Rochester


William


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THE
WONDERFUL LIFE
AND
SURPRISING ADVENTURES
OF THAT RENOWNED HERO,
ROBINSON CRUSOE,
WHO LIVED TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS
ON AN
UNINHABITED
ISLAND,
Which he afterwards Colonifed.
PHILADELPHIA:
PRINTED BY B. JOHNSON No. 31,
HIGH STREET.
1802.



THE
LIFE AND ADVENTURES
OF
ROBINSON
CRUSOE.
I w
WAS born of a good family in the
city of Fork, where my father, who was a native
of Bremen, had fettled, after having got a hand-
fome eſtate by merchandize. My heart began to
be very early filled with rambling thoughts; and
though when I grew up, my father often perfuad-
ed me to fettle to fome bufinefs, and my mother
ufed the tendercft intreaties, yet nothing could
prevail upon me to lay afide my defire of gangy

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to fea: and I at length refolved to gratify my
roving difpofition, notwithſtanding the extreme
uneafinefs my father and mother always fhew-
ed at the thoughts of my leaving them. As if
bent on my own deftruction. I hardened myſelf
against the prudent and kind advice of the moſt in-
dulgent parents; and being one day at Hull, where
I met with one of my companions, who was going
to fea in his father's fhip, eafily perfuaded me
to go with him.
On the fift of September, 1651, I went on board
this fhip, which was bound for London, and without
Jetting my father know the rash and difobedient
ftep I had taken, fet fail; but no fooner was the
hip out of the Humber, than the wind began to
blow, and the fea to rife in a moft terrible manner.
Having never been at fea before, I was extremely
fick, and my mind was filled with terror. I then
began to grow fenfible of my wickednefs in difo-
beying the best of parents, and their good counfel,
tears and entreaties came afresh into my mind, and
filled me with fear and remorfe. I expected every
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wave would ſwallow us up, and in the agony of
my mind, made vows and refolutions, that if it
fhould pleaſe God to fpare my life in this one voy-
age, I would go directly home to my father, and
never fet foot into a fhip again.
The next day the wind abated, and the fea grew
calm, I was no longer ſea fick, and my companion
laughed at my fears: He ridiculed my gravity, and
with a bowl of punch made me half drunk, and thus
drowned my repentance and all my fober reflecti-
ons. The weather continued calm for feveral days
and we at length came into Yarmouth road, where
we caft anchor to wait for a wind. After riding
here four or five days, the wind blew very hard:
the road however being reckoned almoſt as good.
as an harbour, we were under no apprehenfions,
but fpent the time in reft and nirth, till the eighth
day in the morning, when the wind encreafed, and
we had all hands at work to ftrike our topmafts,
and caft our ſheet anchor.
It now blew a terrible ftorm; I began to fee ter
ror and amazement in the faces even of the feameri
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themſelves; and as the mafter paffed by me, I could
hear him ſay ſoftly to himſelf, Lord be merciful to
us, we shall be loft. During the firft hurry I was
ftupid, lying ftill in my cabin in the fteerage. I
could ill refume the penitence I had fo apparently
trampled upon: I even hardened myfelf againft it,
and thought that this ſtorm would pafs over like
the firft. But when the mafter came by me, and
ſaid we ſhould all be loft, I was terribly frighted: [
got up out of my cabin, and looked about, but fuch
a difmal fight I never before faw; the lea ran moun-
tains high, and broke upon us every three or four
minutes: A fhip foundered at a diftance: Two
fhips that were near us had cut their mafts by the
board; and the mate and boatſwain begged of his
maſter to let them cut away our foremast.
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I cannot express the horror of mind with which I
was then feized; I was in ten times more terror on
account of my having flighted my former convicti-
ons, than even at death itſelf. The ftorm ftill en-
creaſed, and I faw (what is but too feldom feen) the
mafter and boatswain, and feveral others at prayers,
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expecting that every moment the ſhip would go to
the bottom. In the middle of the night, one of the
men, who had been down on purpoſe, cried out we
had fprung leak, and had four feet water in the
hold, upon which all hands were called to the pump.
I worked with the reft, but the water gained upon
us, and it was apparent that the ſhip would found-
er: the ftorm however beginning to abate, the maſ-
ter fired guns for help and a light fhip which had
rid it out just a-head of us, ventured a boat out to
help us. It was with the utmoſt hazard that it came
near us, but the men ventured their lives to fave
ours and our men cafting a rope over the ftern
with a buoy, they after much labour and hazard
got hold of it, and we hauled them clofe under our
ſtern, and got all into the boat. But we had hardly
left the fhip a quarter of an hour, when we faw
her founder. My heart was in a manner dead
within me, with fright, horror of mind, and the
thoughts of what was yet before me.
As it was impoffible for the boat to get up with
the ſhip to which ſhe belonged, we endeavoured to
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reach the ſhore and partly by rowing and partly by
being driven by the waves, we at laft with great
difficulty got to land, and walked to Yarmouth
where we were received with great humanity, as
well by the magiftrates of the town who affigned us
good quarters, as by the particular merchants and
owners of fhips; and had money given us fuffici-
ent to carry us either to London or back to Hull.
Had I now had the ſenſe to return home, my fa-
ther would have received me with tenderneſs; but a
weak and foolifh fhame oppofed all thoughts of it;
I was afraid of being laughed at among the neigh-
bours, and fhould be afhamed not only to fee my
father, but every body elſe. I had, without bluſh
ing, committed an action which bore all the marks
of folly; but was afhamed of returning, though that
was the wifeft ſtep I could have taken. I remained
fome time in doubt what courſe to take; but having
money in my pocket, Itravelled to London, by land.
On my arrival in that city, I happily fell into no:
bad company; but being well dreffed, I contracted
an acquaintance with the mafter of a fhip who had
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been on the coaft of Guinea, and having had good
fuccefs there, was refolved to go again; and he tak-
ing a fancy to me, told me, that if I would go the
voyage with him I ſhould be at no expence; and if
I would carry any thing with me I ſhould have the
advantage of trading for myself. Encouraged by
this offer, by the affiftance of fome of my relations
with whom I ſtill correſponded, I raiſed 40l. which
I laid out in fueh toys and trifles, as my friend the
captain directed me to buy. But though in this
voyage I was continually fick, being thrown into
a violent calenture by the exceffive heat of the cli-
mate; yet, under my worthy friend, I got a com-
petent knowledge of the mathematics, and the rules
of navigation; learned how to keep an account of
the ſhip's courſe, and to take an obſervation: in a
word this voyage made me both a failor and a mer-
chant; for I brought home five pounds nine oun-
ces of gold duft for my adventure, which yielded
me in London, at my return almost 3ool.
I was now fet up for a Guinea trader; and my
friend, to my great misfortune, dying foon after his

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arrival, refolved to go the fame voyage again, and
having left 200l. in the hands of my friend's widow
I embarked in the fame veffel with one who was
his mate in the former voyage, and had now the
command of the fhip. This was one of the moſt
unhappy voyages that ever man made; for as we
were ſteering between the Canary iſlands and the
African shore, we were furprized, in the grey of
the morning, by a Moorish rover of Sallee, who
gave chafe to us, with all the fail ſhe could make.
We alfo crowded all the canvas our yards could
fpread; but finding that the pirate gained upon us
and would certainly come up with us in a few
hours, we prepared to fight; our fhip having twelve
guns and the pirate eighteen. About three in the
afternoon he came up with us, and a very fmart en-
gagement enfued; but after having twice cleared
the deck of the Moors, and loft three of our men,
and had eight wounded, we were obliged to fubmit;
and were all carried prifoners into Sallee, a port
belonging to the Moors.
The ufage I found was not fo dreadful as I at
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first apprehended; nor was I carried as the rest of
our men were to the Emperor's court, but was kept
by the captain of the rover as his own prize, and
made his flave. As my mafter took me home to his
houfe, I was in hopes that he would carry me with
him to fea, and that he would fome time or other be
taken by a man of war belonging to ſome chriftian
power, which would give me liberty. But this hope
was foon taken away; for when he went to fea, he
left me on ſhore to look after his little garden, and
to do the common drudgery of a flave about his houfe
My mafter having the long-boat of an English
hip, had a little ſtate-room or cabin built in the
middle of it, like a barge, with a place behind it to
fteer, and haul home the main ſheet, another before
for a hand or two to work the fails. In the cabin
was room for him to lię with a ſlave or two, and a
table to eat on, with fome finall lockers to put in
fome bottles of fuch provifions and liquors as he
thought fit to eat and drink, particularly his bread,
rice, and coffee:
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fifhing, and as I was moft dextrous at catching fiſh
for him, he never went without me. One day he
had appointed me to go out with this boat with two
or three Moors of ſome diſtinction, and had there-
fore fent over night a larger ftore of provifions than
uſual; and ordered me to get ready two or three
fufils with powder and fhot, which were on board.
his fhip; for that they defigned to have ſport at
fowling, as well as fifhing. But in the morning.
he came on board, telling me that his gueſts had
declined going, and ordered me with the man and
boy, to fail out with the boat, and catch ſome fiſh,
for his friends were to fup with him.
At this moment the hopes of my deliverance
darted into my thoughts, and I refolved to furniſh
myſelf for a voyage, I told the Moor, that we muſ
not prefume to eat our master's bread; he faid that
was true, and brought a large baſket of rufk, and
three jars of freſh water into the boat. I knew
where my maſter's cafe of bottles ſtood, which ap-
peared by their make to have been taken out of
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boat, while the Moor, whom we called Muley,
was on ſhore; and alſo a great lump of bees wax,
with a parcel of twines, of which I afterwards
made candles, an hatchet, a faw and a hammer.
Every thing being prepared, we failed out of the
port to fish; but purpoſely catching none, I told
Muley that this would not do, and that we muſt
ftand further off, which he agreed to, fet the fails,
and I, having the helm, ran the boat on near a league
father, and then brought her, as if I would fish,
when giving the boy the helm, ftept forward and
Looping behind the Moor, took him by furprize and
toffed him overboard into the fea; he tofe immedi-
ately, for he ſwam like a cork, and called to me to
take him in; but reaching one of the fowling.
pieces, I prefented it at him, and told him, if he
came near the boat, I would (hoot him through the
head; but as the fea was calm, he night eafily
reach the ſhore. So he turned about, and fwam to-
wards the land, and as he was an excellent ſwim-
mer, I made no doubt that he reached it with eafe
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they called Xury, and ſaid to him, Xury, if you
will
be faithful to me i will make you a great man; but
you will not ſtroke your face to be true to me,
that is, fwear by Mahomet and his father's beard)
if
muſt throw you into the fea too. The boy fmiled
in my face, and ſpoke fo innocently, that I could
not mistrust him; he fwore to be faithful to me,
and to go all over the world with me.
