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ROBINSON
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THE
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and Surprizing
ADVENTURES
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ROBINSON CRUSOE,
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THE
ADVENTURES
OF
ROBINSON CRUSOE.
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I
Was born of a good family in the
city of York, where my father,
who was a native of Bremen, settled
after his having got a handsome estate
by merchandise. My heart was ve-
ry early filled with rambling thoughts,
and though, when I grew up, my fa-
ther persuaded me to settle to some
business, and my mother used the
tenderest intreaties, yet nothing could
prevail upon me to lay aside my de-
sire of going to sea, and I at length
resolved to gratify my roving disposi
tion, notwithstanding the uneasiness
my father and mother shewed at my
leaving them.
A
( 6 )
On the first of September, 1651, I
went on board a ship for London, and
without letting my father know the
rout I had taken, set sail; but no
sooner was the ship out of the Hum-
ber, than the wind began to blow, and
the sea to rise in a most terrible man-
ner. Having never been at sea be-
fore, I was extremely sick, and my
mind was filled with terror. The
next day the wind abated, and my
companions laughed at my fears, and
with a bowl of punch made me half
drunk, and thus drowned my repent-
ance and reflections. The weather
continued calm several days, and we
went into Yarmouth roads, where
we cast anchor. After riding here
four or five days, the wind blew ve-
ry hard, but the roads being reckon-
ed almost as good as an harbour, we
were under no apprehensions, till the
eighth day in the morning, when the
wind increased, and we had all hands
;
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CRUSOE'S
Escape up the Cliff.
A
アマラ
​( 9 )
SAN ANNA JA
te komende og mere qe men
PATER MANA
at work to strike our topmasts, and
at last cast our sheet anchor.
It now blew a terrible storm; Ibe-
gan to see terror in the faces even of
the seamen themselves, and as the
master passed by me, I heard him say
softly to himself; "Lord be merciful
to us, we shall all be lost."
I cannot express the horror of mind
with which I was seized; I was in ten
times more tremor on account of
slighting my former convictions than
even at death itself. The storm still
increased, and I saw the master, the
boatswain, and several others at pray-
ers, expecting every moment the ship
would go to the bottom. One of
the men cried out, we had sprung a
leak, upon which all hands were cal-
led to the pump, but the water gain-
ed upon us, and it was apparent that
the ship would founder; the storm
however beginning to abate, the mas-
ter fired guns for help, and a ship
A Ba
( 10 )
which had rode it out, just a-head of
us, came near with the utmost hazard
venturing their lives to save ours;
our men casting a rope over the stern,
they, after much hazard, got hold of
it, and we with great difficulty got to
land, and waiked to Yarmouth. On
my arrival in that city, I contracted
an acquaintance with the master of a
ship who had been on the coast of
Guinea, and was resolved to go a-
gain; he taking a fancy to me, told
me, I should have liberty of trading
for myself. Encouraged by this of-
fer, and the assistance of some of my
relations, with whom I still corre-
sponded, I raised 40l. which Ilaid out
on such toys and trifles, as my friend
the captain directed me. I got a
competent knowledge of the mathe-
matics, navigation, and how to take
an observation. In a word, this voy-
age made me both a sailor and a
merchant, for my adventure yielded
( 11 )
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me in London, at my return, almost
3001.
I now set out for a Guinea trader,
and my friend dying soon after his
arrival, I resolved to go the samevoy.
age again in the same vessel, with one
who was his mate in the former voy-
age, and had now the command of
the ship. This was one of the most
unhappy voyages ever made, for as
we were steering about the Canary
Islands and the African shore, we were
surprised in the grey of the morning
by arover of Sallee, who gave chace to
us, with all the sail she could make.
We finding that the pirate gained
upon us, and would come up with
us, prepared to fight: our ship hav-
ing twelve guns, and the pirate eigh-
teen. About three in the afternoon
A
he came up with us, and a very smart
engagement ensued; but we were o-
bliged to submit, and were all carri-
A 3
( 12 )
ed prisoners into Sallee, a port be-
longing to the Moors.
