Daniel Defoe,Robinson Crusoe

CHAPTER I - START IN LIFE

I WAS born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who ettled fir t at !ull" !e got a good e tate by merchandi e, and lea#ing off hi trade, li#ed afterward at York, from whence he had married my mother, who e relation were named $obin on, a #ery good family in that country, and from whom I wa called $obin on %reut&naer' but, by the u ual corru(tion of word in )ngland, we are now called * nay we call our el#e and write our name * +ru oe' and o my com(anion alway called me" I had two elder brother , one of whom wa lieutenant*colonel to an )ngli h regiment of foot in ,lander , formerly commanded by the famou +olonel -ockhart, and wa killed at the battle near .unkirk again t the S(aniard " What became of my econd brother I ne#er knew, any more than my father or mother knew what became of me" Being the third on of the family and not bred to any trade, my head began to be filled #ery early with rambling thought " /y father, who wa #ery ancient, had gi#en me a com(etent hare of learning, a far a hou e*education and a country free chool generally go, and de igned me for the law' but I would be ati fied with nothing but going to ea' and my inclination to thi led me o trongly again t the will, nay, the command of my father, and again t all the entreatie and (er ua ion of my mother and other friend , that there eemed to be omething fatal in that (ro(en ity of nature, tending directly to the life of mi ery which wa to befall me" /y father, a wi e and gra#e man, ga#e me eriou and e0cellent coun el again t what he fore aw wa my de ign" !e called me one morning into hi chamber, where he wa confined by the gout, and e0(o tulated #ery warmly with me u(on thi ub1ect" !e a ked me what rea on , more than a mere wandering inclination, I had for lea#ing father2 hou e and my nati#e country, where I might be well introduced, and had a (ro (ect of rai ing my fortune by a((lication and indu try, with a life of ea e and (lea ure" !e told me it wa men of de (erate fortune on one hand, or of a (iring, u(erior fortune on the

other, who went abroad u(on ad#enture , to ri e by enter(ri e, and make them el#e famou in undertaking of a nature out of the common road' that the e thing were all either too far abo#e me or too far below me' that mine wa the middle tate, or what might be called the u((er tation of low life, which he had found, by long e0(erience, wa the be t tate in the world, the mo t uited to human ha((ine , not e0(o ed to the mi erie and hard hi( , the labour and uffering of the mechanic (art of mankind, and not embarra ed with the (ride, lu0ury, ambition, and en#y of the u((er (art of mankind" !e told me I might 1udge of the ha((ine of thi tate by thi one thing * #i&" that thi wa the tate of life which all other (eo(le en#ied' that king ha#e fre3uently lamented the mi erable con e3uence of being born to great thing , and wi hed they had been (laced in the middle of the two e0treme , between the mean and the great' that the wi e man ga#e hi te timony to thi , a the tandard of felicity, when he (rayed to ha#e neither (o#erty nor riche " !e bade me ob er#e it, and I hould alway find that the calamitie of life were hared among the u((er and lower (art of mankind, but that the middle tation had the fewe t di a ter , and wa not e0(o ed to o many #ici itude a the higher or lower (art of mankind' nay, they were not ub1ected to o many di tem(er and unea ine e , either of body or mind, a tho e were who, by #iciou li#ing, lu0ury, and e0tra#agance on the one hand, or by hard labour, want of nece arie , and mean or in ufficient diet on the other hand, bring di tem(er u(on them el#e by the natural con e3uence of their way of li#ing' that the middle tation of life wa calculated for all kind of #irtue and all kind of en1oyment ' that (eace and (lenty were the handmaid of a middle fortune' that tem(erance, moderation, 3uietne , health, ociety, all agreeable di#er ion , and all de irable (lea ure , were the ble ing attending the middle tation of life' that thi way men went ilently and moothly through the world, and comfortably out of it, not embarra ed with the labour of the hand or of the head, not old to a life of la#ery for daily bread, nor hara ed with (er(le0ed circum tance , which rob the oul of (eace and the body of re t, nor enraged with the (a ion of en#y, or the ecret burning lu t of ambition for great thing ' but, in ea y circum tance , liding gently through the world, and en ibly ta ting the weet of li#ing, without the bitter' feeling that they are ha((y, and learning by e#ery day2 e0(erience to know it more en ibly, After thi he (re ed me earne tly, and in the mo t affectionate manner, not to (lay the young man, nor to (reci(itate my elf into mi erie which nature, and the tation of life I wa born in, eemed to ha#e (ro#ided again t' that I wa under no nece ity of eeking my bread' that he would do well for me, and endea#our to enter me fairly into the tation of life which he had 1u t been

recommending to me' and that if I wa not #ery ea y and ha((y in the world, it mu t be my mere fate or fault that mu t hinder it' and that he hould ha#e nothing to an wer for, ha#ing thu di charged hi duty in warning me again t mea ure which he knew would be to my hurt' in a word, that a he would do #ery kind thing for me if I would tay and ettle at home a he directed, o he would not ha#e o much hand in my mi fortune a to gi#e me any encouragement to go away' and to clo e all, he told me I had my elder brother for an e0am(le, to whom he had u ed the ame earne t (er ua ion to kee( him from going into the -ow +ountry war , but could not (re#ail, hi young de ire (rom(ting him to run into the army, where he wa killed' and though he aid he would not cea e to (ray for me, yet he would #enture to ay to me, that if I did take thi fooli h te(, 4od would not ble me, and I hould ha#e lei ure hereafter to reflect u(on ha#ing neglected hi coun el when there might be none to a i t in my reco#ery" I ob er#ed in thi la t (art of hi di cour e, which wa truly (ro(hetic, though I u((o e my father did not know it to be o him elf * I ay, I ob er#ed the tear run down hi face #ery (lentifully, e (ecially when he (oke of my brother who wa killed5 and that when he (oke of my ha#ing lei ure to re(ent, and none to a i t me, he wa o mo#ed that he broke off the di cour e, and told me hi heart wa o full he could ay no more to me" I wa incerely affected with thi di cour e, and, indeed, who could be otherwi e6 and I re ol#ed not to think of going abroad any more, but to ettle at home according to my father2 de ire" But ala 7 a few day wore it all off' and, in hort, to (re#ent any of my father2 further im(ortunitie , in a few week after I re ol#ed to run 3uite away from him" !owe#er, I did not act 3uite o ha tily a the fir t heat of my re olution (rom(ted' but I took my mother at a time when I thought her a little more (lea ant than ordinary, and told her that my thought were o entirely bent u(on eeing the world that I hould ne#er ettle to anything with re olution enough to go through with it, and my father had better gi#e me hi con ent than force me to go without it' that I wa now eighteen year old, which wa too late to go a((rentice to a trade or clerk to an attorney' that I wa ure if I did I hould ne#er er#e out my time, but I hould certainly run away from my ma ter before my time wa out, and go to ea' and if he would (eak to my father to let me go one #oyage abroad, if I came home again, and did not like it, I would go no more' and I would (romi e, by a double diligence, to reco#er the time that I had lo t" 8hi (ut my mother into a great (a ion' he told me he knew it would be to no (ur(o e to (eak to my father u(on any uch ub1ect' that he knew too well

what wa my intere t to gi#e hi con ent to anything o much for my hurt' and that he wondered how I could think of any uch thing after the di cour e I had had with my father, and uch kind and tender e0(re ion a he knew my father had u ed to me' and that, in hort, if I would ruin my elf, there wa no hel( for me' but I might de(end I hould ne#er ha#e their con ent to it' that for her (art he would not ha#e o much hand in my de truction' and I hould ne#er ha#e it to ay that my mother wa willing when my father wa not" 8hough my mother refu ed to mo#e it to my father, yet I heard afterward that he re(orted all the di cour e to him, and that my father, after howing a great concern at it, aid to her, with a igh, 98hat boy might be ha((y if he would tay at home' but if he goe abroad, he will be the mo t mi erable wretch that e#er wa born5 I can gi#e no con ent to it"9 It wa not till almo t a year after thi that I broke loo e, though, in the meantime, I continued ob tinately deaf to all (ro(o al of ettling to bu ine , and fre3uently e0(o tulated with my father and mother about their being o (o iti#ely determined again t what they knew my inclination (rom(ted me to" But being one day at !ull, where I went ca ually, and without any (ur(o e of making an elo(ement at that time' but, I ay, being there, and one of my com(anion being about to ail to -ondon in hi father2 hi(, and (rom(ting me to go with them with the common allurement of eafaring men, that it hould co t me nothing for my (a age, I con ulted neither father nor mother any more, nor o much a ent them word of it' but lea#ing them to hear of it a they might, without a king 4od2 ble ing or my father2 , without any con ideration of circum tance or con e3uence , and in an ill hour, 4od know , on the 1 t of Se(tember 16:1, I went on board a hi( bound for -ondon" ;e#er any young ad#enturer2 mi fortune , I belie#e, began ooner, or continued longer than mine" 8he hi( wa no ooner out of the !umber than the wind began to blow and the ea to ri e in a mo t frightful manner' and, a I had ne#er been at ea before, I wa mo t ine0(re ibly ick in body and terrified in mind" I began now eriou ly to reflect u(on what I had done, and how 1u tly I wa o#ertaken by the 1udgment of !ea#en for my wicked lea#ing my father2 hou e, and abandoning my duty" All the good coun el of my (arent , my father2 tear and my mother2 entreatie , came now fre h into my mind' and my con cience, which wa not yet come to the (itch of hardne to which it ha ince, re(roached me with the contem(t of ad#ice, and the breach of my duty to 4od and my father" All thi while the torm increa ed, and the ea went #ery high, though nothing like what I ha#e een many time ince' no, nor what I aw a few day after' but

it wa enough to affect me then, who wa but a young ailor, and had ne#er known anything of the matter" I e0(ected e#ery wa#e would ha#e wallowed u u(, and that e#ery time the hi( fell down, a I thought it did, in the trough or hollow of the ea, we hould ne#er ri e more' in thi agony of mind, I made many #ow and re olution that if it would (lea e 4od to (are my life in thi one #oyage, if e#er I got once my foot u(on dry land again, I would go directly home to my father, and ne#er et it into a hi( again while I li#ed' that I would take hi ad#ice, and ne#er run my elf into uch mi erie a the e any more" ;ow I aw (lainly the goodne of hi ob er#ation about the middle tation of life, how ea y, how comfortably he had li#ed all hi day , and ne#er had been e0(o ed to tem(e t at ea or trouble on hore' and I re ol#ed that I would, like a true re(enting (rodigal, go home to my father" 8he e wi e and ober thought continued all the while the torm la ted, and indeed ome time after' but the ne0t day the wind wa abated, and the ea calmer, and I began to be a little inured to it' howe#er, I wa #ery gra#e for all that day, being al o a little ea* ick till' but toward night the weather cleared u(, the wind wa 3uite o#er, and a charming fine e#ening followed' the un went down (erfectly clear, and ro e o the ne0t morning' and ha#ing little or no wind, and a mooth ea, the un hining u(on it, the ight wa , a I thought, the mo t delightful that e#er I aw" I had le(t well in the night, and wa now no more ea* ick, but #ery cheerful, looking with wonder u(on the ea that wa o rough and terrible the day before, and could be o calm and o (lea ant in o little a time after" And now, le t my good re olution hould continue, my com(anion, who had enticed me away, come to me' 9Well, Bob,9 ay he, cla((ing me u(on the houlder, 9how do you do after it6 I warrant you were frighted, wer2n2t you, la t night, when it blew but a ca(ful of wind69 9A ca(ful d2you call it69 aid I' 92twa a terrible torm"9 9A torm, you fool you,9 re(lie he' 9do you call that a torm6 why, it wa nothing at all' gi#e u but a good hi( and ea*room, and we think nothing of uch a 3uall of wind a that' but you2re but a fre h*water ailor, Bob" +ome, let u make a bowl of (unch, and we2ll forget all that' d2ye ee what charming weather 2ti now69 8o make hort thi ad (art of my tory, we went the way of all ailor ' the (unch wa made and I wa made half drunk with it5 and in that one night2 wickedne I drowned all my re(entance, all my reflection u(on my (a t conduct, all my re olution for the future" In a word, a the ea wa returned to it moothne of urface and ettled calmne by the abatement of that torm, o the hurry of my thought being o#er, my fear and a((rehen ion of being wallowed u( by the ea being forgotten, and the current of my former de ire returned, I entirely forgot the #ow and (romi e that I made in my

di tre " I found, indeed, ome inter#al of reflection' and the eriou thought did, a it were, endea#our to return again ometime ' but I hook them off, and rou ed my elf from them a it were from a di tem(er, and a((lying my elf to drinking and com(any, oon ma tered the return of tho e fit * for o I called them' and I had in fi#e or i0 day got a com(lete a #ictory o#er con cience a any young fellow that re ol#ed not to be troubled with it could de ire" But I wa to ha#e another trial for it till' and <ro#idence, a in uch ca e generally it doe , re ol#ed to lea#e me entirely without e0cu e' for if I would not take thi for a deli#erance, the ne0t wa to be uch a one a the wor t and mo t hardened wretch among u would confe both the danger and the mercy of" 8he i0th day of our being at ea we came into Yarmouth $oad ' the wind ha#ing been contrary and the weather calm, we had made but little way ince the torm" !ere we were obliged to come to an anchor, and here we lay, the wind continuing contrary * #i&" at outh*we t * for e#en or eight day , during which time a great many hi( from ;ewca tle came into the ame $oad , a the common harbour where the hi( might wait for a wind for the ri#er" We had not, howe#er, rid here o long but we hould ha#e tided it u( the ri#er, but that the wind blew too fre h, and after we had lain four or fi#e day , blew #ery hard" !owe#er, the $oad being reckoned a good a a harbour, the anchorage good, and our ground* tackle #ery trong, our men were unconcerned, and not in the lea t a((rehen i#e of danger, but (ent the time in re t and mirth, after the manner of the ea' but the eighth day, in the morning, the wind increa ed, and we had all hand at work to trike our to(ma t , and make e#erything nug and clo e, that the hi( might ride a ea y a (o ible" By noon the ea went #ery high indeed, and our hi( rode foreca tle in, hi((ed e#eral ea , and we thought once or twice our anchor had come home' u(on which our ma ter ordered out the heet*anchor, o that we rode with two anchor ahead, and the cable #eered out to the bitter end" By thi time it blew a terrible torm indeed' and now I began to ee terror and ama&ement in the face e#en of the eamen them el#e " 8he ma ter, though #igilant in the bu ine of (re er#ing the hi(, yet a he went in and out of hi cabin by me, I could hear him oftly to him elf ay, e#eral time , 9-ord be merciful to u 7 we hall be all lo t7 we hall be all undone79 and the like" .uring the e fir t hurrie I wa tu(id, lying till in my cabin, which wa in the teerage, and cannot de cribe my tem(er5 I could ill re ume the fir t (enitence which I had o a((arently tram(led u(on and hardened my elf again t5 I thought the bitterne of death had been (a t, and that thi would be nothing like the fir t' but when the ma ter him elf came by me, a I aid 1u t now, and

aid we hould be all lo t, I wa dreadfully frighted" I got u( out of my cabin and looked out' but uch a di mal ight I ne#er aw5 the ea ran mountain high, and broke u(on u e#ery three or four minute ' when I could look about, I could ee nothing but di tre round u ' two hi( that rode near u , we found, had cut their ma t by the board, being dee( laden' and our men cried out that a hi( which rode about a mile ahead of u wa foundered" 8wo more hi( , being dri#en from their anchor , were run out of the $oad to ea, at all ad#enture , and that with not a ma t tanding" 8he light hi( fared the be t, a not o much labouring in the ea' but two or three of them dro#e, and came clo e by u , running away with only their (rit ail out before the wind" 8oward e#ening the mate and boat wain begged the ma ter of our hi( to let them cut away the fore*ma t, which he wa #ery unwilling to do' but the boat wain (rote ting to him that if he did not the hi( would founder, he con ented' and when they had cut away the fore*ma t, the main*ma t tood o loo e, and hook the hi( o much, they were obliged to cut that away al o, and make a clear deck" Any one may 1udge what a condition I mu t be in at all thi , who wa but a young ailor, and who had been in uch a fright before at but a little" But if I can e0(re at thi di tance the thought I had about me at that time, I wa in tenfold more horror of mind u(on account of my former con#iction , and the ha#ing returned from them to the re olution I had wickedly taken at fir t, than I wa at death it elf' and the e, added to the terror of the torm, (ut me into uch a condition that I can by no word de cribe it" But the wor t wa not come yet' the torm continued with uch fury that the eamen them el#e acknowledged they had ne#er een a wor e" We had a good hi(, but he wa dee( laden, and wallowed in the ea, o that the eamen e#ery now and then cried out he would founder" It wa my ad#antage in one re (ect, that I did not know what they meant by ,=>;.)$ till I in3uired" !owe#er, the torm wa o #iolent that I aw, what i not often een, the ma ter, the boat wain, and ome other more en ible than the re t, at their (rayer , and e0(ecting e#ery moment when the hi( would go to the bottom" In the middle of the night, and under all the re t of our di tre e , one of the men that had been down to ee cried out we had (rung a leak' another aid there wa four feet water in the hold" 8hen all hand were called to the (um(" At that word, my heart, a I thought, died within me5 and I fell backward u(on the ide of my bed where I at, into the cabin" !owe#er, the men rou ed me, and told me that I, that wa able to do nothing before, wa a well able to (um( a another' at which I tirred u( and went to the (um(, and worked #ery heartily" While thi wa doing the ma ter, eeing ome light collier , who, not able to ride out the torm

were obliged to li( and run away to ea, and would come near u , ordered to fire a gun a a ignal of di tre " I, who knew nothing what they meant, thought the hi( had broken, or ome dreadful thing ha((ened" In a word, I wa o ur(ri ed that I fell down in a woon" A thi wa a time when e#erybody had hi own life to think of, nobody minded me, or what wa become of me' but another man te((ed u( to the (um(, and thru ting me a ide with hi foot, let me lie, thinking I had been dead' and it wa a great while before I came to my elf" We worked on' but the water increa ing in the hold, it wa a((arent that the hi( would founder' and though the torm began to abate a little, yet it wa not (o ible he could wim till we might run into any (ort' o the ma ter continued firing gun for hel(' and a light hi(, who had rid it out 1u t ahead of u , #entured a boat out to hel( u " It wa with the utmo t ha&ard the boat came near u ' but it wa im(o ible for u to get on board, or for the boat to lie near the hi(2 ide, till at la t the men rowing #ery heartily, and #enturing their li#e to a#e our , our men ca t them a ro(e o#er the tern with a buoy to it, and then #eered it out a great length, which they, after much labour and ha&ard, took hold of, and we hauled them clo e under our tern, and got all into their boat" It wa to no (ur(o e for them or u , after we were in the boat, to think of reaching their own hi(' o all agreed to let her dri#e, and only to (ull her in toward hore a much a we could' and our ma ter (romi ed them, that if the boat wa ta#ed u(on hore, he would make it good to their ma ter5 o (artly rowing and (artly dri#ing, our boat went away to the northward, lo(ing toward the hore almo t a far a Winterton ;e " We were not much more than a 3uarter of an hour out of our hi( till we aw her ink, and then I under tood for the fir t time what wa meant by a hi( foundering in the ea" I mu t acknowledge I had hardly eye to look u( when the eamen told me he wa inking' for from the moment that they rather (ut me into the boat than that I might be aid to go in, my heart wa , a it were, dead within me, (artly with fright, (artly with horror of mind, and the thought of what wa yet before me" While we were in thi condition * the men yet labouring at the oar to bring the boat near the hore * we could ee ?when, our boat mounting the wa#e , we were able to ee the hore@ a great many (eo(le running along the trand to a i t u when we hould come near' but we made but low way toward the hore' nor were we able to reach the hore till, being (a t the lighthou e at Winterton, the hore fall off to the we tward toward +romer, and o the land broke off a little the #iolence of the wind" !ere we got in, and though not

without much difficulty, got all afe on hore, and walked afterward on foot to Yarmouth, where, a unfortunate men, we were u ed with great humanity, a well by the magi trate of the town, who a igned u good 3uarter , a by (articular merchant and owner of hi( , and had money gi#en u ufficient to carry u either to -ondon or back to !ull a we thought fit" !ad I now had the en e to ha#e gone back to !ull, and ha#e gone home, I had been ha((y, and my father, a in our ble ed Sa#iour2 (arable, had e#en killed the fatted calf for me' for hearing the hi( I went away in wa ca t away in Yarmouth $oad , it wa a great while before he had any a urance that I wa not drowned" But my ill fate (u hed me on now with an ob tinacy that nothing could re i t' and though I had e#eral time loud call from my rea on and my more com(o ed 1udgment to go home, yet I had no (ower to do it" I know not what to call thi , nor will I urge that it i a ecret o#erruling decree, that hurrie u on to be the in trument of our own de truction, e#en though it be before u , and that we ru h u(on it with our eye o(en" +ertainly, nothing but ome uch decreed una#oidable mi ery, which it wa im(o ible for me to e ca(e, could ha#e (u hed me forward again t the calm rea oning and (er ua ion of my mo t retired thought , and again t two uch #i ible in truction a I had met with in my fir t attem(t" /y comrade, who had hel(ed to harden me before, and who wa the ma ter2 on, wa now le forward than I" 8he fir t time he (oke to me after we were at Yarmouth, which wa not till two or three day , for we were e(arated in the town to e#eral 3uarter ' I ay, the fir t time he aw me, it a((eared hi tone wa altered' and, looking #ery melancholy, and haking hi head, he a ked me how I did, and telling hi father who I wa , and how I had come thi #oyage only for a trial, in order to go further abroad, hi father, turning to me with a #ery gra#e and concerned tone 9Young man,9 ay he, 9you ought ne#er to go to ea any more' you ought to take thi for a (lain and #i ible token that you are not to be a eafaring man"9 9Why, ir,9 aid I, 9will you go to ea no more69 98hat i another ca e,9 aid he' 9it i my calling, and therefore my duty' but a you made thi #oyage on trial, you ee what a ta te !ea#en ha gi#en you of what you are to e0(ect if you (er i t" <erha( thi ha all befallen u on your account, like Aonah in the hi( of 8ar hi h" <ray,9 continue he, 9what are you' and on what account did you go to ea69 >(on that I told him ome of my tory' at the end of which he bur t out into a trange kind of (a ion5 9What had I done,9 ay he, 9that uch an unha((y wretch hould come into my hi(6 I would not et my foot in the ame hi( with thee again for a thou and (ound "9

8hi indeed wa , a I aid, an e0cur ion of hi (irit , which were yet agitated by the en e of hi lo , and wa farther than he could ha#e authority to go" !owe#er, he afterward talked #ery gra#ely to me, e0horting me to go back to my father, and not tem(t <ro#idence to my ruin, telling me I might ee a #i ible hand of !ea#en again t me" 9And, young man,9 aid he, 9de(end u(on it, if you do not go back, where#er you go, you will meet with nothing but di a ter and di a((ointment , till your father2 word are fulfilled u(on you"9 We (arted oon after' for I made him little an wer, and I aw him no more' which way he went I knew not" A for me, ha#ing ome money in my (ocket, I tra#elled to -ondon by land' and there, a well a on the road, had many truggle with my elf what cour e of life I hould take, and whether I hould go home or to ea" A to going home, hame o((o ed the be t motion that offered to my thought , and it immediately occurred to me how I hould be laughed at among the neighbour , and hould be a hamed to ee, not my father and mother only, but e#en e#erybody el e' from whence I ha#e ince often ob er#ed, how incongruou and irrational the common tem(er of mankind i , e (ecially of youth, to that rea on which ought to guide them in uch ca e * #i&" that they are not a hamed to in, and yet are a hamed to re(ent' not a hamed of the action for which they ought 1u tly to be e teemed fool , but are a hamed of the returning, which only can make them be e teemed wi e men" In thi tate of life, howe#er, I remained ome time, uncertain what mea ure to take, and what cour e of life to lead" An irre i tible reluctance continued to going home' and a I tayed away a while, the remembrance of the di tre I had been in wore off, and a that abated, the little motion I had in my de ire to return wore off with it, till at la t I 3uite laid a ide the thought of it, and looked out for a #oyage"

CHAPTER II - SLAVERY AND ESCAPE

8!A8 e#il influence which carried me fir t away from my father2 hou e * which hurried me into the wild and indige ted notion of rai ing my fortune, and that im(re ed tho e conceit o forcibly u(on me a to make me deaf to all good ad#ice, and to the entreatie and e#en the command of my father * I ay, the ame influence, whate#er it wa , (re ented the mo t unfortunate of all enter(ri e to my #iew' and I went on board a #e el bound to the coa t of Africa' or, a our ailor #ulgarly called it, a #oyage to 4uinea"

It wa my great mi fortune that in all the e ad#enture I did not hi( my elf a a ailor' when, though I might indeed ha#e worked a little harder than ordinary, yet at the ame time I hould ha#e learnt the duty and office of a fore*ma t man, and in time might ha#e 3ualified my elf for a mate or lieutenant, if not for a ma ter" But a it wa alway my fate to choo e for the wor e, o I did here' for ha#ing money in my (ocket and good clothe u(on my back, I would alway go on board in the habit of a gentleman' and o I neither had any bu ine in the hi(, nor learned to do any" It wa my lot fir t of all to fall into (retty good com(any in -ondon, which doe not alway ha((en to uch loo e and mi guided young fellow a I then wa ' the de#il generally not omitting to lay ome nare for them #ery early' but it wa not o with me" I fir t got ac3uainted with the ma ter of a hi( who had been on the coa t of 4uinea' and who, ha#ing had #ery good ucce there, wa re ol#ed to go again" 8hi ca(tain taking a fancy to my con#er ation, which wa not at all di agreeable at that time, hearing me ay I had a mind to ee the world, told me if I would go the #oyage with him I hould be at no e0(en e' I hould be hi me mate and hi com(anion' and if I could carry anything with me, I hould ha#e all the ad#antage of it that the trade would admit' and (erha( I might meet with ome encouragement" I embraced the offer' and entering into a trict friend hi( with thi ca(tain, who wa an hone t, (lain*dealing man, I went the #oyage with him, and carried a mall ad#enture with me, which, by the di intere ted hone ty of my friend the ca(tain, I increa ed #ery con iderably' for I carried about BC (ound in uch toy and trifle a the ca(tain directed me to buy" 8he e BC (ound I had mu tered together by the a i tance of ome of my relation whom I corre (onded with' and who, I belie#e, got my father, or at lea t my mother, to contribute o much a that to my fir t ad#enture" 8hi wa the only #oyage which I may ay wa ucce ful in all my ad#enture , which I owe to the integrity and hone ty of my friend the ca(tain' under whom al o I got a com(etent knowledge of the mathematic and the rule of na#igation, learned how to kee( an account of the hi(2 cour e, take an ob er#ation, and, in hort, to under tand ome thing that were needful to be under tood by a ailor' for, a he took delight to in truct me, I took delight to learn' and, in a word, thi #oyage made me both a ailor and a merchant' for I brought home fi#e (ound nine ounce of gold*du t for my ad#enture, which yielded me in -ondon, at my return, almo t 3CC (ound ' and thi filled me with tho e a (iring thought which ha#e ince o com(leted my ruin"

Yet e#en in thi #oyage I had my mi fortune too' (articularly, that I wa continually ick, being thrown into a #iolent calenture by the e0ce i#e heat of the climate' our (rinci(al trading being u(on the coa t, from latitude of 1: degree north e#en to the line it elf" I wa now et u( for a 4uinea trader' and my friend, to my great mi fortune, dying oon after hi arri#al, I re ol#ed to go the ame #oyage again, and I embarked in the ame #e el with one who wa hi mate in the former #oyage, and had now got the command of the hi(" 8hi wa the unha((ie t #oyage that e#er man made' for though I did not carry 3uite 1CC (ound of my new*gained wealth, o that I had 2CC (ound left, which I had lodged with my friend2 widow, who wa #ery 1u t to me, yet I fell into terrible mi fortune " 8he fir t wa thi 5 our hi( making her cour e toward the +anary I land , or rather between tho e i land and the African hore, wa ur(ri ed in the grey of the morning by a 8urki h ro#er of Sallee, who ga#e cha e to u with all the ail he could make" We crowded al o a much can#a a our yard would (read, or our ma t carry, to get clear' but finding the (irate gained u(on u , and would certainly come u( with u in a few hour , we (re(ared to fight' our hi( ha#ing twel#e gun , and the rogue eighteen" About three in the afternoon he came u( with u , and bringing to, by mi take, 1u t athwart our 3uarter, in tead of athwart our tern, a he intended, we brought eight of our gun to bear on that ide, and (oured in a broad ide u(on him, which made him heer off again, after returning our fire, and (ouring in al o hi mall hot from near two hundred men which he had on board" !owe#er, we had not a man touched, all our men kee(ing clo e" !e (re(ared to attack u again, and we to defend our el#e " But laying u on board the ne0t time u(on our other 3uarter, he entered i0ty men u(on our deck , who immediately fell to cutting and hacking the ail and rigging" We (lied them with mall hot, half*(ike , (owder*che t , and uch like, and cleared our deck of them twice" !owe#er, to cut hort thi melancholy (art of our tory, our hi( being di abled, and three of our men killed, and eight wounded, we were obliged to yield, and were carried all (ri oner into Sallee, a (ort belonging to the /oor " 8he u age I had there wa not o dreadful a at fir t I a((rehended' nor wa I carried u( the country to the em(eror2 court, a the re t of our men were, but wa ke(t by the ca(tain of the ro#er a hi (ro(er (ri&e, and made hi la#e, being young and nimble, and fit for hi bu ine " At thi ur(ri ing change of my circum tance , from a merchant to a mi erable la#e, I wa (erfectly o#erwhelmed' and now I looked back u(on my father2 (ro(hetic di cour e to me, that I hould be mi erable and ha#e none to relie#e me, which I thought wa now o effectually brought to (a that I could not be wor e' for now the

hand of !ea#en had o#ertaken me, and I wa undone without redem(tion' but, ala 7 thi wa but a ta te of the mi ery I wa to go through, a will a((ear in the e3uel of thi tory" A my new (atron, or ma ter, had taken me home to hi hou e, o I wa in ho(e that he would take me with him when he went to ea again, belie#ing that it would ome time or other be hi fate to be taken by a S(ani h or <ortugal man*of*war' and that then I hould be et at liberty" But thi ho(e of mine wa oon taken away' for when he went to ea, he left me on hore to look after hi little garden, and do the common drudgery of la#e about hi hou e' and when he came home again from hi crui e, he ordered me to lie in the cabin to look after the hi(" !ere I meditated nothing but my e ca(e, and what method I might take to effect it, but found no way that had the lea t (robability in it' nothing (re ented to make the u((o ition of it rational' for I had nobody to communicate it to that would embark with me * no fellow* la#e, no )ngli hman, Iri hman, or Scotchman there but my elf' o that for two year , though I often (lea ed my elf with the imagination, yet I ne#er had the lea t encouraging (ro (ect of (utting it in (ractice" After about two year , an odd circum tance (re ented it elf, which (ut the old thought of making ome attem(t for my liberty again in my head" /y (atron lying at home longer than u ual without fitting out hi hi(, which, a I heard, wa for want of money, he u ed con tantly, once or twice a week, ometime oftener if the weather wa fair, to take the hi(2 (innace and go out into the road a* fi hing' and a he alway took me and young /are co with him to row the boat, we made him #ery merry, and I (ro#ed #ery de0terou in catching fi h' in omuch that ometime he would end me with a /oor, one of hi kin men, and the youth * the /are co, a they called him * to catch a di h of fi h for him" It ha((ened one time, that going a*fi hing in a calm morning, a fog ro e o thick that, though we were not half a league from the hore, we lo t ight of it' and rowing we knew not whither or which way, we laboured all day, and all the ne0t night' and when the morning came we found we had (ulled off to ea in tead of (ulling in for the hore' and that we were at lea t two league from the hore" !owe#er, we got well in again, though with a great deal of labour and ome danger' for the wind began to blow (retty fre h in the morning' but we were all #ery hungry"

But our (atron, warned by thi di a ter, re ol#ed to take more care of him elf for the future' and ha#ing lying by him the longboat of our )ngli h hi( that he had taken, he re ol#ed he would not go a* fi hing any more without a com(a and ome (ro#i ion' o he ordered the car(enter of hi hi(, who al o wa an )ngli h la#e, to build a little tate*room, or cabin, in the middle of the long* boat, like that of a barge, with a (lace to tand behind it to teer, and haul home the main* heet' the room before for a hand or two to tand and work the ail " She ailed with what we call a houlder*of*mutton ail' and the boom 1ibed o#er the to( of the cabin, which lay #ery nug and low, and had in it room for him to lie, with a la#e or two, and a table to eat on, with ome mall locker to (ut in ome bottle of uch li3uor a he thought fit to drink' and hi bread, rice, and coffee" We went fre3uently out with thi boat a*fi hing' and a I wa mo t de0terou to catch fi h for him, he ne#er went without me" It ha((ened that he had a((ointed to go out in thi boat, either for (lea ure or for fi h, with two or three /oor of ome di tinction in that (lace, and for whom he had (ro#ided e0traordinarily, and had, therefore, ent on board the boat o#ernight a larger tore of (ro#i ion than ordinary' and had ordered me to get ready three fu ee with (owder and hot, which were on board hi hi(, for that they de igned ome (ort of fowling a well a fi hing" I got all thing ready a he had directed, and waited the ne0t morning with the boat wa hed clean, her ancient and (endant out, and e#erything to accommodate hi gue t ' when by*and*by my (atron came on board alone, and told me hi gue t had (ut off going from ome bu ine that fell out, and ordered me, with the man and boy, a u ual, to go out with the boat and catch them ome fi h, for that hi friend were to u( at hi hou e, and commanded that a oon a I got ome fi h I hould bring it home to hi hou e' all which I (re(ared to do" 8hi moment my former notion of deli#erance darted into my thought , for now I found I wa likely to ha#e a little hi( at my command' and my ma ter being gone, I (re(ared to furni h my elf, not for fi hing bu ine , but for a #oyage' though I knew not, neither did I o much a con ider, whither I hould teer * anywhere to get out of that (lace wa my de ire" /y fir t contri#ance wa to make a (retence to (eak to thi /oor, to get omething for our ub i tence on board' for I told him we mu t not (re ume to eat of our (atron2 bread" !e aid that wa true' o he brought a large ba ket of ru k or bi cuit, and three 1ar of fre h water, into the boat" I knew where my (atron2 ca e of bottle tood, which it wa e#ident, by the make, were taken

out of ome )ngli h (ri&e, and I con#eyed them into the boat while the /oor wa on hore, a if they had been there before for our ma ter" I con#eyed al o a great lum( of bee wa0 into the boat, which weighed about half a hundred* weight, with a (arcel of twine or thread, a hatchet, a aw, and a hammer, all of which were of great u e to u afterward , e (ecially the wa0, to make candle " Another trick I tried u(on him, which he innocently came into al o5 hi name wa I mael, which they call /uley, or /oely' o I called to him * 9/oely,9 aid I, 9our (atron2 gun are on board the boat' can you not get a little (owder and hot6 It may be we may kill ome alcamie ?a fowl like our curlew @ for our el#e , for I know he kee( the gunner2 tore in the hi("9 9Ye ,9 ay he, 9I2ll bring ome'9 and accordingly he brought a great leather (ouch, which held a (ound and a half of (owder, or rather more' and another with hot, that had fi#e or i0 (ound , with ome bullet , and (ut all into the boat" At the ame time I had found ome (owder of my ma ter2 in the great cabin, with which I filled one of the large bottle in the ca e, which wa almo t em(ty, (ouring what wa in it into another' and thu furni hed with e#erything needful, we ailed out of the (ort to fi h" 8he ca tle, which i at the entrance of the (ort, knew who we were, and took no notice of u ' and we were not abo#e a mile out of the (ort before we hauled in our ail and et u down to fi h" 8he wind blew from the ;";")", which wa contrary to my de ire, for had it blown outherly I had been ure to ha#e made the coa t of S(ain, and at lea t reached to the bay of +adi&' but my re olution were, blow which way it would, I would be gone from that horrid (lace where I wa , and lea#e the re t to fate" After we had fi hed ome time and caught nothing * for when I had fi h on my hook I would not (ull them u(, that he might not ee them * I aid to the /oor, 98hi will not do' our ma ter will not be thu er#ed' we mu t tand farther off"9 !e, thinking no harm, agreed, and being in the head of the boat, et the ail ' and, a I had the helm, I ran the boat out near a league farther, and then brought her to, a if I would fi h' when, gi#ing the boy the helm, I te((ed forward to where the /oor wa , and making a if I too(ed for omething behind him, I took him by ur(ri e with my arm under hi wai t, and to ed him clear o#erboard into the ea" !e ro e immediately, for he wam like a cork, and called to me, begged to be taken in, told me he would go all o#er the world with me" !e wam o trong after the boat that he would ha#e reached me #ery 3uickly, there being but little wind' u(on which I te((ed into the cabin, and fetching one of the fowling*(iece , I (re ented it at him, and told him I had done him no hurt, and if he would be 3uiet I would do him none" 9But,9 aid I, 9you wim well enough to reach to the hore, and the ea i calm' make the be t of your way to hore, and I will do you no harm' but if you come near the boat I2ll hoot you through the head, for I am re ol#ed to ha#e my liberty'9 o he

turned him elf about, and wam for the hore, and I make no doubt but he reached it with ea e, for he wa an e0cellent wimmer" I could ha#e been content to ha#e taken thi /oor with me, and ha#e drowned the boy, but there wa no #enturing to tru t him" When he wa gone, I turned to the boy, whom they called Dury, and aid to him, 9Dury, if you will be faithful to me, I2ll make you a great man' but if you will not troke your face to be true to me9 * that i , wear by /ahomet and hi father2 beard * 9I mu t throw you into the ea too"9 8he boy miled in my face, and (oke o innocently that I could not di tru t him, and wore to be faithful to me, and go all o#er the world with me" While I wa in #iew of the /oor that wa wimming, I tood out directly to ea with the boat, rather tretching to windward, that they might think me gone toward the Strait 2 mouth ?a indeed any one that had been in their wit mu t ha#e been u((o ed to do@5 for who would ha#e u((o ed we were ailed on to the outhward, to the truly Barbarian coa t, where whole nation of negroe were ure to urround u with their canoe and de troy u ' where we could not go on hore but we hould be de#oured by a#age bea t , or more mercile a#age of human kind" But a oon a it grew du k in the e#ening, I changed my cour e, and teered directly outh and by ea t, bending my cour e a little toward the ea t, that I might kee( in with the hore' and ha#ing a fair, fre h gale of wind, and a mooth, 3uiet ea, I made uch ail that I belie#e by the ne0t day, at three o2clock in the afternoon, when I fir t made the land, I could not be le than one hundred and fifty mile outh of Sallee' 3uite beyond the )m(eror of /orocco2 dominion , or indeed of any other king thereabout , for we aw no (eo(le" Yet uch wa the fright I had taken of the /oor , and the dreadful a((rehen ion I had of falling into their hand , that I would not to(, or go on hore, or come to an anchor' the wind continuing fair till I had ailed in that manner fi#e day ' and then the wind hifting to the outhward, I concluded al o that if any of our #e el were in cha e of me, they al o would now gi#e o#er' o I #entured to make to the coa t, and came to an anchor in the mouth of a little ri#er, I knew not what, nor where, neither what latitude, what country, what nation, or what ri#er" I neither aw, nor de ired to ee any (eo(le' the (rinci(al thing I wanted wa fre h water" We came into thi creek in the e#ening, re ol#ing to wim on hore a oon a it wa dark, and di co#er the country' but a oon a it wa 3uite dark, we heard uch dreadful noi e of the barking, roaring, and howling of wild creature , of we knew not what kind ,

that the (oor boy wa ready to die with fear, and begged of me not to go on hore till day" 9Well, Dury,9 aid I, 9then I won2t' but it may be that we may ee men by day, who will be a bad to u a tho e lion "9 98hen we gi#e them the hoot gun,9 ay Dury, laughing, 9make them run wey"9 Such )ngli h Dury (oke by con#er ing among u la#e " !owe#er, I wa glad to ee the boy o cheerful, and I ga#e him a dram ?out of our (atron2 ca e of bottle @ to cheer him u(" After all, Dury2 ad#ice wa good, and I took it' we dro((ed our little anchor, and lay till all night' I ay till, for we le(t none' for in two or three hour we aw #a t great creature ?we knew not what to call them@ of many ort , come down to the ea* hore and run into the water, wallowing and wa hing them el#e for the (lea ure of cooling them el#e ' and they made uch hideou howling and yelling , that I ne#er indeed heard the like" Dury wa dreadfully frighted, and indeed o wa I too' but we were both more frighted when we heard one of the e mighty creature come wimming toward our boat' we could not ee him, but we might hear him by hi blowing to be a mon trou huge and furiou bea t" Dury aid it wa a lion, and it might be o for aught I know' but (oor Dury cried to me to weigh the anchor and row away' 9;o,9 ay I, 9Dury' we can li( our cable, with the buoy to it, and go off to ea' they cannot follow u far"9 I had no ooner aid o, but I (ercei#ed the creature ?whate#er it wa @ within two oar 2 length, which omething ur(ri ed me' howe#er, I immediately te((ed to the cabin door, and taking u( my gun, fired at him' u(on which he immediately turned about and wam toward the hore again" But it i im(o ible to de cribe the horrid noi e , and hideou crie and howling that were rai ed, a well u(on the edge of the hore a higher within the country, u(on the noi e or re(ort of the gun, a thing I ha#e ome rea on to belie#e tho e creature had ne#er heard before5 thi con#inced me that there wa no going on hore for u in the night on that coa t, and how to #enture on hore in the day wa another 3ue tion too' for to ha#e fallen into the hand of any of the a#age had been a bad a to ha#e fallen into the hand of the lion and tiger ' at lea t we were e3ually a((rehen i#e of the danger of it" Be that a it would, we were obliged to go on hore omewhere or other for water, for we had not a (int left in the boat' when and where to get to it wa the (oint" Dury aid, if I would let him go on hore with one of the 1ar , he would find if there wa any water, and bring ome to me" I a ked him why he would go6 why I hould not go, and he tay in the boat6 8he boy an wered with o much affection a made me lo#e him e#er after" Say he, 9If wild man come, they eat me, you go wey"9 9Well, Dury,9 aid I, 9we will both go and if the wild

man come, we will kill them, they hall eat neither of u "9 So I ga#e Dury a (iece of ru k bread to eat, and a dram out of our (atron2 ca e of bottle which I mentioned before' and we hauled the boat in a near the hore a we thought wa (ro(er, and o waded on hore, carrying nothing but our arm and two 1ar for water" I did not care to go out of ight of the boat, fearing the coming of canoe with a#age down the ri#er' but the boy eeing a low (lace about a mile u( the country, rambled to it, and by*and*by I aw him come running toward me" I thought he wa (ur ued by ome a#age, or frighted with ome wild bea t, and I ran forward toward him to hel( him' but when I came nearer to him I aw omething hanging o#er hi houlder , which wa a creature that he had hot, like a hare, but different in colour, and longer leg ' howe#er, we were #ery glad of it, and it wa #ery good meat' but the great 1oy that (oor Dury came with, wa to tell me he had found good water and een no wild man " But we found afterward that we need not take uch (ain for water, for a little higher u( the creek where we were we found the water fre h when the tide wa out, which flowed but a little way u(' o we filled our 1ar , and fea ted on the hare he had killed, and (re(ared to go on our way, ha#ing een no foot te( of any human creature in that (art of the country" A I had been one #oyage to thi coa t before, I knew #ery well that the i land of the +anarie , and the +a(e de Eerde I land al o, lay not far off from the coa t" But a I had no in trument to take an ob er#ation to know what latitude we were in, and not e0actly knowing, or at lea t remembering, what latitude they were in, I knew not where to look for them, or when to tand off to ea toward them' otherwi e I might now ea ily ha#e found ome of the e i land " But my ho(e wa , that if I tood along thi coa t till I came to that (art where the )ngli h traded, I hould find ome of their #e el u(on their u ual de ign of trade, that would relie#e and take u in" By the be t of my calculation, that (lace where I now wa mu t be that country which, lying between the )m(eror of /orocco2 dominion and the negroe , lie wa te and uninhabited, e0ce(t by wild bea t ' the negroe ha#ing abandoned it and gone farther outh for fear of the /oor , and the /oor not thinking it worth inhabiting by rea on of it barrenne ' and indeed, both for aking it becau e of the (rodigiou number of tiger , lion , leo(ard , and other furiou creature which harbour there' o that the /oor u e it for their hunting only, where they go like an army, two or three thou and men at a time' and indeed for near a hundred mile together u(on thi coa t we aw nothing

but a wa te, uninhabited country by day, and heard nothing but howling and roaring of wild bea t by night" =nce or twice in the daytime I thought I aw the <ico of 8eneriffe, being the high to( of the /ountain 8eneriffe in the +anarie , and had a great mind to #enture out, in ho(e of reaching thither' but ha#ing tried twice, I wa forced in again by contrary wind , the ea al o going too high for my little #e el' o, I re ol#ed to (ur ue my fir t de ign, and kee( along the hore" Se#eral time I wa obliged to land for fre h water, after we had left thi (lace' and once in (articular, being early in morning, we came to an anchor under a little (oint of land, which wa (retty high' and the tide beginning to flow, we lay till to go farther in" Dury, who e eye were more about him than it eem mine were, call oftly to me, and tell me that we had be t go farther off the hore' 9,or,9 ay he, 9look, yonder lie a dreadful mon ter on the ide of that hillock, fa t a lee("9 I looked where he (ointed, and aw a dreadful mon ter indeed, for it wa a terrible, great lion that lay on the ide of the hore, under the hade of a (iece of the hill that hung a it were a little o#er him" 9Dury,9 ay I, 9you hall on hore and kill him"9 Dury, looked frighted, and aid, 9/e kill7 he eat me at one mouth79 * one mouthful he meant" !owe#er, I aid no more to the boy, but bade him lie till, and I took our bigge t gun, which wa almo t mu ket*bore, and loaded it with a good charge of (owder, and with two lug , and laid it down' then I loaded another gun with two bullet ' and the third ?for we had three (iece @ I loaded with fi#e maller bullet " I took the be t aim I could with the fir t (iece to ha#e hot him in the head, but he lay o with hi leg rai ed a little abo#e hi no e, that the lug hit hi leg about the knee and broke the bone" !e tarted u(, growling at fir t, but finding hi leg broken, fell down again' and then got u(on three leg , and ga#e the mo t hideou roar that e#er I heard" I wa a little ur(ri ed that I had not hit him on the head' howe#er, I took u( the econd (iece immediately, and though he began to mo#e off, fired again, and hot him in the head, and had the (lea ure to ee him dro( and make but little noi e, but lie truggling for life" 8hen Dury took heart, and would ha#e me let him go on hore" 9Well, go,9 aid I5 o the boy 1um(ed into the water and taking a little gun in one hand, wam to hore with the other hand, and coming clo e to the creature, (ut the mu&&le of the (iece to hi ear, and hot him in the head again, which de (atched him 3uite" 8hi wa game indeed to u , but thi wa no food' and I wa #ery orry to lo e three charge of (owder and hot u(on a creature that wa good for nothing to u " !owe#er, Dury aid he would ha#e ome of him' o he come on board, and a ked me to gi#e him the hatchet" 9,or what, Dury69 aid I" 9/e cut off hi

head,9 aid he" !owe#er, Dury could not cut off hi head, but he cut off a foot, and brought it with him, and it wa a mon trou great one" I bethought my elf, howe#er, that, (erha( the kin of him might, one way or other, be of ome #alue to u ' and I re ol#ed to take off hi kin if I could" So Dury and I went to work with him' but Dury wa much the better workman at it, for I knew #ery ill how to do it" Indeed, it took u both u( the whole day, but at la t we got off the hide of him, and (reading it on the to( of our cabin, the un effectually dried it in two day 2 time, and it afterward er#ed me to lie u(on"

CHAPTER III - WRECKED

N A DESERT ISLAND

A,8)$ thi to(, we made on to the outhward continually for ten or twel#e day , li#ing #ery (aringly on our (ro#i ion , which began to abate #ery much, and going no oftener to the hore than we were obliged to for fre h water" /y de ign in thi wa to make the ri#er 4ambia or Senegal, that i to ay anywhere about the +a(e de Eerde, where I wa in ho(e to meet with ome )uro(ean hi(' and if I did not, I knew not what cour e I had to take, but to eek for the i land , or (eri h there among the negroe " I knew that all the hi( from )uro(e, which ailed either to the coa t of 4uinea or to Bra&il, or to the )a t Indie , made thi ca(e, or tho e i land ' and, in a word, I (ut the whole of my fortune u(on thi ingle (oint, either that I mu t meet with ome hi( or mu t (eri h" When I had (ur ued thi re olution about ten day longer, a I ha#e aid, I began to ee that the land wa inhabited' and in two or three (lace , a we ailed by, we aw (eo(le tand u(on the hore to look at u ' we could al o (ercei#e they were 3uite black and naked" I wa once inclined to ha#e gone on hore to them' but Dury wa my better coun ellor, and aid to me, 9;o go, no go"9 !owe#er, I hauled in nearer the hore that I might talk to them, and I found they ran along the hore by me a good way" I ob er#ed they had no wea(on in their hand, e0ce(t one, who had a long lender tick, which Dury aid wa a lance, and that they could throw them a great way with good aim' o I ke(t at a di tance, but talked with them by ign a well a I could' and (articularly made ign for omething to eat5 they beckoned to me to to( my boat, and they would fetch me ome meat" >(on thi I lowered the to( of my ail and lay by, and two of them ran u( into the country, and in le than half* an* hour came back, and brought with them two (iece of dried fle h and ome

corn, uch a i the (roduce of their country' but we neither knew what the one or the other wa ' howe#er, we were willing to acce(t it, but how to come at it wa our ne0t di (ute, for I would not #enture on hore to them, and they were a much afraid of u ' but they took a afe way for u all, for they brought it to the hore and laid it down, and went and tood a great way off till we fetched it on board, and then came clo e to u again" We made ign of thank to them, for we had nothing to make them amend ' but an o((ortunity offered that #ery in tant to oblige them wonderfully' for while we were lying by the hore came two mighty creature , one (ur uing the other ?a we took it@ with great fury from the mountain toward the ea' whether it wa the male (ur uing the female, or whether they were in (ort or in rage, we could not tell, any more than we could tell whether it wa u ual or trange, but I belie#e it wa the latter' becau e, in the fir t (lace, tho e ra#enou creature eldom a((ear but in the night' and, in the econd (lace, we found the (eo(le terribly frighted, e (ecially the women" 8he man that had the lance or dart did not fly from them, but the re t did' howe#er, a the two creature ran directly into the water, they did not offer to fall u(on any of the negroe , but (lunged them el#e into the ea, and wam about, a if they had come for their di#er ion' at la t one of them began to come nearer our boat than at fir t I e0(ected' but I lay ready for him, for I had loaded my gun with all (o ible e0(edition, and bade Dury load both the other " A oon a he came fairly within my reach, I fired, and hot him directly in the head' immediately he ank down into the water, but ro e in tantly, and (lunged u( and down, a if he were truggling for life, and o indeed he wa ' he immediately made to the hore' but between the wound, which wa hi mortal hurt, and the trangling of the water, he died 1u t before he reached the hore" It i im(o ible to e0(re the a toni hment of the e (oor creature at the noi e and fire of my gun5 ome of them were e#en ready to die for fear, and fell down a dead with the #ery terror' but when they aw the creature dead, and unk in the water, and that I made ign to them to come to the hore, they took heart and came, and began to earch for the creature" I found him by hi blood taining the water' and by the hel( of a ro(e, which I lung round him, and ga#e the negroe to haul, they dragged him on hore, and found that it wa a mo t curiou leo(ard, (otted, and fine to an admirable degree' and the negroe held u( their hand with admiration, to think what it wa I had killed him with" 8he other creature, frighted with the fla h of fire and the noi e of the gun, wam on hore, and ran u( directly to the mountain from whence they came' nor could I, at that di tance, know what it wa " I found 3uickly the negroe

wi hed to eat the fle h of thi creature, o I wa willing to ha#e them take it a a fa#our from me' which, when I made ign to them that they might take him, they were #ery thankful for" Immediately they fell to work with him' and though they had no knife, yet, with a har(ened (iece of wood, they took off hi kin a readily, and much more readily, than we could ha#e done with a knife" 8hey offered me ome of the fle h, which I declined, (ointing out that I would gi#e it them' but made ign for the kin, which they ga#e me #ery freely, and brought me a great deal more of their (ro#i ion , which, though I did not under tand, yet I acce(ted" I then made ign to them for ome water, and held out one of my 1ar to them, turning it bottom u(ward, to how that it wa em(ty, and that I wanted to ha#e it filled" 8hey called immediately to ome of their friend , and there came two women, and brought a great #e el made of earth, and burnt, a I u((o ed, in the un, thi they et down to me, a before, and I ent Dury on hore with my 1ar , and filled them all three" 8he women were a naked a the men" I wa now furni hed with root and corn, uch a it wa , and water' and lea#ing my friendly negroe , I made forward for about ele#en day more, without offering to go near the hore, till I aw the land run out a great length into the ea, at about the di tance of four or fi#e league before me' and the ea being #ery calm, I ke(t a large offing to make thi (oint" At length, doubling the (oint, at about two league from the land, I aw (lainly land on the other ide, to eaward' then I concluded, a it wa mo t certain indeed, that thi wa the +a(e de Eerde, and tho e the i land called, from thence, +a(e de Eerde I land " !owe#er, they were at a great di tance, and I could not well tell what I had be t to do' for if I hould be taken with a fre h of wind, I might neither reach one or other" In thi dilemma, a I wa #ery (en i#e, I te((ed into the cabin and at down, Dury ha#ing the helm' when, on a udden, the boy cried out, 9/a ter, ma ter, a hi( with a ail79 and the fooli h boy wa frighted out of hi wit , thinking it mu t need be ome of hi ma ter2 hi( ent to (ur ue u , but I knew we were far enough out of their reach" I 1um(ed out of the cabin, and immediately aw, not only the hi(, but that it wa a <ortugue e hi(' and, a I thought, wa bound to the coa t of 4uinea, for negroe " But, when I ob er#ed the cour e he teered, I wa oon con#inced they were bound ome other way, and did not de ign to come any nearer to the hore' u(on which I tretched out to ea a much a I could, re ol#ing to (eak with them if (o ible" With all the ail I could make, I found I hould not be able to come in their way, but that they would be gone by before I could make any ignal to them5

but after I had crowded to the utmo t, and began to de (air, they, it eem , aw by the hel( of their gla e that it wa ome )uro(ean boat, which they u((o ed mu t belong to ome hi( that wa lo t' o they hortened ail to let me come u(" I wa encouraged with thi , and a I had my (atron2 ancient on board, I made a waft of it to them, for a ignal of di tre , and fired a gun, both which they aw' for they told me they aw the moke, though they did not hear the gun" >(on the e ignal they #ery kindly brought to, and lay by for me' and in about three hour ' time I came u( with them" 8hey a ked me what I wa , in <ortugue e, and in S(ani h, and in ,rench, but I under tood none of them' but at la t a Scotch ailor, who wa on board, called to me5 and I an wered him, and told him I wa an )ngli hman, that I had made my e ca(e out of la#ery from the /oor , at Sallee' they then bade me come on board, and #ery kindly took me in, and all my good " It wa an ine0(re ible 1oy to me, which any one will belie#e, that I wa thu deli#ered, a I e teemed it, from uch a mi erable and almo t ho(ele condition a I wa in' and I immediately offered all I had to the ca(tain of the hi(, a a return for my deli#erance' but he generou ly told me he would take nothing from me, but that all I had hould be deli#ered afe to me when I came to the Bra&il " 9,or,9 ay he, 9I ha#e a#ed your life on no other term than I would be glad to be a#ed my elf5 and it may, one time or other, be my lot to be taken u( in the ame condition" Be ide ,9 aid he, 9when I carry you to the Bra&il , o great a way from your own country, if I hould take from you what you ha#e, you will be tar#ed there, and then I only take away that life I ha#e gi#en" ;o, no,9 ay he5 9Seignior Ingle e9 ?/r" )ngli hman@, 9I will carry you thither in charity, and tho e thing will hel( to buy your ub i tence there, and your (a age home again"9 A he wa charitable in thi (ro(o al, o he wa 1u t in the (erformance to a tittle' for he ordered the eamen that none hould touch anything that I had5 then he took e#erything into hi own (o e ion, and ga#e me back an e0act in#entory of them, that I might ha#e them, e#en to my three earthen 1ar " A to my boat, it wa a #ery good one' and that he aw, and told me he would buy it of me for hi hi(2 u e' and a ked me what I would ha#e for it6 I told him he had been o generou to me in e#erything that I could not offer to make any (rice of the boat, but left it entirely to him5 u(on which he told me he would gi#e me a note of hand to (ay me eighty (iece of eight for it at Bra&il' and when it came there, if any one offered to gi#e more, he would make it u(" !e offered me al o i0ty (iece of eight more for my boy Dury, which I wa loth to take' not that I wa unwilling to let the ca(tain ha#e him, but I wa #ery

loth to ell the (oor boy2 liberty, who had a i ted me o faithfully in (rocuring my own" !owe#er, when I let him know my rea on, he owned it to be 1u t, and offered me thi medium, that he would gi#e the boy an obligation to et him free in ten year , if he turned +hri tian5 u(on thi , and Dury aying he wa willing to go to him, I let the ca(tain ha#e him" We had a #ery good #oyage to the Bra&il , and I arri#ed in the Bay de 8odo lo Santo , or All Saint 2 Bay, in about twenty*two day after" And now I wa once more deli#ered from the mo t mi erable of all condition of life' and what to do ne0t with my elf I wa to con ider" 8he generou treatment the ca(tain ga#e me I can ne#er enough remember5 he would take nothing of me for my (a age, ga#e me twenty ducat for the leo(ard2 kin, and forty for the lion2 kin, which I had in my boat, and cau ed e#erything I had in the hi( to be (unctually deli#ered to me' and what I wa willing to ell he bought of me, uch a the ca e of bottle , two of my gun , and a (iece of the lum( of bee wa0 * for I had made candle of the re t5 in a word, I made about two hundred and twenty (iece of eight of all my cargo' and with thi tock I went on hore in the Bra&il " I had not been long here before I wa recommended to the hou e of a good hone t man like him elf, who had an I;4);I=, a they call it ?that i , a (lantation and a ugar*hou e@" I li#ed with him ome time, and ac3uainted my elf by that mean with the manner of (lanting and making of ugar' and eeing how well the (lanter li#ed, and how they got rich uddenly, I re ol#ed, if I could get a licence to ettle there, I would turn (lanter among them5 re ol#ing in the meantime to find out ome way to get my money, which I had left in -ondon, remitted to me" 8o thi (ur(o e, getting a kind of letter of naturali ation, I (urcha ed a much land that wa uncured a my money would reach, and formed a (lan for my (lantation and ettlement' uch a one a might be uitable to the tock which I (ro(o ed to my elf to recei#e from )ngland" I had a neighbour, a <ortugue e, of -i bon, but born of )ngli h (arent , who e name wa Well , and in much uch circum tance a I wa " I call him my neighbour, becau e hi (lantation lay ne0t to mine, and we went on #ery ociably together" /y tock wa but low, a well a hi ' and we rather (lanted for food than anything el e, for about two year " !owe#er, we began to increa e, and our land began to come into order' o that the third year we (lanted ome tobacco, and made each of u a large (iece of ground ready for (lanting cane in the year to come" But we both wanted hel(' and now I found, more than before, I had done wrong in (arting with my boy Dury"

But, ala 7 for me to do wrong that ne#er did right, wa no great wonder" I hail no remedy but to go on5 I had got into an em(loyment 3uite remote to my geniu , and directly contrary to the life I delighted in, and for which I for ook my father2 hou e, and broke through all hi good ad#ice" ;ay, I wa coming into the #ery middle tation, or u((er degree of low life, which my father ad#i ed me to before, and which, if I re ol#ed to go on with, I might a well ha#e tayed at home, and ne#er ha#e fatigued my elf in the world a I had done' and I u ed often to ay to my elf, I could ha#e done thi a well in )ngland, among my friend , a ha#e gone fi#e thou and mile off to do it among tranger and a#age , in a wilderne , and at uch a di tance a ne#er to hear from any (art of the world that had the lea t knowledge of me" In thi manner I u ed to look u(on my condition with the utmo t regret" I had nobody to con#er e with, but now and then thi neighbour' no work to be done, but by the labour of my hand ' and I u ed to ay, I li#ed 1u t like a man ca t away u(on ome de olate i land, that had nobody there but him elf" But how 1u t ha it been * and how hould all men reflect, that when they com(are their (re ent condition with other that are wor e, !ea#en may oblige them to make the e0change, and be con#inced of their former felicity by their e0(erience * I ay, how 1u t ha it been, that the truly olitary life I reflected on, in an i land of mere de olation, hould be my lot, who had o often un1u tly com(ared it with the life which I then led, in which, had I continued, I had in all (robability been e0ceeding (ro (erou and rich" I wa in ome degree ettled in my mea ure for carrying on the (lantation before my kind friend, the ca(tain of the hi( that took me u( at ea, went back * for the hi( remained there, in (ro#iding hi lading and (re(aring for hi #oyage, nearly three month * when telling him what little tock I had left behind me in -ondon, he ga#e me thi friendly and incere ad#ice5* 9Seignior Ingle e,9 ay he ?for o he alway called me@, 9if you will gi#e me letter , and a (rocuration in form to me, with order to the (er on who ha your money in -ondon to end your effect to -i bon, to uch (er on a I hall direct, and in uch good a are (ro(er for thi country, I will bring you the (roduce of them, 4od willing, at my return' but, ince human affair are all ub1ect to change and di a ter , I would ha#e you gi#e order but for one hundred (ound terling, which, you ay, i half your tock, and let the ha&ard be run for the fir t' o that, if it come afe, you may order the re t the ame way, and, if it mi carry, you may ha#e the other half to ha#e recour e to for your u((ly"9 8hi wa o whole ome ad#ice, and looked o friendly, that I could not but be con#inced it wa the be t cour e I could take' o I accordingly (re(ared letter

to the gentlewoman with whom I had left my money, and a (rocuration to the <ortugue e ca(tain, a he de ired" I wrote the )ngli h ca(tain2 widow a full account of all my ad#enture * my la#ery, e ca(e, and how I had met with the <ortugue e ca(tain at ea, the humanity of hi beha#iour, and what condition I wa now in, with all other nece ary direction for my u((ly' and when thi hone t ca(tain came to -i bon, he found mean , by ome of the )ngli h merchant there, to end o#er, not the order only, but a full account of my tory to a merchant in -ondon, who re(re ented it effectually to her' whereu(on he not only deli#ered the money, but out of her own (ocket ent the <ortugal ca(tain a #ery hand ome (re ent for hi humanity and charity to me" 8he merchant in -ondon, #e ting thi hundred (ound in )ngli h good , uch a the ca(tain had written for, ent them directly to him at -i bon, and he brought them all afe to me to the Bra&il ' among which, without my direction ?for I wa too young in my bu ine to think of them@, he had taken care to ha#e all ort of tool , ironwork, and uten il nece ary for my (lantation, and which were of great u e to me" When thi cargo arri#ed I thought my fortune made, for I wa ur(ri ed with the 1oy of it' and my tood teward, the ca(tain, had laid out the fi#e (ound , which my friend had ent him for a (re ent for him elf, to (urcha e and bring me o#er a er#ant, under bond for i0 year 2 er#ice, and would not acce(t of any con ideration, e0ce(t a little tobacco, which I would ha#e him acce(t, being of my own (roduce" ;either wa thi all' for my good being all )ngli h manufacture, uch a cloth , tuff , bai&e, and thing (articularly #aluable and de irable in the country, I found mean to ell them to a #ery great ad#antage' o that I might ay I had more than four time the #alue of my fir t cargo, and wa now infinitely beyond my (oor neighbour * I mean in the ad#ancement of my (lantation' for the fir t thing I did, I bought me a negro la#e, and an )uro(ean er#ant al o * I mean another be ide that which the ca(tain brought me from -i bon" But a abu ed (ro (erity i oftentime made the #ery mean of our greate t ad#er ity, o it wa with me" I went on the ne0t year with great ucce in my (lantation5 I rai ed fifty great roll of tobacco on my own ground, more than I had di (o ed of for nece arie among my neighbour ' and the e fifty roll , being each of abo#e a hundredweight, were well cured, and laid by again t the return of the fleet from -i bon5 and now increa ing in bu ine and wealth, my

head began to be full of (ro1ect and undertaking beyond my reach' uch a are, indeed, often the ruin of the be t head in bu ine " !ad I continued in the tation I wa now in, I had room for all the ha((y thing to ha#e yet befallen me for which my father o earne tly recommended a 3uiet, retired life, and of which he had o en ibly de cribed the middle tation of life to be full of' but other thing attended me, and I wa till to be the wilful agent of all my own mi erie ' and (articularly, to increa e my fault, and double the reflection u(on my elf, which in my future orrow I hould ha#e lei ure to make, all the e mi carriage were (rocured by my a((arent ob tinate adhering to my fooli h inclination of wandering abroad, and (ur uing that inclination, in contradiction to the cleare t #iew of doing my elf good in a fair and (lain (ur uit of tho e (ro (ect , and tho e mea ure of life, which nature and <ro#idence concurred to (re ent me with, and to make my duty" A I had once done thu in my breaking away from my (arent , o I could not be content now, but I mu t go and lea#e the ha((y #iew I had of being a rich and thri#ing man in my new (lantation, only to (ur ue a ra h and immoderate de ire of ri ing fa ter than the nature of the thing admitted' and thu I ca t my elf down again into the dee(e t gulf of human mi ery that e#er man fell into, or (erha( could be con i tent with life and a tate of health in the world" 8o come, then, by the 1u t degree to the (articular of thi (art of my tory" You may u((o e, that ha#ing now li#ed almo t four year in the Bra&il , and beginning to thri#e and (ro (er #ery well u(on my (lantation, I had not only learned the language, but had contracted ac3uaintance and friend hi( among my fellow*(lanter , a well a among the merchant at St" Sal#ador, which wa our (ort' and that, in my di cour e among them, I had fre3uently gi#en them an account of my two #oyage to the coa t of 4uinea5 the manner of trading with the negroe there, and how ea y it wa to (urcha e u(on the coa t for trifle * uch a bead , toy , kni#e , ci or , hatchet , bit of gla , and the like * not only gold*du t, 4uinea grain , ele(hant 2 teeth, Fc", but negroe , for the er#ice of the Bra&il , in great number " 8hey li tened alway #ery attenti#ely to my di cour e on the e head , but e (ecially to that (art which related to the buying of negroe , which wa a trade at that time, not only not far entered into, but, a far a it wa , had been carried on by a iento , or (ermi ion of the king of S(ain and <ortugal, and engro ed in the (ublic tock5 o that few negroe were bought, and the e e0ce i#ely dear" It ha((ened, being in com(any with ome merchant and (lanter of my ac3uaintance, and talking of tho e thing #ery earne tly, three of them came to

me ne0t morning, and told me they had been mu ing #ery much u(on what I had di cour ed with them of the la t night, and they came to make a ecret (ro(o al to me' and, after en1oining me to ecrecy, they told me that they had a mind to fit out a hi( to go to 4uinea' that they had all (lantation a well a I, and were traitened for nothing o much a er#ant ' that a it wa a trade that could not be carried on, becau e they could not (ublicly ell the negroe when they came home, o they de ired to make but one #oyage, to bring the negroe on hore (ri#ately, and di#ide them among their own (lantation ' and, in a word, the 3ue tion wa whether I would go their u(ercargo in the hi(, to manage the trading (art u(on the coa t of 4uinea' and they offered me that I hould ha#e my e3ual hare of the negroe , without (ro#iding any (art of the tock" 8hi wa a fair (ro(o al, it mu t be confe ed, had it been made to any one that had not had a ettlement and a (lantation of hi own to look after, which wa in a fair way of coming to be #ery con iderable, and with a good tock u(on it' but for me, that wa thu entered and e tabli hed, and had nothing to do but to go on a I had begun, for three or four year more, and to ha#e ent for the other hundred (ound from )ngland' and who in that time, and with that little addition, could carce ha#e failed of being worth three or four thou and (ound terling, and that increa ing too * for me to think of uch a #oyage wa the mo t (re(o terou thing that e#er man in uch circum tance could be guilty of" But I, that wa born to be my own de troyer, could no more re i t the offer than I could re train my fir t rambling de ign when my father2 good coun el wa lo t u(on me" In a word, I told them I would go with all my heart, if they would undertake to look after my (lantation in my ab ence, and would di (o e of it to uch a I hould direct, if I mi carried" 8hi they all engaged to do, and entered into writing or co#enant to do o' and I made a formal will, di (o ing of my (lantation and effect in ca e of my death, making the ca(tain of the hi( that had a#ed my life, a before, my uni#er al heir, but obliging him to di (o e of my effect a I had directed in my will' one half of the (roduce being to him elf, and the other to be hi((ed to )ngland" In hort, I took all (o ible caution to (re er#e my effect and to kee( u( my (lantation" !ad I u ed half a much (rudence to ha#e looked into my own intere t, and ha#e made a 1udgment of what I ought to ha#e done and not to ha#e done, I had certainly ne#er gone away from o (ro (erou an undertaking, lea#ing all the (robable #iew of a thri#ing circum tance, and gone u(on a #oyage to ea, attended with all it common ha&ard , to ay nothing of the rea on I had to e0(ect (articular mi fortune to my elf"