While I was in view of Muley, I ftood out to fea
that he might think me gone to the ſtreights, as any
body in his wits would have done; but it no fooner
grew dark, than I foolishly changed my courfe, and
fteered to the fouth, and having a freſh gale of wind,
I made fuch fail, that before the end of the next day
I believe I was beyond the Emperor of Morroc-
co's dominions. Yet fo dreadful were my appre-
henfions of falling into my mafter's hands, that I
would not ſtop to go on fhore, till I had failed in,
that manner five days; and then the wind ſhifting
to the fouthward I ventured to come to an anchor
at the mouth of a little river.
The principal thing I wanted was freſh water.
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We entered the creek in the evening, refolved to
ſwim on fhore as foon as it was dark; but we then
heard fuch a dreadful roaring and howling of the
wild beasts, that the poor boy was ready to die with
fear, and begged of me not to go afhore, 'till day.
Well, Xury, faid I, then I won't, but we may then
fee men who will be as bad to us as theſe lions. :
Then we may give them the shoot gun, fays Xury,
laughing, make them run wey; fuch English Xury
fpoke, by converfing among us flaves. About two
or three hours after we faw monftrous great crea-
tures come down to the fea fhore, and run into the
water in order to wash and cool themſelves, mak-
ing the moſt hideous howlings and yellings. Xury
faid it was a lion, and called on me to weigh the
anchor, and put out to fea, and inftantly I faw a
wild beaft within two oars length of us; but though
I was much furprized, I ftepped up to the cabin
door, and fnatched up a gun, fired at him; upen
which he immediately turned about and fwam to-
wards the fhore. But it is impoffible to defcribe
the horrible noife, the hideous crics and howlings,
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that were raiſed, as well upon the edge of the fhore
as higher within the country, upon the report of
the gun; and this convinced me, that there was no
going on land at night.
But though I was no lefs afraid of the favages.
than of the wild beaft, our neceffities obliged us to
land, for we had not a pint of water left. The next
morning Xury afked for one of the jars, and faid
he would go and feek for water. I aſked him why
he would go. The boy anſwered with fo much af-
fection, that I could not help loving him. If wild
mans come they eat me, you go away. Well Xury,
faid I, we will both go, and if the wild men come
we will kill them; they fhall eat neither of us. I
then gave Xury a dram out of the cafe of bottles, and
having hauled the boat as near the fhore as we
thought proper, waded to the land, carrying noth-
ing but our arms, and two jars for water.
I did not care to go out of fight of the boat, left
any favages ſhould come in canoes down the river
but the boy feing a low place about a mile up the
country, rambled thither; and by and by I faw him
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Come running towards me, when thinking he might
e purfued by fome favages or frightened by a wild
eait, I ran to meet him; but when I came nearer,
faw fomething hanging over his fhoulder, which
vas a creature he had fhot like a hare, different in
olour and longer legs, and we found it very good
meat; but the great joy poor Xury came with,
was to tell me he had found good water, and fee
ho wild mans. We therefore filled our jars, feaſt-
ed on our hare, and ſet fail.
Several times after we were obliged to go on
hore for fresh water, and once in particular, com-
ing to an anchor, early in the morning, under a lit-
tle point of land, and ſtaying for the tide going
farther in, Xury called foftly to me, and told me, that
we had beft go farther off the fhore; for fays he,
look yonder lies a dreadful monfter faft afleep. I
looked where he pointed to, and faw a great Lion
that lay on the fide of the ſhore, under a fhade of
a piece of the hill that hung a little over him;
upon which charging my three guns I took aim
at his head, but lving with his foot raifed a lit-
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tle above his noſe the flug broke his leg. He ftart-
ed up growling, but fell down again; then rofe up-
on three legs, and gave the moſt hideous roar that
ever I heard; but as he was going to make off I
fired again, and ſhooting him into the head, had the
pleaſure to fee him drop, and lie ftruggling for life.
At this, Xury aſking leave to go on fhore, I con-
fented; fo jumping into the water with the little
gun in one hand he ſwam with the other; and com-
ming cloſe to the lion, put the muzzle of the piece
to his ear, and fhot him into the head again, which
diſpatched him quite. I now refolved to take off
his ſkin, and going afhore, the boy and I accom-
pliſhed it, but not without great labour. Then
ſpreading it on the top of our cabin, the fun dried it
in two days time, and it afterwards ferved me to
lie upon.
After this ſtop, we ftill proceeded to the fouth-
ward for ten or twelve days, in hopes of making
the river Gambia or Senegal, or of meeting with
fome European fhip, living all the while very ſpar-
ingly on our provifions which began to grow fhort,
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We now faw that the land was inhabited, and that
all the people we could fee were black, and ftark
naked. Drawing nearer to land, they ran along the
fhore a good way, with no weapons in their hands
except one of them, who had a lance. I made figns.
to them for fomething to eat, and they making figns
for me to ftay, I lowered my fail, and lay by; while
two of them ran up into the country, and in lefs
than half an hour returned with two pieces of dried
fleſh, and fome corn; but though I was willing to
accept it, I was loath to venture on fhore to them,
and they were as much afraid of us; but they took
a fafe way for us all; for they brought it to the
fhore, and laying it down, went away and ſtood at
a diftance till we fetched it on board, and then re-
turned. We made figns to thank them, for we had
nothing that we could give them in return.
At this inftant an opportunity offered of oblig-
ing them, for two furious wild beafts, one purfuing
the other came running with great ſwiftneſs from
the mountains. Thefe naked people were terribly
frighted, eſpecially the women: and all fled except
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the man who had the lance. But without attempt-
ing to fall upon the negroes, they plunged into the
fea, and at laſt one of them came nearer our boat
than I at first expected. However I was prepared
for him, and as foon as he came within my reach,
I fired, and fhot him through the head, when ftrug.
gling for life he made towards the fhore; but died
before he could reach it.
It is impoffible to exprefs the aftoniſhment of
thefe poor creatures at the noiſe and fire of a gun;
fome were ready to die for fear, and fell down as if
dead with terror. But when they faw the creature
dead and that I made figns to them to come to the
fhore, they took courage, returned, and began to
fearch for the creature that had funk. I found him
by the blood ftaining the water, and by the help of
a rope which I flung round him, and gave the ne-
groes to haul, they dragged him to land, and found
that he was a fine Leopard, moft beautifully fpot-
ted. The other creature, frightened at the gun,
ſwam back to fhore & ran directly to the mountains.
I foon found that the Negroes were for eating
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the flesh of the leopard, and I made figns for them
that they might take it, at which they feemed ex-
tremely pleafed. They immediately fet to work,
and with a ſharpened piece of hard wood, took off
the ſkin more readily than I could have done with a
knife. They offered me fome of the flesh, which I
declined accepting: but made figas for the ſkin,
which they freely gave me, and brought me a great
deal more provifions, which I accepted. I then took
one of my jars, and holding it bottom upwards, let
them fee that it was empty, and that I wanted to
have it filled. This they understood, and two of
them running away returned with a large vefiel
made of earth, which feemed as if burned in the
fun; this they fet down as before, and I fent Xury
on fhore with my jars, where he filled them.
About ten days after, as I was fteering out to
fea, in order to double a cape, I had the view of
fome iſlands, which I ſuppoſed to be thoſe of Cape
Ferd. I was afraid of venturing fo far from the
fhore, for if I fhould be taken with a fresh gale of
wind, I might never be able to reach again either
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the one or the other. In this dilemma I fat down
in the cabin; when on a fudden Xury cried out in
a fright, Mafter, Maſter, a flip! foolishly imagin
ing that it was his mafter's fhip, came fo far in
purfuit of us. I jumped out of the cabin, and faw
that it was a Portugueſe veffel. I inſtantly ſtretch-
ed out to fea with all the fail I could make: but
when I began to defpair of my ever coming near
enough to make any fignal to thofe on board, they
perceived me by the help of their glaffes, and fup-
pofing it fome European boat belonging to a fhip
that was loft, fhortened fail, to let me come up.
On my coming near, they afked me what I was,
in Portuguefe, in Spanish, and in French; but I
underſtood none of them; at laft a Scots failor on
board called to me, and Ianfwered I was an Eng-
liſhman, that had made my efcape out of flavery
from the Moors at Sallee. Then they bid me come
on board, and very kindly took me in, and all my
goods.
My joy at this deliverance was inexpreffible. I
immediately offered all I had to the captain of the
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hip; but he generously told me he would take
nothing from me; he faid that all I had ſhould be
delivered to me when I came to the Brafils: and
that he would fave my life upon no other terms,
than on fuch as he would be glad to be faved himself,
if ever he ſhould happen to be in my condition. He
offered me 80 pieces of eight for my boat, 40 du-
cats for the lion's fkin, and 20 for the leopard's,
and for my boy Xury he offered me 60 pieces of
eight, which I was loath to take; for I was unwil-
ling to fell the boy's liberty who had affifted me fo
faithfully in procuring my own; but when I told
him my reafon, he owned it to be juft, and offered
to give the boy an obligation to fet him free in ten
years if he turned chriftian; and Xury readily con
fenting, let the captain have him.
We had a very good voyage to the Brafils, and
arrived in All faints bay in about twenty-two days.
The generous treatment of the captain I can never
enough admire; he recommended me to an honeſt
man, who had a plantation and a fugar houſe, with
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ing and making of fugar, after which I took out
letter of naturalization, purchaſed a piece of land
that was uncultivated, and became a planter.
I at first laboured under fome difficulty, and was
obliged to undergo much fatigue. For two years.
I rather planted for food than for any thing elfe;
but having at length cleared a fufficient quantity
of land, I planted fome tobacco and a few fugar
canes, and began to thrive. Meanwhile the good
captain who had taken me up at fea, and whom I
had intruſted with getting for me, on his return to
Europe, half the money I had left in London, receiv-
100l. out of the 2001. I had left there, and laying
it out to the beft advantage in tools and English
cloth, ftuffs, &c. he arrived in Brafil with his trea-
fures which turned to great account, and enabled
me to advance my plantation, and to purchafe two
negro flaves, and an European fervant.
Had I continued in the ftadion? was now in, I
might have been happy, but grow.ng rich apace,
my head began to be full of projects and undertak-
ings beyond my reach. I had lived here about
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four years, and had not only learned the language,
but contracted an acquaintance and friendship
among my fellow planters, and feveral merchants.
I had frequently talked to them of the method of.
purchafing negroes on the coaft of Guinea, and
they being pleaſed with the project, eafily prevailed
on me to make a voyage for that purpoſe. We
fitted out a fhip of about 120 tons burden, which
carried 6 guns, and 14 men, befides the mafter, his
boy and myſelf; and had no other cargo, but ſuch
toys as were fit for trading with the negroes.
In this veffel I fet fail, with the hopes of purcha-
fing ſlaves, to affift us in our plantations; and
ftood to the northward in order to ftretch over to
the African coaft. We had very good weather for
about twelve days; but foon after we had croffed
the line, a violent hurricane drove us quite out of
our knowledge, and for many days together not any
in the fhip expected to fave their lives. In this dif-
trefs one of our men died of a calenture, and a man
and a boy were waſhed overboard; but about the
twelfth day, the ſtorm abating, we found we were
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in 11 deg. north lat. upon the co.ft of Guinea,
upon which it was refolved to ſtand away for Bar-
badoes, in order to refit.