My master having the long-boat of
our English ship, had a little cabin
built in the midele of it like a barge.
In this pleasure boat he frequently
went a fishing, and as I was dextrous
at catching fish, he never went with-
out me. One day he appointed to
go out with two or three Moors of
distinction, and he had sent over-night
a larger store of provision than usu-
al, and ordered me to get ready two
or three fusils of powder and shot,
for that they designed to have sport,
at the fowling as well as fishing At
this moment the hopes of deliverance
darted into my thoughts, and I re-
solved to furnish myself for a voyage.
I told the Moor that we must not eat
our master's bread; he said that was
true, and brought a basket of rusk,
and three jars of fresh water into the
boat.
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( 13 )
Every thing being prepared, we
sailed out of the port to fish; but
purposely catching none, I told Mu-
ley, that we must stand farther off,
which he agreed to, and I having the
helm, ran the boat a league out far-
ther, and then brought to, as if I
would fish, when giving the boy the
helm, Istepped forward, and stooping
behind the Moor, took him by sur
prise, and tossed him overboard; he
rose immediately, and called me to
take him in, but fetching one of the
fowling pieces, Ipresented it, and told
him, that if he came near I would
shoot him, and as the sea was calm, he
might easily reach the shore. So he
turned about, and I make no doubt
but he reached it with ease.
I turned to the boy, whom they
called Xury, and said to him, Xury,
if you will be faithful to me, I will
make you a great man; but if you
will not, I must throw you into the
B
( 14 )
·
sea too. The boy smiled, and spoke
so innocently, that I could not mis-
trust him.
The principal thing that I wanted
was fresh water. We entered the
creek in the evening, but we then
heard such howlings of wild beasts,
that the boy was ready to die with
fear, and begged me not to go on
shore till day. Well, Xury, said I,
then I won't, but we may then see
men who will be as bad as these li-
ons; then we may give them the
shoot gun, says Xury, laughing, ma-
kee them run away. Such English
Xury spoke by conversing among us
slaves. But though I was no less a-
fraid of the savages than of the wild
beasts, our necessities obliged us to
land, for we had not a pint of water
left. Xury called softly to me, and
told me to look, for yonder lies a
dreadful monster fast asleep. I look-
ed where he pointed, and saw a great
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CRUSOE
Saves Goods from the Wreck
B
( 17 )
tion.
I took aim at him, and broke
his leg; he started up and gave a hi-
deous roar, but as he was going to
make off, I fired again, and had the
pleasure to see him drop. Then Xu-
ry asked to go on shore with the lit-
tle gun, and dispatched him quite,
I resolved to take off his skin, andgo-
ing on shore, the boy and I accom-
plished it, but with great labour.
After this we still proceeded in hopes
of making the river Gambia or Sene-
gal. We now saw that the land was
inhabited, and the people were black
and stark naked. I made signs to
them for something to eat, and they
made signs for me to stay.
I low-
ered sail and lay by, while two of
them ran up into the country, and in
less than half an hour, they returned
with two pieces of dried flesh, and
some corn; but though I was willing
to accept of it, I was loth to venture
on shore to them, and they were as

( 18 )
anakan dan het my 20 mm 2 saat mens a Been van staĀSAI
g), mkazi NACEA
much afraid of us: but they took a
safe way for us all, for they brought
it to the shore, and laying it down,
went away and stood at a distance,
till we took it on board, and then re-
turned. At this instant an opportu-
nity offered of obliging them, for two
wild beasts came running with great
swiftness from the mountains. These
naked people were terribly frighten-
ed, and fled; but without falling
upon the Negroes, the beasts plung,
ed into the sea, and one of them came
nearer our boat than I at first expect-
ed; I fired and shot him through the
head, he made towards the shore; but
he died before he could reach it.
About ten days after, as I was
steering out to sea, in order to dou-
ble a cape, on a sudden, Xury, called
out in a fright, Master, Master, a
ship! I jumped out of the cabin, and
saw that it was a Portuguese vessel.