But I wa hurried on, and obeyed blindly the dictate of my fancy rather than my rea on' and, accordingly, the hi( being fitted out, and the cargo furni hed, and all thing done, a by agreement, by my (artner in the #oyage, I went on board in an e#il hour, the 1 t Se(tember 16:G, being the ame day eight year that I went from my father and mother at !ull, in order to act the rebel to their authority, and the fool to my own intere t " =ur hi( wa about one hundred and twenty ton burden, carried i0 gun and fourteen men, be ide the ma ter, hi boy, and my elf" We had on board no large cargo of good , e0ce(t of uch toy a were fit for our trade with the negroe , uch a bead , bit of gla , hell , and other trifle , e (ecially little looking*gla e , kni#e , ci or , hatchet , and the like" 8he ame day I went on board we et ail, tanding away to the northward u(on our own coa t, with de ign to tretch o#er for the African coa t when we came about ten or twel#e degree of northern latitude, which, it eem , wa the manner of cour e in tho e day " We had #ery good weather, only e0ce i#ely hot, all the way u(on our own coa t, till we came to the height of +a(e St" Augu tino' from whence, kee(ing further off at ea, we lo t ight of land, and teered a if we were bound for the i le ,ernando de ;oronha, holding our cour e ;")" by ;", and lea#ing tho e i le on the ea t" In thi cour e we (a ed the line in about twel#e day 2 time, and were, by our la t ob er#ation, in e#en degree twenty*two minute northern latitude, when a #iolent tornado, or hurricane, took u 3uite out of our knowledge" It began from the outh*ea t, came about to the north*we t, and then ettled in the north*ea t' from whence it blew in uch a terrible manner, that for twel#e day together we could do nothing but dri#e, and, cudding away before it, let it carry u whither fate and the fury of the wind directed' and, during the e twel#e day , I need not ay that I e0(ected e#ery day to be wallowed u(' nor, indeed, did any in the hi( e0(ect to a#e their li#e " In thi di tre we had, be ide the terror of the torm, one of our men die of the calenture, and one man and the boy wa hed o#erboard" About the twelfth day, the weather abating a little, the ma ter made an ob er#ation a well a he could, and found that he wa in about ele#en degree north latitude, but that he wa twenty*two degree of longitude difference we t from +a(e St" Augu tino' o that he found he wa u(on the coa t of 4uiana, or the north (art of Bra&il, beyond the ri#er Ama&on, toward that of the ri#er =rinoco, commonly called the 4reat $i#er' and began to con ult with me what cour e he hould take, for the hi( wa leaky, and #ery much di abled, and he wa going directly back to the coa t of Bra&il"

I wa (o iti#ely again t that' and looking o#er the chart of the ea*coa t of America with him, we concluded there wa no inhabited country for u to ha#e recour e to till we came within the circle of the +aribbee I land , and therefore re ol#ed to tand away for Barbadoe ' which, by kee(ing off at ea, to a#oid the indraft of the Bay or 4ulf of /e0ico, we might ea ily (erform, a we ho(ed, in about fifteen day 2 ail' wherea we could not (o ibly make our #oyage to the coa t of Africa without ome a i tance both to our hi( and to our el#e " With thi de ign we changed our cour e, and teered away ;"W" by W", in order to reach ome of our )ngli h i land , where I ho(ed for relief" But our #oyage wa otherwi e determined' for, being in the latitude of twel#e degree eighteen minute , a econd torm came u(on u , which carried u away with the ame im(etuo ity we tward, and dro#e u o out of the way of all human commerce, that, had all our li#e been a#ed a to the ea, we were rather in danger of being de#oured by a#age than e#er returning to our own country" In thi di tre , the wind till blowing #ery hard, one of our men early in the morning cried out, 9-and79 and we had no ooner run out of the cabin to look out, in ho(e of eeing whereabout in the world we were, than the hi( truck u(on a and, and in a moment her motion being o to((ed, the ea broke o#er her in uch a manner that we e0(ected we hould all ha#e (eri hed immediately' and we were immediately dri#en into our clo e 3uarter , to helter u from the #ery foam and (ray of the ea" It i not ea y for any one who ha not been in the like condition to de cribe or concei#e the con ternation of men in uch circum tance " We knew nothing where we were, or u(on what land it wa we were dri#en * whether an i land or the main, whether inhabited or not inhabited" A the rage of the wind wa till great, though rather le than at fir t, we could not o much a ho(e to ha#e the hi( hold many minute without breaking into (iece , unle the wind , by a kind of miracle, hould turn immediately about" In a word, we at looking u(on one another, and e0(ecting death e#ery moment, and e#ery man, accordingly, (re(aring for another world' for there wa little or nothing more for u to do in thi " 8hat which wa our (re ent comfort, and all the comfort we had, wa that, contrary to our e0(ectation, the hi( did not break yet, and that the ma ter aid the wind began to abate" ;ow, though we thought that the wind did a little abate, yet the hi( ha#ing thu truck u(on the and, and ticking too fa t for u to e0(ect her getting off, we were in a dreadful condition indeed, and had nothing to do but to think of a#ing our li#e a well a we could" We had a boat at our tern 1u t before the

torm, but he wa fir t ta#ed by da hing again t the hi(2 rudder, and in the ne0t (lace he broke away, and either unk or wa dri#en off to ea' o there wa no ho(e from her" We had another boat on board, but how to get her off into the ea wa a doubtful thing" !owe#er, there wa no time to debate, for we fancied that the hi( would break in (iece e#ery minute, and ome told u he wa actually broken already" In thi di tre the mate of our #e el laid hold of the boat, and with the hel( of the re t of the men got her lung o#er the hi(2 ide' and getting all into her, let go, and committed our el#e , being ele#en in number, to 4od2 mercy and the wild ea' for though the torm wa abated con iderably, yet the ea ran dreadfully high u(on the hore, and might be well called .); WI-. H)), a the .utch call the ea in a torm" And now our ca e wa #ery di mal indeed' for we all aw (lainly that the ea went o high that the boat could not li#e, and that we hould be ine#itably drowned" A to making ail, we had none, nor if we had could we ha#e done anything with it' o we worked at the oar toward the land, though with hea#y heart , like men going to e0ecution' for we all knew that when the boat came near the hore he would be da hed in a thou and (iece by the breach of the ea" !owe#er, we committed our oul to 4od in the mo t earne t manner' and the wind dri#ing u toward the hore, we ha tened our de truction with our own hand , (ulling a well a we could toward land" What the hore wa , whether rock or and, whether tee( or hoal, we knew not" 8he only ho(e that could rationally gi#e u the lea t hadow of e0(ectation wa , if we might find ome bay or gulf, or the mouth of ome ri#er, where by great chance we might ha#e run our boat in, or got under the lee of the land, and (erha( made mooth water" But there wa nothing like thi a((eared' but a we made nearer and nearer the hore, the land looked more frightful than the ea" After we had rowed, or rather dri#en about a league and a half, a we reckoned it, a raging wa#e, mountain*like, came rolling a tern of u , and (lainly bade u e0(ect the +=>< .) 4$A+)" It took u with uch a fury, that it o#er et the boat at once' and e(arating u a well from the boat a from one another, ga#e u no time to ay, 9= 4od79 for we were all wallowed u( in a moment" ;othing can de cribe the confu ion of thought which I felt when I ank into the water' for though I wam #ery well, yet I could not deli#er my elf from the wa#e o a to draw breath, till that wa#e ha#ing dri#en me, or rather carried me, a #a t way on toward the hore, and ha#ing (ent it elf, went back, and

left me u(on the land almo t dry, but half dead with the water I took in" I had o much (re ence of mind, a well a breath left, that eeing my elf nearer the mainland than I e0(ected, I got u(on my feet, and endea#oured to make on toward the land a fa t a I could before another wa#e hould return and take me u( again' but I oon found it wa im(o ible to a#oid it' for I aw the ea come after me a high a a great hill, and a furiou a an enemy, which I had no mean or trength to contend with5 my bu ine wa to hold my breath, and rai e my elf u(on the water if I could' and o, by wimming, to (re er#e my breathing, and (ilot my elf toward the hore, if (o ible, my greate t concern now being that the ea, a it would carry me a great way toward the hore when it came on, might not carry me back again with it when it ga#e back toward the ea" 8he wa#e that came u(on me again buried me at once twenty or thirty feet dee( in it own body, and I could feel my elf carried with a mighty force and wiftne toward the hore * a #ery great way' but I held my breath, and a i ted my elf to wim till forward with all my might" I wa ready to bur t with holding my breath, when, a I felt my elf ri ing u(, o, to my immediate relief, I found my head and hand hoot out abo#e the urface of the water' and though it wa not two econd of time that I could kee( my elf o, yet it relie#ed me greatly, ga#e me breath, and new courage" I wa co#ered again with water a good while, but not o long but I held it out' and finding the water had (ent it elf, and began to return, I truck forward again t the return of the wa#e , and felt ground again with my feet" I tood till a few moment to reco#er breath, and till the water went from me, and then took to my heel and ran with what trength I had further toward the hore" But neither would thi deli#er me from the fury of the ea, which came (ouring in after me again' and twice more I wa lifted u( by the wa#e and carried forward a before, the hore being #ery flat" 8he la t time of the e two had well*nigh been fatal to me, for the ea ha#ing hurried me along a before, landed me, or rather da hed me, again t a (iece of rock, and that with uch force, that it left me en ele , and indeed hel(le , a to my own deli#erance' for the blow taking my ide and brea t, beat the breath a it were 3uite out of my body' and had it returned again immediately, I mu t ha#e been trangled in the water' but I reco#ered a little before the return of the wa#e , and eeing I hould be co#ered again with the water, I re ol#ed to hold fa t by a (iece of the rock, and o to hold my breath, if (o ible, till the wa#e went back" ;ow, a the wa#e were not o high a at fir t, being nearer land, I held my hold till the wa#e abated, and then fetched another run, which brought me o near the hore that the ne0t wa#e, though it went o#er me, yet did not o

wallow me u( a to carry me away' and the ne0t run I took, I got to the mainland, where, to my great comfort, I clambered u( the cliff of the hore and at me down u(on the gra , free from danger and 3uite out of the reach of the water" I wa now landed and afe on hore, and began to look u( and thank 4od that my life wa a#ed, in a ca e wherein there wa ome minute before carce any room to ho(e" I belie#e it i im(o ible to e0(re , to the life, what the ec ta ie and tran (ort of the oul are, when it i o a#ed, a I may ay, out of the #ery gra#e5 and I do not wonder now at the cu tom, when a malefactor, who ha the halter about hi neck, i tied u(, and 1u t going to be turned off, and ha a re(rie#e brought to him * I ay, I do not wonder that they bring a urgeon with it, to let him blood that #ery moment they tell him of it, that the ur(ri e may not dri#e the animal (irit from the heart and o#erwhelm him" 9,or udden 1oy , like grief , confound at fir t"9 I walked about on the hore lifting u( my hand , and my whole being, a I may ay, wra((ed u( in a contem(lation of my deli#erance' making a thou and ge ture and motion , which I cannot de cribe' reflecting u(on all my comrade that were drowned, and that there hould not be one oul a#ed but my elf' for, a for them, I ne#er aw them afterward , or any ign of them, e0ce(t three of their hat , one ca(, and two hoe that were not fellow " I ca t my eye to the tranded #e el, when, the breach and froth of the ea being o big, I could hardly ee it, it lay o far of' and con idered, -ord7 how wa it (o ible I could get on hore After I had olaced my mind with the comfortable (art of my condition, I began to look round me, to ee what kind of (lace I wa in, and what wa ne0t to be done' and I oon found my comfort abate, and that, in a word, I had a dreadful deli#erance' for I wa wet, had no clothe to hift me, nor anything either to eat or drink to comfort me' neither did I ee any (ro (ect before me but that of (eri hing with hunger or being de#oured by wild bea t ' and that which wa (articularly afflicting to me wa , that I had no wea(on, either to hunt and kill any creature for my u tenance, or to defend my elf again t any other creature that might de ire to kill me for their " In a word, I had nothing about me but a knife, a tobacco*(i(e, and a little tobacco in a bo0" 8hi wa all my (ro#i ion ' and thi threw me into uch terrible agonie of mind, that for a while I ran about like a madman" ;ight coming u(on me, I began with a hea#y heart to

con ider what would be my lot if there were any ra#enou bea t in that country, a at night they alway come abroad for their (rey" All the remedy that offered to my thought at that time wa to get u( into a thick bu hy tree like a fir, but thorny, which grew near me, and where I re ol#ed to it all night, and con ider the ne0t day what death I hould die, for a yet I aw no (ro (ect of life" I walked about a furlong from the hore, to ee if I could find any fre h water to drink, which I did, to my great 1oy' and ha#ing drank, and (ut a little tobacco into my mouth to (re#ent hunger, I went to the tree, and getting u( into it, endea#oured to (lace my elf o that if I hould lee( I might not fall" And ha#ing cut me a hort tick, like a truncheon, for my defence, I took u( my lodging' and ha#ing been e0ce i#ely fatigued, I fell fa t a lee(, and le(t a comfortably a , I belie#e, few could ha#e done in my condition, and found my elf more refre hed with it than, I think, I e#er wa on uch an occa ion"

CHAPTER IV - FIRST WEEKS

N THE ISLAND

W!); I waked it wa broad day, the weather clear, and the torm abated, o that the ea did not rage and well a before" But that which ur(ri ed me mo t wa , that the hi( wa lifted off in the night from the and where he lay by the welling of the tide, and wa dri#en u( almo t a far a the rock which I at fir t mentioned, where I had been o brui ed by the wa#e da hing me again t it" 8hi being within about a mile from the hore where I wa , and the hi( eeming to tand u(right till, I wi hed my elf on board, that at lea t I might a#e ome nece ary thing for my u e" When I came down from my a(artment in the tree, I looked about me again, and the fir t thing I found wa the boat, which lay, a the wind and the ea had to ed her u(, u(on the land, about two mile on my right hand" I walked a far a I could u(on the hore to ha#e got to her' but found a neck or inlet of water between me and the boat which wa about half a mile broad' o I came back for the (re ent, being more intent u(on getting at the hi(, where I ho(ed to find omething for my (re ent ub i tence" A little after noon I found the ea #ery calm, and the tide ebbed o far out that I could come within a 3uarter of a mile of the hi(" And here I found a fre h renewing of my grief' for I aw e#idently that if we had ke(t on board we had been all afe * that i to ay, we had all got afe on hore, and I had not been o mi erable a to be left entirety de titute of all comfort and com(any a I now

wa " 8hi forced tear to my eye again' but a there wa little relief in that, I re ol#ed, if (o ible, to get to the hi(' o I (ulled off my clothe * for the weather wa hot to e0tremity * and took the water" But when I came to the hi( my difficulty wa till greater to know how to get on board' for, a he lay aground, and high out of the water, there wa nothing within my reach to lay hold of" I wam round her twice, and the econd time I (ied a mall (iece of ro(e, which I wondered I did not ee at fir t, hung down by the fore*chain o low, a that with great difficulty I got hold of it, and by the hel( of that ro(e I got u( into the foreca tle of the hi(" !ere I found that the hi( wa bulged, and had a great deal of water in her hold, but that he lay o on the ide of a bank of hard and, or, rather earth, that her tern lay lifted u( u(on the bank, and her head low, almo t to the water" By thi mean all her 3uarter wa free, and all that wa in that (art wa dry' for you may be ure my fir t work wa to earch, and to ee what wa (oiled and what wa free" And, fir t, I found that all the hi(2 (ro#i ion were dry and untouched by the water, and being #ery well di (o ed to eat, I went to the bread room and filled my (ocket with bi cuit, and ate it a I went about other thing , for I had no time to lo e" I al o found ome rum in the great cabin, of which I took a large dram, and which I had, indeed, need enough of to (irit me for what wa before me" ;ow I wanted nothing but a boat to furni h my elf with many thing which I fore aw would be #ery nece ary to me" It wa in #ain to it till and wi h for what wa not to be had' and thi e0tremity rou ed my a((lication" We had e#eral (are yard , and two or three large (ar of wood, and a (are to(ma t or two in the hi(' I re ol#ed to fall to work with the e, and I flung a many of them o#erboard a I could manage for their weight, tying e#ery one with a ro(e, that they might not dri#e away" When thi wa done I went down the hi(2 ide, and (ulling them to me, I tied four of them together at both end a well a I could, in the form of a raft, and laying two or three hort (iece of (lank u(on them cro way , I found I could walk u(on it #ery well, but that it wa not able to bear any great weight, the (iece being too light" So I went to work, and with a car(enter2 aw I cut a (are to(ma t into three length , and added them to my raft, with a great deal of labour and (ain " But the ho(e of furni hing my elf with nece arie encouraged me to go beyond what I hould ha#e been able to ha#e done u(on another occa ion" /y raft wa now trong enough to bear any rea onable weight" /y ne0t care wa what to load it with, and how to (re er#e what I laid u(on it from the urf of the ea' but I wa not long con idering thi " I fir t laid all the (lank or board u(on it that I could get, and ha#ing con idered well what I mo t wanted,

I got three of the eamen2 che t , which I had broken o(en, and em(tied, and lowered them down u(on my raft' the fir t of the e I filled with (ro#i ion * #i&" bread, rice, three .utch chee e , fi#e (iece of dried goat2 fle h ?which we li#ed much u(on@, and a little remainder of )uro(ean corn, which had been laid by for ome fowl which we brought to ea with u , but the fowl were killed" 8here had been ome barley and wheat together' but, to my great di a((ointment, I found afterward that the rat had eaten or (oiled it all" A for li3uor , I found e#eral, ca e of bottle belonging to our ki((er, in which were ome cordial water ' and, in all, about fi#e or i0 gallon of rack" 8he e I towed by them el#e , there being no need to (ut them into the che t, nor any room for them" While I wa doing thi , I found the tide begin to flow, though #ery calm' and I had the mortification to ee my coat, hirt, and wai tcoat, which I had left on the hore, u(on the and, wim away" A for my breeche , which were only linen, and o(en* kneed, I wam on board in them and my tocking " !owe#er, thi et me on rummaging for clothe , of which I found enough, but took no more than I wanted for (re ent u e, for I had other thing which my eye wa more u(on * a , fir t, tool to work with on hore" And it wa after long earching that I found out the car(enter2 che t, which wa , indeed, a #ery u eful (ri&e to me, and much more #aluable than a hi(load of gold would ha#e been at that time" I got it down to my raft, whole a it wa , without lo ing time to look into it, for I knew in general what it contained" /y ne0t care wa for ome ammunition and arm " 8here were two #ery good fowling*(iece in the great cabin, and two (i tol " 8he e I ecured fir t, with ome (owder*horn and a mall bag of hot, and two old ru ty word " I knew there were three barrel of (owder in the hi(, but knew not where our gunner had towed them' but with much earch I found them, two of them dry and good, the third had taken water" 8ho e two I got to my raft with the arm " And now I thought my elf (retty well freighted, and began to think how I hould get to hore with them, ha#ing neither ail, oar, nor rudder' and the lea t ca(ful of wind would ha#e o#er et all my na#igation" I had three encouragement * 1 t, a mooth, calm ea' 2ndly, the tide ri ing, and etting in to the hore' 3rdly, what little wind there wa blew me toward the land" And thu , ha#ing found two or three broken oar belonging to the boat * and, be ide the tool which were in the che t, I found two aw , an a0e, and a hammer' with thi cargo I (ut to ea" ,or a mile or thereabout my raft went #ery well, only that I found it dri#e a little di tant from the (lace where I had landed before' by which I (ercei#ed that there wa ome indraft of the water, and con e3uently I ho(ed to find ome creek or ri#er there, which I might make u e of a a (ort to get to land with my cargo"

A I imagined, o it wa " 8here a((eared before me a little o(ening of the land, and I found a trong current of the tide et into it' o I guided my raft a well a I could, to kee( in the middle of the tream" But here I had like to ha#e uffered a econd hi(wreck, which, if I had, I think #erily would ha#e broken my heart' for, knowing nothing of the coa t, my raft ran aground at one end of it u(on a hoal, and not being aground at the other end, it wanted but a little that all my cargo had li((ed off toward the end that wa afloat, and to fallen into the water" I did my utmo t, by etting my back again t the che t , to kee( them in their (lace , but could not thru t off the raft with all my trength' neither dur t I tir from the (o ture I wa in' but holding u( the che t with all my might, I tood in that manner near half*an*hour, in which time the ri ing of the water brought me a little more u(on a le#el' and a little after, the water till*ri ing, my raft floated again, and I thru t her off with the oar I had into the channel, and then dri#ing u( higher, I at length found my elf in the mouth of a little ri#er, with land on both ide , and a trong current of tide running u(" I looked on both ide for a (ro(er (lace to get to hore, for I wa not willing to be dri#en too high u( the ri#er5 ho(ing in time to ee ome hi( at ea, and therefore re ol#ed to (lace my elf a near the coa t a I could" At length I (ied a little co#e on the right hore of the creek, to which with great (ain and difficulty I guided my raft, and at la t got o near that, reaching ground with my oar, I could thru t her directly in" But here I had like to ha#e di((ed all my cargo into the ea again' for that hore lying (retty tee( * that i to ay lo(ing * there wa no (lace to land, but where one end of my float, if it ran on hore, would lie o high, and the other ink lower, a before, that it would endanger my cargo again" All that I could do wa to wait till the tide wa at the highe t, kee(ing the raft with my oar like an anchor, to hold the ide of it fa t to the hore, near a flat (iece of ground, which I e0(ected the water would flow o#er' and o it did" A oon a I found water enough * for my raft drew about a foot of water * I thru t her u(on that flat (iece of ground, and there fa tened or moored her, by ticking my two broken oar into the ground, one on one ide near one end, and one on the other ide near the other end' and thu I lay till the water ebbed away, and left my raft and all my cargo afe on hore" /y ne0t work wa to #iew the country, and eek a (ro(er (lace for my habitation, and where to tow my good to ecure them from whate#er might ha((en" Where I wa , I yet knew not' whether on the continent or on an i land' whether inhabited or not inhabited' whether in danger of wild bea t or not" 8here wa a hill not abo#e a mile from me, which ro e u( #ery tee( and high,

and which eemed to o#erto( ome other hill , which lay a in a ridge from it northward" I took out one of the fowling*(iece , and one of the (i tol , and a horn of (owder' and thu armed, I tra#elled for di co#ery u( to the to( of that hill, where, after I had with great labour and difficulty got to the to(, I aw any fate, to my great affliction * #i&" that I wa in an i land en#ironed e#ery way with the ea5 no land to be een e0ce(t ome rock , which lay a great way off' and two mall i land , le than thi , which lay about three league to the we t" I found al o that the i land I wa in wa barren, and, a I aw good rea on to belie#e, uninhabited e0ce(t by wild bea t , of whom, howe#er, I aw none" Yet I aw abundance of fowl , but knew not their kind ' neither when I killed them could I tell what wa fit for food, and what not" At my coming back, I hot at a great bird which I aw itting u(on a tree on the ide of a great wood" I belie#e it wa the fir t gun that had been fired there ince the creation of the world" I had no ooner fired, than from all (art of the wood there aro e an innumerable number of fowl , of many ort , making a confu ed creaming and crying, and e#ery one according to hi u ual note, but not one of them of any kind that I knew" A for the creature I killed, I took it to be a kind of hawk, it colour and beak re embling it, but it had no talon or claw more than common" It fle h wa carrion, and fit for nothing" +ontented with thi di co#ery, I came back to my raft, and fell to work to bring my cargo on hore, which took me u( the re t of that day" What to do with my elf at night I knew not, nor indeed where to re t, for I wa afraid to lie down on the ground, not knowing but ome wild bea t might de#our me, though, a I afterward found, there wa really no need for tho e fear " !owe#er, a well a I could, I barricaded my elf round with the che t and board that I had brought on hore, and made a kind of hut for that night2 lodging" A for food, I yet aw not which way to u((ly my elf, e0ce(t that I had een two or three creature like hare run out of the wood where I hot the fowl" I now began to con ider that I might yet get a great many thing out of the hi( which would be u eful to me, and (articularly ome of the rigging and ail , and uch other thing a might come to land' and I re ol#ed to make another #oyage on board the #e el, if (o ible" And a I knew that the fir t torm that blew mu t nece arily break her all in (iece , I re ol#ed to et all other thing a(art till I had got e#erything out of the hi( that I could get" 8hen I called a council * that i to ay in my thought * whether I hould take back the raft' but thi a((eared im(racticable5 o I re ol#ed to go a before, when the tide wa down' and I did o, only that I tri((ed before I went from my hut, ha#ing

nothing on but my che3uered hirt, a (air of linen drawer , and a (air of (um( on my feet" I got on board the hi( a before, and (re(ared a econd raft' and, ha#ing had e0(erience of the fir t, I neither made thi o unwieldy, nor loaded it o hard, but yet I brought away e#eral thing #ery u eful to me' a fir t, in the car(enter tore I found two or three bag full of nail and (ike , a great crew* 1ack, a do&en or two of hatchet , and, abo#e all, that mo t u eful thing called a grind tone" All the e I ecured, together with e#eral thing belonging to the gunner, (articularly two or three iron crow , and two barrel of mu ket bullet , e#en mu ket , another fowling*(iece, with ome mall 3uantity of (owder more' a large bagful of mall hot, and a great roll of heet*lead' but thi la t wa o hea#y, I could not hoi t it u( to get it o#er the hi(2 ide" Be ide the e thing , I took all the men2 clothe that I could find, and a (are fore*to( ail, a hammock, and ome bedding' and with thi I loaded my econd raft, and brought them all afe on hore, to my #ery great comfort" I wa under ome a((rehen ion, during my ab ence from the land, that at lea t my (ro#i ion might be de#oured on hore5 but when I came back I found no ign of any #i itor' only there at a creature like a wild cat u(on one of the che t , which, when I came toward it, ran away a little di tance, and then tood till" She at #ery com(o ed and unconcerned, and looked full in my face, a if he had a mind to be ac3uainted with me" I (re ented my gun at her, but, a he did not under tand it, he wa (erfectly unconcerned at it, nor did he offer to tir away' u(on which I to ed her a bit of bi cuit, though by the way, I wa not #ery free of it, for my tore wa not great5 howe#er, I (ared her a bit, I ay, and he went to it, melled at it, and ate it, and looked ?a if (lea ed@ for more' but I thanked her, and could (are no more5 o he marched off" !a#ing got my econd cargo on hore * though I wa fain to o(en the barrel of (owder, and bring them by (arcel , for they were too hea#y, being large ca k * I went to work to make me a little tent with the ail and ome (ole which I cut for that (ur(o e5 and into thi tent I brought e#erything that I knew would (oil either with rain or un' and I (iled all the em(ty che t and ca k u( in a circle round the tent, to fortify it from any udden attem(t, either from man or bea t" When I had done thi , I blocked u( the door of the tent with ome board within, and an em(ty che t et u( on end without' and (reading one of the bed u(on the ground, laying my two (i tol 1u t at my head, and my gun at length by me, I went to bed for the fir t time, and le(t #ery 3uietly all night, for I wa #ery weary and hea#y' for the night before I had le(t little, and had

laboured #ery hard all day to fetch all tho e thing from the hi(, and to get them on hore" I had the bigge t maga&ine of all kind now that e#er wa laid u(, I belie#e, for one man5 but I wa not ati fied till, for while the hi( at u(right in that (o ture, I thought I ought to get e#erything out of her that I could' o e#ery day at low water I went on board, and brought away omething or other' but (articularly the third time I went I brought away a much of the rigging a I could, a al o all the mall ro(e and ro(e*twine I could get, with a (iece of (are can#a , which wa to mend the ail u(on occa ion, and the barrel of wet gun(owder" In a word, I brought away all the ail , fir t and la t' only that I wa fain to cut them in (iece , and bring a much at a time a I could, for they were no more u eful to be ail , but a mere can#a only" But that which comforted me more till, wa , that la t of all, after I had made fi#e or i0 uch #oyage a the e, and thought I had nothing more to e0(ect from the hi( that wa worth my meddling with * I ay, after all thi , I found a great hog head of bread, three large runlet of rum, or (irit , a bo0 of ugar, and a barrel of fine flour' thi wa ur(ri ing to me, becau e I had gi#en o#er e0(ecting any more (ro#i ion , e0ce(t what wa (oiled by the water" I oon em(tied the hog head of the bread, and wra((ed it u(, (arcel by (arcel, in (iece of the ail , which I cut out' and, in a word, I got all thi afe on hore al o" 8he ne0t day I made another #oyage, and now, ha#ing (lundered the hi( of what wa (ortable and fit to hand out, I began with the cable " +utting the great cable into (iece , uch a I could mo#e, I got two cable and a haw er on hore, with all the ironwork I could get' and ha#ing cut down the (rit ail*yard, and the mi&&en* yard, and e#erything I could, to make a large raft, I loaded it with all the e hea#y good , and came away" But my good luck began now to lea#e me' for thi raft wa o unwieldy, and o o#erladen, that, after I had entered the little co#e where I had landed the re t of my good , not being able to guide it o handily a I did the other, it o#er et, and threw me and all my cargo into the water" A for my elf, it wa no great harm, for I wa near the hore' but a to my cargo, it wa a great (art of it lo t, e (ecially the iron, which I e0(ected would ha#e been of great u e to me' howe#er, when the tide wa out, I got mo t of the (iece of the cable a hore, and ome of the iron, though with infinite labour' for I wa fain to di( for it into the water, a work which fatigued me #ery much" After thi , I went e#ery day on board, and brought away what I could get"

I had been now thirteen day on hore, and had been ele#en time on board the hi(, in which time I had brought away all that one (air of hand could well be u((o ed ca(able to bring' though I belie#e #erily, had the calm weather held, I hould ha#e brought away the whole hi(, (iece by (iece" But (re(aring the twelfth time to go on board, I found the wind began to ri e5 howe#er, at low water I went on board, and though I thought I had rummaged the cabin o effectually that nothing more could be found, yet I di co#ered a locker with drawer in it, in one of which I found two or three ra&or , and one (air of large ci or , with ome ten or a do&en of good kni#e and fork 5 in another I found about thirty* i0 (ound #alue in money * ome )uro(ean coin, ome Bra&il, ome (iece of eight, ome gold, and ome il#er" I miled to my elf at the ight of thi money5 9= drug79 aid I, aloud, 9what art thou good for6 8hou art not worth to me * no, not the taking off the ground' one of tho e kni#e i worth all thi hea(' I ha#e no manner of u e for thee * e2en remain where thou art, and go to the bottom a a creature who e life i not worth aying"9 !owe#er, u(on econd thought I took it away' and wra((ing all thi in a (iece of can#a , I began to think of making another raft' but while I wa (re(aring thi , I found the ky o#erca t, and the wind began to ri e, and in a 3uarter of an hour it blew a fre h gale from the hore" It (re ently occurred to me that it wa in #ain to (retend to make a raft with the wind off hore' and that it wa my bu ine to be gone before the tide of flood began, otherwi e I might not be able to reach the hore at all" Accordingly, I let my elf down into the water, and wam acro the channel, which lay between the hi( and the and , and e#en that with difficulty enough, (artly with the weight of the thing I had about me, and (artly the roughne of the water' for the wind ro e #ery ha tily, and before it wa 3uite high water it blew a torm" But I had got home to my little tent, where I lay, with all my wealth about me, #ery ecure" It blew #ery hard all night, and in the morning, when I looked out, behold, no more hi( wa to be een7 I wa a little ur(ri ed, but reco#ered my elf with the ati factory reflection that I had lo t no time, nor abated any diligence, to get e#erything out of her that could be u eful to me' and that, indeed, there wa little left in her that I wa able to bring away, if I had had more time" I now ga#e o#er any more thought of the hi(, or of anything out of her, e0ce(t what might dri#e on hore from her wreck' a , indeed, di#er (iece of her afterward did' but tho e thing were of mall u e to me" /y thought were now wholly em(loyed about ecuring my elf again t either a#age , if any hould a((ear, or wild bea t , if any were in the i land' and I

had many thought of the method how to do thi , and what kind of dwelling to make * whether I hould make me a ca#e in the earth, or a tent u(on the earth' and, in hort, I re ol#ed u(on both' the manner and de cri(tion of which, it may not be im(ro(er to gi#e an account of" I oon found the (lace I wa in wa not fit for my ettlement, becau e it wa u(on a low, moori h ground, near the ea, and I belie#ed it would not be whole ome, and more (articularly becau e there wa no fre h water near it' o I re ol#ed to find a more healthy and more con#enient (ot of ground" I con ulted e#eral thing in my ituation, which I found would he (ro(er for me5 1 t, health and fre h water, I 1u t now mentioned' 2ndly, helter from the heat of the un' 3rdly, ecurity from ra#enou creature , whether man or bea t' Bthly, a #iew to the ea, that if 4od ent any hi( in ight, I might not lo e any ad#antage for my deli#erance, of which I wa not willing to bani h all my e0(ectation yet" In earch of a (lace (ro(er for thi , I found a little (lain on the ide of a ri ing hill, who e front toward thi little (lain wa tee( a a hou e* ide, o that nothing could come down u(on me from the to(" =n the one ide of the rock there wa a hollow (lace, worn a little way in, like the entrance or door of a ca#e but there wa not really any ca#e or way into the rock at all" =n the flat of the green, 1u t before thi hollow (lace, I re ol#ed to (itch my tent" 8hi (lain wa not abo#e a hundred yard broad, and about twice a long, and lay like a green before my door' and, at the end of it, de cended irregularly e#ery way down into the low ground by the ea ide" It wa on the ;";"W" ide of the hill' o that it wa heltered from the heat e#ery day, till it came to a W" and by S" un, or thereabout , which, in tho e countrie , i near the etting" Before I et u( my tent I drew a half*circle before the hollow (lace, which took in about ten yard in it emi*diameter from the rock, and twenty yard in it diameter from it beginning and ending" In thi half*circle I (itched two row of trong take , dri#ing them into the ground till they tood #ery firm like (ile , the bigge t end being out of the ground abo#e fi#e feet and a half, and har(ened on the to(" 8he two row did not tand abo#e i0 inche from one another" 8hen I took the (iece of cable which I had cut in the hi(, and laid them in row , one u(on another, within the circle, between the e two row of take , u( to the to(, (lacing other take in the in ide, leaning again t them, about two

feet and a half high, like a (ur to a (o t' and thi fence wa o trong, that neither man nor bea t could get into it or o#er it" 8hi co t me a great deal of time and labour, e (ecially to cut the (ile in the wood , bring them to the (lace, and dri#e them into the earth" 8he entrance into thi (lace I made to be, not by a door, but by a hort ladder to go o#er the to(' which ladder, when I wa in, I lifted o#er after me' and o I wa com(letely fenced in and fortified, a I thought, from all the world, and con e3uently le(t ecure in the night, which otherwi e I could not ha#e done' though, a it a((eared afterward , there wa no need of all thi caution from the enemie that I a((rehended danger from" Into thi fence or fortre , with infinite labour, I carried all my riche , all my (ro#i ion , ammunition, and tore , of which you ha#e the account abo#e' and I made a large tent, which to (re er#e me from the rain that in one (art of the year are #ery #iolent there, I made double * one maller tent within, and one larger tent abo#e it' and co#ered the u((ermo t with a large tar(aulin, which I had a#ed among the ail " And now I lay no more for a while in the bed which I had brought on hore, but in a hammock, which wa indeed a #ery good one, and belonged to the mate of the hi(" Into thi tent I brought all my (ro#i ion , and e#erything that would (oil by the wet' and ha#ing thu enclo ed all my good , I made u( the entrance, which till now I had left o(en, and o (a ed and re(a ed, a I aid, by a hort ladder" When I had done thi , I began to work my way into the rock, and bringing all the earth and tone that I dug down out through my tent, I laid them u( within my fence, in the nature of a terrace, o that it rai ed the ground within about a foot and a half' and thu I made me a ca#e, 1u t behind my tent, which er#ed me like a cellar to my hou e" It co t me much labour and many day before all the e thing were brought to (erfection' and therefore I mu t go back to ome other thing which took u( ome of my thought " At the ame time it ha((ened, after I had laid my cheme for the etting u( my tent, and making the ca#e, that a torm of rain falling from a thick, dark cloud, a udden fla h of lightning ha((ened, and after that a great cla( of thunder, a i naturally the effect of it" I wa not o much ur(ri ed with the lightning a I wa with the thought which darted into my mind a wift a the lightning it elf * =h, my (owder7 /y #ery heart ank within me when I thought that, at one bla t, all my (owder might be de troyed' on which, not my

defence only, but the (ro#iding my food, a I thought, entirely de(ended" I wa nothing near o an0iou about my own danger, though, had the (owder took fire, I hould ne#er ha#e known who had hurt me" Such im(re ion did thi make u(on me, that after the torm wa o#er I laid a ide all my work , my building and fortifying, and a((lied my elf to make bag and bo0e , to e(arate the (owder, and to kee( it a little and a little in a (arcel, in the ho(e that, whate#er might come, it might not all take fire at once' and to kee( it o a(art that it hould not be (o ible to make one (art fire another" I fini hed thi work in about a fortnight' and I think my (owder, which in all wa about two hundred and forty (ound weight, wa di#ided in not le than a hundred (arcel " A to the barrel that had been wet, I did not a((rehend any danger from that' o I (laced it in my new ca#e, which, in my fancy, I called my kitchen' and the re t I hid u( and down in hole among the rock , o that no wet might come to it, marking #ery carefully where I laid it" In the inter#al of time while thi wa doing, I went out once at lea t e#ery day with my gun, a well to di#ert my elf a to ee if I could kill anything fit for food' and, a near a I could, to ac3uaint my elf with what the i land (roduced" 8he fir t time I went out, I (re ently di co#ered that there were goat in the i land, which wa a great ati faction to me' but then it wa attended with thi mi fortune to me * #i&" that they were o hy, o ubtle, and o wift of foot, that it wa the mo t difficult thing in the world to come at them' but I wa not di couraged at thi , not doubting but I might now and then hoot one, a it oon ha((ened' for after I had found their haunt a little, I laid wait in thi manner for them5 I ob er#ed if they aw me in the #alley , though they were u(on the rock , they would run away, a in a terrible fright' but if they were feeding in the #alley , and I wa u(on the rock , they took no notice of me' from whence I concluded that, by the (o ition of their o(tic , their ight wa o directed downward that they did not readily ee ob1ect that were abo#e them' o afterward I took thi method * I alway climbed the rock fir t, to get abo#e them, and then had fre3uently a fair mark" 8he fir t hot I made among the e creature , I killed a he*goat, which had a little kid by her, which he ga#e uck to, which grie#ed me heartily' for when the old one fell, the kid tood tock till by her, till I came and took her u(' and not only o, but when I carried the old one with me, u(on my houlder , the kid followed me 3uite to my enclo ure' u(on which I laid down the dam, and took the kid in my arm , and carried it o#er my (ale, in ho(e to ha#e bred it u( tame' but it would not eat' o I wa forced to kill it and eat it my elf" 8he e two

u((lied me with fle h a great while, for I ate (aringly, and a#ed my (ro#i ion , my bread e (ecially, a much a (o ibly I could" !a#ing now fi0ed my habitation, I found it ab olutely nece ary to (ro#ide a (lace to make a fire in, and fuel to burn5 and what I did for that, and al o how I enlarged my ca#e, and what con#enience I made, I hall gi#e a full account of in it (lace' but I mu t now gi#e ome little account of my elf, and of my thought about li#ing, which, it may well be u((o ed, were not a few" I had a di mal (ro (ect of my condition' for a I wa not ca t away u(on that i land without being dri#en, a i aid, by a #iolent torm, 3uite out of the cour e of our intended #oyage, and a great way, #i&" ome hundred of league , out of the ordinary cour e of the trade of mankind, I had great rea on to con ider it a a determination of !ea#en, that in thi de olate (lace, and in thi de olate manner, I hould end my life" 8he tear would run (lentifully down my face when I made the e reflection ' and ometime I would e0(o tulate with my elf why <ro#idence hould thu com(letely ruin !i creature , and render them o ab olutely mi erable' o without hel(, abandoned, o entirely de(re ed, that it could hardly be rational to be thankful for uch a life" But omething alway returned wift u(on me to check the e thought , and to re(ro#e me' and (articularly one day, walking with my gun in my hand by the ea ide, I wa #ery (en i#e u(on the ub1ect of my (re ent condition, when rea on, a it were, e0(o tulated with me the other way, thu 5 9Well, you are in a de olate condition, it i true' but, (ray remember, where are the re t of you6 .id not you come, ele#en of you in the boat6 Where are the ten6 Why were they not a#ed, and you lo t6 Why were you ingled out6 I it better to be here or there69 And then I (ointed to the ea" All e#il are to be con idered with the good that i in them, and with what wor e attend them" 8hen it occurred to me again, how well I wa furni hed for my ub i tence, and what would ha#e been my ca e if it had not ha((ened ?which wa a hundred thou and to one@ that the hi( floated from the (lace where he fir t truck, and wa dri#en o near to the hore that I had time to get all the e thing out of her' what would ha#e been my ca e, if I had been forced to ha#e li#ed in the condition in which I at fir t came on hore, without nece arie of life, or nece arie to u((ly and (rocure them6 9<articularly,9 aid I, aloud ?though to my elf@, 9what hould I ha#e done without a gun, without ammunition, without any tool to make anything, or to work with, without clothe , bedding, a tent, or any manner of co#ering69 and that now I had all the e to ufficient 3uantity, and wa in a fair way to (ro#ide my elf in uch a manner a to li#e without my gun, when my ammunition wa (ent5 o that I had a tolerable #iew of

ub i ting, without any want, a long a I li#ed' for I con idered from the beginning how I would (ro#ide for the accident that might ha((en, and for the time that wa to come, e#en not only after my ammunition hould be (ent, but e#en after my health and trength hould decay" I confe I had not entertained any notion of my ammunition being de troyed at one bla t * I mean my (owder being blown u( by lightning' and thi made the thought of it o ur(ri ing to me, when it lightened and thundered, a I ob er#ed 1u t now" And now being about to enter into a melancholy relation of a cene of ilent life, uch, (erha( , a wa ne#er heard of in the world before, I hall take it from it beginning, and continue it in it order" It wa by my account the 3Cth of Se(tember, when, in the manner a abo#e aid, I fir t et foot u(on thi horrid i land' when the un, being to u in it autumnal e3uino0, wa almo t o#er my head' for I reckoned my elf, by ob er#ation, to be in the latitude of nine degree twenty*two minute north of the line" After I had been there about ten or twel#e day , it came into my thought that I hould lo e my reckoning of time for want of book , and (en and ink, and hould e#en forget the Sabbath day ' but to (re#ent thi , I cut with my knife u(on a large (o t, in ca(ital letter * and making it into a great cro , I et it u( on the hore where I fir t landed * 9I came on hore here on the 3Cth Se(tember 16:G"9 >(on the ide of thi 3uare (o t I cut e#ery day a notch with my knife, and e#ery e#enth notch wa a long again a the re t, and e#ery fir t day of the month a long again a that long one' and thu I ke(t my calendar, or weekly, monthly, and yearly reckoning of time" In the ne0t (lace, we are to ob er#e that among the many thing which I brought out of the hi(, in the e#eral #oyage which, a abo#e mentioned, I made to it, I got e#eral thing of le #alue, but not at all le u eful to me, which I omitted etting down before' a , in (articular, (en , ink, and (a(er, e#eral (arcel in the ca(tain2 , mate2 , gunner2 and car(enter2 kee(ing' three or four com(a e , ome mathematical in trument , dial , (er (ecti#e , chart , and book of na#igation, all which I huddled together, whether I might want them or no' al o, I found three #ery good Bible , which came to me in my cargo from )ngland, and which I had (acked u( among my thing ' ome <ortugue e book al o' and among them two or three <o(i h (rayer*book , and e#eral other book , all which I carefully ecured" And I mu t not forget that we had in the hi( a dog and two cat , of who e eminent hi tory I may ha#e

occa ion to ay omething in it (lace' for I carried both the cat with me' and a for the dog, he 1um(ed out of the hi( of him elf, and wam on hore to me the day after I went on hore with my fir t cargo, and wa a tru ty er#ant to me many year ' I wanted nothing that he could fetch me, nor any com(any that he could make u( to me' I only wanted to ha#e him talk to me, but that would not do" A I ob er#ed before, I found (en , ink, and (a(er, and I hu banded them to the utmo t' and I hall how that while my ink la ted, I ke(t thing #ery e0act, but after that wa gone I could not, for I could not make any ink by any mean that I could de#i e" And thi (ut me in mind that I wanted many thing notwith tanding all that I had ama ed together' and of the e, ink wa one' a al o a (ade, (icka0e, and ho#el, to dig or remo#e the earth' needle , (in , and thread' a for linen, I oon learned to want that without much difficulty" 8hi want of tool made e#ery work I did go on hea#ily' and it wa near a whole year before I had entirely fini hed my little (ale, or urrounded my habitation" 8he (ile , or take , which were a hea#y a I could well lift, were a long time in cutting and (re(aring in the wood , and more, by far, in bringing home' o that I (ent ometime two day in cutting and bringing home one of tho e (o t , and a third day in dri#ing it into the ground' for which (ur(o e I got a hea#y (iece of wood at fir t, but at la t bethought my elf of one of the iron crow ' which, howe#er, though I found it, made dri#ing tho e (o t or (ile #ery laboriou and tediou work" But what need I ha#e been concerned at the tediou ne of anything I had to do, eeing I had time enough to do it in6 nor had I any other em(loyment, if that had been o#er, at lea t that I could fore ee, e0ce(t the ranging the i land to eek for food, which I did, more or le , e#ery day" I now began to con ider eriou ly my condition, and the circum tance I wa reduced to' and I drew u( the tate of my affair in writing, not o much to lea#e them to any that were to come after me * for I wa likely to ha#e but few heir * a to deli#er my thought from daily (oring o#er them, and afflicting my mind' and a my rea on began now to ma ter my de (ondency, I began to comfort my elf a well a I could, and to et the good again t the e#il, that I might ha#e omething to di tingui h my ca e from wor e' and I tated #ery im(artially, like debtor and creditor, the comfort I en1oyed again t the mi erie I uffered, thu 5* )#il5 I am ca t u(on a horrible, de olate i land, #oid of all ho(e of reco#ery"

4ood5 But I am ali#e' and not drowned, a all my hi(2 com(any were" )#il5 I am ingled out and e(arated, a it were, from all the world, to be mi erable" 4ood5 But I am ingled out, too, from all the hi(2 crew, to be (ared from death' and !e that miraculou ly a#ed me from death can deli#er me from thi condition" )#il5 I am di#ided from mankind * a olitaire' one bani hed from human ociety" 4ood5 But I am not tar#ed, and (eri hing on a barren (lace, affording no u tenance" )#il5 I ha#e no clothe to co#er me" 4ood5 But I am in a hot climate, where, if I had clothe , I could hardly wear them" )#il5 I am without any defence, or mean to re i t any #iolence of man or bea t" 4ood5 But I am ca t on an i land where I ee no wild bea t to hurt me, a I aw on the coa t of Africa' and what if I had been hi(wrecked there6 )#il5 I ha#e no oul to (eak to or relie#e me" 4ood5 But 4od wonderfully ent the hi( in near enough to the hore, that I ha#e got out a many nece ary thing a will either u((ly my want or enable me to u((ly my elf, e#en a long a I li#e" >(on the whole, here wa an undoubted te timony that there wa carce any condition in the world o mi erable but there wa omething negati#e or omething (o iti#e to be thankful for in it' and let thi tand a a direction from the e0(erience of the mo t mi erable of all condition in thi world5 that we may alway find in it omething to comfort our el#e from, and to et, in the de cri(tion of good and e#il, on the credit ide of the account" !a#ing now brought my mind a little to reli h my condition, and gi#en o#er looking out to ea, to ee if I could (y a hi( * I ay, gi#ing o#er the e thing , I

begun to a((ly my elf to arrange my way of li#ing, and to make thing a ea y to me a I could" I ha#e already de cribed my habitation, which wa a tent under the ide of a rock, urrounded with a trong (ale of (o t and cable 5 but I might now rather call it a wall, for I rai ed a kind of wall u( again t it of turf , about two feet thick on the out ide' and after ome time ?I think it wa a year and a half@ I rai ed rafter from it, leaning to the rock, and thatched or co#ered it with bough of tree , and uch thing a I could get, to kee( out the rain' which I found at ome time of the year #ery #iolent" I ha#e already ob er#ed how I brought all my good into thi (ale, and into the ca#e which I had made behind me" But I mu t ob er#e, too, that at fir t thi wa a confu ed hea( of good , which, a they lay in no order, o they took u( all my (lace' I had no room to turn my elf5 o I et my elf to enlarge my ca#e, and work farther into the earth' for it wa a loo e andy rock, which yielded ea ily to the labour I be towed on it5 and o when I found I wa (retty afe a to bea t of (rey, I worked ideway , to the right hand, into the rock' and then, turning to the right again, worked 3uite out, and made me a door to come out on the out ide of my (ale or fortification" 8hi ga#e me not only egre and regre , a it wa a back way to my tent and to my torehou e, but ga#e me room to tore my good " And now I began to a((ly my elf to make uch nece ary thing a I found I mo t wanted, (articularly a chair and a table' for without the e I wa not able to en1oy the few comfort I had in the world' I could not write or eat, or do e#eral thing , with o much (lea ure without a table5 o I went to work" And here I mu t need ob er#e, that a rea on i the ub tance and origin of the mathematic , o by tating and 3uaring e#erything by rea on, and by making the mo t rational 1udgment of thing , e#ery man may be, in time, ma ter of e#ery mechanic art" I had ne#er handled a tool in my life' and yet, in time, by labour, a((lication, and contri#ance, I found at la t that I wanted nothing but I could ha#e made it, e (ecially if I had had tool " !owe#er, I made abundance of thing , e#en without tool ' and ome with no more tool than an ad&e and a hatchet, which (erha( were ne#er made that way before, and that with infinite labour" ,or e0am(le, if I wanted a board, I had no other way but to cut down a tree, et it on an edge before me, and hew it flat on either ide with my a0e, till I brought it to be thin a a (lank, and then dub it mooth with my ad&e" It i true, by thi method I could make but one board out of a whole tree' but thi I had no remedy for but (atience, any more than I had for the (rodigiou deal of

time and labour which it took me u( to make a (lank or board5 but my time or labour wa little worth, and o it wa a well em(loyed one way a another" !owe#er, I made me a table and a chair, a I ob er#ed abo#e, in the fir t (lace' and thi I did out of the hort (iece of board that I brought on my raft from the hi(" But when I had wrought out ome board a abo#e, I made large hel#e , of the breadth of a foot and a half, one o#er another all along one ide of my ca#e, to lay all my tool , nail and ironwork on' and, in a word, to e(arate e#erything at large into their (lace , that I might come ea ily at them" I knocked (iece into the wall of the rock to hang my gun and all thing that would hang u(' o that, had my ca#e been to be een, it looked like a general maga&ine of all nece ary thing ' and had e#erything o ready at my hand, that it wa a great (lea ure to me to ee all my good in uch order, and e (ecially to find my tock of all nece arie o great" And now it wa that I began to kee( a 1ournal of e#ery day2 em(loyment' for, indeed, at fir t I wa in too much hurry, and not only hurry a to labour, but in too much di com(o ure of mind' and my 1ournal would ha#e been full of many dull thing ' for e0am(le, I mu t ha#e aid thu 5 93C8!" * After I had got to hore, and e ca(ed drowning, in tead of being thankful to 4od for my deli#erance, ha#ing fir t #omited, with the great 3uantity of alt water which had got into my tomach, and reco#ering my elf a little, I ran about the hore wringing my hand and beating my head and face, e0claiming at my mi ery, and crying out, 2I wa undone, undone72 till, tired and faint, I wa forced to lie down on the ground to re(o e, but dur t not lee( for fear of being de#oured"9 Some day after thi , and after I had been on board the hi(, and got all that I could out of her, yet I could not forbear getting u( to the to( of a little mountain and looking out to ea, in ho(e of eeing a hi(' then fancy at a #a t di tance I (ied a ail, (lea e my elf with the ho(e of it, and then after looking teadily, till I wa almo t blind, lo e it 3uite, and it down and wee( like a child, and thu increa e my mi ery by my folly" But ha#ing gotten o#er the e thing in ome mea ure, and ha#ing ettled my hou ehold taff and habitation, made me a table and a chair, and all a hand ome about me a I could, I began to kee( my 1ournal' of which I hall here gi#e you the co(y ?though in it will be told all the e (articular o#er again@ a long a it la ted' for ha#ing no more ink, I wa forced to lea#e it off"

CHAPTER V - !"ILDS A H "SE - THE # "RNAL

S)<8)/B)$ 3C, 16:G" * I, (oor mi erable $obin on +ru oe, being hi(wrecked during a dreadful torm in the offing, came on hore on thi di mal, unfortunate i land, which I called 98he I land of .e (air9' all the re t of the hi(2 com(any being drowned, and my elf almo t dead" All the re t of the day I (ent in afflicting my elf at the di mal circum tance I wa brought to * #i&" I had neither food, hou e, clothe , wea(on, nor (lace to fly to' and in de (air of any relief, aw nothing but death before me * either that I hould be de#oured by wild bea t , murdered by a#age , or tar#ed to death for want of food" At the a((roach of night I le(t in a tree, for fear of wild creature ' but le(t oundly, though it rained all night" =+8=B)$ 1" * In the morning I aw, to my great ur(ri e, the hi( had floated with the high tide, and wa dri#en on hore again much nearer the i land' which, a it wa ome comfort, on one hand * for, eeing her et u(right, and not broken to (iece , I ho(ed, if the wind abated, I might get on board, and get ome food and nece arie out of her for my relief * o, on the other hand, it renewed my grief at the lo of my comrade , who, I imagined, if we had all tayed on board, might ha#e a#ed the hi(, or, at lea t, that they would not ha#e been all drowned a they were' and that, had the men been a#ed, we might (erha( ha#e built u a boat out of the ruin of the hi( to ha#e carried u to ome other (art of the world" I (ent great (art of thi day in (er(le0ing my elf on the e thing ' but at length, eeing the hi( almo t dry, I went u(on the and a near a I could, and then wam on board" 8hi day al o it continued raining, though with no wind at all" ,$=/ 8!) 1S8 =, =+8=B)$ 8= 8!) 2B8!" * All the e day entirely (ent in many e#eral #oyage to get all I could out of the hi(, which I brought on hore e#ery tide of flood u(on raft " /uch rain al o in the day , though with ome inter#al of fair weather' but it eem thi wa the rainy ea on" =+8" 2C" * I o#er et my raft, and all the good I had got u(on it' but, being in hoal water, and the thing being chiefly hea#y, I reco#ered many of them when the tide wa out" =+8" 2:" * It rained all night and all day, with ome gu t of wind' during which time the hi( broke in (iece , the wind blowing a little harder than before, and wa no more to be een, e0ce(t the wreck of her, and that only at low water" I (ent thi day in co#ering and ecuring the good which I had a#ed, that the rain might not (oil them"

=+8" 26" * I walked about the hore almo t all day, to find out a (lace to fi0 my habitation, greatly concerned to ecure my elf from any attack in the night, either from wild bea t or men" 8oward night, I fi0ed u(on a (ro(er (lace, under a rock, and marked out a emicircle for my encam(ment' which I re ol#ed to trengthen with a work, wall, or fortification, made of double (ile , lined within with cable , and without with turf" ,rom the 26th to the 3Cth I worked #ery hard in carrying all my good to my new habitation, though ome (art of the time it rained e0ceedingly hard" 8he 31 t, in the morning, I went out into the i land with my gun, to eek for ome food, and di co#er the country' when I killed a he*goat, and her kid followed me home, which I afterward killed al o, becau e it would not feed" ;=E)/B)$ 1" * I et u( my tent under a rock, and lay there for the fir t night' making it a large a I could, with take dri#en in to wing my hammock u(on" ;=E" 2" * I et u( all my che t and board , and the (iece of timber which made my raft , and with them formed a fence round me, a little within the (lace I had marked out for my fortification" ;=E" 3" * I went out with my gun, and killed two fowl like duck , which were #ery good food" In the afternoon went to work to make me a table" ;=E" B" * 8hi morning I began to order my time of work, of going out with my gun, time of lee(, and time of di#er ion * #i&" e#ery morning I walked out with my gun for two or three hour , if it did not rain' then em(loyed my elf to work till about ele#en o2clock' then eat what I had to li#e on' and from twel#e to two I lay down to lee(, the weather being e0ce i#ely hot' and then, in the e#ening, to work again" 8he working (art of thi day and of the ne0t were wholly em(loyed in making my table, for I wa yet but a #ery orry workman, though time and nece ity made me a com(lete natural mechanic oon after, a I belie#e they would do any one el e" ;=E" :" * 8hi day went abroad with my gun and my dog, and killed a wild cat' her kin (retty oft, but her fle h good for nothing' e#ery creature that I killed I took of the kin and (re er#ed them" +oming back by the ea* hore, I aw many ort of ea*fowl , which I did not under tand' but wa ur(ri ed, and almo t frightened, with two or three eal , which, while I wa ga&ing at, not well knowing what they were, got into the ea, and e ca(ed me for that time"

;=E" 6" * After my morning walk I went to work with my table again, and fini hed it, though not to my liking' nor wa it long before I learned to mend it" ;=E" I" * ;ow it began to be ettled fair weather" 8he Ith, Jth, Gth, 1Cth, and (art of the 12th ?for the 11th wa Sunday@ I took wholly u( to make me a chair, and with much ado brought it to a tolerable ha(e, but ne#er to (lea e me' and e#en in the making I (ulled it in (iece e#eral time " ;=8)" * I oon neglected my kee(ing Sunday ' for, omitting my mark for them on my (o t, I forgot which wa which" ;=E" 13" * 8hi day it rained, which refre hed me e0ceedingly, and cooled the earth' but it wa accom(anied with terrible thunder and lightning, which frightened me dreadfully, for fear of my (owder" A oon a it wa o#er, I re ol#ed to e(arate my tock of (owder into a many little (arcel a (o ible, that it might not be in danger" ;=E" 1B, 1:, 16" * 8he e three day I (ent in making little 3uare che t , or bo0e , which might hold about a (ound, or two (ound at mo t, of (owder' and o, (utting the (owder in, I towed it in (lace a ecure and remote from one another a (o ible" =n one of the e three day I killed a large bird that wa good to eat, but I knew not what to call it" ;=E" 1I" * 8hi day I began to dig behind my tent into the rock, to make room for my further con#eniency" ;=8)" * 8hree thing I wanted e0ceedingly for thi work * #i&" a (icka0e, a ho#el, and a wheelbarrow or ba ket' o I de i ted from my work, and began to con ider how to u((ly that want, and make me ome tool " A for the (icka0e, I made u e of the iron crow , which were (ro(er enough, though hea#y' but the ne0t thing wa a ho#el or (ade' thi wa o ab olutely nece ary, that, indeed, I could do nothing effectually without it' but what kind of one to make I knew not" ;=E" 1J" * 8he ne0t day, in earching the wood , I found a tree of that wood, or like it, which in the Bra&il they call the iron* tree, for it e0ceeding hardne " =f thi , with great labour, and almo t (oiling my a0e, I cut a (iece, and brought it home, too, with difficulty enough, for it wa e0ceeding hea#y" 8he e0ce i#e hardne of the wood, and my ha#ing no other way, made me a long while u(on thi machine, for I worked it effectually by little and little into the form of a ho#el or (ade' the handle e0actly ha(ed like our in )ngland, only that the board (art ha#ing no iron hod u(on it at bottom, it would not la t

me o long' howe#er, it er#ed well enough for the u e which I had occa ion to (ut it to' but ne#er wa a ho#el, I belie#e, made after that fa hion, or o long in making" I wa till deficient, for I wanted a ba ket or a wheelbarrow" A ba ket I could not make by any mean , ha#ing no uch thing a twig that would bend to make wicker*ware * at lea t, none yet found out' and a to a wheelbarrow, I fancied I could make all but the wheel' but that I had no notion of' neither did I know how to go about it' be ide , I had no (o ible way to make the iron gudgeon for the (indle or a0i of the wheel to run in' o I ga#e it o#er, and o, for carrying away the earth which I dug out of the ca#e, I made me a thing like a hod which the labourer carry mortar in when they er#e the bricklayer " 8hi wa not o difficult to me a the making the ho#el5 and yet thi and the ho#el, and the attem(t which I made in #ain to make a wheelbarrow, took me u( no le than four day * I mean alway e0ce(ting my morning walk with my gun, which I eldom failed, and #ery eldom failed al o bringing home omething fit to eat" ;=E" 23" * /y other work ha#ing now tood till, becau e of my making the e tool , when they were fini hed I went on, and working e#ery day, a my trength and time allowed, I (ent eighteen day entirely in widening and dee(ening my ca#e, that it might hold my good commodiou ly" ;=8)" * .uring all thi time I worked to make thi room or ca#e (aciou enough to accommodate me a a warehou e or maga&ine, a kitchen, a dining* room, and a cellar" A for my lodging, I ke(t to the tent' e0ce(t that ometime , in the wet ea on of the year, it rained o hard that I could not kee( my elf dry, which cau ed me afterward to co#er all my (lace within my (ale with long (ole , in the form of rafter , leaning again t the rock, and load them with flag and large lea#e of tree , like a thatch" .)+)/B)$ 1C" * I began now to think my ca#e or #ault fini hed, when on a udden ?it eem I had made it too large@ a great 3uantity of earth fell down from the to( on one ide' o much that, in hort, it frighted me, and not without rea on, too, for if I had been under it, I had ne#er wanted a gra#edigger" I had now a great deal of work to do o#er again, for I had the loo e earth to carry out' and, which wa of more im(ortance, I had the ceiling to (ro( u(, o that I might be ure no more would come down" .)+" 11" * 8hi day I went to work with it accordingly, and got two hore or (o t (itched u(right to the to(, with two (iece of board acro o#er each (o t' thi I fini hed the ne0t day' and etting more (o t u( with board , in

about a week more I had the roof ecured, and the (o t , tanding in row , er#ed me for (artition to (art off the hou e" .)+" 1I" * ,rom thi day to the 2Cth I (laced hel#e , and knocked u( nail on the (o t , to hang e#erything u( that could be hung u(' and now I began to be in ome order within door " .)+" 2C" * ;ow I carried e#erything into the ca#e, and began to furni h my hou e, and et u( ome (iece of board like a dre er, to order my #ictual u(on' but board began to be #ery carce with me' al o, I made me another table" .)+" 2B" * /uch rain all night and all day" ;o tirring out" .)+" 2:" * $ain all day" .)+" 26" * ;o rain, and the earth much cooler than before, and (lea anter" .)+" 2I" * %illed a young goat, and lamed another, o that I caught it and led it home in a tring' when I had it at home, I bound and (lintered u( it leg, which wa broke" ;"B" * I took uch care of it that it li#ed, and the leg grew well and a trong a e#er' but, by my nur ing it o long, it grew tame, and fed u(on the little green at my door, and would not go away" 8hi wa the fir t time that I entertained a thought of breeding u( ome tame creature , that I might ha#e food when my (owder and hot wa all (ent" .)+" 2J,2G,3C,31" * 4reat heat , and no bree&e, o that there wa no tirring abroad, e0ce(t in the e#ening, for food' thi time I (ent in (utting all my thing in order within door " AA;>A$Y 1" * Eery hot till5 but I went abroad early and late with my gun, and lay till in the middle of the day" 8hi e#ening, going farther into the #alley which lay toward the centre of the i land, I found there were (lenty of goat , though e0ceedingly hy, and hard to come at' howe#er, I re ol#ed to try if I could not bring my dog to hunt them down" AA;" 2" * Accordingly, the ne0t day I went out with my dog, and et him u(on the goat , but I wa mi taken, for they all faced about u(on the dog, and he knew hi danger too well, for he would not come near them"