With this defign we changed our courfe; but
foon after a f.cond ſtorm arofs, which carried us
with the fune impetuofity weftward, and drove us
out of the way of all human commerce. In this
diſtreſs one of our men, early one morning, cried
out, Land! and we had no fooner ran out of the
cabin, in hopes of feeing where we were, but the
fhip ftruck upon a ſand, and in a moment, her rude.
der being ſtopped, the fea broke over her in fucha
manner, that we expected we ſhould have perished.
It is not eafy to conceive our confternation, for s
the rage of the fea was ftill great, we fuppofed that
the ſhip would in a few minutes break to pieces, Be-
fore the ftorm we had a boat at the ftern, but ſhe was
faved by dafhing againſt the flip's rudder. We
had another boat on board, which the mate laid
hold of, and with the help of the rest of the men,
flung her over the fhip's fide, and getting all into
her, being eleven in number, committed ouricives
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to God's mercy; the wind driving us towards the
fhore, we foo plainly law, that the fea went fo
high, that the boat could not cfcape, and that we
fhould inevitably be drowned. However we fteered
towards land; but after we had rowed, or rather
been driven about a League and a half, a wave
mountain high, came rolling aftern of us, and took
us with a fuch fury, that it overfet the boat at once,
and feparated us one from another. This wave
carried me a great way towards the ſhore, and hav-
ing spent itſelf went back and left me upon the land
almoft dry, but half dead with the water I took iş
I had however fo much prefence of mind as well
as breath left, that feeing myself nearer the main
land than I expected, I got upon my feet, and en
deavoured to make towards it, as f·ft as I could, be
fore another wave fhould return; but I faw the fea
come after me as high as a great hill, and as furious
as an enemy, which I had no means of ſtrength to
contend with; my buſineſs was to hold ry breach,
and raife myfelf upon the water, if I could; at the
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fame time taking care that it did not carry me back
with it, when it retired towards the fea.
The wave that came upon me again buried me
twenty or thirty feet deep in its own body, and I
could feel myſelf carried with prodigious fwiftnefs
a very great ways towards the fhore, but I held my
breath, and endeavoured to ſwim forward with all
my might. I was ready to burft with holding my
breath, when I found my head and hands thoot
above the furface of the water; and though I could
Icarcely keep myfelf in this fituation above two fe-
conds; yet it gave me breath and freſh courage. I
was covered again with water a good while; how-
ever, I held out, and finding the water had spent
itfelf, I ftruck forwards, and foon felt the ground
again with my feet. 1 ftood still a few moments to
recover breath, till the waters went from me, and
then took to my heels, and ran with all the ftrength
I had left towards the fhore. But neither would
this deliver me from the fury of the fea, which
overtaken me, and hurrying me along as before,
daſhing me againſt a piece of rock, and left me
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fenfelefs; but recovering before the return of the
waves, I held faft by the rock till the waves abated;
and then ran again. In fhot, after another wave
or two, I got to the mait. land: clan.being up the
cliffs of the fhore, and fat me down on the grafs.
I now began to thank God that my life was
faved, and rifing up, I walked about on the ſhore,
filled with ecftafy, and wrapt up in the contempla-
tion of my own happy deliverance.
But I foon found my conforts abate; for I was
wet and had no cloaths to fhift me; and looking
round I faw no profect but that of perifhing with
hunger, or of being devoured by wild beafts; for
I had no weapon either to kill any creature for my
fuftenance, or to defend me from any beaſt that
might defire to kill me for theirs; in a word, I had
nothing about me but a knife, a tobacco-pipe and a
little tobacco in a box; that was all my provifion;
and night coming on, I walked about a furlong from
the fhore to fee if I could find any freſh water to
drink, which I did to my great joy; and having
drank and put a little tobacco in my mouth to pre-
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vent hunger, I climbed into a tree, I then cut a
fhort thick flick for my defence; endeavouring to
place myfelf fo as that if I fhould fleep, I might not
fall, and being much fatigued, flept very comfor-
tably till morning.
When I awaked it was broad day, the weather
clear, and the ſtorm abated: but what furpriſed me
moft was: that in the night the fhip had been lifted
up from the fand by the fwelling of the tide, and
driven almoſt as far as the rock, againft which I had
been daſhed, and the ftanding upright, I wifhed
myfelf on board.
A little after noon, I found the fea very calm,
and the tide ebbing to far out, that I could come
within a quarter of a mile of the ſhip; when I faw
that if we had stayed on board, we had all been ſafe,
and I not fo miferable and left deftitute of all com-
pany and comfort; and this forced tears into my
eyes. The weather being extremely hot, I pulled
off
my cloaths, and took to the water; but when I
came to the fhip. I found no means of getting on
board, the lying fo high, that I could find nothing
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​within my reach; I fwam round her twice, and the
fecond time, obferving a fmall piece of rope hang-
ing down I got hold of it and got into the foreca-
fle. Here I found that the fhip was bulged, and
had a great deal of water in the hold; but to my
great joy faw that all the fhip's provifions were
dry; and being well difpofed to eat, I went to the
bed room, and flipping on a waistcoat, filled my
perkets with buifuit, and eat as I went about
other things. I alfo found fome rum in the great
cabin, of which I took a large dram, to enable me
to accompliſh my defign.
As I found feveral fpare yards, and fome large
fpars of wood, I let them down with ropes by the
fhip fides, and going down to them, tide them to
gether and made a raft, placing feveral pieces of
plank upon them cross ways; after which I laid
it all the pieces of board that came to hand.
I next broke open and emptied three of the fea-
men's chefts; then lowered them down upon the
raft, and filled them with bread fome dried goat's
cfh, and three Dutch cheeſes. I found-feveral
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cafes of bottles, in which were fome cordial waters,
and about five or fix gallons of arrack; thefe I ftow-
ed by themſelves, there being no room for them in
the chefts. I alfo let down the carpenter's cheft,
which was worth to me more than a fhip load of
gold. I next found two good fowling pieces, and
two piftols, with fome powder horns, two barrels
of powder, and two old rufty (words, all of which I
placed on the raft, and with this invaluable cargo
Icfolved to put to ſea, without either fails, oars, or
rudder; but the tide was now rifing, and ſet in for
the fhore, and the little wind there was blew to-
wards land; befides I found two or three broken
ears that belonged to the boat, which ferved me to
push the raft along.
For about a mile my raft weat very well, and
with it I entered a creek: but after having feveral
times narrowly escaped overfetting it, I thrufted
it on a flat piece of ground, over which the tide
flowed, and there faftened it by fticking my broken
oars in the ground. Thus Iftayed till the water
ebbed, when I placed my cargo fafe on land.
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At night I barricadoed myſelf round with the
chefts and boards I had brought on ſhore, of which
I had made a kind of hut.
The next day, confidering that I might yet get
many uſeful things out of the fhip, particularly the
rigging and fails, I refolved to make a fecond voy-
age. My raft being too unwieldy, I ſwam to the
fhip and made another, on which I placed two or
three bags of nails and fpikes, fome hatchets, a
grind-ftone, two or three iron crows, feven nuf-
kets and another fowling piece, two barrel of nuf
ket bullets, a large bag of fall fhot, all the
men's cloaths I could find, a fquare fore top fail,
a hammock and fon e bedding; and all thefe, to
my great comfort, I brought fafe to land.
I now went to work to make a litre hut with
the fail and fome poles, which I cut for that pur-
pofe; and into it I brought every thing I knew
would fpoil either with the fun or rain; 1 piled all
the empty chefts and cafks in a circle round the
hut to fortify it from any fudden attest fem man
er bgaft; I blocked up the door with boards, and
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fpreading one of the beds upon the ground, laying
my two piſtols juft at my head, and my gun by
me, I went to bed and flept very quietly all night.
I was not ſatisfied yet; but every day at low
water I went on board and brought away fome-
thing; what gave me the greateſt pleaſure was,
that after 1 had made five or fix of theſe voyages,
and thought I had nothing more to expect from
the fhip worth taking, I found a great hogfhead of
bread, three large runlets of rum, a box of fine
fugar, and a barrel of fine flour.
I had been thirteen days on fhore, and had been
eleven times on board the fhip, but in one of the
excurfion had the misfortune to overfet my raft
but is being in fhoal water, and the things being
chiefly heavy, I recovered many of them when the
ide was out. Indeed had the calm weather con-
tinued I believe I ſhould have brought away the
whole ſhip, piece by piece; but preparing the
twelfth time to go on board I found the wind be-
gan to rife; however at low water I went, then
rummaging the cabin, I difcovered a locker with
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drawers in it, in one of which I found two or three
razors, a pair of large fciffars, with ten or a dozen
good knives and forks, and in another about 361.
value in gold and filver coin. At the fight of the
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money I fmiled to myself, and faid aloud, O drug!
what art thou good for? one of these knies are
worth all this heap; I have no manner of uſe for
thee, e'en remain where thou art, go to the bottom.
However upon fecond thought I took it away,
away, and
wrapping all in a piece of canvas, began to think
of making another raft: but while I was preparing
it, the wind began to rife, and to blow off fhore;
I then found that it was my buẩneſs to be gone,
before the the tide or food began, left I ſhould not
be able to reach the fhore: accordingly I let my-
ſelf down into the water, and ſwam to land, which
I performed with great difficulty, from the weight
of the things I had about me, and the roughness of
the water.
It blew very hard all night, and in the morning
when I looked out, no more ſhip was to be feen.
I was a little furpriſed; however I comforted my
ſelf with the reflection, that I had made the beft ufe
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of my time. I now went in ſearch of a place
where I might fix my dwelling; endeavouring to
ch ſe one where I might have the advantage of an
healthy fituation, freſh water, and fecurity from
being furpriſed by any man or ravenous beaſt.
found a little plain on the fide of a rifing hill, which
was there as fteep as the fide of a houſe, ſo that
nothing could come down to me from the top; on
the fide of this rock was a hollow place, like the
entrance of a cave, before which I refolved to fix
my tent. This plain was not above 100 yards in
breadth, and twice as long defcending to the ſea.
Before I fet up my tent, I drew a half circle be-
fore the hollow place, which extended twenty
yards, and in this half circle pitched two rows of
ftrong ftakes, driving them into the ground like
piles: they stood about five feet and a half out of
the ground, fharpened on the top. Then I took the
pieces of cable I had cut in the ſhip, ard laid them
in rows one upon another up to the top; & this fence
was fo ftrong, that neither man nor beaft could
enter it. This coft me much time and labour
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ing them to the place, and driving them into the
earth. The entrance I made by a ſhort ladder to
go over the top, which when I was in, I lifted over
after me.