On my coming near, they asked me
( 19 )
what I was, in Portuguese, Spanish,
and French; but I understood none
of them; at last a Scotch sailor cal-
led to me, and I answered I was an
Englishman, and had made my escape
from the Moors of Sallee. I offered
all that I had to the captain of the
ship, but he would take nothing from
me, and told me that all I had should
be delivered to me when he came to
the Brazils. We had a very good
voyage to the Brazils, and the good
captain recommended me to an ho-
nest man who had a plantation and a
sugar-house, with whom I lived and
learned the planting and making of
sugar, after which I took a piece of
land, and became a planter myself.
Had I continued in the station I was
now in, I might have been happy,
but my fellow planters prevailed on
me to make a trial of purchasing Ne-
groes on the coast of Guinea, We
fitted out a ship, and made sail with
B 3
( 20 )
CARA
the hopes of purchasing slaves, to as,
sist in our plantations; we had very
good weather for twelve days, but
after we had crossed the line, a vio-
lent hurricane drove us quite out of
our knowledge. In this distress one
of our men called out, Land! but the
ship struck against a sand-bank. We
took to the boat, and after we had
rowed a league and a half, a wave
came rolling a-stern of us, and over-
set the boat at once, so that out of
fifteen, none escaped but myself. I
got upon my feet and made towards
the shore, and got to land clamber-
ing up the cliffs of the shore, and sat
me down upon the grass. Being
much fatigued, I got up into a tree,
and slept comfortably till the morn-
ing.
When I awoke it was broad day,
and the storm abated; but what sur-
prised me most was, that in the night
the ship had been lifted from the
( 21 )
land by the swelling of the tide, and
driven almost as far as the place
where I landed, and saw that if we
had all staid on board we had been
all safe. I swam to the ship, and
found she was bilged, and had a
great deal of water in the hold; but
to my great joy, saw that all the pro-
visions were dry; and being well dis-
posed to eat, I filled my pockets, and
eat as I went about other things. I
found several spare yards and planks,
with which I made a raft. I empti-
ed three of the seamen's chests, and
let them down upon the raft, and fil-
led them with bread, some dried
goat's flesh, and three Dutch cheeses.
I also let down the carpenter's chest,
two fowling-pieces, two pistols, with
some powder, and two rusty swords,
all which I placed on my raft, and af-
ter much labour got it safely landed.
My first raft being too unwieldy, I
swam to the ship and made another;
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( 22 )
tha The
in an advert. De
GENERAL
on which I placed three bags of nails
and spikes, some hatchets, a grind-
stone, two iron crows, several mus-
kets, and another fowling piece, two
barrels of musket bullets, a large bag
of small shot, all the men's clothes I
could find, a hammock and some
bedding, and to my great comfort
brought all to land. After I had
made five or six of these voyages,
and thought I had nothing more to
expect from the ship worth taking,
I found a great hogshead of bread,
three large runlets of rum, a box of
fine sugar, and a barrel of fine flour.
I had been thirteen days on shore,
and eleven times on board the ship,
but preparing the twelfth time, the
wind began to rise, however I ven-
tured on board, and found three ra-
zors, with a dozen of good knives
and forks. It blew very hard all
night, and in the morning no ship
was to be seen I then went in
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INSIDE VIEW
of Crusoe's habitation
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search of a place where to fix my
dwelling.
Before I set up my tent, I drew a
half circle before a hollow place,
which extended about 20 yards, and
drove large piles into the ground,
sharpened at the top, and the en-
trance I made by a short ladder to
go over the top, and when I was in,
I lifted it over after me, so that I was
perfectly secure.
In the midst of my labours, when
I was rummaging amongst my things,
I found a little bag with a few husks
of corn in it, and shook it by the side
of my fortification: but how great
was my astonishment, when I sawten
or twelve ears of barley springing up;
with this barley there came up a few
stalks of rice, and those were ofmore
worth to me than all the gold in the
world.