AA;" 3" * I began my fence or wall' which, being till 1ealou of my being attacked by omebody, I re ol#ed to make #ery thick and trong" ;"B" * 8hi wall being de cribed before, I (ur(o ely omit what wa aid in the 1ournal' it i ufficient to ob er#e, that I wa no le time than from the 2nd of Aanuary to the 1Bth of A(ril working, fini hing, and (erfecting thi wall, though it wa no more than about twenty*four yard in length, being a half*circle from one (lace in the rock to another (lace, about eight yard from it, the door of the ca#e being in the centre behind it" All thi time I worked #ery hard, the rain hindering me many day , nay, ometime week together' but I thought I hould ne#er be (erfectly ecure till thi wall wa fini hed' and it i carce credible what ine0(re ible labour e#erything wa done with, e (ecially the bringing (ile out of the wood and dri#ing them into the ground' for I made them much bigger than I needed to ha#e done" When thi wall wa fini hed, and the out ide double fenced, with a turf wall rai ed u( clo e to it, I (ercei#ed my elf that if any (eo(le were to come on hore there, they would not (ercei#e anything like a habitation' and it wa #ery well I did o, a may be ob er#ed hereafter, u(on a #ery remarkable occa ion" .uring thi time I made my round in the wood for game e#ery day when the rain (ermitted me, and made fre3uent di co#erie in the e walk of omething or other to my ad#antage' (articularly, I found a kind of wild (igeon , which build, not a wood*(igeon in a tree, but rather a hou e*(igeon , in the hole of the rock ' and taking ome young one , I endea#oured to breed them u( tame, and did o' but when they grew older they flew away, which (erha( wa at fir t for want of feeding them, for I had nothing to gi#e them' howe#er, I fre3uently found their ne t , and got their young one , which were #ery good meat" And now, in the managing my hou ehold affair , I found my elf wanting in many thing , which I thought at fir t it wa im(o ible for me to make' a , indeed, with ome of them it wa 5 for in tance, I could ne#er make a ca k to be hoo(ed" I had a mall runlet or two, a I ob er#ed before' but I could ne#er arri#e at the ca(acity of making one by them, though I (ent many week about it' I could neither (ut in the head , or 1oin the ta#e o true to one another a to make them hold water' o I ga#e that al o o#er" In the ne0t (lace, I wa at a great lo for candle ' o that a oon a e#er it wa dark, which wa generally by e#en o2clock, I wa obliged to go to bed" I remembered the lum( of bee wa0 with which I made candle in my African ad#enture' but I had none of that now' the only remedy I had wa , that when I had killed a goat I a#ed the tallow, and with a little di h made of clay, which I baked in the un, to which I

added a wick of ome oakum, I made me a lam(' and thi ga#e me light, though not a clear, teady light, like a candle" In the middle of all my labour it ha((ened that, rummaging my thing , I found a little bag which, a I hinted before, had been filled with corn for the feeding of (oultry * not for thi #oyage, but before, a I u((o e, when the hi( came from -i bon" 8he little remainder of corn that had been in the bag wa all de#oured by the rat , and I aw nothing in the bag but hu k and du t' and being willing to ha#e the bag for ome other u e ?I think it wa to (ut (owder in, when I di#ided it for fear of the lightning, or ome uch u e@, I hook the hu k of corn out of it on one ide of my fortification, under the rock" It wa a little before the great rain 1u t now mentioned that I threw thi tuff away, taking no notice, and not o much a remembering that I had thrown anything there, when, about a month after, or thereabout , I aw ome few talk of omething green hooting out of the ground, which I fancied might be ome (lant I had not een' but I wa ur(ri ed, and (erfectly a toni hed, when, after a little longer time, I aw about ten or twel#e ear come out, which were (erfect green barley, of the ame kind a our )uro(ean * nay, a our )ngli h barley" It i im(o ible to e0(re the a toni hment and confu ion of my thought on thi occa ion" I had hitherto acted u(on no religiou foundation at all' indeed, I had #ery few notion of religion in my head, nor had entertained any en e of anything that had befallen me otherwi e than a chance, or, a we lightly ay, what (lea e 4od, without o much a in3uiring into the end of <ro#idence in the e thing , or !i order in go#erning e#ent for the world" But after I aw barley grow there, in a climate which I knew wa not (ro(er for corn, and e (ecially that I knew not how it came there, it tartled me trangely, and I began to ugge t that 4od had miraculou ly cau ed !i grain to grow without any hel( of eed own, and that it wa o directed (urely for my u tenance on that wild, mi erable (lace" 8hi touched my heart a little, and brought tear out of my eye , and I began to ble my elf that uch a (rodigy of nature hould ha((en u(on my account' and thi wa the more trange to me, becau e I aw near it till, all along by the ide of the rock, ome other traggling talk , which (ro#ed to be talk of rice, and which I knew, becau e I had een it grow in Africa when I wa a hore there" I not only thought the e the (ure (roduction of <ro#idence for my u((ort, but not doubting that there wa more in the (lace, I went all o#er that (art of the i land, where I had been before, (eering in e#ery corner, and under e#ery rock, to ee for more of it, but I could not find any" At la t it occurred to my thought

that I hook a bag of chicken 2 meat out in that (lace' and then the wonder began to cea e' and I mu t confe my religiou thankfulne to 4od2 (ro#idence began to abate, too, u(on the di co#ering that all thi wa nothing but what wa common' though I ought to ha#e been a thankful for o trange and unfore een a (ro#idence a if it had been miraculou ' for it wa really the work of <ro#idence to me, that hould order or a((oint that ten or twel#e grain of corn hould remain un (oiled, when the rat had de troyed all the re t, a if it had been dro((ed from hea#en' a al o, that I hould throw it out in that (articular (lace, where, it being in the hade of a high rock, it (rang u( immediately' wherea , if I had thrown it anywhere el e at that time, it had been burnt u( and de troyed" I carefully a#ed the ear of thi corn, you may be ure, in their ea on, which wa about the end of Aune' and, laying u( e#ery corn, I re ol#ed to ow them all again, ho(ing in time to ha#e ome 3uantity ufficient to u((ly me with bread" But it wa not till the fourth year that I could allow my elf the lea t grain of thi corn to eat, and e#en then but (aringly, a I hall ay afterward , in it order' for I lo t all that I owed the fir t ea on by not ob er#ing the (ro(er time' for I owed it 1u t before the dry ea on, o that it ne#er came u( at all, at lea t not a it would ha#e done' of which in it (lace" Be ide thi barley, there were, a abo#e, twenty or thirty talk of rice, which I (re er#ed with the ame care and for the ame u e, or to the ame (ur(o e * to make me bread, or rather food' for I found way to cook it without baking, though I did that al o after ome time" But to return to my Aournal" I worked e0ce i#e hard the e three or four month to get my wall done' and the 1Bth of A(ril I clo ed it u(, contri#ing to go into it, not by a door but o#er the wall, by a ladder, that there might be no ign on the out ide of my habitation" A<$I- 16" * I fini hed the ladder' o I went u( the ladder to the to(, and then (ulled it u( after me, and let it down in the in ide" 8hi wa a com(lete enclo ure to me' for within I had room enough, and nothing could come at me from without, unle it could fir t mount my wall" 8he #ery ne0t day after thi wall wa fini hed I had almo t had all my labour o#erthrown at once, and my elf killed" 8he ca e wa thu 5 A I wa bu y in the in ide, behind my tent, 1u t at the entrance into my ca#e, I wa terribly frighted with a mo t dreadful, ur(ri ing thing indeed' for all on a udden I found the

earth come crumbling down from the roof of my ca#e, and from the edge of the hill o#er my head, and two of the (o t I had et u( in the ca#e cracked in a frightful manner" I wa heartily cared' but thought nothing of what wa really the cau e, only thinking that the to( of my ca#e wa fallen in, a ome of it had done before5 and for fear I hould be buried in it I ran forward to my ladder, and not thinking my elf afe there neither, I got o#er my wall for fear of the (iece of the hill, which I e0(ected might roll down u(on me" I had no ooner te((ed do ground, than I (lainly aw it wa a terrible earth3uake, for the ground I tood on hook three time at about eight minute 2 di tance, with three uch hock a would ha#e o#erturned the tronge t building that could be u((o ed to ha#e tood on the earth' and a great (iece of the to( of a rock which tood about half a mile from me ne0t the ea fell down with uch a terrible noi e a I ne#er heard in all my life" I (ercei#ed al o the #ery ea wa (ut into #iolent motion by it' and I belie#e the hock were tronger under the water than on the i land" I wa o much ama&ed with the thing it elf, ha#ing ne#er felt the like, nor di cour ed with any one that had, that I wa like one dead or tu(efied' and the motion of the earth made my tomach ick, like one that wa to ed at ea' but the noi e of the falling of the rock awakened me, a it were, and rou ing me from the tu(efied condition I wa in, filled me with horror' and I thought of nothing then but the hill falling u(on my tent and all my hou ehold good , and burying all at once' and thi unk my #ery oul within me a econd time" After the third hock wa o#er, and I felt no more for ome time, I began to take courage' and yet I had not heart enough to go o#er my wall again, for fear of being buried ali#e, but at till u(on the ground greatly ca t down and di con olate, not knowing what to do" All thi while I had not the lea t eriou religiou thought' nothing but the common 9-ord ha#e mercy u(on me79 and when it wa o#er that went away too" While I at thu , I found the air o#erca t and grow cloudy, a if it would rain" Soon after that the wind aro e by little and little, o that in le than half*an* hour it blew a mo t dreadful hurricane' the ea wa all on a udden co#ered o#er with foam and froth' the hore wa co#ered with the breach of the water, the tree were torn u( by the root , and a terrible torm it wa " 8hi held about three hour , and then began to abate' and in two hour more it wa 3uite calm, and began to rain #ery hard" All thi while I at u(on the ground #ery much terrified and de1ected' when on a udden it came into my thought , that the e wind and rain being the con e3uence of the earth3uake, the earth3uake it elf wa (ent and o#er, and I might #enture into my ca#e again" With thi thought

my (irit began to re#i#e' and the rain al o hel(ing to (er uade me, I went in and at down in my tent" But the rain wa o #iolent that my tent wa ready to be beaten down with it' and I wa forced to go into my ca#e, though #ery much afraid and unea y, for fear it hould fall on my head" 8hi #iolent rain forced me to a new work * #i&" to cut a hole through my new fortification, like a ink, to let the water go out, which would el e ha#e flooded my ca#e" After I had been in my ca#e for ome time, and found till no more hock of the earth3uake follow, I began to be more com(o ed" And now, to u((ort my (irit , which indeed wanted it #ery much, I went to my little tore, and took a mall u( of rum' which, howe#er, I did then and alway #ery (aringly, knowing I could ha#e no more when that wa gone" It continued raining all that night and great (art of the ne0t day, o that I could not tir abroad' but my mind being more com(o ed, I began to think of what I had be t do' concluding that if the i land wa ub1ect to the e earth3uake , there would be no li#ing for me in a ca#e, but I mu t con ider of building a little hut in an o(en (lace which I might urround with a wall, a I had done here, and o make my elf ecure from wild bea t or men' for I concluded, if I tayed where I wa , I hould certainly one time or other be buried ali#e" With the e thought , I re ol#ed to remo#e my tent from the (lace where it tood, which wa 1u t under the hanging (reci(ice of the hill' and which, if it hould be haken again, would certainly fall u(on my tent' and I (ent the two ne0t day , being the 1Gth and 2Cth of A(ril, in contri#ing where and how to remo#e my habitation" 8he fear of being wallowed u( ali#e made me that I ne#er le(t in 3uiet' and yet the a((rehen ion of lying abroad without any fence wa almo t e3ual to it' but till, when I looked about, and aw how e#erything wa (ut in order, how (lea antly concealed I wa , and how afe from danger, it made me #ery loath to remo#e" In the meantime, it occurred to me that it would re3uire a #a t deal of time for me to do thi , and that I mu t be contented to #enture where I wa , till I had formed a cam( for my elf, and had ecured it o a to remo#e to it" So with thi re olution I com(o ed my elf for a time, and re ol#ed that I would go to work with all (eed to build me a wall with (ile and cable , Fc", in a circle, a before, and et my tent u( in it when it wa fini hed' but that I would #enture to tay where I wa till it wa fini hed, and fit to remo#e" 8hi wa the 21 t" A<$I- 22" * 8he ne0t morning I begin to con ider of mean to (ut thi re ol#e into e0ecution' but I wa at a great lo about my tool " I had three large a0e , and abundance of hatchet ?for we carried the hatchet for traffic with the Indian @' but with much cho((ing and cutting knotty hard wood, they were all full of notche , and dull' and though I had a grind tone, I could not turn it and

grind my tool too" 8hi co t me a much thought a a tate man would ha#e be towed u(on a grand (oint of (olitic , or a 1udge u(on the life and death of a man" At length I contri#ed a wheel with a tring, to turn it with my foot, that I might ha#e both my hand at liberty" ;=8)" * I had ne#er een any uch thing in )ngland, or at lea t, not to take notice how it wa done, though ince I ha#e ob er#ed, it i #ery common there' be ide that, my grind tone wa #ery large and hea#y" 8hi machine co t me a full week2 work to bring it to (erfection" A<$I- 2J, 2G" * 8he e two whole day I took u( in grinding my tool , my machine for turning my grind tone (erforming #ery well" A<$I- 3C" * !a#ing (ercei#ed my bread had been low a great while, now I took a ur#ey of it, and reduced my elf to one bi cuit cake a day, which made my heart #ery hea#y" /AY 1" * In the morning, looking toward the ea ide, the tide being low, I aw omething lie on the hore bigger than ordinary, and it looked like a ca k' when I came to it, I found a mall barrel, and two or three (iece of the wreck of the hi(, which were dri#en on hore by the late hurricane' and looking toward the wreck it elf, I thought it eemed to lie higher out of the water than it u ed to do" I e0amined the barrel which wa dri#en on hore, and oon found it wa a barrel of gun(owder' but it had taken water, and the (owder wa caked a hard a a tone' howe#er, I rolled it farther on hore for the (re ent, and went on u(on the and , a near a I could to the wreck of the hi(, to look for more"

CHAPTER VI - ILL AND C NSCIENCE-STRICKEN

W!); I came down to the hi( I found it trangely remo#ed" 8he foreca tle, which lay before buried in and, wa hea#ed u( at lea t i0 feet, and the tern, which wa broke in (iece and (arted from the re t by the force of the ea, oon after I had left rummaging her, wa to ed a it were u(, and ca t on one ide' and the and wa thrown o high on that ide ne0t her tern, that wherea there wa a great (lace of water before, o that I could not come within a 3uarter of a mile of the wreck without wimming I could now walk 3uite u( to her when the tide wa out" I wa ur(ri ed with thi at fir t, but oon concluded it mu t be done by the earth3uake' and a by thi #iolence the hi( wa more broke o(en than formerly, o many thing came daily on hore, which the ea had loo ened, and which the wind and water rolled by degree to the land"

8hi wholly di#erted my thought from the de ign of remo#ing my habitation, and I bu ied my elf mightily, that day e (ecially, in earching whether I could make any way into the hi(' but I found nothing wa to be e0(ected of that kind, for all the in ide of the hi( wa choked u( with and" !owe#er, a I had learned not to de (air of anything, I re ol#ed to (ull e#erything to (iece that I could of the hi(, concluding that e#erything I could get from her would be of ome u e or other to me" /AY 3" * I began with my aw, and cut a (iece of a beam through, which I thought held ome of the u((er (art or 3uarter*deck together, and when I had cut it through, I cleared away the and a well a I could from the ide which lay highe t' but the tide coming in, I wa obliged to gi#e o#er for that time" /AY B" * I went a*fi hing, but caught not one fi h that I dur t eat of, till I wa weary of my (ort' when, 1u t going to lea#e off, I caught a young dol(hin" I had made me a long line of ome ro(e* yarn, but I had no hook ' yet I fre3uently caught fi h enough, a much a I cared to eat' all which I dried in the un, and ate them dry" /AY :" * Worked on the wreck' cut another beam a under, and brought three great fir (lank off from the deck , which I tied together, and made to float on hore when the tide of flood came on" /AY 6" * Worked on the wreck' got e#eral iron bolt out of her and other (iece of ironwork" Worked #ery hard, and came home #ery much tired, and had thought of gi#ing it o#er" /AY I" * Went to the wreck again, not with an intent to work, but found the weight of the wreck had broke it elf down, the beam being cut' that e#eral (iece of the hi( eemed to lie loo e, and the in ide of the hold lay o o(en that I could ee into it' but it wa almo t full of water and and" /AY J" * Went to the wreck, and carried an iron crow to wrench u( the deck, which lay now 3uite clear of the water or and" I wrenched o(en two (lank , and brought them on hore al o with the tide" I left the iron crow in the wreck for ne0t day" /AY G" * Went to the wreck, and with the crow made way into the body of the wreck, and felt e#eral ca k , and loo ened them with the crow, but could not break them u(" I felt al o a roll of )ngli h lead, and could tir it, but it wa too hea#y to remo#e"

/AY 1C*1B" * Went e#ery day to the wreck' and got a great many (iece of timber, and board , or (lank, and two or three hundredweight of iron" /AY 1:" * I carried two hatchet , to try if I could not cut a (iece off the roll of lead by (lacing the edge of one hatchet and dri#ing it with the other' but a it lay about a foot and a half in the water, I could not make any blow to dri#e the hatchet" /AY 16" * It had blown hard in the night, and the wreck a((eared more broken by the force of the water' but I tayed o long in the wood , to get (igeon for food, that the tide (re#ented my going to the wreck that day" /AY 1I" * I aw ome (iece of the wreck blown on hore, at a great di tance, near two mile off me, but re ol#ed to ee what they were, and found it wa a (iece of the head, but too hea#y for me to bring away" /AY 2B" * )#ery day, to thi day, I worked on the wreck' and with hard labour I loo ened ome thing o much with the crow, that the fir t flowing tide e#eral ca k floated out, and two of the eamen2 che t ' but the wind blowing from the hore, nothing came to land that day but (iece of timber, and a hog head, which had ome Bra&il (ork in it' but the alt water and the and had (oiled it" I continued thi work e#ery day to the 1:th of Aune, e0ce(t the time nece ary to get food, which I alway a((ointed, during thi (art of my em(loyment, to be when the tide wa u(, that I might be ready when it wa ebbed out' and by thi time I had got timber and (lank and ironwork enough to ha#e built a good boat, if I had known how' and al o I got, at e#eral time and in e#eral (iece , near one hundredweight of the heet lead" A>;) 16" * 4oing down to the ea ide, I found a large tortoi e or turtle" 8hi wa the fir t I had een, which, it eem , wa only my mi fortune, not any defect of the (lace, or carcity' for had I ha((ened to be on the other ide of the i land, I might ha#e had hundred of them e#ery day, a I found afterward ' but (erha( had (aid dear enough for them" A>;) 1I" * I (ent in cooking the turtle" I found in her three* core egg ' and her fle h wa to me, at that time, the mo t a#oury and (lea ant that e#er I ta ted in my life, ha#ing had no fle h, but of goat and fowl , ince I landed in thi horrid (lace" A>;) 1J" * $ained all day, and I tayed within" I thought at thi time the rain felt cold, and I wa omething chilly' which I knew wa not u ual in that latitude"

A>;) 1G" * Eery ill, and hi#ering, a if the weather had been cold" A>;) 2C" * ;o re t all night' #iolent (ain in my head, and fe#eri h" A>;) 21" * Eery ill' frighted almo t to death with the a((rehen ion of my ad condition * to be ick, and no hel(" <rayed to 4od, for the fir t time ince the torm off !ull, but carce knew what I aid, or why, my thought being all confu ed" A>;) 22" * A little better' but under dreadful a((rehen ion of ickne " A>;) 22" * Eery bad again' cold and hi#ering, and then a #iolent headache" A>;) 2B" * /uch better" A>;) 2:" * An ague #ery #iolent' the fit held me e#en hour ' cold fit and hot, with faint weat after it" A>;) 26" * Better' and ha#ing no #ictual to eat, took my gun, but found my elf #ery weak" !owe#er, I killed a he*goat, and with much difficulty got it home, and broiled ome of it, and ate, I would fain ha#e tewed it, and made ome broth, but had no (ot" A>;) 2I" * 8he ague again o #iolent that I lay a*bed all day, and neither ate nor drank" I wa ready to (eri h for thir t' but o weak, I had not trength to tand u(, or to get my elf any water to drink" <rayed to 4od again, but wa light*headed' and when I wa not, I wa o ignorant that I knew not what to ay' only I lay and cried, 9-ord, look u(on me7 -ord, (ity me7 -ord, ha#e mercy u(on me79 I u((o e I did nothing el e for two or three hour ' till, the fit wearing off, I fell a lee(, and did not wake till far in the night" When I awoke, I found my elf much refre hed, but weak, and e0ceeding thir ty" !owe#er, a I had no water in my habitation, I wa forced to lie till morning, and went to lee( again" In thi econd lee( I had thi terrible dream5 I thought that I wa itting on the ground, on the out ide of my wall, where I at when the torm blew after the earth3uake, and that I aw a man de cend from a great black cloud, in a bright flame of fire, and light u(on the ground" !e wa all o#er a bright a a flame, o that I could but 1u t bear to look toward him' hi countenance wa mo t ine0(re ibly dreadful, im(o ible for word to de cribe" When he te((ed u(on the ground with hi feet, I thought the earth trembled, 1u t a it had done before in the earth3uake, and all the air looked, to my a((rehen ion, a if it had been filled with fla he of fire" !e wa no ooner landed u(on the earth, but he mo#ed forward toward me, with a long (ear or

wea(on in hi hand, to kill me' and when he came to a ri ing ground, at ome di tance, he (oke to me * or I heard a #oice o terrible that it i im(o ible to e0(re the terror of it" All that I can ay I under tood wa thi 5 9Seeing all the e thing ha#e not brought thee to re(entance, now thou halt die'9 at which word , I thought he lifted u( the (ear that wa in hi hand to kill me" ;o one that hall e#er read thi account will e0(ect that I hould be able to de cribe the horror of my oul at thi terrible #i ion" I mean, that e#en while it wa a dream, I e#en dreamed of tho e horror " ;or i it any more (o ible to de cribe the im(re ion that remained u(on my mind when I awaked, and found it wa but a dream" I had, ala 7 no di#ine knowledge" What I had recei#ed by the good in truction of my father wa then worn out by an uninterru(ted erie , for eight year , of eafaring wickedne , and a con tant con#er ation with none but uch a were, like my elf, wicked and (rofane to the la t degree" I do not remember that I had, in all that time, one thought that o much a tended either to looking u(ward toward 4od, or inward toward a reflection u(on my own way ' but a certain tu(idity of oul, without de ire of good, or con cience of e#il, had entirely o#erwhelmed me' and I wa all that the mo t hardened, unthinking, wicked creature among our common ailor can be u((o ed to be' not ha#ing the lea t en e, either of the fear of 4od in danger, or of thankfulne to 4od in deli#erance" In the relating what i already (a t of my tory, thi will be the more ea ily belie#ed when I hall add, that through all the #ariety of mi erie that had to thi day befallen me, I ne#er had o much a one thought of it being the hand of 4od, or that it wa a 1u t (uni hment for my in * my rebelliou beha#iour again t my father * or my (re ent in , which were great * or o much a a (uni hment for the general cour e of my wicked life" When I wa on the de (erate e0(edition on the de ert hore of Africa, I ne#er had o much a one thought of what would become of me, or one wi h to 4od to direct me whither I hould go, or to kee( me from the danger which a((arently urrounded me, a well from #oraciou creature a cruel a#age " But I wa merely thoughtle of a 4od or a <ro#idence, acted like a mere brute, from the (rinci(le of nature, and by the dictate of common en e only, and, indeed, hardly that" When I wa deli#ered and taken u( at ea by the <ortugal ca(tain, well u ed, and dealt 1u tly and honourably with, a well a charitably, I had not the lea t thankfulne in my thought " When, again, I wa hi(wrecked, ruined, and in danger of drowning on thi i land, I wa a far from remor e, or looking on it a a

1udgment" I only aid to my elf often, that I wa an unfortunate dog, and born to be alway mi erable" It i true, when I got on hore fir t here, and found all my hi(2 crew drowned and my elf (ared, I wa ur(ri ed with a kind of ec ta y, and ome tran (ort of oul, which, had the grace of 4od a i ted, might ha#e come u( to true thankfulne ' but it ended where it began, in a mere common flight of 1oy, or, a I may ay, being glad I wa ali#e, without the lea t reflection u(on the di tingui hed goodne of the hand which had (re er#ed me, and had ingled me out to be (re er#ed when all the re t were de troyed, or an in3uiry why <ro#idence had been thu merciful unto me" )#en 1u t the ame common ort of 1oy which eamen generally ha#e, after they are got afe a hore from a hi(wreck, which they drown all in the ne0t bowl of (unch, and forget almo t a oon a it i o#er' and all the re t of my life wa like it" )#en when I wa afterward , on due con ideration, made en ible of my condition, how I wa ca t on thi dreadful (lace, out of the reach of human kind, out of all ho(e of relief, or (ro (ect of redem(tion, a oon a I aw but a (ro (ect of li#ing and that I hould not tar#e and (eri h for hunger, all the en e of my affliction wore off' and I began to be #ery ea y, a((lied my elf to the work (ro(er for my (re er#ation and u((ly, and wa far enough from being afflicted at my condition, a a 1udgment from hea#en, or a the hand of 4od again t me5 the e were thought which #ery eldom entered my head" 8he growing u( of the corn, a i hinted in my Aournal, had at fir t ome little influence u(on me, and began to affect me with eriou ne , a long a I thought it had omething miraculou in it' but a oon a e#er that (art of the thought wa remo#ed, all the im(re ion that wa rai ed from it wore off al o, a I ha#e noted already" )#en the earth3uake, though nothing could be more terrible in it nature, or more immediately directing to the in#i ible <ower which alone direct uch thing , yet no ooner wa the fir t fright o#er, but the im(re ion it had made went off al o" I had no more en e of 4od or !i 1udgment * much le of the (re ent affliction of my circum tance being from !i hand * than if I had been in the mo t (ro (erou condition of life" But now, when I began to be ick, and a lei urely #iew of the mi erie of death came to (lace it elf before me' when my (irit began to ink under the burden of a trong di tem(er, and nature wa e0hau ted with the #iolence of the fe#er' con cience, that had le(t o long, began to awake, and I began to re(roach my elf with my (a t life, in which I had o e#idently, by uncommon wickedne , (ro#oked the 1u tice of 4od to lay me under uncommon troke , and to deal with me in o #indicti#e a manner" 8he e reflection o((re ed me for the econd or third day of my di tem(er' and in the #iolence, a well of the

fe#er a of the dreadful re(roache of my con cience, e0torted ome word from me like (raying to 4od, though I cannot ay they were either a (rayer attended with de ire or with ho(e 5 it wa rather the #oice of mere fright and di tre " /y thought were confu ed, the con#iction great u(on my mind, and the horror of dying in uch a mi erable condition rai ed #a(our into my head with the mere a((rehen ion ' and in the e hurrie of my oul I knew not what my tongue might e0(re " But it wa rather e0clamation, uch a , 9-ord, what a mi erable creature am I7 If I hould be ick, I hall certainly die for want of hel(' and what will become of me79 8hen the tear bur t out of my eye , and I could ay no more for a good while" In thi inter#al the good ad#ice of my father came to my mind, and (re ently hi (rediction, which I mentioned at the beginning of thi tory * #i&" that if I did take thi fooli h te(, 4od would not ble me, and I would ha#e lei ure hereafter to reflect u(on ha#ing neglected hi coun el when there might be none to a i t in my reco#ery" 9;ow,9 aid I, aloud, 9my dear father2 word are come to (a ' 4od2 1u tice ha o#ertaken me, and I ha#e none to hel( or hear me" I re1ected the #oice of <ro#idence, which had mercifully (ut me in a (o ture or tation of life wherein I might ha#e been ha((y and ea y' but I would neither ee it my elf nor learn to know the ble ing of it from my (arent " I left them to mourn o#er my folly, and now I am left to mourn under the con e3uence of it" I abu ed their hel( and a i tance, who would ha#e lifted me in the world, and would ha#e made e#erything ea y to me' and now I ha#e difficultie to truggle with, too great for e#en nature it elf to u((ort, and no a i tance, no hel(, no comfort, no ad#ice"9 8hen I cried out, 9-ord, be my hel(, for I am in great di tre "9 8hi wa the fir t (rayer, if I may call it o, that I had made for many year " But to return to my Aournal" A>;) 2J" * !a#ing been omewhat refre hed with the lee( I had had, and the fit being entirely off, I got u(' and though the fright and terror of my dream wa #ery great, yet I con idered that the fit of the ague would return again the ne0t day, and now wa my time to get omething to refre h and u((ort my elf when I hould be ill' and the fir t thing I did, I filled a large 3uare ca e*bottle with water, and et it u(on my table, in reach of my bed' and to take off the chill or agui h di (o ition of the water, I (ut about a 3uarter of a (int of rum into it, and mi0ed them together" 8hen I got me a (iece of the goat2 fle h and broiled it on the coal , but could eat #ery little" I walked about, but wa #ery weak, and withal #ery ad and hea#y*hearted under a en e of my mi erable condition, dreading, the return of my di tem(er the ne0t day" At night I made my u((er of three of the turtle2 egg , which I roa ted in the a he , and ate, a we call it, in the hell, and thi wa the fir t bit of meat I had e#er a ked 4od2

ble ing to, that I could remember, in my whole life" After I had eaten I tried to walk, but found my elf o weak that I could hardly carry a gun, for I ne#er went out without that' o I went but a little way, and at down u(on the ground, looking out u(on the ea, which wa 1u t before me, and #ery calm and mooth" A I at here ome uch thought a the e occurred to me5 What i thi earth and ea, of which I ha#e een o much6 Whence i it (roduced6 And what am I, and all the other creature wild and tame, human and brutal6 Whence are we6 Sure we are all made by ome ecret <ower, who formed the earth and ea, the air and ky" And who i that6 8hen it followed mo t naturally, it i 4od that ha made all" Well, but then it came on trangely, if 4od ha made all the e thing , !e guide and go#ern them all, and all thing that concern them' for the <ower that could make all thing mu t certainly ha#e (ower to guide and direct them" If o, nothing can ha((en in the great circuit of !i work , either without !i knowledge or a((ointment" And if nothing ha((en without !i knowledge, !e know that I am here, and am in thi dreadful condition' and if nothing ha((en without !i a((ointment, !e ha a((ointed all thi to befall me" ;othing occurred to my thought to contradict any of the e conclu ion , and therefore it re ted u(on me with the greater force, that it mu t need be that 4od had a((ointed all thi to befall me' that I wa brought into thi mi erable circum tance by !i direction, !e ha#ing the ole (ower, not of me only, but of e#erything that ha((ened in the world" Immediately it followed5 Why ha 4od done thi to me6 What ha#e I done to be thu u ed6 /y con cience (re ently checked me in that in3uiry, a if I had bla (hemed, and methought it (oke to me like a #oice5 9Wretch7 do t 8!=> a k what thou ha t done6 -ook back u(on a dreadful mi (ent life, and a k thy elf what thou ha t ;=8 done6 A k, why i it that thou wert not long ago de troyed6 Why wert thou not drowned in Yarmouth $oad ' killed in the fight when the hi( wa taken by the Sallee man*of*war' de#oured by the wild bea t on the coa t of Africa' or drowned !)$), when all the crew (eri hed but thy elf6 .o t 8!=> a k, what ha#e I done69 I wa truck dumb with the e reflection , a one a toni hed, and had not a word to ay * no, not to an wer to my elf, but ro e u( (en i#e and ad, walked back to my retreat, and went u( o#er my wall, a if I had been going to bed' but my thought were adly di turbed, and I had no inclination to lee(' o I at down in my chair, and lighted my lam(, for it began to be dark" ;ow, a the a((rehen ion of the return of my di tem(er terrified me #ery much, it occurred to my thought that the Bra&ilian take no (hy ic but their tobacco for almo t all di tem(er , and I had a (iece of a roll of tobacco in one of the che t , which wa 3uite cured, and ome al o that wa green, and not 3uite cured"

I went, directed by !ea#en no doubt' for in thi che t I found a cure both for oul and body" I o(ened the che t, and found what I looked for, the tobacco' and a the few book I had a#ed lay there too, I took out one of the Bible which I mentioned before, and which to thi time I had not found lei ure or inclination to look into" I ay, I took it out, and brought both that and the tobacco with me to the table" What u e to make of the tobacco I knew not, in my di tem(er, or whether it wa good for it or no5 but I tried e#eral e0(eriment with it, a if I wa re ol#ed it hould hit one way or other" I fir t took a (iece of leaf, and chewed it in my mouth, which, indeed, at fir t almo t tu(efied my brain, the tobacco being green and trong, and that I had not been much u ed to" 8hen I took ome and tee(ed it an hour or two in ome rum, and re ol#ed to take a do e of it when I lay down' and la tly", I burnt ome u(on a (an of coal , and held my no e clo e o#er the moke of it a long a I could bear it, a well for the heat a almo t for uffocation" In the inter#al of thi o(eration I took u( the Bible and began to read' but my head wa too much di turbed with the tobacco to bear reading, at lea t at that time' only, ha#ing o(ened the book ca ually, the fir t word that occurred to me were the e, 9+all on /e in the day of trouble, and I will deli#er thee, and thou halt glorify /e"9 8he e word were #ery a(t to my ca e, and made ome im(re ion u(on my thought at the time of reading them, though not o much a they did afterward ' for, a for being .)-IE)$)., the word had no ound, a I may ay, to me' the thing wa o remote, o im(o ible in my a((rehen ion of thing , that I began to ay, a the children of I rael did when they were (romi ed fle h to eat, 9+an 4od (read a table in the wilderne 69 o I began to ay, 9+an 4od !im elf deli#er me from thi (lace69 And a it wa not for many year that any ho(e a((eared, thi (re#ailed #ery often u(on my thought ' but, howe#er, the word made a great im(re ion u(on me, and I mu ed u(on them #ery often" It grew now late, and the tobacco had, a I aid, do&ed my head o much that I inclined to lee(' o I left my lam( burning in the ca#e, le t I hould want anything in the night, and went to bed" But before I lay down, I did what I ne#er had done in all my life * I kneeled down, and (rayed to 4od to fulfil the (romi e to me, that if I called u(on !im in the day of trouble, !e would deli#er me" After my broken and im(erfect (rayer wa o#er, I drank the rum in which I had tee(ed the tobacco, which wa o trong and rank of the tobacco that I could carcely get it down' immediately u(on thi I went to bed" I found (re ently it flew u( into my head #iolently' but I fell into a ound lee(, and waked no more till, by the un, it mu t nece arily be near three o2clock in the afternoon the ne0t day * nay, to thi hour I am (artly of o(inion that I le(t all the ne0t day and night, and till almo t three the day after' for otherwi e I know not how I hould lo e a day out of my reckoning in the day of the week, a it a((eared ome year after I had done' for if I had lo t it by cro ing and

recro ing the line, I hould ha#e lo t more than one day' but certainly I lo t a day in my account, and ne#er knew which way" Be that, howe#er, one way or the other, when I awaked I found my elf e0ceedingly refre hed, and my (irit li#ely and cheerful' when I got u( I wa tronger than I wa the day before, and my tomach better, for I wa hungry' and, in hort, I had no fit the ne0t day, but continued much altered for the better" 8hi wa the 2Gth" 8he 3Cth wa my well day, of cour e, and I went abroad with my gun, but did not care to tra#el too far" I killed a ea*fowl or two, omething like a brandgoo e, and brought them home, but wa not #ery forward to eat them' o I ate ome more of the turtle2 egg , which were #ery good" 8hi e#ening I renewed the medicine, which I had u((o ed did me good the day before * the tobacco tee(ed in rum' only I did not take o much a before, nor did I chew any of the leaf, or hold my head o#er the moke' howe#er, I wa not o well the ne0t day, which wa the fir t of Auly, a I ho(ed I hould ha#e been' for I had a little (ice of the cold fit, but it wa not much" A>-Y 2" * I renewed the medicine all the three way ' and do ed my elf with it a at fir t, and doubled the 3uantity which I drank" A>-Y 3" * I mi ed the fit for good and all, though I did not reco#er my full trength for ome week after" While I wa thu gathering trength, my thought ran e0ceedingly u(on thi Scri(ture, 9I will deli#er thee9' and the im(o ibility of my deli#erance lay much u(on my mind, in bar of my e#er e0(ecting it' but a I wa di couraging my elf with uch thought , it occurred to my mind that I (ored o much u(on my deli#erance from the main affliction, that I di regarded the deli#erance I had recei#ed, and I wa a it were made to a k my elf uch 3ue tion a the e * #i&" !a#e I not been deli#ered, and wonderfully too, from ickne * from the mo t di tre ed condition that could be, and that wa o frightful to me6 and what notice had I taken of it6 !ad I done my (art6 4od had deli#ered me, but I had not glorified !im * that i to ay, I had not owned and been thankful for that a a deli#erance' and how could I e0(ect greater deli#erance6 8hi touched my heart #ery much' and immediately I knelt down and ga#e 4od thank aloud for my reco#ery from my ickne " A>-Y B" * In the morning I took the Bible' and beginning at the ;ew 8e tament, I began eriou ly to read it, and im(o ed u(on my elf to read a while e#ery morning and e#ery night' not tying my elf to the number of cha(ter , but long a my thought hould engage me" It wa not long after I et eriou ly to thi work till I found my heart more dee(ly and incerely affected with the wickedne of my (a t life" 8he im(re ion of my dream re#i#ed' and

the word , 9All the e thing ha#e not brought thee to re(entance,9 ran eriou ly through my thought " I wa earne tly begging of 4od to gi#e me re(entance, when it ha((ened (ro#identially, the #ery day, that, reading the Scri(ture, I came to the e word 5 9!e i e0alted a <rince and a Sa#iour, to gi#e re(entance and to gi#e remi ion"9 I threw down the book' and with my heart a well a my hand lifted u( to hea#en, in a kind of ec ta y of 1oy, I cried out aloud, 9Ae u , thou on of .a#id7 Ae u , thou e0alted <rince and Sa#iour7 gi#e me re(entance79 8hi wa the fir t time I could ay, in the true en e of the word , that I (rayed in all my life' for now I (rayed with a en e of my condition, and a true Scri(ture #iew of ho(e, founded on the encouragement of the Word of 4od' and from thi time, I may ay, I began to ho(e that 4od would hear me" ;ow I began to con true the word mentioned abo#e, 9+all on /e, and I will deli#er thee,9 in a different en e from what I had e#er done before' for then I had no notion of anything being called .)-IE)$A;+), but my being deli#ered from the ca(ti#ity I wa in' for though I wa indeed at large in the (lace, yet the i land wa certainly a (ri on to me, and that in the wor e en e in the world" But now I learned to take it in another en e5 now I looked back u(on my (a t life with uch horror, and my in a((eared o dreadful, that my oul ought nothing of 4od but deli#erance from the load of guilt that bore down all my comfort" A for my olitary life, it wa nothing" I did not o much a (ray to be deli#ered from it or think of it' it wa all of no con ideration in com(ari on to thi " And I add thi (art here, to hint to whoe#er hall read it, that whene#er they come to a true en e of thing , they will find deli#erance from in a much greater ble ing than deli#erance from affliction" But, lea#ing thi (art, I return to my Aournal" /y condition began now to be, though not le mi erable a to my way of li#ing, yet much ea ier to my mind5 and my thought being directed, by a con tant reading the Scri(ture and (raying to 4od, to thing of a higher nature, I had a great deal of comfort within, which till now I knew nothing of' al o, my health and trength returned, I be tirred my elf to furni h my elf with e#erything that I wanted, and make my way of li#ing a regular a I could" ,rom the Bth of Auly to the 1Bth I wa chiefly em(loyed in walking about with my gun in my hand, a little and a little at a time, a a man that wa gathering u( hi trength after a fit of ickne ' for it i hardly to be imagined how low I wa , and to what weakne I wa reduced" 8he a((lication which I made u e of wa (erfectly new, and (erha( which had ne#er cured an ague before' neither can I recommend it to any to (racti e, by thi e0(eriment5 and though it did carry off the fit, yet it rather contributed to weakening me' for I had fre3uent con#ul ion

in my ner#e and limb for ome time" I learned from it al o thi , in (articular, that being abroad in the rainy ea on wa the mo t (erniciou thing to my health that could be, e (ecially in tho e rain which came attended with torm and hurricane of wind' for a the rain which came in the dry ea on wa almo t alway accom(anied with uch torm , o I found that rain wa much more dangerou than the rain which fell in Se(tember and =ctober"

CHAPTER VII - A$RIC"LT"RAL E%PERIENCE

I !A. now been in thi unha((y i land abo#e ten month " All (o ibility of deli#erance from thi condition eemed to be entirely taken from me' and I firmly belie#e that no human ha(e had e#er et foot u(on that (lace" !a#ing now ecured my habitation, a I thought, fully to my mind, I had a great de ire to make a more (erfect di co#ery of the i land, and to ee what other (roduction I might find, which I yet knew nothing of" It wa on the 1:th of Auly that I began to take a more (articular ur#ey of the i land it elf" I went u( the creek fir t, where, a I hinted, I brought my raft on hore" I found after I came about two mile u(, that the tide did not flow any higher, and that it wa no more than a little brook of running water, #ery fre h and good' but thi being the dry ea on, there wa hardly any water in ome (art of it * at lea t not enough to run in any tream, o a it could be (ercei#ed" =n the bank of thi brook I found many (lea ant a#annah or meadow , (lain, mooth, and co#ered with gra ' and on the ri ing (art of them, ne0t to the higher ground , where the water, a might be u((o ed, ne#er o#erflowed, I found a great deal of tobacco, green, and growing to a great and #ery trong talk" 8here were di#er other (lant , which I had no notion of or under tanding about, that might, (erha( , ha#e #irtue of their own, which I could not find out" I earched for the ca a#a root, which the Indian , in all that climate, make their bread of, but I could find none" I aw large (lant of aloe , but did not under tand them" I aw e#eral ugar*cane , but wild, and, for want of culti#ation, im(erfect" I contented my elf with the e di co#erie for thi time, and came back, mu ing with my elf what cour e I might take to know the #irtue and goodne of any of the fruit or (lant which I hould di co#er, but could bring it to no conclu ion' for, in hort, I had made o little ob er#ation while I wa in the Bra&il , that I knew little of the (lant in the field' at lea t, #ery little that might er#e to any (ur(o e now in my di tre "

8he ne0t day, the i0teenth, I went u( the ame way again' and after going omething further than I had gone the day before, I found the brook and the a#annah cea e, and the country become more woody than before" In thi (art I found different fruit , and (articularly I found melon u(on the ground, in great abundance, and gra(e u(on the tree " 8he #ine had (read, indeed, o#er the tree , and the clu ter of gra(e were 1u t now in their (rime, #ery ri(e and rich" 8hi wa a ur(ri ing di co#ery, and I wa e0ceeding glad of them' but I wa warned by my e0(erience to eat (aringly of them' remembering that when I wa a hore in Barbary, the eating of gra(e killed e#eral of our )ngli hmen, who were la#e there, by throwing them into flu0e and fe#er " But I found an e0cellent u e for the e gra(e ' and that wa , to cure or dry them in the un, and kee( them a dried gra(e or rai in are ke(t, which I thought would be, a indeed they were, whole ome and agreeable to eat when no gra(e could be had" I (ent all that e#ening there, and went not back to my habitation' which, by the way, wa the fir t night, a I might ay, I had lain from home" In the night, I took my fir t contri#ance, and got u( in a tree, where I le(t well' and the ne0t morning (roceeded u(on my di co#ery' tra#elling nearly four mile , a I might 1udge by the length of the #alley, kee(ing till due north, with a ridge of hill on the outh and north ide of me" At the end of thi march I came to an o(ening where the country eemed to de cend to the we t' and a little (ring of fre h water, which i ued out of the ide of the hill by me, ran the other way, that i , due ea t' and the country a((eared o fre h, o green, o flouri hing, e#erything being in a con tant #erdure or flouri h of (ring that it looked like a (lanted garden" I de cended a little on the ide of that deliciou #ale, ur#eying it with a ecret kind of (lea ure, though mi0ed with my other afflicting thought , to think that thi wa all my own' that I wa king and lord of all thi country indefen ibly, and had a right of (o e ion' and if I could con#ey it, I might ha#e it in inheritance a com(letely a any lord of a manor in )ngland" I aw here abundance of cocoa tree , orange, and lemon, and citron tree ' but all wild, and #ery few bearing any fruit, at lea t not then" !owe#er, the green lime that I gathered were not only (lea ant to eat, but #ery whole ome' and I mi0ed their 1uice afterward with water, which made it #ery whole ome, and #ery cool and refre hing" I found now I had bu ine enough to gather and carry home' and I re ol#ed to lay u( a tore a well of gra(e a lime and lemon , to furni h my elf for the wet ea on, which I knew wa a((roaching" In order to do thi , I gathered a great hea( of gra(e in one (lace, a le er hea( in another (lace, and a great (arcel of lime and lemon in another (lace' and taking a few of each with me, I tra#elled homeward ' re ol#ing to come again, and bring a bag or ack, or what I could make, to carry the re t home" Accordingly, ha#ing (ent

three day in thi 1ourney, I came home ? o I mu t now call my tent and my ca#e@' but before I got thither the gra(e were (oiled' the richne of the fruit and the weight of the 1uice ha#ing broken them and brui ed them, they were good for little or nothing' a to the lime , they were good, but I could bring but a few" 8he ne0t day, being the nineteenth, I went back, ha#ing made me two mall bag to bring home my har#e t' but I wa ur(ri ed, when coming to my hea( of gra(e , which were o rich and fine when I gathered them, to find them all (read about, trod to (iece , and dragged about, ome here, ome there, and abundance eaten and de#oured" By thi I concluded there were ome wild creature thereabout , which had done thi ' but what they were I knew not" !owe#er, a I found there wa no laying them u( on hea( , and no carrying them away in a ack, but that one way they would be de troyed, and the other way they would be cru hed with their own weight, I took another cour e' for I gathered a large 3uantity of the gra(e , and hung them tree , that they might cure and dry in the un' and a for the lime and lemon , I carried a many back a I could well tand under" When I came home from thi 1ourney, I contem(lated with great (lea ure the fruitfulne of that #alley, and the (lea antne of the ituation' the ecurity from torm on that ide of the water, and the wood5 and concluded that I had (itched u(on a (lace to fi0 my abode which wa by far the wor t (art of the country" >(on the whole, I began to con ider of remo#ing my habitation, and looking out for a (lace e3ually afe a where now I wa ituate, if (o ible, in that (lea ant, fruitful (art of the i land" 8hi thought ran long in my head, and I wa e0ceeding fond of it for ome time, the (lea antne of the (lace tem(ting me' but when I came to a nearer #iew of it, I con idered that I wa now by the ea ide, where it wa at lea t (o ible that omething might ha((en to my ad#antage, and, by the ame ill fate that brought me hither might bring ome other unha((y wretche to the ame (lace' and though it wa carce (robable that any uch thing hould e#er ha((en, yet to enclo e my elf among the hill and wood in the centre of the i land wa to antici(ate my bondage, and to render uch an affair not only im(robable, but im(o ible' and that therefore I ought not by any mean to remo#e" !owe#er, I wa o enamoured of thi (lace, that I (ent much of my time there for the whole of the remaining (art of the month of Auly' and though u(on econd thought , I re ol#ed not to remo#e, yet I built me a little kind of a bower, and urrounded it at a di tance with a trong fence, being a double hedge, a high a I could reach, well taked and filled between with bru hwood' and here I lay

#ery ecure, ometime two or three night together' alway going o#er it with a ladder' o that I fancied now I had my country hou e and my ea* coa t hou e' and thi work took me u( to the beginning of Augu t" I had but newly fini hed my fence, and began to en1oy my labour, when the rain came on, and made me tick clo e to my fir t habitation' for though I had made me a tent like the other, with a (iece of a ail, and (read it #ery well, yet I had not the helter of a hill to kee( me from torm , nor a ca#e behind me to retreat into when the rain were e0traordinary" About the beginning of Augu t, a I aid, I had fini hed my bower, and began to en1oy my elf" 8he 3rd of Augu t, I found the gra(e I had hung u( (erfectly dried, and, indeed, were e0cellent good rai in of the un' o I began to take them down from the tree , and it wa #ery ha((y that I did o, for the rain which followed would ha#e (oiled them, and I had lo t the be t (art of my winter food' for I had abo#e two hundred large bunche of them" ;o ooner had I taken them all down, and carried the mo t of them home to my ca#e, than it began to rain' and from hence, which wa the 1Bth of Augu t, it rained, more or le , e#ery day till the middle of =ctober' and ometime o #iolently, that I could not tir out of my ca#e for e#eral day " In thi ea on I wa much ur(ri ed with the increa e of my family' I had been concerned for the lo of one of my cat , who ran away from me, or, a I thought, had been dead, and I heard no more tiding of her till, to my a toni hment, he came home about the end of Augu t with three kitten " 8hi wa the more trange to me becau e, though I had killed a wild cat, a I called it, with my gun, yet I thought it wa 3uite a different kind from our )uro(ean cat ' but the young cat were the ame kind of hou e*breed a the old one' and both my cat being female , I thought it #ery trange" But from the e three cat I afterward came to be o (e tered with cat that I wa forced to kill them like #ermin or wild bea t , and to dri#e them from my hou e a much a (o ible" ,rom the 1Bth of Augu t to the 26th, ince ant rain, o that I could not tir, and wa now #ery careful not to be much wet" In thi confinement, I began to be traitened for food5 but #enturing out twice, I one day killed a goat' and the la t day, which wa the 26th, found a #ery large tortoi e, which wa a treat to me, and my food wa regulated thu 5 I ate a bunch of rai in for my breakfa t' a (iece of the goat2 fle h, or of the turtle, for my dinner, broiled * for, to my great mi fortune, I had no #e el to boil or tew anything' and two or three of the turtle2 egg for my u((er"

.uring thi confinement in my co#er by the rain, I worked daily two or three hour at enlarging my ca#e, and by degree worked it on toward one ide, till I came to the out ide of the hill, and made a door or way out, which came beyond my fence or wall' and o I came in and out thi way" But I wa not (erfectly ea y at lying o o(en' for, a I had managed my elf before, I wa in a (erfect enclo ure' wherea now I thought I lay e0(o ed, and o(en for anything to come in u(on me' and yet I could not (ercei#e that there wa any li#ing thing to fear, the bigge t creature that I had yet een u(on the i land being a goat" S)<8" 3C" * I wa now come to the unha((y anni#er ary of my landing" I ca t u( the notche on my (o t, and found I had been on hore three hundred and i0ty*fi#e day " I ke(t thi day a a olemn fa t, etting it a(art for religiou e0erci e, (ro trating my elf on the ground with the mo t eriou humiliation, confe ing my in to 4od, acknowledging !i righteou 1udgment u(on me, and (raying to !im to ha#e mercy on me through Ae u +hri t' and not ha#ing ta ted the lea t refre hment for twel#e hour , e#en till the going down of the un, I then ate a bi cuit*cake and a bunch of gra(e , and went to bed, fini hing the day a I began it" I had all thi time ob er#ed no Sabbath day' for a at fir t I had no en e of religion u(on my mind, I had, after ome time, omitted to di tingui h the week , by making a longer notch than ordinary for the Sabbath day, and o did not really know what any of the day were' but now, ha#ing ca t u( the day a abo#e, I found I had been there a year' o I di#ided it into week , and et a(art e#ery e#enth day for a Sabbath' though I found at the end of my account I had lo t a day or two in my reckoning" A little after thi , my ink began to fail me, and o I contented my elf to u e it more (aringly, and to write down only the mo t remarkable e#ent of my life, without continuing a daily memorandum of other thing " 8he rainy ea on and the dry ea on began now to a((ear regular to me, and I learned to di#ide them o a to (ro#ide for them accordingly' but I bought all my e0(erience before I had it, and thi I am going to relate wa one of the mo t di couraging e0(eriment that I made" I ha#e mentioned that I had a#ed the few ear of barley and rice, which I had o ur(ri ingly found (ring u(, a I thought, of them el#e , and I belie#e there were about thirty talk of rice, and about twenty of barley' and now I thought it a (ro(er time to ow it, after the rain , the un being in it outhern (o ition, going from me" Accordingly, I dug u( a (iece of ground a well a I could with my wooden (ade, and di#iding it into two (art , I owed my grain' but a I wa owing, it ca ually occurred to my thought that I would not ow it all at fir t, becau e I did not know when wa the (ro(er time for it, o I owed about

two*third of the eed, lea#ing about a handful of each" It wa a great comfort to me afterward that I did o, for not one grain of what I owed thi time came to anything5 for the dry month following, the earth ha#ing had no rain after the eed wa own, it had no moi ture to a i t it growth, and ne#er came u( at all till the wet ea on had come again, and then it grew a if it had been but newly own" ,inding my fir t eed did not grow, which I ea ily imagined wa by the drought, I ought for a moi ter (iece of ground to make another trial in, and I dug u( a (iece of ground near my new bower, and owed the re t of my eed in ,ebruary, a little before the #ernal e3uino0' and thi ha#ing the rainy month of /arch and A(ril to water it, (rung u( #ery (lea antly, and yielded a #ery good cro(' but ha#ing (art of the eed left only, and not daring to ow all that I had, I had but a mall 3uantity at la t, my whole cro( not amounting to abo#e half a (eck of each kind" But by thi e0(eriment I wa made ma ter of my bu ine , and knew e0actly when the (ro(er ea on wa to ow, and that I might e0(ect two eed*time and two har#e t e#ery year" While thi corn wa growing I made a little di co#ery, which wa of u e to me afterward " A oon a the rain were o#er, and the weather began to ettle, which wa about the month of ;o#ember, I made a #i it u( the country to my bower, where, though I had not been ome month , yet I found all thing 1u t a I left them" 8he circle or double hedge that I had made wa not only firm and entire, but the take which I had cut out of ome tree that grew thereabout were all hot out and grown with long branche , a much a a willow*tree u ually hoot the fir t year after lo((ing it head" I could not tell what tree to call it that the e take were cut from" I wa ur(ri ed, and yet #ery well (lea ed, to ee the young tree grow' and I (runed them, and led them u( to grow a much alike a I could' and it i carce credible how beautiful a figure they grew into in three year ' o that though the hedge made a circle of about twenty*fi#e yard in diameter, yet the tree , for uch I might now call them, oon co#ered it, and it wa a com(lete hade, ufficient to lodge under all the dry ea on" 8hi made me re ol#e to cut ome more take , and make me a hedge like thi , in a emi*circle round my wall ?I mean that of my fir t dwelling@, which I did' and (lacing the tree or take in a double row, at about eight yard di tance from my fir t fence, they grew (re ently, and were at fir t a fine co#er to my habitation, and afterward er#ed for a defence al o, a I hall ob er#e in it order" I found now that the ea on of the year might generally be di#ided, not into ummer and winter, a in )uro(e, but into the rainy ea on and the dry ea on , which were generally thu 5* 8he half of ,ebruary, the whole of /arch, and the half of A(ril * rainy, the un being then on or near the e3uino0"

8he half of A(ril, the whole of /ay, Aune, and Auly, and the half of Augu t * dry, the un being then to the north of the line" 8he half of Augu t, the whole of Se(tember, and the half of =ctober
rainy, the un being then come back"

8he half of =ctober, the whole of ;o#ember, .ecember, and Aanuary, and the half of ,ebruary * dry, the un being then to the outh of the line" 8he rainy ea on ometime held longer or horter a the wind ha((ened to blow, but thi wa the general ob er#ation I made" After I had found by e0(erience the ill con e3uence of being abroad in the rain, I took care to furni h my elf with (ro#i ion beforehand, that I might not be obliged to go out, and I at within door a much a (o ible during the wet month " 8hi time I found much em(loyment, and #ery uitable al o to the time, for I found great occa ion for many thing which I had no way to furni h my elf with but by hard labour and con tant a((lication' (articularly I tried many way to make my elf a ba ket, but all the twig I could get for the (ur(o e (ro#ed o brittle that they would do nothing" It (ro#ed of e0cellent ad#antage to me now, that when I wa a boy, I u ed to take great delight in tanding at a ba ket*maker2 , in the town where my father li#ed, to ee them make their wicker*ware' and being, a boy u ually are, #ery officiou to hel(, and a great ob er#er of the manner in which they worked tho e thing , and ometime lending a hand, I had by the e mean full knowledge of the method of it, and I wanted nothing but the material , when it came into my mind that the twig of that tree from whence I cut my take that grew might (o ibly be a tough a the allow , willow , and o ier in )ngland, and I re ol#ed to try" Accordingly, the ne0t day I went to my country hou e, a I called it, and cutting ome of the maller twig , I found them to my (ur(o e a much a I could de ire' whereu(on I came the ne0t time (re(ared with a hatchet to cut down a 3uantity, which I oon found, for there wa great (lenty of them" 8he e I et u( to dry within my circle or hedge, and when they were fit for u e I carried them to my ca#e' and here, during the ne0t ea on, I em(loyed my elf in making, a well a I could, a great many ba ket , both to carry earth or to carry or lay u( anything, a I had occa ion' and though I did not fini h them #ery hand omely, yet I made them ufficiently er#iceable for my (ur(o e' thu , afterward , I took care ne#er to be without them' and a my wicker*ware decayed, I made more, e (ecially trong, dee( ba ket to (lace my corn in, in tead of ack , when I hould come to ha#e any 3uantity of it"

!a#ing ma tered thi difficulty, and em(loyed a world of time about it, I be tirred my elf to ee, if (o ible, how to u((ly two want " I had no #e el to hold anything that wa li3uid, e0ce(t two runlet , which were almo t full of rum, and ome gla bottle
ome of the common i&e, and other which were ca e bottle , 3uare, for the holding of water, (irit , Fc" I had not o much a a (ot to boil anything, e0ce(t a great kettle, which I a#ed out of the hi(, and which wa too big for uch a I de ired it * #i&" to make broth, and tew a bit of meat by it elf" 8he econd thing I fain would ha#e had wa a tobacco*(i(e, but it wa im(o ible to me to make one' howe#er, I found a contri#ance for that, too, at la t" I em(loyed my elf in (lanting my econd row of take or (ile , and in thi wicker*working all the ummer or dry ea on, when another bu ine took me u( more time than it could be imagined I could (are"

CHAPTER VIII - S"RVEYS HIS P SITI N

I /);8I=;). before that I had a great mind to ee the whole i land, and that I had tra#elled u( the brook, and o on to where I built my bower, and where I had an o(ening 3uite to the ea, on the other ide of the i land" I now re ol#ed to tra#el 3uite acro to the ea* hore on that ide' o, taking my gun, a hatchet, and my dog, and a larger 3uantity of (owder and hot than u ual, with two bi cuit*cake and a great bunch of rai in in my (ouch for my tore, I began my 1ourney" When I had (a ed the #ale where my bower tood, a abo#e, I came within #iew of the ea to the we t, and it being a #ery clear day, I fairly de cried land * whether an i land or a continent I could not tell' but it lay #ery high, e0tending from the W" to the W"S"W" at a #ery great di tance' by my gue it could not be le than fifteen or twenty league off" I could not tell what (art of the world thi might be, otherwi e than that I knew it mu t be (art of America, and, a I concluded by all my ob er#ation , mu t be near the S(ani h dominion , and (erha( wa all inhabited by a#age , where, if I had landed, I had been in a wor e condition than I wa now' and therefore I ac3uie ced in the di (o ition of <ro#idence, which I began now to own and to belie#e ordered e#erything for the be t' I ay I 3uieted my mind with thi , and left off afflicting my elf with fruitle wi he of being there" Be ide , after ome thought u(on thi affair, I con idered that if thi land wa the S(ani h coa t, I hould certainly, one time or other, ee ome #e el (a or re(a one way or other' but if not, then it wa the a#age coa t between the S(ani h country and Bra&il , where are found the wor t of a#age ' for they are

cannibal or men*eater , and fail not to murder and de#our all the human bodie that fall into their hand " With the e con ideration , I walked #ery lei urely forward" I found that ide of the i land where I now wa much (lea anter than mine * the o(en or a#annah field weet, adorned with flower and gra , and full of #ery fine wood " I aw abundance of (arrot , and fain I would ha#e caught one, if (o ible, to ha#e ke(t it to be tame, and taught it to (eak to me" I did, after ome (ain taking, catch a young (arrot, for I knocked it down with a tick, and ha#ing reco#ered it, I brought it home' but it wa ome year before I could make him (eak' howe#er, at la t I taught him to call me by name #ery familiarly" But the accident that followed, though it be a trifle, will be #ery di#erting in it (lace" I wa e0ceedingly di#erted with thi 1ourney" I found in the low ground hare ?a I thought them to be@ and fo0e ' but they differed greatly from all the other kind I had met with, nor could I ati fy my elf to eat them, though I killed e#eral" But I had no need to be #enturou , for I had no want of food, and of that which wa #ery good too, e (ecially the e three ort , #i&" goat , (igeon , and turtle, or tortoi e, which added to my gra(e , -eadenhall market could not ha#e furni hed a table better than I, in (ro(ortion to the com(any' and though my ca e wa de(lorable enough, yet I had great cau e for thankfulne that I wa not dri#en to any e0tremitie for food, but had rather (lenty, e#en to daintie " I ne#er tra#elled in thi 1ourney abo#e two mile outright in a day, or thereabout ' but I took o many turn and re*turn to ee what di co#erie I could make, that I came weary enough to the (lace where I re ol#ed to it down all night' and then I either re(o ed my elf in a tree, or urrounded my elf with a row of take et u(right in the ground, either from one tree to another, or o a no wild creature could come at me without waking me" A oon a I came to the ea* hore, I wa ur(ri ed to ee that I had taken u( my lot on the wor t ide of the i land, for here, indeed, the hore wa co#ered with innumerable turtle , wherea on the other ide I had found but three in a year and a half" !ere wa al o an infinite number of fowl of many kind , ome which I had een, and ome which I had not een before, and many of them #ery good meat, but uch a I knew not the name of, e0ce(t tho e called (enguin " I could ha#e hot a many a I (lea ed, but wa #ery (aring of my (owder and hot, and therefore had more mind to kill a he*goat if I could, which I could better feed on' and though there were many goat here, more than on my ide

the i land, yet it wa with much more difficulty that I could come near them, the country being flat and e#en, and they aw me much ooner than when I wa on the hill " I confe thi ide of the country wa much (lea anter than mine' but yet I had not the lea t inclination to remo#e, for a I wa fi0ed in my habitation it became natural to me, and I eemed all the while I wa here to be a it were u(on a 1ourney, and from home" !owe#er, I tra#elled along the hore of the ea toward the ea t, I u((o e about twel#e mile , and then etting u( a great (ole u(on the hore for a mark, I concluded I would go home again, and that the ne0t 1ourney I took hould be on the other ide of the i land ea t from my dwelling, and o round till I came to my (o t again" I took another way to come back than that I went, thinking I could ea ily kee( all the i land o much in my #iew that I could not mi finding my fir t dwelling by #iewing the country' but I found my elf mi taken, for being come about two or three mile , I found my elf de cended into a #ery large #alley, but o urrounded with hill , and tho e hill co#ered with wood, that I could not ee which wa my way by any direction but that of the un, nor e#en then, unle I knew #ery well the (o ition of the un at that time of the day" It ha((ened, to my further mi fortune, that the weather (ro#ed ha&y for three or four day while I wa in the #alley, and not being able to ee the un, I wandered about #ery uncomfortably, and at la t wa obliged to find the ea ide, look for my (o t, and come back the ame way I went5 and then, by ea y 1ourney , I turned homeward, the weather being e0ceeding hot, and my gun, ammunition, hatchet, and other thing #ery hea#y" In thi 1ourney my dog ur(ri ed a young kid, and ei&ed u(on it' and I, running in to take hold of it, caught it, and a#ed it ali#e from the dog" I had a great mind to bring it home if I could, for I had often been mu ing whether it might not be (o ible to get a kid or two, and o rai e a breed of tame goat , which might u((ly me when my (owder and hot hould be all (ent" I made a collar for thi little creature, and with a tring, which I made of ome ro(e*yam, which I alway carried about me, I led him along, though with ome difficulty, till I came to my bower, and there I enclo ed him and left him, for I wa #ery im(atient to be at home, from whence I had been ab ent abo#e a month" I cannot e0(re what a ati faction it wa to me to come into my old hutch, and lie down in my hammock*bed" 8hi little wandering 1ourney, without ettled (lace of abode, had been o un(lea ant to me, that my own hou e, a I called it to my elf, wa a (erfect ettlement to me com(ared to that' and it

rendered e#erything about me o comfortable, that I re ol#ed I would ne#er go a great way from it again while it hould be my lot to tay on the i land" I re(o ed my elf here a week, to re t and regale my elf after my long 1ourney' during which mo t of the time wa taken u( in the weighty affair of making a cage for my <oll, who began now to be a mere dome tic, and to be well ac3uainted with me" 8hen I began to think of the (oor kid which I had (enned in within my little circle, and re ol#ed to go and fetch it home, or gi#e it ome food' accordingly I went, and found it where I left it, for indeed it could not get out, but wa almo t tar#ed for want of food" I went and cut bough of tree , and branche of uch hrub a I could find, and threw it o#er, and ha#ing fed it, I tied it a I did before, to lead it away' but it wa o tame with being hungry, that I had no need to ha#e tied it, for it followed me like a dog5 and a I continually fed it, the creature became o lo#ing, o gentle, and o fond, that it became from that time one of my dome tic al o, and would ne#er lea#e me afterward " 8he rainy ea on of the autumnal e3uino0 wa now come, and I ke(t the 3Cth of Se(tember in the ame olemn manner a before, being the anni#er ary of my landing on the i land, ha#ing now been there two year , and no more (ro (ect of being deli#ered than the fir t day I came there, I (ent the whole day in humble and thankful acknowledgment of the many wonderful mercie which my olitary condition wa attended with, and without which it might ha#e been infinitely more mi erable" I ga#e humble and hearty thank that 4od had been (lea ed to di co#er to me that it wa (o ible I might be more ha((y in thi olitary condition than I hould ha#e been in the liberty of ociety, and in all the (lea ure of the world' that !e could fully make u( to me the deficiencie of my olitary tate, and the want of human ociety, by !i (re ence and the communication of !i grace to my oul' u((orting, comforting, and encouraging me to de(end u(on !i (ro#idence here, and ho(e for !i eternal (re ence hereafter" It wa now that I began en ibly to feel how much more ha((y thi life I now led wa , with all it mi erable circum tance , than the wicked, cur ed, abominable life I led all the (a t (art of my day ' and now I changed both my orrow and my 1oy ' my #ery de ire altered, my affection changed their gu t , and my delight were (erfectly new from what they were at my fir t coming, or, indeed, for the two year (a t" Before, a I walked about, either on my hunting or for #iewing the country, the angui h of my oul at my condition would break out u(on me on a udden, and my #ery heart would die within me, to think of the wood , the mountain , the

de ert I wa in, and how I wa a (ri oner, locked u( with the eternal bar and bolt of the ocean, in an uninhabited wilderne , without redem(tion" In the mid t of the greate t com(o ure of my mind, thi would break out u(on me like a torm, and make me wring my hand and wee( like a child" Sometime it would take me in the middle of my work, and I would immediately it down and igh, and look u(on the ground for an hour or two together' and thi wa till wor e to me, for if I could bur t out into tear , or #ent my elf by word , it would go off, and the grief, ha#ing e0hau ted it elf, would abate" But now I began to e0erci e my elf with new thought 5 I daily read the word of 4od, and a((lied all the comfort of it to my (re ent tate" =ne morning, being #ery ad, I o(ened the Bible u(on the e word , 9I will ne#er, ne#er lea#e thee, nor for ake thee"9 Immediately it occurred that the e word were to me' why el e hould they be directed in uch a manner, 1u t at the moment when I wa mourning o#er my condition, a one for aken of 4od and man6 9Well, then,9 aid I, 9if 4od doe not for ake me, of what ill con e3uence can it be, or what matter it, though the world hould all for ake me, eeing on the other hand, if I had all the world, and hould lo e the fa#our and ble ing of 4od, there would be no com(ari on in the lo 69 ,rom thi moment I began to conclude in my mind that it wa (o ible for me to be more ha((y in thi for aken, olitary condition than it wa (robable I hould e#er ha#e been in any other (articular tate in the world' and with thi thought I wa going to gi#e thank to 4od for bringing me to thi (lace" I know not what it wa , but omething hocked my mind at that thought, and I dur t not (eak the word " 9!ow can t thou become uch a hy(ocrite,9 aid I, e#en audibly, 9to (retend to be thankful for a condition which, howe#er thou maye t endea#our to be contented with, thou would t rather (ray heartily to be deli#ered from69 So I to((ed there' but though I could not ay I thanked 4od for being there, yet I incerely ga#e thank to 4od for o(ening my eye , by whate#er afflicting (ro#idence , to ee the former condition of my life, and to mourn for my wickedne , and re(ent" I ne#er o(ened the Bible, or hut it, but my #ery oul within me ble ed 4od for directing my friend in )ngland, without any order of mine, to (ack it u( among my good , and for a i ting me afterward to a#e it out of the wreck of the hi(" 8hu , and in thi di (o ition of mind, I began my third year' and though I ha#e not gi#en the reader the trouble of o (articular an account of my work thi year a the fir t, yet in general it may be ob er#ed that I wa #ery eldom idle, but ha#ing regularly di#ided my time according to the e#eral daily em(loyment that were before me, uch a 5 fir t, my duty to 4od, and the

reading the Scri(ture , which I con tantly et a(art ome time for thrice e#ery day' econdly, the going abroad with my gun for food, which generally took me u( three hour in e#ery morning, when it did not rain' thirdly, the ordering, cutting, (re er#ing, and cooking what I had killed or caught for my u((ly' the e took u( great (art of the day" Al o, it i to be con idered, that in the middle of the day, when the un wa in the &enith, the #iolence of the heat wa too great to tir out' o that about four hour in the e#ening wa all the time I could be u((o ed to work in, with thi e0ce(tion, that ometime I changed my hour of hunting and working, and went to work in the morning, and abroad with my gun in the afternoon" 8o thi hort time allowed for labour I de ire may be added the e0ceeding laboriou ne of my work' the many hour which, for want of tool , want of hel(, and want of kill, e#erything I did took u( out of my time" ,or e0am(le, I wa full two and forty day in making a board for a long helf, which I wanted in my ca#e' wherea , two awyer , with their tool and a aw*(it, would ha#e cut i0 of them out of the ame tree in half a day" /y ca e wa thi 5 it wa to be a large tree which wa to be cut down, becau e my board wa to be a broad one" 8hi tree I wa three day in cutting down, and two more cutting off the bough , and reducing it to a log or (iece of timber" With ine0(re ible hacking and hewing I reduced both the ide of it into chi( till it began to be light enough to mo#e' then I turned it, and made one ide of it mooth and flat a a board from end to end' then, turning that ide downward, cut the other ide til I brought the (lank to be about three inche thick, and mooth on both ide " Any one may 1udge the labour of my hand in uch a (iece of work' but labour and (atience carried me through that, and many other thing " I only ob er#e thi in (articular, to how the rea on why o much of my time went away with o little work * #i&" that what might be a little to be done with hel( and tool , wa a #a t labour and re3uired a (rodigiou time to do alone, and by hand" But notwith tanding thi , with (atience and labour I got through e#erything that my circum tance made nece ary to me to do, a will a((ear by what follow " I wa now, in the month of ;o#ember and .ecember, e0(ecting my cro( of barley and rice" 8he ground I had manured and dug u( for them wa not great' for, a I ob er#ed, my eed of each wa not abo#e the 3uantity of half a (eck, for I had lo t one whole cro( by owing in the dry ea on" But now my cro( (romi ed #ery well, when on a udden I found I wa in danger of lo ing it all again by enemie of e#eral ort , which it wa carcely (o ible to kee( from it' a , fir t, the goat , and wild creature which I called hare , who, ta ting the

weetne of the blade, lay in it night and day, a oon a it came u(, and eat it o clo e, that it could get no time to hoot u( into talk" 8hi I aw no remedy for but by making an enclo ure about it with a hedge' which I did with a great deal of toil, and the more, becau e it re3uired (eed" !owe#er, a my arable land wa but mall, uited to my cro(, I got it totally well fenced in about three week 2 time' and hooting ome of the creature in the daytime, I et my dog to guard it in the night, tying him u( to a take at the gate, where he would tand and bark all night long' o in a little time the enemie for ook the (lace, and the corn grew #ery trong and well, and began to ri(en a(ace" But a the bea t ruined me before, while my corn wa in the blade, o the bird were a likely to ruin me now, when it wa in the ear' for, going along by the (lace to ee how it thro#e, I aw my little cro( urrounded with fowl , of I know not how many ort , who tood, a it were, watching till I hould be gone" I immediately let fly among them, for I alway had my gun with me" I had no ooner hot, but there ro e u( a little cloud of fowl , which I had not een at all, from among the corn it elf" 8hi touched me en ibly, for I fore aw that in a few day they would de#our all my ho(e ' that I hould be tar#ed, and ne#er be able to rai e a cro( at all' and what to do I could not tell' howe#er, I re ol#ed not to lo e my corn, if (o ible, though I hould watch it night and day" In the fir t (lace, I went among it to ee what damage wa already done, and found they had (oiled a good deal of it' but that a it wa yet too green for them, the lo wa not o great but that the remainder wa likely to be a good cro( if it could be a#ed" I tayed by it to load my gun, and then coming away, I could ea ily ee the thie#e itting u(on all the tree about me, a if they only waited till I wa gone away, and the e#ent (ro#ed it to be o' for a I walked off, a if I wa gone, I wa no ooner out of their ight than they dro((ed down one by one into the corn again" I wa o (ro#oked, that I could not ha#e (atience to tay till more came on, knowing that e#ery grain that they ate now wa , a it might be aid, a (eck*loaf to me in the con e3uence' but coming u( to the hedge, I fired again, and killed three of them" 8hi wa what I wi hed for' o I took them u(, and er#ed them a we er#e notoriou thie#e in )ngland * hanged them in chain , for a terror to of them" It i im(o ible to imagine that thi hould ha#e uch an effect a it had, for the fowl would not only not come at the corn, but, in hort, they for ook all that (art of the i land, and I could ne#er ee a bird near the (lace a long a my carecrow hung there" 8hi I wa #ery glad of, you may be

ure, and about the latter end of .ecember, which wa our econd har#e t of the year, I rea(ed my corn" I wa adly (ut to it for a cythe or ickle to cut it down, and all I could do wa to make one, a well a I could, out of one of the broad word , or cutla e , which I a#ed among the arm out of the hi(" !owe#er, a my fir t cro( wa but mall, I had no great difficulty to cut it down' in hort, I rea(ed it in my way, for I cut nothing off but the ear , and carried it away in a great ba ket which I had made, and o rubbed it out with my hand ' and at the end of all my har#e ting, I found that out of my half*(eck of eed I had near two bu hel of rice, and about two bu hel and a half of barley' that i to ay, by my gue , for I had no mea ure at that time" !owe#er, thi wa a great encouragement to me, and I fore aw that, in time, it would (lea e 4od to u((ly me with bread" And yet here I wa (er(le0ed again, for I neither knew how to grind or make meal of my corn, or indeed how to clean it and (art it' nor, if made into meal, how to make bread of it' and if how to make it, yet I knew not how to bake it" 8he e thing being added to my de ire of ha#ing a good 3uantity for tore, and to ecure a con tant u((ly, I re ol#ed not to ta te any of thi cro( but to (re er#e it all for eed again t the ne0t ea on' and in the meantime to em(loy all my tudy and hour of working to accom(li h thi great work of (ro#iding my elf with corn and bread" It might be truly aid, that now I worked for my bread" I belie#e few (eo(le ha#e thought much u(on the trange multitude of little thing nece ary in the (ro#iding, (roducing, curing, dre ing, making, and fini hing thi one article of bread" I, that wa reduced to a mere tate of nature, found thi to my daily di couragement' and wa made more en ible of it e#ery hour, e#en after I had got the fir t handful of eed*corn, which, a I ha#e aid, came u( une0(ectedly, and indeed to a ur(ri e" ,ir t, I had no (lough to turn u( the earth * no (ade or ho#el to dig it" Well, thi I con3uered by making me a wooden (ade, a I ob er#ed before' but thi did my work but in a wooden manner' and though it co t me a great many day to make it, yet, for want of iron, it not only wore out oon, but made my work the harder, and made it be (erformed much wor e" !owe#er, thi I bore with, and wa content to work it out with (atience, and bear with the badne of the (erformance" When the corn wa own, I had no harrow, but wa forced to go o#er it my elf, and drag a great hea#y bough of a tree o#er it, to cratch it, a it may be called, rather than rake or harrow it" When it wa growing, and grown, I

ha#e ob er#ed already how many thing I wanted to fence it, ecure it, mow or rea( it, cure and carry it home, thra h, (art it from the chaff, and a#e it" 8hen I wanted a mill to grind it ie#e to dre it, yea t and alt to make it into bread, and an o#en to bake it' but all the e thing I did without, a hall be ob er#ed' and yet the corn wa an ine timable comfort and ad#antage to me too" All thi , a I aid, made e#erything laboriou and tediou to me' but that there wa no hel( for" ;either wa my time o much lo to me, becau e, a I had di#ided it, a certain (art of it wa e#ery day a((ointed to the e work ' and a I had re ol#ed to u e none of the corn for bread till I had a greater 3uantity by me, I had the ne0t i0 month to a((ly my elf wholly, by labour and in#ention, to furni h my elf with uten il (ro(er for the (erforming all the o(eration nece ary for making the corn, when I had it, fit for my u e"