Into this fence I by degrees carried all
my riches, all my provifions, ammunition and
ftores, and made me a large tent to fecure myfelf
& them from the weather. When I had done this, 1
began to work my way into the rock, which was
pretty foft, laying all the earth and ftones I dug
out within the fence, in the manner of a terrace,
and thus I had a cave just behind my tent,
But for many days after I had taken all I could
get out of the ſhip. I could not forbear going up
to the top of this high hill, and looking out to fea
I fometimes fancied I faw a fail at a vaſt diſtance
pleaſed myſelf with the hopes of it; looked ſteadi-
ly at the place till I was almoft blind, loft it quite,
and then bemoaning my lonely fituation, wept like
a child, and encreafed my mifery by my folly.
But before the above works were compleated,
fudden ſtorm of thunder and lightning filled me with
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into my mind, and my heart funk within me at the
thought, that at one blaft it might all be deftroyed;
on which, not only my defence, but the providing
of my food depended. No fooner was the ftorm
over, when I laid afide every other work, to make
boxes and bags, in order to feparate my powder;
of thefe I made about a hundred, and put about a
pound and a half of powder in each which took up
my whole ſtock; I then put them into holes up
and down the rocks in fuch a manner, that one par-
cel ſhould not fire another.
my-
While all this was doing, I walked out at leaft
once every day with my gun, as well to divert
felf as to fee if I could kill any thing fit for food,
and as near as I could, to acquaint myſelf with
what the iſland produced. The first time I went
out I had the pleaſure to find there were goats in
the iſland; but they were fo fhy, ſo fubtle, and fo
fwift of foot, that it was the moft difficult thing in
the world to come up with them but obferving that
they did not eaſily fee objects above them, I often
killed them by climbing up the rocks, and ſhoote
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ing at thofe in the valleys. During theſe rounds.
I found in the wonds a kind of wild pigeons, which
built in holes of the rocks; and taking fome young
ones, I endeavoured to breed them up tame, but
when they grew old, they flew away; however I
frequently found their nefts, and got their young
ones, which were very good meat.
After I had been about ten or twelve days on
fhore it came into my thoughts that I fhould lofe
my reckoning of time, and fhould not be able to
diftinguish the Sundays from working days. To
prevent this, I fet up a large fquare poft on the
fhore where I first landed and cut upon it with a
knife, I came on fhore here the 30th of Sept. 1659.
Upon the fides I cut every day a notch, and every
feventh notch was as long again as the reft, and
every first day of the month as long again as that
long one; and thus I kept my weekly, monthly,
and yearly reckoning,
I had got from the fhip, fome pens, ink, and pa-
per; fome mathematical inftruments, and thrce.
good bibles, with feveral other books, which I
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carefully fecured. I alſo brought to ſhore with me,
two cats, and a dog fwam on fhore, who was a
truſty fervant to me many years; nay he was fo
good a companion, that I was at a loss for nothing
he could fetch me; and he only wanted the power
of ſpecch to become a moft agreeable friend. Tho'
I had amaffed fo much, there were many things I
wanted, fuch as a fpade, pickax, and fhovel, pins,
needles and thread, as for linen, I foon learnt to do
well enough without it; but the want of tools made
every thing go on flowly. It was nearly a year
before I finifhed my pales and furrounded my ha-
bitation; but what need had I to have been con-
cerned at the tedioufnefs of any thing I had to do?
My work might well be tedious; for if I wanted
only a board, I had no way, after I had uſed thoſe I
brought from the fhip, but to cut down a tree, lay
the trunk before me, hew it flat on both fides with
my axe, till I had reduced it to a plank, and then
dub it fmooth with my adze. Tedious work! but
my time was of little worth, and was as well em-
ployed that way as any other.
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When my habitation was finished according to
the firſt plan, I found it far too fmall to contain all
my moveables; every thing was in a confuſed heap,
and I had hardly room enough to turn myfelf; foI
ft about enlarging my cave, and laboured heartily
tiil I had worked fideways into the rock farther than
my outfide pale, and hewing a way through, made
a back door to my ftore houfe. I then made me
a table and chair, which were great conveniences:
fhelved one fide of my cave; and knocked up pieces
of wood into the rock to hang my things on. When
my cave was fet to rights, it looked like a generai
magazine of all neceffary things; and it gave me
pleaſure to fee my goods in fuch order.
What a different fituation was I in now, from
that I was in when I fift landed, when I was afraid
of perithing with hunger, or of being devoured
by wild bealls!
But I fcarcely finished my habitation when I had
like to have been buried in its ruins. I was at
work juſt in the entrance of my cave, when all of
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roof of my cave, and the edge of the hill, over my
head. I was heartily feared, and thought the top
of my cave was falling in; and for fear of being
buried in the rubbish 1 ran forwards to my ladder,
and not thinking myſelf ſafe even there, got over
the wall, left fome pieces of the hill fhould roll
down upon me. I was no fooner on the ground
but it fhook violently under me. There were three
fhocks at about eight minutes diftance, fuch as I
believe would have overturned the ftrongest build-
ing; and about half a mile from me a great piece
of a rock fell down, with the most terrible noife I
ever heard. The earthquake made my ftomach
fick, and I was as one ftupid; but this terrible noife
roufed me at once. I expected that the hill would
fall upon my tent and bury all iny ſtore: but when
the third fhock was over, and I felt no more, I be-
gan to take courage yet du ft not return over my
wall for fear of being buried alive. In a few hours
it rained very hard, and this forced me into my
Cave, as alfo to begin a new work, which was to
cut a hole through my fortification to let out the
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water, that I might not be drowned. This and
clearing the cave of the rubbiſh took me up fome
time. And I now propped up the top to prevent
its falling again.
The fear of being fwallowed up alive prevented.
my fleeping in quiet, and I thought of making my-
felf a tent at fome diftance from the rock; yet the
apprehenfions of lying abroad without a fence was
almost equally terrible, and when I faw myfelf con-
cealed and fafe from every other danger, I was loth
to remove.
In fome little time I recovered from my fright,
and after that frequently killing goats for my
fubfiftence, whofe fat fupplied my lamp, which
was a difh made of clay baked in the fun, and for
wick I made ufe of oakum. In the midſt of all
my labours, when I was rummaging among my
things, I found a little bag with a few husks of
corn in it, and wanting it, I fhook it out by the
fide of my habitation. This was just before fome
heavy rain, and about a month afterwards, 1 faw
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how great was my aftonishment when, fome little
time after 1 faw about ten or twelve ears of barley!
It was fome time before I recollected the bag with
the hufks, and I thought that they could have been
produced by nothing less than a miracle. With
this barley there alſo came up a few ſtalks of rice,
and theſe were worth more to me than fifty times
their weight in gold, and I carefully preferved
them for feed.
When I had been about a year in the iſland I
was taken extremely ill, which frighted me ter-
ribly, imagining I fhould die for want of proper
help. This fit of illness proved a violent ague,
which made me fo weak I could hardly carry my
gun, and when the fit was on me, I was almoſt
periſhed with thirst. One night as I was ruminat-
ing on my fad condition expecting the return of
my fit, it occurred to my thought, that the Bra-
filians took no phyfic but tobacco, and I went,
directed by heaven, no doubt, to fearch for fome
in a cheft, and there found a bible; I brought
both that and the tobacco to my table; I steeped
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fome of the laft in rum, fome I burnt in a pan
of coals, holding my head over the fume, and fome
I chewed; during the interval of this operation,
I opened my book, and the first words on which
I caft my eyes were-Call upon me in the time of
trouble, and I will deliver thee. The words
ftruck me; but I could read no more; for the
tobacco made me exceffive fleepy.. I therefore
went to bed, and falling into a found fleep, be-
lieve I flept two days; for I loft a day in my reckon-
ing, which I could no other way account for :
another dofe of this remedy quite cured me.
Soon after my recovery, I took a ſurvey of the
island, and at about two miles diftant from my
habitation, found fome fine favannahs, and little
further a variety of fruit, melons upon the ground
and vines ſpread over the trees, covered with
cluſters of ripe grapes. I proceeded with my dif-
coveries, and travelled four miles farther, when I
came to an opening that feemed to defcend to the
weft, where every thing was in fuch conftant
verdure, that it looked like a beautiful garden. I
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went to this delicious valley, and found cocoa,
orange, lemon, and citron trees. I now had
bufinefs enough, for I refolved to lay up a ſtore.
I carried fome grapes and a few limes back with
me; but the grapes were fpoiled before I got
home. I went the next day with bags, thinking
to bring home my harveft: but I found a large
parcel of grapes which had laid on a heap, fpread
abroad and trod to pieces. I therefore found that
there was no laying them upon heaps, nor carrying
them away in facks, fince they would be crushed
by their own weight; fo I gathered a large quan-
tity of them, and hung them upon the out branches
of the trees, that they might cure and dry in the
fun; but as for limes and lemons, I carried as
many back as I could well ftand under.
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I was fo enamored with this place, that I built
myſelf a bower, fenced with a double hedge; and
this country houfe, as I called it, coft me two
months labour; but I hardly began to enjoy my
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my grapes, which were now become fine raifins
ot the fun.
I had been concerned for the lofs of one of my
cats, but about this time he came home, and en-
cicafed my family with three young kittens; ſhe
having bred, as I fuppofe, by a wild cat, of which
there were fome in the woods, and they foon
multiplied fo faft, that I was obliged to drive them
from me.
The rainy and dry feafons now appeared regular
to me, but I bought my experience before I had it.
1 dug a piece of ground as well as I could, with a
wooden ipade of my own making, and began to
fow my grain; but as I was doing it, it occurred
to me that I would not fow all, for fear it fhould not
grow, fo I referved about a handful of each fort;
and well it was I did fo; for it did not come up for
many months afterwards. When I faw it did not
grow, I fought for moifter ground, and dug up a
piece near my bower, which anfwered to my wifhes,
and my crop amounted to about half a peck of each
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of my bufinefs; knew when to fow, and that I
might expect two feed times, and two harveſts eve-
ry year; for the corn fet first came up after the
next wet ſeaſon.
When the rains were over, I made a viſit to my
bower, where I found that the ftak:s I fet up for
my defence, were fhot up into trees, which I
pruned and made as much alike as poffible; and in
three years they became a compleat fhade. This
was my work in the dry feafon; and to employ my-
felf when I could not ſtir abroad, I made baſkets
of the twigs of thefe trees, having, when a child
taken much delight in feeing a baſket-maker, who
lived in the town where I was born, make his
wicker ware,
I had foon made uſeful utenfils of
this fort, and as they decayed I made more.
In one of the dry feafons I took another ramble,
armed with my gun and a hatchet, and guarded by
my faithful dog. When I had paffed the valley in
which stood my bower, I came within view of the
fea, and it being a clear day, I plainly diſcovered
land; but whether ifland or continent, I could not
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tell; I gueſſed it could not be l fs than 20 leagues
off. I imagined it was fome favage coaft, and fuch
indeed it proved. In this journey I caught a young
parrot, having knocked it down with a tick;
brought it home with me, and taught it to ſpeak.