I then took a view of the island,
and at about two miles distance from
( 26 )
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my habitation, found some fine sa-
vannahs, and a little further a variety
of fruit, melons upon the ground,
and the trees spread over, and co-
vered with clusters of grapes. I was
so enamoured with this place, that I
built a bower, fenced by a double
hedge: and this country house, as I
called it, cost me two months labour,
but the rainy season coming on, I
was obliged to retreat to my old one,
taking with me grapes, which were
now become fine raisins of the sun.
When my corn was ripe, I made
me a scythe with a sword, and cut
off the ears, which I rubbed out with
my hands.
At the end of the har-
vest, I guessed that I had a bushelof
rice, and two bushels of barley. I
kept all this for seed, and bore the
want of bread with patience.
When I came to make bread I had
innumerable wants. I wanted a mill
to grind it, sieves to dress it, yeast
( 27 )
and salt to make it into bread, and
an oven to bake it. However I had
six months to contriveall these things
in. I made some mishapen pots of
clay, that all broke in the sun except
two, which I cased in wicker work;
but I succeeded better in little pans,
flat dishes and pitchers, which the sun
baked surprisingly hard; but they
would not bear the fire so as to hold
any liquid, and I wanted one to boil
my meat.
One day after I had dressed my
dinner, I went to put out my fire,
and found a piece of one of my earth-
en-ware vessels burnt as hard as a
stone, and as red as a tile: this taught
me to burn my pipkins, and I soon
wanted for no sort of earthen-ware;
but when I found that I had made a
pot which would bear the fire, I had
hardly patience to stay till it was cold,
before I set it on with a piece of kid,
C 3
( 28 )
in order to make me some broth,
which answered tolerably well.
While all these things were doing,
my thoughts ran many times upon
the land I had seen, and I began to
make myself a canoe; the most pre-
posterous enterprise that ever man in
his senses undertook. I felled a great
cedar, about five feet in diameter,
next the root, but when the impossi-
bility of launching this heavy thing
came into my mind, I gave myself
this foolish answer; Let me hut once
make it, and I'll warrant I'll get it
along when it is done. I made it
big enough to carry 25 men; but all
my devices to get it into the water
failed me, for I could no more stir it
than I could the island. I then de-
termined, since I could not bring my.
canoe to the water, that I should
bring the water to the canoe, and be-,
gan to dig; but when I calculated
the time this canal would take in
$
( 29 )
making, I found that I could not ac-
complish it in less than twelve years,
and therefore gave it over, determin-
ing to e joy what I had, without re-
pining for what I could not get.
I had at length a great mind to go
to the point of the island to see how
the shore lay, and resolved to travel
thither by the land. And now read-
er, I will give thee a short sketch of
the figure I made.—I had a great high
shapeless cap, made of goat's skin, a
jacket with the skirts coming down
to the middle of my thighs, and a pair
of open-knee'd breeches of the same,
with the goat's hair hanging to the
middle of my leg. Stockings and
shoes I had none; but I had a pair of
somethings; I scarce know what to
call them, to slip over my legs like
spatterdashes; but of a most barbar-
ous shape, and so indeed were all the
rest of my clothes. I had a broad
belt of my goat-skin dried, and in
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( 30 )
frog hung on one side a saw, and on
the other a hatchet. I had another
belt not so broad, fastened over my
shoulder. Under my arm hung two
pouches for shot and powder: on my
back Icarried a basket, on my shoul-
der a gun, and over my head a great
clumsy goat's skin umbrella. My
beard was cut short, except what grew
on my upper lip, which I had trim-
med into a large pair of Mahometan
whiskers; but as for my figure, as I
had few to observe me, it was no
matter of consequence.
In this figure I went on my new
journey, and was out five or six days.
In one of my excursions, I was ex-
ceedingly surprised with the print of
a man's naked foot on the shore,
which was plain to be seen on the
sand. I stood like one thunder-
struck; I listened, I looked around;
but I could hear nothing, nor see a-
ny thing. I went upon a rising
( 31 )
ground to look farther; I walked
backward and forward on the shore,
but I could see only that one impres-
sion. I went to look at it again; there
was plainly a foot, toes, heel, and e-
very part distinct: How it came there
Iknew not; but I hurried home to my
fortifications, looking behind me eve-
ry two or three steps; and fancied eve-
ry tree, bush, and stump to be a man.