CHAPTER I% - A ! AT
B>8 fir t I wa to (re(are more land, for I had now eed enough to ow abo#e an acre of ground" Before I did thi , I had a week2 work at lea t to make me a (ade, which, when it wa done, wa but a orry one indeed, and #ery hea#y, and re3uired double labour to work with it" !owe#er, I got through that, and owed my eed in two large flat (iece of ground, a near my hou e a I could find them to my mind, and fenced them in with a good hedge, the take of which were all cut off that wood which I had et before, and knew it would grow' o that, in a year2 time, I knew I hould ha#e a 3uick or li#ing hedge, that would want but little re(air" 8hi work did not take me u( le than three month , becau e a great (art of that time wa the wet ea on, when I could not go abroad" Within*door , that i when it rained and I could not go out, I found em(loyment in the following occu(ation * alway ob er#ing, that all the while I wa at work I di#erted my elf with talking to my (arrot, and teaching him to (eak' and I 3uickly taught him to know hi own name, and at la t to (eak it out (retty loud, 9<oll,9 which wa the fir t word I e#er heard (oken in the i land by any mouth but my own" 8hi , therefore, wa not my work, but an a i tance to my work' for now, a I aid, I had a great em(loyment u(on my hand , a follow 5 I had long tudied to make, by ome mean or other, ome earthen #e el , which, indeed, I wanted orely, but knew not where to come at them" !owe#er, con idering the heat of the climate, I did not doubt but if I could find out any clay, I might make ome (ot that might, being dried in the un, be hard enough and trong enough to bear handling, and to hold anything that wa dry, and re3uired to be ke(t o' and a thi wa nece ary in the (re(aring corn, meal, Fc", which wa the thing I wa doing, I re ol#ed to make

ome a large a I could, and fit only to tand like 1ar , to hold what hould be (ut into them" It would make the reader (ity me, or rather laugh at me, to tell how many awkward way I took to rai e thi (a te' what odd, mi ha(en, ugly thing I made' how many of them fell in and how many fell out, the clay not being tiff enough to bear it own weight' how many cracked by the o#er*#iolent heat of the un, being et out too ha tily' and how many fell in (iece with only remo#ing, a well before a after they were dried' and, in a word, how, after ha#ing laboured hard to find the clay * to dig it, to tem(er it, to bring it home, and work it * I could not make abo#e two large earthen ugly thing ?I cannot call them 1ar @ in about two month 2 labour" !owe#er, a the un baked the e two #ery dry and hard, I lifted them #ery gently u(, and et them down again in two great wicker ba ket , which I had made on (ur(o e for them, that they might not break' and a between the (ot and the ba ket there wa a little room to (are, I tuffed it full of the rice and barley traw' and the e two (ot being to tand alway dry I thought would hold my dry corn, and (erha( the meal, when the corn wa brui ed" 8hough I mi carried o much in my de ign for large (ot , yet I made e#eral maller thing with better ucce ' uch a little round (ot , flat di he , (itcher , and (i(kin , and any thing my hand turned to' and the heat of the un baked them 3uite hard" But all thi would not an wer my end, which wa to get an earthen (ot to hold what wa li3uid, and bear the fire, which none of the e could do" It ha((ened after ome time, making a (retty large fire for cooking my meat, when I went to (ut it out after I had done with it, I found a broken (iece of one of my earthenware #e el in the fire, burnt a hard a a tone, and red a a tile" I wa agreeably ur(ri ed to ee it, and aid to my elf, that certainly they might be made to burn whole, if they would burn broken" 8hi et me to tudy how to order my fire, o a to make it burn ome (ot " I had no notion of a kiln, uch a the (otter burn in, or of gla&ing them with lead, though I had ome lead to do it with' but I (laced three large (i(kin and two or three (ot in a (ile, one u(on another, and (laced my firewood all round it, with a great hea( of ember under them" I (lied the fire with fre h fuel round the out ide and u(on the to(, till I aw the (ot in the in ide red*hot 3uite through, and ob er#ed that they did not crack at all" When I aw them clear red, I let them tand in that heat about fi#e or i0 hour , till I found one of them, though it did not crack, did melt or run' for the and which wa mi0ed with the

clay melted by the #iolence of the heat, and would ha#e run into gla if I had gone on' o I lacked my fire gradually till the (ot began to abate of the red colour' and watching them all night, that I might not let the fire abate too fa t, in the morning I had three #ery good ?I will not ay hand ome@ (i(kin , and two other earthen (ot , a hard burnt a could be de ired, and one of them (erfectly gla&ed with the running of the and" After thi e0(eriment, I need not ay that I wanted no ort of earthenware for my u e' but I mu t need ay a to the ha(e of them, they were #ery indifferent, a any one may u((o e, when I had no way of making them but a the children make dirt (ie , or a a woman would make (ie that ne#er learned to rai e (a te" ;o 1oy at a thing of o mean a nature wa e#er e3ual to mine, when I found I had made an earthen (ot that would bear the fire' and I had hardly (atience to tay till they were cold before I et one on the fire again with ome water in it to boil me ome meat, which it did admirably well' and with a (iece of a kid I made ome #ery good broth, though I wanted oatmeal, and e#eral other ingredient re3ui ite to make it a good a I would ha#e had it been" /y ne0t concern wa to get me a tone mortar to tam( or beat ome corn in' for a to the mill, there wa no thought of arri#ing at that (erfection of art with one (air of hand " 8o u((ly thi want, I wa at a great lo ' for, of all the trade in the world, I wa a (erfectly un3ualified for a tone*cutter a for any whate#er' neither had I any tool to go about it with" I (ent many a day to find out a great tone big enough to cut hollow, and make fit for a mortar, and could find none at all, e0ce(t what wa in the olid rock, and which I had no way to dig or cut out' nor indeed were the rock in the i land of hardne ufficient, but were all of a andy, crumbling tone, which neither would bear the weight of a hea#y (e tle, nor would break the corn without filling it with and" So, after a great deal of time lo t in earching for a tone, I ga#e it o#er, and re ol#ed to look out for a great block of hard wood, which I found, indeed, much ea ier' and getting one a big a I had trength to tir, I rounded it, and formed it on the out ide with my a0e and hatchet, and then with the hel( of fire and infinite labour, made a hollow (lace in it, a the Indian in Bra&il make their canoe " After thi , I made a great hea#y (e tle or beater of the wood called the iron* wood' and thi I (re(ared and laid by again t I had my ne0t cro( of corn, which I (ro(o ed to my elf to grind, or rather (ound into meal to make bread" /y ne0t difficulty wa to make a ie#e or earce, to dre my meal, and to (art it from the bran and the hu k' without which I did not ee it (o ible I could ha#e any bread" 8hi wa a mo t difficult thing e#en to think on, for to be ure I

had nothing like the nece ary thing to make it * I mean fine thin can#a or tuff to earce the meal through" And here I wa at a full to( for many month ' nor did I really know what to do" -inen I had none left but what wa mere rag ' I had goat2 hair, but neither knew how to wea#e it or (in it' and had I known how, here were no tool to work it with" All the remedy that I found for thi wa , that at la t I did remember I had, among the eamen2 clothe which were a#ed out of the hi(, ome neckcloth of calico or mu lin' and with ome (iece of the e I made three mall ie#e (ro(er enough for the work' and thu I made hift for ome year 5 how I did afterward , I hall how in it (lace" 8he baking (art wa the ne0t thing to be con idered, and how I hould make bread when I came to ha#e corn' for fir t, I had no yea t" A to that (art, there wa no u((lying the want, o I did not concern my elf much about it" But for an o#en I wa indeed in great (ain" At length I found out an e0(eriment for that al o, which wa thi 5 I made ome earthen*#e el #ery broad but not dee(, that i to ay, about two feet diameter, and not abo#e nine inche dee(" 8he e I burned in the fire, a I had done the other, and laid them by' and when I wanted to bake, I made a great fire u(on my hearth, which I had (a#ed with ome 3uare tile of my own baking and burning al o' but I hould not call them 3uare" When the firewood wa burned (retty much into ember or li#e coal , I drew them forward u(on thi hearth, o a to co#er it all o#er, and there I let them lie till the hearth wa #ery hot" 8hen wee(ing away all the ember , I et down my loaf or loa#e , and whelming down the earthen (ot u(on them, drew the ember all round the out ide of the (ot, to kee( in and add to the heat' and thu a well a in the be t o#en in the world, I baked my barley*loa#e , and became in little time a good (a trycook into the bargain' for I made my elf e#eral cake and (udding of the rice' but I made no (ie , neither had I anything to (ut into them u((o ing I had, e0ce(t the fle h either of fowl or goat " It need not be wondered at if all the e thing took me u( mo t (art of the third year of my abode here' for it i to be ob er#ed that in the inter#al of the e thing I had my new har#e t and hu bandry to manage' for I rea(ed my corn in it ea on, and carried it home a well a I could, and laid it u( in the ear, in my large ba ket , till I had time to rub it out, for I had no floor to thra h it on, or in trument to thra h it with" And now, indeed, my tock of corn increa ing, I really wanted to build my barn bigger' I wanted a (lace to lay it u( in, for the increa e of the corn now yielded me o much, that I had of the barley about twenty bu hel , and of the rice a much or more' in omuch that now I re ol#ed to begin to u e it freely' for

my bread had been 3uite gone a great while' al o I re ol#ed to ee what 3uantity would be ufficient for me a whole year, and to ow but once a year" >(on the whole, I found that the forty bu hel of barley and rice were much more than I could con ume in a year' o I re ol#ed to ow 1u t the ame 3uantity e#ery year that I owed the la t, in ho(e that uch a 3uantity would fully (ro#ide me with bread, Fc" All the while the e thing were doing, you may be ure my thought ran many time u(on the (ro (ect of land which I had een from the other ide of the i land' and I wa not without ecret wi he that I were on hore there, fancying that, eeing the mainland, and an inhabited country, I might find ome way or other to con#ey my elf further, and (erha( at la t find ome mean of e ca(e" But all thi while I made no allowance for the danger of uch an undertaking, and how I might fall into the hand of a#age , and (erha( uch a I might ha#e rea on to think far wor e than the lion and tiger of Africa5 that if I once came in their (ower, I hould run a ha&ard of more than a thou and to one of being killed, and (erha( of being eaten' for I had heard that the (eo(le of the +aribbean coa t were cannibal or man*eater , and I knew by the latitude that I could not be far from that hore" 8hen, u((o ing they were not cannibal , yet they might kill me, a many )uro(ean who had fallen into their hand had been er#ed, e#en when they had been ten or twenty together * much more I, that wa but one, and could make little or no defence' all the e thing , I ay, which I ought to ha#e con idered well' and did come into my thought afterward , yet ga#e me no a((rehen ion at fir t, and my head ran mightily u(on the thought of getting o#er to the hore" ;ow I wi hed for my boy Dury, and the long*boat with houlder*of* mutton ail, with which I ailed abo#e a thou and mile on the coa t of Africa' but thi wa in #ain5 then I thought I would go and look at our hi(2 boat, which, a I ha#e aid, wa blown u( u(on the hore a great way, in the torm, when we were fir t ca t away" She lay almo t where he did at fir t, but not 3uite' and wa turned, by the force of the wa#e and the wind , almo t bottom u(ward, again t a high ridge of beachy, rough and, but no water about her" If I had had hand to ha#e refitted her, and to ha#e launched her into the water, the boat would ha#e done well enough, and I might ha#e gone back into the Bra&il with her ea ily enough' but I might ha#e fore een that I could no more turn her and et her u(right u(on her bottom than I could remo#e the i land' howe#er, I went to the wood , and cut le#er and roller , and brought them to the boat re ol#ing to try what I could do' ugge ting to my elf that if I could but turn her

down, I might re(air the damage he had recei#ed, and he would be a #ery good boat, and I might go to ea in her #ery ea ily" I (ared no (ain , indeed, in thi (iece of fruitle toil, and (ent, I think, three or four week about it' at la t finding it im(o ible to hea#e it u( with my little trength, I fell to digging away the and, to undermine it, and o to make it fall down, etting (iece of wood to thru t and guide it right in the fall" But when I had done thi , I wa unable to tir it u( again, or to get under it, much le to mo#e it forward toward the water' o I wa forced to gi#e it o#er' and yet, though I ga#e o#er the ho(e of the boat, my de ire to #enture o#er for the main increa ed, rather than decrea ed, a the mean for it eemed im(o ible" 8hi at length (ut me u(on thinking whether it wa not (o ible to make my elf a canoe, or (eriagua, uch a the nati#e of tho e climate make, e#en without tool , or, a I might ay, without hand , of the trunk of a great tree" 8hi I not only thought (o ible, but ea y, and (lea ed my elf e0tremely with the thought of making it, and with my ha#ing much more con#enience for it than any of the negroe or Indian ' but not at all con idering the (articular incon#enience which I lay under more than the Indian did * #i&" want of hand to mo#e it, when it wa made, into the water * a difficulty much harder for me to urmount than all the con e3uence of want of tool could be to them' for what wa it to me, if when I had cho en a #a t tree in the wood , and with much trouble cut it down, if I had been able with my tool to hew and dub the out ide into the (ro(er ha(e of a boat, and burn or cut out the in ide to make it hollow, o a to make a boat of it * if, after all thi , I mu t lea#e it 1u t there where I found it, and not be able to launch it into the water6 =ne would ha#e thought I could not ha#e had the lea t reflection u(on my mind of my circum tance while I wa making thi boat, but I hould ha#e immediately thought how I hould get it into the ea' but my thought were o intent u(on my #oyage o#er the ea in it, that I ne#er once con idered how I hould get it off the land5 and it wa really, in it own nature, more ea y for me to guide it o#er forty*fi#e mile of ea than about forty*fi#e fathom of land, where it lay, to et it afloat in the water" I went to work u(on thi boat the mo t like a fool that e#er man did who had any of hi en e awake" I (lea ed my elf with the de ign, without determining whether I wa e#er able to undertake it' not but that the difficulty of launching my boat came often into my head' but I (ut a to( to my in3uirie into it by thi

fooli h an wer which I ga#e my elf * 9-et me fir t make it' I warrant I will find ome way or other to get it along when it i done"9 8hi wa a mo t (re(o terou method' but the eagerne of my fancy (re#ailed, and to work I went" I felled a cedar*tree, and I 3ue tion much whether Solomon e#er had uch a one for the building of the 8em(le of Aeru alem' it wa fi#e feet ten inche diameter at the lower (art ne0t the tum(, and four feet ele#en inche diameter at the end of twenty*two feet' after which it le ened for a while, and then (arted into branche " It wa not without infinite labour that I felled thi tree' I wa twenty day hacking and hewing at it at the bottom' I wa fourteen more getting the branche and limb and the #a t (reading head cut off, which I hacked and hewed through with a0e and hatchet, and ine0(re ible labour' after thi , it co t me a month to ha(e it and dub it to a (ro(ortion, and to omething like the bottom of a boat, that it might wim u(right a it ought to do" It co t me near three month more to clear the in ide, and work it out o a to make an e0act boat of it' thi I did, indeed, without fire, by mere mallet and chi el, and by the dint of hard labour, till I had brought it to be a #ery hand ome (eriagua, and big enough to ha#e carried i0*and*twenty men, and con e3uently big enough to ha#e carried me and all my cargo" When I had gone through thi work I wa e0tremely delighted with it" 8he boat wa really much bigger than e#er I aw a canoe or (eriagua, that wa made of one tree, in my life" /any a weary troke it had co t, you may be ure' and had I gotten it into the water, I make no 3ue tion, but I hould ha#e begun the madde t #oyage, and the mo t unlikely to be (erformed, that e#er wa undertaken" But all my de#ice to get it into the water failed me' though they co t me infinite labour too" It lay about one hundred yard from the water, and not more' but the fir t incon#enience wa , it wa u( hill toward the creek" Well, to take away thi di couragement, I re ol#ed to dig into the urface of the earth, and o make a decli#ity5 thi I began, and it co t me a (rodigiou deal of (ain ?but who grudge (ain who ha#e their deli#erance in #iew6@' but when thi wa worked through, and thi difficulty managed, it wa till much the ame, for I could no more tir the canoe than I could the other boat" 8hen I mea ured the di tance of ground, and re ol#ed to cut a dock or canal, to bring the water u( to the canoe, eeing I could not bring the canoe down to the water" Well, I began thi work' and when I began to enter u(on it, and calculate how dee( it wa to be dug, how broad, how the tuff wa to be thrown out, I found that, by the number of hand I had, being none but my own, it mu t ha#e been ten or twel#e year before I could ha#e gone through with it' for the hore lay o high, that at

the u((er end it mu t ha#e been at lea t twenty feet dee(' o at length, though with great reluctancy, I ga#e thi attem(t o#er al o" 8hi grie#ed me heartily' and now I aw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the co t, and before we 1udge rightly of our own trength to go through with it" In the middle of thi work I fini hed my fourth year in thi (lace, and ke(t my anni#er ary with the ame de#otion, and with a much comfort a e#er before' for, by a con tant tudy and eriou a((lication to the Word of 4od, and by the a i tance of !i grace, I gained a different knowledge from what I had before" I entertained different notion of thing " I looked now u(on the world a a thing remote, which I had nothing to do with, no e0(ectation from, and, indeed, no de ire about5 in a word, I had nothing indeed to do with it, nor wa e#er likely to ha#e, o I thought it looked, a we may (erha( look u(on it hereafter * #i&" a a (lace I had li#ed in, but wa come out of it' and well might I ay, a ,ather Abraham to .i#e , 9Between me and thee i a great gulf fi0ed"9 In the fir t (lace, I wa remo#ed from all the wickedne of the world here' I had neither the lu t of the fle h, the lu t of the eye, nor the (ride of life" I had nothing to co#et, for I had all that I wa now ca(able of en1oying' I wa lord of the whole manor' or, if I (lea ed, I might call my elf king or em(eror o#er the whole country which I had (o e ion of5 there were no ri#al ' I had no com(etitor, none to di (ute o#ereignty or command with me5 I might ha#e rai ed hi(*loading of corn, but I had no u e for it' o I let a little grow a I thought enough for my occa ion" I had tortoi e or turtle enough, but now and then one wa a much a I could (ut to any u e5 I had timber enough to ha#e built a fleet of hi( ' and I had gra(e enough to ha#e made wine, or to ha#e cured into rai in , to ha#e loaded that fleet when it had been built" But all I could make u e of wa all that wa #aluable5 I had enough to eat and u((ly my want , and what wa all the re t to me6 If I killed more fle h than I could eat, the dog mu t eat it, or #ermin' if I owed more corn than I could eat, it mu t be (oiled' the tree that I cut down were lying to rot on the ground' I could make no more u e of them but for fuel, and that I had no occa ion for but to dre my food" In a word, the nature and e0(erience of thing dictated to me, u(on 1u t reflection, that all the good thing of thi world are no farther good to u than they are for our u e' and that, whate#er we may hea( u( to gi#e other , we en1oy 1u t a much a we can u e, and no more" 8he mo t co#etou , gri(ing mi er in the world would ha#e been cured of the #ice of co#etou ne if he had

been in my ca e' for I (o e ed infinitely more than I knew what to do with" I had no room for de ire, e0ce(t it wa of thing which I had not, and they were but trifle , though, indeed, of great u e to me" I had, a I hinted before, a (arcel of money, a well gold a il#er, about thirty* i0 (ound terling" Ala 7 there the orry, u ele tuff lay' I had no more manner of bu ine for it' and often thought with my elf that I would ha#e gi#en a handful of it for a gro of tobacco*(i(e ' or for a hand*mill to grind my corn' nay, I would ha#e gi#en it all for a i0(enny*worth of turni( and carrot eed out of )ngland, or for a handful of (ea and bean , and a bottle of ink" A it wa , I had not the lea t ad#antage by it or benefit from it' but there it lay in a drawer, and grew mouldy with the dam( of the ca#e in the wet ea on ' and if I had had the drawer full of diamond , it had been the ame ca e * they had been of no manner of #alue to me, becau e of no u e" I had now brought my tate of life to be much ea ier in it elf than it wa at fir t, and much ea ier to my mind, a well a to my body" I fre3uently at down to meat with thankfulne , and admired the hand of 4od2 (ro#idence, which had thu (read my table in the wilderne " I learned to look more u(on the bright ide of my condition, and le u(on the dark ide, and to con ider what I en1oyed rather than what I wanted' and thi ga#e me ometime uch ecret comfort , that I cannot e0(re them' and which I take notice of here, to (ut tho e di contented (eo(le in mind of it, who cannot en1oy comfortably what 4od ha gi#en them, becau e they ee and co#et omething that !e ha not gi#en them" All our di content about what we want a((eared to me to (ring from the want of thankfulne for what we ha#e" Another reflection wa of great u e to me, and doubtle would be o to any one that hould fall into uch di tre a mine wa ' and thi wa , to com(are my (re ent condition with what I at fir t e0(ected it would be' nay, with what it would certainly ha#e been, if the good (ro#idence of 4od had not wonderfully ordered the hi( to be ca t u( nearer to the hore, where I not only could come at her, but could bring what I got out of her to the hore, for my relief and comfort' without which, I had wanted for tool to work, wea(on for defence, and gun(owder and hot for getting my food" I (ent whole hour , I may ay whole day , in re(re enting to my elf, in the mo t li#ely colour , how I mu t ha#e acted if I had got nothing out of the hi(" !ow I could not ha#e o much a got any food, e0ce(t fi h and turtle ' and that, a it wa long before I found any of them, I mu t ha#e (eri hed fir t' that I hould ha#e li#ed, if I had not (eri hed, like a mere a#age' that if I had killed a goat or a fowl, by any contri#ance, I had no way to flay or o(en it, or (art the

fle h from the kin and the bowel , or to cut it u(' but mu t gnaw it with my teeth, and (ull it with my claw , like a bea t" 8he e reflection made me #ery en ible of the goodne of <ro#idence to me, and #ery thankful for my (re ent condition, with all it hard hi( and mi fortune ' and thi (art al o I cannot but recommend to the reflection of tho e who are a(t, in their mi ery, to ay, 9I any affliction like mine69 -et them con ider how much wor e the ca e of ome (eo(le are, and their ca e might ha#e been, if <ro#idence had thought fit" I had another reflection, which a i ted me al o to comfort my mind with ho(e ' and thi wa com(aring my (re ent ituation with what I had de er#ed, and had therefore rea on to e0(ect from the hand of <ro#idence" I had li#ed a dreadful life, (erfectly de titute of the knowledge and fear of 4od" I had been well in tructed by father and mother' neither had they been wanting to me in their early endea#our to infu e a religiou awe of 4od into my mind, a en e of my duty, and what the nature and end of my being re3uired of me" But, ala 7 falling early into the eafaring life, which of all li#e i the mo t de titute of the fear of 4od, though !i terror are alway before them' I ay, falling early into the eafaring life, and into eafaring com(any, all that little en e of religion which I had entertained wa laughed out of me by my me mate ' by a hardened de (i ing of danger , and the #iew of death, which grew habitual to me by my long ab ence from all manner of o((ortunitie to con#er e with anything but what wa like my elf, or to hear anything that wa good or tended toward it" So #oid wa I of e#erything that wa good, or the lea t en e of what I wa , or wa to be, that, in the greate t deli#erance I en1oyed * uch a my e ca(e from Sallee' my being taken u( by the <ortugue e ma ter of the hi(' my being (lanted o well in the Bra&il ' my recei#ing the cargo from )ngland, and the like * I ne#er had once the word 98hank 4od79 o much a on my mind, or in my mouth' nor in the greate t di tre had I o much a a thought to (ray to !im, or o much a to ay, 9-ord, ha#e mercy u(on me79 no, nor to mention the name of 4od, unle it wa to wear by, and bla (heme it" I had terrible reflection u(on my mind for many month , a I ha#e already ob er#ed, on account of my wicked and hardened life (a t' and when I looked about me, and con idered what (articular (ro#idence had attended me ince my coming into thi (lace, and how 4od had dealt bountifully with me * had not only (uni hed me le than my ini3uity had de er#ed, but had o (lentifully (ro#ided for me * thi ga#e me great ho(e that my re(entance wa acce(ted, and that 4od had yet mercy in tore for me"

With the e reflection I worked my mind u(, not only to a re ignation to the will of 4od in the (re ent di (o ition of my circum tance , but e#en to a incere thankfulne for my condition' and that I, who wa yet a li#ing man, ought not to com(lain, eeing I had not the due (uni hment of my in ' that I en1oyed o many mercie which I had no rea on to ha#e e0(ected in that (lace' that I ought ne#er more to re(ine at my condition, but to re1oice, and to gi#e daily thank for that daily bread, which nothing but a crowd of wonder could ha#e brought' that I ought to con ider I had been fed e#en by a miracle, e#en a great a that of feeding )li1ah by ra#en , nay, by a long erie of miracle ' and that I could hardly ha#e named a (lace in the uninhabitable (art of the world where I could ha#e been ca t more to my ad#antage' a (lace where, a I had no ociety, which wa my affliction on one hand, o I found no ra#enou bea t , no furiou wol#e or tiger , to threaten my life' no #enomou creature , or (oi on , which I might feed on to my hurt' no a#age to murder and de#our me" In a word, a my life wa a life of orrow one way, o it wa a life of mercy another' and I wanted nothing to make it a life of comfort but to be able to make my en e of 4od2 goodne to me, and care o#er me in thi condition, be my daily con olation' and after I did make a 1u t im(ro#ement on the e thing , I went away, and wa no more ad" I had now been here o long that many thing which I had brought on hore for my hel( were either 3uite gone, or #ery much wa ted and near (ent" /y ink, a I ob er#ed, had been gone ome time, all but a #ery little, which I eked out with water, a little and a little, till it wa o (ale, it carce left any a((earance of black u(on the (a(er" A long a it la ted I made u e of it to minute down the day of the month on which any remarkable thing ha((ened to me' and fir t, by ca ting u( time (a t, I remembered that there wa a trange concurrence of day in the #ariou (ro#idence which befell me, and which, if I had been u(er titiou ly inclined to ob er#e day a fatal or fortunate, I might ha#e had rea on to ha#e looked u(on with a great deal of curio ity" ,ir t, I had ob er#ed that the ame day that I broke away from my father and friend and ran away to !ull, in order to go to ea, the ame day afterward I wa taken by the Sallee man*of*war, and made a la#e' the ame day of the year that I e ca(ed out of the wreck of that hi( in Yarmouth $oad , that ame day* year afterward I made my e ca(e from Sallee in a boat' the ame day of the year I wa born on * #i&" the 3Cth of Se(tember, that ame day I had my life o miraculou ly a#ed twenty* i0 year after, when I wa ca t on hore in thi i land' o that my wicked life and my olitary life began both on a day"

8he ne0t thing to my ink being wa ted wa that of my bread * I mean the bi cuit which I brought out of the hi(' thi I had hu banded to the la t degree, allowing my elf but one cake of bread a*day for abo#e a year' and yet I wa 3uite without bread for near a year before I got any corn of my own, and great rea on I had to be thankful that I had any at all, the getting it being, a ha been already ob er#ed, ne0t to miraculou " /y clothe , too, began to decay' a to linen, I had had none a good while, e0ce(t ome che3uered hirt which I found in the che t of the other eamen, and which I carefully (re er#ed' becau e many time I could bear no other clothe on but a hirt' and it wa a #ery great hel( to me that I had, among all the men2 clothe of the hi(, almo t three do&en of hirt " 8here were al o, indeed, e#eral thick watch*coat of the eamen2 which were left, but they were too hot to wear' and though it i true that the weather wa o #iolently hot that there wa no need of clothe , yet I could not go 3uite naked * no, though I had been inclined to it, which I wa not
nor could I abide the thought of it, though I wa alone" 8he rea on why I could not go naked wa , I could not bear the heat of the un o well when 3uite naked a with ome clothe on' nay, the #ery heat fre3uently bli tered my kin5 wherea , with a hirt on, the air it elf made ome motion, and whi tling under the hirt, wa twofold cooler than without it" ;o more could I e#er bring my elf to go out in the heat of the un without a ca( or a hat' the heat of the un, beating with uch #iolence a it doe in that (lace, would gi#e me the headache (re ently, by darting o directly on my head, without a ca( or hat on, o that I could not bear it' wherea , if I (ut on my hat it would (re ently go away"

>(on the e #iew I began to con ider about (utting the few rag I had, which I called clothe , into ome order' I had worn out all the wai tcoat I had, and my bu ine wa now to try if I could not make 1acket out of the great watch*coat which I had by me, and with uch other material a I had' o I et to work, tailoring, or rather, indeed, botching, for I made mo t (iteou work of it" !owe#er, I made hift to make two or three new wai tcoat , which I ho(ed would er#e me a great while5 a for breeche or drawer , I made but a #ery orry hift indeed till afterward " I ha#e mentioned that I a#ed the kin of all the creature that I killed, I mean four*footed one , and I had them hung u(, tretched out with tick in the un, by which mean ome of them were o dry and hard that they were fit for little, but other were #ery u eful" 8he fir t thing I made of the e wa a great ca( for my head, with the hair on the out ide, to hoot off the rain' and thi I (erformed o well, that after I made me a uit of clothe wholly of the e kin * that i to ay, a wai tcoat, and breeche o(en at the knee , and both loo e, for they were

rather wanting to kee( me cool than to kee( me warm" I mu t not omit to acknowledge that they were wretchedly made' for if I wa a bad car(enter, I wa a wor e tailor" !owe#er, they were uch a I made #ery good hift with, and when I wa out, if it ha((ened to rain, the hair of my wai tcoat and ca( being outermo t, I wa ke(t #ery dry" After thi , I (ent a great deal of time and (ain to make an umbrella' I wa , indeed, in great want of one, and had a great mind to make one' I had een them made in the Bra&il , where they are #ery u eful in the great heat there, and I felt the heat e#ery 1ot a great here, and greater too, being nearer the e3uino0' be ide , a I wa obliged to be much abroad, it wa a mo t u eful thing to me, a well for the rain a the heat " I took a world of (ain with it, and wa a great while before I could make anything likely to hold5 nay, after I had thought I had hit the way, I (oiled two or three before I made one to my mind5 but at la t I made one that an wered indifferently well5 the main difficulty I found wa to make it let down" I could make it (read, but if it did not let down too, and draw in, it wa not (ortable for me any way but 1u t o#er my head, which would not do" !owe#er, at la t, a I aid, I made one to an wer, and co#ered it with kin , the hair u(ward , o that it ca t off the rain like a (ent*hou e, and ke(t off the un o effectually, that I could walk out in the hotte t of the weather with greater ad#antage than I could before in the coole t, and when I had no need of it could clo e it, and carry it under my arm 8hu I li#ed mighty comfortably, my mind being entirely com(o ed by re igning my elf to the will of 4od, and throwing my elf wholly u(on the di (o al of !i (ro#idence" 8hi made my life better than ociable, for when I began to regret the want of con#er ation I would a k my elf, whether thu con#er ing mutually with my own thought , and ?a I ho(e I may ay@ with e#en 4od !im elf, by e1aculation , wa not better than the utmo t en1oyment of human ociety in the world6

CHAPTER % - TA&ES $ ATS

I +A;;=8 ay that after thi , for fi#e year , any e0traordinary thing ha((ened to me, but I li#ed on in the ame cour e, in the ame (o ture and (lace, a before' the chief thing I wa em(loyed in, be ide my yearly labour of (lanting my barley and rice, and curing my rai in , of both which I alway ke(t u( 1u t enough to ha#e ufficient tock of one year2 (ro#i ion beforehand' I ay, be ide thi yearly labour, and my daily (ur uit of going out with my gun, I had

one labour, to make a canoe, which at la t I fini hed5 o that, by digging a canal to it of i0 feet wide and four feet dee(, I brought it into the creek, almo t half a mile" A for the fir t, which wa o #a tly big, for I made it without con idering beforehand, a I ought to ha#e done, how I hould be able to launch it, o, ne#er being able to bring it into the water, or bring the water to it, I wa obliged to let it lie where it wa a a memorandum to teach me to be wi er the ne0t time5 indeed, the ne0t time, though I could not get a tree (ro(er for it, and wa in a (lace where I could not get the water to it at any le di tance than, a I ha#e aid, near half a mile, yet, a I aw it wa (racticable at la t, I ne#er ga#e it o#er' and though I wa near two year about it, yet I ne#er grudged my labour, in ho(e of ha#ing a boat to go off to ea at la t" !owe#er, though my little (eriagua wa fini hed, yet the i&e of it wa not at all an werable to the de ign which I had in #iew when I made the fir t' I mean of #enturing o#er to the 8)$$A ,I$/A, where it wa abo#e forty mile broad' accordingly, the mallne of my boat a i ted to (ut an end to that de ign, and now I thought no more of it" A I had a boat, my ne0t de ign wa to make a crui e round the i land' for a I had been on the other ide in one (lace, cro ing, a I ha#e already de cribed it, o#er the land, o the di co#erie I made in that little 1ourney made me #ery eager to ee other (art of the coa t' and now I had a boat, I thought of nothing but ailing round the i land" ,or thi (ur(o e, that I might do e#erything with di cretion and con ideration, I fitted u( a little ma t in my boat, and made a ail too out of ome of the (iece of the hi(2 ail which lay in tore, and of which I had a great tock by me" !a#ing fitted my ma t and ail, and tried the boat, I found he would ail #ery well' then I made little locker or bo0e at each end of my boat, to (ut (ro#i ion , nece arie , ammunition, Fc", into, to be ke(t dry, either from rain or the (ray of the ea' and a little, long, hollow (lace I cut in the in ide of the boat, where I could lay my gun, making a fla( to hang down o#er it to kee( it dry" I fi0ed my umbrella al o in the te( at the tern, like a ma t, to tand o#er my head, and kee( the heat of the un off me, like an awning' and thu I e#ery now and then took a little #oyage u(on the ea, but ne#er went far out, nor far from the little creek" At la t, being eager to #iew the circumference of my little kingdom, I re ol#ed u(on my crui e' and accordingly I #ictualled my hi( for the #oyage, (utting in two do&en of loa#e ?cake I hould call them@ of barley* bread, an earthen (ot full of (arched rice ?a food I ate a good deal of@, a little bottle of rum, half a goat, and (owder and hot for killing more, and two large watch*coat , of tho e which, a I mentioned before, I had a#ed out of the

eamen2 che t ' the e I took, one to lie u(on, and the other to co#er me in the night" It wa the 6th of ;o#ember, in the i0th year of my reign * or my ca(ti#ity, which you (lea e * that I et out on thi #oyage, and I found it much longer than I e0(ected' for though the i land it elf wa not #ery large, yet when I came to the ea t ide of it, I found a great ledge of rock lie out about two league into the ea, ome abo#e water, ome under it' and beyond that a hoal of and, lying dry half a league more, o that I wa obliged to go a great way out to ea to double the (oint" When I fir t di co#ered them, I wa going to gi#e o#er my enter(ri e, and come back again, not knowing how far it might oblige me to go out to ea' and abo#e all, doubting how I hould get back again5 o I came to an anchor' for I had made a kind of an anchor with a (iece of a broken gra((ling which I got out of the hi(" !a#ing ecured my boat, I took my gun and went on hore, climbing u( a hill, which eemed to o#erlook that (oint where I aw the full e0tent of it, and re ol#ed to #enture" In my #iewing the ea from that hill where I tood, I (ercei#ed a trong, and indeed a mo t furiou current, which ran to the ea t, and e#en came clo e to the (oint' and I took the more notice of it becau e I aw there might be ome danger that when I came into it I might be carried out to ea by the trength of it, and not be able to make the i land again' and indeed, had I not got fir t u(on thi hill, I belie#e it would ha#e been o' for there wa the ame current on the other ide the i land, only that it et off at a further di tance, and I aw there wa a trong eddy under the hore' o I had nothing to do but to get out of the fir t current, and I hould (re ently be in an eddy" I lay here, howe#er, two day , becau e the wind blowing (retty fre h at )S)", and that being 1u t contrary to the current, made a great breach of the ea u(on the (oint5 o that it wa not afe for me to kee( too clo e to the hore for the breach, nor to go too far off, becau e of the tream" 8he third day, in the morning, the wind ha#ing abated o#ernight, the ea wa calm, and I #entured5 but I am a warning to all ra h and ignorant (ilot ' for no ooner wa I come to the (oint, when I wa not e#en my boat2 length from the hore, but I found my elf in a great de(th of water, and a current like the luice of a mill' it carried my boat along with it with uch #iolence that all I could do could not kee( her o much a on the edge of it' but I found it hurried me

farther and farther out from the eddy, which wa on my left hand" 8here wa no wind tirring to hel( me, and all I could do with my (addle ignified nothing5 and now I began to gi#e my elf o#er for lo t' for a the current wa on both ide of the i land, I knew in a few league di tance they mu t 1oin again, and then I wa irreco#erably gone' nor did I ee any (o ibility of a#oiding it' o that I had no (ro (ect before me but of (eri hing, not by the ea, for that wa calm enough, but of tar#ing from hunger" I had, indeed, found a tortoi e on the hore, a big almo t a I could lift, and had to ed it into the boat' and I had a great 1ar of fre h water, that i to ay, one of my earthen (ot ' but what wa all thi to being dri#en into the #a t ocean, where, to be ure, there wa no hore, no mainland or i land, for a thou and league at lea t6 And now I aw how ea y it wa for the (ro#idence of 4od to make e#en the mo t mi erable condition of mankind wor e" ;ow I looked back u(on my de olate, olitary i land a the mo t (lea ant (lace in the world and all the ha((ine my heart could wi h for wa to be but there again" I tretched out my hand to it, with eager wi he * 9= ha((y de ert79 aid I, 9I hall ne#er ee thee more" = mi erable creature7 whither am going69 8hen I re(roached my elf with my unthankful tem(er, and that I had re(ined at my olitary condition' and now what would I gi#e to be on hore there again7 8hu , we ne#er ee the true tate of our condition till it i illu trated to u by it contrarie , nor know how to #alue what we en1oy, but by the want of it" It i carcely (o ible to imagine the con ternation I wa now in, being dri#en from my belo#ed i land ?for o it a((eared to me now to be@ into the wide ocean, almo t two league , and in the utmo t de (air of e#er reco#ering it again" !owe#er, I worked hard till, indeed, my trength wa almo t e0hau ted, and ke(t my boat a much to the northward, that i , toward the ide of the current which the eddy lay on, a (o ibly I could' when about noon, a the un (a ed the meridian, I thought I felt a little bree&e of wind in my face, (ringing u( from SS)" 8hi cheered my heart a little, and e (ecially when, in about half* an*hour more, it blew a (retty gentle gale" By thi time I had got at a frightful di tance from the i land, and had the lea t cloudy or ha&y weather inter#ened, I had been undone another way, too' for I had no com(a on board, and hould ne#er ha#e known how to ha#e teered toward the i land, if I had but once lo t ight of it' but the weather continuing clear, I a((lied my elf to get u( my ma t again, and (read my ail, tanding away to the north a much a (o ible, to get out of the current" Au t a I had et my ma t and ail, and the boat began to tretch away, I aw e#en by the clearne of the water ome alteration of the current wa near' for where the current wa o trong the water wa foul' but (ercei#ing the water clear, I found the current abate' and (re ently I found to the ea t, at about half a

mile, a breach of the ea u(on ome rock 5 the e rock I found cau ed the current to (art again, and a the main tre of it ran away more outherly, lea#ing the rock to the north*ea t, o the other returned by the re(ul e of the rock , and made a trong eddy, which ran back again to the north*we t, with a #ery har( tream" 8hey who know what it i to ha#e a re(rie#e brought to them u(on the ladder, or to be re cued from thie#e 1u t going to murder them, or who ha#e been in uch e0tremitie , may gue what my (re ent ur(ri e of 1oy wa , and how gladly I (ut my boat into the tream of thi eddy' and the wind al o fre hening, how gladly I (read my ail to it, running cheerfully before the wind, and with a trong tide or eddy underfoot" 8hi eddy carried me about a league on my way back again, directly toward the i land, but about two league more to the northward than the current which carried me away at fir t' o that when I came near the i land, I found my elf o(en to the northern hore of it, that i to ay, the other end of the i land, o((o ite to that which I went out from" When I had made omething more than a league of way by the hel( of thi current or eddy, I found it wa (ent, and er#ed me no further" !owe#er, I found that being between two great current * #i&" that on the outh ide, which had hurried me away, and that on the north, which lay about a league on the other ide' I ay, between the e two, in the wake of the i land, I found the water at lea t till, and running no way' and ha#ing till a bree&e of wind fair for me, I ke(t on teering directly for the i land, though not making uch fre h way a I did before" About four o2clock in the e#ening, being then within a league of the i land, I found the (oint of the rock which occa ioned thi di a ter tretching out, a i de cribed before, to the outhward, and ca ting off the current more outherly, had, of cour e, made another eddy to the north' and thi I found #ery trong, but not directly etting the way my cour e lay, which wa due we t, but almo t full north" !owe#er, ha#ing a fre h gale, I tretched acro thi eddy, lanting north*we t' and in about an hour came within about a mile of the hore, where, it being mooth water, I oon got to land" When I wa on hore, 4od I fell on my knee and ga#e 4od thank for my deli#erance, re ol#ing to lay a ide all thought of my deli#erance by my boat' and refre hing my elf with uch thing a I had, I brought my boat clo e to the hore, in a little co#e that I had (ied under ome tree , and laid me down to lee(, being 3uite (ent with the labour and fatigue of the #oyage"

I wa now at a great lo which way to get home with my boat7 I had run o much ha&ard, and knew too much of the ca e, to think of attem(ting it by the way I went out' and what might be at the other ide ?I mean the we t ide@ I knew not, nor had I any mind to run any more #enture ' o I re ol#ed on the ne0t morning to make my way we tward along the hore, and to ee if there wa no creek where I might lay u( my frigate in afety, o a to ha#e her again if I wanted her" In about three mile or thereabout , coa ting the hore, I came to a #ery good inlet or bay, about a mile o#er, which narrowed till it came to a #ery little ri#ulet or brook, where I found a #ery con#enient harbour for my boat, and where he lay a if he had been in a little dock made on (ur(o e for her" !ere I (ut in, and ha#ing towed my boat #ery afe, I went on hore to look about me, and ee where I wa " I oon found I had but a little (a ed by the (lace where I had been before, when I tra#elled on foot to that hore' o taking nothing out of my boat but my gun and umbrella, for it wa e0ceedingly hot, I began my march" 8he way wa comfortable enough after uch a #oyage a I had been u(on, and I reached my old bower in the e#ening, where I found e#erything tanding a I left it' for I alway ke(t it in good order, being, a I aid before, my country hou e" I got o#er the fence, and laid me down in the hade to re t my limb , for I wa #ery weary, and fell a lee(' but 1udge you, if you can, that read my tory, what a ur(ri e I mu t be in when I wa awaked out of my lee( by a #oice calling me by my name e#eral time , 9$obin, $obin, $obin +ru oe5 (oor $obin +ru oe7 Where are you, $obin +ru oe6 Where are you6 Where ha#e you been69 I wa o dead a lee( at fir t, being fatigued with rowing, or (art of the day, and with walking the latter (art, that I did not wake thoroughly' but do&ing thought I dreamed that omebody (oke to me' but a the #oice continued to re(eat, 9$obin +ru oe, $obin +ru oe,9 at la t I began to wake more (erfectly, and wa at fir t dreadfully frightened, and tarted u( in the utmo t con ternation' but no ooner were my eye o(en, but I aw my <oll itting on the to( of the hedge' and immediately knew that it wa he that (oke to me' for 1u t in uch bemoaning language I had u ed to talk to him and teach him' and he had learned it o (erfectly that he would it u(on my finger, and lay hi bill clo e to my face and cry, 9<oor $obin +ru oe7 Where are you6 Where ha#e you been6 !ow came you here69 and uch thing a I had taught him" !owe#er, e#en though I knew it wa the (arrot, and that indeed it could be nobody el e, it wa a good while before I could com(o e my elf" ,ir t, I wa ama&ed how the creature got thither' and then, how he hould 1u t kee( about

the (lace, and nowhere el e' but a I wa well ati fied it could be nobody but hone t <oll, I got o#er it' and holding out my hand, and calling him by hi name, 9<oll,9 the ociable creature came to me, and at u(on my thumb, a he u ed to do, and continued talking to me, 9<oor $obin +ru oe7 and how did I come here6 and where had I been69 1u t a if he had been o#er1oyed to ee me again' and o I carried him home along with me" I had now had enough of rambling to ea for ome time, and had enough to do for many day to it till and reflect u(on the danger I had been in" I would ha#e been #ery glad to ha#e had my boat again on my ide of the i land' but I knew not how it wa (racticable to get it about" A to the ea t ide of the i land, which I had gone round, I knew well enough there wa no #enturing that way' my #ery heart would hrink, and my #ery blood run chill, but to think of it' and a to the other ide of the i land, I did not know how it might be there' but u((o ing the current ran with the ame force again t the hore at the ea t a it (a ed by it on the other, I might run the ame ri k of being dri#en down the tream, and carried by the i land, a I had been before of being carried away from it5 o with the e thought , I contented my elf to be without any boat, though it had been the (roduct of o many month 2 labour to make it, and of o many more to get it into the ea" In thi go#ernment of my tem(er I remained near a year' and li#ed a #ery edate, retired life, a you may well u((o e' and my thought being #ery much com(o ed a to my condition, and fully comforted in re igning my elf to the di (o ition of <ro#idence, I thought I li#ed really #ery ha((ily in all thing e0ce(t that of ociety" I im(ro#ed my elf in thi time in all the mechanic e0erci e which my nece itie (ut me u(on a((lying my elf to' and I belie#e I hould, u(on occa ion, ha#e made a #ery good car(enter, e (ecially con idering how few tool I had" Be ide thi , I arri#ed at an une0(ected (erfection in my earthenware, and contri#ed well enough to make them with a wheel, which I found infinitely ea ier and better' becau e I made thing round and ha(ed, which before were filthy thing indeed to look on" But I think I wa ne#er more #ain of my own (erformance, or more 1oyful for anything I found out, than for my being able to make a tobacco*(i(e' and though it wa a #ery ugly, clum y thing when it wa done, and only burned red, like other earthenware, yet a it wa hard and firm, and would draw the moke, I wa e0ceedingly comforted with it, for I had been alway u ed to moke' and there were (i(e in the hi(, but I forgot them at

fir t, not thinking there wa tobacco in the i land' and afterward , when I earched the hi( again, I could not come at any (i(e " In my wicker*ware al o I im(ro#ed much, and made abundance of nece ary ba ket , a well a my in#ention howed me' though not #ery hand ome, yet they were uch a were #ery handy and con#enient for laying thing u( in, or fetching thing home" ,or e0am(le, if I killed a goat abroad, I could hang it u( in a tree, flay it, dre it, and cut it in (iece , and bring it home in a ba ket' and the like by a turtle' I could cut it u(, take out the egg and a (iece or two of the fle h, which wa enough for me, and bring them home in a ba ket, and lea#e the re t behind me" Al o, large dee( ba ket were the recei#er of my corn, which I alway rubbed out a oon a it wa dry and cured, and ke(t it in great ba ket " I began now to (ercei#e my (owder abated con iderably' thi wa a want which it wa im(o ible for me to u((ly, and I began eriou ly to con ider what I mu t do when I hould ha#e no more (owder' that i to ay, how I hould kill any goat " I had, a i ob er#ed in the third year of my being here, ke(t a young kid, and bred her u( tame, and I wa in ho(e of getting a he*goat' but I could not by any mean bring it to (a , till my kid grew an old goat' and a I could ne#er find in my heart to kill her, he died at la t of mere age" But being now in the ele#enth year of my re idence, and, a I ha#e aid, my ammunition growing low, I et my elf to tudy ome art to tra( and nare the goat , to ee whether I could not catch ome of them ali#e' and (articularly I wanted a he*goat great with young" ,or thi (ur(o e I made nare to ham(er them' and I do belie#e they were more than once taken in them' but my tackle wa not good, for I had no wire, and I alway found them broken and my bait de#oured" At length I re ol#ed to try a (itfall' o I dug e#eral large (it in the earth, in (lace where I had ob er#ed the goat u ed to feed, and o#er tho e (it I (laced hurdle of my own making too, with a great weight u(on them' and e#eral time I (ut ear of barley and dry rice without etting the tra(' and I could ea ily (ercei#e that the goat had gone in and eaten u( the corn, for I could ee the mark of their feet" At length I et three tra( in one night, and going the ne0t morning I found them, all tanding, and yet the bait eaten and gone' thi wa #ery di couraging" !owe#er, I altered my tra( ' and not to trouble you with (articular , going one morning to ee my tra( , I found in one of them a large old he*goat' and in one of the other three kid , a male and two female " A to the old one, I knew not what to do with him' he wa o fierce I dur t not go into the (it to him' that i to ay, to bring him away ali#e, which wa what I

wanted" I could ha#e killed him, but that wa not my bu ine , nor would it an wer my end' o I e#en let him out, and he ran away a if he had been frightened out of hi wit " But I did not then know what I afterward learned, that hunger will tame a lion" If I had let him tay three or four day without food, and then ha#e carried him ome water to drink and then a little corn, he would ha#e been a tame a one of the kid ' for they are mighty agaciou , tractable creature , where they are well u ed" !owe#er, for the (re ent I let him go, knowing no better at that time5 then I went to the three kid , and taking them one by one, I tied them with tring together, and with ome difficulty brought them all home" It wa a good while before they would feed' but throwing them ome weet corn, it tem(ted them, and they began to be tame" And now I found that if I e0(ected to u((ly my elf with goat 2 fle h, when I had no (owder or hot left, breeding ome u( tame wa my only way, when, (erha( , I might ha#e them about my hou e like a flock of hee(" But then it occurred to me that I mu t kee( the tame from the wild, or el e they would alway run wild when they grew u(' and the only way for thi wa to ha#e ome enclo ed (iece of ground, well fenced either with hedge or (ale, to kee( them in o effectually, that tho e within might not break out, or tho e without break in" 8hi wa a great undertaking for one (air of hand yet, a I aw there wa an ab olute nece ity for doing it, my fir t work wa to find out a (ro(er (iece of ground, where there wa likely to be herbage for them to eat, water for them to drink, and co#er to kee( them from the un" 8ho e who under tand uch enclo ure will think I had #ery little contri#ance when I (itched u(on a (lace #ery (ro(er for all the e ?being a (lain, o(en (iece of meadow land, or a#annah, a our (eo(le call it in the we tern colonie @, which had two or three little drill of fre h water in it, and at one end wa #ery woody * I ay, they will mile at my foreca t, when I hall tell them I began by enclo ing thi (iece of ground in uch a manner that, my hedge or (ale mu t ha#e been at lea t two mile about" ;or wa the madne of it o great a to the com(a , for if it wa ten mile about, I wa like to ha#e time enough to do it in' but I did not con ider that my goat would be a wild in o much com(a a if they had had the whole i land, and I hould ha#e o much room to cha e them in that I hould ne#er catch them" /y hedge wa begun and carried on, I belie#e, about fifty yard when thi thought occurred to me' o I (re ently to((ed hort, and, for the beginning, I re ol#ed to enclo e a (iece of about one hundred and fifty yard in length, and

one hundred yard in breadth, which, a it would maintain a many a I hould ha#e in any rea onable time, o, a my tock increa ed, I could add more ground to my enclo ure" 8hi wa acting with ome (rudence, and I went to work with courage" I wa about three month hedging in the fir t (iece' and, till I had done it, I tethered the three kid in the be t (art of it, and u ed them to feed a near me a (o ible, to make them familiar' and #ery often I would go and carry them ome ear of barley, or a handful of rice, and feed them out of my hand' o that after my enclo ure wa fini hed and I let them loo e, they would follow me u( and down, bleating after me for a handful of corn" 8hi an wered my end, and in about a year and a half I had a flock of about twel#e goat , kid and all' and in two year more I had three*and*forty, be ide e#eral that I took and killed for my food" After that, I enclo ed fi#e e#eral (iece of ground to feed them in, with little (en to dri#e them to take them a I wanted, and gate out of one (iece of ground into another" But thi wa not all' for now I not only had goat2 fle h to feed on when I (lea ed, but milk too * a thing which, indeed, in the beginning, I did not o much a think of, and which, when it came into my thought , wa really an agreeable ur(ri e, for now I et u( my dairy, and had ometime a gallon or two of milk in a day" And a ;ature, who gi#e u((lie of food to e#ery creature, dictate e#en naturally how to make u e of it, o I, that had ne#er milked a cow, much le a goat, or een butter or chee e made only when I wa a boy, after a great many e ay and mi carriage , made both butter and chee e at la t, al o alt ?though I found it (artly made to my hand by the heat of the un u(on ome of the rock of the ea@, and ne#er wanted it afterward " !ow mercifully can our +reator treat !i creature , e#en in tho e condition in which they eemed to be o#erwhelmed in de truction7 !ow can !e weeten the bittere t (ro#idence , and gi#e u cau e to (rai e !im for dungeon and (ri on 7 What a table wa here (read for me in the wilderne , where I aw nothing at fir t but to (eri h for hunger7

CHAPTER %I - FINDS PRINT THE SAND

F &AN'S F

I8 would ha#e made a Stoic mile to ha#e een me and my little family it down to dinner" 8here wa my ma1e ty the (rince and lord of the whole i land'