I found in the lower grounds, hares; but as they
were not like any I had feen, I was afraid to eat
them, & I had no need to make experiments, as I
had goats, pigeons, and turtles, which, added to my
grapes, Leadenhall market could not have fur-
nifhed a better table than I in proportion to the
company. The fhore was covered with innume-
rable turtles, tho' on my fide I had found but three
in a year and a half. Here was alſo an infinite num-
ber of fowls of various kinds; but I was too fpar-
ing of my powder and fhot to fhoot them, and I
had rather have had a fhe-goat, becaufe. I could feed
on it without fear; they were, however, much
more wild and fly here, than on my fide of the
iſland. I travelled about twelve miles eastward
along the fhore, and then fetting up a great post
for a mark, returned homeward, defigning that my
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next tour ſhould be the contrary way, 'tili ✔ came
to this poft.
I took a different way home from that I went;
but unfortunately loft myfelf, and wandering about
very uncomfortably, till at last I was obliged to find
out the fea fide to feck for my poft, tired to death
with the heat of the weather, and the weight of my
arms. In this tour my dog feized a young kid, and
I faved it alive, highly pleafed with the hopes of
having a breed of tame goats; but as I could not
bring it along without difficulty, and longed to be
at home, I left it within the incloſure of my bower.
I cannot exprefs what fatisfaction it was now, to
come into my own hutch, and lie down in my ham-
mock bed, when I conftantly used there. I reſted
myſelf a week, employed in the weighty affairs of
making a cage for my parrot, which foon became
one of my favourites. I now bethought me of my
kid, and hafted to my bower to bring it home, or
to give it food; and the poor creature was fo tame
by hunger, that it followed me home like a dog.
From that time it became one of my domeftics alfo,
and would never leave me.
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I was now thoroughly refigned to my fituation,
& pretty regularly divided my time between reft &
labour. Going out in the morning with my gun
for food about three hours, and worked about four
hours in the evening to make various neceffaries,
the weather being too hot for me to work in the
middle of the day.
My corn was now coming up, and the goats
and the hares having tafted the fweetness of the
blade, lay at it night and day, as foon as it fprung
out of the ground, fo that it could get no time to
fhoot into a ftalk. To defend it, furrounded it
with a hedge, and in the mean while fhooting fome
of the creatures by day, I fet my dog to watch it
by night, which he did fo faithfully that the enc-
mies forfook the place, and the corn grew and be--
gan to ripen apace. But as the beafts were nigh
ruining me while the corn was in blade, ſo the,
birds were my enemies when it was in the ear; for
going along to ſee how my harveft throve, 1 faw
my little crop furrounded with fowls of I know not
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there arofe a little cloud of birds from the corn itſelf.
This touched me fenfibly, for a fingle grain might
be faid in its confequences, to be a peck loaf to
me.
While I was loading my gun again. I could
fee the thieves on all the trees round me, waiting
for my abfence, and having gone a little way
I
turned my head and faw them dropping one by one
into my corn. I had no patience to stay till more
came, but again let off my piece and having killed
three, I ufed them as they do murderers in Eng-
and, hanged them in chains to ferve as a terror to
the reft. Not a fowl afterwards came near my
corn, or indeed near the place, as long as the feare
crows hung there.
When my corn was ripe, I made me a fcythe
with a fword, and cut off none but the ears, which
I rubbed out with my bands.
At the end of my
harveft, I gueffed that I had a bufhel of rice, and
two bufhels and a half of barley. I kept all this for
feed, and bore the want of bread with patience, as I
had now a tolerable profpect of having as much as
I wanted.
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This article of bread was a great difficulty: I
had neither plough nor harrow: for the first I
made my fhovel do, and to fupply the place of a
harrow, I went over it myſelf, dragging after me
the heavy bough of a tree. And when I came to
make bread I had innumerable wants. I wanted
mill to grind it, fieves to dreſs it, yeaſt and ſalt të
make it into bread, and an oven to bake it. How-
ever, I had fix months to contrive all thefe things
in. In the mean time I enlarged the encloſure of
my arable land, working abroad in the dry feafon.
I made fome miſhapen pots of clay, that all broke in
the fun except two which I cafed in wicker work;
but I fucceeded better in little pans, flat difnes
and pitchers; which the fun baked furprisingly
hard; but they would not bear the fire foas to hold
any liquid, and I wanted one to boil my meat.
One day after I had dreffed my dinner, I went
to put out my fire, and found a piece of one of my
earthenware veffels burnt as hard as a ftone, and
as red as a tile; this taught me to burn my pipkins,
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were ugly enough indeed, being made as children
make dirt pies: but when I found that I had made
a pot which would bear the fire, I had hardly pa-
tience to ſtay till it was cold, before I fet it on
with a piece of kid, in order to make me fome
broth, which anſwered tolerably well.
I made me a wooden morter and pestle; and alfo
a fieve out of ſome of the feamen's neckcloths, and
at length made a fort of an oven of a broad fhallow
earthen veffel, and a tiled hearth. When I baked,
I drew the live embers forward upon this hearth,
till it was very hot; then fweeping them away, I
fet down my loaves, whelving the earthen pot over
them, which baked my barley bread as well as the
beſt oven in the world. I now became a complete
paſtry cook, and made puddings and cakes; for I
had no longer need to be fparing of my corn, for
my next harvest produced twenty bushels of bar-
ley, and nearly the fame quantity of rice, which
was as much as I could confume in a year.
While all theſe things were doing, my thoughts
ran many times upon the land I had feen, and Į
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:
like a fool went to look for the fhip's boat, which
had been caft high upon the fhore by the ftorm,
certainly if I had hands to have refitted her, ſhe
might have done well enough; but I could no more
move her than I could move the iſland. I ſpent
three or four weeks in cutting levers and rollers
in vain; and then fat myfelf to dig away the fand
from her with the fame fuccefs. This difappoint-
ment increaſed my defire of going over to the main
and I began to make myfelf a canoe; the most pre-
pofterous enterprize that ever man in his fenfes
undertook. I felled a great cedar, about five feet
in diameter next the root, but when the impoffibi-
lity of launching this heavy thing came into mind,
I gave myſelf this foolifh anfwer: Let me but once
make it, and I'll warrant l'l get it along when it
is done. I made it big enough to carry 25 men;
but all my devices to get into the water failed me,
for I could no more ftir it than I could the boat. I
then determined, fince I could not bring my canoe
to the water, that I would bring the water to the
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the time of this canal would take in making, I
found that I could not accomplish it in lefs than 12
years, and therefore gave it over, determined to
enjoy what I had, without repining for what I
could not get.
My cloaths now began to decay; linen I had been
without a good while, but the weather was warm,
and I had no great need of cloaths, yet I was un-
willing to be quite naked; befides, the fun blifter-
ed my ſkin, and my head ached if I went without
a hat or cap; fo I made myſelf two waiſtcoats out
of fome watch-coats, which lafted me a great while.
I niade a cap out of a goat's ſkin, with the hair
fide outwards, to throw off the rain, and alſo ano-
ther waiſtcoat of the fame fkins; but I muft ac-
knowledge that they were wretchedly done; for if
I was a bad carpenter, I was a worſe taylor. I
made me too an umbrella, which I could fhut up
and take abroad with me, and this fecured me both
from the heat and the rain.
Three or four years after, I made a little boat,
my umbrella ferving both for a maft and an awn-
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ing. This I launched for a fea voyage; but let
this be a warning to all rafh and inconfiderate pi-
lots; I put off and found a great ledge of rocks ly-
ing about two leagues in the fea, fome above
water, and fome under it, and a great fhoal of fand
lying dry for half a league beyond them, fo that I
fhould be obliged to go a great way out to fea to
double the point. Seeing this, I thought of giving
over the enterprife, and cafting anchor, went on
fhore, when climbing a fteep hill that overlooked
the point, I faw the full extent of it, and that a moft
furious current ran to the caft, with a ſtrong eddy
near the ſhore, fo that I had nothing to do but to
get out of the current, and I fhould prefently be
in the eddy, I therefore refolved to venture.
The wind, however, blowing pretty hard, I lay,
here two days, and the third day in the morning,
the wind having abated in the night, I found the
fea calm and fet fail; but no fooner got within
the current, than I found myſelf in great depth of
water, and was carried along with fuch violence,
that all I could do, could not keep the boat on the
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edge of it; but I found that it hurried me farther
and farther out from the eddy which was on the left
hand. There was no wind ftirring to help me,
and all that a could do with my paddle fignified
nothing; I now began to give myſelf over for loft;
I had no profpect before me, but that of perifhing;
not by the fea, for that was calm enough; but of
ftarving with hunger. I bad indeed on board a
ſtock of provifions, & having found a turtle on the
fhore, as big almoft as I could lift, toffed it into
the boat; and had a great jar of fresh water; but
what was this to be driven with into the vaſt ocean?
Now I looked back upon my defolate folitary
island, as the moſt pleaſant place in the world, and
stretched out my hands to it with eager wishes: O
happy defart! ſaid I, I shall never fee thee more:
O miferable creature that I am, whither am I
going. Then I reproached myfelf with my un-
thankful temper, and how I had repined at my foli-
tary condition, and now what would I give to be
on fhore there again. I worked hard till my ftrength
was almoſt exhaufted; and kept my boat as near
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as poffible to that fide of the current on which the
eddy lay; when about noon, I thought I felt a little
breeze of wind in my face, blowing towards the
fhore. This ravished my fpirits, eſpecially when
about half an hour more it blew a gentle gale. By
this time I was gotten at a frightful diftance from
the iſland; and had the leaſt cloud or hazy weather
intervened, I fhould have been undone another
way, for I had no compafs on board, and fhould
never have known how to have fteered towards the
ifland, if I had but once loft fight of it; but the
weather continuing clear, I fpread my fail, ftanding
away to the north, and got out of the current.
They who know what it is to have a reprieve bro'c
them when at the gallows, or to be reſcued from
thieves juſt going to murder them, may guess what
was my prefent joy: how gladly I put my boat in-
to the ftream of this eddy and fpread my fail to the
wind, running chearfully before it, affifted by a
Atrong eddy, which carried me about a league back
again directly towards the ifland, and the breeze
ftill continuing, I reached it before night.
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When I was on fhore, I fell on my knees and
gave God thanks for my deliverance, refolving to
lay afide all thoughts of eſcaping from the island in
my boat; and refreshing myfelf with fuch things
as I had, I brought my boat cloſe to the fhore in a
little cave that I found under fome trees, and being
quite fpent with the fatigue of the voyage, laid me
down to fleep. The next morning, I made my
way weftward along the fhore, to fee if there was
a creek where I might lay up my boat in fafety;
when having coafted the shore about three miles,
I came to a very good bay about a mile over, which
narrowed till it came to a little rivulet where I
found a convenient harbour, and where the lay as
if ſhe had been in a little dock made on purpoſe
for her; here I put her in, and having ftowed my
boat very fafe, went on fhore to fee where I was.
I foon found I had but a little paffed the place
where I had been before, when I travelled on foot
to that fhore; fo taking out of the boat my gun and
my umbrella, I began my march, and reached my
bower in the evening, where I found every thing
as I left it.