I had no sleep that night; but my
terror gradually wore off, and I ven-
tured down to take measure of the
foot by my own, but I found it much
larger. This filled me again with ri-
diculous whimsies, and when I went
home I began to double my fortifica-
tions, planted my seven muskets on
carriages, in the manner of cannon,
and was at the expence of an infinite
deal of labour, purely from my ap-
prehensions of this print of a foot.
Rambling more to the western
point one day than ever I had don

( 32 )
before, I was presently convinced that
the seeing the print of a man's foot
was not such a strange thing in the
island, as I had imagined; for on my
approaching the shore, I was perfect-
ly confounded and amazed, nor is it
possible to express the horror I felt at
seeing the shore spread with the skulls,
hands, feet, and other bones of hu-
man bodies, and particularly a place,
where, as I supposed, there had been
a fire made, and a circle dug in the
earth for the savage wretches to sit
down to their inhuman feasts, on the
bodies of their fellow creatures.
I had now been twenty-two years
in the island, and was so naturalized
to the place, that had I been secure
as to the savages, I then fancied I
could have been contented to have
staid in it, till, like the goat, I had
died of mere old age.
One morning very early I saw five
canoes of the savages on shore. I


CRUSOE C
Surprised at the Print of a Foot
ஆம்,
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( 35 )
clambered up the hill, and by the
help of my perspective, discovered no
less than thirty dancing round a fire.
I soon after saw two miserable wretch-
es dragged out of the boats, one of
whom was immediately knocked
down, but the other starting from
them, ran with incredible swiftness.
along the sands towards me.
I con-
fess I was horribly frightened when I
saw him come my way, imagining
he would be pursued by the whole
body; however, I kept my station,
and quite lost my apprehension, when
I found but three followed him. He
greatly out-ran them, and was in a
fair way of escaping them all, when
coming to a creek, he plunged into
it, landed, and ran as swift as before.
Of the three that followed, but two
entered the water, the other return-
ing back. I hastily fetched my guns
from the foot of my ladder, and tak-
ing a short cut down the hill, I clap.
•hen den steh
( 36 )
ped myself in the way betwixt the
pursued, and the pursuers, hallooing
aloud to him that fled, and beckoning
with my hand for him to come back;
then rushing at once on the foremost,
knocked him down with the stock of
my piece: The other stopped as if
frightened; but when I advanced to-
wards him, I perceived he was fitting
his bow to shoot me, upon which I
shot him dead directly. The poor
savage who had fled was so terrified at
the noise of my piece, though he saw
his enemies fallen, that he stood stock
still, but seemed rather inclined to fly
than come forwards. However when
I gave him signs of encouragement,
he came nearer, kneeling down eve-
ry ten or twelve steps; on his coming
close to me he kneeled down again,
laid his head upon the ground, and
placed my foot upon it. But there
was more work to do; the man Í
knocked down came to himself, and
( 37 )
I
my savage began to be afraid.
then presented my piece at the man,
when the poor fellow, whose life I had
saved, made a motion for my sword,
which I gave him, and he struck off
his enemy's head at one blow, and in
a quarter of an hour buried both the
bodies in the sand. I then took him
away to my cave at the farther part
of the island. Here I gave him
bread, and a bunch of raisins to eat,
and a draught of water, which he
wanted much; and having refreshed
him, I made signs for him to lie down
on some rice straw,
straw, which the
which the poor
creature did, and soon went to sleep.