I had the li#e of all my ub1ect at my ab olute command' I could hang, draw, gi#e liberty, and take it away, and no rebel among all my ub1ect " 8hen, to ee how like a king I dined, too, all alone, attended by my er#ant 7 <oll, a if he had been my fa#ourite, wa the only (er on (ermitted to talk to me" /y dog, who wa now grown old and cra&y, and had found no (ecie to multi(ly hi kind u(on, at alway at my right hand' and two cat , one on one ide of the table and one on the other, e0(ecting now and then a bit from my hand, a a mark of e (ecial fa#our" But the e were not the two cat which I brought on hore at fir t, for they were both of them dead, and had been interred near my habitation by my own hand' but one of them ha#ing multi(lied by I know not what kind of creature, the e were two which I had (re er#ed tame' wherea the re t ran wild in the wood , and became indeed trouble ome to me at la t, for they would often come into my hou e, and (lunder me too, till at la t I wa obliged to hoot them, and did kill a great many' at length they left me" With thi attendance and in thi (lentiful manner I li#ed' neither could I be aid to want anything but ociety' and of that, ome time after thi , I wa likely to ha#e too much" I wa omething im(atient, a I ha#e ob er#ed, to ha#e the u e of my boat, though #ery loath to run any more ha&ard ' and therefore ometime I at contri#ing way to get her about the i land, and at other time I at my elf down contented enough without her" But I had a trange unea ine in my mind to go down to the (oint of the i land where, a I ha#e aid in my la t ramble, I went u( the hill to ee how the hore lay, and how the current et, that I might ee what I had to do5 thi inclination increa ed u(on me e#ery day, and at length I re ol#ed to tra#el thither by land, following the edge of the hore" I did o' but had any one in )ngland met uch a man a I wa , it mu t either ha#e frightened him, or rai ed a great deal of laughter' and a I fre3uently tood till to look at my elf, I could not but mile at the notion of my tra#elling through York hire with uch an e3ui(age, and in uch a dre " Be (lea ed to take a ketch of my figure, a follow " I had a great high ha(ele ca(, made of a goat2 kin, with a fla( hanging down behind, a well to kee( the un from me a to hoot the rain off from running into my neck, nothing being o hurtful in the e climate a the rain u(on the fle h under the clothe " I had a hort 1acket of goat2 kin, the kirt coming down to about the middle of the thigh , and a (air of o(en*kneed breeche of the ame' the breeche were made of the kin of an old he*goat, who e hair hung down uch a length on either ide that, like (antaloon , it reached to the middle of my leg ' tocking

and hoe I had none, but had made me a (air of omething , I carce knew what to call them, like bu kin , to fla( o#er my leg , and lace on either ide like (atterda he , but of a mo t barbarou ha(e, a indeed were all the re t of my clothe " I had on a broad belt of goat2 kin dried, which I drew together with two thong of the ame in tead of buckle , and in a kind of a frog on either ide of thi , in tead of a word and dagger, hung a little aw and a hatchet, one on one ide and one on the other" I had another belt not o broad, and fa tened in the ame manner, which hung o#er my houlder, and at the end of it, under my left arm, hung two (ouche , both made of goat2 kin too, in one of which hung my (owder, in the other my hot" At my back I carried my ba ket, and on my houlder my gun, and o#er my head a great clum y, ugly, goat2 * kin umbrella, but which, after all, wa the mo t nece ary thing I had about me ne0t to my gun" A for my face, the colour of it wa really not o mulatto*like a one might e0(ect from a man not at all careful of it, and li#ing within nine or ten degree of the e3uino0" /y beard I had once uffered to grow till it wa about a 3uarter of a yard long' but a I had both ci or and ra&or ufficient, I had cut it (retty hort, e0ce(t what grew on my u((er li(, which I had trimmed into a large (air of /ahometan whi ker , uch a I had een worn by ome 8urk at Sallee, for the /oor did not wear uch, though the 8urk did' of the e mou tachio , or whi ker , I will not ay they were long enough to hang my hat u(on them, but they were of a length and ha(e mon trou enough, and uch a in )ngland would ha#e (a ed for frightful" But all thi i by*the*bye' for a to my figure, I had o few to ob er#e me that it wa of no manner of con e3uence, o I ay no more of that" In thi kind of dre I went my new 1ourney, and wa out fi#e or i0 day " I tra#elled fir t along the ea* hore, directly to the (lace where I fir t brought my boat to an anchor to get u(on the rock ' and ha#ing no boat now to take care of, I went o#er the land a nearer way to the ame height that I wa u(on before, when, looking forward to the (oint of the rock which lay out, and which I wa obliged to double with my boat, a i aid abo#e, I wa ur(ri ed to ee the ea all mooth and 3uiet * no ri((ling, no motion, no current, any more there than in other (lace " I wa at a trange lo to under tand thi , and re ol#ed to (end ome time in the ob er#ing it, to ee if nothing from the et of the tide had occa ioned it' but I wa (re ently con#inced how it wa * #i&" that the tide of ebb etting from the we t, and 1oining with the current of water from ome great ri#er on the hore, mu t be the occa ion of thi current, and that, according a the wind blew more forcibly from the we t or from the north, thi current came nearer or went farther from the hore' for, waiting thereabout till e#ening, I went u( to the

rock again, and then the tide of ebb being made, I (lainly aw the current again a before, only that it ran farther off, being near half a league from the hore, wherea in my ca e it et clo e u(on the hore, and hurried me and my canoe along with it, which at another time it would not ha#e done" 8hi ob er#ation con#inced me that I had nothing to do but to ob er#e the ebbing and the flowing of the tide, and I might #ery ea ily bring my boat about the i land again' but when I began to think of (utting it in (ractice, I had uch terror u(on my (irit at the remembrance of the danger I had been in, that I could not think of it again with any (atience, but, on the contrary, I took u( another re olution, which wa more afe, though more laboriou * and thi wa , that I would build, or rather make, me another (eriagua or canoe, and o ha#e one for one ide of the i land, and one for the other" You are to under tand that now I had, a I may call it, two (lantation in the i land * one my little fortification or tent, with the wall about it, under the rock, with the ca#e behind me, which by thi time I had enlarged into e#eral a(artment or ca#e , one within another" =ne of the e, which wa the drie t and large t, and had a door out beyond my wall or fortification * that i to ay, beyond where my wall 1oined to the rock * wa all filled u( with the large earthen (ot of which I ha#e gi#en an account, and with fourteen or fifteen great ba ket , which would hold fi#e or i0 bu hel each, where I laid u( my tore of (ro#i ion , e (ecially my corn, ome in the ear, cut off hort from the traw, and the other rubbed out with my hand" A for my wall, made, a before, with long take or (ile , tho e (ile grew all like tree , and were by thi time grown o big, and (read o #ery much, that there wa not the lea t a((earance, to any one2 #iew, of any habitation behind them" ;ear thi dwelling of mine, but a little farther within the land, and u(on lower ground, lay my two (iece of corn land, which I ke(t duly culti#ated and owed, and which duly yielded me their har#e t in it ea on' and whene#er I had occa ion for more corn, I had more land ad1oining a fit a that" Be ide thi , I had my country eat, and I had now a tolerable (lantation there al o' for, fir t, I had my little bower, a I called it, which I ke(t in re(air * that i to ay, I ke(t the hedge which encircled it in con tantly fitted u( to it u ual height, the ladder tanding alway in the in ide" I ke(t the tree , which at fir t were no more than take , but were now grown #ery firm and tall, alway cut, o that they might (read and grow thick and wild, and make the more agreeable hade, which they did effectually to my mind" In the middle of thi I

had my tent alway tanding, being a (iece of a ail (read o#er (ole , et u( for that (ur(o e, and which ne#er wanted any re(air or renewing' and under thi I had made me a 3uab or couch with the kin of the creature I had killed, and with other oft thing , and a blanket laid on them, uch a belonged to our ea*bedding, which I had a#ed' and a great watch*coat to co#er me" And here, whene#er I had occa ion to be ab ent from my chief eat, I took u( my country habitation" Ad1oining to thi I had my enclo ure for my cattle, that i to ay my goat , and I had taken an inconcei#able deal of (ain to fence and enclo e thi ground" I wa o an0iou to ee it ke(t entire, le t the goat hould break through, that I ne#er left off till, with infinite labour, I had tuck the out ide of the hedge o full of mall take , and o near to one another, that it wa rather a (ale than a hedge, and there wa carce room to (ut a hand through between them' which afterward , when tho e take grew, a they all did in the ne0t rainy ea on, made the enclo ure trong like a wall, indeed tronger than any wall" 8hi will te tify for me that I wa not idle, and that I (ared no (ain to bring to (a whate#er a((eared nece ary for my comfortable u((ort, for I con idered the kee(ing u( a breed of tame creature thu at my hand would be a li#ing maga&ine of fle h, milk, butter, and chee e for me a long a I li#ed in the (lace, if it were to be forty year ' and that kee(ing them in my reach de(ended entirely u(on my (erfecting my enclo ure to uch a degree that I might be ure of kee(ing them together' which by thi method, indeed, I o effectually ecured, that when the e little take began to grow, I had (lanted them o #ery thick that I wa forced to (ull ome of them u( again" In thi (lace al o I had my gra(e growing, which I (rinci(ally de(ended on for my winter tore of rai in , and which I ne#er failed to (re er#e #ery carefully, a the be t and mo t agreeable dainty of my whole diet' and indeed they were not only agreeable, but medicinal, whole ome, nouri hing, and refre hing to the la t degree" A thi wa al o about half*way between my other habitation and the (lace where I had laid u( my boat, I generally tayed and lay here in my way thither, for I u ed fre3uently to #i it my boat' and I ke(t all thing about or belonging to her in #ery good order" Sometime I went out in her to di#ert my elf, but no more ha&ardou #oyage would I go, carcely e#er abo#e a tone2 ca t or two from the hore, I wa o a((rehen i#e of being hurried out of my knowledge again by the current or wind , or any other accident" But now I come to a new cene of my life" It ha((ened one day, about noon, going toward my boat, I wa e0ceedingly ur(ri ed with the (rint of a man2 naked foot on the hore,

which wa #ery (lain to be een on the and" I tood like one thunder truck, or a if I had een an a((arition" I li tened, I looked round me, but I could hear nothing, nor ee anything' I went u( to a ri ing ground to look farther' I went u( the hore and down the hore, but it wa all one' I could ee no other im(re ion but that one" I went to it again to ee if there were any more, and to ob er#e if it might not be my fancy' but there wa no room for that, for there wa e0actly the (rint of a foot * toe , heel, and e#ery (art of a foot" !ow it came thither I knew not, nor could I in the lea t imagine' but after innumerable fluttering thought , like a man (erfectly confu ed and out of my elf, I came home to my fortification, not feeling, a we ay, the ground I went on, but terrified to the la t degree, looking behind me at e#ery two or three te( , mi taking e#ery bu h and tree, and fancying e#ery tum( at a di tance to be a man" ;or i it (o ible to de cribe how many #ariou ha(e my affrighted imagination re(re ented thing to me in, how many wild idea were found e#ery moment in my fancy, and what trange, unaccountable whim ie came into my thought by the way" When I came to my ca tle ?for o I think I called it e#er after thi @, I fled into it like one (ur ued" Whether I went o#er by the ladder, a fir t contri#ed, or went in at the hole in the rock, which I had called a door, I cannot remember' no, nor could I remember the ne0t morning, for ne#er frightened hare fled to co#er, or fo0 to earth, with more terror of mind than I to thi retreat" I le(t none that night' the farther I wa from the occa ion of my fright, the greater my a((rehen ion were, which i omething contrary to the nature of uch thing , and e (ecially to the u ual (ractice of all creature in fear' but I wa o embarra ed with my own frightful idea of the thing, that I formed nothing but di mal imagination to my elf, e#en though I wa now a great way off" Sometime I fancied it mu t be the de#il, and rea on 1oined in with me in thi u((o ition, for how hould any other thing in human ha(e come into the (lace6 Where wa the #e el that brought them6 What mark were there of any other foot te(6 And how wa it (o ible a man hould come there6 But then, to think that Satan hould take human ha(e u(on him in uch a (lace, where there could be no manner of occa ion for it, but to lea#e the (rint of hi foot behind him, and that e#en for no (ur(o e too, for he could not be ure I hould ee it * thi wa an amu ement the other way" I con idered that the de#il might ha#e found out abundance of other way to ha#e terrified me than thi of the ingle (rint of a foot' that a I li#ed 3uite on the other ide of the i land, he would ne#er ha#e been o im(le a to lea#e a mark in a (lace where it wa ten thou and to one whether I hould e#er ee it or not, and in the and too, which the fir t urge of the ea, u(on a high wind, would ha#e defaced entirely" All

thi eemed incon i tent with the thing it elf and with all the notion we u ually entertain of the ubtlety of the de#il" Abundance of uch thing a the e a i ted to argue me out of all a((rehen ion of it being the de#il' and I (re ently concluded then that it mu t be ome more dangerou creature * #i&" that it mu t be ome of the a#age of the mainland o((o ite who had wandered out to ea in their canoe , and either dri#en by the current or by contrary wind , had made the i land, and had been on hore, but were gone away again to ea' being a loath, (erha( , to ha#e tayed in thi de olate i land a I would ha#e been to ha#e had them" While the e reflection were rolling in my mind, I wa #ery thankful in my thought that I wa o ha((y a not to be thereabout at that time, or that they did not ee my boat, by which they would ha#e concluded that ome inhabitant had been in the (lace, and (erha( ha#e earched farther for me" 8hen terrible thought racked my imagination about their ha#ing found out my boat, and that there were (eo(le here' and that, if o, I hould certainly ha#e them come again in greater number and de#our me' that if it hould ha((en that they hould not find me, yet they would find my enclo ure, de troy all my corn, and carry away all my flock of tame goat , and I hould (eri h at la t for mere want" 8hu my fear bani hed all my religiou ho(e, all that former confidence in 4od, which wa founded u(on uch wonderful e0(erience a I had had of !i goodne ' a if !e that had fed me by miracle hitherto could not (re er#e, by !i (ower, the (ro#i ion which !e had made for me by !i goodne " I re(roached my elf with my la&ine , that would not ow any more corn one year than would 1u t er#e me till the ne0t ea on, a if no accident could inter#ene to (re#ent my en1oying the cro( that wa u(on the ground' and thi I thought o 1u t a re(roof, that I re ol#ed for the future to ha#e two or three year 2 corn beforehand' o that, whate#er might come, I might not (eri h for want of bread" !ow trange a che3uer*work of <ro#idence i the life of man7 and by what ecret different (ring are the affection hurried about, a different circum tance (re ent7 8o*day we lo#e what to*morrow we hate' to*day we eek what to*morrow we hun' to*day we de ire what to*morrow we fear, nay, e#en tremble at the a((rehen ion of" 8hi wa e0em(lified in me, at thi time, in the mo t li#ely manner imaginable' for I, who e only affliction wa that I eemed bani hed from human ociety, that I wa alone, circum cribed by the boundle ocean, cut off from mankind, and condemned to what I call ilent life' that I wa a one whom !ea#en thought not worthy to be numbered among the li#ing, or to a((ear among the re t of !i creature ' that to ha#e een one of

my own (ecie would ha#e eemed to me a rai ing me from death to life, and the greate t ble ing that !ea#en it elf, ne0t to the u(reme ble ing of al#ation, could be tow' I ay, that I hould now tremble at the #ery a((rehen ion of eeing a man, and wa ready to ink into the ground at but the hadow or ilent a((earance of a man ha#ing et hi foot in the i land" Such i the une#en tate of human life' and it afforded me a great many curiou (eculation afterward , when I had a little reco#ered my fir t ur(ri e" I con idered that thi wa the tation of life the infinitely wi e and good (ro#idence of 4od had determined for me' that a I could not fore ee what the end of .i#ine wi dom might be in all thi , o I wa not to di (ute !i o#ereignty' who, a I wa !i creature, had an undoubted right, by creation, to go#ern and di (o e of me ab olutely a !e thought fit' and who, a I wa a creature that had offended !im, had likewi e a 1udicial right to condemn me to what (uni hment !e thought fit' and that it wa my (art to ubmit to bear !i indignation, becau e I had inned again t !im" I then reflected, that a 4od, who wa not only righteou but omni(otent, had thought fit thu to (uni h and afflict me, o !e wa able to deli#er me5 that if !e did not think fit to do o, it wa my un3ue tioned duty to re ign my elf ab olutely and entirely to !i will' and, on the other hand, it wa my duty al o to ho(e in !im, (ray to !im, and 3uietly to attend to the dictate and direction of !i daily (ro#idence, 8he e thought took me u( many hour , day , nay, I may ay week and month 5 and one (articular effect of my cogitation on thi occa ion I cannot omit" =ne morning early, lying in my bed, and filled with thought about my danger from the a((earance of a#age , I found it di com(o ed me #ery much' u(on which the e word of the Scri(ture came into my thought , 9+all u(on /e in the day of trouble, and I will deli#er thee, and thou halt glorify /e"9 >(on thi , ri ing cheerfully out of my bed, my heart wa not only comforted, but I wa guided and encouraged to (ray earne tly to 4od for deli#erance5 when I had done (raying I took u( my Bible, and o(ening it to read, the fir t word that (re ented to me were, 9Wait on the -ord, and be of good cheer, and !e hall trengthen thy heart' wait, I ay, on the -ord"9 It i im(o ible to e0(re the comfort thi ga#e me" In an wer, I thankfully laid down the book, and wa no more ad, at lea t on that occa ion" In the middle of the e cogitation , a((rehen ion , and reflection , it came into my thought one day that all thi might be a mere chimera of my own, and that thi foot might be the (rint of my own foot, when I came on hore from my boat5 thi cheered me u( a little, too, and I began to (er uade my elf it wa all a delu ion' that it wa nothing el e but my own foot' and why might I not come

that way from the boat, a well a I wa going that way to the boat6 Again, I con idered al o that I could by no mean tell for certain where I had trod, and where I had not' and that if, at la t, thi wa only the (rint of my own foot, I had (layed the (art of tho e fool who try to make torie of (ectre and a((arition , and then are frightened at them more than anybody" ;ow I began to take courage, and to (ee( abroad again, for I had not tirred out of my ca tle for three day and night , o that I began to tar#e for (ro#i ion ' for I had little or nothing within door but ome barley*cake and water' then I knew that my goat wanted to be milked too, which u ually wa my e#ening di#er ion5 and the (oor creature were in great (ain and incon#enience for want of it' and, indeed, it almo t (oiled ome of them, and almo t dried u( their milk" )ncouraging my elf, therefore, with the belief that thi wa nothing but the (rint of one of my own feet, and that I might be truly aid to tart at my own hadow, I began to go abroad again, and went to my country hou e to milk my flock5 but to ee with what fear I went forward, how often I looked behind me, how I wa ready e#ery now and then to lay down my ba ket and run for my life, it would ha#e made any one ha#e thought I wa haunted with an e#il con cience, or that I had been lately mo t terribly frightened' and o, indeed, I had" !owe#er, I went down thu two or three day , and ha#ing een nothing, I began to be a little bolder, and to think there wa really nothing in it but my own imagination' but I could not (er uade my elf fully of thi till I hould go down to the hore again, and ee thi (rint of a foot, and mea ure it by my own, and ee if there wa any imilitude or fitne , that I might be a ured it wa my own foot5 but when I came to the (lace, fir t, it a((eared e#idently to me, that when I laid u( my boat I could not (o ibly be on hore anywhere thereabout ' econdly, when I came to mea ure the mark with my own foot, I found my foot not o large by a great deal" Both the e thing filled my head with new imagination , and ga#e me the #a(our again to the highe t degree, o that I hook with cold like one in an ague' and I went home again, filled with the belief that ome man or men had been on hore there' or, in hort, that the i land wa inhabited, and I might be ur(ri ed before I wa aware' and what cour e to take for my ecurity I knew not" =h, what ridiculou re olution men take when (o e ed with fear7 It de(ri#e them of the u e of tho e mean which rea on offer for their relief" 8he fir t thing I (ro(o ed to my elf wa , to throw down my enclo ure , and turn all my tame cattle wild into the wood , le t the enemy hould find them, and then fre3uent the i land in (ro (ect of the ame or the like booty5 then the im(le thing of digging u( my two corn*field , le t they hould find uch a grain there, and till be (rom(ted to fre3uent the i land5 then to demoli h my bower and

tent, that they might not ee any #e tige of habitation, and be (rom(ted to look farther, in order to find out the (er on inhabiting" 8he e were the ub1ect of the fir t night2 cogitation after I wa come home again, while the a((rehen ion which had o o#errun my mind were fre h u(on me, and my head wa full of #a(our " 8hu , fear of danger i ten thou and time more terrifying than danger it elf, when a((arent to the eye ' and we find the burden of an0iety greater, by much, than the e#il which we are an0iou about5 and what wa wor e than all thi , I had not that relief in thi trouble that from the re ignation I u ed to (racti e I ho(ed to ha#e" I looked, I thought, like Saul, who com(lained not only that the <hili tine were u(on him, but that 4od had for aken him' for I did not now take due way to com(o e my mind, by crying to 4od in my di tre , and re ting u(on !i (ro#idence, a I had done before, for my defence and deli#erance' which, if I had done, I had at lea t been more cheerfully u((orted under thi new ur(ri e, and (erha( carried through it with more re olution" 8hi confu ion of my thought ke(t me awake all night' but in the morning I fell a lee(' and ha#ing, by the amu ement of my mind, been a it were tired, and my (irit e0hau ted, I le(t #ery oundly, and waked much better com(o ed than I had e#er been before" And now I began to think edately' and, u(on debate with my elf, I concluded that thi i land ?which wa o e0ceedingly (lea ant, fruitful, and no farther from the mainland than a I had een@ wa not o entirely abandoned a I might imagine' that although there were no tated inhabitant who li#ed on the (ot, yet that there might ometime come boat off from the hore, who, either with de ign, or (erha( ne#er but when they were dri#en by cro wind , might come to thi (lace' that I had li#ed there fifteen year now and had not met with the lea t hadow or figure of any (eo(le yet' and that, if at any time they hould be dri#en here, it wa (robable they went away again a oon a e#er they could, eeing they had ne#er thought fit to fi0 here u(on any occa ion' that the mo t I could ugge t any danger from wa from any ca ual accidental landing of traggling (eo(le from the main, who, a it wa likely, if they were dri#en hither, were here again t their will , o they made no tay here, but went off again with all (o ible (eed' eldom taying one night on hore, le t they hould not ha#e the hel( of the tide and daylight back again' and that, therefore, I had nothing to do but to con ider of ome afe retreat, in ca e I hould ee any a#age land u(on the (ot" ;ow, I began orely to re(ent that I had dug my ca#e o large a to bring a door through again, which door, a I aid, came out beyond where my fortification

1oined to the rock5 u(on maturely con idering thi , therefore, I re ol#ed to draw me a econd fortification, in the manner of a emicircle, at a di tance from my wall, 1u t where I had (lanted a double row of tree about twel#e year before, of which I made mention5 the e tree ha#ing been (lanted o thick before, they wanted but few (ile to be dri#en between them, that they might be thicker and tronger, and my wall would be oon fini hed" So that I had now a double wall' and my outer wall wa thickened with (iece of timber, old cable , and e#erything I could think of, to make it trong' ha#ing in it e#en little hole , about a big a I might (ut my arm out at" In the in ide of thi I thickened my wall to about ten feet thick with continually bringing earth out of my ca#e, and laying it at the foot of the wall, and walking u(on it' and through the e#en hole I contri#ed to (lant the mu ket , of which I took notice that I had got e#en on hore out of the hi(' the e I (lanted like my cannon, and fitted them into frame , that held them like a carriage, o that I could fire all the e#en gun in two minute 2 time' thi wall I wa many a weary month in fini hing, and yet ne#er thought my elf afe till it wa done" When thi wa done I tuck all the ground without my wall, for a great length e#ery way, a full with take or tick of the o ier* like wood, which I found o a(t to grow, a they could well tand' in omuch that I belie#e I might et in near twenty thou and of them, lea#ing a (retty large (ace between them and my wall, that I might ha#e room to ee an enemy, and they might ha#e no helter from the young tree , if they attem(ted to a((roach my outer wall" 8hu in two year 2 time I had a thick gro#e' and in fi#e or i0 year 2 time I had a wood before my dwelling, growing o mon trou ly thick and trong that it wa indeed (erfectly im(a able5 and no men, of what kind oe#er, could e#er imagine that there wa anything beyond it, much le a habitation" A for the way which I (ro(o ed to my elf to go in and out ?for I left no a#enue@, it wa by etting two ladder , one to a (art of the rock which wa low, and then broke in, and left room to (lace another ladder u(on that' o when the two ladder were taken down no man li#ing could come down to me without doing him elf mi chief' and if they had come down, they were till on the out ide of my outer wall" 8hu I took all the mea ure human (rudence could ugge t for my own (re er#ation' and it will be een at length that they were not altogether without 1u t rea on' though I fore aw nothing at that time more than my mere fear ugge ted to me"

CHAPTER %II - A CAVE RETREAT

W!I-) thi wa doing, I wa not altogether carele of my other affair ' for I had a great concern u(on me for my little herd of goat 5 they were not only a ready u((ly to me on e#ery occa ion, and began to be ufficient for me, without the e0(en e of (owder and hot, but al o without the fatigue of hunting after the wild one ' and I wa loath to lo e the ad#antage of them, and to ha#e them all to nur e u( o#er again" ,or thi (ur(o e, after long con ideration, I could think of but two way to (re er#e them5 one wa , to find another con#enient (lace to dig a ca#e underground, and to dri#e them into it e#ery night' and the other wa to enclo e two or three little bit of land, remote from one another, and a much concealed a I could, where I might kee( about half*a*do&en young goat in each (lace' o that if any di a ter ha((ened to the flock in general, I might be able to rai e them again with little trouble and time5 and thi though it would re3uire a good deal of time and labour, I thought wa the mo t rational de ign" Accordingly, I (ent ome time to find out the mo t retired (art of the i land' and I (itched u(on one, which wa a (ri#ate, indeed, a my heart could wi h5 it wa a little dam( (iece of ground in the middle of the hollow and thick wood , where, a i ob er#ed, I almo t lo t my elf once before, endea#ouring to come back that way from the ea tern (art of the i land" !ere I found a clear (iece of land, near three acre , o urrounded with wood that it wa almo t an enclo ure by nature' at lea t, it did not want near o much labour to make it o a the other (iece of ground I had worked o hard at" I immediately went to work with thi (iece of ground' and in le than a month2 time I had o fenced it round that my flock, or herd, call it which you (lea e, which were not o wild now a at fir t they might be u((o ed to be, were well enough ecured in it5 o, without any further delay, I remo#ed ten young he*goat and two he*goat to thi (iece, and when they were there I continued to (erfect the fence till I had made it a ecure a the other' which, howe#er, I did at more lei ure, and it took me u( more time by a great deal" All thi labour I wa at the e0(en e of, (urely from my a((rehen ion on account of the (rint of a man2 foot' for a yet I had ne#er een any human creature come near the i land' and I had now li#ed two year under thi unea ine , which, indeed, made my life much le comfortable than it wa before, a may be well imagined by any who know what it i to li#e in the con tant nare of the fear of man" And thi I mu t ob er#e, with grief, too, that the di com(o ure of my mind had great im(re ion al o u(on the religiou (art of my thought ' for the dread and terror of falling into the hand of a#age and cannibal lay o

u(on my (irit , that I eldom found my elf in a due tem(er for a((lication to my /aker' at lea t, not with the edate calmne and re ignation of oul which I wa wont to do5 I rather (rayed to 4od a under great affliction and (re ure of mind, urrounded with danger, and in e0(ectation e#ery night of being murdered and de#oured before morning' and I mu t te tify, from my e0(erience, that a tem(er of (eace, thankfulne , lo#e, and affection, i much the more (ro(er frame for (rayer than that of terror and di com(o ure5 and that under the dread of mi chief im(ending, a man i no more fit for a comforting (erformance of the duty of (raying to 4od than he i for a re(entance on a ick* bed' for the e di com(o ure affect the mind, a the other do the body' and the di com(o ure of the mind mu t nece arily be a great a di ability a that of the body, and much greater' (raying to 4od being (ro(erly an act of the mind, not of the body" But to go on" After I had thu ecured one (art of my little li#ing tock, I went about the whole i land, earching for another (ri#ate (lace to make uch another de(o it' when, wandering more to the we t (oint of the i land than I had e#er done yet, and looking out to ea, I thought I aw a boat u(on the ea, at a great di tance" I had found a (er (ecti#e gla or two in one of the eamen2 che t , which I a#ed out of our hi(, but I had it not about me' and thi wa o remote that I could not tell what to make of it, though I looked at it till my eye were not able to hold to look any longer' whether it wa a boat or not I do not know, but a I de cended from the hill I could ee no more of it, o I ga#e it o#er' only I re ol#ed to go no more out without a (er (ecti#e gla in my (ocket" When I wa come down the hill to the end of the i land, where, indeed, I had ne#er been before, I wa (re ently con#inced that the eeing the (rint of a man2 foot wa not uch a trange thing in the i land a I imagined5 and but that it wa a (ecial (ro#idence that I wa ca t u(on the ide of the i land where the a#age ne#er came, I hould ea ily ha#e known that nothing wa more fre3uent than for the canoe from the main, when they ha((ened to be a little too far out at ea, to hoot o#er to that ide of the i land for harbour5 likewi e, a they often met and fought in their canoe , the #ictor , ha#ing taken any (ri oner , would bring them o#er to thi hore, where, according to their dreadful cu tom , being all cannibal , they would kill and eat them' of which hereafter" When I wa come down the hill to the hore, a I aid abo#e, being the SW" (oint of the i land, I wa (erfectly confounded and ama&ed' nor i it (o ible for me to e0(re the horror of my mind at eeing the hore (read with kull , hand , feet, and other bone of human bodie ' and (articularly I ob er#ed a (lace where there had been a fire made, and a circle dug in the earth, like a

cock(it, where I u((o ed the a#age wretche had at down to their human fea ting u(on the bodie of their fellow*creature " I wa o a toni hed with the ight of the e thing , that I entertained no notion of any danger to my elf from it for a long while5 all my a((rehen ion were buried in the thought of uch a (itch of inhuman, helli h brutality, and the horror of the degeneracy of human nature, which, though I had heard of it often, yet I ne#er had o near a #iew of before' in hort, I turned away my face from the horrid (ectacle' my tomach grew ick, and I wa 1u t at the (oint of fainting, when nature di charged the di order from my tomach' and ha#ing #omited with uncommon #iolence, I wa a little relie#ed, but could not bear to tay in the (lace a moment' o I got u( the hill again with all the (eed I could, and walked on toward my own habitation" When I came a little out of that (art of the i land I tood till awhile, a ama&ed, and then, reco#ering my elf, I looked u( with the utmo t affection of my oul, and, with a flood of tear in my eye , ga#e 4od thank , that had ca t my fir t lot in a (art of the world where I wa di tingui hed from uch dreadful creature a the e' and that, though I had e teemed my (re ent condition #ery mi erable, had yet gi#en me o many comfort in it that I had till more to gi#e thank for than to com(lain of5 and thi , abo#e all, that I had, e#en in thi mi erable condition, been comforted with the knowledge of !im elf, and the ho(e of !i ble ing5 which wa a felicity more than ufficiently e3ui#alent to all the mi ery which I had uffered, or could uffer" In thi frame of thankfulne I went home to my ca tle, and began to be much ea ier now, a to the afety of my circum tance , than e#er I wa before5 for I ob er#ed that the e wretche ne#er came to thi i land in earch of what they could get' (erha( not eeking, not wanting, or not e0(ecting anything here' and ha#ing often, no doubt, been u( the co#ered, woody (art of it without finding anything to their (ur(o e" I knew I had been here now almo t eighteen year , and ne#er aw the lea t foot te( of human creature there before' and I might be eighteen year more a entirely concealed a I wa now, if I did not di co#er my elf to them, which I had no manner of occa ion to do' it being my only bu ine to kee( my elf entirely concealed where I wa , unle I found a better ort of creature than cannibal to make my elf known to" Yet I entertained uch an abhorrence of the a#age wretche that I ha#e been (eaking of, and of the wretched, inhuman cu tom of their de#ouring and eating one another u(, that I continued (en i#e and ad, and ke(t clo e within my own circle for almo t two year after thi 5 when I ay my own circle, I mean by it my three (lantation * #i&" my ca tle, my country eat ?which I

called my bower@, and my enclo ure in the wood 5 nor did I look after thi for any other u e than an enclo ure for my goat ' for the a#er ion which nature ga#e me to the e helli h wretche wa uch, that I wa a fearful of eeing them a of eeing the de#il him elf" I did not o much a go to look after my boat all thi time, but began rather to think of making another' for I could not think of e#er making any more attem(t to bring the other boat round the i land to me, le t I hould meet with ome of the e creature at ea' in which ca e, if I had ha((ened to ha#e fallen into their hand , I knew what would ha#e been my lot" 8ime, howe#er, and the ati faction I had that I wa in no danger of being di co#ered by the e (eo(le, began to wear off my unea ine about them' and I began to li#e 1u t in the ame com(o ed manner a before, only with thi difference, that I u ed more caution, and ke(t my eye more about me than I did before, le t I hould ha((en to be een by any of them' and (articularly, I wa more cautiou of firing my gun, le t any of them, being on the i land, hould ha((en to hear it" It wa , therefore, a #ery good (ro#idence to me that I had furni hed my elf with a tame breed of goat , and that I had no need to hunt any more about the wood , or hoot at them' and if I did catch any of them after thi , it wa by tra( and nare , a I had done before' o that for two year after thi I belie#e I ne#er fired my gun once off, though I ne#er went out without it' and what wa more, a I had a#ed three (i tol out of the hi(, I alway carried them out with me, or at lea t two of them, ticking them in my goat* kin belt" I al o furbi hed u( one of the great cutla e that I had out of the hi(, and made me a belt to hang it on al o' o that I wa now a mo t formidable fellow to look at when I went abroad, if you add to the former de cri(tion of my elf the (articular of two (i tol , and a broad word hanging at my ide in a belt, but without a cabbard" 8hing going on thu , a I ha#e aid, for ome time, I eemed, e0ce(ting the e caution , to be reduced to my former calm, edate way of li#ing" All the e thing tended to how me more and more how far my condition wa from being mi erable, com(ared to ome other ' nay, to many other (articular of life which it might ha#e (lea ed 4od to ha#e made my lot" It (ut me u(on reflecting how little re(ining there would be among mankind at any condition of life if (eo(le would rather com(are their condition with tho e that were wor e, in order to be thankful, than be alway com(aring them with tho e which are better, to a i t their murmuring and com(laining " A in my (re ent condition there were not really many thing which I wanted, o indeed I thought that the fright I had been in about the e a#age wretche , and the concern I had been in for my own (re er#ation, had taken off the edge

of my in#ention, for my own con#enience ' and I had dro((ed a good de ign, which I had once bent my thought u(on, and that wa to try if I could not make ome of my barley into malt, and then try to brew my elf ome beer" 8hi wa really a whim ical thought, and I re(ro#ed my elf often for the im(licity of it5 for I (re ently aw there would be the want of e#eral thing nece ary to the making my beer that it would be im(o ible for me to u((ly' a , fir t, ca k to (re er#e it in, which wa a thing that, a I ha#e ob er#ed already, I could ne#er com(a 5 no, though I (ent not only many day , but week , nay month , in attem(ting it, but to no (ur(o e" In the ne0t (lace, I had no ho( to make it kee(, no yea t to made it work, no co((er or kettle to make it boil' and yet with all the e thing wanting, I #erily belie#e, had not the fright and terror I wa in about the a#age inter#ened, I had undertaken it, and (erha( brought it to (a too' for I eldom ga#e anything o#er without accom(li hing it, when once I had it in my head to began it" But my in#ention now ran 3uite another way' for night and day I could think of nothing but how I might de troy ome of the mon ter in their cruel, bloody entertainment, and if (o ible a#e the #ictim they hould bring hither to de troy" It would take u( a larger #olume than thi whole work i intended to be to et down all the contri#ance I hatched, or rather brooded u(on, in my thought , for the de troying the e creature , or at lea t frightening them o a to (re#ent their coming hither any more5 but all thi wa aborti#e' nothing could be (o ible to take effect, unle I wa to be there to do it my elf5 and what could one man do among them, when (erha( there might be twenty or thirty of them together with their dart , or their bow and arrow , with which they could hoot a true to a mark a I could with my gun6 Sometime I thought if digging a hole under the (lace where they made their fire, and (utting in fi#e or i0 (ound of gun(owder, which, when they kindled their fire, would con e3uently take fire, and blow u( all that wa near it5 but a , in the fir t (lace, I hould be unwilling to wa te o much (owder u(on them, my tore being now within the 3uantity of one barrel, o neither could I be ure of it going off at any certain time, when it might ur(ri e them' and, at be t, that it would do little more than 1u t blow the fire about their ear and fright them, but not ufficient to make them for ake the (lace5 o I laid it a ide' and then (ro(o ed that I would (lace my elf in ambu h in ome con#enient (lace, with my three gun all double*loaded, and in the middle of their bloody ceremony let fly at them, when I hould be ure to kill or wound (erha( two or three at e#ery hot' and then falling in u(on them with my three (i tol and my word, I made no doubt but that, if there were twenty, I hould kill them all" 8hi fancy (lea ed my thought for ome week , and I wa o full of it that I often dreamed of it, and, ometime , that I wa 1u t going to let fly at them in

my lee(" I went o far with it in my imagination that I em(loyed my elf e#eral day to find out (ro(er (lace to (ut my elf in ambu cade, a I aid, to watch for them, and I went fre3uently to the (lace it elf, which wa now grown more familiar to me' but while my mind wa thu filled with thought of re#enge and a bloody (utting twenty or thirty of them to the word, a I may call it, the horror I had at the (lace, and at the ignal of the barbarou wretche de#ouring one another, abetted my malice" Well, at length I found a (lace in the ide of the hill where I wa ati fied I might ecurely wait till I aw any of their boat coming' and might then, e#en before they would be ready to come on hore, con#ey my elf un een into ome thicket of tree , in one of which there wa a hollow large enough to conceal me entirely' and there I might it and ob er#e all their bloody doing , and take my full aim at their head , when they were o clo e together a that it would be ne0t to im(o ible that I hould mi my hot, or that I could fail wounding three or four of them at the fir t hot" In thi (lace, then, I re ol#ed to fulfil my de ign' and accordingly I (re(ared two mu ket and my ordinary fowling*(iece" 8he two mu ket I loaded with a brace of lug each, and four or fi#e maller bullet , about the i&e of (i tol bullet ' and the fowling* (iece I loaded with near a handful of wan* hot of the large t i&e' I al o loaded my (i tol with about four bullet each' and, in thi (o ture, well (ro#ided with ammunition for a econd and third charge, I (re(ared my elf for my e0(edition" After I had thu laid the cheme of my de ign, and in my imagination (ut it in (ractice, I continually made my tour e#ery morning to the to( of the hill, which wa from my ca tle, a I called it, about three mile or more, to ee if I could ob er#e any boat u(on the ea, coming near the i land, or tanding o#er toward it' but I began to tire of thi hard duty, after I had for two or three month con tantly ke(t my watch, but came alway back without any di co#ery' there ha#ing not, in all that time, been the lea t a((earance, not only on or near the hore, but on the whole ocean, o far a my eye or gla could reach e#ery way" A long a I ke(t my daily tour to the hill, to look out, o long al o I ke(t u( the #igour of my de ign, and my (irit eemed to be all the while in a uitable frame for o outrageou an e0ecution a the killing twenty or thirty naked a#age , for an offence which I had not at all entered into any di cu ion of in my thought , any farther than my (a ion were at fir t fired by the horror I concei#ed at the unnatural cu tom of the (eo(le of that country, who, it eem , had been uffered by <ro#idence, in !i wi e di (o ition of the world, to ha#e no other guide than that of their own abominable and #itiated (a ion ' and con e3uently were left, and (erha( had been o for ome age , to act uch

horrid thing , and recei#e uch dreadful cu tom , a nothing but nature, entirely abandoned by !ea#en, and actuated by ome helli h degeneracy, could ha#e run them into" But now, when, a I ha#e aid, I began to be weary of the fruitle e0cur ion which I had made o long and o far e#ery morning in #ain, o my o(inion of the action it elf began to alter' and I began, with cooler and calmer thought , to con ider what I wa going to engage in' what authority or call I had to (retend to be 1udge and e0ecutioner u(on the e men a criminal , whom !ea#en had thought fit for o many age to uffer un(uni hed to go on, and to be a it were the e0ecutioner of !i 1udgment one u(on another' how far the e (eo(le were offender again t me, and what right I had to engage in the 3uarrel of that blood which they hed (romi cuou ly u(on one another" I debated thi #ery often with my elf thu 5 9!ow do I know what 4od !im elf 1udge in thi (articular ca e6 It i certain the e (eo(le do not commit thi a a crime' it i not again t their own con cience re(ro#ing, or their light re(roaching them' they do not know it to be an offence, and then commit it in defiance of di#ine 1u tice, a we do in almo t all the in we commit" 8hey think it no more a crime to kill a ca(ti#e taken in war than we do to kill an o0' or to eat human fle h than we do to eat mutton"9 When I con idered thi a little, it followed nece arily that I wa certainly in the wrong' that the e (eo(le were not murderer , in the en e that I had before condemned them in my thought , any more than tho e +hri tian were murderer who often (ut to death the (ri oner taken in battle' or more fre3uently, u(on many occa ion , (ut whole troo( of men to the word, without gi#ing 3uarter, though they threw down their arm and ubmitted" In the ne0t (lace, it occurred to me that although the u age they ga#e one another wa thu bruti h and inhuman, yet it wa really nothing to me5 the e (eo(le had done me no in1ury5 that if they attem(ted, or I aw it nece ary, for my immediate (re er#ation, to fall u(on them, omething might be aid for it5 but that I wa yet out of their (ower, and they really had no knowledge of me, and con e3uently no de ign u(on me' and therefore it could not be 1u t for me to fall u(on them' that thi would 1u tify the conduct of the S(aniard in all their barbaritie (racti ed in America, where they de troyed million of the e (eo(le' who, howe#er they were idolator and barbarian , and had e#eral bloody and barbarou rite in their cu tom , uch a acrificing human bodie to their idol , were yet, a to the S(aniard , #ery innocent (eo(le' and that the rooting them out of the country i (oken of with the utmo t abhorrence and dete tation by e#en the S(aniard them el#e at thi time, and by all other +hri tian nation of )uro(e, a a mere butchery, a bloody and unnatural (iece of cruelty, un1u tifiable either to 4od or man' and for which the #ery name of a S(aniard i reckoned to be frightful and terrible, to all (eo(le of humanity or of +hri tian

com(a ion' a if the kingdom of S(ain were (articularly eminent for the (roduce of a race of men who were without (rinci(le of tenderne , or the common bowel of (ity to the mi erable, which i reckoned to be a mark of generou tem(er in the mind" 8he e con ideration really (ut me to a (au e, and to a kind of a full to(' and I began by little and little to be off my de ign, and to conclude I had taken wrong mea ure in my re olution to attack the a#age ' and that it wa not my bu ine to meddle with them, unle they fir t attacked me' and thi it wa my bu ine , if (o ible, to (re#ent5 but that, if I were di co#ered and attacked by them, I knew my duty" =n the other hand, I argued with my elf that thi really wa the way not to deli#er my elf, but entirely to ruin and de troy my elf' for unle I wa ure to kill e#ery one that not only hould be on hore at that time, but that hould e#er come on hore afterward , if but one of them e ca(ed to tell their country*(eo(le what had ha((ened, they would come o#er again by thou and to re#enge the death of their fellow , and I hould only bring u(on my elf a certain de truction, which, at (re ent, I had no manner of occa ion for" >(on the whole, I concluded that I ought, neither in (rinci(le nor in (olicy, one way or other, to concern my elf in thi affair5 that my bu ine wa , by all (o ible mean to conceal my elf from them, and not to lea#e the lea t ign for them to gue by that there were any li#ing creature u(on the i land * I mean of human ha(e" $eligion 1oined in with thi (rudential re olution' and I wa con#inced now, many way , that I wa (erfectly out of my duty when I wa laying all my bloody cheme for the de truction of innocent creature * I mean innocent a to me" A to the crime they were guilty of toward one another, I had nothing to do with them' they were national, and I ought to lea#e them to the 1u tice of 4od, who i the 4o#ernor of nation , and know how, by national (uni hment , to make a 1u t retribution for national offence , and to bring (ublic 1udgment u(on tho e who offend in a (ublic manner, by uch way a be t (lea e !im" 8hi a((eared o clear to me now, that nothing wa a greater ati faction to me than that I had not been uffered to do a thing which I now aw o much rea on to belie#e would ha#e been no le a in than that of wilful murder if I had committed it' and I ga#e mo t humble thank on my knee to 4od, that !e had thu deli#ered me from blood*guiltine ' be eeching !im to grant me the (rotection of !i (ro#idence, that I might not fall into the hand of the barbarian , or that I might not lay my hand u(on them, unle I had a more clear call from !ea#en to do it, in defence of my own life" In thi di (o ition I continued for near a year after thi ' and o far wa I from de iring an occa ion for falling u(on the e wretche , that in all that time I ne#er once went u( the hill to ee whether there were any of them in ight, or to know

whether any of them had been on hore there or not, that I might not be tem(ted to renew any of my contri#ance again t them, or be (ro#oked by any ad#antage that might (re ent it elf to fall u(on them' only thi I did5 I went and remo#ed my boat, which I had on the other ide of the i land, and carried it down to the ea t end of the whole i land, where I ran it into a little co#e, which I found under ome high rock , and where I knew, by rea on of the current , the a#age dur t not, at lea t would not, come with their boat u(on any account whate#er" With my boat I carried away e#erything that I had left there belonging to her, though not nece ary for the bare going thither * #i&" a ma t and ail which I had made for her, and a thing like an anchor, but which, indeed, could not be called either anchor or gra(nel' howe#er, it wa the be t I could make of it kind5 all the e I remo#ed, that there might not be the lea t hadow for di co#ery, or a((earance of any boat, or of any human habitation u(on the i land" Be ide thi , I ke(t my elf, a I aid, more retired than e#er, and eldom went from my cell e0ce(t u(on my con tant em(loyment, to milk my he*goat , and manage my little flock in the wood, which, a it wa 3uite on the other (art of the i land, wa out of danger' for certain, it i that the e a#age (eo(le, who ometime haunted thi i land, ne#er came with any thought of finding anything here, and con e3uently ne#er wandered off from the coa t, and I doubt not but they might ha#e been e#eral time on hore after my a((rehen ion of them had made me cautiou , a well a before" Indeed, I looked back with ome horror u(on the thought of what my condition would ha#e been if I had cho((ed u(on them and been di co#ered before that' when, naked and unarmed, e0ce(t with one gun, and that loaded often only with mall hot, I walked e#erywhere, (ee(ing and (eering about the i land, to ee what I could get' what a ur(ri e hould I ha#e been in if, when I di co#ered the (rint of a man2 foot, I had, in tead of that, een fifteen or twenty a#age , and found them (ur uing me, and by the wiftne of their running no (o ibility of my e ca(ing them7 8he thought of thi ometime ank my #ery oul within me, and di tre ed my mind o much that I could not oon reco#er it, to think what I hould ha#e done, and how I hould not only ha#e been unable to re i t them, but e#en hould not ha#e had (re ence of mind enough to do what I might ha#e done' much le what now, after o much con ideration and (re(aration, I might be able to do" Indeed, after eriou thinking of the e thing , I would be melancholy, and ometime it would la t a great while' but I re ol#ed it all at la t into thankfulne to that <ro#idence which had deli#ered me from o many un een danger , and had ke(t me from tho e mi chief which I could ha#e no way been the agent in deli#ering my elf from, becau e I had not the lea t notion of any uch thing de(ending, or the lea t u((o ition of it being (o ible" 8hi renewed a contem(lation which often had come into my thought in former time , when fir t I began to ee the merciful di (o ition of !ea#en,

in the danger we run through in thi life' how wonderfully we are deli#ered when we know nothing of it' how, when we are in a 3uandary a we call it, a doubt or he itation whether to go thi way or that way, a ecret hint hall direct u thi way, when we intended to go that way5 nay, when en e, our own inclination, and (erha( bu ine ha called u to go the other way, yet a trange im(re ion u(on the mind, from we know not what (ring , and by we know not what (ower, hall o#errule u to go thi way' and it hall afterward a((ear that had we gone that way, which we hould ha#e gone, and e#en to our imagination ought to ha#e gone, we hould ha#e been ruined and lo t" >(on the e and many like reflection I afterward made it a certain rule with me, that whene#er I found tho e ecret hint or (re ing of mind to doing or not doing anything that (re ented, or going thi way or that way, I ne#er failed to obey the ecret dictate' though I knew no other rea on for it than uch a (re ure or uch a hint hung u(on my mind" I could gi#e many e0am(le of the ucce of thi conduct in the cour e of my life, but more e (ecially in the latter (art of my inhabiting thi unha((y i land' be ide many occa ion which it i #ery likely I might ha#e taken notice of, if I had een with the ame eye then that I ee with now" But it i ne#er too late to be wi e' and I cannot but ad#i e all con idering men, who e li#e are attended with uch e0traordinary incident a mine, or e#en though not o e0traordinary, not to light uch ecret intimation of <ro#idence, let them come from what in#i ible intelligence they will" 8hat I hall not di cu , and (erha( cannot account for' but certainly they are a (roof of the con#er e of (irit , and a ecret communication between tho e embodied and tho e unembodied, and uch a (roof a can ne#er be with tood' of which I hall ha#e occa ion to gi#e ome remarkable in tance in the remainder of my olitary re idence in thi di mal (lace" I belie#e the reader of thi will not think it trange if I confe that the e an0ietie , the e con tant danger I li#ed in, and the concern that wa now u(on me, (ut an end to all in#ention, and to all the contri#ance that I had laid for my future accommodation and con#enience " I had the care of my afety more now u(on my hand than that of my food" I cared not to dri#e a nail, or cho( a tick of wood now, for fear the noi e I might make hould be heard5 much le would I fire a gun for the ame rea on5 and abo#e all I wa intolerably unea y at making any fire, le t the moke, which i #i ible at a great di tance in the day, hould betray me" ,or thi rea on, I remo#ed that (art of my bu ine which re3uired fire, uch a burning of (ot and (i(e , Fc", into my new a(artment in the wood ' where, after I had been ome time, I found, to my un (eakable con olation, a mere natural ca#e in the earth, which went in a #a t way, and where, I dare ay, no a#age, had he been at the mouth of it, would be

o hardy a to #enture in' nor, indeed, would any man el e, but one who, like me, wanted nothing o much a a afe retreat" 8he mouth of thi hollow wa at the bottom of a great rock, where, by mere accident ?I would ay, if I did not ee abundant rea on to a cribe all uch thing now to <ro#idence@, I wa cutting down ome thick branche of tree to make charcoal' and before I go on I mu t ob er#e the rea on of my making thi charcoal, which wa thi * I wa afraid of making a moke about my habitation, a I aid before' and yet I could not li#e there without baking my bread, cooking my meat, Fc"' o I contri#ed to burn ome wood here, a I had een done in )ngland, under turf, till it became chark or dry coal5 and then (utting the fire out, I (re er#ed the coal to carry home, and (erform the other er#ice for which fire wa wanting, without danger of moke" But thi i by*the*bye" While I wa cutting down ome wood here, I (ercei#ed that, behind a #ery thick branch of low bru hwood or underwood, there wa a kind of hollow (lace5 I wa curiou to look in it' and getting with difficulty into the mouth of it, I found it wa (retty large, that i to ay, ufficient for me to tand u(right in it, and (erha( another with me5 but I mu t confe to you that I made more ha te out than I did in, when looking farther into the (lace, and which wa (erfectly dark, I aw two broad hining eye of ome creature, whether de#il or man I knew not, which twinkled like two tar ' the dim light from the ca#e2 mouth hining directly in, and making the reflection" !owe#er, after ome (au e I reco#ered my elf, and began to call my elf a thou and fool , and to think that he that wa afraid to ee the de#il wa not fit to li#e twenty year in an i land all alone' and that I might well think there wa nothing in thi ca#e that wa more frightful than my elf" >(on thi , (lucking u( my courage, I took u( a firebrand, and in I ru hed again, with the tick flaming in my hand5 I had not gone three te( in before I wa almo t a frightened a before' for I heard a #ery loud igh, like that of a man in ome (ain, and it wa followed by a broken noi e, a of word half e0(re ed, and then a dee( igh again" I te((ed back, and wa indeed truck with uch a ur(ri e that it (ut me into a cold weat, and if I had had a hat on my head, I will not an wer for it that my hair might not ha#e lifted it off" But till (lucking u( my (irit a well a I could, and encouraging my elf a little with con idering that the (ower and (re ence of 4od wa e#erywhere, and wa able to (rotect me, I te((ed forward again, and by the light of the firebrand, holding it u( a little o#er my head, I aw lying on the ground a mon trou , frightful old he*goat, 1u t making hi will, a we ay, and ga (ing for life, and, dying, indeed, of mere old age" I tirred him a little to ee if I could get him out, and he e ayed to get u(, but wa not able to rai e him elf' and I thought with my elf he might e#en lie there

for if he had frightened me, o he would certainly fright any of the a#age , if any of them hould be o hardy a to come in there while he had any life in him"

I wa now reco#ered from my ur(ri e, and began to look round me, when I found the ca#e wa but #ery mall * that i to ay, it might be about twel#e feet o#er, but in no manner of ha(e, neither round nor 3uare, no hand ha#ing e#er been em(loyed in making it but tho e of mere ;ature" I ob er#ed al o that there wa a (lace at the farther ide of it that went in further, but wa o low that it re3uired me to cree( u(on my hand and knee to go into it, and whither it went I knew not' o, ha#ing no candle, I ga#e it o#er for that time, but re ol#ed to go again the ne0t day (ro#ided with candle and a tinder*bo0, which I had made of the lock of one of the mu ket , with ome wildfire in the (an" Accordingly, the ne0t day I came (ro#ided with i0 large candle of my own making ?for I made #ery good candle now of goat2 tallow, but wa hard et for candle*wick, u ing ometime rag or ro(e* yarn, and ometime the dried rind of a weed like nettle @' and going into thi low (lace I wa obliged to cree( u(on all*four a I ha#e aid, almo t ten yard * which, by the way, I thought wa a #enture bold enough, con idering that I knew not how far it might go, nor what wa beyond it" When I had got through the trait, I found the roof ro e higher u(, I belie#e near twenty feet' but ne#er wa uch a gloriou ight een in the i land, I dare ay, a it wa to look round the ide and roof of thi #ault or ca#e * the wall reflected a hundred thou and light to me from my two candle " What it wa in the rock * whether diamond or any other (reciou tone , or gold which I rather u((o ed it to be * I knew not" 8he (lace I wa in wa a mo t delightful ca#ity, or grotto, though (erfectly dark' the floor wa dry and le#el, and had a ort of a mall loo e gra#el u(on it, o that there wa no nau eou or #enomou creature to be een, neither wa there any dam( or wet on the ide or roof" 8he only difficulty in it wa the entrance * which, howe#er, a it wa a (lace of ecurity, and uch a retreat a I wanted' I thought wa a con#enience' o that I wa really re1oiced at the di co#ery, and re ol#ed, without any delay, to bring ome of tho e thing which I wa mo t an0iou about to thi (lace5 (articularly, I re ol#ed to bring hither my maga&ine of (owder, and all my (are arm * #i&" two fowling*(iece * for I had three in all * and three mu ket * for of them I had eight in all' o I ke(t in my ca tle only fi#e, which tood ready mounted like (iece of cannon on my outmo t fence, and were ready al o to take out u(on any e0(edition" >(on thi occa ion of remo#ing my ammunition I ha((ened to o(en the barrel of (owder which I took u( out of the ea, and which had been wet, and I found that the water had (enetrated about three or four inche into the (owder on e#ery ide, which caking and growing hard, had (re er#ed the in ide like a kernel in the hell, o

that I had near i0ty (ound of #ery good (owder in the centre of the ca k" 8hi wa a #ery agreeable di co#ery to me at that time' o I carried all away thither, ne#er kee(ing abo#e two or three (ound of (owder with me in my ca tle, for fear of a ur(ri e of any kind' I al o carried thither all the lead I had left for bullet " I fancied my elf now like one of the ancient giant who were aid to li#e in ca#e and hole in the rock , where none could come at them' for I (er uaded my elf, while I wa here, that if fi#e hundred a#age were to hunt me, they could ne#er find me out * or if they did, they would not #enture to attack me here" 8he old goat whom I found e0(iring died in the mouth of the ca#e the ne0t day after I made thi di co#ery' and I found it much ea ier to dig a great hole there, and throw him in and co#er him with earth, than to drag him out' o I interred him there, to (re#ent offence to my no e"

CHAPTER %III - WRECK

F A SPANISH SHIP

I WAS now in the twenty*third year of my re idence in thi i land, and wa o naturali ed to the (lace and the manner of li#ing, that, could I but ha#e en1oyed the certainty that no a#age would come to the (lace to di turb me, I could ha#e been content to ha#e ca(itulated for (ending the re t of my time there, e#en to the la t moment, till I had laid me down and died, like the old goat in the ca#e" I had al o arri#ed to ome little di#er ion and amu ement , which made the time (a a great deal more (lea antly with me than it did before * fir t, I had taught my <oll, a I noted before, to (eak' and he did it o familiarly, and talked o articulately and (lain, that it wa #ery (lea ant to me' and he li#ed with me no le than i0*and*twenty year " !ow long he might ha#e li#ed afterward I know not, though I know they ha#e a notion in the Bra&il that they li#e a hundred year " /y dog wa a (lea ant and lo#ing com(anion to me for no le than i0teen year of my time, and then died of mere old age" A for my cat , they multi(lied, a I ha#e ob er#ed, to that degree that I wa obliged to hoot e#eral of them at fir t, to kee( them from de#ouring me and all I had' but at length, when the two old one I brought with me were gone, and after ome time continually dri#ing them from me, and letting them ha#e no (ro#i ion with me, they all ran wild into the wood , e0ce(t two or three fa#ourite , which I ke(t tame, and who e young, when they had any, I alway drowned' and the e were (art of my family" Be ide the e I alway ke(t two or three hou ehold kid about me, whom I taught to feed out of my hand' and I had two more (arrot , which talked (retty well, and would all call 9$obin

+ru oe,9 but none like my fir t' nor, indeed, did I take the (ain with any of them that I had done with him" I had al o e#eral tame ea*fowl , who e name I knew not, that I caught u(on the hore, and cut their wing ' and the little take which I had (lanted before my ca tle*wall being now grown u( to a good thick gro#e, the e fowl all li#ed among the e low tree , and bred there, which wa #ery agreeable to me' o that, a I aid abo#e, I began to he #ery well contented with the life I led, if I could ha#e been ecured from the dread of the a#age " But it wa otherwi e directed' and it may not be ami for all (eo(le who hall meet with my tory to make thi 1u t ob er#ation from it5 !ow fre3uently, in the cour e of our li#e , the e#il which in it elf we eek mo t to hun, and which, when we are fallen into, i the mo t dreadful to u , i oftentime the #ery mean or door of our deli#erance, by which alone we can be rai ed again from the affliction we are fallen into" I could gi#e many e0am(le of thi in the cour e of my unaccountable life' but in nothing wa it more (articularly remarkable than in the circum tance of my la t year of olitary re idence in thi i land" It wa now the month of .ecember, a I aid abo#e, in my twenty* third year' and thi , being the outhern ol tice ?for winter I cannot call it@, wa the (articular time of my har#e t, and re3uired me to be (retty much abroad in the field , when, going out early in the morning, e#en before it wa thorough daylight, I wa ur(ri ed with eeing a light of ome fire u(on the hore, at a di tance from me of about two mile , toward that (art of the i land where I had ob er#ed ome a#age had been, a before, and not on the other ide' but, to my great affliction, it wa on my ide of the i land" I wa indeed terribly ur(ri ed at the ight, and to((ed hort within my gro#e, not daring to go out, le t I might be ur(ri ed' and yet I had no more (eace within, from the a((rehen ion I had that if the e a#age , in rambling o#er the i land, hould find my corn tanding or cut, or any of my work or im(ro#ement , they would immediately conclude that there were (eo(le in the (lace, and would then ne#er re t till they had found me out" In thi e0tremity I went back directly to my ca tle, (ulled u( the ladder after me, and made all thing without look a wild and natural a I could" 8hen I (re(ared my elf within, (utting my elf in a (o ture of defence" I loaded all my cannon, a I called them * that i to ay, my mu ket , which were mounted u(on my new fortification * and all my (i tol , and re ol#ed to defend my elf to the la t ga ( * not forgetting eriou ly to commend my elf to the .i#ine (rotection, and earne tly to (ray to 4od to deli#er me out of the hand of the barbarian " I continued in thi (o ture about two hour , and began to be

im(atient for intelligence abroad, for I had no (ie to end out" After itting a while longer, and mu ing what I hould do in thi ca e, I wa not able to bear itting in ignorance longer' o etting u( my ladder to the ide of the hill, where there wa a flat (lace, a I ob er#ed before, and then (ulling the ladder after me, I et it u( again and mounted the to( of the hill, and (ulling out my (er (ecti#e gla , which I had taken on (ur(o e, I laid me down flat on my belly on the ground, and began to look for the (lace" I (re ently found there were no le than nine naked a#age itting round a mall fire they had made, not to warm them, for they had no need of that, the weather being e0tremely hot, but, a I u((o ed, to dre ome of their barbarou diet of human fle h which they had brought with them, whether ali#e or dead I could not tell" 8hey had two canoe with them, which they had hauled u( u(on the hore' and a it wa then ebb of tide, they eemed to me to wait for the return of the flood to go away again" It i not ea y to imagine what confu ion thi ight (ut me into, e (ecially eeing them come on my ide of the i land, and o near to me' but when I con idered their coming mu t be alway with the current of the ebb, I began afterward to be more edate in my mind, being ati fied that I might go abroad with afety all the time of the flood of tide, if they were not on hore before' and ha#ing made thi ob er#ation, I went abroad about my har#e t work with the more com(o ure" A I e0(ected, o it (ro#ed' for a oon a the tide made to the we tward I aw them all take boat and row ?or (addle a we call it@ away" I hould ha#e ob er#ed, that for an hour or more before they went off they were dancing, and I could ea ily di cern their (o ture and ge ture by my gla " I could not (ercei#e, by my nice t ob er#ation, but that they were tark naked, and had not the lea t co#ering u(on them' but whether they were men or women I could not di tingui h" A oon a I aw them hi((ed and gone, I took two gun u(on my houlder , and two (i tol in my girdle, and my great word by my ide without a cabbard, and with all the (eed I wa able to make went away to the hill where I had di co#ered the fir t a((earance of all' and a oon a I get thither, which wa not in le than two hour ?for I could not go 3uickly, being o loaded with arm a I wa @, I (ercei#ed there had been three canoe more of the a#age at that (lace' and looking out farther, I aw they were all at ea together, making o#er for the main" 8hi wa a dreadful ight to me, e (ecially a , going down to the hore, I could ee the mark of horror which the di mal work they had been about had left behind it * #i&" the blood, the bone , and (art of the fle h of human bodie eaten and de#oured by tho e wretche with merriment and (ort"

I wa o filled with indignation at the ight, that I now began to (remeditate the de truction of the ne0t that I aw there, let them be whom or how many oe#er" It eemed e#ident to me that the #i it which they made thu to thi i land were not #ery fre3uent, for it wa abo#e fifteen month before any more of them came on hore there again * that i to ay, I neither aw them nor any foot te( or ignal of them in all that time' for a to the rainy ea on , then they are ure not to come abroad, at lea t not o far" Yet all thi while I li#ed uncomfortably, by rea on of the con tant a((rehen ion of their coming u(on me by ur(ri e5 from whence I ob er#e, that the e0(ectation of e#il i more bitter than the uffering, e (ecially if there i no room to hake off that e0(ectation or tho e a((rehen ion " .uring all thi time I wa in a murdering humour, and (ent mo t of my hour , which hould ha#e been better em(loyed, in contri#ing how to circum#ent and fall u(on them the #ery ne0t time I hould ee them * e (ecially if they hould be di#ided, a they were the la t time, into two (artie ' nor did I con ider at all that if I killed one (arty * u((o e ten or a do&en * I wa till the ne0t day, or week, or month, to kill another, and o another, e#en A. I;,I;I8>/, till I hould be, at length, no le a murderer than they were in being man*eater * and (erha( much more o" I (ent my day now in great (er(le0ity and an0iety of mind, e0(ecting that I hould one day or other fall, into the hand of the e mercile creature ' and if I did at any time #enture abroad, it wa not without looking around me with the greate t care and caution imaginable" And now I found, to my great comfort, how ha((y it wa that I had (ro#ided a tame flock or herd of goat , for I dur t not u(on any account fire my gun, e (ecially near that ide of the i land where they u ually came, le t I hould alarm the a#age ' and if they had fled from me now, I wa ure to ha#e them come again with (erha( two or three hundred canoe with them in a few day , and then I knew what to e0(ect" !owe#er, I wore out a year and three month more before I e#er aw any more of the a#age , and then I found them again, a I hall oon ob er#e" It i true they might ha#e been there once or twice' but either they made no tay, or at lea t I did not ee them' but in the month of /ay, a near a I could calculate, and in my four*and*twentieth year, I had a #ery trange encounter with them' of which in it (lace" 8he (erturbation of my mind during thi fifteen or i0teen month 2 inter#al wa #ery great' I le(t un3uietly, dreamed alway frightful dream , and often tarted out of my lee( in the night" In the day great trouble o#erwhelmed my mind' and in the night I dreamed often of killing the a#age and of the rea on why I might 1u tify doing it"

But to wai#e all thi for a while" It wa in the middle of /ay, on the i0teenth day, I think, a well a my (oor wooden calendar would reckon, for I marked all u(on the (o t till' I ay, it wa on the i0teenth of /ay that it blew a #ery great torm of wind all day, with a great deal of lightning and thunder, and' a #ery foul night it wa after it" I knew not what wa the (articular occa ion of it, but a I wa reading in the Bible, and taken u( with #ery eriou thought about my (re ent condition, I wa ur(ri ed with the noi e of a gun, a I thought, fired at ea" 8hi wa , to be ure, a ur(ri e 3uite of a different nature from any I had met with before' for the notion thi (ut into my thought were 3uite of another kind" I tarted u( in the greate t ha te imaginable' and, in a trice, cla((ed my ladder to the middle (lace of the rock, and (ulled it after me' and mounting it the econd time, got to the to( of the hill the #ery moment that a fla h of fire bid me li ten for a econd gun, which, accordingly, in about half a minute I heard' and by the ound, knew that it wa from that (art of the ea where I wa dri#en down the current in my boat" I immediately con idered that thi mu t be ome hi( in di tre , and that they had ome comrade, or ome other hi( in com(any, and fired the e for ignal of di tre , and to obtain hel(" I had the (re ence of mind at that minute to think, that though I could not hel( them, it might be that they might hel( me' o I brought together all the dry wood I could get at hand, and making a good hand ome (ile, I et it on fire u(on the hill" 8he wood wa dry, and bla&ed freely' and, though the wind blew #ery hard, yet it burned fairly out' o that I wa certain, if there wa any uch thing a a hi(, they mu t need ee it" And no doubt they did' for a oon a e#er my fire bla&ed u(, I heard another gun, and after that e#eral other , all from the ame 3uarter" I (lied my fire all night long, till daybreak5 and when it wa broad day, and the air cleared u(, I aw omething at a great di tance at ea, full ea t of the i land, whether a ail or a hull I could not di tingui h * no, not with my gla 5 the di tance wa o great, and the weather till omething ha&y al o' at lea t, it wa o out at ea" I looked fre3uently at it all that day, and oon (ercei#ed that it did not mo#e' o I (re ently concluded that it wa a hi( at anchor' and being eager, you may be ure, to be ati fied, I took my gun in my hand, and ran toward the outh ide of the i land to the rock where I had formerly been carried away by the current' and getting u( there, the weather by thi time being (erfectly clear, I could (lainly ee, to my great orrow, the wreck of a hi(, ca t away in the night u(on tho e concealed rock which I found when I wa out in my boat' and which rock , a they checked the #iolence of the tream, and made a kind of counter* tream, or eddy, were the occa ion of my reco#ering from the mo t de (erate, ho(ele condition that e#er I had been in in all my life" 8hu , what i one man2 afety i another man2 de truction' for it eem the e men,

whoe#er they were, being out of their knowledge, and the rock being wholly under water, had been dri#en u(on them in the night, the wind blowing hard at );)" !ad they een the i land, a I mu t nece arily u((o e they did not, they mu t, a I thought, ha#e endea#oured to ha#e a#ed them el#e on hore by the hel( of their boat' but their firing off gun for hel(, e (ecially when they aw, a I imagined, my fire, filled me with many thought " ,ir t, I imagined that u(on eeing my light they might ha#e (ut them el#e into their boat, and endea#oured to make the hore5 but that the ea running #ery high, they might ha#e been ca t away" =ther time I imagined that they might ha#e lo t their boat before, a might be the ca e many way ' (articularly by the breaking of the ea u(on their hi(, which many time obliged men to ta#e, or take in (iece , their boat, and ometime to throw it o#erboard with their own hand " =ther time I imagined they had ome other hi( or hi( in com(any, who, u(on the ignal of di tre they made, had taken them u(, and carried them off" =ther time I fancied they were all gone off to ea in their boat, and being hurried away by the current that I had been formerly in, were carried out into the great ocean, where there wa nothing but mi ery and (eri hing5 and that, (erha( , they might by thi time think of tar#ing, and of being in a condition to eat one another" A all the e were but con1ecture at be t, o, in the condition I wa in, I could do no more than look on u(on the mi ery of the (oor men, and (ity them' which had till thi good effect u(on my ide, that it ga#e me more and more cau e to gi#e thank to 4od, who had o ha((ily and comfortably (ro#ided for me in my de olate condition' and that of two hi( 2 com(anie , who were now ca t away u(on thi (art of the world, not one life hould be (ared but mine" I learned here again to ob er#e, that it i #ery rare that the (ro#idence of 4od ca t u into any condition o low, or any mi ery o great, but we may ee omething or other to be thankful for, and may ee other in wor e circum tance than our own" Such certainly wa the ca e of the e men, of whom I could not o much a ee room to u((o e any were a#ed' nothing could make it rational o much a to wi h or e0(ect that they did not all (eri h there, e0ce(t the (o ibility only of their being taken u( by another hi( in com(any' and thi wa but mere (o ibility indeed, for I aw not the lea t ign or a((earance of any uch thing" I cannot e0(lain, by any (o ible energy of word , what a trange longing I felt in my oul u(on thi ight, breaking out ometime thu 5 9=h that there had been but one or two, nay, or but one oul a#ed out of thi hi(, to ha#e e ca(ed to me, that I might but ha#e had one com(anion, one fellow*creature, to ha#e (oken to me and to ha#e con#er ed with79 In all the time of my olitary life I ne#er felt o earne t, o trong a

de ire after the ociety of my fellow* creature , or o dee( a regret at the want of it" 8here are ome ecret (ring in the affection which, when they are et a* going by ome ob1ect in #iew, or, though not in #iew, yet rendered (re ent to the mind by the (ower of imagination, that motion carrie out the oul, by it im(etuo ity, to uch #iolent, eager embracing of the ob1ect, that the ab ence of it i in u((ortable" Such were the e earne t wi hing that but one man had been a#ed" I belie#e I re(eated the word , 9=h that it had been but one79 a thou and time ' and my de ire were o mo#ed by it, that when I (oke the word my hand would clinch together, and my finger would (re the (alm of my hand , o that if I had had any oft thing in my hand I hould ha#e cru hed it in#oluntarily' and the teeth in my head would trike together, and et again t one another o trong, that for ome time I could not (art them again" -et the naturali t e0(lain the e thing , and the rea on and manner of them" All I can do i to de cribe the fact, which wa e#en ur(ri ing to me when I found it, though I knew not from whence it (roceeded' it wa doubtle the effect of ardent wi he , and of trong idea formed in my mind, reali ing the comfort which the con#er ation of one of my fellow*+hri tian would ha#e been to me" But it wa not to be' either their fate or mine, or both, forbade it' for, till the la t year of my being on thi i land, I ne#er knew whether any were a#ed out of that hi( or no' and had only the affliction, ome day after, to ee the cor( e of a drowned boy come on hore at the end of the i land which wa ne0t the hi(wreck" !e had no clothe on but a eaman2 wai tcoat, a (air of o(en*kneed linen drawer , and a blue linen hirt' but nothing to direct me o much a to gue what nation he wa of" !e had nothing in hi (ocket but two (iece of eight and a tobacco (i(e * the la t wa to me of ten time more #alue than the fir t" It wa now calm, and I had a great mind to #enture out in my boat to thi wreck, not doubting but I might find omething on board that might be u eful to me" But that did not altogether (re me o much a the (o ibility that there might be yet ome li#ing creature on board, who e life I might not only a#e, but might, by a#ing that life, comfort my own to the la t degree' and thi thought clung o to my heart that I could not be 3uiet night or day, but I mu t #enture out in my boat on board thi wreck' and committing the re t to 4od2 (ro#idence, I thought the im(re ion wa o trong u(on my mind that it could not be re i ted * that it mu t come from ome in#i ible direction, and that I hould be wanting to my elf if I did not go"

>nder the (ower of thi im(re ion, I ha tened back to my ca tle, (re(ared e#erything for my #oyage, took a 3uantity of bread, a great (ot of fre h water, a com(a to teer by, a bottle of rum ?for I had till a great deal of that left@, and a ba ket of rai in ' and thu , loading my elf with e#erything nece ary" I went down to my boat, got the water out of her, got her afloat, loaded all my cargo in her, and then went home again for more" /y econd cargo wa a great bag of rice, the umbrella to et u( o#er my head for a hade, another large (ot of water, and about two do&en of mall loa#e , or barley cake , more than before, with a bottle of goat2 milk and a chee e' all which with great labour and weat I carried to my boat' and (raying to 4od to direct my #oyage, I (ut out, and rowing or (addling the canoe along the hore, came at la t to the utmo t (oint of the i land on the north*ea t ide" And now I wa to launch out into the ocean, and either to #enture or not to #enture" I looked on the ra(id current which ran con tantly on both ide of the i land at a di tance, and which were #ery terrible to me from the remembrance of the ha&ard I had been in before, and my heart began to fail me' for I fore aw that if I wa dri#en into either of tho e current , I hould be carried a great way out to ea, and (erha( out of my reach or ight of the i land again' and that then, a my boat wa but mall, if any little gale of wind hould ri e, I hould be ine#itably lo t" 8he e thought o o((re ed my mind that I began to gi#e o#er my enter(ri e' and ha#ing hauled my boat into a little creek on the hore, I te((ed out, and at down u(on a ri ing bit of ground, #ery (en i#e and an0iou , between fear and de ire, about my #oyage' when, a I wa mu ing, I could (ercei#e that the tide wa turned, and the flood come on' u(on which my going wa im(racticable for o many hour " >(on thi , (re ently it occurred to me that I hould go u( to the highe t (iece of ground I could find, and ob er#e, if I could, how the et of the tide or current lay when the flood came in, that I might 1udge whether, if I wa dri#en one way out, I might not e0(ect to be dri#en another way home, with the ame ra(idity of the current " 8hi thought wa no ooner in my head than I ca t my eye u(on a little hill which ufficiently o#erlooked the ea both way , and from whence I had a clear #iew of the current or et of the tide, and which way I wa to guide my elf in my return" !ere I found, that a the current of ebb et out clo e by the outh (oint of the i land, o the current of the flood et in clo e by the hore of the north ide' and that I had nothing to do but to kee( to the north ide of the i land in my return, and I hould do well enough" )ncouraged by thi ob er#ation, I re ol#ed the ne0t morning to et out with the fir t of the tide' and re(o ing my elf for the night in my canoe, under the watch*coat I mentioned, I launched out" I fir t made a little out to ea, full north, till I began to feel the benefit of the current, which et ea tward, and

which carried me at a great rate' and yet did not o hurry me a the current on the outh ide had done before, o a to take from me all go#ernment of the boat' but ha#ing a trong teerage with my (addle, I went at a great rate directly for the wreck, and in le than two hour I came u( to it" It wa a di mal ight to look at' the hi(, which by it building wa S(ani h, tuck fa t, 1ammed in between two rock " All the tern and 3uarter of her were beaten to (iece by the ea' and a her foreca tle, which tuck in the rock , had run on with great #iolence, her mainma t and forema t were brought by the board * that i to ay, broken hort off' but her bow (rit wa ound, and the head and bow a((eared firm" When I came clo e to her, a dog a((eared u(on her, who, eeing me coming, yel(ed and cried' and a oon a I called him, 1um(ed into the ea to come to me" I took him into the boat, but found him almo t dead with hunger and thir t" I ga#e him a cake of my bread, and he de#oured it like a ra#enou wolf that had been tar#ing a fortnight in the now' I then ga#e the (oor creature ome fre h water, with which, if I would ha#e let him, he would ha#e bur t him elf" After thi I went on board' but the fir t ight I met with wa two men drowned in the cook*room, or foreca tle of the hi(, with their arm fa t about one another" I concluded, a i indeed (robable, that when the hi( truck, it being in a torm, the ea broke o high and o continually o#er her, that the men were not able to bear it, and were trangled with the con tant ru hing in of the water, a much a if they had been under water" Be ide the dog, there wa nothing left in the hi( that had life' nor any good , that I could ee, but what were (oiled by the water" 8here were ome ca k of li3uor, whether wine or brandy I knew not, which lay lower in the hold, and which, the water being ebbed out, I could ee' but they were too big to meddle with" I aw e#eral che t , which I belie#e belonged to ome of the eamen' and I got two of them into the boat, without e0amining what wa in them" !ad the tern of the hi( been fi0ed, and the fore(art broken off, I am (er uaded I might ha#e made a good #oyage' for by what I found in tho e two che t I had room to u((o e the hi( had a great deal of wealth on board' and, if I may gue from the cour e he teered, he mu t ha#e been bound from Bueno Ayre , or the $io de la <lata, in the outh (art of America, beyond the Bra&il to the !a#annah, in the 4ulf of /e0ico, and o (erha( to S(ain" She had, no doubt, a great trea ure in her, but of no u e, at that time, to anybody' and what became of the crew I then knew not" I found, be ide the e che t , a little ca k full of li3uor, of about twenty gallon , which I got into my boat with much difficulty" 8here were e#eral mu ket in the cabin, and a great (owder*horn, with about four (ound of (owder in it' a for the mu ket , I had no occa ion for them, o I left them, but took the (owder*horn" I took a fire* ho#el and tong , which I wanted e0tremely, a al o

two little bra kettle , a co((er (ot to make chocolate, and a gridiron' and with thi cargo, and the dog, I came away, the tide beginning to make home again * and the ame e#ening, about an hour within night, I reached the i land again, weary and fatigued to the la t degree" I re(o ed that night in the boat and in the morning I re ol#ed to harbour what I had got in my new ca#e, and not carry it home to my ca tle" After refre hing my elf, I got all my cargo on hore, and began to e0amine the (articular " 8he ca k of li3uor I found to be a kind of rum, but not uch a we had at the Bra&il ' and, in a word, not at all good' but when I came to o(en the che t , I found e#eral thing of great u e to me * for e0am(le, I found in one a fine ca e of bottle , of an e0traordinary kind, and filled with cordial water , fine and #ery good' the bottle held about three (int each, and were ti((ed with il#er" I found two (ot of #ery good uccade , or weetmeat , o fa tened al o on the to( that the alt*water had not hurt them' and two more of the ame, which the water had (oiled" I found ome #ery good hirt , which were #ery welcome to me' and about a do&en and a half of white linen handkerchief and coloured neckcloth ' the former were al o #ery welcome, being e0ceedingly refre hing to wi(e my face in a hot day" Be ide thi , when I came to the till in the che t, I found there three great bag of (iece of eight, which held about ele#en hundred (iece in all' and in one of them, wra((ed u( in a (a(er, i0 doubloon of gold, and ome mall bar or wedge of gold' I u((o e they might all weigh near a (ound" In the other che t were ome clothe , but of little #alue' but, by the circum tance , it mu t ha#e belonged to the gunner2 mate' though there wa no (owder in it, e0ce(t two (ound of fine gla&ed (owder, in three fla k , ke(t, I u((o e, for charging their fowling*(iece on occa ion" >(on the whole, I got #ery little by thi #oyage that wa of any u e to me' for, a to the money, I had no manner of occa ion for it' it wa to me a the dirt under my feet, and I would ha#e gi#en it all for three or four (air of )ngli h hoe and tocking , which were thing I greatly wanted, but had had none on my feet for many year " I had, indeed, got two (air of hoe now, which I took off the feet of two drowned men whom I aw in the wreck, and I found two (air more in one of the che t , which were #ery welcome to me' but they were not like our )ngli h hoe , either for ea e or er#ice, being rather what we call (um( than hoe " I found in thi eaman2 che t about fifty (iece of eight, in rial , but no gold5 I u((o ed thi belonged to a (oorer man than the other, which eemed to belong to ome officer" Well, howe#er, I lugged thi money home to my ca#e, and laid it u(, a I had done that before which I had brought from our own hi(' but it wa a great (ity, a I aid, that the other (art of thi hi( had not come to my hare5 for I am ati fied I might ha#e loaded my canoe e#eral time o#er with money' and, thought I, if I e#er e ca(e to )ngland, it might lie here afe enough till I come again and fetch it"