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I got over the fence, and laid me down to fleep
in the fhade; but judge of my furprife when I a-
waked, by a voice calling me by my name feveral
times, Robin, Robin Crusoe, poor Robin Crufoe,
where are you? where have you been? I was ſo
dead afleep at first, that I thought I dreamt fome-
body ſpoke to me; but as the voice continued re-
peating Robin Crufoe, I awaked dreadfully fright-
ed; but no fooner were my eyes open, than I faw
my Poll fitting on the hede, and immediately
knew that it was he that fpoke to me. I immedi-
ately called him, and the poor ociable creature
came as he uſed to do, and fat on my thumb, cry-
ing Poor Robinson Crufoe, as if he had been over-
joyed to ſee me return to my caftle.
This dangerous ramble reconciled me to my de-
ſolate iſland, and refigned me to the cifpofitions of
Providence. I began now to perceive my powder
confiderably abated, & this was a want which it was
impoffible for me to fupply; dreading what would
become of me when I could kill no more goats,
for my kid did not breed; I fet fnares to catch fome
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alive, and particularly wanted a fhe goat with kid;
but my foares were broken, and my bait devoured.
At length I refolved to try pit-fails, in one of
which I found a large old he-goat, and in another
three kids, a male and two females. The old one
was fo fierce that I durft not meddle with him, but
the three kids I brought home. It was fometime
before they would feed; but however they grew
tame, and I had the pleafure to find that I might
fupply myfelf with goat's flesh, when I had no
powder or fhot left. I inclofed a piece of ground
to keep my goats in, propofing as my frock increa-
fed to add more ground to my inclofure; and I had
foon not only goat's flesh to feed on but milk too;
for now I fet up a dairy, and made myſelf butter
and cheefe. It would have made a ftoic fmile to fee
me and my family fit down to dinner; there was
my majefty, all alone like a king, attended by my
fervants. Poll, my favorite, was the only perfon
permitted to talk to me. My dog, who was grown
very old, fat always at my right hand, and my two
cats, one on the one fide of the table, and the other
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on the other, expecting, now and then, a bit from
my hand, as a mark of fpecial favour.
I had at length a great mind to go to the point
of the iſland to fee how the fhore lay and refolved
to travel thither by land. And now reader, I will
give thee a fhort ſketch of the figure I made. I had
a great high ſhapeless cap made of goat ſkin, a jack-
et with the fkirts coming down to the middle of my
thighs, and a pair of open knee'd breeches of the
fame, with the goats hair hanging to the middle of
my leg. Stocking and fhoes I had none; but I
had a pair of fomethings, I fearce knew what to
call them, to flip over my legs like ſpatterdafhes;
but of a moft barbarous fhape, and fo indeed was
all the rest of my cloaths: I had a broad belt of my
goat fkin dried, and in a frog hung on one fide a
faw, and on the other a hatchet. I had another belt
not ſo bread, faſtened over my fhoulder.--Under
my arm hung two pouches for fhot and powder;
on my back I carried a basket, on my shoulder a
gun, and over my head a great clumfy goat-fkin
umbrella. My beard was cut fhort, except what
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grew on my upper lip, which I had trimmed into a
large pair of Mahometan whiskers; but as for my
figure, as I had but few to obſerve me, it was no
matter of confequence.
In this figure I went my new journey, and was
out five or fix days. When I came to the hill, I
was ſurpriſed to find the fea all ſmooth and quiet,
no rippling, no motion, no current any more than
in other places; but in the evening I found a cur-
rent as before. I ufe frequently to vifit my boat,
and one day about noon, when I was going to it,
I was exceedingly furprifed with the print of a
man's naked foot on the fhore, which was plain to
be ſeen in the fand. I ftood like one thunder-
ftruck; I liftened; I looked around; but I could
hear nothing, nor fee any thing. I went upon a
rifing ground to look farther; I walked backward.
and forward on the fhore, but I could only fee that
one impreffion; I went to look at it again; there
was plainly a foot, toes, heel, and every part very
difti, &t: how it came there I knew not; but hur-
ried home to my fortifications, looking behind me
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every two or three fteps, and fancied every tree,
bufh, and ftun p, to be a man. I had no fleep that
night; but my terror gradually wore off, and I
ventured down to take measure of the foot by my
owr, but I found it much larger. This filled me
again with ridiculous whimfies, and when I went
home I began to double my fortifications, planted
my feven mufkets on carriages, in the manner of
cannor, and was at the expenfe of an infinite deal
of labour, purely from my apprehenfions of this
print of a foot. And in particular I planted a va
number of ſtakes on the outſide of my wall, which
growing, became a thick grove, and entirely con-
cealed the place of my retreat, and greatly added
to ny fecurity.
After having fecured my habitation in the ftrong
eft manner poffible, I fought for a place of fecurity
for my live goats, and at length found a piece of
ground which contained about three acres, in the
middle of a hollow and thick wood, and rendered
almoſt inacceſſible by nature, ſo that it cost me but
little pains to make it fo; and then I removed ten
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After I had thus fecured one part of my live
ftock, I went about the whole ifland, & rambling
more to the weſtern point than ever I had done be-
fore, I was preſently convinced that the feeing the
print of a man's foot was not ſuch a ſtrange thing
in the island, as I had imagined; for on my ap-
proaching the ſhore, I was perfectly confounded
and amazed, nor is it poffible to exprefs the horror
I felt at feeing the fhore fpread with the ſkulls,
hands, feet, and other bones of human bodies; and
particularly a place, where, as I fuppofed, there
had been a fire made, and a circle dug in the earth
for the favage wretches to fit down to their inhu-
man feaſt on the bodies of their fellow creatures.
I turned away my face from the horrid fpectacle;
my ftomach grew fick ; I was juſt at the point of
fainting, and left the place as foon as poffible.
When I got a little out of that part of the iſland,
I looked up with the utmoſt affection of foul, and
with tears in my eyes, gave God thanks for plac-
ing me in a part of the world where I was diftin-
guiſhed from fuch wretched creatures as theſe.
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In this frame of thankfulneſs I went home to my
caftle, and began to be much eaſier as to my fafe-
ty than I had been for ſome time before; for I ob-
ferved that theſe wretches never came to the iſland
in fearch of what they could get. I had been in
the land almoft eighteen years, and never faw
any fufficient proofs of their having been there be-
fore; and might be eighteen more, concealed
as I was, if I did not diſcover myſelf to them.
But confidering that they might be driven to my
fide of the island, I became cautious of making a
fire at my caftle, as I called it, and therefore went
into the midlt of the wood, where I made charcoal
to ferve for my neccffary occafions at home.
One day, when I was cutting fome brush-
wood, I found behind the bufh I was cutting, a
hollow place, which I was curious of looking
into, and getting with difficulty into its mouth,
I found it fufficient for me to ftand upright in it;
looking farther into the place, which was perfect-
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ed from the mouth of the cavc. At this I went
out fafter than I got in, but plucking up my
courage, I took up a great fire-brand, and rufhed
in again with it flaming in my hand, when I was
moſt as much frighted as before; for I heard a
loud figh followed by a broken noife, and then a
figh again. I ftepped back ftruck with fuch furprife
that it put me into a cold fweat. However re-
covered refolution enough to ftep forward again,
and lifting up my light, I faw lying on the ground
a monftrous he-goat, gafping for life. I now re-
covered from my fright, and began to look round
me. This cave was but twelve feet over, and I
obferved that on the farther fide was an opening,
into which I crept upon my hands and knees: but
as I had no light I deferred going farther than the
entrance till the next day, when brought candles
of my own making, and crept about ten yards,
after which the roof rofe to about twenty feet high
and the wall reflected a hundred thousand lights
from my two candles. It was a deli htful grotto,
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noxious creature to be ſeen. To this place I bro't
all my powder and all my fpare arms, and now kept
at my caftle only five guns, which ſtood ready
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had now been twenty-two years in the island,
fo naturalized to the place, that had I
he ecure as to the favages, I then fancied I
could have been contented to have ſtaid in it, till,
like the goat, I had died of mere old age; but in.
my twenty third year, going out at break of day,
I was furprifed with the light of a fire on the fhore,
towards the end of the island; which, to my great
affliction, was on my fide. In this extremity I
went back directly to my caftle; pulled up the
ladder after me, and put myself in the beft pofture
of defence. I ftaid within two hours, when I be-
gan to be impatient for intelligence: but I had nat
fpies to ſend out. Soon after I fet my ladder to the
fide of the hill, and then mounted to the top : and
lying down on my belly on the ground, I difcover
ed nine naked favages fitting round a fire. They
had two canoes with them, and at the return of the
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tide they went away. As foon as I faw them gone,
I took two guns upon my fhoulders, two piftols at
my girdle, & a great fword without a fcabbard, &
haftened to the place, where I found that there had
been no less than five canoes of them on the f
which I faw altogether making over the
The fight of the horrid carnage they had lef
them, fo filled me with horror and indignation
I meditated the deftruction of the next that came a
fhore.
Some time after, in the midst of a very ftormy
night, I was ſtarted at the firing of a gun; I hafted
up to the top of my hill, and heard another, I ima-
gined that thefe were fignals of a fhip in diftrefs,
and fuch it proved, as I difcovered the next day. I
cannot explain by the poffible energy of words,
the emotion I felt at the fight of this wreck. O!
that there had but been one faved! I cried; that I
might but have had one companion! one fellow
creature, to have fpoken to and have comforted in
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would ferve me but I must go in my boat to this
wreck, which lay at a little diftance. I furnished
myfelf with provifions for fear of being driven out
to fea, and having begun my voyage, I in two
hours time reached the fhip, which was Spanish
She ſtuck faft jammed in between two rocks,
the ftern and quarter were beaten in pieces
fea. On my coming near it, a dog yelped
cried; but there was no other living creature
on board: but I faw two men drowned in the cook
room, with their arms faft about one another, and
all the goods were spoiled by the water. I how-
ever took two of the feamen's chefts into my boat,
without knowing what was in them.
When I had got my treaſure home and began to
unload, I found feveral bottles filled with cordial
waters and fome neckcloths and fhirts, which were
very useful to me; 1100 pieces of eight, and about
a pound weight of folid gold. But of what ufe was
this to me? I would have given it all for three or
four pair of fhoes and ftockings.
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though terrified with fears of the favages. One
morning very early I faw five canoes of them on
hore. I clambered up my hill, and by the help of
my perſpective difcovered no less than thirty danc
ing round a fire. I foon after faw two mifera
wretches dragged out of the boats, one of
was immediately knocked down, but the
ftarting from them, ran with incredibl: fwiftnes
along the fands towards me. I confefs I was
horribly frightened when I faw him come my way,
imagining he would be purfued by the whole body; .
however, I kept my ftation and quite loft my appre-
henfion, 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 fwift as before.