He was a well made handsome fel-
low about twenty-six years of age,
of an olive coloured complexion,
with long black hair. He had a
small nose that was not flat, and fine
teeth as white as ivory. After he
had slept about half an hour, he wak-
ed again, and came running to me
( 38 )

in the inclosure just by, where I had
been milking my goats. The fal-
ling down again, he laid his head flat
on the ground, and set my other foot
upon it,as before, and after this made
all possible signs of thankfulness, sub-
jection and submission. I began to
speak to him and to teach him to
speak to me; and first, made him
know that his name should be Friday,
which was the day wherein I saved
his life. I taught him to say Master,
and let him know that was to be my
name. The next day I gave him
clothes, at which he seemed pleased.
As we went by the place where he
had buried the two men, he pointed
exactly to the spot, making signs
that he would dig them up again and
eat them; at this I appeared very
angry, and beckoned with my hand
to him to come away, which he did
immediately.
Having now more courage, and
( 39 )

consequently more curiosity, I took
my man Friday with me, and march-
ed to the place where his enemies had
been: when we came there, my
blood ran cold in my veins; the place
was covered with human bones, and
the ground dyed with blood; great
pieces of flesh were left here and there
half eaten, mangled and scorched,
We saw three skulls, five hands, and
the bones of three or four legs and
feet; and Friday, by his signs made
me understand, that tney brought o
ver four prisoners to feast upon, and
that three of them were eaten up;
that he, pointing to himself, was the
fourth, and that they had been con-
quered, and taken in war. I caused
Friday to collect the remains of this
horrid carnage, then to light a fire,
and burn them to ashes. When this
was done, we returned to our castle.
I was now entered into the 27th
year of my captivity, and intended"
( 40 )
soon to set sail, when one morning
I bid Friday go to the sea shore to see
if he could find a turtle; but he had
not long been gone, when he came
running back like one who felt not
the ground on which he trod, and
before I had time to speak, cried, O
Master! O Master! O sorrow! O
bad! What's the matter, Friday? said
I, O yonder there, said he, one, two,
three! Well, Friday, said I, do not
be frightened: He was, however,
terribly scared, imagining that they
were come to look for him, and would
cut him in pieces and eat him.
I then took my perspective glass
and went up to the side of the hill,
when I saw 21 savages, three prison-
ers, and three canoes. I bid him
softly bring me word what they were
doing; he did so, and coming back
immediately told me, that they were
all about the fire, eating the flesh of
one of their prisoners, and that a

CRUSOE
Employed Building a Boat
20
( 43 )
bearded man lay bound upon the
sand, whom he said they would kill
next. The news fired my soul, and
filled me with horror, and going to
the tree, I plainly saw a white man
clothed, lying on the beech with his
hands and feet tied with flags. I had
not a moment to lose, for nineteen of
the horrid wretches sat huddled toge-
ther on the ground, and the other two
were stooping down to untie the
Christian in order to murder him.
Now! Friday, do as you see me do.
I laid the muskets down and took up
one, and then we both fired; we then
fired again, till seventeen of them
were killed, and four of them getting
into a canoe, got out to sea.
I resolved to pursue them lest they
should return with a greater force
to destroy us, and ran to a canoe,
calling to Friday to follow me; but
I was no sooner in the canoe than I
found another poor creature lie there
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alive, bound hand and foot; I imme-
diately cut the twisted flags, and see-
ing that he had been bound so tight
that he was almost dead, I gave him
a dram, and ordered Friday to tell
him of his deliverance; but when the
poor fellow looked in his face, and
heard him speak, it would have mov-
ed any one to tears, to have seen how
he kissed, embraced, hugged him,
cried, danced, sung, and then cried
again. It was some time before I
could make him tell me what was the
matter; but when he came a little to
himself he said it was his own dear
father. He then sat down by him,
held the old man's head close to his
bosom, and chafed his arms and an-
cles, which were stiff with binding.
The Spaniard having expressed to
me the utmost gratitude for his de-
liverance, gave me an account of his
shipwreck, and the situation of his
companions: and it was resolved that

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Friday's father and the Spaniard,
should go in the boat to fetch them
Over.