CHAPTER %IV - A DREA& REALISED

!AEI;4 now brought all my thing on hore and ecured them, I went back to my boat, and rowed or (addled her along the hore to her old harbour, where I laid her u(, and made the be t of my way to my old habitation, where I found e#erything afe and 3uiet" I began now to re(o e my elf, li#e after my old fa hion, and take care of my family affair ' and for a while I li#ed ea y enough, only that I wa more #igilant than I u ed to be, looked out oftener, and did not go abroad o much' and if at any time I did tir with any freedom, it wa alway to the ea t (art of the i land, where I wa (retty well ati fied the a#age ne#er came, and where I could go without o many (recaution , and uch a load of arm and ammunition a I alway carried with me if I went the other way" I li#ed in thi condition near two year more' but my unlucky head, that wa alway to let me know it wa born to make my body mi erable, wa all the e two year filled with (ro1ect and de ign how, if it were (o ible, I might get away from thi i land5 for ometime I wa for making another #oyage to the wreck, though my rea on told me that there wa nothing left there worth the ha&ard of my #oyage' ometime for a ramble one way, ometime another * and I belie#e #erily, if I had had the boat that I went from Sallee in, I hould ha#e #entured to ea, bound anywhere, I knew not whither" I ha#e been, in all my circum tance , a memento to tho e who are touched with the general (lague of mankind, whence, for aught I know, one half of their mi erie flow5 I mean that of not being ati fied with the tation wherein 4od and ;ature hath (laced them * for, not to look back u(on my (rimiti#e condition, and the e0cellent ad#ice of my father, the o((o ition to which wa , a I may call it, my =$I4I;A- SI;, my ub e3uent mi take of the ame kind had been the mean of my coming into thi mi erable condition' for had that <ro#idence which o ha((ily eated me at the Bra&il a a (lanter ble ed me with confined de ire , and I could ha#e been contented to ha#e gone on gradually, I might ha#e been by thi time * I mean in the time of my being in thi i land * one of the mo t con iderable (lanter in the Bra&il * nay, I am (er uaded, that by the im(ro#ement I had made in that little time I li#ed there, and the increa e I hould (robably ha#e made if I had remained, I might ha#e been worth a hundred thou and moidore * and what bu ine had I to lea#e a ettled fortune, a well* tocked (lantation, im(ro#ing and increa ing, to turn u(ercargo to 4uinea to fetch negroe , when (atience and time would ha#e o increa ed our tock at home, that we could ha#e bought them at our own door from tho e who e bu ine it wa to fetch them6 and though it had co t u omething more, yet the difference of that (rice wa by no mean worth a#ing at o great a

ha&ard" But a thi i u ually the fate of young head , o reflection u(on the folly of it i a commonly the e0erci e of more year , or of the dear*bought e0(erience of time * o it wa with me now' and yet o dee( had the mi take taken root in my tem(er, that I could not ati fy my elf in my tation, but wa continually (oring u(on the mean and (o ibility of my e ca(e from thi (lace' and that I may, with greater (lea ure to the reader, bring on the remaining (art of my tory, it may not be im(ro(er to gi#e ome account of my fir t conce(tion on the ub1ect of thi fooli h cheme for my e ca(e, and how, and u(on what foundation, I acted" I am now to be u((o ed retired into my ca tle, after my late #oyage to the wreck, my frigate laid u( and ecured under water, a u ual, and my condition re tored to what it wa before5 I had more wealth, indeed, than I had before, but wa not at all the richer' for I had no more u e for it than the Indian of <eru had before the S(aniard came there" It wa one of the night in the rainy ea on in /arch, the four* and*twentieth year of my fir t etting foot in thi i land of olitude, I wa lying in my bed or hammock, awake, #ery well in health, had no (ain, no di tem(er, no unea ine of body, nor any unea ine of mind more than ordinary, but could by no mean clo e my eye , that i , o a to lee(' no, not a wink all night long, otherwi e than a follow 5 It i im(o ible to et down the innumerable crowd of thought that whirled through that great thoroughfare of the brain, the memory, in thi night2 time" I ran o#er the whole hi tory of my life in miniature, or by abridgment, a I may call it, to my coming to thi i land, and al o of that (art of my life ince I came to thi i land" In my reflection u(on the tate of my ca e ince I came on hore on thi i land, I wa com(aring the ha((y (o ture of my affair in the fir t year of my habitation here, with the life of an0iety, fear, and care which I had li#ed in e#er ince I had een the (rint of a foot in the and" ;ot that I did not belie#e the a#age had fre3uented the i land e#en all the while, and might ha#e been e#eral hundred of them at time on hore there' but I had ne#er known it, and wa inca(able of any a((rehen ion about it' my ati faction wa (erfect, though my danger wa the ame, and I wa a ha((y in not knowing my danger a if I had ne#er really been e0(o ed to it" 8hi furni hed my thought with many #ery (rofitable reflection , and (articularly thi one5 !ow infinitely good that <ro#idence i , which ha (ro#ided, in it go#ernment of mankind, uch narrow bound to hi ight and knowledge of thing ' and though he walk in the mid t of o many thou and danger , the ight of which, if di co#ered to him, would di tract hi mind and ink hi (irit , he i ke(t erene and calm, by ha#ing the e#ent of thing hid from hi eye , and knowing nothing of the danger which urround him"

After the e thought had for ome time entertained me, I came to reflect eriou ly u(on the real danger I had been in for o many year in thi #ery i land, and how I had walked about in the greate t ecurity, and with all (o ible tran3uillity, e#en when (erha( nothing but the brow of a hill, a great tree, or the ca ual a((roach of night, had been between me and the wor t kind of de truction * #i&" that of falling into the hand of cannibal and a#age , who would ha#e ei&ed on me with the ame #iew a I would on a goat or turtle' and ha#e thought it no more crime to kill and de#our me than I did of a (igeon or a curlew" I would un1u tly lander my elf if I hould ay I wa not incerely thankful to my great <re er#er, to who e ingular (rotection I acknowledged, with great humanity, all the e unknown deli#erance were due, and without which I mu t ine#itably ha#e fallen into their mercile hand " When the e thought were o#er, my head wa for ome time taken u( in con idering the nature of the e wretched creature , I mean the a#age , and how it came to (a in the world that the wi e 4o#ernor of all thing hould gi#e u( any of !i creature to uch inhumanity * nay, to omething o much below e#en brutality it elf
a to de#our it own kind5 but a thi ended in ome ?at that time@ fruitle (eculation , it occurred to me to in3uire what (art of the world the e wretche li#ed in6 how far off the coa t wa from whence they came6 what they #entured o#er o far from home for6 what kind of boat they had6 and why I might not order my elf and my bu ine o that I might be able to go o#er thither, a they were to come to me6

I ne#er o much a troubled my elf to con ider what I hould do with my elf when I went thither' what would become of me if I fell into the hand of the e a#age ' or how I hould e ca(e them if they attacked me' no, nor o much a how it wa (o ible for me to reach the coa t, and not to be attacked by ome or other of them, without any (o ibility of deli#ering my elf5 and if I hould not fall into their hand , what I hould do for (ro#i ion, or whither I hould bend my cour e5 none of the e thought , I ay, o much a came in my way' but my mind wa wholly bent u(on the notion of my (a ing o#er in my boat to the mainland" I looked u(on my (re ent condition a the mo t mi erable that could (o ibly be' that I wa not able to throw my elf into anything but death, that could be called wor e' and if I reached the hore of the main I might (erha( meet with relief, or I might coa t along, a I did on the African hore, till I came to ome inhabited country, and where I might find ome relief' and after all, (erha( I might fall in with ome +hri tian hi( that might take me in5 and if the wor t came to the wor t, I could but die, which would (ut an end to all the e mi erie at once" <ray note, all thi wa the fruit of a di turbed mind, an im(atient tem(er, made de (erate, a it were, by the long continuance of my

trouble , and the di a((ointment I had met in the wreck I had been on board of, and where I had been o near obtaining what I o earne tly longed for * omebody to (eak to, and to learn ome knowledge from them of the (lace where I wa , and of the (robable mean of my deli#erance" I wa agitated wholly by the e thought ' all my calm of mind, in my re ignation to <ro#idence, and waiting the i ue of the di (o ition of !ea#en, eemed to be u (ended' and I had a it were no (ower to turn my thought to anything but to the (ro1ect of a #oyage to the main, which came u(on me with uch force, and uch an im(etuo ity of de ire, that it wa not to be re i ted" When thi had agitated my thought for two hour or more, with uch #iolence that it et my #ery blood into a ferment, and my (ul e beat a if I had been in a fe#er, merely with the e0traordinary fer#our of my mind about it, ;ature * a if I had been fatigued and e0hau ted with the #ery thought of it * threw me into a ound lee(" =ne would ha#e thought I hould ha#e dreamed of it, but I did not, nor of anything relating to it, but I dreamed that a I wa going out in the morning a u ual from my ca tle, I aw u(on the hore two canoe and ele#en a#age coming to land, and that they brought with them another a#age whom they were going to kill in order to eat him' when, on a udden, the a#age that they were going to kill 1um(ed away, and ran for hi life' and I thought in my lee( that he came running into my little thick gro#e before my fortification, to hide him elf' and that I eeing him alone, and not (ercei#ing that the other ought him that way, howed my elf to him, and miling u(on him, encouraged him5 that he kneeled down to me, eeming to (ray me to a i t him' u(on which I howed him my ladder, made him go u(, and carried him into my ca#e, and he became my er#ant' and that a oon a I had got thi man, I aid to my elf, 9;ow I may certainly #enture to the mainland, for thi fellow will er#e me a a (ilot, and will tell me what to do, and whither to go for (ro#i ion , and whither not to go for fear of being de#oured' what (lace to #enture into, and what to hun"9 I waked with thi thought' and wa under uch ine0(re ible im(re ion of 1oy at the (ro (ect of my e ca(e in my dream, that the di a((ointment which I felt u(on coming to my elf, and finding that it wa no more than a dream, were e3ually e0tra#agant the other way, and threw me into a #ery great de1ection of (irit " >(on thi , howe#er, I made thi conclu ion5 that my only way to go about to attem(t an e ca(e wa , to endea#our to get a a#age into my (o e ion5 and, if (o ible, it hould be one of their (ri oner , whom they had condemned to be eaten, and hould bring hither to kill" But the e thought till were attended with thi difficulty5 that it wa im(o ible to effect thi without attacking a whole cara#an of them, and killing them all' and thi wa not only a #ery

de (erate attem(t, and might mi carry, but, on the other hand, I had greatly cru(led the lawfulne of it to my elf' and my heart trembled at the thought of hedding o much blood, though it wa for my deli#erance" I need not re(eat the argument which occurred to me again t thi , they being the ame mentioned before' but though I had other rea on to offer now * #i&" that tho e men were enemie to my life, and would de#our me if they could' that it wa elf*(re er#ation, in the highe t degree, to deli#er my elf from thi death of a life, and wa acting in my own defence a much a if they were actually a aulting me, and the like' I ay though the e thing argued for it, yet the thought of hedding human blood for my deli#erance were #ery terrible to me, and uch a I could by no mean reconcile my elf to for a great while" !owe#er, at la t, after many ecret di (ute with my elf, and after great (er(le0itie about it ?for all the e argument , one way and another, truggled in my head a long time@, the eager (re#ailing de ire of deli#erance at length ma tered all the re t' and I re ol#ed, if (o ible, to get one of the e a#age into my hand , co t what it would" /y ne0t thing wa to contri#e how to do it, and thi , indeed, wa #ery difficult to re ol#e on' but a I could (itch u(on no (robable mean for it, o I re ol#ed to (ut my elf u(on the watch, to ee them when they came on hore, and lea#e the re t to the e#ent' taking uch mea ure a the o((ortunity hould (re ent, let what would be" With the e re olution in my thought , I et my elf u(on the cout a often a (o ible, and indeed o often that I wa heartily tired of it' for it wa abo#e a year and a half that I waited' and for great (art of that time went out to the we t end, and to the outh* we t corner of the i land almo t e#ery day, to look for canoe , but none a((eared" 8hi wa #ery di couraging, and began to trouble me much, though I cannot ay that it did in thi ca e ?a it had done ome time before@ wear off the edge of my de ire to the thing' but the longer it eemed to be delayed, the more eager I wa for it5 in a word, I wa not at fir t o careful to hun the ight of the e a#age , and a#oid being een by them, a I wa now eager to be u(on them" Be ide , I fancied my elf able to manage one, nay, two or three a#age , if I had them, o a to make them entirely la#e to me, to do whate#er I hould direct them, and to (re#ent their being able at any time to do me any hurt" It wa a great while that I (lea ed my elf with thi affair' but nothing till (re ented it elf' all my fancie and cheme came to nothing, for no a#age came near me for a great while" About a year and a half after I entertained the e notion ?and by long mu ing had, a it were, re ol#ed them all into nothing, for want of an occa ion to (ut them into e0ecution@, I wa ur(ri ed one morning by eeing no le than fi#e canoe all on hore together on my ide the i land, and the (eo(le who

belonged to them all landed and out of my ight" 8he number of them broke all my mea ure ' for eeing o many, and knowing that they alway came four or i0, or ometime more in a boat, I could not tell what to think of it, or how to take my mea ure to attack twenty or thirty men ingle*handed' o lay till in my ca tle, (er(le0ed and di comforted" !owe#er, I (ut my elf into the ame (o ition for an attack that I had formerly (ro#ided, and wa 1u t ready for action, if anything had (re ented" !a#ing waited a good while, li tening to hear if they made any noi e, at length, being #ery im(atient, I et my gun at the foot of my ladder, and "clambered u( to the to( of the hill, by my two tage , a u ual' tanding o, howe#er, that my head did not a((ear abo#e the hill, o that they could not (ercei#e me by any mean " !ere I ob er#ed, by the hel( of my (er (ecti#e gla , that they were no le than thirty in number' that they had a fire kindled, and that they had meat dre ed" !ow they had cooked it I knew not, or what it wa ' but they were all dancing, in I know not how many barbarou ge ture and figure , their own way, round the fire" While I wa thu looking on them, I (ercei#ed, by my (er (ecti#e, two mi erable wretche dragged from the boat , where, it eem , they were laid by, and were now brought out for the laughter" I (ercei#ed one of them immediately fall' being knocked down, I u((o e, with a club or wooden word, for that wa their way' and two or three other were at work immediately, cutting him o(en for their cookery, while the other #ictim wa left tanding by him elf, till they hould be ready for him" In that #ery moment thi (oor wretch, eeing him elf a little at liberty and unbound, ;ature in (ired him with ho(e of life, and he tarted away from them, and ran with incredible wiftne along the and , directly toward me' I mean toward that (art of the coa t where my habitation wa " I wa dreadfully frightened, I mu t acknowledge, when I (ercei#ed him run my way' and e (ecially when, a I thought, I aw him (ur ued by the whole body5 and now I e0(ected that (art of my dream wa coming to (a , and that he would certainly take helter in my gro#e' but I could not de(end, by any mean , u(on my dream, that the other a#age would not (ur ue him thither and find him there" !owe#er, I ke(t my tation, and my (irit began to reco#er when I found that there wa not abo#e three men that followed him' and till more wa I encouraged, when I found that he out tri((ed them e0ceedingly in running, and gained ground on them' o that, if he could but hold out for half*an*hour, I aw ea ily he would fairly get away from them all" 8here wa between them and my ca tle the creek, which I mentioned often in the fir t (art of my tory, where I landed my cargoe out of the hi(' and thi I aw (lainly he mu t nece arily wim o#er, or the (oor wretch would be taken

there' but when the a#age e ca(ing came thither, he made nothing of it, though the tide wa then u(' but (lunging in, wam through in about thirty troke , or thereabout , landed, and ran with e0ceeding trength and wiftne " When the three (er on came to the creek, I found that two of them could wim, but the third could not, and that, tanding on the other ide, he looked at the other , but went no farther, and oon after went oftly back again' which, a it ha((ened, wa #ery well for him in the end" I ob er#ed that the two who wam were yet more than twice a trong wimming o#er the creek a the fellow wa that fled from them" It came #ery warmly u(on my thought , and indeed irre i tibly, that now wa the time to get me a er#ant, and, (erha( , a com(anion or a i tant' and that I wa (lainly called by <ro#idence to a#e thi (oor creature2 life" I immediately ran down the ladder with all (o ible e0(edition, fetched my two gun , for they were both at the foot of the ladder , a I ob er#ed before, and getting u( again with the ame ha te to the to( of the hill, I cro ed toward the ea' and ha#ing a #ery hort cut, and all down hill, (laced my elf in the way between the (ur uer and the (ur ued, hallowing aloud to him that fled, who, looking back, wa at fir t (erha( a much frightened at me a at them' but I beckoned with my hand to him to come back' and, in the meantime, I lowly ad#anced toward the two that followed' then ru hing at once u(on the foremo t, I knocked him down with the tock of my (iece" I wa loath to fire, becau e I would not ha#e the re t hear' though, at that di tance, it would not ha#e been ea ily heard, and being out of ight of the moke, too, they would not ha#e known what to make of it" !a#ing knocked thi fellow down, the other who (ur ued him to((ed, a if he had been frightened, and I ad#anced toward him5 but a I came nearer, I (ercei#ed (re ently he had a bow and arrow, and wa fitting it to hoot at me5 o I wa then obliged to hoot at him fir t, which I did, and killed him at the fir t hot" 8he (oor a#age who fled, but had to((ed, though he aw both hi enemie fallen and killed, a he thought, yet wa o frightened with the fire and noi e of my (iece that he tood tock till, and neither came forward nor went backward, though he eemed rather inclined till to fly than to come on" I hallooed again to him, and made ign to come forward, which he ea ily under tood, and came a little way' then to((ed again, and then a little farther, and to((ed again' and I could then (ercei#e that he tood trembling, a if he had been taken (ri oner, and had 1u t been to be killed, a hi two enemie were" I beckoned to him again to come to me, and ga#e him all the ign of encouragement that I could think of' and he came nearer and nearer, kneeling down e#ery ten or twel#e te( , in token of acknowledgment for a#ing hi life" I miled at him, and looked (lea antly, and beckoned to him to come till nearer' at length he came clo e to me' and then he kneeled down again, ki ed the ground, and laid hi head u(on the ground, and taking me by the foot, et my foot u(on hi head' thi , it eem , wa in token of wearing to

be my la#e for e#er" I took him u( and made much of him, and encouraged him all I could" But there wa more work to do yet' for I (ercei#ed the a#age whom I had knocked down wa not killed, but tunned with the blow, and began to come to him elf5 o I (ointed to him, and howed him the a#age, that he wa not dead' u(on thi he (oke ome word to me, and though I could not under tand them, yet I thought they were (lea ant to hear' for they were the fir t ound of a man2 #oice that I had heard, my own e0ce(ted, for abo#e twenty*fi#e year " But there wa no time for uch reflection now' the a#age who wa knocked down reco#ered him elf o far a to it u( u(on the ground, and I (ercei#ed that my a#age began to be afraid' but when I aw that, I (re ented my other (iece at the man, a if I would hoot him5 u(on thi my a#age, for o I call him now, made a motion to me to lend him my word, which hung naked in a belt by my ide, which I did" !e no ooner had it, but he run to hi enemy, and at one blow cut off hi head o cle#erly, no e0ecutioner in 4ermany could ha#e done it ooner or better' which I thought #ery trange for one who, I had rea on to belie#e, ne#er aw a word in hi life before, e0ce(t their own wooden word 5 howe#er, it eem , a I learned afterward , they make their wooden word o har(, o hea#y, and the wood i o hard, that they will e#en cut off head with them, ay, and arm , and that at one blow, too" When he had done thi , he come laughing to me in ign of trium(h, and brought me the word again, and with abundance of ge ture which I did not under tand, laid it down, with the head of the a#age that he had killed, 1u t before me" But that which a toni hed him mo t wa to know how I killed the other Indian o far off' o, (ointing to him, he made ign to me to let him go to him' and I bade him go, a well a I could" When he came to him, he tood like one ama&ed, looking at him, turning him fir t on one ide, then on the other' looked at the wound the bullet had made, which it eem wa 1u t in hi brea t, where it had made a hole, and no great 3uantity of blood had followed' but he had bled inwardly, for he wa 3uite dead" !e took u( hi bow and arrow , and came back' o I turned to go away, and beckoned him to follow me, making ign to him that more might come after them" >(on thi he made ign to me that he hould bury them with and, that they might not be een by the re t, if they followed' and o I made ign to him again to do o" !e fell to work' and in an in tant he had cra(ed a hole in the and with hi hand big enough to bury the fir t in, and then dragged him into it, and co#ered him' and did o by the other al o' I belie#e he had him buried them both in a 3uarter of an hour" 8hen, calling away, I carried him, not to my ca tle, but 3uite away to my ca#e, on the farther (art of the i land5 o I did not let my dream come to (a in that (art, that he came into my gro#e for helter" !ere I ga#e him bread and a bunch of rai in to eat, and a draught of water, which I found he wa indeed in great di tre for, from hi running5 and ha#ing refre hed him, I made ign for him

to go and lie down to lee(, howing him a (lace where I had laid ome rice* traw, and a blanket u(on it, which I u ed to lee( u(on my elf ometime ' o the (oor creature lay down, and went to lee(" !e wa a comely, hand ome fellow, (erfectly well made, with traight, trong limb , not too large' tall, and well* ha(ed' and, a I reckon, about twenty* i0 year of age" !e had a #ery good countenance, not a fierce and urly a (ect, but eemed to ha#e omething #ery manly in hi face' and yet he had all the weetne and oftne of a )uro(ean in hi countenance, too, e (ecially when he miled" !i hair wa long and black, not curled like wool' hi forehead #ery high and large' and a great #i#acity and (arkling har(ne in hi eye " 8he colour of hi kin wa not 3uite black, but #ery tawny' and yet not an ugly, yellow, nau eou tawny, a the Bra&ilian and Eirginian , and other nati#e of America are, but of a bright kind of a dun oli#e*colour, that had in it omething #ery agreeable, though not #ery ea y to de cribe" !i face wa round and (lum(' hi no e mall, not flat, like the negroe ' a #ery good mouth, thin li( , and hi fine teeth well et, and a white a i#ory" After he had lumbered, rather than le(t, about half*an*hour, he awoke again, and came out of the ca#e to me5 for I had been milking my goat which I had in the enclo ure 1u t by5 when he e (ied me he came running to me, laying him elf down again u(on the ground, with all the (o ible ign of an humble, thankful di (o ition, making a great many antic ge ture to how it" At la t he lay hi head flat u(on the ground, clo e to my foot, and et my other foot u(on hi head, a he had done before' and after thi made all the ign to me of ub1ection, er#itude, and ubmi ion imaginable, to let me know how he would er#e me o long a he li#ed" I under tood him in many thing , and let him know I wa #ery well (lea ed with him" In a little time I began to (eak to him' and teach him to (eak to me5 and fir t, I let him know hi name hould be ,riday, which wa the day I a#ed hi life5 I called him o for the memory of the time" I likewi e taught him to ay /a ter' and then let him know that wa to be my name5 I likewi e taught him to ay Ye and ;o and to know the meaning of them" I ga#e him ome milk in an earthen (ot, and let him ee me drink it before him, and o( my bread in it' and ga#e him a cake of bread to do the like, which he 3uickly com(lied with, and made ign that it wa #ery good for him" I ke(t there with him all that night' but a oon a it wa day I beckoned to him to come with me, and let him know I would gi#e him ome clothe ' at which he eemed #ery glad, for he wa tark naked" A we went by the (lace where he had buried the two men, he (ointed e0actly to the (lace, and howed me the mark that he had made to find them again, making ign to me that we hould dig them u( again and eat them" At thi I a((eared #ery angry, e0(re ed my

abhorrence of it, made a if I would #omit at the thought of it, and beckoned with my hand to him to come away, which he did immediately, with great ubmi ion" I then led him u( to the to( of the hill, to ee if hi enemie were gone' and (ulling out my gla I looked, and aw (lainly the (lace where they had been, but no a((earance of them or their canoe ' o that it wa (lain they were gone, and had left their two comrade behind them, without any earch after them" But I wa not content with thi di co#ery' but ha#ing now more courage, and con e3uently more curio ity, I took my man ,riday with me, gi#ing him the word in hi hand, with the bow and arrow at hi back, which I found he could u e #ery de0terou ly, making him carry one gun for me, and I two for my elf' and away we marched to the (lace where the e creature had been' for I had a mind now to get ome further intelligence of them" When I came to the (lace my #ery blood ran chill in my #ein , and my heart unk within me, at the horror of the (ectacle' indeed, it wa a dreadful ight, at lea t it wa o to me, though ,riday made nothing of it" 8he (lace wa co#ered with human bone , the ground dyed with their blood, and great (iece of fle h left here and there, half* eaten, mangled, and corched' and, in hort, all the token of the trium(hant fea t they had been making there, after a #ictory o#er their enemie " I aw three kull , fi#e hand , and the bone of three or four leg and feet, and abundance of other (art of the bodie ' and ,riday, by hi ign , made me under tand that they brought o#er four (ri oner to fea t u(on' that three of them were eaten u(, and that he, (ointing to him elf, wa the fourth' that there had been a great battle between them and their ne0t king, of who e ub1ect , it eem , he had been one, and that they had taken a great number of (ri oner ' all which were carried to e#eral (lace by tho e who had taken them in the fight, in order to fea t u(on them, a wa done here by the e wretche u(on tho e they brought hither" I cau ed ,riday to gather all the kull , bone , fle h, and whate#er remained, and lay them together in a hea(, and make a great fire u(on it, and burn them all to a he " I found ,riday had till a hankering tomach after ome of the fle h, and wa till a cannibal in hi nature' but I howed o much abhorrence at the #ery thought of it, and at the lea t a((earance of it, that he dur t not di co#er it5 for I had, by ome mean , let him know that I would kill him if he offered it" When he had done thi , we came back to our ca tle' and there I fell to work for my man ,riday' and fir t of all, I ga#e him a (air of linen drawer , which I had out of the (oor gunner2 che t I mentioned, which I found in the wreck, and

which, with a little alteration, fitted him #ery well' and then I made him a 1erkin of goat2 kin, a well a my kill would allow ?for I wa now grown a tolerably good tailor@' and I ga#e him a ca( which I made of hare2 kin, #ery con#enient, and fa hionable enough' and thu he wa clothed, for the (re ent, tolerably well, and wa mighty well (lea ed to ee him elf almo t a well clothed a hi ma ter" It i true he went awkwardly in the e clothe at fir t5 wearing the drawer wa #ery awkward to him, and the lee#e of the wai tcoat galled hi houlder and the in ide of hi arm ' but a little ea ing them where he com(lained they hurt him, and u ing him elf to them, he took to them at length #ery well" 8he ne0t day, after I came home to my hutch with him, I began to con ider where I hould lodge him5 and that I might do well for him and yet be (erfectly ea y my elf, I made a little tent for him in the #acant (lace between my two fortification , in the in ide of the la t, and in the out ide of the fir t" A there wa a door or entrance there into my ca#e, I made a formal framed door*ca e, and a door to it, of board , and et it u( in the (a age, a little within the entrance' and, cau ing the door to o(en in the in ide, I barred it u( in the night, taking in my ladder , too' o that ,riday could no way come at me in the in ide of my innermo t wall, without making o much noi e in getting o#er that it mu t need awaken me' for my fir t wall had now a com(lete roof o#er it of long (ole , co#ering all my tent, and leaning u( to the ide of the hill' which wa again laid acro with maller tick , in tead of lath , and then thatched o#er a great thickne with the rice* traw, which wa trong, like reed ' and at the hole or (lace which wa left to go in or out by the ladder I had (laced a kind of tra(* door, which, if it had been attem(ted on the out ide, would not ha#e o(ened at all, but would ha#e fallen down and made a great noi e * a to wea(on , I took them all into my ide e#ery night" But I needed none of all thi (recaution' for ne#er man had a more faithful, lo#ing, incere er#ant than ,riday wa to me5 without (a ion , ullenne , or de ign , (erfectly obliged and engaged' hi #ery affection were tied to me, like tho e of a child to a father' and I dare ay he would ha#e acrificed hi life to a#e mine u(on any occa ion what oe#er * the many te timonie he ga#e me of thi (ut it out of doubt, and oon con#inced me that I needed to u e no (recaution for my afety on hi account" 8hi fre3uently ga#e me occa ion to ob er#e, and that with wonder, that howe#er it had (lea ed 4od in !i (ro#idence, and in the go#ernment of the work of !i hand , to take from o great a (art of the world of !i creature the be t u e to which their facultie and the (ower of their oul are ada(ted, yet that !e ha be towed u(on them the ame (ower , the ame rea on, the

ame affection , the ame entiment of kindne and obligation, the ame (a ion and re entment of wrong , the ame en e of gratitude, incerity, fidelity, and all the ca(acitie of doing good and recei#ing good that !e ha gi#en to u ' and that when !e (lea e to offer them occa ion of e0erting the e, they are a ready, nay, more ready, to a((ly them to the right u e for which they were be towed than we are" 8hi made me #ery melancholy ometime , in reflecting, a the e#eral occa ion (re ented, how mean a u e we make of all the e, e#en though we ha#e the e (ower enlightened by the great lam( of in truction, the S(irit of 4od, and by the knowledge of !i word added to our under tanding' and why it ha (lea ed 4od to hide the like a#ing knowledge from o many million of oul , who, if I might 1udge by thi (oor a#age, would make a much better u e of it than we did" ,rom hence I ometime wa led too far, to in#ade the o#ereignty of <ro#idence, and, a it were, arraign the 1u tice of o arbitrary a di (o ition of thing , that hould hide that ight from ome, and re#eal it * to other , and yet e0(ect a like duty from both' but I hut it u(, and checked my thought with thi conclu ion5 fir t, that we did not know by what light and law the e hould be condemned' but that a 4od wa nece arily, and by the nature of !i being, infinitely holy and 1u t, o it could not be, but if the e creature were all entenced to ab ence from !im elf, it wa on account of inning again t that light which, a the Scri(ture ay , wa a law to them el#e , and by uch rule a their con cience would acknowledge to be 1u t, though the foundation wa not di co#ered to u ' and econdly, that till a we all are the clay in the hand of the (otter, no #e el could ay to him, 9Why ha t thou formed me thu 69 But to return to my new com(anion" I wa greatly delighted with him, and made it my bu ine to teach him e#erything that wa (ro(er to make him u eful, handy, and hel(ful' but e (ecially to make him (eak, and under tand me when I (oke' and he wa the a(te t cholar that e#er wa ' and (articularly wa o merry, o con tantly diligent, and o (lea ed when he could but under tand me, or make me under tand him, that it wa #ery (lea ant for me to talk to him" ;ow my life began to be o ea y that I began to ay to my elf that could I but ha#e been afe from more a#age , I cared not if I wa ne#er to remo#e from the (lace where I li#ed"

CHAPTER %V - FRIDAY'S ED"CATI N

A,8)$ I had been two or three day returned to my ca tle, I thought that, in order to bring ,riday off from hi horrid way of feeding, and from the reli h of

a cannibal2 tomach, I ought to let him ta te other fle h' o I took him out with me one morning to the wood " I went, indeed, intending to kill a kid out of my own flock' and bring it home and dre it' but a I wa going I aw a he*goat lying down in the hade, and two young kid itting by her" I catched hold of ,riday" 9!old,9 aid I, 9 tand till'9 and made ign to him not to tir5 immediately I (re ented my (iece, hot, and killed one of the kid " 8he (oor creature, who had at a di tance, indeed, een me kill the a#age, hi enemy, but did not know, nor could imagine how it wa done, wa en ibly ur(ri ed, trembled, and hook, and looked o ama&ed that I thought he would ha#e unk down" !e did not ee the kid I hot at, or (ercei#e I had killed it, but ri((ed u( hi wai tcoat to feel whether he wa not wounded' and, a I found (re ently, thought I wa re ol#ed to kill him5 for he came and kneeled down to me, and embracing my knee , aid a great many thing I did not under tand' but I could ea ily ee the meaning wa to (ray me not to kill him" I oon found a way to con#ince him that I would do him no harm' and taking him u( by the hand, laughed at him, and (ointing to the kid which I had killed, beckoned to him to run and fetch it, which he did5 and while he wa wondering, and looking to ee how the creature wa killed, I loaded my gun again" By*and* by I aw a great fowl, like a hawk, itting u(on a tree within hot' o, to let ,riday under tand a little what I would do, I called him to me again, (ointed at the fowl, which wa indeed a (arrot, though I thought it had been a hawk' I ay, (ointing to the (arrot, and to my gun, and to the ground under the (arrot, to let him ee I would make it fall, I made him under tand that I would hoot and kill that bird' accordingly, I fired, and bade him look, and immediately he aw the (arrot fall" !e tood like one frightened again, notwith tanding all I had aid to him' and I found he wa the more ama&ed, becau e he did not ee me (ut anything into the gun, but thought that there mu t be ome wonderful fund of death and de truction in that thing, able to kill man, bea t, bird, or anything near or far off' and the a toni hment thi created in him wa uch a could not wear off for a long time' and I belie#e, if I would ha#e let him, he would ha#e wor hi((ed me and my gun" A for the gun it elf, he would not o much a touch it for e#eral day after' but he would (eak to it and talk to it, a if it had an wered him, when he wa by him elf' which, a I afterward learned of him, wa to de ire it not to kill him" Well, after hi a toni hment wa a little o#er at thi , I (ointed to him to run and fetch the bird I had hot, which he did, but tayed ome time' for the (arrot, not being 3uite dead, had fluttered away a good di tance from the (lace where he fell5 howe#er, he found her, took her u(, and brought her to me' and a I had (ercei#ed hi ignorance about the gun before, I took thi ad#antage to charge the gun again, and not to let him ee me do it, that I might be ready for any other mark that might (re ent' but nothing

more offered at that time5 o I brought home the kid, and the ame e#ening I took the kin off, and cut it out a well a I could' and ha#ing a (ot fit for that (ur(o e, I boiled or tewed ome of the fle h, and made ome #ery good broth" After I had begun to eat ome I ga#e ome to my man, who eemed #ery glad of it, and liked it #ery well' but that which wa trange t to him wa to ee me eat alt with it" !e made a ign to me that the alt wa not good to eat' and (utting a little into hi own mouth, he eemed to nau eate it, and would (it and (utter at it, wa hing hi mouth with fre h water after it5 on the other hand, I took ome meat into my mouth without alt, and I (retended to (it and (utter for want of alt, a much a he had done at the alt' but it would not do' he would ne#er care for alt with meat or in hi broth' at lea t, not for a great while, and then but a #ery little" !a#ing thu fed him with boiled meat and broth, I wa re ol#ed to fea t him the ne0t day by roa ting a (iece of the kid5 thi I did by hanging it before the fire on a tring, a I had een many (eo(le do in )ngland, etting two (ole u(, one on each ide of the fire, and one acro the to(, and tying the tring to the cro tick, letting the meat turn continually" 8hi ,riday admired #ery much' but when he came to ta te the fle h, he took o many way to tell me how well he liked it, that I could not but under tand him5 and at la t he told me, a well a he could, he would ne#er eat man2 fle h any more, which I wa #ery glad to hear" 8he ne0t day I et him to work beating ome corn out, and ifting it in the manner I u ed to do, a I ob er#ed before' and he oon under tood how to do it a well a I, e (ecially after he had een what the meaning of it wa , and that it wa to make bread of' for after that I let him ee me make my bread, and bake it too' and in a little time ,riday wa able to do all the work for me a well a I could do it my elf" I began now to con ider, that ha#ing two mouth to feed in tead of one, I mu t (ro#ide more ground for my har#e t, and (lant a larger 3uantity of corn than I u ed to do' o I marked out a larger (iece of land, and began the fence in the ame manner a before, in which ,riday worked not only #ery willingly and #ery hard, but did it #ery cheerfully5 and I told him what it wa for' that it wa for corn to make more bread, becau e he wa now with me, and that I might ha#e enough for him and my elf too" !e a((eared #ery en ible of that (art, and let me know that he thought I had much more labour u(on me on hi account than I had for my elf' and that he would work the harder for me if I would tell him what to do" 8hi wa the (lea ante t year of all the life I led in thi (lace" ,riday began to talk (retty well, and under tand the name of almo t e#erything I had occa ion

to call for, and of e#ery (lace I had to end him to, and talked a great deal to me' o that, in hort, I began now to ha#e ome u e for my tongue again, which, indeed, I had #ery little occa ion for before" Be ide the (lea ure of talking to him, I had a ingular ati faction in the fellow him elf5 hi im(le, unfeigned hone ty a((eared to me more and more e#ery day, and I began really to lo#e the creature' and on hi ide I belie#e he lo#ed me more than it wa (o ible for him e#er to lo#e anything before" I had a mind once to try if he had any inclination for hi own country again' and ha#ing taught him )ngli h o well that he could an wer me almo t any 3ue tion, I a ked him whether the nation that he belonged to ne#er con3uered in battle6 At which he miled, and aid * 9Ye , ye , we alway fight the better'9 that i , he meant alway get the better in fight' and o we began the following di cour e5* /AS8)$" * You alway fight the better' how came you to be taken (ri oner, then, ,riday6 ,$I.AY" * /y nation beat much for all that" /AS8)$" * !ow beat6 If your nation beat them, how came you to be taken6 ,$I.AY" * 8hey more many than my nation, in the (lace where me wa ' they take one, two, three, and me5 my nation o#er*beat them in the yonder (lace, where me no wa ' there my nation take one, two, great thou and" /AS8)$" * But why did not your ide reco#er you from the hand of your enemie , then6 ,$I.AY" * 8hey run, one, two, three, and me, and make go in the canoe' my nation ha#e no canoe that time" /AS8)$" * Well, ,riday, and what doe your nation do with the men they take6 .o they carry them away and eat them, a the e did6 ,$I.AY" * Ye , my nation eat man too' eat all u(" /AS8)$" * Where do they carry them6 ,$I.AY" * 4o to other (lace, where they think" /AS8)$" * .o they come hither6

,$I.AY" * Ye , ye , they come hither' come other el e (lace" /AS8)$" * !a#e you been here with them6 ,$I.AY" * Ye , I ha#e been here ?(oint to the ;W" ide of the i land, which, it eem , wa their ide@" By thi I under tood that my man ,riday had formerly been among the a#age who u ed to come on hore on the farther (art of the i land, on the ame man* eating occa ion he wa now brought for' and ome time after, when I took the courage to carry him to that ide, being the ame I formerly mentioned, he (re ently knew the (lace, and told me he wa there once, when they ate u( twenty men, two women, and one child' he could not tell twenty in )ngli h, but he numbered them by laying o many tone in a row, and (ointing to me to tell them o#er" I ha#e told thi (a age, becau e it introduce what follow 5 that after thi di cour e I had with him, I a ked him how far it wa from our i land to the hore, and whether the canoe were not often lo t" !e told me there wa no danger, no canoe e#er lo t5 but that after a little way out to ea, there wa a current and wind, alway one way in the morning, the other in the afternoon" 8hi I under tood to be no more than the et of the tide, a going out or coming in' but I afterward under tood it wa occa ioned by the great draft and reflu0 of the mighty ri#er =rinoco, in the mouth or gulf of which ri#er, a I found afterward , our i land lay' and that thi land, which I (ercei#ed to be W" and ;W", wa the great i land 8rinidad, on the north (oint of the mouth of the ri#er" I a ked ,riday a thou and 3ue tion about the country, the inhabitant , the ea, the coa t, and what nation were near' he told me all he knew with the greate t o(enne imaginable" I a ked him the name of the e#eral nation of hi ort of (eo(le, but could get no other name than +arib ' from whence I ea ily under tood that the e were the +aribbee , which our ma( (lace on the (art of America which reache from the mouth of the ri#er =rinoco to 4uiana, and onward to St" /artha" !e told me that u( a great way beyond the moon, that wa beyond the etting of the moon, which mu t be we t from their country, there dwelt white bearded men, like me, and (ointed to my great whi ker , which I mentioned before' and that they had killed much man , that wa hi word5 by all which I under tood he meant the S(aniard , who e crueltie in America had been (read o#er the whole country, and were remembered by all the nation from father to on" I in3uired if he could tell me how I might go from thi i land, and get among tho e white men" !e told me, 9Ye , ye , you may go in two canoe"9 I could not

under tand what he meant, or make him de cribe to me what he meant by two canoe, till at la t, with great difficulty, I found he meant it mu t be in a large boat, a big a two canoe " 8hi (art of ,riday2 di cour e I began to reli h #ery well' and from thi time I entertained ome ho(e that, one time or other, I might find an o((ortunity to make my e ca(e from thi (lace, and that thi (oor a#age might be a mean to hel( me" .uring the long time that ,riday had now been with me, and that he began to (eak to me, and under tand me, I wa not wanting to lay a foundation of religiou knowledge in hi mind' (articularly I a ked him one time, who made him" 8he creature did not under tand me at all, but thought I had a ked who wa hi father * but I took it u( by another handle, and a ked him who made the ea, the ground we walked on, and the hill and wood " !e told me, 9It wa one Benamuckee, that li#ed beyond all'9 he could de cribe nothing of thi great (er on, but that he wa #ery old, 9much older,9 he aid, 9than the ea or land, than the moon or the tar "9 I a ked him then, if thi old (er on had made all thing , why did not all thing wor hi( him6 !e looked #ery gra#e, and, with a (erfect look of innocence, aid, 9All thing ay = to him"9 I a ked him if the (eo(le who die in hi country went away anywhere6 !e aid, 9Ye ' they all went to Benamuckee"9 8hen I a ked him whether tho e they eat u( went thither too" !e aid, 9Ye "9 ,rom the e thing , I began to in truct him in the knowledge of the true 4od' I told him that the great /aker of all thing li#ed u( there, (ointing u( toward hea#en' that !e go#erned the world by the ame (ower and (ro#idence by which !e made it' that !e wa omni(otent, and could do e#erything for u , gi#e e#erything to u , take e#erything from u ' and thu , by degree , I o(ened hi eye " !e li tened with great attention, and recei#ed with (lea ure the notion of Ae u +hri t being ent to redeem u ' and of the manner of making our (rayer to 4od, and !i being able to hear u , e#en in hea#en" !e told me one day, that if our 4od could hear u , u( beyond the un, he mu t need be a greater 4od than their Benamuckee, who li#ed but a little way off, and yet could not hear till they went u( to the great mountain where he dwelt to (eak to them" I a ked him if e#er he went thither to (eak to him" !e aid, 9;o' they ne#er went that were young men' none went thither but the old men,9 whom he called their =owokakee' that i , a I made him e0(lain to me, their religiou , or clergy' and that they went to ay = ? o he called aying (rayer @, and then came back and told them what Benamuckee aid" By thi I ob er#ed, that there i (rie tcraft e#en among the mo t blinded, ignorant (agan in the world' and the (olicy of making a ecret of religion, in order to (re er#e the #eneration of the

(eo(le to the clergy, not only to be found in the $oman, but, (erha( , among all religion in the world, e#en among the mo t bruti h and barbarou a#age " I endea#oured to clear u( thi fraud to my man ,riday' and told him that the (retence of their old men going u( to the mountain to ay = to their god Benamuckee wa a cheat' and their bringing word from thence what he aid wa much more o' that if they met with any an wer, or (ake with any one there, it mu t be with an e#il (irit' and then I entered into a long di cour e with him about the de#il, the origin of him, hi rebellion again t 4od, hi enmity to man, the rea on of it, hi etting him elf u( in the dark (art of the world to be wor hi((ed in tead of 4od, and a 4od, and the many tratagem he made u e of to delude mankind to their ruin' how he had a ecret acce to our (a ion and to our affection , and to ada(t hi nare to our inclination , o a to cau e u e#en to be our own tem(ter , and run u(on our de truction by our own choice" I found it wa not o ea y to im(rint right notion in hi mind about the de#il a it wa about the being of a 4od" ;ature a i ted all my argument to e#idence to him e#en the nece ity of a great ,ir t +au e, an o#erruling, go#erning <ower, a ecret directing <ro#idence, and of the e3uity and 1u tice of (aying homage to !im that made u , and the like' but there a((eared nothing of thi kind in the notion of an e#il (irit, of hi origin, hi being, hi nature, and abo#e all, of hi inclination to do e#il, and to draw u in to do o too' and the (oor creature (u&&led me once in uch a manner, by a 3ue tion merely natural and innocent, that I carce knew what to ay to him" I had been talking a great deal to him of the (ower of 4od, !i omni(otence, !i a#er ion to in, !i being a con uming fire to the worker of ini3uity' how, a !e had made u all, !e could de troy u and all the world in a moment' and he li tened with great eriou ne to me all the while" After thi I had been telling him how the de#il wa 4od2 enemy in the heart of men, and u ed all hi malice and kill to defeat the good de ign of <ro#idence, and to ruin the kingdom of +hri t in the world, and the like" 9Well,9 ay ,riday, 9but you ay 4od i o trong, o great' i !e not much trong, much might a the de#il69 9Ye , ye ,9 ay I, 9,riday' 4od i tronger than the de#il * 4od i abo#e the de#il, and therefore we (ray to 4od to tread him down under our feet, and enable u to re i t hi tem(tation and 3uench hi fiery dart "9 9But,9 ay he again, 9if 4od much tronger, much might a the wicked de#il, why 4od no kill the de#il, o make him no more do wicked69 I wa trangely ur(ri ed at thi 3ue tion' and, after all, though I wa now an old man, yet I wa but a young doctor, and ill 3ualified for a ca ui t or a ol#er of difficultie ' and at fir t I could not tell what to ay' o I (retended not to hear him, and a ked him what he aid' but he wa

too earne t for an an wer to forget hi 3ue tion, o that he re(eated it in the #ery ame broken word a abo#e" By thi time I had reco#ered my elf a little, and I aid, 94od will at la t (uni h him e#erely' he i re er#ed for the 1udgment, and i to be ca t into the bottomle (it, to dwell with e#erla ting fire"9 8hi did not ati fy ,riday' but he return u(on me, re(eating my word , 92$)S)$E) A8 -AS872 me no under tand * but why not kill the de#il now' not kill great ago69 9You may a well a k me,9 aid I, 9why 4od doe not kill you or me, when we do wicked thing here that offend !im * we are (re er#ed to re(ent and be (ardoned"9 !e mu ed ome time on thi " 9Well, well,9 ay he, mighty affectionately, 9that well * o you, I, de#il, all wicked, all (re er#e, re(ent, 4od (ardon all"9 !ere I wa run down again by him to the la t degree' and it wa a te timony to me, how the mere notion of nature, though they will guide rea onable creature to the knowledge of a 4od, and of a wor hi( or homage due to the u(reme being of 4od, a the con e3uence of our nature, yet nothing but di#ine re#elation can form the knowledge of Ae u +hri t, and of redem(tion (urcha ed for u ' of a /ediator of the new co#enant, and of an Interce or at the foot tool of 4od2 throne' I ay, nothing but a re#elation from !ea#en can form the e in the oul' and that, therefore, the go (el of our -ord and Sa#iour Ae u +hri t, I mean the Word of 4od, and the S(irit of 4od, (romi ed for the guide and anctifier of !i (eo(le, are the ab olutely nece ary in tructor of the oul of men in the a#ing knowledge of 4od and the mean of al#ation" I therefore di#erted the (re ent di cour e between me and my man, ri ing u( ha tily, a u(on ome udden occa ion of going out' then ending him for omething a good way off, I eriou ly (rayed to 4od that !e would enable me to in truct a#ingly thi (oor a#age' a i ting, by !i S(irit, the heart of the (oor ignorant creature to recei#e the light of the knowledge of 4od in +hri t, reconciling him to !im elf, and would guide me o to (eak to him from the Word of 4od that hi con cience might be con#inced, hi eye o(ened, and hi oul a#ed" When he came again to me, I entered into a long di cour e with him u(on the ub1ect of the redem(tion of man by the Sa#iour of the world, and of the doctrine of the go (el (reached from !ea#en, #i&" of re(entance toward 4od, and faith in our ble ed -ord Ae u " I then e0(lained to him a well a I could why our ble ed $edeemer took not on !im the nature of angel but the eed of Abraham' and how, for that rea on, the fallen angel had no hare in the redem(tion' that !e came only to the lo t hee( of the hou e of I rael, and the like" I had, 4od know , more incerity than knowledge in all the method I took for thi (oor creature2 in truction, and mu t acknowledge, what I belie#e all that

act u(on the ame (rinci(le will find, that in laying thing o(en to him, I really informed and in tructed my elf in many thing that either I did not know or had not fully con idered before, but which occurred naturally to my mind u(on earching into them, for the information of thi (oor a#age' and I had more affection in my in3uiry after thing u(on thi occa ion than e#er I felt before5 o that, whether thi (oor wild wretch wa better for me or no, I had great rea on to be thankful that e#er he came to me' my grief at lighter, u(on me' my habitation grew comfortable to me beyond mea ure5 and when I reflected that in thi olitary life which I ha#e been confined to, I had not only been mo#ed to look u( to hea#en my elf, and to eek the !and that had brought me here, but wa now to be made an in trument, under <ro#idence, to a#e the life, and, for aught I knew, the oul of a (oor a#age, and bring him to the true knowledge of religion and of the +hri tian doctrine, that he might know +hri t Ae u , in whom i life eternal' I ay, when I reflected u(on all the e thing , a ecret 1oy ran through e#ery (art of /y oul, and I fre3uently re1oiced that e#er I wa brought to thi (lace, which I had o often thought the mo t dreadful of all affliction that could (o ibly ha#e befallen me" I continued in thi thankful frame all the remainder of my time' and the con#er ation which em(loyed the hour between ,riday and me wa uch a made the three year which we li#ed there together (erfectly and com(letely ha((y, if any uch thing a com(lete ha((ine can be formed in a ublunary tate" 8hi a#age wa now a good +hri tian, a much better than I' though I ha#e rea on to ho(e, and ble 4od for it, that we were e3ually (enitent, and comforted, re tored (enitent " We had here the Word of 4od to read, and no farther off from !i S(irit to in truct than if we had been in )ngland" I alway a((lied my elf, in reading the Scri(ture, to let him know, a well a I could, the meaning of what I read' and he again, by hi eriou in3uirie and 3ue tioning , made me, a I aid before, a much better cholar in the Scri(ture knowledge than I hould e#er ha#e been by my own mere (ri#ate reading" Another thing I cannot refrain from ob er#ing here al o, from e0(erience in thi retired (art of my life, #i&" how infinite and ine0(re ible a ble ing it i that the knowledge of 4od, and of the doctrine of al#ation by +hri t Ae u , i o (lainly laid down in the Word of 4od, o ea y to be recei#ed and under tood, that, a the bare reading the Scri(ture made me ca(able of under tanding enough of my duty to carry me directly on to the great work of incere re(entance for my in , and laying hold of a Sa#iour for life and al#ation, to a tated reformation in (ractice, and obedience to all 4od2 command , and thi without any teacher or in tructor, I mean human' o the ame (lain in truction ufficiently er#ed to the enlightening thi a#age creature, and bringing him to be uch a +hri tian a I ha#e known few e3ual to him in my life"

A to all the di (ute , wrangling, trife, and contention which ha#e ha((ened in the world about religion, whether nicetie in doctrine or cheme of church go#ernment, they were all (erfectly u ele to u , and, for aught I can yet ee, they ha#e been o to the re t of the world" We had the ure guide to hea#en, #i&" the Word of 4od' and we had, ble ed be 4od, comfortable #iew of the S(irit of 4od teaching and in tructing by !i word, leading u into all truth, and making u both willing and obedient to the in truction of !i word" And I cannot ee the lea t u e that the greate t knowledge of the di (uted (oint of religion, which ha#e made uch confu ion in the world, would ha#e been to u , if we could ha#e obtained it" But I mu t go on with the hi torical (art of thing , and take e#ery (art in it order" After ,riday and I became more intimately ac3uainted, and that he could under tand almo t all I aid to him, and (eak (retty fluently, though in broken )ngli h, to me, I ac3uainted him with my own hi tory, or at lea t o much of it a related to my coming to thi (lace5 how I had li#ed there, and how long' I let him into the my tery, for uch it wa to him, of gun(owder and bullet, and taught him how to hoot" I ga#e him a knife, which he wa wonderfully delighted with' and I made him a belt, with a frog hanging to it, uch a in )ngland we wear hanger in' and in the frog, in tead of a hanger, I ga#e him a hatchet, which wa not only a good a wea(on in ome ca e , but much more u eful u(on other occa ion " I de cribed to him the country of )uro(e, (articularly )ngland, which I came from' how we li#ed, how we wor hi((ed 4od, how we beha#ed to one another, and how we traded in hi( to all (art of the world" I ga#e him an account of the wreck which I had been on board of, and howed him, a near a I could, the (lace where he lay' but he wa all beaten in (iece before, and gone" I howed him the ruin of our boat, which we lo t when we e ca(ed, and which I could not tir with my whole trength then' but wa now fallen almo t all to (iece " >(on eeing thi boat, ,riday tood, mu ing a great while, and aid nothing" I a ked him what it wa he tudied u(on" At la t ay he, 9/e ee uch boat like come to (lace at my nation"9 I did not under tand him a good while' but at la t, when I had e0amined further into it, I under tood by him that a boat, uch a that had been, came on hore u(on the country where he li#ed5 that i , a he e0(lained it, wa dri#en thither by tre of weather" I (re ently imagined that ome )uro(ean hi( mu t ha#e been ca t away u(on their coa t, and the boat might get loo e and dri#e a hore' but wa o dull that I ne#er once thought of men making their e ca(e from a wreck thither, much le whence they might come5 o I only in3uired after a de cri(tion of the boat"

,riday de cribed the boat to me well enough' but brought me better to under tand him when he added with ome warmth, 9We a#e the white man from drown"9 8hen I (re ently a ked if there were any white man , a he called them, in the boat" 9Ye ,9 he aid' 9the boat full of white man "9 I a ked him how many" !e told u(on hi finger e#enteen" I a ked him then what became of them" !e told me, 98hey li#e, they dwell at my nation"9 8hi (ut new thought into my head' for I (re ently imagined that the e might be the men belonging to the hi( that wa ca t away in the ight of my i land, a I now called it' and who, after the hi( wa truck on the rock, and they aw her ine#itably lo t, had a#ed them el#e in their boat, and were landed u(on that wild hore among the a#age " >(on thi I in3uired of him more critically what wa become of them" !e a ured me they li#ed till there' that they had been there about four year ' that the a#age left them alone, and ga#e them #ictual to li#e on" I a ked him how it came to (a they did not kill them and eat them" !e aid, 9;o, they make brother with them'9 that i , a I under tood him, a truce' and then he added, 98hey no eat man but when make the war fight'9 that i to ay, they ne#er eat any men but uch a come to fight with them and are taken in battle" It wa after thi ome con iderable time, that being u(on the to( of the hill at the ea t ide of the i land, from whence, a I ha#e aid, I had, in a clear day, di co#ered the main or continent of America, ,riday, the weather being #ery erene, look #ery earne tly toward the mainland, and, in a kind of ur(ri e, fall a 1um(ing and dancing, and call out to me, for I wa at ome di tance from him" I a ked him what wa the matter" 9=h, 1oy79 ay he' 9=h, glad7 there ee my country, there my nation79 I ob er#ed an e0traordinary en e of (lea ure a((eared in hi face, and hi eye (arkled, and hi countenance di co#ered a trange eagerne , a if he had a mind to be in hi own country again" 8hi ob er#ation of mine (ut a great many thought into me, which made me at fir t not o ea y about my new man ,riday a I wa before' and I made no doubt but that, if ,riday could get back to hi own nation again, he would not only forget all hi religion but all hi obligation to me, and would be forward enough to gi#e hi countrymen an account of me, and come back, (erha( with a hundred or two of them, and make a fea t u(on me, at which he might be a merry a he u ed to be with tho e of hi enemie when they were taken in war" But I wronged the (oor hone t creature #ery much, for which I wa #ery orry afterward " !owe#er, a my 1ealou y increa ed, and held ome week , I wa a little more circum (ect, and not o familiar and kind to him a before5 in which I wa certainly wrong too' the hone t, grateful creature ha#ing no thought about

it but what con i ted with the be t (rinci(le , both a a religiou +hri tian and a a grateful friend, a a((eared afterward to my full ati faction" While my 1ealou y of him la ted, you may be ure I wa e#ery day (um(ing him to ee if he would di co#er any of the new thought which I u (ected were in him' but I found e#erything he aid wa o hone t and o innocent, that I could find nothing to nouri h my u (icion' and in (ite of all my unea ine , he made me at la t entirely hi own again' nor did he in the lea t (ercei#e that I wa unea y, and therefore I could not u (ect him of deceit" =ne day, walking u( the ame hill, but the weather being ha&y at ea, o that we could not ee the continent, I called to him, and aid, 9,riday, do not you wi h your elf in your own country, your own nation69 9Ye ,9 he aid, 9I be much = glad to be at my own nation"9 9What would you do there69 aid I" 9Would you turn wild again, eat men2 fle h again, and be a a#age a you were before69 !e looked full of concern, and haking hi head, aid, 9;o, no, ,riday tell them to li#e good' tell them to (ray 4od' tell them to eat corn*bread, cattle fle h, milk' no eat man again"9 9Why, then,9 aid I to him, 9they will kill you"9 !e looked gra#e at that, and then aid, 9;o, no, they no kill me, they willing lo#e learn"9 !e meant by thi , they would be willing to learn" !e added, they learned much of the bearded man that came in the boat" 8hen I a ked him if he would go back to them" !e miled at that, and told me that he could not wim o far" I told him I would make a canoe for him" !e told me he would go if I would go with him" 9I go79 ay I' 9why, they will eat me if I come there"9 9;o, no,9 ay he, 9me make they no eat you' me make they much lo#e you"9 !e meant, he would tell them how I had killed hi enemie , and a#ed hi life, and o he would make them lo#e me" 8hen he told me, a well a he could, how kind they were to e#enteen white men, or bearded men, a he called them who came on hore there in di tre " ,rom thi time, I confe , I had a mind to #enture o#er, and ee if I could (o ibly 1oin with tho e bearded men, who I made no doubt were S(aniard and <ortugue e' not doubting but, if I could, we might find ome method to e ca(e from thence, being u(on the continent, and a good com(any together, better than I could from an i land forty mile off the hore, alone and without hel(" So, after ome day , I took ,riday to work again by way of di cour e, and told him I would gi#e him a boat to go back to hi own nation' and, accordingly, I carried him to my frigate, which lay on the other ide of the i land, and ha#ing cleared it of water ?for I alway ke(t it unk in water@, I brought it out, howed it him, and we both went into it" I found he wa a mo t de0terou fellow at managing it, and would make it go almo t a wift again a I could" So when he

wa in, I aid to him, 9Well, now, ,riday, hall we go to your nation69 !e looked #ery dull at my aying o' which it eem wa becau e he thought the boat wa too mall to go o far" I then told him I had a bigger' o the ne0t day I went to the (lace where the fir t boat lay which I had made, but which I could not get into the water" !e aid that wa big enough' but then, a I had taken no care of it, and it had lain two or three and twenty year there, the un had o (lit and dried it, that it wa rotten" ,riday told me uch a boat would do #ery well, and would carry 9much enough #ittle, drink, bread'9 thi wa hi way of talking"

CHAPTER %VI - RESC"E CANNI!ALS

F PRIS NERS FR &

><=; the whole, I wa by thi time o fi0ed u(on my de ign of going o#er with him to the continent that I told him we would go and make one a big a that, and he hould go home in it" !e an wered not one word, but looked #ery gra#e and ad" I a ked him what wa the matter with him" !e a ked me again, 9Why you angry mad with ,riday6 * what me done69 I a ked him what he meant" I told him I wa not angry with him at all" 9;o angry79 ay he, re(eating the word e#eral time ' 9why end ,riday home away to my nation69 9Why,9 ay I, 9,riday, did not you ay you wi hed you were there69 9Ye , ye ,9 ay he, 9wi h we both there' no wi h ,riday there, no ma ter there"9 In a word, he would not think of going there without me" 9I go there, ,riday69 ay I' 9what hall I do there69 !e turned #ery 3uick u(on me at thi " 9You do great deal much good,9 ay he' 9you teach wild man be good, ober, tame man ' you tell them know 4od, (ray 4od, and li#e new life"9 9Ala , ,riday79 ay I, 9thou knowe t not what thou aye t' I am but an ignorant man my elf"9 9Ye , ye ,9 ay he, 9you teachee me good, you teachee them good"9 9;o, no, ,riday,9 ay I, 9you hall go without me' lea#e me here to li#e by my elf, a I did before"9 !e looked confu ed again at that word' and running to one of the hatchet which he u ed to wear, he take it u( ha tily, and gi#e it to me" 9What mu t I do with thi 69 ay I to him" 9You take kill ,riday,9 ay he" 9What mu t kill you for69 aid I again" !e return #ery 3uick * 9What you end ,riday away for6 8ake kill ,riday, no end ,riday away"9 8hi he (oke o earne tly that I aw tear tand in hi eye " In a word, I o (lainly di co#ered the utmo t affection in him to me, and a firm re olution in him, that I told him then and often after, that I would ne#er end him away from me if he wa willing to tay with me"

>(on the whole, a I found by all hi di cour e a ettled affection to me, and that nothing could (art him from me, o I found all the foundation of hi de ire to go to hi own country wa laid in hi ardent affection to the (eo(le, and hi ho(e of my doing them good' a thing which, a I had no notion of my elf, o I had not the lea t thought or intention, or de ire of undertaking it" But till I found a trong inclination to attem(ting my e ca(e, founded on the u((o ition gathered from the di cour e, that there were e#enteen bearded men there' and therefore, without any more delay, I went to work with ,riday to find out a great tree (ro(er to fell, and make a large (eriagua, or canoe, to undertake the #oyage" 8here were tree enough in the i land to ha#e built a little fleet, not of (eriagua or canoe , but e#en of good, large #e el ' but the main thing I looked at wa , to get one o near the water that we might launch it when it wa made, to a#oid the mi take I committed at fir t" At la t ,riday (itched u(on a tree' for I found he knew much better than I what kind of wood wa fitte t for it' nor can I tell to thi day what wood to call the tree we cut down, e0ce(t that it wa #ery like the tree we call fu tic, or between that and the ;icaragua wood, for it wa much of the ame colour and mell" ,riday wi hed to burn the hollow or ca#ity of thi tree out, to make it for a boat, but I howed him how to cut it with tool ' which, after I had howed him how to u e, he did #ery handily' and in about a month2 hard labour we fini hed it and made it #ery hand ome' e (ecially when, with our a0e , which I howed him how to handle, we cut and hewed the out ide into the true ha(e of a boat" After thi , howe#er, it co t u near a fortnight2 time to get her along, a it were inch by inch, u(on great roller into the water' but when he wa in, he would ha#e carried twenty men with great ea e" When he wa in the water, though he wa o big, it ama&ed me to ee with what de0terity and how wift my man ,riday could manage her, turn her, and (addle her along" So I a ked him if he would, and if we might #enture o#er in her" 9Ye ,9 he aid, 9we #enture o#er in her #ery well, though great blow wind"9 !owe#er I had a further de ign that he knew nothing of, and that wa , to make a ma t and a ail, and to fit her with an anchor and cable" A to a ma t, that wa ea y enough to get' o I (itched u(on a traight young cedar*tree, which I found near the (lace, and which there were great (lenty of in the i land, and I et ,riday to work to cut it down, and ga#e him direction how to ha(e and order it" But a to the ail, that wa my (articular care" I knew I had old ail , or rather (iece of old ail , enough' but a I had had them now i0*and* twenty year by me, and had not been #ery careful to (re er#e them, not imagining that I hould e#er ha#e thi kind of u e for them, I did not doubt but they were all rotten' and, indeed, mo t of them were o" !owe#er, I found two (iece which a((eared (retty good, and with the e I went to work' and with a

great deal of (ain , and awkward titching, you may be ure, for want of needle , I at length made a three*cornered ugly thing, like what we call in )ngland a houlder*of*mutton ail, to go with a boom at bottom, and a little hort (rit at the to(, uch a u ually our hi( 2 long*boat ail with, and uch a I be t knew how to manage, a it wa uch a one a I had to the boat in which I made my e ca(e from Barbary, a related in the fir t (art of my tory" I wa near two month (erforming thi la t work, #i&" rigging and fitting my ma t and ail ' for I fini hed them #ery com(lete, making a mall tay, and a ail, or fore ail, to it, to a i t if we hould turn to windward' and, what wa more than all, I fi0ed a rudder to the tern of her to teer with" I wa but a bungling hi(wright, yet a I knew the u efulne and e#en nece ity of uch a thing, I a((lied my elf with o much (ain to do it, that at la t I brought it to (a ' though, con idering the many dull contri#ance I had for it that failed, I think it co t me almo t a much labour a making the boat" After all thi wa done, I had my man ,riday to teach a to what belonged to the na#igation of my boat' though he knew #ery well how to (addle a canoe, he knew nothing of what belonged to a ail and a rudder' and wa the mo t ama&ed when he aw me work the boat to and again in the ea by the rudder, and how the ail 1ibed, and filled thi way or that way a the cour e we ailed changed' I ay when he aw thi he tood like one a toni hed and ama&ed" !owe#er, with a little u e, I made all the e thing familiar to him, and he became an e0(ert ailor, e0ce(t that of the com(a I could make him under tand #ery little" =n the other hand, a there wa #ery little cloudy weather, and eldom or ne#er any fog in tho e (art , there wa the le occa ion for a com(a , eeing the tar were alway to be een by night, and the hore by day, e0ce(t in the rainy ea on , and then nobody cared to tir abroad either by land or ea" I wa now entered on the e#en*and*twentieth year of my ca(ti#ity in thi (lace' though the three la t year that I had thi creature with me ought rather to be left out of the account, my habitation being 3uite of another kind than in all the re t of the time" I ke(t the anni#er ary of my landing here with the ame thankfulne to 4od for !i mercie a at fir t5 and if I had uch cau e of acknowledgment at fir t, I had much more o now, ha#ing uch additional te timonie of the care of <ro#idence o#er me, and the great ho(e I had of being effectually and (eedily deli#ered' for I had an in#incible im(re ion u(on my thought that my deli#erance wa at hand, and that I hould not be another year in thi (lace" I went on, howe#er, with my hu bandry' digging,

