captain, on his part,
contributed to keep us in this abject situation,
by approving this distinction the cacique
showed to him. Had he treated us with not
quite so much distance, the cacique might have
been more regardful of our wants. The little
regard and attention which our necessitous
condition drew from Captain Cheap, may be
imputed likewise, in some measure, to the ef¬
fects of a mind soured by a series of crosses and
disappointments; which, indeed, had operat¬
ed on us all to a great neglect of each other, and
sometimes of ourselves.
We were not suffered to be in the same wig¬
wam with the cacique and his wife ; which, if
we had had any countenance from Captain