About eight days after they were
gone, Friday wakened me one morn-
ing, by crying out, Master, they are
come! I dressed and hasted to the top
of the hill, and plainly discovered an
English ship lying atanchor. At first
I felt in my mind a tumult of joy,
which was soon turned into fear; for
though I knew them to be my coun-
trymen, I had reason to dread them
as enemies.
They ran the boat ashore on the
beach, and eleven men landed, three
of them unarmed, who by their ges-
tures seemed to be prisoners; and one
of them I could perceive using the
most passionate gestures of intreaty,
affliction and despair, while the two
others,though their grief seemed less.
extravgant, appeared pleading for
ray. At this instant I saw a villain
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lift up his arm to kill one of the pri-
soners; but he did not strike him.
The men having left the prisoners and
gone into the woods, I went up to
them with my man Friday, and said
to them in Spanish, What are you,
gentlemen? they started at the noise;
but prepared to fly. I then said in
English, Gentlemen, perhaps you may
have a friend near you, whom you
would little expect. Tell me your
case. I was commander of that ship,
replied one of the prisoners; my men
have mutinied against me, and if
they do not murder me, they intend
to leave me and these two gentlemen
ashore in this desolate place; they are
but in that thicket, and I tremble
for fear they shall have seen you, and
heard us speak. Having concerted
matters with the captain, and arm-
ed ourselves, we went to the sailors,
and the captain reserving his own
piece, the two men shot one of the
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villains dead, and wounded another.
He who was wounded cried out for
help, and I coming up, gave orders
for sparing their lives, on condition
of their being bound hand and foot
while they staid in the island.
A little after, another boat with ten
men and fire arms approached the
shore. We had a full view of them
as they came; the captain told me
three of them were peaceable fellows,
but the rest were desperate wretches,
Having formed an ambuscade, I or-
dered Friday and the captain to creep
upon their hands and feet, that they
might not be seen, and to get very
near them before they fired; but one
of the principal ringleaders of the
mutiny, with two of the crew came
towards us, and the captain was so
eager at having him in his power,
that he let fly, killed him and another
on the spot; the third ran for it. I
immediately advanced with my whole
army, upon which Will Atkins, one of
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the ringleaders, called out, For God's
sake, captain, spare my life, the rest
are as bad as I. The captain told him
he must lay down his arms at discre-
tion, and trust to the governor's mer-
cy, upon which they all submitted.
It was now determined to seize the
ship, which, with the assistance of the
faithful part of the
of the crew, the captain
effected.
When I saw my deliverance thus
put into my hands, I was ready to
sink with surprise; I was not able to
answer one word, but a flood of tears
brought me to myself, and a little
while after I recovered my speech. I
then in my turn embraced him as my
deliverer, and we rejoiced together.
Having brought the prisoners before
me, I asked them what they had to
say in their own defence, telling them
I had power to execute them there.
They pleaded the captain's pro-
mise of mercy. I then told them
that I intended to go passenger in the

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Rescuing & Protecting Friday.
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ship, with all my men; but that they,
if they went, could only go as prison-
ers; observing, however, that they
might, if they chose it, stay in the
island. This they gladly accepted,
and I prepared to go on board the
next day. The captain returning to
the ship, got every thing ready for
my reception.
When he was gone, I talked to the
men, told them my story, and how I
managed all my household business;
left a letter for the fifteen Spaniards,
and made them promise to treat them
in common with themselves. The
next day I went on board the ship,
taking Friday with me; thus I left
the island, after being on it twenty-
eight years, and arrived safely in
England. Sometime after I went
to Lisbon, to see after my effects in
the Brazils, and found the generous
captain, who had been so much my
friend, still alive, and he put me in
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my plantations. And a few months
after there arrived ships in the Tagus,
with effects for my use, to the a-
mount of 50,000l. besides 1000l. a-
year, which I expected to receive an-
nually from my plantation.
And now resolved to harass my-
self no more. I am preparing for a
longer journey than all those, for I
have lived seventy-two years, che-
quered with infinite variety, and have
been taught sufficiently the value of
retirement, and the blessing of end-
ing my days in peace, and in the true
worship of my Almighty Deliverer.

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