Of the three that followed, but two entered the
water, the other returning back. I haftily fetched
my guns from the foot of the ladder, and taking a
fhort cut down the hill, I clapped myſelf in the way
betwixt the purfued and the purfuers, halling
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for him to come back; then ruſhing at once on the
foremoſt, knocked him down with the ſtock of my
piece: The other ftopped as if fiighted; but when
I advanced towards him, I perceived he was fit-
ting his bow to fhoot me upon which I fhot him
dad directly. The poor favage who had fled was
to terrified at the noife of my piece, though he faw
his enemies fallen, that he stood ftock ftill, but
feemed rather inclined to fly than to come towards
me. However when I gave him ſigns of encou-
ragement, he came nearer, kneeling down every
ten or twelve ſteps; on his coming clofe 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 I knocked down came to him-
felf, and my favage began to be afraid. I then
prefented my piece at the man, when the poor
fellow, whofe life I had faved, made a motion for
my fword, which I gave him, and he ftruck off his
enemy's head at one blow, and in a quarter of an
hour buried both the bodies in the fand. Z then
took him away to my cave at the farther part of
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the inland. Here I gave him bread, and a bunch
of raifins to eat and a draught of water, which he
wanted much; and having refreſhed him, I made
figns for him to lie down on fome rice ftraw, which
the poor creature did, and foon went to fleep.
He was
a well made handfome fellow about
twenty-fix years of age, of an olive coloured com
plexion, with black long hair. He had a fmale
that was not flat, and fine teeth as white as ivory.
After he had flept about half an hour, he waked
again, and came running to me in the incloſure
juft by, where I had been milking my goats.
Then falling down again, he laid his head flat on
the ground, and fet my other foot upon it, as before,
and after this made all poffible figns of thankfulness,
fubjection, and fubmiffion. I began to fpeak to
him and to teach him to ſpeak to me; and firſt
made him know that his name fhould be Friday,
which was the day wherein I faved his life. I
taught him to ſay Mafter, and let him know that
was to be my name. The next day I gave him
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by the place where we had buried the two men he
pointed exactly at the ſpot, making figns 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 confequently
more curiofity, I took my man Friday with me,
giving him the fword in his hand, with the bow and
arrows at his back, which I found he could uſe very
dextroufly, I alfo gave him to carry one gun, and
taking two for myfelf, away we marched 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 feorched.
We faw three fkulls, five hands, and the bones of
three or four legs and feet; and Friday, by his
fighs, made me understand, that they brought over
four prifoners to feaft upon, and that three of them
were eaten up; that he, pointing to himſelf, was
the fourth, and that they had been conquered, and
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I caufed Friday to collect the remains of this
horrid carnage, then to light a fire, and burn them
to afhes. When this was done, we returned to
our caſtle. The next day we made a little tent on
the out fide of my fortification, and at night took
in my ladder, that he might not be able to get at
me when aſleep. But there was no need of this
precaution; for never man had a more faithful for-
vant; he had the fame affection for me as a child
has for a father, and I dare fay he would have fa-
crificed his life to fave mine. I was greatly de-
lighted with him, and made it my bufinefs to teach
him every thing proper to render him ufeful; efpe-
cially to ſpeak, and understand me when I fpoke;
and he was the apteft fcholar that ever was; then
he was fo merry, fo diligent, and fo pleaſed when
I could underſtand him, that he was a very agreea-
ble companion,
After we had been two or three days returned
to the caftle, I thought, that in order to bring him.
off from the relifh of human fefh, I ought to
let him tafte other flesh; fo I took him out, with
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me one morning to the woods, in order to take a
kid from my herd; but as we were going, we ſaw
a the goat lying in the fhade, and two young kids
fitting by her; when making figns to Friday not
to ftir, I fhot one of the kids. Poor Friday, who
at a diſtance ſaw me kill the favage enemy, but did
not fee how it was done, trembled & looked fo a-
mazed, that I thought he would have funk down:
he did not fee the kid I had ſhot, but ripped up his
waiſtcoat to feel if he was not wounded; and as I
found prefently, thought I was refolved to kill him;
for he came and kneeled down to me, and embrac-
ing my knees, feemed to entreat me not to kill him.
But taking him by the hand, I laughed at him, and
pointing to the kid I had killed, beckoned to him,
to run and fetch it, which he did, and while he was
wondering and looking to fee how it was killed,
I loaded my gun, and foon after feeing a parrot fit
upon a tree, fhewed it to him, and made him to un-
derſtand that I would kill it; accordingly I fired,
and immediately he faw it fall; he looked frighten
ed again, and I believe if I would have let him,
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would have worshipped both me and my gun; as
for the gun itfelf he would not fo much as touch it
for feveral days after; but would talk to it when
he was by himself, which I afterwards underſtood
was to defire it not to kill him.
Having brought home the kid, I cut it out, and
boiling fome of the flesh, it made very good
broth: after I had eat fome, I gave it to Friday,
who feemed glad of it, and liked it very well. Hav-
ing thus fed him with boiled meat, and broth, I
feafted him the next day with a piece of roafted kid,
banging it before the fire with a ftring. This Fri-
day admired very much, and made me at laft un-
derftand that he would never eat man's fleſh any
more, which I was very glad to hear.
The next day I fet him to beat out fome corn,
and fift it; foon after I let him fee me make my
bread, and bake, and in a little time Friday was
able to do all the work for me, as well as I could
do it myſelf. I now found it neceffary to fow a
larger quantity of corn than I uſed to do; and
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fence. In fhort this was the pleaſanteft year I had
led in the iſland; for as my man began to talk
pretty well, I had fome ufe for my tongue again,
and beſides the pleaſure of talking to him, I had à
fingular fatisfaction in his honefty and affection,
which appeared more and more every day, ſo that
I began really to love him.
I foon learned by Friday's difcourfe, that he had
formerly been among the favages, who ufed to
come on fhore on the farther part of the ifland, on
the fame man-eating occafions, which he was now
brought for; and fome time after, I took him to
that fide which was the fame I formerly mention-
ed; he knew the place, and told me he was there
once when they eat up twenty men, two women
and a child; but not knowing how to tell twenty,
he numbered them by laying fo many ftones in a
row, and pointing to me to tell them over.
I did not fail to inftruct this poor creature as
well as I was able, in the principles of religion,
and he liftened to me with great attention.
One
day when I had been talking to him on this fubject,
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he told me, that if our God that we pray to could
hear us beyond the fun, he was a greater God than
their Benamukee, who lived but a little way off,
and yet could not hear till the Oowolakee, or priests,
went up to the great mountains, where he dwelt,
to fpeak to him. In fhort by inftru&ting him, I in-
formed myſelf, for by feriously confidering what I
had never tho't of before, I moft ftrongly impreffed
a fenfe of my duty upon my own mind, & at length
made him a better chriftian than I had been myſelf.
I then told him my ſtory, and let him into the my-
ftery of gunpowder and bullets, and taught him
how to fhoot; I gave him a knife, which he was
wonderfully delighted with; alfo made him a belt
with a frog hanging to it, and inſtead of a hanger,
gave him a hatchet.
defcribed to him the countries of Europe; and
particularly England; how we lived; how we
worshiped God; and how we traded in fhips to all
the parts of the world; I gave him an account of
the wreck I had been on board of, and fhewed him
the ruins of our boat, which we loft when we ef-
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caped, and which I could not ftir with all my
ftrength then, but was now almoft fallen to pieces.
Upon feeing this boat Friday ſtood muſing a great
while, and ſaid nothing; when aſking what he was
thinking of, he at laſt faid, Me fee fuch boat like
came to place at my nation. We fave white mans
from drown. I then afked him if there were any
white mans, as he called them, in the boat? Yes,
he faid, the boat full of white mans; I afked him
how many? He told me upon his fingers, feven-
teen. I then aſked him what became of them; and
he replied, They itve, they dwell at my nation; I
prefently imagined that thefe might be the men be-
longing to the fhip that was caft away in the fight
of my ifland, who, after the fhip had ftruck on a
rock, had perhaps faved themfelves in their boat.
I then enquired what was become of them, and he
affured me that his countrymen gave them victu-
als. I aſked him why they did not kill them and
eat them? He faid, 'No, they make brother with
them. They eat no mans but when they make
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war fight: that is, they never eat any man but fuch
as are taken in battle.
A confiderable time after this, being on the top
of the hill on the fide of the ifland, from whence I
had discovered land, Friday looked very earnestly
towards it, and in a kind of furprife fell a jumping
and dancing; crying O joy! O glad! there fee
my country, here my nation!
here my nation! I obferved that
d his countenance diſcovered
leafure. This obferva-
nd I could not help
ck to his own
come
his eyes fparkled, 2
an extraordinary fenfe of p
tion gave me ſome uneafinets,
apprehending, that if he could get b
nation, he would not only forget his reng
rion, but
his obligations to me, and would perhaps.
back with an hundred or two of his countryme
and make a feaft upon me, at which he might be
as merry as he uſed to be with thofe of his enemies
when they were taken in war. But I wronged the
poor honeft creature very much. However, while
myjealoufy lafted, I every day endeavored to pene-
trate into his thoughts.
One day, walking up the fame hill, I called to
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him, and faid, Friday, do not you wiſh yourſelf
in your own country? Yes, faid he, I be much a
glad to be at my own nation. What would you do
there? faid 1 would you eat man's flesh again,
and be a favage as you were before? He looked
full of concern, and fhaking his head, faid, No, ne,
Friday tell them to live good: tell them to pray
God; tell them to eat corn bread, cattle flesh, milk,
no eat man's flesh again. Why then, faid I to him,
they would kill vou.
He looked grave, and faid,
No, they not kill me, they willing love learn. He
meant they would be willing to learn. I then told
him, that I would make a canoe for him and he
replied, that he would go if1 would go with him.
I go! faid I, why they will eat me if I go there.
No, no, faid he, me make them no eat you, me
make them much love you. He then told me how
kind they were to the feventeen white or bearded
men, as he called them, who came afhore in diftrefs.
From this time I had a mind to venture over,
and fee if I could poñibly join thoſe bearded mert,
not doubting but that we might find fome means
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of eſcaping from thence. I therefore went with
Friday to the other fide of the island, and ſhewed
him my boat, when he getting into it, managed it
with the greateft dexterity: but he thinking it too
little, afterwards thewed him the first boat I had
made; but which I could not get into the water;
he faid that was big enough; but as it had lain two
or three and twenty years, the (in had ſplit it. I
therefore told him that we would go and make one
as big as that, and he ſhould go in it.
At this he
looked uneafy, and I asked what was the matter
with him. To which he returned, Why you angry
mad with Friday? what me done? I told him I
wasnot angry with him. No
No angry! no angry.!
fays he, why then fend Friday home to my nation?
Why, faid I, Friday, did you not fay you wiſhed
you were there? Yes, yes, fays he, with be both
there, no wifh Friday there no mafter there. I 20
there, Friday! faid I: what fhould I do there?