(lanting, and fencing a u ual" I gathered and cured my gra(e , and did e#ery nece ary thing a before" 8he rainy ea on wa in the meantime u(on me, when I ke(t more within door than at other time " We had towed our new #e el a ecure a we could, bringing her u( into the creek, where, a I aid in the beginning, I landed my raft from the hi(' and hauling her u( to the hore at high*water mark, I made my man ,riday dig a little dock, 1u t big enough to hold her, and 1u t dee( enough to gi#e her water enough to float in' and then, when the tide wa out, we made a trong dam acro the end of it, to kee( the water out' and o he lay, dry a to the tide from the ea5 and to kee( the rain off we laid a great many bough of tree , o thick that he wa a well thatched a a hou e' and thu we waited for the month of ;o#ember and .ecember, in which I de igned to make my ad#enture" When the ettled ea on began to come in, a the thought of my de ign returned with the fair weather, I wa (re(aring daily for the #oyage" And the fir t thing I did wa to lay by a certain 3uantity of (ro#i ion , being the tore for our #oyage' and intended in a week or a fortnight2 time to o(en the dock, and launch out our boat" I wa bu y one morning u(on omething of thi kind, when I called to ,riday, and bid him to go to the ea* hore and ee if he could find a turtle or a tortoi e, a thing which we generally got once a week, for the ake of the egg a well a the fle h" ,riday had not been long gone when he came running back, and flew o#er my outer wall or fence, like one that felt not the ground or the te( he et hi foot on' and before I had time to (eak to him he crie out to me, 9= ma ter7 = ma ter7 = orrow7 = bad79 * 9What2 the matter, ,riday69 ay I" 9= yonder there,9 ay he, 9one, two, three canoe ' one, two, three79 By thi way of (eaking I concluded there were i0' but on in3uiry I found there were but three" 9Well, ,riday,9 ay I, 9do not be frightened"9 So I heartened him u( a well a I could" !owe#er, I aw the (oor fellow wa mo t terribly cared, for nothing ran in hi head but that they were come to look for him, and would cut him in (iece and eat him' and the (oor fellow trembled o that I carcely knew what to do with him" I comforted him a well a I could, and told him I wa in a much danger a he, and that they would eat me a well a him" 9But,9 ay I, 9,riday, we mu t re ol#e to fight them" +an you fight, ,riday69 9/e hoot,9 ay he, 9but there come many great number"9 9;o matter for that,9 aid I again' 9our gun will fright them that we do not kill"9 So I a ked him whether, if I re ol#ed to defend him, he would defend me, and tand by me, and do 1u t a I bid him" !e aid, 9/e die when you bid die, ma ter"9 So I went and fetched a good dram of rum and ga#e him' for I had been o good a hu band of my rum that I had a great deal left" When we had drunk it, I made

him take the two fowling* (iece , which we alway carried, and loaded them with large wan* hot, a big a mall (i tol*bullet " 8hen I took four mu ket , and loaded them with two lug and fi#e mall bullet each' and my two (i tol I loaded with a brace of bullet each" I hung my great word, a u ual, naked by my ide, and ga#e ,riday hi hatchet" When I had thu (re(ared my elf, I took my (er (ecti#e gla , and went u( to the ide of the hill, to ee what I could di co#er' and I found 3uickly by my gla that there were one*and*twenty a#age , three (ri oner , and three canoe ' and that their whole bu ine eemed to be the trium(hant ban3uet u(on the e three human bodie 5 a barbarou fea t, indeed7 but nothing more than, a I had ob er#ed, wa u ual with them" I ob er#ed al o that they had landed, not where they had done when ,riday made hi e ca(e, but nearer to my creek, where the hore wa low, and where a thick wood came almo t clo e down to the ea" 8hi , with the abhorrence of the inhuman errand the e wretche came about, filled me with uch indignation that I came down again to ,riday, and told him I wa re ol#ed to go down to them and kill them all' and a ked him if he would tand by me" !e had now got o#er hi fright, and hi (irit being a little rai ed with the dram I had gi#en him, he wa #ery cheerful, and told me, a before, he would die when I bid die" In thi fit of fury I di#ided the arm which I had charged, a before, between u ' I ga#e ,riday one (i tol to tick in hi girdle, and three gun u(on hi houlder, and I took one (i tol and the other three gun my elf' and in thi (o ture we marched out" I took a mall bottle of rum in my (ocket, and ga#e ,riday a large bag with more (owder and bullet ' and a to order , I charged him to kee( clo e behind me, and not to tir, or hoot, or do anything till I bid him, and in the meantime not to (eak a word" In thi (o ture I fetched a com(a to my right hand of near a mile, a well to get o#er the creek a to get into the wood, o that I could come within hot of them before I hould be di co#ered, which I had een by my gla it wa ea y to do" While I wa making thi march, my former thought returning, I began to abate my re olution5 I do not mean that I entertained any fear of their number, for a they were naked, unarmed wretche , it i certain I wa u(erior to them * nay, though I had been alone" But it occurred to my thought , what call, what occa ion, much le what nece ity I wa in to go and di( my hand in blood, to attack (eo(le who had neither done or intended me any wrong6 who, a to me, were innocent, and who e barbarou cu tom were their own di a ter, being in them a token, indeed, of 4od2 ha#ing left them, with the other nation of that (art of the world, to uch tu(idity, and to uch inhuman cour e , but did not call me to take u(on me to be a 1udge of their action , much le an e0ecutioner

of !i 1u tice * that whene#er !e thought fit !e would take the cau e into !i own hand , and by national #engeance (uni h them a a (eo(le for national crime , but that, in the meantime, it wa none of my bu ine * that it wa true ,riday might 1u tify it, becau e he wa a declared enemy and in a tate of war with tho e #ery (articular (eo(le, and it wa lawful for him to attack them * but I could not ay the ame with regard to my elf" 8he e thing were o warmly (re ed u(on my thought all the way a I went, that I re ol#ed I would only go and (lace my elf near them that I might ob er#e their barbarou fea t, and that I would act then a 4od hould direct' but that unle omething offered that wa more a call to me than yet I knew of, I would not meddle with them" With thi re olution I entered the wood, and, with all (o ible warine and ilence, ,riday following clo e at my heel , I marched till I came to the kirt of the wood on the ide which wa ne0t to them, only that one corner of the wood lay between me and them" !ere I called oftly to ,riday, and howing him a great tree which wa 1u t at the corner of the wood, I bade him go to the tree, and bring me word if he could ee there (lainly what they were doing" !e did o, and came immediately back to me, and told me they might be (lainly #iewed there * that they were all about their fire, eating the fle h of one of their (ri oner , and that another lay bound u(on the and a little from them, whom he aid they would kill ne0t' and thi fired the #ery oul within me" !e told me it wa not one of their nation, but one of the bearded men he had told me of, that came to their country in the boat" I wa filled with horror at the #ery naming of the white bearded man' and going to the tree, I aw (lainly by my gla a white man, who lay u(on the beach of the ea with hi hand and hi feet tied with flag , or thing like ru he , and that he wa an )uro(ean, and had clothe on" 8here wa another tree and a little thicket beyond it, about fifty yard nearer to them than the (lace where I wa , which, by going a little way about, I aw I might come at undi co#ered, and that then I hould be within half a hot of them' o I withheld my (a ion, though I wa indeed enraged to the highe t degree' and going back about twenty (ace , I got behind ome bu he , which held all the way till I came to the other tree, and then came to a little ri ing ground, which ga#e me a full #iew of them at the di tance of about eighty yard " I had now not a moment to lo e, for nineteen of the dreadful wretche at u(on the ground, all clo e huddled together, and had 1u t ent the other two to butcher the (oor +hri tian, and bring him (erha( limb by limb to their fire, and they were too(ing down to untie the band at hi feet" I turned to ,riday"

9;ow, ,riday,9 aid I, 9do a I bid thee"9 ,riday aid he would" 98hen, ,riday,9 ay I, 9do e0actly a you ee me do' fail in nothing"9 So I et down one of the mu ket and the fowling*(iece u(on the ground, and ,riday did the like by hi , and with the other mu ket I took my aim at the a#age , bidding him to do the like' then a king him if he wa ready, he aid, 9Ye "9 98hen fire at them,9 aid I' and at the ame moment I fired al o" ,riday took hi aim o much better than I, that on the ide that he hot he killed two of them, and wounded three more' and on my ide I killed one, and wounded two" 8hey were, you may be ure, in a dreadful con ternation5 and all of them that were not hurt 1um(ed u(on their feet, but did not immediately know which way to run, or which way to look, for they knew not from whence their de truction came" ,riday ke(t hi eye clo e u(on me, that, a I had bid him, he might ob er#e what I did' o, a oon a the fir t hot wa made, I threw down the (iece, and took u( the fowling*(iece, and ,riday did the like' he aw me cock and (re ent' he did the ame again" 9Are you ready, ,riday69 aid I" 9Ye ,9 ay he" 9-et fly, then,9 ay I, 9in the name of 4od79 and with that I fired again among the ama&ed wretche , and o did ,riday' and a our (iece were now loaded with what I call wan* hot, or mall (i tol* bullet , we found only two dro(' but o many were wounded that they ran about yelling and creaming like mad creature , all bloody, and mo t of them mi erably wounded' whereof three more fell 3uickly after, though not 3uite dead" 9;ow, ,riday,9 ay I, laying down the di charged (iece , and taking u( the mu ket which wa yet loaded, 9follow me,9 which he did with a great deal of courage' u(on which I ru hed out of the wood and howed my elf, and ,riday clo e at my foot" A oon a I (ercei#ed they aw me, I houted a loud a I could, and bade ,riday do o too, and running a fa t a I could, which, by the way, wa not #ery fa t, being loaded with arm a I wa , I made directly toward the (oor #ictim, who wa , a I aid, lying u(on the beach or hore, between the (lace where they at and the ea" 8he two butcher who were 1u t going to work with him had left him at the ur(ri e of our fir t fire, and fled in a terrible fright to the ea ide, and had 1um(ed into a canoe, and three more of the re t made the ame way" I turned to ,riday, and bade him te( forward and fire at them' he under tood me immediately, and running about forty yard , to be nearer them, he hot at them' and I thought he had killed them all, for I aw them all fall of a hea( into the boat, though I aw two of them u( again 3uickly' howe#er, he killed two of them, and wounded the third, o that he lay down in the bottom of the boat a if he had been dead"

While my man ,riday fired at them, I (ulled out my knife and cut the flag that bound the (oor #ictim' and loo ing hi hand and feet, I lifted him u(, and a ked him in the <ortugue e tongue what he wa " !e an wered in -atin, +hri tianu ' but wa o weak and faint that he could carce tand or (eak" I took my bottle out of my (ocket and ga#e it him, making ign that he hould drink, which he did' and I ga#e him a (iece of bread, which he ate" 8hen I a ked him what countryman he wa 5 and he aid, ) (agniole' and being a little reco#ered, let me know, by all the ign he could (o ibly make, how much he wa in my debt for hi deli#erance" 9Seignior,9 aid I, with a much S(ani h a I could make u(, 9we will talk afterward , but we mu t fight now5 if you ha#e any trength left, take thi (i tol and word, and lay about you"9 !e took them #ery thankfully' and no ooner had he the arm in hi hand , but, a if they had (ut new #igour into him, he flew u(on hi murderer like a fury, and had cut two of them in (iece in an in tant' for the truth i , a the whole wa a ur(ri e to them, o the (oor creature were o much frightened with the noi e of our (iece that they fell down for mere ama&ement and fear, and had no more (ower to attem(t their own e ca(e than their fle h had to re i t our hot' and that wa the ca e of tho e fi#e that ,riday hot at in the boat' for a three of them fell with the hurt they recei#ed, o the other two fell with the fright" I ke(t my (iece in my hand till without firing, being willing to kee( my charge ready, becau e I had gi#en the S(aniard my (i tol and word5 o I called to ,riday, and bade him run u( to the tree from whence we fir t fired, and fetch the arm which lay there that had been di charged, which he did with great wiftne ' and then gi#ing him my mu ket, I at down my elf to load all the re t again, and bade them come to me when they wanted" While I wa loading the e (iece , there ha((ened a fierce engagement between the S(aniard and one of the a#age , who made at him with one of their great wooden word , the wea(on that wa to ha#e killed him before, if I had not (re#ented it" 8he S(aniard, who wa a bold and bra#e a could be imagined, though weak, had fought the Indian a good while, and had cut two great wound on hi head' but the a#age being a tout, lu ty fellow, clo ing in with him, had thrown him down, being faint, and wa wringing my word out of hi hand' when the S(aniard, though undermo t, wi ely 3uitting the word, drew the (i tol from hi girdle, hot the a#age through the body, and killed him u(on the (ot, before I, who wa running to hel( him, could come near him" ,riday, being now left to hi liberty, (ur ued the flying wretche , with no wea(on in hi hand but hi hatchet5 and with that he de (atched tho e three who a I aid before, were wounded at fir t, and fallen, and all the re t he could come u( with5 and the S(aniard coming to me for a gun, I ga#e him one of the

fowling* (iece , with which he (ur ued two of the a#age , and wounded them both' but a he wa not able to run, they both got from him into the wood, where ,riday (ur ued them, and killed one of them, but the other wa too nimble for him' and though he wa wounded, yet had (lunged him elf into the ea, and wam with all hi might off to tho e two who were left in the canoe' which three in the canoe, with one wounded, that we knew not whether he died or no, were all that e ca(ed our hand of one*and*twenty" 8he account of the whole i a follow 5 8hree killed at our fir t hot from the tree' two killed at the ne0t hot' two killed by ,riday in the boat' two killed by ,riday of tho e at fir t wounded' one killed by ,riday in the wood' three killed by the S(aniard' four killed, being found dro((ed here and there, of the wound , or killed by ,riday in hi cha e of them' four e ca(ed in the boat, whereof one wounded, if not dead * twenty*one in all" 8ho e that were in the canoe worked hard to get out of gun* hot, and though ,riday made two or three hot at them, I did not find that he hit any of them" ,riday would fain ha#e had me take one of their canoe , and (ur ue them' and indeed I wa #ery an0iou about their e ca(e, le t, carrying the new home to their (eo(le, they hould come back (erha( with two or three hundred of the canoe and de#our u by mere multitude' o I con ented to (ur ue them by ea, and running to one of their canoe , I 1um(ed in and bade ,riday follow me5 but when I wa in the canoe I wa ur(ri ed to find another (oor creature lie there, bound hand and foot, a the S(aniard wa , for the laughter, and almo t dead with fear, not knowing what wa the matter' for he had not been able to look u( o#er the ide of the boat, he wa tied o hard neck and heel , and had been tied o long that he had really but little life in him" I immediately cut the twi ted flag or ru he which they had bound him with, and would ha#e hel(ed him u(' but he could not tand or (eak, but groaned mo t (iteou ly, belie#ing, it eem , till, that he wa only unbound in order to be killed" When ,riday came to him I bade him (eak to him, and tell him of hi deli#erance' and (ulling out my bottle, made him gi#e the (oor wretch a dram, which, with the new of hi being deli#ered, re#i#ed him, and he at u( in the boat" But when ,riday came to hear him (eak, and look in hi face, it would ha#e mo#ed any one to tear to ha#e een how ,riday ki ed him, embraced him, hugged him, cried, laughed, hallooed, 1um(ed about, danced, ang' then cried again, wrung hi hand , beat hi own face and head' and then ang and 1um(ed about again like a di tracted creature" It wa a good while before I could make him (eak to me or tell me what wa the matter' but when he came a little to him elf he told me that it wa hi father"

It i not ea y for me to e0(re how it mo#ed me to ee what ec ta y and filial affection had worked in thi (oor a#age at the ight of hi father, and of hi being deli#ered from death' nor indeed can I de cribe half the e0tra#agance of hi affection after thi 5 for he went into the boat and out of the boat a great many time 5 when he went in to him he would it down by him, o(en hi brea t, and hold hi father2 head clo e to hi bo om for many minute together, to nouri h it' then he took hi arm and ankle , which were numbed and tiff with the binding, and chafed and rubbed them with hi hand ' and I, (ercei#ing what the ca e wa , ga#e him ome rum out of my bottle to rub them with, which did them a great deal of good" 8hi affair (ut an end to our (ur uit of the canoe with the other a#age , who were now almo t out of ight' and it wa ha((y for u that we did not, for it blew o hard within two hour after, and before they could be got a 3uarter of their way, and continued blowing o hard all night, and that from the north* we t, which wa again t them, that I could not u((o e their boat could li#e, or that they e#er reached their own coa t" But to return to ,riday' he wa o bu y about hi father that I could not find in my heart to take him off for ome time' but after I thought he could lea#e him a little, I called him to me, and he came 1um(ing and laughing, and (lea ed to the highe t e0treme5 then I a ked him if he had gi#en hi father any bread" !e hook hi head, and aid, 9;one' ugly dog eat all u( elf"9 I then ga#e him a cake of bread out of a little (ouch I carried on (ur(o e' I al o ga#e him a dram for him elf' but he would not ta te it, but carried it to hi father" I had in my (ocket two or three bunche of rai in , o I ga#e him a handful of them for hi father" !e had no ooner gi#en hi father the e rai in but I aw him come out of the boat, and run away a if he had been bewitched, for he wa the wifte t fellow on hi feet that e#er I aw5 I ay, he ran at uch a rate that he wa out of ight, a it were, in an in tant' and though I called, and hallooed out too after him, it wa all one * away he went' and in a 3uarter of an hour I aw him come back again, though not o fa t a he went' and a he came nearer I found hi (ace lacker, becau e he had omething in hi hand" When he came u( to me I found he had been 3uite home for an earthen 1ug or (ot, to bring hi father ome fre h water, and that he had got two more cake or loa#e of bread5 the bread he ga#e me, but the water he carried to hi father' howe#er, a I wa #ery thir ty too, I took a little of it" 8he water re#i#ed hi father more than all the rum or (irit I had gi#en him, for he wa fainting with thir t" When hi father had drunk, I called to him to know if there wa any water left" !e aid, 9Ye 9' and I bade him gi#e it to the (oor S(aniard, who wa in a

much want of it a hi father' and I ent one of the cake that ,riday brought to the S(aniard too, who wa indeed #ery weak, and wa re(o ing him elf u(on a green (lace under the hade of a tree' and who e limb were al o #ery tiff, and #ery much welled with the rude bandage he had been tied with" When I aw that u(on ,riday2 coming to him with the water he at u( and drank, and took the bread and began to eat, I went to him and ga#e him a handful of rai in " !e looked u( in my face with all the token of gratitude and thankfulne that could a((ear in any countenance' but wa o weak, notwith tanding he had o e0erted him elf in the fight, that he could not tand u( u(on hi feet * he tried to do it two or three time , but wa really not able, hi ankle were o welled and o (ainful to him' o I bade him it till, and cau ed ,riday to rub hi ankle , and bathe them with rum, a he had done hi father2 " I ob er#ed the (oor affectionate creature, e#ery two minute , or (erha( le , all the while he wa here, turn hi head about to ee if hi father wa in the ame (lace and (o ture a he left him itting' and at la t he found he wa not to be een' at which he tarted u(, and, without (eaking a word, flew with that wiftne to him that one could carce (ercei#e hi feet to touch the ground a he went' but when he came, he only found he had laid him elf down to ea e hi limb , o ,riday came back to me (re ently' and then I (oke to the S(aniard to let ,riday hel( him u( if he could, and lead him to the boat, and then he hould carry him to our dwelling, where I would take care of him" But ,riday, a lu ty, trong fellow, took the S(aniard u(on hi back, and carried him away to the boat, and et him down oftly u(on the ide or gunnel of the canoe, with hi feet in the in ide of it' and then lifting him 3uite in, he et him clo e to hi father' and (re ently te((ing out again, launched the boat off, and (addled it along the hore fa ter than I could walk, though the wind blew (retty hard too' o he brought them both afe into our creek, and lea#ing them in the boat, ran away to fetch the other canoe" A he (a ed me I (oke to him, and a ked him whither he went" !e told me, 94o fetch more boat'9 o away he went like the wind, for ure ne#er man or hor e ran like him' and he had the other canoe in the creek almo t a oon a I got to it by land' o he wafted me o#er, and then went to hel( our new gue t out of the boat, which he did' but they were neither of them able to walk' o that (oor ,riday knew not what to do" 8o remedy thi , I went to work in my thought, and calling to ,riday to bid them it down on the bank while he came to me, I oon made a kind of hand*barrow to lay them on, and ,riday and I carried them both u( together u(on it between u"

But when we got them to the out ide of our wall, or fortification, we were at a wor e lo than before, for it wa im(o ible to get them o#er, and I wa re ol#ed not to break it down' o I et to work again, and ,riday and I, in about two hour 2 time, made a #ery hand ome tent, co#ered with old ail , and abo#e that with bough of tree , being in the (ace without our outward fence and between that and the gro#e of young wood which I had (lanted' and here we made them two bed of uch thing a I had * #i&" of good rice* traw, with blanket laid u(on it to lie on, and another to co#er them, on each bed" /y i land wa now (eo(led, and I thought my elf #ery rich in ub1ect ' and it wa a merry reflection, which I fre3uently made, how like a king I looked" ,ir t of all, the whole country wa my own (ro(erty, o that I had an undoubted right of dominion" Secondly, my (eo(le were (erfectly ub1ected * I wa ab olutely lord and lawgi#er * they all owed their li#e to me, and were ready to lay down their li#e , if there had been occa ion for it, for me" It wa remarkable, too, I had but three ub1ect , and they were of three different religion * my man ,riday wa a <rote tant, hi father wa a <agan and a cannibal, and the S(aniard wa a <a(i t" !owe#er, I allowed liberty of con cience throughout my dominion " But thi i by the way" A oon a I had ecured my two weak, re cued (ri oner , and gi#en them helter, and a (lace to re t them u(on, I began to think of making ome (ro#i ion for them' and the fir t thing I did, I ordered ,riday to take a yearling goat, betwi0t a kid and a goat, out of my (articular flock, to be killed' when I cut off the hinder*3uarter, and cho((ing it into mall (iece , I et ,riday to work to boiling and tewing, and made them a #ery good di h, I a ure you, of fle h and broth' and a I cooked it without door , for I made no fire within my inner wall, o I carried it all into the new tent, and ha#ing et a table there for them, I at down, and ate my own dinner al o with them, and, a well a I could, cheered them and encouraged them" ,riday wa my inter(reter, e (ecially to hi father, and, indeed, to the S(aniard too' for the S(aniard (oke the language of the a#age (retty well" After we had dined, or rather u((ed, I ordered ,riday to take one of the canoe , and go and fetch our mu ket and other firearm , which, for want of time, we had left u(on the (lace of battle' and the ne0t day I ordered him to go and bury the dead bodie of the a#age , which lay o(en to the un, and would (re ently be offen i#e" I al o ordered him to bury the horrid remain of their barbarou fea t, which I could not think of doing my elf' nay, I could not bear to ee them if I went that way' all which he (unctually (erformed, and effaced the #ery a((earance of the a#age being there' o that when I went again, I

could carce know where it wa , otherwi e than by the corner of the wood (ointing to the (lace" I then began to enter into a little con#er ation with my two new ub1ect ' and, fir t, I et ,riday to in3uire of hi father what he thought of the e ca(e of the a#age in that canoe, and whether we might e0(ect a return of them, with a (ower too great for u to re i t" !i fir t o(inion wa , that the a#age in the boat ne#er could li#e out the torm which blew that night they went off, but mu t of nece ity be drowned, or dri#en outh to tho e other hore , where they were a ure to be de#oured a they were to be drowned if they were ca t away' but, a to what they would do if they came afe on hore, he aid he knew not' but it wa hi o(inion that they were o dreadfully frightened with the manner of their being attacked, the noi e, and the fire, that he belie#ed they would tell the (eo(le they were all killed by thunder and lightning, not by the hand of man' and that the two which a((eared
#i&" ,riday and I * were two hea#enly (irit , or furie , come down to de troy them, and not men with wea(on " 8hi , he aid, he knew' becau e he heard them all cry out o, in their language, one to another' for it wa im(o ible for them to concei#e that a man could dart fire, and (eak thunder, and kill at a di tance, without lifting u( the hand, a wa done now5 and thi old a#age wa in the right' for, a I under tood ince, by other hand , the a#age ne#er attem(ted to go o#er to the i land afterward , they were o terrified with the account gi#en by tho e four men ?for it eem they did e ca(e the ea@, that they belie#ed whoe#er went to that enchanted i land would be de troyed with fire from the god " 8hi , howe#er, I knew not' and therefore wa under continual a((rehen ion for a good while, and ke(t alway u(on my guard, with all my army5 for, a there were now four of u , I would ha#e #entured u(on a hundred of them, fairly in the o(en field, at any time"

CHAPTER %VII - VISIT

F &"TINEERS

I; a little time, howe#er, no more canoe a((earing, the fear of their coming wore off' and I began to take my former thought of a #oyage to the main into con ideration' being likewi e a ured by ,riday2 father that I might de(end u(on good u age from their nation, on hi account, if I would go" But my thought were a little u (ended when I had a eriou di cour e with the S(aniard, and when I under tood that there were i0teen more of hi countrymen and <ortugue e, who ha#ing been ca t away and made their e ca(e to that ide, li#ed there at (eace, indeed, with the a#age , but were #ery ore (ut to it for nece arie , and, indeed, for life" I a ked him all the (articular of their #oyage, and found they were a S(ani h hi(, bound from the $io de la

<lata to the !a#anna, being directed to lea#e their loading there, which wa chiefly hide and il#er, and to bring back what )uro(ean good they could meet with there' that they had fi#e <ortugue e eamen on board, whom they took out of another wreck' that fi#e of their own men were drowned when fir t the hi( wa lo t, and that the e e ca(ed through infinite danger and ha&ard , and arri#ed, almo t tar#ed, on the cannibal coa t, where they e0(ected to ha#e been de#oured e#ery moment" !e told me they had ome arm with them, but they were (erfectly u ele , for that they had neither (owder nor ball, the wa hing of the ea ha#ing (oiled all their (owder but a little, which they u ed at their fir t landing to (ro#ide them el#e with ome food" I a ked him what he thought would become of them there, and if they had formed any de ign of making their e ca(e" !e aid they had many con ultation about it' but that ha#ing neither #e el nor tool to build one, nor (ro#i ion of any kind, their council alway ended in tear and de (air" I a ked him how he thought they would recei#e a (ro(o al from me, which might tend toward an e ca(e' and whether, if they were all here, it might not be done" I told him with freedom, I feared mo tly their treachery and ill* u age of me, if I (ut my life in their hand ' for that gratitude wa no inherent #irtue in the nature of man, nor did men alway 3uare their dealing by the obligation they had recei#ed o much a they did by the ad#antage they e0(ected" I told him it would be #ery hard that I hould be made the in trument of their deli#erance, and that they hould afterward make me their (ri oner in ;ew S(ain, where an )ngli hman wa certain to be made a acrifice, what nece ity or what accident oe#er brought him thither' and that I had rather be deli#ered u( to the a#age , and be de#oured ali#e, than fall into the mercile claw of the (rie t , and be carried into the In3ui ition" I added that, otherwi e, I wa (er uaded, if they were all here, we might, with o many hand , build a bar3ue large enough to carry u all away, either to the Bra&il outhward, or to the i land or S(ani h coa t northward' but that if, in re3uital, they hould, when I had (ut wea(on into their hand , carry me by force among their own (eo(le, I might be ill*u ed for my kindne to them, and make my ca e wor e than it wa before" !e an wered, with a great deal of candour and ingenuou ne , that their condition wa o mi erable, and that they were o en ible of it, that he belie#ed they would abhor the thought of u ing any man unkindly that hould contribute to their deli#erance' and that, if I (lea ed, he would go to them with the old man, and di cour e with them about it, and return again and bring me their an wer' that he would make condition with them u(on their olemn oath, that they hould be ab olutely under my direction a their commander and ca(tain' and they hould wear u(on the holy acrament and go (el to be true

to me, and go to uch +hri tian country a I hould agree to, and no other' and to be directed wholly and ab olutely by my order till they were landed afely in uch country a I intended, and that he would bring a contract from them, under their hand , for that (ur(o e" 8hen he told me he would fir t wear to me him elf that he would ne#er tir from me a long a he li#ed till I ga#e him order ' and that he would take my ide to the la t dro( of hi blood, if there hould ha((en the lea t breach of faith among hi countrymen" !e told me they were all of them #ery ci#il, hone t men, and they were under the greate t di tre imaginable, ha#ing neither wea(on nor clothe , nor any food, but at the mercy and di cretion of the a#age ' out of all ho(e of e#er returning to their own country' and that he wa ure, if I would undertake their relief, they would li#e and die by me" >(on the e a urance , I re ol#ed to #enture to relie#e them, if (o ible, and to end the old a#age and thi S(aniard o#er to them to treat" But when we had got all thing in readine to go, the S(aniard him elf tarted an ob1ection, which had o much (rudence in it on one hand, and o much incerity on the other hand, that I could not but be #ery well ati fied in it' and, by hi ad#ice, (ut off the deli#erance of hi comrade for at lea t half a year" 8he ca e wa thu 5 he had been with u now about a month, during which time I had let him ee in what manner I had (ro#ided, with the a i tance of <ro#idence, for my u((ort' and he aw e#idently what tock of corn and rice I had laid u(' which, though it wa more than ufficient for my elf, yet it wa not ufficient, without good hu bandry, for my family, now it wa increa ed to four' but much le would it be ufficient if hi countrymen, who were, a he aid, i0teen, till ali#e, hould come o#er' and lea t of all would it be ufficient to #ictual our #e el, if we hould build one, for a #oyage to any of the +hri tian colonie of America' o he told me he thought it would be more ad#i able to let him and the other two dig and culti#ate ome more land, a much a I could (are eed to ow, and that we hould wait another har#e t, that we might ha#e a u((ly of corn for hi countrymen, when they hould come' for want might be a tem(tation to them to di agree, or not to think them el#e deli#ered, otherwi e than out of one difficulty into another" 9You know,9 ay he, 9the children of I rael, though they re1oiced at fir t for their being deli#ered out of )gy(t, yet rebelled e#en again t 4od !im elf, that deli#ered them, when they came to want bread in the wilderne "9 !i caution wa o ea onable, and hi ad#ice o good, that I could not but be #ery well (lea ed with hi (ro(o al, a well a I wa ati fied with hi fidelity' o we fell to digging, all four of u , a well a the wooden tool we were furni hed with (ermitted' and in about a month2 time, by the end of which it

wa eed*time, we had got a much land cured and trimmed u( a we owed two*and* twenty bu hel of barley on, and i0teen 1ar of rice, which wa , in hort, all the eed we had to (are5 indeed, we left our el#e barely ufficient, for our own food for the i0 month that we had to e0(ect our cro(' that i to ay reckoning from the time we et our eed a ide for owing' for it i not to be u((o ed it i i0 month in the ground in that country" !a#ing now ociety enough, and our number being ufficient to (ut u out of fear of the a#age , if they had come, unle their number had been #ery great, we went freely all o#er the i land, whene#er we found occa ion' and a we had our e ca(e or deli#erance u(on our thought , it wa im(o ible, at lea t for me, to ha#e the mean of it out of mine" ,or thi (ur(o e I marked out e#eral tree , which I thought fit for our work, and I et ,riday and hi father to cut them down' and then I cau ed the S(aniard, to whom I im(arted my thought on that affair, to o#er ee and direct their work" I howed them with what indefatigable (ain I had hewed a large tree into ingle (lank , and I cau ed them to do the like, till they made about a do&en large (lank , of good oak, near two feet broad, thirty*fi#e feet long, and from two inche to four inche thick5 what (rodigiou labour it took u( any one may imagine" At the ame time I contri#ed to increa e my little flock of tame goat a much a I could' and for thi (ur(o e I made ,riday and the S(aniard go out one day, and my elf with ,riday the ne0t day ?for we took our turn @, and by thi mean we got about twenty young kid to breed u( with the re t' for whene#er we hot the dam, we a#ed the kid , and added them to our flock" But abo#e all, the ea on for curing the gra(e coming on, I cau ed uch a (rodigiou 3uantity to be hung u( in the un, that, I belie#e, had we been at Alicant, where the rai in of the un are cured, we could ha#e filled i0ty or eighty barrel ' and the e, with our bread, formed a great (art of our food * #ery good li#ing too, I a ure you, for they are e0ceedingly nouri hing" It wa now har#e t, and our cro( in good order5 it wa not the mo t (lentiful increa e I had een in the i land, but, howe#er, it wa enough to an wer our end' for from twenty*two bu hel of barley we brought in and thra hed out abo#e two hundred and twenty bu hel ' and the like in (ro(ortion of the rice' which wa tore enough for our food to the ne0t har#e t, though all the i0teen S(aniard had been on hore with me' or, if we had been ready for a #oyage, it would #ery (lentifully ha#e #ictualled our hi( to ha#e carried u to any (art of the world' that i to ay, any (art of America" When we had thu hou ed and ecured our maga&ine of corn, we fell to work to make more wicker*ware, #i&" great ba ket , in which we ke(t it' and the S(aniard wa #ery handy and

de0terou at thi (art, and often blamed me that I did not make ome thing for defence of thi kind of work' but I aw no need of it" And now, ha#ing a full u((ly of food for all the gue t I e0(ected, I ga#e the S(aniard lea#e to go o#er to the main, to ee what he could do with tho e he had left behind him there" I ga#e him a trict charge not to bring any man who would not fir t wear in the (re ence of him elf and the old a#age that he would in no way in1ure, fight with, or attack the (er on he hould find in the i land, who wa o kind a to end for them in order to their deli#erance' but that they would tand by him and defend him again t all uch attem(t , and where#er they went would be entirely under and ub1ected to hi command' and that thi hould be (ut in writing, and igned in their hand " !ow they were to ha#e done thi , when I knew they had neither (en nor ink, wa a 3ue tion which we ne#er a ked" >nder the e in truction , the S(aniard and the old a#age, the father of ,riday, went away in one of the canoe which they might be aid to ha#e come in, or rather were brought in, when they came a (ri oner to be de#oured by the a#age " I ga#e each of them a mu ket, with a firelock on it, and about eight charge of (owder and ball, charging them to be #ery good hu band of both, and not to u e either of them but u(on urgent occa ion " 8hi wa a cheerful work, being the fir t mea ure u ed by me in #iew of my deli#erance for now twenty* e#en year and ome day " I ga#e them (ro#i ion of bread and of dried gra(e , ufficient for them el#e for many day , and ufficient for all the S(aniard * for about eight day 2 time' and wi hing them a good #oyage, I aw them go, agreeing with them about a ignal they hould hang out at their return, by which I hould know them again when they came back, at a di tance, before they came on hore" 8hey went away with a fair gale on the day that the moon wa at full, by my account in the month of =ctober' but a for an e0act reckoning of day , after I had once lo t it I could ne#er reco#er it again' nor had I ke(t e#en the number of year o (unctually a to be ure I wa right' though, a it (ro#ed when I afterward e0amined my account, I found I had ke(t a true reckoning of year " It wa no le than eight day I had waited for them, when a trange and unfore een accident inter#ened, of which the like ha not, (erha( , been heard of in hi tory" I wa fa t a lee( in my hutch one morning, when my man ,riday came running in to me, and called aloud, 9/a ter, ma ter, they are come, they are come79 I 1um(ed u(, and regardle of danger I went, a oon a I could get my clothe on, through my little gro#e, which, by the way, wa by thi time grown to be a #ery thick wood' I ay, regardle of danger I went without my arm , which wa not my cu tom to do' but I wa ur(ri ed when, turning my

eye to the ea, I (re ently aw a boat at about a league and a half di tance, tanding in for the hore, with a houlder*of*mutton ail, a they call it, and the wind blowing (retty fair to bring them in5 al o I ob er#ed, (re ently, that they did not come from that ide which the hore lay on, but from the outhernmo t end of the i land" >(on thi I called ,riday in, and bade him lie clo e, for the e were not the (eo(le we looked for, and that we might not know yet whether they were friend or enemie " In the ne0t (lace I went in to fetch my (er (ecti#e gla to ee what I could make of them' and ha#ing taken the ladder out, I climbed u( to the to( of the hill, a I u ed to do when I wa a((rehen i#e of anything, and to take my #iew the (lainer without being di co#ered" I had carce et my foot u(on the hill when my eye (lainly di co#ered a hi( lying at anchor, at about two league and a half di tance from me, SS)", but not abo#e a league and a half from the hore" By my ob er#ation it a((eared (lainly to be an )ngli h hi(, and the boat a((eared to be an )ngli h long*boat" I cannot e0(re the confu ion I wa in, though the 1oy of eeing a hi(, and one that I had rea on to belie#e wa manned by my own countrymen, and con e3uently friend , wa uch a I cannot de cribe' but yet I had ome ecret doubt hung about me * I cannot tell from whence they came * bidding me kee( u(on my guard" In the fir t (lace, it occurred to me to con ider what bu ine an )ngli h hi( could ha#e in that (art of the world, ince it wa not the way to or from any (art of the world where the )ngli h had any traffic' and I knew there had been no torm to dri#e them in there in di tre ' and that if they were really )ngli h it wa mo t (robable that they were here u(on no good de ign' and that I had better continue a I wa than fall into the hand of thie#e and murderer " -et no man de (i e the ecret hint and notice of danger which ometime are gi#en him when he may think there i no (o ibility of it being real" 8hat uch hint and notice are gi#en u I belie#e few that ha#e made any ob er#ation of thing can deny' that they are certain di co#erie of an in#i ible world, and a con#er e of (irit , we cannot doubt' and if the tendency of them eem to be to warn u of danger, why hould we not u((o e they are from ome friendly agent ?whether u(reme, or inferior and ubordinate, i not the 3ue tion@, and that they are gi#en for our good6 8he (re ent 3ue tion abundantly confirm me in the 1u tice of thi rea oning' for had I not been made cautiou by thi ecret admonition, come it from whence it will, I had been done ine#itably, and in a far wor e condition than before, a you will ee (re ently" I had not ke(t my elf long in thi (o ture till I aw the boat draw near the hore, a if they looked for a creek to thru t in at, for

the con#enience of landing' howe#er, a they did not come 3uite far enough, they did not ee the little inlet where I formerly landed my raft , but ran their boat on hore u(on the beach, at about half a mile from me, which wa #ery ha((y for me' for otherwi e they would ha#e landed 1u t at my door, a I may ay, and would oon ha#e beaten me out of my ca tle, and (erha( ha#e (lundered me of all I had" When they were on hore I wa fully ati fied they were )ngli hmen, at lea t mo t of them' one or two I thought were .utch, but it did not (ro#e o' there were in all ele#en men, whereof three of them I found were unarmed and, a I thought, bound' and when the fir t four or fi#e of them were 1um(ed on hore, they took tho e three out of the boat a (ri oner 5 one of the three I could (ercei#e u ing the mo t (a ionate ge ture of entreaty, affliction, and de (air, e#en to a kind of e0tra#agance' the other two, I could (ercei#e, lifted u( their hand ometime , and a((eared concerned indeed, but not to uch a degree a the fir t" I wa (erfectly confounded at the ight, and knew not what the meaning of it hould be" ,riday called out to me in )ngli h, a well a he could, 9= ma ter7 you ee )ngli h man eat (ri oner a well a a#age man "9 9Why, ,riday,9 ay I, 9do you think they are going to eat them, then69 9Ye ,9 ay ,riday, 9they will eat them"9 9;o no,9 ay I, 9,riday' I am afraid they will murder them, indeed' but you may be ure they will not eat them"9 All thi while I had no thought of what the matter really wa , but tood trembling with the horror of the ight, e0(ecting e#ery moment when the three (ri oner hould be killed' nay, once I aw one of the #illain lift u( hi arm with a great cutla , a the eamen call it, or word, to trike one of the (oor men' and I e0(ected to ee him fall e#ery moment' at which all the blood in my body eemed to run chill in my #ein " I wi hed heartily now for the S(aniard, and the a#age that had gone with him, or that I had any way to ha#e come undi co#ered within hot of them, that I might ha#e ecured the three men, for I aw no firearm they had among them' but it fell out to my mind another way" After I had ob er#ed the outrageou u age of the three men by the in olent eamen, I ob er#ed the fellow run cattering about the i land, a if they wanted to ee the country" I ob er#ed that the three other men had liberty to go al o where they (lea ed' but they at down all three u(on the ground, #ery (en i#e, and looked like men in de (air" 8hi (ut me in mind of the fir t time when I came on hore, and began to look about me' how I ga#e my elf o#er for lo t' how wildly I looked round me' what dreadful a((rehen ion I had' and how I lodged in the tree all night for fear of being de#oured by wild bea t " A I knew nothing that night of the u((ly I wa to recei#e by the (ro#idential dri#ing of the hi( nearer the land by the torm and tide, by which I ha#e ince been o long nouri hed and u((orted' o the e three (oor de olate men knew nothing

how certain of deli#erance and u((ly they were, how near it wa to them, and how effectually and really they were in a condition of afety, at the ame time that they thought them el#e lo t and their ca e de (erate" So little do we ee before u in the world, and o much rea on ha#e we to de(end cheerfully u(on the great /aker of the world, that !e doe not lea#e !i creature o ab olutely de titute, but that in the wor t circum tance they ha#e alway omething to be thankful for, and ometime are nearer deli#erance than they imagine' nay, are e#en brought to their deli#erance by the mean by which they eem to be brought to their de truction" It wa 1u t at high*water when the e (eo(le came on hore' and while they rambled about to ee what kind of a (lace they were in, they had carele ly tayed till the tide wa (ent, and the water wa ebbed con iderably away, lea#ing their boat aground" 8hey had left two men in the boat, who, a I found afterward , ha#ing drunk a little too much brandy, fell a lee(' howe#er, one of them waking a little ooner than the other and finding the boat too fa t aground for him to tir it, hallooed out for the re t, who were traggling about5 u(on which they all oon came to the boat5 but it wa (a t all their trength to launch her, the boat being #ery hea#y, and the hore on that ide being a oft oo&y and, almo t like a 3uick and" In thi condition, like true eamen, who are, (erha( , the lea t of all mankind gi#en to forethought, they ga#e it o#er, and away they trolled about the country again' and I heard one of them ay aloud to another, calling them off from the boat, 9Why, let her alone, Aack, can2t you6 he2ll float ne0t tide'9 by which I wa fully confirmed in the main in3uiry of what countrymen they were" All thi while I ke(t my elf #ery clo e, not once daring to tir out of my ca tle any farther than to my (lace of ob er#ation near the to( of the hill5 and #ery glad I wa to think how well it wa fortified" I knew it wa no le than ten hour before the boat could float again, and by that time it would be dark, and I might be at more liberty to ee their motion , and to hear their di cour e, if they had any" In the meantime I fitted my elf u( for a battle a before, though with more caution, knowing I had to do with another kind of enemy than I had at fir t" I ordered ,riday al o, whom I had made an e0cellent mark man with hi gun, to load him elf with arm " I took my elf two fowling*(iece , and I ga#e him three mu ket " /y figure, indeed, wa #ery fierce' I had my formidable goat* kin coat on, with the great ca( I ha#e mentioned, a naked word by my ide, two (i tol in my belt, and a gun u(on each houlder" It wa my de ign, a I aid abo#e, not to ha#e made any attem(t till it wa dark' but about two o2clock, being the heat of the day, I found that they were all gone traggling into the wood , and, a I thought, laid down to lee(" 8he three (oor

di tre ed men, too an0iou for their condition to get any lee(, had, howe#er, at down under the helter of a great tree, at about a 3uarter of a mile from me, and, a I thought, out of ight of any of the re t" >(on thi I re ol#ed to di co#er my elf to them, and learn omething of their condition' immediately I marched a abo#e, my man ,riday at a good di tance behind me, a formidable for hi arm a I, but not making 3uite o taring a (ectre*like figure a I did" I came a near them undi co#ered a I could, and then, before any of them aw me, I called aloud to them in S(ani h, 9What are ye, gentlemen69 8hey tarted u( at the noi e, but were ten time more confounded when they aw me, and the uncouth figure that I made" 8hey made no an wer at all, but I thought I (ercei#ed them 1u t going to fly from me, when I (oke to them in )ngli h" 94entlemen,9 aid I, 9do not be ur(ri ed at me' (erha( you may ha#e a friend near when you did not e0(ect it"9 9!e mu t be ent directly from hea#en then,9 aid one of them #ery gra#ely to me, and (ulling off hi hat at the ame time to me' 9for our condition i (a t the hel( of man"9 9All hel( i from hea#en, ir,9 aid I, 9but can you (ut a tranger in the way to hel( you6 for you eem to be in ome great di tre " I aw you when you landed' and when you eemed to make a((lication to the brute that came with you, I aw one of them lift u( hi word to kill you"9 8he (oor man, with tear running down hi face, and trembling, looking like one a toni hed, returned, 9Am I talking to 4od or man6 I it a real man or an angel69 9Be in no fear about that, ir,9 aid I' 9if 4od had ent an angel to relie#e you, he would ha#e come better clothed, and armed after another manner than you ee me' (ray lay a ide your fear ' I am a man, an )ngli hman, and di (o ed to a i t you' you ee I ha#e one er#ant only' we ha#e arm and ammunition' tell u freely, can we er#e you6 What i your ca e69 9=ur ca e, ir,9 aid he, 9i too long to tell you while our murderer are o near u ' but, in hort, ir, I wa commander of that hi( * my men ha#e mutinied again t me' they ha#e been hardly (re#ailed on not to murder me, and, at la t, ha#e et me on hore in thi de olate (lace, with the e two men with me * one my mate, the other a (a enger * where we e0(ected to (eri h, belie#ing the (lace to be uninhabited, and know not yet what to think of it"9 9Where are the e brute , your enemie 69 aid I' 9do you know where they are gone6 8here they lie, ir,9 aid he, (ointing to a thicket of tree ' 9my heart tremble for fear they ha#e een u and heard you (eak' if they ha#e, they will certainly murder u all"9 9!a#e they any firearm 69 aid I" !e an wered, 98hey had only two (iece , one of which they left in the boat"9 9Well, then,9 aid I, 9lea#e the re t to me' I ee they are all a lee(' it i an ea y thing to kill them all' but hall we rather take them (ri oner 69 !e told me there were two de (erate #illain among them that it wa carce afe to how any mercy to' but if they were ecured, he belie#ed

all the re t would return to their duty" I a ked him which they were" !e told me he could not at that di tance di tingui h them, but he would obey my order in anything I would direct" 9Well,9 ay I, 9let u retreat out of their #iew or hearing, le t they awake, and we will re ol#e further"9 So they willingly went back with me, till the wood co#ered u from them" 9-ook you, ir,9 aid I, 9if I #enture u(on your deli#erance, are you willing to make two condition with me69 !e antici(ated my (ro(o al by telling me that both he and the hi(, if reco#ered, hould be wholly directed and commanded by me in e#erything' and if the hi( wa not reco#ered, he would li#e and die with me in what (art of the world oe#er I would end him' and the two other men aid the ame" 9Well,9 ay I, 9my condition are but two' fir t, that while you tay in thi i land with me, you will not (retend to any authority here' and if I (ut arm in your hand , you will, u(on all occa ion , gi#e them u( to me, and do no (re1udice to me or mine u(on thi i land, and in the meantime be go#erned by my order ' econdly, that if the hi( i or may be reco#ered, you will carry me and my man to )ngland (a age free"9 !e ga#e me all the a urance that the in#ention or faith of man could de#i e that he would com(ly with the e mo t rea onable demand , and be ide would owe hi life to me, and acknowledge it u(on all occa ion a long a he li#ed" 9Well, then,9 aid I, 9here are three mu ket for you, with (owder and ball' tell me ne0t what you think i (ro(er to be done"9 !e howed all the te timonie of hi gratitude that he wa able, but offered to be wholly guided by me" I told him I thought it wa #ery hard #enturing anything' but the be t method I could think of wa to fire on them at once a they lay, and if any were not killed at the fir t #olley, and offered to ubmit, we might a#e them, and o (ut it wholly u(on 4od2 (ro#idence to direct the hot" !e aid, #ery mode tly, that he wa loath to kill them if he could hel( it' but that tho e two were incorrigible #illain , and had been the author of all the mutiny in the hi(, and if they e ca(ed, we hould be undone till, for they would go on board and bring the whole hi(2 com(any, and de troy u all" 9Well, then,9 ay I, 9nece ity legitimate my ad#ice, for it i the only way to a#e our li#e "9 !owe#er, eeing him till cautiou of hedding blood, I told him they hould go them el#e , and manage a they found con#enient" In the middle of thi di cour e we heard ome of them awake, and oon after we aw two of them on their feet" I a ked him if either of them were the head of the mutiny6 !e aid, 9;o"9 9Well, then,9 aid I, 9you may let them e ca(e' and <ro#idence eem to ha#e awakened them on (ur(o e to a#e them el#e " ;ow,9 ay I, 9if the re t e ca(e you, it i your fault"9 Animated with thi , he

took the mu ket I had gi#en him in hi hand, and a (i tol in hi belt, and hi two comrade with him, with each a (iece in hi hand' the two men who were with him going fir t made ome noi e, at which one of the eamen who wa awake turned about, and eeing them coming, cried out to the re t' but wa too late then, for the moment he cried out they fired * I mean the two men, the ca(tain wi ely re er#ing hi own (iece" 8hey had o well aimed their hot at the men they knew, that one of them wa killed on the (ot, and the other #ery much wounded' but not being dead, he tarted u( on hi feet, and called eagerly for hel( to the other' but the ca(tain te((ing to him, told him it wa too late to cry for hel(, he hould call u(on 4od to forgi#e hi #illainy, and with that word knocked him down with the tock of hi mu ket, o that he ne#er (oke more' there were three more in the com(any, and one of them wa lightly wounded" By thi time I wa come' and when they aw their danger, and that it wa in #ain to re i t, they begged for mercy" 8he ca(tain told them he would (are their li#e if they would gi#e him an a urance of their abhorrence of the treachery they had been guilty of, and would wear to be faithful to him in reco#ering the hi(, and afterward in carrying her back to Aamaica, from whence they came" 8hey ga#e him all the (rote tation of their incerity that could be de ired' and he wa willing to belie#e them, and (are their li#e , which I wa not again t, only that I obliged him to kee( them bound hand and foot while they were on the i land" While thi wa doing, I ent ,riday with the ca(tain2 mate to the boat with order to ecure her, and bring away the oar and ail , which they did' and by* and*by three traggling men, that were ?ha((ily for them@ (arted from the re t, came back u(on hearing the gun fired' and eeing the ca(tain, who wa before their (ri oner, now their con3ueror, they ubmitted to be bound al o' and o our #ictory wa com(lete" It now remained that the ca(tain and I hould in3uire into one another2 circum tance " I began fir t, and told him my whole hi tory, which he heard with an attention e#en to ama&ement * and (articularly at the wonderful manner of my being furni hed with (ro#i ion and ammunition' and, indeed, a my tory i a whole collection of wonder , it affected him dee(ly" But when he reflected from thence u(on him elf, and how I eemed to ha#e been (re er#ed there on (ur(o e to a#e hi life, the tear ran down hi face, and he could not (eak a word more" After thi communication wa at an end, I carried him and hi two men into my a(artment, leading them in 1u t where I came out, #i&" at the to( of the hou e, where I refre hed them with uch (ro#i ion a I had, and howed them all the contri#ance I had made during my long, long inhabiting that (lace"

All I howed them, all I aid to them, wa (erfectly ama&ing' but abo#e all, the ca(tain admired my fortification, and how (erfectly I had concealed my retreat with a gro#e of tree , which ha#ing been now (lanted nearly twenty year , and the tree growing much fa ter than in )ngland, wa become a little wood, o thick that it wa im(a able in any (art of it but at that one ide where I had re er#ed my little winding (a age into it" I told him thi wa my ca tle and my re idence, but that I had a eat in the country, a mo t (rince ha#e, whither I could retreat u(on occa ion, and I would how him that too another time' but at (re ent our bu ine wa to con ider how to reco#er the hi(" !e agreed with me a to that, but told me he wa (erfectly at a lo what mea ure to take, for that there were till i0*and*twenty hand on board, who, ha#ing entered into a cur ed con (iracy, by which they had all forfeited their li#e to the law, would be hardened in it now by de (eration, and would carry it on, knowing that if they were ubdued they would be brought to the gallow a oon a they came to )ngland, or to any of the )ngli h colonie , and that, therefore, there would be no attacking them with o mall a number a we were" I mu ed for ome time on what he had aid, and found it wa a #ery rational conclu ion, and that therefore omething wa to be re ol#ed on (eedily, a well to draw the men on board into ome nare for their ur(ri e a to (re#ent their landing u(on u , and de troying u " >(on thi , it (re ently occurred to me that in a little while the hi(2 crew, wondering what wa become of their comrade and of the boat, would certainly come on hore in their other boat to look for them, and that then, (erha( , they might come armed, and be too trong for u 5 thi he allowed to be rational" >(on thi , I told him the fir t thing we had to do wa to ta#e the boat which lay u(on the beach, o that they might not carry her of, and taking e#erything out of her, lea#e her o far u ele a not to be fit to wim" Accordingly, we went on board, took the arm which were left on board out of her, and whate#er el e we found there * which wa a bottle of brandy, and another of rum, a few bi cuit*cake , a horn of (owder, and a great lum( of ugar in a (iece of can#a ?the ugar wa fi#e or i0 (ound @5 all which wa #ery welcome to me, e (ecially the brandy and ugar, of which I had had none left for many year " When we had carried all the e thing on hore ?the oar , ma t, ail, and rudder of the boat were carried away before@, we knocked a great hole in her bottom, that if they had come trong enough to ma ter u , yet they could not carry off the boat" Indeed, it wa not much in my thought that we could be able to reco#er the hi(' but my #iew wa , that if they went away without the boat, I did not much 3ue tion to make her again fit to carry a to the -eeward I land ,

and call u(on our friend the S(aniard in my way, for I had them till in my thought "

CHAPTER %VIII - THE SHIP REC VERED

W!I-) we were thu (re(aring our de ign , and had fir t, by main trength, hea#ed the boat u(on the beach, o high that the tide would not float her off at high*water mark, and be ide , had broke a hole in her bottom too big to be 3uickly to((ed, and were et down mu ing what we hould do, we heard the hi( fire a gun, and make a waft with her en ign a a ignal for the boat to come on board * but no boat tirred' and they fired e#eral time , making other ignal for the boat" At la t, when all their ignal and firing (ro#ed fruitle , and they found the boat did not tir, we aw them, by the hel( of my gla e , hoi t another boat out and row toward the hore' and we found, a they a((roached, that there were no le than ten men in her, and that they had firearm with them" A the hi( lay almo t two league from the hore, we had a full #iew of them a the came, and a (lain ight e#en of their face ' becau e the tide ha#ing et them a little to the ea t of the other boat, they rowed u( under hore, to come to the ame (lace where the other had landed, and where the boat lay' by thi mean , I ay, we had a full #iew of them, and the ca(tain knew the (er on and character of all the men in the boat, of whom, he aid, there were three #ery hone t fellow , who, he wa ure, were led into thi con (iracy by the re t, being o#er*(owered and frightened' but that a for the boat wain, who it eem wa the chief officer among them, and all the re t, they were a outrageou a any of the hi(2 crew, and were no doubt made de (erate in their new enter(ri e' and terribly a((rehen i#e he wa that they would be too (owerful for u " I miled at him, and told him that men in our circum tance were (a t the o(eration of fear' that eeing almo t e#ery condition that could be wa better than that which we were u((o ed to be in, we ought to e0(ect that the con e3uence, whether death or life, would be ure to be a deli#erance" I a ked him what he thought of the circum tance of my life, and whether a deli#erance were not worth #enturing for6 9And where, ir,9 aid I, 9i your belief of my being (re er#ed here on (ur(o e to a#e your life, which ele#ated you a little while ago6 ,or my (art,9 aid I, 9there eem to be but one thing ami in all the (ro (ect of it"9 9What i that69 ay he" 9Why,9 aid I, 9it i , that a you ay there are three or four hone t fellow among them which hould be (ared, had they been all of the wicked (art of the crew I hould ha#e thought 4od2

(ro#idence had ingled them out to deli#er them into your hand ' for de(end u(on it, e#ery man that come a hore i our own, and hall die or li#e a they beha#e to u "9 A I (oke thi with a rai ed #oice and cheerful countenance, I found it greatly encouraged him' o we et #igorou ly to our bu ine " We had, u(on the fir t a((earance of the boat2 coming from the hi(, con idered of e(arating our (ri oner ' and we had, indeed, ecured them effectually" 8wo of them, of whom the ca(tain wa le a ured than ordinary, I ent with ,riday, and one of the three deli#ered men, to my ca#e, where they were remote enough, and out of danger of being heard or di co#ered, or of finding their way out of the wood if they could ha#e deli#ered them el#e " !ere they left them bound, but ga#e them (ro#i ion ' and (romi ed them, if they continued there 3uietly, to gi#e them their liberty in a day or two' but that if they attem(ted their e ca(e they hould be (ut to death without mercy" 8hey (romi ed faithfully to bear their confinement with (atience, and were #ery thankful that they had uch good u age a to ha#e (ro#i ion and light left them' for ,riday ga#e them candle ? uch a we made our el#e @ for their comfort' and they did not know but that he tood entinel o#er them at the entrance" 8he other (ri oner had better u age' two of them were ke(t (inioned, indeed, becau e the ca(tain wa not able to tru t them' but the other two were taken into my er#ice, u(on the ca(tain2 recommendation, and u(on their olemnly engaging to li#e and die with u ' o with them and the three hone t men we were e#en men, well armed' and I made no doubt we hould be able to deal well enough with the ten that were coming, con idering that the ca(tain had aid there were three or four hone t men among them al o" A oon a they got to the (lace where their other boat lay, they ran their boat into the beach and came all on hore, hauling the boat u( after them, which I wa glad to ee, for I wa afraid they would rather ha#e left the boat at an anchor ome di tance from the hore, with ome hand in her to guard her, and o we hould not be able to ei&e the boat" Being on hore, the fir t thing they did, they ran all to their other boat' and it wa ea y to ee they were under a great ur(ri e to find her tri((ed, a abo#e, of all that wa in her, and a great hole in her bottom" After they had mu ed a while u(on thi , they et u( two or three great hout , hallooing with all their might, to try if they could make their com(anion hear' but all wa to no (ur(o e" 8hen they came all clo e in a ring, and fired a #olley of their mall arm , which indeed we heard, and the echoe made the wood ring" But it wa all one' tho e in the ca#e, we were ure, could not hear' and tho e in our kee(ing, though they heard it well enough, yet dur t gi#e no an wer to them" 8hey were o a toni hed at the ur(ri e of thi , that, a they

told u afterward , they re ol#ed to go all on board again to their hi(, and let them know that the men were all murdered, and the long*boat ta#ed' accordingly, they immediately launched their boat again, and got all of them on board" 8he ca(tain wa terribly ama&ed, and e#en confounded, at thi , belie#ing they would go on board the hi( again and et ail, gi#ing their comrade o#er for lo t, and o he hould till lo e the hi(, which he wa in ho(e we hould ha#e reco#ered' but he wa 3uickly a much frightened the other way" 8hey had not been long (ut off with the boat, when we (ercei#ed them all coming on hore again' but with thi new mea ure in their conduct, which it eem they con ulted together u(on, #i&" to lea#e three men in the boat, and the re t to go on hore, and go u( into the country to look for their fellow " 8hi wa a great di a((ointment to u , for now we were at a lo what to do, a our ei&ing tho e e#en men on hore would be no ad#antage to u if we let the boat e ca(e' becau e they would row away to the hi(, and then the re t of them would be ure to weigh and et ail, and o our reco#ering the hi( would be lo t" !owe#er we had no remedy but to wait and ee what the i ue of thing might (re ent" 8he e#en men came on hore, and the three who remained in the boat (ut her off to a good di tance from the hore, and came to an anchor to wait for them' o that it wa im(o ible for u to come at them in the boat" 8ho e that came on hore ke(t clo e together, marching toward the to( of the little hill under which my habitation lay' and we could ee them (lainly, though they could not (ercei#e u " We hould ha#e been #ery glad if they would ha#e come nearer u , o that we might ha#e fired at them, or that they would ha#e gone farther off, that we might come abroad" But when they were come to the brow of the hill where they could ee a great way into the #alley and wood , which lay toward the north*ea t (art, and where the i land lay lowe t, they houted and hallooed till they were weary' and not caring, it eem , to #enture far from the hore, nor far from one another, they at down together under a tree to con ider it" !ad they thought fit to ha#e gone to lee( there, a the other (art of them had done, they had done the 1ob for u ' but they were too full of a((rehen ion of danger to #enture to go to lee(, though they could not tell what the danger wa they had to fear" 8he ca(tain made a #ery 1u t (ro(o al to me u(on thi con ultation of their , #i&" that (erha( they would all fire a #olley again, to endea#our to make their fellow hear, and that we hould all ally u(on them 1u t at the 1uncture when their (iece were all di charged, and they would certainly yield, and we hould ha#e them without blood hed" I liked thi (ro(o al, (ro#ided it wa done while

we were near enough to come u( to them before they could load their (iece again" But thi e#ent did not ha((en' and we lay till a long time, #ery irre olute what cour e to take" At length I told them there would be nothing done, in my o(inion, till night' and then, if they did not return to the boat, (erha( we might find a way to get between them and the hore, and o might u e ome tratagem with them in the boat to get them on hore" We waited a great while, though #ery im(atient for their remo#ing' and were #ery unea y when, after long con ultation, we aw them all tart u( and march down toward the ea' it eem they had uch dreadful a((rehen ion of the danger of the (lace that they re ol#ed to go on board the hi( again, gi#e their com(anion o#er for lo t, and o go on with their intended #oyage with the hi(" A oon a I (ercei#ed them go toward the hore, I imagined it to be a it really wa that they had gi#en o#er their earch, and were going back again' and the ca(tain, a oon a I told him my thought , wa ready to ink at the a((rehen ion of it' but I (re ently thought of a tratagem to fetch them back again, and which an wered my end to a tittle" I ordered ,riday and the ca(tain2 mate to go o#er the little creek we tward, toward the (lace where the a#age came on hore, when ,riday wa re cued, and o oon a they came to a little ri ing round, at about half a mile di tant, I bid them halloo out, a loud a they could, and wait till they found the eamen heard them' that a oon a e#er they heard the eamen an wer them, they hould return it again' and then, kee(ing out of ight, take a round, alway an wering when the other hallooed, to draw them a far into the i land and among the wood a (o ible, and then wheel about again to me by uch way a I directed them" 8hey were 1u t going into the boat when ,riday and the mate hallooed' and they (re ently heard them, and an wering, ran along the hore we tward, toward the #oice they heard, when they were to((ed by the creek, where the water being u(, they could not get o#er, and called for the boat to come u( and et them o#er' a , indeed, I e0(ected" When they had et them el#e o#er, I ob er#ed that the boat being gone a good way into the creek, and, a it were, in a harbour within the land, they took one of the three men out of her, to go along with them, and left only two in the boat, ha#ing fa tened her to the tum( of a little tree on the hore" 8hi wa what I wi hed for' and immediately lea#ing ,riday and the ca(tain2 mate to their bu ine , I took the re t with me' and, cro ing the creek out of their ight, we ur(ri ed the two men before they were aware * one of them lying on the hore, and the other being in the boat" 8he fellow on hore wa between lee(ing and waking, and going to tart u(' the ca(tain, who wa foremo t, ran in u(on him, and knocked him down' and then

called out to him in the boat to yield, or he wa a dead man" 8hey needed #ery few argument to (er uade a ingle man to yield, when he aw fi#e men u(on him and hi comrade knocked down5 be ide , thi wa , it eem , one of the three who were not o hearty in the mutiny a the re t of the crew, and therefore wa ea ily (er uaded not only to yield, but afterward to 1oin #ery incerely with u " In the meantime, ,riday and the ca(tain2 mate o well managed their bu ine with the re t that they drew them, by hallooing and an wering, from one hill to another, and from one wood to another, till they not only heartily tired them, but left them where they were, #ery ure they could not reach back to the boat before it wa dark' and, indeed, they were heartily tired them el#e al o, by the time they came back to u " We had nothing now to do but to watch for them in the dark, and to fall u(on them, o a to make ure work with them" It wa e#eral hour after ,riday came back to me before they came back to their boat' and we could hear the foremo t of them, long before they came 3uite u(, calling to tho e behind to come along' and could al o hear them an wer, and com(lain how lame and tired they were, and not able to come any fa ter5 which wa #ery welcome new to u " At length they came u( to the boat5 but it i im(o ible to e0(re their confu ion when they found the boat fa t aground in the creek, the tide ebbed out, and their two men gone" We could hear them call one to another in a mo t lamentable manner, telling one another they were got into an enchanted i land' that either there were inhabitant in it, and they hould all be murdered, or el e there were de#il and (irit in it, and they hould be all carried away and de#oured" 8hey hallooed again, and called their two comrade by their name a great many time ' but no an wer" After ome time we could ee them, by the little light there wa , run about, wringing their hand like men in de (air, and ometime they would go and it down in the boat to re t them el#e 5 then come a hore again, and walk about again, and o the ame thing o#er again" /y men would fain ha#e had me gi#e them lea#e to fall u(on them at once in the dark' but I wa willing to take them at ome ad#antage, o a to (are them, and kill a few of them a I could' and e (ecially I wa unwilling to ha&ard the killing of any of our men, knowing the other were #ery well armed" I re ol#ed to wait, to ee if they did not e(arate' and therefore, to make ure of them, I drew my ambu cade nearer, and ordered ,riday and the ca(tain to cree( u(on their hand and feet, a clo e to the ground a they could, that they might not be di co#ered, and get a near them a they could (o ibly before they offered to fire" 8hey had not been long in that (o ture when the boat wain, who wa the (rinci(al ringleader of the mutiny, and had now hown him elf the mo t

de1ected and di (irited of all the re t, came walking toward them, with two more of the crew' the ca(tain wa o eager at ha#ing thi (rinci(al rogue o much in hi (ower, that he could hardly ha#e (atience to let him come o near a to be ure of him, for they only heard hi tongue before5 but when they came nearer, the ca(tain and ,riday, tarting u( on their feet, let fly at them" 8he boat wain wa killed u(on the (ot5 the ne0t man wa hot in the body, and fell 1u t by him, though he did not die till an hour or two after' and the third ran for it" At the noi e of the fire I immediately ad#anced with my whole army, which wa now eight men, #i&" my elf, generali imo' ,riday, my lieutenant*general' the ca(tain and hi two men, and the three (ri oner of war whom we had tru ted with arm " We came u(on them, indeed, in the dark, o that they could not ee our number' and I made the man they had left in the boat, who wa now one of u , to call them by name, to try if I could bring them to a (arley, and o (erha( might reduce them to term ' which fell out 1u t a we de ired5 for indeed it wa ea y to think, a their condition then wa , they would be #ery willing to ca(itulate" So he call out a loud a he could to one of them, 98om Smith7 8om Smith79 8om Smith an wered immediately, 9I that $obin on69 for it eem he knew the #oice" 8he other an wered, 9Ay, ay' for 4od2 ake, 8om Smith, throw down your arm and yield, or you are all dead men thi moment"9 9Who mu t we yield to6 Where are they69 ay Smith again" 9!ere they are,9 ay he' 9here2 our ca(tain and fifty men with him, ha#e been hunting you the e two hour ' the boat wain i killed' Will ,ry i wounded, and I am a (ri oner' and if you do not yield you are all lo t"9 9Will they gi#e u 3uarter, then69 ay 8om Smith, 9and we will yield"9 9I2ll go and a k, if you (romi e to yield,9 aid $obin on5 o he a ked the ca(tain, and the ca(tain him elf then call out, 9You, Smith, you know my #oice' if you lay down your arm immediately and ubmit, you hall ha#e your li#e , all but Will Atkin "9 >(on thi Will Atkin cried out, 9,or 4od2 ake, ca(tain, gi#e me 3uarter' what ha#e I done6 8hey ha#e all been a bad a I59 which, by the way, wa not true' for it eem thi Will Atkin wa the fir t man that laid hold of the ca(tain when they fir t mutinied, and u ed him barbarou ly in tying hi hand and gi#ing him in1uriou language" !owe#er, the ca(tain told him he mu t lay down hi arm at di cretion, and tru t to the go#ernor2 mercy5 by which he meant me, for they all called me go#ernor" In a word, they all laid down their arm and begged their li#e ' and I ent the man that had (arleyed with them, and two more, who bound them all' and then my great army of fifty men, which, with tho e three, were in all but eight, came u( and ei&ed u(on them, and u(on their boat' only that I ke(t my elf and one more out of ight for rea on of tate"

=ur ne0t work wa to re(air the boat, and think of ei&ing the hi(5 and a for the ca(tain, now he had lei ure to (arley with them, he e0(o tulated with them u(on the #illainy of their (ractice with him, and u(on the further wickedne of their de ign, and how certainly it mu t bring them to mi ery and di tre in the end, and (erha( to the gallow " 8hey all a((eared #ery (enitent, and begged hard for their li#e " A for that, he told them they were not hi (ri oner , but the commander2 of the i land' that they thought they had et him on hore in a barren, uninhabited i land' but it had (lea ed 4od o to direct them that it wa inhabited, and that the go#ernor wa an )ngli hman' that he might hang them all there, if he (lea ed' but a he had gi#en them all 3uarter, he u((o ed he would end them to )ngland, to be dealt with there a 1u tice re3uired, e0ce(t Atkin , whom he wa commanded by the go#ernor to ad#i e to (re(are for death, for that he would be hanged in the morning" 8hough thi wa all but a fiction of hi own, yet it had it de ired effect' Atkin fell u(on hi knee to beg the ca(tain to intercede with the go#ernor for hi life' and all the re t begged of him, for 4od2 ake, that they might not be ent to )ngland" It now occurred to me that the time of our deli#erance wa come, and that it would be a mo t ea y thing to bring the e fellow in to be hearty in getting (o e ion of the hi(' o I retired in the dark from them, that they might not ee what kind of a go#ernor they had, and called the ca(tain to me' when I called, at a good di tance, one of the men wa ordered to (eak again, and ay to the ca(tain, 9+a(tain, the commander call for you'9 and (re ently the ca(tain re(lied, 98ell hi e0cellency I am 1u t coming"9 8hi more (erfectly ama&ed them, and they all belie#ed that the commander wa 1u t by, with hi fifty men" >(on the ca(tain coming to me, I told him my (ro1ect for ei&ing the hi(, which he liked wonderfully well, and re ol#ed to (ut it in e0ecution the ne0t morning" But, in order to e0ecute it with more art, and to be ecure of ucce , I told him we mu t di#ide the (ri oner , and that he hould go and take Atkin , and two more of the wor t of them, and end them (inioned to the ca#e where the other lay" 8hi wa committed to ,riday and the two men who came on hore with the ca(tain" 8hey con#eyed them to the ca#e a to a (ri on5 and it wa , indeed, a di mal (lace, e (ecially to men in their condition" 8he other I ordered to my bower, a I called it, of which I ha#e gi#en a full de cri(tion5 and a it wa fenced in, and they (inioned, the (lace wa ecure enough, con idering they were u(on their beha#iour" 8o the e in the morning I ent the ca(tain, who wa to enter into a (arley with them' in a word, to try them, and tell me whether he thought they might be

tru ted or not to go on board and ur(ri e the hi(" !e talked to them of the in1ury done him, of the condition they were brought to, and that though the go#ernor had gi#en them 3uarter for their li#e a to the (re ent action, yet that if they were ent to )ngland they would all be hanged in chain ' but that if they would 1oin in o 1u t an attem(t a to reco#er the hi(, he would ha#e the go#ernor2 engagement for their (ardon" Any one may gue how readily uch a (ro(o al would be acce(ted by men in their condition' they fell down on their knee to the ca(tain, and (romi ed, with the dee(e t im(recation , that they would be faithful to him to the la t dro(, and that they hould owe their li#e to him, and would go with him all o#er the world' that they would own him a a father to them a long a they li#ed" 9Well,9 ay the ca(tain, 9I mu t go and tell the go#ernor what you ay, and ee what I can do to bring him to con ent to it"9 So he brought me an account of the tem(er he found them in, and that he #erily belie#ed they would be faithful" !owe#er, that we might be #ery ecure, I told him he hould go back again and choo e out tho e fi#e, and tell them, that they might ee he did not want men, that he would take out tho e fi#e to be hi a i tant , and that the go#ernor would kee( the other two, and the three that were ent (ri oner to the ca tle ?my ca#e@, a ho tage for the fidelity of tho e fi#e' and that if they (ro#ed unfaithful in the e0ecution, the fi#e ho tage hould be hanged in chain ali#e on the hore" 8hi looked e#ere, and con#inced them that the go#ernor wa in earne t' howe#er, they had no way left them but to acce(t it' and it wa now the bu ine of the (ri oner , a much a of the ca(tain, to (er uade the other fi#e to do their duty" =ur trength wa now thu ordered for the e0(edition5 fir t, the ca(tain, hi mate, and (a enger' econd, the two (ri oner of the fir t gang, to whom, ha#ing their character from the ca(tain, I had gi#en their liberty, and tru ted them with arm ' third, the other two that I had ke(t till now in my bower, (inioned, but on the ca(tain2 motion had now relea ed' fourth, the e fi#e relea ed at la t' o that there were twel#e in all, be ide fi#e we ke(t (ri oner in the ca#e for ho tage " I a ked the ca(tain if he wa willing to #enture with the e hand on board the hi(' but a for me and my man ,riday, I did not think it wa (ro(er for u to tir, ha#ing e#en men left behind' and it wa em(loyment enough for u to kee( them a under, and u((ly them with #ictual " A to the fi#e in the ca#e, I re ol#ed to kee( them fa t, but ,riday went in twice a day to them, to u((ly them with nece arie ' and I made the other two carry (ro#i ion to a certain di tance, where ,riday wa to take them"

When I howed my elf to the two ho tage , it wa with the ca(tain, who told them I wa the (er on the go#ernor had ordered to look after them' and that it wa the go#ernor2 (lea ure they hould not tir anywhere but by my direction' that if they did, they would be fetched into the ca tle, and be laid in iron 5 o that a we ne#er uffered them to ee me a go#ernor, I now a((eared a another (er on, and (oke of the go#ernor, the garri on, the ca tle, and the like, u(on all occa ion " 8he ca(tain now had no difficulty before him, but to furni h hi two boat , to( the breach of one, and man them" !e made hi (a enger ca(tain of one, with four of the men' and him elf, hi mate, and fi#e more, went in the other' and they contri#ed their bu ine #ery well, for they came u( to the hi( about midnight" A oon a they came within call of the hi(, he made $obin on hail them, and tell them they had brought off the men and the boat, but that it wa a long time before they had found them, and the like, holding them in a chat till they came to the hi(2 ide' when the ca(tain and the mate entering fir t with their arm , immediately knocked down the econd mate and car(enter with the butt*end of their mu ket , being #ery faithfully econded by their men' they ecured all the re t that were u(on the main and 3uarter deck , and began to fa ten the hatche , to kee( them down that were below' when the other boat and their men, entering at the forechain , ecured the foreca tle of the hi(, and the cuttle which went down into the cook*room, making three men they found there (ri oner " When thi wa done, and all afe u(on deck, the ca(tain ordered the mate, with three men, to break into the round*hou e, where the new rebel ca(tain lay, who, ha#ing taken the alarm, had got u(, and with two men and a boy had got firearm in their hand ' and when the mate, with a crow, (lit o(en the door, the new ca(tain and hi men fired boldly among them, and wounded the mate with a mu ket ball, which broke hi arm, and wounded two more of the men, but killed nobody" 8he mate, calling for hel(, ru hed, howe#er, into the round*hou e, wounded a he wa , and, with hi (i tol, hot the new ca(tain through the head, the bullet entering at hi mouth, and came out again behind one of hi ear , o that he ne#er (oke a word more5 u(on which the re t yielded, and the hi( wa taken effectually, without any more li#e lo t" A oon a the hi( wa thu ecured, the ca(tain ordered e#en gun to be fired, which wa the ignal agreed u(on with me to gi#e me notice of hi ucce , which, you may be ure, I wa #ery glad to hear, ha#ing at watching u(on the hore for it till near two o2clock in the morning" !a#ing thu heard the ignal (lainly, I laid me down' and it ha#ing been a day of great fatigue to me, I le(t #ery ound, till I wa ur(ri ed with the noi e of a gun' and (re ently

tarting u(, I heard a man call me by the name of 94o#ernor7 4o#ernor79 and (re ently I knew the ca(tain2 #oice' when, climbing u( to the to( of the hill, there he tood, and, (ointing to the hi(, he embraced me in hi arm , 9/y dear friend and deli#erer,9 ay he, 9there2 your hi(' for he i all your , and o are we, and all that belong to her"9 I ca t my eye to the hi(, and there he rode, within little more than half a mile of the hore' for they had weighed her anchor a oon a they were ma ter of her, and, the weather being fair, had brought her to an anchor 1u t again t the mouth of the little creek' and the tide being u(, the ca(tain had brought the (innace in near the (lace where I had fir t landed my raft , and o landed 1u t at my door" I wa at fir t ready to ink down with the ur(ri e' for I aw my deli#erance, indeed, #i ibly (ut into my hand , all thing ea y, and a large hi( 1u t ready to carry me away whither I (lea ed to go" At fir t, for ome time, I wa not able to an wer him one word' but a he had taken me in hi arm I held fa t by him, or I hould ha#e fallen to the ground" !e (ercei#ed the ur(ri e, and immediately (ulled a bottle out of hi (ocket and ga#e me a dram of cordial, which he had brought on (ur(o e for me" After I had drunk it, I at down u(on the ground' and though it brought me to my elf, yet it wa a good while before I could (eak a word to him" All thi time the (oor man wa in a great an ec ta y a I, only not under any ur(ri e a I wa ' and he aid a thou and kind and tender thing to me, to com(o e and bring me to my elf' but uch wa the flood of 1oy in my brea t, that it (ut all my (irit into confu ion5 at la t it broke out into tear , and in a little while after I reco#ered my (eech' I then took my turn, and embraced him a my deli#erer, and we re1oiced together" I told him I looked u(on him a a man ent by !ea#en to deli#er me, and that the whole tran action eemed to be a chain of wonder ' that uch thing a the e were the te timonie we had of a ecret hand of <ro#idence go#erning the world, and an e#idence that the eye of an infinite <ower could earch into the remote t corner of the world, and end hel( to the mi erable whene#er !e (lea ed" I forgot not to lift u( my heart in thankfulne to !ea#en' and what heart could forbear to ble !im, who had not only in a miraculou manner (ro#ided for me in uch a wilderne , and in uch a de olate condition, but from whom e#ery deli#erance mu t alway be acknowledged to (roceed" When we had talked a while, the ca(tain told me he had brought me ome little refre hment, uch a the hi( afforded, and uch a the wretche that had been o long hi ma ter had not (lundered him of" >(on thi , he called aloud to the boat, and bade hi men bring the thing a hore that were for the go#ernor' and, indeed, it wa a (re ent a if I had been one that wa not to be carried away with them, but a if I had been to dwell u(on the i land till" ,ir t, he had brought me a ca e of bottle full of e0cellent cordial water , i0 large bottle of

/adeira wine ?the bottle held two 3uart each@, two (ound of e0cellent good tobacco, twel#e good (iece of the hi(2 beef, and i0 (iece of (ork, with a bag of (ea , and about a hundred*weight of bi cuit' he al o brought me a bo0 of ugar, a bo0 of flour, a bag full of lemon , and two bottle of lime*1uice, and abundance of other thing " But be ide the e, and what wa a thou and time more u eful to me, he brought me i0 new clean hirt , i0 #ery good neckcloth , two (air of glo#e , one (air of hoe , a hat, and one (air of tocking , with a #ery good uit of clothe of hi own, which had been worn but #ery little5 in a word, he clothed me from head to foot" It wa a #ery kind and agreeable (re ent, a any one may imagine, to one in my circum tance , but ne#er wa anything in the world of that kind o un(lea ant, awkward, and unea y a it wa to me to wear uch clothe at fir t" After the e ceremonie were (a t, and after all hi good thing were brought into my little a(artment, we began to con ult what wa to be done with the (ri oner we had' for it wa worth con idering whether we might #enture to take them with u or no, e (ecially two of them, whom he knew to be incorrigible and refractory to the la t degree' and the ca(tain aid he knew they were uch rogue that there wa no obliging them, and if he did carry them away, it mu t be in iron , a malefactor , to be deli#ered o#er to 1u tice at the fir t )ngli h colony he could come to' and I found that the ca(tain him elf wa #ery an0iou about it" >(on thi , I told him that, if he de ired it, I would undertake to bring the two men he (oke of to make it their own re3ue t that he hould lea#e them u(on the i land" 9I hould be #ery glad of that,9 ay the ca(tain, 9with all my heart"9 9Well,9 ay I, 9I will end for them u( and talk with them for you"9 So I cau ed ,riday and the two ho tage , for they were now di charged, their comrade ha#ing (erformed their (romi e' I ay, I cau ed them to go to the ca#e, and bring u( the fi#e men, (inioned a they were, to the bower, and kee( them there till I came" After ome time, I came thither dre ed in my new habit' and now I wa called go#ernor again" Being all met, and the ca(tain with me, I cau ed the men to be brought before me, and I told them I had got a full account of their #illainou beha#iour to the ca(tain, and how they had run away with the hi(, and were (re(aring to commit further robberie , but that <ro#idence had en nared them in their own way , and that they were fallen into the (it which they had dug for other " I let them know that by my direction the hi( had been ei&ed' that he lay now in the road' and they might ee by*and*by that their new ca(tain had recei#ed the reward of hi #illainy, and that they would ee him hanging at the yard*arm' that, a to them, I wanted to know what they had to ay why I hould not e0ecute them a (irate taken in the fact, a by my commi ion they could not doubt but I had authority o to do"

=ne of them an wered in the name of the re t, that they had nothing to ay but thi , that when they were taken the ca(tain (romi ed them their li#e , and they humbly im(lored my mercy" But I told them I knew not what mercy to how them' for a for my elf, I had re ol#ed to 3uit the i land with all my men, and had taken (a age with the ca(tain to go to )ngland' and a for the ca(tain, he could not carry them to )ngland other than a (ri oner in iron , to be tried for mutiny and running away with the hi(' the con e3uence of which, they mu t need know, would be the gallow ' o that I could not tell what wa be t for them, unle they had a mind to take their fate in the i land" If they de ired that, a I had liberty to lea#e the i land, I had ome inclination to gi#e them their li#e , if they thought they could hift on hore" 8hey eemed #ery thankful for it, and aid they would much rather #enture to tay there than be carried to )ngland to be hanged" So I left it on that i ue" !owe#er, the ca(tain eemed to make ome difficulty of it, a if he dur t not lea#e them there" >(on thi I eemed a little angry with the ca(tain, and told him that they were my (ri oner , not hi ' and that eeing I had offered them o much fa#our, I would be a good a my word' and that if he did not think fit to con ent to it I would et them at liberty, a I found them5 and if he did not like it he might take them again if he could catch them" >(on thi they a((eared #ery thankful, and I accordingly et them at liberty, and bade them retire into the wood , to the (lace whence they came, and I would lea#e them ome firearm , ome ammunition, and ome direction how they hould li#e #ery well if they thought fit" >(on thi I (re(ared to go on board the hi(' but told the ca(tain I would tay that night to (re(are my thing , and de ired him to go on board in the meantime, and kee( all right in the hi(, and end the boat on hore ne0t day for me' ordering him, at all e#ent , to cau e the new ca(tain, who wa killed, to be hanged at the yard* arm, that the e men might ee him" When the ca(tain wa gone I ent for the men u( to me to my a(artment, and entered eriou ly into di cour e with them on their circum tance " I told them I thought they had made a right choice' that if the ca(tain had carried them away they would certainly be hanged" I howed them the new ca(tain hanging at the yard*arm of the hi(, and told them they had nothing le to e0(ect" When they had all declared their willingne to tay, I then told them I would let them into the tory of my li#ing there, and (ut them into the way of making it ea y to them" Accordingly, I ga#e them the whole hi tory of the (lace, and of my coming to it' howed them my fortification , the way I made my bread, (lanted my corn, cured my gra(e ' and, in a word, all that wa nece ary to make them ea y" I told them the tory al o of the e#enteen S(aniard that were

to be e0(ected, for whom I left a letter, and made them (romi e to treat them in common with them el#e " !ere it may be noted that the ca(tain, who had ink on board, wa greatly ur(ri ed that I ne#er hit u(on a way of making ink of charcoal and water, or of omething el e, a I had done thing much more difficult" I left them my firearm * #i&" fi#e mu ket , three fowling*(iece , and three word " I had abo#e a barrel and a half of (owder left' for after the fir t year or two I u ed but little, and wa ted none" I ga#e them a de cri(tion of the way I managed the goat , and direction to milk and fatten them, and to make both butter and chee e" In a word, I ga#e them e#ery (art of my own tory' and told them I hould (re#ail with the ca(tain to lea#e them two barrel of gun(owder more, and ome garden* eed , which I told them I would ha#e been #ery glad of" Al o, I ga#e them the bag of (ea which the ca(tain had brought me to eat, and bade them be ure to ow and increa e them"

CHAPTER %I% - RET"RN T

EN$LAND

!AEI;4 done all thi I left them the ne0t day, and went on board the hi(" We (re(ared immediately to ail, but did not weigh that night" 8he ne0t morning early, two of the fi#e men came wimming to the hi(2 ide, and making the mo t lamentable com(laint of the other three, begged to be taken into the hi( for 4od2 ake, for they hould be murdered, and begged the ca(tain to take them on board, though he hanged them immediately" >(on thi the ca(tain (retended to ha#e no (ower without me' but after ome difficulty, and after their olemn (romi e of amendment, they were taken on board, and were, ome time after, oundly whi((ed and (ickled' after which they (ro#ed #ery hone t and 3uiet fellow " Some time after thi , the boat wa ordered on hore, the tide being u(, with the thing (romi ed to the men' to which the ca(tain, at my interce ion, cau ed their che t and clothe to be added, which they took, and were #ery thankful for" I al o encouraged them, by telling them that if it lay in my (ower to end any #e el to take them in, I would not forget them" When I took lea#e of thi i land, I carried on board, for relic , the great goat* kin ca( I had made, my umbrella, and one of my (arrot ' al o, I forgot not to take the money I formerly mentioned, which had lain by me o long u ele that it wa grown ru ty or tarni hed, and could hardly (a for il#er till it had been a little rubbed and handled, a al o the money I found in the wreck of the

S(ani h hi(" And thu I left the i land, the 1Gth of .ecember, a I found by the hi(2 account, in the year 16J6, after I had been u(on it eight*and*twenty year , two month , and nineteen day ' being deli#ered from thi econd ca(ti#ity the ame day of the month that I fir t made my e ca(e in the long*boat from among the /oor of Sallee" In thi #e el, after a long #oyage, I arri#ed in )ngland the 11th of Aune, in the year 16JI, ha#ing been thirty*fi#e year ab ent" When I came to )ngland I wa a (erfect a tranger to all the world a if I had ne#er been known there" /y benefactor and faithful teward, whom I had left my money in tru t with, wa ali#e, but had had great mi fortune in the world' wa become a widow the econd time, and #ery low in the world" I made her #ery ea y a to what he owed me, a uring her I would gi#e her no trouble' but, on the contrary, in gratitude for her former care and faithfulne to me, I relie#ed her a my little tock would afford' which at that time would, indeed, allow me to do but little for her' but I a ured her I would ne#er forget her former kindne to me' nor did I forget her when I had ufficient to hel( her, a hall be ob er#ed in it (ro(er (lace" I went down afterward into York hire' but my father wa dead, and my mother and all the family e0tinct, e0ce(t that I found two i ter , and two of the children of one of my brother ' and a I had been long ago gi#en o#er for dead, there had been no (ro#i ion made for me' o that, in a word, I found nothing to relie#e or a i t me' and that the little money I had would not do much for me a to ettling in the world" I met with one (iece of gratitude indeed, which I did not e0(ect' and thi wa , that the ma ter of the hi(, whom I had o ha((ily deli#ered, and by the ame mean a#ed the hi( and cargo, ha#ing gi#en a #ery hand ome account to the owner of the manner how I had a#ed the li#e of the men and the hi(, they in#ited me to meet them and ome other merchant concerned, and all together made me a #ery hand ome com(liment u(on the ub1ect, and a (re ent of almo t 2CC (ound terling" But after making e#eral reflection u(on the circum tance of my life, and how little way thi would go toward ettling me in the world, I re ol#ed to go to -i bon, and ee if I might not come at ome information of the tate of my (lantation in the Bra&il , and of what wa become of my (artner, who, I had rea on to u((o e, had ome year (a t gi#en me o#er for dead" With thi #iew I took hi((ing for -i bon, where I arri#ed in A(ril following, my man ,riday accom(anying me #ery hone tly in all the e rambling , and (ro#ing a mo t faithful er#ant u(on all occa ion " When I came to -i bon, I found out, by in3uiry, and to my (articular ati faction, my old friend, the ca(tain of the hi(

who fir t took me u( at ea off the hore of Africa" !e wa now grown old, and had left off going to ea, ha#ing (ut hi on, who wa far from a young man, into hi hi(, and who till u ed the Bra&il trade" 8he old man did not know me, and indeed I hardly knew him" But I oon brought him to my remembrance, and a oon brought my elf to hi remembrance, when I told him who I wa " After ome (a ionate e0(re ion of the old ac3uaintance between u , I in3uired, you may he ure, after my (lantation and my (artner" 8he old man told me he had not been in the Bra&il for about nine year ' but that he could a ure me that when he came away my (artner wa li#ing, but the tru tee whom I had 1oined with him to take cogni ance of my (art were both dead5 that, howe#er, he belie#ed I would ha#e a #ery good account of the im(ro#ement of the (lantation' for that, u(on the general belief of my being ca t away and drowned, my tru tee had gi#en in the account of the (roduce of my (art of the (lantation to the (rocurator*fi cal, who had a((ro(riated it, in ca e I ne#er came to claim it, one*third to the king, and two*third to the mona tery of St" Augu tine, to be e0(ended for the benefit of the (oor, and for the con#er ion of the Indian to the +atholic faith5 but that, if I a((eared, or any one for me, to claim the inheritance, it would be re tored' only that the im(ro#ement, or annual (roduction, being di tributed to charitable u e , could not be re tored5 but he a ured me that the teward of the king2 re#enue from land , and the (ro#idore, or teward of the mona tery, had taken great care all along that the incumbent, that i to ay my (artner, ga#e e#ery year a faithful account of the (roduce, of which they had duly recei#ed my moiety" I a ked him if he knew to what height of im(ro#ement he had brought the (lantation, and whether he thought it might be worth looking after' or whether, on my going thither, I hould meet with any ob truction to my (o e ing my 1u t right in the moiety" !e told me he could not tell e0actly to what degree the (lantation wa im(ro#ed' but thi he knew, that my (artner wa grown e0ceeding rich u(on the en1oying hi (art of it' and that, to the be t of hi remembrance, he had heard that the king2 third of my (art, which wa , it eem , granted away to ome other mona tery or religiou hou e, amounted to abo#e two hundred moidore a year5 that a to my being re tored to a 3uiet (o e ion of it, there wa no 3ue tion to be made of that, my (artner being ali#e to witne my title, and my name being al o enrolled in the regi ter of the country' al o he told me that the ur#i#or of my two tru tee were #ery fair, hone t (eo(le, and #ery wealthy' and he belie#ed I would not only ha#e their a i tance for (utting me in (o e ion, but would find a #ery con iderable um of money in their hand for my account, being the (roduce of the farm while their father held the tru t, and before it wa gi#en u(, a abo#e' which, a he remembered, wa for about twel#e year "

I howed my elf a little concerned and unea y at thi account, and in3uired of the old ca(tain how it came to (a that the tru tee hould thu di (o e of my effect , when he knew that I had made my will, and had made him, the <ortugue e ca(tain, my uni#er al heir, Fc" !e told me that wa true' but that a there wa no (roof of my being dead, he could not act a e0ecutor until ome certain account hould come of my death' and, be ide , he wa not willing to intermeddle with a thing o remote5 that it wa true he had regi tered my will, and (ut in hi claim' and could he ha#e gi#en any account of my being dead or ali#e, he would ha#e acted by (rocuration, and taken (o e ion of the ingenio ? o they call the ugar*hou e@, and ha#e gi#en hi on, who wa now at the Bra&il , order to do it" 9But,9 ay the old man, 9I ha#e one (iece of new to tell you, which (erha( may not be o acce(table to you a the re t' and that i , belie#ing you were lo t, and all the world belie#ing o al o, your (artner and tru tee did offer to account with me, in your name, for the fir t i0 or eight year 2 (rofit , which I recei#ed" 8here being at that time great di bur ement for increa ing the work , building an ingenio, and buying la#e , it did not amount to near o much a afterward it (roduced' howe#er,9 ay the old man, 9I hall gi#e you a true account of what I ha#e recei#ed in all, and how I ha#e di (o ed of it"9 After a few day 2 further conference with thi ancient friend, he brought me an account of the fir t i0 year 2 income of my (lantation, igned by my (artner and the merchant*tru tee , being alway deli#ered in good , #i&" tobacco in roll, and ugar in che t , be ide rum, mola e , Fc", which i the con e3uence of a ugar*work' and I found by thi account, that e#ery year the income con iderably increa ed' but, a abo#e, the di bur ement being large, the um at fir t wa mall5 howe#er, the old man let me ee that he wa debtor to me four hundred and e#enty moidore of gold, be ide i0ty che t of ugar and fifteen double roll of tobacco, which were lo t in hi hi(' he ha#ing been hi(wrecked coming home to -i bon, about ele#en year after my ha#ing the (lace" 8he good man then began to com(lain of hi mi fortune , and how he had been obliged to make u e of my money to reco#er hi lo e , and buy him a hare in a new hi(" 9!owe#er, my old friend,9 ay he, 9you hall not want a u((ly in your nece ity' and a oon a my on return you hall be fully ati fied"9 >(on thi he (ull out an old (ouch, and gi#e me one hundred and i0ty <ortugal moidore in gold' and gi#ing the writing of hi title to the hi(, which hi on wa gone to the Bra&il in, of which he wa 3uarter*(art owner, and hi on another, he (ut them both into my hand for ecurity of the re t"

I wa too much mo#ed with the hone ty and kindne of the (oor man to be able to bear thi ' and remembering what he had done for me, how he had taken me u( at ea, and how generou ly he had u ed me on all occa ion , and (articularly how incere a friend he wa now to me, I could hardly refrain wee(ing at what he had aid to me' therefore I a ked him if hi circum tance admitted him to (are o much money at that time, and if it would not traiten him6 !e told me he could not ay but it might traiten him a little' but, howe#er, it wa my money, and I might want it more than he" )#erything the good man aid wa full of affection, and I could hardly refrain from tear while he (oke' in hort, I took one hundred of the moidore , and called for a (en and ink to gi#e him a recei(t for them5 then I returned him the re t, and told him if e#er I had (o e ion of the (lantation I would return the other to him al o ?a , indeed, I afterward did@' and that a to the bill of ale of hi (art in hi on2 hi(, I would not take it by any mean ' but that if I wanted the money, I found he wa hone t enough to (ay me' and if I did not, but came to recei#e what he ga#e me rea on to e0(ect, I would ne#er ha#e a (enny more from him" When thi wa (a t, the old man a ked me if he hould (ut me into a method to make my claim to my (lantation" I told him I thought to go o#er to it my elf" !e aid I might do o if I (lea ed, but that if I did not, there were way enough to ecure my right, and immediately to a((ro(riate the (rofit to my u e5 and a there were hi( in the ri#er of -i bon 1u t ready to go away to Bra&il, he made me enter my name in a (ublic regi ter, with hi affida#it, affirming, u(on oath, that I wa ali#e, and that I wa the ame (er on who took u( the land for the (lanting the aid (lantation at fir t" 8hi being regularly atte ted by a notary, and a (rocuration affi0ed, he directed me to end it, with a letter of hi writing, to a merchant of hi ac3uaintance at the (lace' and then (ro(o ed my taying with him till an account came of the return" ;e#er wa anything more honourable than the (roceeding u(on thi (rocuration' for in le than e#en month I recei#ed a large (acket from the ur#i#or of my tru tee , the merchant , for who e account I went to ea, in which were the following, (articular letter and (a(er enclo ed5* ,ir t, there wa the account*current of the (roduce of my farm or (lantation, from the year when their father had balanced with my old <ortugal ca(tain, being for i0 year ' the balance a((eared to be one thou and one hundred and e#enty*four moidore in my fa#our"

Secondly, there wa the account of four year more, while they ke(t the effect in their hand , before the go#ernment claimed the admini tration, a being the effect of a (er on not to be found, which they called ci#il death' and the balance of thi , the #alue of the (lantation increa ing, amounted to nineteen thou and four hundred and forty* i0 cru adoe , being about three thou and two hundred and forty moidore " 8hirdly, there wa the <rior of St" Augu tine2 account, who had recei#ed the (rofit for abo#e fourteen year ' but not being able to account for what wa di (o ed of by the ho (ital, #ery hone tly declared he had eight hundred and e#enty*two moidore not di tributed, which he acknowledged to my account5 a to the king2 (art, that refunded nothing" 8here wa a letter of my (artner2 , congratulating me #ery affectionately u(on my being ali#e, gi#ing me an account how the e tate wa im(ro#ed, and what it (roduced a year' with the (articular of the number of 3uare , or acre that it contained, how (lanted, how many la#e there were u(on it5 and making two* and*twenty cro e for ble ing , told me he had aid o many AE) /A$IAS to thank the Ble ed Eirgin that I wa ali#e' in#iting me #ery (a ionately to come o#er and take (o e ion of my own, and in the meantime to gi#e him order to whom he hould deli#er my effect if I did not come my elf' concluding with a hearty tender of hi friend hi(, and that of hi family' and ent me a a (re ent e#en fine leo(ard 2 kin , which he had, it eem , recei#ed from Africa, by ome other hi( that he had ent thither, and which, it eem , had made a better #oyage than I" !e ent me al o fi#e che t of e0cellent weetmeat , and a hundred (iece of gold uncoined, not 3uite o large a moidore " By the ame fleet my two merchant*tru tee hi((ed me one thou and two hundred che t of ugar, eight hundred roll of tobacco, and the re t of the whole account in gold" I might well ay now, indeed, that the latter end of Aob wa better than the beginning" It i im(o ible to e0(re the fluttering of my #ery heart when I found all my wealth about me' for a the Bra&il hi( come all in fleet , the ame hi( which brought my letter brought my good 5 and the effect were afe in the ri#er before the letter came to my hand" In a word, I turned (ale, and grew ick' and, had not the old man run and fetched me a cordial, I belie#e the udden ur(ri e of 1oy had o#er et nature, and I had died u(on the (ot5 nay, after that I continued #ery ill, and wa o ome hour , till a (hy ician being ent for, and omething of the real cau e of my illne being known, he ordered me to be let blood' after which I had relief, and grew well5 but I #erify belie#e, if I

had not been ea ed by a #ent gi#en in that manner to the (irit , I hould ha#e died" I wa now ma ter, all on a udden, of abo#e fi#e thou and (ound terling in money, and had an e tate, a I might well call it, in the Bra&il , of abo#e a thou and (ound a year, a ure a an e tate of land in )ngland5 and, in a word, I wa in a condition which I carce knew how to under tand, or how to com(o e my elf for the en1oyment of it" 8he fir t thing I did wa to recom(en e my original benefactor, my good old ca(tain, who had been fir t charitable to me in my di tre , kind to me in my beginning, and hone t to me at the end" I howed him all that wa ent to me' I told him that, ne0t to the (ro#idence of !ea#en, which di (o ed all thing , it wa owing to him' and that it now lay on me to reward him, which I would do a hundred*fold5 o I fir t returned to him the hundred moidore I had recei#ed of him' then I ent for a notary, and cau ed him to draw u( a general relea e or di charge from the four hundred and e#enty moidore , which he had acknowledged he owed me, in the fulle t and firme t manner (o ible" After which I cau ed a (rocuration to be drawn, em(owering him to be the recei#er of the annual (rofit of my (lantation5 and a((ointing my (artner to account with him, and make the return , by the u ual fleet , to him in my name' and by a clau e in the end, made a grant of one hundred moidore a year to him during hi life, out of the effect , and fifty moidore a year to hi on after him, for hi life5 and thu I re3uited my old man" I had now to con ider which way to teer my cour e ne0t, and what to do with the e tate that <ro#idence had thu (ut into my hand ' and, indeed, I had more care u(on my head now than I had in my tate of life in the i land where I wanted nothing but what I had, and had nothing but what I wanted' wherea I had now a great charge u(on me, and my bu ine wa how to ecure it" I had not a ca#e now to hide my money in, or a (lace where it might lie without lock or key, till it grew mouldy and tarni hed before anybody would meddle with it' on the contrary, I knew not where to (ut it, or whom to tru t with it" /y old (atron, the ca(tain, indeed, wa hone t, and that wa the only refuge I had" In the ne0t (lace, my intere t in the Bra&il eemed to ummon me thither' but now I could not tell how to think of going thither till I had ettled my affair , and left my effect in ome afe hand behind me" At fir t I thought of my old friend the widow, who I knew wa hone t, and would be 1u t to me' but then he wa in year , and but (oor, and, for aught I knew, might be in debt5 o that, in a word, I had no way but to go back to )ngland my elf and take my effect with me"

It wa ome month , howe#er, before I re ol#ed u(on thi ' and, therefore, a I had rewarded the old ca(tain fully, and to hi ati faction, who had been my former benefactor, o I began to think of the (oor widow, who e hu band had been my fir t benefactor, and he, while it wa in her (ower, my faithful teward and in tructor" So, the fir t thing I did, I got a merchant in -i bon to write to hi corre (ondent in -ondon, not only to (ay a bill, but to go find her out, and carry her, in money, a hundred (ound from me, and to talk with her, and comfort her in her (o#erty, by telling her he hould, if I li#ed, ha#e a further u((ly5 at the ame time I ent my two i ter in the country a hundred (ound each, they being, though not in want, yet not in #ery good circum tance ' one ha#ing been married and left a widow' and the other ha#ing a hu band not o kind to her a he hould be" But among all my relation or ac3uaintance I could not yet (itch u(on one to whom I dur t commit the gro of my tock, that I might go away to the Bra&il , and lea#e thing afe behind me' and thi greatly (er(le0ed me" I had once a mind to ha#e gone to the Bra&il and ha#e ettled my elf there, for I wa , a it were, naturali ed to the (lace' but I had ome little cru(le in my mind about religion, which in en ibly drew me back" !owe#er, it wa not religion that ke(t me from going there for the (re ent' and a I had made no cru(le of being o(enly of the religion of the country all the while I wa among them, o neither did I yet' only that, now and then, ha#ing of late thought more of it than formerly, when I began to think of li#ing and dying among them, I began to regret ha#ing (rofe ed my elf a <a(i t, and thought it might not be the be t religion to die with" But, a I ha#e aid, thi wa not the main thing that ke(t me from going to the Bra&il , but that really I did not know with whom to lea#e my effect behind me' o I re ol#ed at la t to go to )ngland, where, if I arri#ed, I concluded that I hould make ome ac3uaintance, or find ome relation , that would be faithful to me' and, accordingly, I (re(ared to go to )ngland with all my wealth" In order to (re(are thing for my going home, I fir t ?the Bra&il fleet being 1u t going away@ re ol#ed to gi#e an wer uitable to the 1u t and faithful account of thing I had from thence' and, fir t, to the <rior of St" Augu tine I wrote a letter full of thank for hi 1u t dealing , and the offer of the eight hundred and e#enty*two moidore which were undi (o ed of, which I de ired might be gi#en, fi#e hundred to the mona tery, and three hundred and e#enty*two to the (oor, a the (rior hould direct' de iring the good (adre2 (rayer for me, and the like" I wrote ne0t a letter of thank to my two tru tee , with all the acknowledgment that o much 1u tice and hone ty called for5 a for ending

them any (re ent, they were far abo#e ha#ing any occa ion of it" -a tly, I wrote to my (artner, acknowledging hi indu try in the im(ro#ing the (lantation, and hi integrity in increa ing the tock of the work ' gi#ing him in truction for hi future go#ernment of my (art, according to the (ower I had left with my old (atron, to whom I de ired him to end whate#er became due to me, till he hould hear from me more (articularly' a uring him that it wa my intention not only to come to him, but to ettle my elf there for the remainder of my life" 8o thi I added a #ery hand ome (re ent of ome Italian ilk for hi wife and two daughter , for uch the ca(tain2 on informed me he had' with two (iece of fine )ngli h broadcloth, the be t I could get in -i bon, fi#e (iece of black bai&e, and ome ,lander lace of a good #alue" !a#ing thu ettled my affair , old my cargo, and turned all my effect into good bill of e0change, my ne0t difficulty wa which way to go to )ngland5 I had been accu tomed enough to the ea, and yet I had a trange a#er ion to go to )ngland by the ea at that time, and yet I could gi#e no rea on for it, yet the difficulty increa ed u(on me o much, that though I had once hi((ed my baggage in order to go, yet I altered my mind, and that not once but two or three time " It i true I had been #ery unfortunate by ea, and thi might be one of the rea on ' but let no man light the trong im(ul e of hi own thought in ca e of uch moment5 two of the hi( which I had ingled out to go in, I mean more (articularly ingled out than any other, ha#ing (ut my thing on board one of them, and in the other ha#ing agreed with the ca(tain' I ay two of the e hi( mi carried" =ne wa taken by the Algerine , and the other wa lo t on the Start, near 8orbay, and all the (eo(le drowned e0ce(t three' o that in either of tho e #e el I had been made mi erable" !a#ing been thu hara ed in my thought , my old (ilot, to whom I communicated e#erything, (re ed me earne tly not to go by ea, but either to go by land to the 4royne, and cro o#er the Bay of Bi cay to $ochelle, from whence it wa but an ea y and afe 1ourney by land to <ari , and o to +alai and .o#er' or to go u( to /adrid, and o all the way by land through ,rance" In a word, I wa o (re(o e ed again t my going by ea at all, e0ce(t from +alai to .o#er, that I re ol#ed to tra#el all the way by land' which, a I wa not in ha te, and did not #alue the charge, wa by much the (lea anter way5 and to make it more o, my old ca(tain brought an )ngli h gentleman, the on of a merchant in -i bon, who wa willing to tra#el with me' after which we (icked u( two more )ngli h merchant al o, and two young <ortugue e gentlemen, the la t going to <ari only' o that in all there were i0 of u and fi#e er#ant ' the

two merchant and the two <ortugue e, contenting them el#e with one er#ant between two, to a#e the charge' and a for me, I got an )ngli h ailor to tra#el with me a a er#ant, be ide my man ,riday, who wa too much a tranger to be ca(able of u((lying the (lace of a er#ant on the road" In thi manner I et out from -i bon' and our com(any being #ery well mounted and armed, we made a little troo(, whereof they did me the honour to call me ca(tain, a well becau e I wa the olde t man, a becau e I had two er#ant , and, indeed, wa the origin of the whole 1ourney" A I ha#e troubled you with none of my ea 1ournal , o I hall trouble you now with none of my land 1ournal ' but ome ad#enture that ha((ened to u in thi tediou and difficult 1ourney I mu t not omit" When we came to /adrid, we, being all of u tranger to S(ain, were willing to tay ome time to ee the court of S(ain, and what wa worth ob er#ing' but it being the latter (art of the ummer, we ha tened away, and et out from /adrid about the middle of =ctober' but when we came to the edge of ;a#arre, we were alarmed, at e#eral town on the way, with an account that o much now wa falling on the ,rench ide of the mountain , that e#eral tra#eller were obliged to come back to <am(eluna, after ha#ing attem(ted at an e0treme ha&ard to (a on" When we came to <am(eluna it elf, we found it o indeed' and to me, that had been alway u ed to a hot climate, and to countrie where I could carce bear any clothe on, the cold wa in ufferable' nor, indeed, wa it more (ainful than ur(ri ing to come but ten day before out of =ld +a tile, where the weather wa not only warm but #ery hot, and immediately to feel a wind from the <yrenean /ountain o #ery keen, o e#erely cold, a to be intolerable and to endanger benumbing and (eri hing of our finger and toe " <oor ,riday wa really frightened when he aw the mountain all co#ered with now, and felt cold weather, which he had ne#er een or felt before in hi life" 8o mend the matter, when we came to <am(eluna it continued nowing with o much #iolence and o long, that the (eo(le aid winter wa come before it time' and the road , which were difficult before, were now 3uite im(a able' for, in a word, the now lay in ome (lace too thick for u to tra#el, and being not hard fro&en, a i the ca e in the northern countrie , there wa no going without being in danger of being buried ali#e e#ery te(" We tayed no le than twenty day at <am(eluna' when ? eeing the winter coming on, and no likelihood of it being better, for it wa the e#ere t winter all o#er )uro(e that had been known in the memory of man@ I (ro(o ed that we hould go away to

,ontarabia, and there take hi((ing for Bordeau0, which wa a #ery little #oyage" But, while I wa con idering thi , there came in four ,rench gentlemen, who, ha#ing been to((ed on the ,rench ide of the (a e , a we were on the S(ani h, had found out a guide, who, tra#er ing the country near the head of -anguedoc, had brought them o#er the mountain by uch way that they were not much incommoded with the now' for where they met with now in any 3uantity, they aid it wa fro&en hard enough to bear them and their hor e " We ent for thi guide, who told u he would undertake to carry u the ame way, with no ha&ard from the now, (ro#ided we were armed ufficiently to (rotect our el#e from wild bea t ' for, he aid, in the e great now it wa fre3uent for ome wol#e to how them el#e at the foot of the mountain , being made ra#enou for want of food, the ground being co#ered with now" We told him we were well enough (re(ared for uch creature a they were, if he would in ure u from a kind of two*legged wol#e , which we were told we were in mo t danger from, e (ecially on the ,rench ide of the mountain " !e ati fied u that there wa no danger of that kind in the way that we were to go' o we readily agreed to follow him, a did al o twel#e other gentlemen with their er#ant , ome ,rench, ome S(ani h, who, a I aid, had attem(ted to go, and were obliged to come back again" Accordingly, we et out from <am(eluna with our guide on the 1:th of ;o#ember' and indeed I wa ur(ri ed when, in tead of going forward, he came directly back with u on the ame road that we came from /adrid, about twenty mile ' when, ha#ing (a ed two ri#er , and come into the (lain country, we found our el#e in a warm climate again, where the country wa (lea ant, and no now to be een' but, on a udden, turning to hi left, he a((roached the mountain another way' and though it i true the hill and (reci(ice looked dreadful, yet he made o many tour , uch meander , and led u by uch winding way , that we in en ibly (a ed the height of the mountain without being much encumbered with the now' and all on a udden he howed u the (lea ant and fruitful (ro#ince of -anguedoc and 4a cony, all green and flouri hing, though at a great di tance, and we had ome rough way to (a till" We were a little unea y, howe#er, when we found it nowed one whole day and a night o fa t that we could not tra#el' but he bid u be ea y' we hould oon be (a t it all5 we found, indeed, that we began to de cend e#ery day, and to come more north than before' and o, de(ending u(on our guide, we went on" It wa about two hour before night when, our guide being omething before u , and not 1u t in ight, out ru hed three mon trou wol#e , and after them a

bear, from a hollow way ad1oining to a thick wood' two of the wol#e made at the guide, and had he been far before u , he would ha#e been de#oured before we could ha#e hel(ed him' one of them fa tened u(on hi hor e, and the other attacked the man with uch #iolence, that he had not time, or (re ence of mind enough, to draw hi (i tol, but hallooed and cried out to u mo t lu tily" /y man ,riday being ne0t me, I bade him ride u( and ee what wa the matter" A oon a ,riday came in ight of the man, he hallooed out a loud a the other, 9= ma ter7 = ma ter79 but like a bold fellow, rode directly u( to the (oor man, and with hi (i tol hot the wolf in the head that attacked him" It wa ha((y for the (oor man that it wa my man ,riday' for, ha#ing been u ed to uch creature in hi country, he had no fear u(on him, but went clo e u( to him and hot him' wherea , any other of u would ha#e fired at a farther di tance, and ha#e (erha( either mi ed the wolf or endangered hooting the man" But it wa enough to ha#e terrified a bolder man than I' and, indeed, it alarmed all our com(any, when, with the noi e of ,riday2 (i tol, we heard on both ide the mo t di mal howling of wol#e ' and the noi e, redoubled by the echo of the mountain , a((eared to u a if there had been a (rodigiou number of them' and (erha( there wa not uch a few a that we had no cau e of a((rehen ion5 howe#er, a ,riday had killed thi wolf, the other that had fa tened u(on the hor e left him immediately, and fled, without doing him any damage, ha#ing ha((ily fa tened u(on hi head, where the bo e of the bridle had tuck in hi teeth" But the man wa mo t hurt' for the raging creature had bit him twice, once in the arm, and the other time a little abo#e hi knee' and though he had made ome defence, he wa 1u t tumbling down by the di order of hi hor e, when ,riday came u( and hot the wolf" It i ea y to u((o e that at the noi e of ,riday2 (i tol we all mended our (ace, and rode u( a fa t a the way, which wa #ery difficult, would gi#e u lea#e, to ee what wa the matter" A oon a we came clear of the tree , which blinded u before, we aw clearly what had been the ca e, and how ,riday had di engaged the (oor guide, though we did not (re ently di cern what kind of creature it wa he had killed"

CHAPTER %% - FI$HT !ETWEEN FRIDAY AND A !EAR

B>8 ne#er wa a fight managed o hardily, and in uch a ur(ri ing manner a that which followed between ,riday and the bear, which ga#e u all, though at fir t we were ur(ri ed and afraid for him, the greate t di#er ion imaginable" A the bear i a hea#y, clum y creature, and doe not gallo( a the wolf doe , who i wift and light, o he ha two (articular 3ualitie , which generally are the rule of hi action ' fir t, a to men, who are not hi (ro(er (rey ?he doe not u ually attem(t them, e0ce(t they fir t attack him, unle he be e0ce i#ely hungry, which it i (robable might now be the ca e, the ground being co#ered with now@, if you do not meddle with him, he will not meddle with you' but then you mu t take care to be #ery ci#il to him, and gi#e him the road, for he i a #ery nice gentleman' he will not go a te( out of hi way for a (rince' nay, if you are really afraid, your be t way i to look another way and kee( going on' for ometime if you to(, and tand till, and look teadfa tly at him, he take it for an affront' but if you throw or to anything at him, though it were but a bit of tick a big a your finger, he think him elf abu ed, and et all other bu ine a ide to (ur ue hi re#enge, and will ha#e ati faction in (oint of honour * that i hi fir t 3uality5 the ne0t i , if he be once affronted, he will ne#er lea#e you, night or day, till he ha hi re#enge, but follow at a good round rate till he o#ertake you" /y man ,riday had deli#ered our guide, and when we came u( to him he wa hel(ing him off hi hor e, for the man wa both hurt and frightened, when on a udden we e (ied the bear come out of the wood' and a mon trou one it wa , the bigge t by far that e#er I aw" We were all a little ur(ri ed when we aw him' but when ,riday aw him, it wa ea y to ee 1oy and courage in the fellow2 countenance" 9=7 =7 =79 ay ,riday, three time , (ointing to him' 9= ma ter, you gi#e me te lea#e, me hakee te hand with him' me makee you good laugh"9 I wa ur(ri ed to ee the fellow o well (lea ed" 9You fool,9 ay I, 9he will eat you u("9 * 9)atee me u(7 eatee me u(79 ay ,riday, twice o#er again' 9me eatee him u(' me makee you good laugh' you all tay here, me how you good laugh"9 So down he it , and get off hi boot in a moment, and (ut on a (air of (um( ?a we call the flat hoe they wear, and which he had in hi (ocket@, gi#e my other er#ant hi hor e, and with hi gun away he flew, wift like the wind" 8he bear wa walking oftly on, and offered to meddle with nobody, till ,riday coming (retty near, call to him, a if the bear could under tand him" 9!ark ye, hark ye,9 ay ,riday, 9me (eakee with you"9 We followed at a di tance, for now being down on the 4a cony ide of the mountain , we were entered a #a t

fore t, where the country wa (lain and (retty o(en, though it had many tree in it cattered here and there" ,riday, who had, a we ay, the heel of the bear, came u( with him 3uickly, and took u( a great tone, and threw it at him, and hit him 1u t on the head, but did him no more harm than if he had thrown it again t a wall' but it an wered ,riday2 end, for the rogue wa o #oid of fear that he did it (urely to make the bear follow him, and how u ome laugh a he called it" A oon a the bear felt the blow, and aw him, he turn about and come after him, taking #ery long tride , and huffling on at a trange rate, o a would ha#e (ut a hor e to a middling gallo(' away rein ,riday, and take hi cour e a if he ran toward u for hel(' o we all re ol#ed to fire at once u(on the bear, and deli#er my man' though I wa angry at him for bringing the bear back u(on u , when he wa going about hi own bu ine another way' and e (ecially I wa angry that he had turned the bear u(on u , and then ran away' and I called out, 9You dog7 i thi your making u laugh6 +ome away, and take your hor e, that we may hoot the creature"9 !e heard me, and cried out, 9;o hoot, no hoot' tand till, and you get much laugh59 and a the nimble creature ran two feet for the bear2 one, he turned on a udden on one ide of u , and eeing a great oak*tree fit for hi (ur(o e, he beckoned to u to follow' and doubling hi (ace, he got nimbly u( the tree, laying hi gun down u(on the ground, at about fi#e or i0 yard from the bottom of the tree" 8he bear oon came to the tree, and we followed at a di tance5 the fir t thing he did he to((ed at the gun, melt at it, but let it lie, and u( he cramble into the tree, climbing like a cat, though o mon trou hea#y" I wa ama&ed at the folly, a I thought it, of my man, and could not for my life ee anything to laugh at, till eeing the bear get u( the tree, we all rode near to him" When we came to the tree, there wa ,riday got out to the mall end of a large branch, and the bear got about half*way to him" A oon a the bear got out to that (art where the limb of the tree wa weaker, 9!a79 ay he to u , 9now you ee me teachee the bear dance59 o he began 1um(ing and haking the bough, at which the bear began to totter, but tood till, and began to look behind him, to ee how he hould get back' then, indeed, we did laugh heartily" But ,riday had not done with him by a great deal' when eeing him tand till, he called out to him again, a if he had u((o ed the bear could (eak )ngli h, 9What, you come no farther6 (ray you come farther'9 o he left 1um(ing and haking the tree' and the bear, 1u t a if he under tood what he aid, did come a little farther' then he began 1um(ing again, and the bear to((ed again" We thought now wa a good time to knock him in the head, and called to ,riday to tand till and we hould hoot the bear5 but he cried out earne tly, 9=h, (ray7 =h, (ray7 no hoot, me hoot by and then59 he would ha#e aid by*and*by" !owe#er, to horten the tory, ,riday danced o much, and the bear tood o

tickli h, that we had laughing enough, but till could not imagine what the fellow would do5 for fir t we thought he de(ended u(on haking the bear off' and we found the bear wa too cunning for that too' for he would not go out far enough to be thrown down, but clung fa t with hi great broad claw and feet, o that we could not imagine what would be the end of it, and what the 1e t would be at la t" But ,riday (ut u out of doubt 3uickly5 for eeing the bear cling fa t to the bough, and that he would not be (er uaded to come any farther, 9Well, well,9 ay ,riday, 9you no come farther, me go' you no come to me, me come to you'9 and u(on thi he went out to the maller end, where it would bend with hi weight, and gently let him elf down by it, liding down the bough till he came near enough to 1um( down on hi feet, and away he ran to hi gun, took it u(, and tood till" 9Well,9 aid I to him, 9,riday, what will you do now6 Why don2t you hoot him69 9;o hoot,9 ay ,riday, 9no yet' me hoot now, me no kill' me tay, gi#e you one more laugh59 and, indeed, o he did' for when the bear aw hi enemy gone, he came back from the bough, where he tood, but did it #ery cautiou ly, looking behind him e#ery te(, and coming backward till he got into the body of the tree, then, with the ame hinder end foremo t, he came down the tree, gra (ing it with hi claw , and mo#ing one foot at a time, #ery lei urely" At thi 1uncture, and 1u t before he could et hi hind foot on the ground, ,riday te((ed u( clo e to him, cla((ed the mu&&le of hi (iece into hi ear, and hot him dead" 8hen the rogue turned about to ee if we did not laugh' and when he aw we were (lea ed by our look , he began to laugh #ery loud" 9So we kill bear in my country,9 ay ,riday" 9So you kill them69 ay I' 9why, you ha#e no gun "9 * 9;o,9 ay he, 9no gun, but hoot great much long arrow"9 8hi wa a good di#er ion to u ' but we were till in a wild (lace, and our guide #ery much hurt, and what to do we hardly knew' the howling of wol#e ran much in my head' and, indeed, e0ce(t the noi e I once heard on the hore of Africa, of which I ha#e aid omething already, I ne#er heard anything that filled me with o much horror" 8he e thing , and the a((roach of night, called u off, or el e, a ,riday would ha#e had u , we hould certainly ha#e taken the kin of thi mon trou creature off, which wa worth a#ing' but we had near three league to go, and our guide ha tened u ' o we left him, and went forward on our 1ourney" 8he ground wa till co#ered with now, though not o dee( and dangerou a on the mountain ' and the ra#enou creature , a we heard afterward , were come down into the fore t and (lain country, (re ed by hunger, to eek for food, and had done a great deal of mi chief in the #illage , where they ur(ri ed the country (eo(le, killed a great many of their hee( and hor e , and ome (eo(le too" We had one dangerou (lace to (a , and our guide told u if there

were more wol#e in the country we hould find them there' and thi wa a mall (lain, urrounded with wood on e#ery ide, and a long, narrow defile, or lane, which we were to (a to get through the wood, and then we hould come to the #illage where we were to lodge" It wa within half*an*hour of un et when we entered the wood, and a little after un et when we came into the (lain5 we met with nothing in the fir t wood, e0ce(t that in a little (lain within the wood, which wa not abo#e two furlong o#er, we aw fi#e great wol#e cro the road, full (eed, one after another, a if they had been in cha e of ome (rey, and had it in #iew' they took no notice of u , and were gone out of ight in a few moment " >(on thi , our guide, who, by the way, wa but a fainthearted fellow, bid u kee( in a ready (o ture, for he belie#ed there were more wol#e a*coming" We ke(t our arm ready, and our eye about u ' but we aw no more wol#e till we came through that wood, which wa near half a league, and entered the (lain" A oon a we came into the (lain, we had occa ion enough to look about u " 8he fir t ob1ect we met with wa a dead hor e' that i to ay, a (oor hor e which the wol#e had killed, and at lea t a do&en of them at work, we could not ay eating him, but (icking hi bone rather' for they had eaten u( all the fle h before" We did not think fit to di turb them at their fea t, neither did they take much notice of u " ,riday would ha#e let fly at them, but I would not uffer him by any mean ' for I found we were like to ha#e more bu ine u(on our hand than we were aware of" We had not gone half o#er the (lain when we began to hear the wol#e howl in the wood on our left in a frightful manner, and (re ently after we aw about a hundred coming on directly toward u , all in a body, and mo t of them in a line, a regularly a an army drawn u( by e0(erienced officer " I carce knew in what manner to recei#e them, but found to draw our el#e in a clo e line wa the only way' o we formed in a moment' but that we might not ha#e too much inter#al, I ordered that only e#ery other man hould fire, and that the other , who had not fired, hould tand ready to gi#e them a econd #olley immediately, if they continued to ad#ance u(on u ' and then that tho e that had fired at fir t hould not (retend to load their fu ee again, but tand ready, e#ery one with a (i tol, for we were all armed with a fu ee and a (air of (i tol each man' o we were, by thi method, able to fire i0 #olley , half of u at a time' howe#er, at (re ent we had no nece ity' for u(on firing the fir t #olley, the enemy made a full to(, being terrified a well with the noi e a with the fire" ,our of them being hot in the head, dro((ed' e#eral other were wounded, and went bleeding off, a we could ee by the now" I found they to((ed, but did not immediately retreat' whereu(on, remembering that I had been told that the fierce t creature were terrified at the #oice of a man, I cau ed all the com(any to halloo a loud a they could' and I found the notion not altogether mi taken' for u(on our hout they began to retire and turn about" I then ordered

a econd #olley to be fired in their rear, which (ut them to the gallo(, and away they went to the wood " 8hi ga#e u lei ure to charge our (iece again' and that we might lo e no time, we ke(t going' but we had but little more than loaded our fu ee , and (ut our el#e in readine , when we heard a terrible noi e in the ame wood on our left, only that it wa farther onward, the ame way we were to go" 8he night wa coming on, and the light began to be du ky, which made it wor e on our ide' but the noi e increa ing, we could ea ily (ercei#e that it wa the howling and yelling of tho e helli h creature ' and on a udden we (ercei#ed three troo( of wol#e , one on our left, one behind u , and one in our front, o that we eemed to be urrounded with them5 howe#er, a they did not fall u(on u , we ke(t our way forward, a fa t a we could make our hor e go, which, the way being #ery rough, wa only a good hard trot" In thi manner, we came in #iew of the entrance of a wood, through which we were to (a , at the farther ide of the (lain' but we were greatly ur(ri ed, when coming nearer the lane or (a , we aw a confu ed number of wol#e tanding 1u t at the entrance" =n a udden, at another o(ening of the wood, we heard the noi e of a gun, and looking that way, out ru hed a hor e, with a addle and a bridle on him, flying like the wind, and i0teen or e#enteen wol#e after him, full (eed5 the hor e had the ad#antage of them' but a we u((o ed that he could not hold it at that rate, we doubted not but they would get u( with him at la t5 no 3ue tion but they did" But here we had a mo t horrible ight' for riding u( to the entrance where the hor e came out, we found the carca e of another hor e and of two men, de#oured by the ra#enou creature ' and one of the men wa no doubt the ame whom we heard fire the gun, for there lay a gun 1u t by him fired off' but a to the man, hi head and the u((er (art of hi body wa eaten u(" 8hi filled u with horror, and we knew not what cour e to take' but the creature re ol#ed u oon, for they gathered about u (re ently, in ho(e of (rey' and I #erily belie#e there were three hundred of them" It ha((ened, #ery much to our ad#antage, that at the entrance into the wood, but a little way from it, there lay ome large timber*tree , which had been cut down the ummer before, and I u((o e lay there for carriage" I drew my little troo( in among tho e tree , and (lacing our el#e in a line behind one long tree, I ad#i ed them all to alight, and kee(ing that tree before u for a brea twork, to tand in a triangle, or three front , enclo ing our hor e in the centre" We did o, and it wa well we did' for ne#er wa a more furiou charge than the creature made u(on u in thi (lace" 8hey came on with a growling kind of noi e, and mounted the (iece of timber, which, a I aid, wa our brea twork, a if they were only ru hing u(on their

(rey' and thi fury of their , it eem , wa (rinci(ally occa ioned by their eeing our hor e behind u " I ordered our men to fire a before, e#ery other man' and they took their aim o ure that they killed e#eral of the wol#e at the fir t #olley' but there wa a nece ity to kee( a continual firing, for they came on like de#il , tho e behind (u hing on tho e before" When we had fired a econd #olley of our fu ee , we thought they to((ed a little, and I ho(ed they would ha#e gone off, but it wa but a moment, for other came forward again' o we fired two #olley of our (i tol ' and I belie#e in the e four firing we had killed e#enteen or eighteen of them, and lamed twice a many, yet they came on again" I wa loth to (end our hot too ha tily' o I called my er#ant, not my man ,riday, for he wa better em(loyed, for, with the greate t de0terity imaginable, he had charged my fu ee and hi own while we were engaged * but, a I aid, I called my other man, and gi#ing him a horn of (owder, I had him lay a train all along the (iece of timber, and let it be a large train" !e did o, and had but 1u t time to get away, when the wol#e came u( to it, and ome got u(on it, when I, na((ing an unchanged (i tol clo e to the (owder, et it on fire' tho e that were u(on the timber were corched with it, and i0 or e#en of them fell' or rather 1um(ed in among u with the force and fright of the fire' we de (atched the e in an in tant, and the re t were o frightened with the light, which the night * for it wa now #ery near dark * made more terrible that they drew back a little' u(on which I ordered our la t (i tol to be fired off in one #olley, and after that we ga#e a hout' u(on thi the wol#e turned tail, and we allied immediately u(on near twenty lame one that we found truggling on the ground, and fell to cutting them with our word , which an wered our e0(ectation, for the crying and howling they made wa better under tood by their fellow ' o that they all fled and left u " We had, fir t and la t, killed about three core of them, and had it been daylight we had killed many more" 8he field of battle being thu cleared, we made forward again, for we had till near a league to go" We heard the ra#enou creature howl and yell in the wood a we went e#eral time , and ometime we fancied we aw ome of them' but the now da&&ling our eye , we were not certain" In about an hour more we came to the town where we were to lodge, which we found in a terrible fright and all in arm ' for, it eem , the night before the wol#e and ome bear had broken into the #illage, and (ut them in uch terror that they were obliged to kee( guard night and day, but e (ecially in the night, to (re er#e their cattle, and indeed their (eo(le" 8he ne0t morning our guide wa o ill, and hi limb welled o much with the rankling of hi two wound , that he could go no farther' o we were obliged to

take a new guide here, and go to 8oulou e, where we found a warm climate, a fruitful, (lea ant country, and no now, no wol#e , nor anything like them' but when we told our tory at 8oulou e, they told u it wa nothing but what wa ordinary in the great fore t at the foot of the mountain , e (ecially when the now lay on the ground' but they in3uired much what kind of guide we had got who would #enture to bring u that way in uch a e#ere ea on, and told u it wa ur(ri ing we were not all de#oured" When we told them how we (laced our el#e and the hor e in the middle, they blamed u e0ceedingly, and told u it wa fifty to one but we had been all de troyed, for it wa the ight of the hor e which made the wol#e o furiou , eeing their (rey, and that at other time they are really afraid of a gun' but being e0ce i#ely hungry, and raging on that account, the eagerne to come at the hor e had made them en ele of danger, and that if we had not by the continual fire, and at la t by the tratagem of the train of (owder, ma tered them, it had been great odd but that we had been torn to (iece ' wherea , had we been content to ha#e at till on hor eback, and fired a hor emen, they would not ha#e taken the hor e o much for their own, when men were on their back , a otherwi e' and withal, they told u that at la t, if we had tood altogether, and left our hor e , they would ha#e been o eager to ha#e de#oured them, that we might ha#e come off afe, e (ecially ha#ing our firearm in our hand , being o many in number" ,or my (art, I wa ne#er o en ible of danger in my life' for, eeing abo#e three hundred de#il come roaring and o(en* mouthed to de#our u , and ha#ing nothing to helter u or retreat to, I ga#e my elf o#er for lo t' and, a it wa , I belie#e I hall ne#er care to cro tho e mountain again5 I think I would much rather go a thou and league by ea, though I wa ure to meet with a torm once a*week" I ha#e nothing uncommon to take notice of in my (a age through ,rance * nothing but what other tra#eller ha#e gi#en an account of with much more ad#antage than I can" I tra#elled from 8oulou e to <ari , and without any con iderable tay came to +alai , and landed afe at .o#er the 1Bth of Aanuary, after ha#ing had a e#ere cold ea on to tra#el in" I wa now come to the centre of my tra#el , and had in a little time all my new* di co#ered e tate afe about me, the bill of e0change which I brought with me ha#ing been currently (aid" /y (rinci(al guide and (ri#y*coun ellor wa my good ancient widow, who, in gratitude for the money I had ent her, thought no (ain too much nor care too great to em(loy for me' and I tru ted her o entirely that I wa (erfectly ea y a

to the ecurity of my effect ' and, indeed, I wa #ery ha((y from the beginning, and now to the end, in the un (otted integrity of thi good gentlewoman" And now, ha#ing re ol#ed to di (o e of my (lantation in the Bra&il , I wrote to my old friend at -i bon, who, ha#ing offered it to the two merchant , the ur#i#or of my tru tee , who li#ed in the Bra&il , they acce(ted the offer, and remitted thirty*three thou and (iece of eight to a corre (ondent of their at -i bon to (ay for it" In return, I igned the in trument of ale in the form which they ent from -i bon, and ent it to my old man, who ent me the bill of e0change for thirty* two thou and eight hundred (iece of eight for the e tate, re er#ing the (ayment of one hundred moidore a year to him ?the old man@ during hi life, and fifty moidore afterward to hi on for hi life, which I had (romi ed them, and which the (lantation wa to make good a a rent*charge" And thu I ha#e gi#en the fir t (art of a life of fortune and ad#enture * a life of <ro#idence2 che3uer*work, and of a #ariety which the world will eldom be able to how the like of' beginning fooli hly, but clo ing much more ha((ily than any (art of it e#er ga#e me lea#e o much a to ho(e for" Any one would think that in thi tate of com(licated good fortune I wa (a t running any more ha&ard * and o, indeed, I had been, if other circum tance had concurred' but I wa inured to a wandering life, had no family, nor many relation ' nor, howe#er rich, had I contracted fre h ac3uaintance' and though I had old my e tate in the Bra&il , yet I could not kee( that country out of my head, and had a great mind to be u(on the wing again' e (ecially I could not re i t the trong inclination I had to ee my i land, and to know if the (oor S(aniard were in being there" /y true friend, the widow, earne tly di uaded me from it, and o far (re#ailed with me, that for almo t e#en year he (re#ented my running abroad, during which time I took my two ne(hew , the children of one of my brother , into my care' the elde t, ha#ing omething of hi own, I bred u( a a gentleman, and ga#e him a ettlement of ome addition to hi e tate after my decea e" 8he other I (laced with the ca(tain of a hi(' and after fi#e year , finding him a en ible, bold, enter(ri ing young fellow, I (ut him into a good hi(, and ent him to ea' and thi young fellow afterward drew me in, a old a I wa , to further ad#enture my elf" In the meantime, I in (art ettled my elf here' for, fir t of all, I married, and that not either to my di ad#antage or di ati faction, and had three children, two on and one daughter' but my wife dying, and my ne(hew coming home with good ucce from a #oyage to S(ain, my inclination to go abroad, and hi

im(ortunity, (re#ailed, and engaged me to go in hi the )a t Indie ' thi wa in the year 16GB"

hi( a a (ri#ate trader to

In thi #oyage I #i ited my new colony in the i land, aw my ucce or the S(aniard , had the old tory of their li#e and of the #illain I left there' how at fir t they in ulted the (oor S(aniard , how they afterward agreed, di agreed, united, e(arated, and how at la t the S(aniard were obliged to u e #iolence with them' how they were ub1ected to the S(aniard , how hone tly the S(aniard u ed them * a hi tory, if it were entered into, a full of #ariety and wonderful accident a my own (art * (articularly, al o, a to their battle with the +aribbean , who landed e#eral time u(on the i land, and a to the im(ro#ement they made u(on the i land it elf, and how fi#e of them made an attem(t u(on the mainland, and brought away ele#en men and fi#e women (ri oner , by which, at my coming, I found about twenty young children on the i land" !ere I tayed about twenty day , left them u((lie of all nece ary thing , and (articularly of arm , (owder, hot, clothe , tool , and two workmen, which I had brought from )ngland with me, #i&" a car(enter and a mith" Be ide thi , I hared the land into (art with them, re er#ed to my elf the (ro(erty of the whole, but ga#e them uch (art re (ecti#ely a they agreed on' and ha#ing ettled all thing with them, and engaged them not to lea#e the (lace, I left them there" ,rom thence I touched at the Bra&il , from whence I ent a bark, which I bought there, with more (eo(le to the i land' and in it, be ide other u((lie , I ent e#en women, being uch a I found (ro(er for er#ice, or for wi#e to uch a would take them" A to the )ngli hmen, I (romi ed to end them ome women from )ngland, with a good cargo of nece arie , if they would a((ly them el#e to (lanting * which I afterward could not (erform" 8he fellow (ro#ed #ery hone t and diligent after they were ma tered and had their (ro(ertie et a(art for them" I ent them, al o, from the Bra&il , fi#e cow , three of them being big with calf, ome hee(, and ome hog , which when I came again were con iderably increa ed" But all the e thing , with an account how three hundred +aribbee came and in#aded them, and ruined their (lantation , and how they fought with that whole number twice, and were at fir t defeated, and one of them killed' but at la t, a torm de troying their enemie 2 canoe , they fami hed or de troyed almo t all the re t, and renewed and reco#ered the (o e ion of their (lantation, and till li#ed u(on the i land"

All the e thing , with ome #ery ur(ri ing incident in ome new ad#enture of my own, for ten year more, I hall gi#e a farther account of in the Second <art of my Story"