You do great deal much good, fays he, haftily, you
teach vile mans be good, fober, tame mans, you tell
them know God, pray God, and live new life. Alas,
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Friday, faid I, thou knoweft not what thou ſayeſt ;
I am but an ignorant man myſelf. Yes, yes, faid
he, you teach me good, you teach them good. No,
no, Friday, faid I, you fhall go without me, and
leave me here to live by myfelf, as I did before,
He looked confuſed, and running to a hatchet took
it up haftily, and gave it me. What must I do
with this? faid I. You take kill Friday, faid he
What must I kill you for? faid I again. He re
turns very quick. What you ſend Friday away
for? take kill Friday 20 ſend Friday away. This
he fpoke with fuch earnestnefs, that I faw the tears
ſtand in his eyes.
Upon the whole, as I found by all his difcourfe
he had a fettled affection to me, and that nothing
ſhould part him from me: fo I-found that his defire
to return to his country, was found on his affecti-
ons to the people, and his hopes of my doing them
good. However, as I had a ftrong inclination to
make my efcape, we made a large canoe, and hav-
ing compleated it, fet up a maft and fail.
I was now entered into the 27th year of my cap-
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tivity, and intended foon to ſet fail, when one morn-
ing I bid Friday go to the fea thore to fee if he
could find a turtle; but he had not long been gone,
when he came running back like one that felt not
the ground on which he tred, and before I had time
to ſpeak cried O Mofter! O Mafter! O forrow!
O bad! What's the matter, Friday? faid I. O
yonder there, faid he one, two, three! Well, Fri-
day, faid I, do not be frighted: He was however,
terribly feared; imagining that they were come to
look for him, and would cut him in pieces and eat
him. I aſked him, Whether if I refolved to de-
fend him, he would ſtand by me, and do as I bid
him. He faid, Me die, when you bid die, mafter.
I fetched him a good dram of run, and made him
take two fowling picces, and loaded four mufkets
with five fmall bullets each, and each of my two
piftols with a brace of bullets. I hung my great
word naked by my fide, & gave Friday his hatchet.
I then took my perfpective glafs and went up to
the fide of the hill, when I faw 21 favages, three
prifoners, and three canoes. They were landed at
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a ſmall diſtance where the fhore was low, and where
a thick wood ca ne almoft close down to the fea;
and I was fo filled with indignation, that I was re-
folved to kill them all. I gave Friday one piftol
to ftick in his girdle, and three guns upon his
ſhoulder; and took one piſtol and the other three
guns myfelf; and having put a fmall bottle of rum
in my pocket, I marched out, ordered Friday to
keep cloſe behind me, to be filent, and do as I bid
him. I then fetched a compaſs of near a mile to
come near them, and in this march I recollected,
that though they were going to offend the Almigh-
ty by their bloody fealt, I had no right to make
myfelf an inftrument of his vengeance. This
thought allayed my heat and I refolved to be no
more than a fpectator of their inhuman banquet.
With this refolution I entered the wood, and
with the utmoſt precaution marched with Friday
elote at my fide; we came near them, when fhew
ing Friday a great tree, I bid him foftly bring me
word what they were doing; he did fo and coming
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the fire, eating the flesh of one of their prifoners,
and that a bearded man lay bound upon the fand,
whom he faid they would kill next.
The news
fired my foul, and filled me with horror, and going
to the tree, I plainly faw a white man, cloathed,
lying on the beech with his hands and feet tied with
flags. I obferved another tree, and a little thicket
beyond it much nearer to them, to which I might
go undifcovered. I therefore took a circuit to it.
and came to a little rifing ground, where I had a
full view of them at the diftance of about eighty
yards..
▲ had not a moment to loſe, for nineteen of the
horrid wretches fat huddled together on the ground,
and the other twe were ftooping down to untie the
chriſtian in order to murder him. Now! Friday,
do as you ſee me do. I laid the mufkets down and
took up one and then we both fired. Three were
killed and five wounded. The favages were in a
dreadful confternation, and all who were unhurt
jumped up immediately on their feet; but knew
not which way to run. Friday kept his
Friday kept his eyes clofe
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upon me.
I threw down my piece and took up
another, and we inftantly let fly at them again;
when being loaded with fwan fhot, we found only
two drop; but ſo many were wounded, that they
ran about fcreaming & bleeding. We then rufhed
out of the thicket, with each a mufket in our hand.
I cut the flags that bound the poor victim, and gave
him a ſword and a piftol, which he had no fooner
got, than he flew his murderers. Mean while
Friday firing had killed two, and wounded a third
and afterwards fell upon them with his hatchet. In
ſhort ſeventeen of them were killed, and fou of
them getting into a canoe, got out to fea.
I refolved to purſue them left they ſhould return
with a greater force to deftroy us, and ran to a ca-
nce, calling to Friday, to follow me; but I was no
fooner in the canoe than I found another poor crea-
ture lie there alive bound hand and foot; I imme-
diately cut the twifted flags, and feeing 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
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his face, and heard him fpeak, it would have mov-
ed any one to tears, to have feen how he kiffed, em-
braced, hugged him, cried, danced, fung, and then
cried again. It was fome 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 fat down by him, held the
old man's head cloſe to his bofom, and chafed his
arms and ancles, which were ftiff with binding.
After fome time I called him, and he came jump-
ing and laughing, and pleaſed to the higheſt ex-
treme; I gave him a cake of bread for his father,
with a handful of raifins, and a dram for himself;
but he carried all to his father, and preſently ran
away fo fwiftly, that he was in an inftant out of
fight, and tho' I called after him he never looked
back but in a quarter of an hour I faw him return
with a jug of fresh water, which he gave the old
man, who was ready to die with thirft. This
water was a refreshment to us all, efpecially to the
Spaniard, who notwithftandi: g his having exerted
hin felf in the fight, was now unable to ftand, his
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legs were fo fwelled. At my defire, Friday carried
him into the canoe, and placing him by his father,
then launching off, paddled them along the fhore,
till he brought them near my caftle, while I walk-
ed thither.
+
As foon as I had fecured my two weak reſcued
prifoners, and given them fhelter in a kind of but I
fet up for them, I ordered Friday to take a yearling
goat out of my ftock, and having killed it, I boiled
a part of it, and made fome broth; and in a few days.
after they were perfectly recovered. My ifland was
now peopled, and I thought myſelf a king, rich in
fubjects: but what was extraordinary, they all owed
their lives to me and were ready to lay them down
in my fervice. The Spaniard, who had expreffed
the utmoft gratitude for his deliverance, gave me
an account of the fhipwreck, & the fituation of his
companions; and it was refolved that Friday's
father and the Spaniard, fhould go in the boat to
and fetch them over: but the neceffity of increaf
ing our stock of corn before this was done, made
us delay it for fix months; we all joined in plant
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ing and fencing, and our next harveſt being got in,
they fet out in one of the canoes.
About eight days after they were gone, Friday
wakened me one morning, by crying out Mafter
they are come. I dreffed and hafted to the top of
the hill, and plainly diſcovered an Engliſh ſhip ly-
ing at anchor. At first I felt in my mind a tumult
of joy, which was foon turned into fear; for tho’
I knew them to be my countrymen, I had reafon
to dread them as enemies. Inftead of going to-
wards them as I ſhould have done, had it not been
for thefe alarming doubts, I ftayed where I was,
and was foon convinced that to my fufpicions I
owed my ſafety.
They ran the boat afhore on the beach, and ele-
ven men landed, three of them unarmed, who by
their geftures feemed to be prifoners; and one of
them I could perceive ufing the moft paffionate
geftures of entreaty, affliction and defpair, while
the two others, though their grief feemed lefs ex-
travagant, appeared pleading for mercy. At this
fight I was fliffened with horror, and Friday called
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out to me in his broken Engliſh, O mafter! you fee
Engliſhmans eat priſoners as well as favage mans.
No no, faid I, Friday, I am afraid they will mur-
der them: but you may be fure they won't eat them.
At this inftant I ſaw a villain lift up his arm to kill
one of the prifoners; but he did not ftrike him. I
wifhed now for the Spaniard and Friday's father,
who was gone with him. While they had been
parlying with their prifoners, the water had ebbed
away from their boat, leaving her aground; and I
heard one of them fay to another, who was going
to it, Why let her alone Jack, it will be afloat
next tide; this confirmed to me that they were, my
countrymen. I knew now to my uneafinefs, that
they would have ten hours to ramble about
ifland; I therefore defigned to attack them as foon
as it was dark; but a few hours after, as I faw
none of them rambling about, I imagined they were
afleep all but the three diftreffed men who fat un-
der the fhelter of a tree, but a little way from me.
To them I went with my man Friday, and faid to
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they ſtarted at the noife; but prepared to fly. I
then faid in English, Gentlemen, perhaps you may
have a friend near you, whom you would little ex-
pect.
He must be fent directly from heaven, faid
one of them bowing; for our condition is paft the
help of man. All help is from heaven, Sir, I re-
plied; I fee you are in diſtreſs, and am willing to
ferve you. The poor man with a guſh of tears,
anfwered, Am I talking to a man or an angel?
A man, an Engliſhman, I returned; ready to affift
and fave you Tell me your cafe. I was com-
mander of that ſhip, he replied; my men have mu-
tinied against me, and if they do not murder me,
they intend to leave me, and thefe two gentlemen
ahore in this defolate place, they are but in that
thicket, and I tremble for fear they fhall, have feen
you, and heard us fpeak; if they have they will
murder us all. I aſked what arms they had got,
and finding they had got no more than one piece of
fire arms among them, I told him it was eafy to
kill them all while they were afleep, or to take
them prifoners. He replied, that there were two
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incorrigible villains among them to whom it would
not be fafe to fhew mercy. I then gave each of
them a mufket, and advifed them to fire among
them at once; but he was cautious of hedding
blood. In the midſt of our diſcourſe ſome of them
waked and two walked from the reft. The captain
faid he would gladly ſpare them. Now, faid I, if
the reft eſcape you, it is your fault. Animated
with this they went to the failors, and the cap-
tain referving his own piece, the two men fhot
one of the villains dead, and wounded the other.
He who was wounded cried out for help, when the
captain knocked him down with the stock of his
mufket. There were three more in company, one
of whom was wounded. They begged for merek,
and I coming up, gave orders for fparing fr
lives, on condition of their being bound hand and
foot while they ſtayed in the iſland.
While we were binding them, Friday and the
captain's mate fecured the boat and brought away
the oars and fail. The noife of our guns brought
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to be bound, our victory was complete. We then
confulted together how to recover the ſhip, there
being ftill twenty fix men on board. We knocked
a great hole in the bottom of the boat that they
might not carry her away; and while we were
doing it, we heard the fhip fire a gun, as a figal
for the boat to come on board. A little after ano-
ther boat, with ten men and fire arms, approached
the fhore. We had a full view of them as they
came; the captain told me three of them were
peaceable fellows; but the reft were defperate
wretches. The moft fufpicious of our prifoners,
we fent bound into the cave. Two we kept with
us ftill pinioned, and the mate and failor we ventur-
et into our fervice. We were now feven men
warmed, and thought ourfelves a match for thoſe
that were coming.
As foon as they got to the place where the other
boat lay, they ran the boat on the beach, and came
all on fhore. They hallooed aloud for their come
panions; feemed in the utmoft aftoniſhment at the
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and rowed from fhore; but quickly coming back
again, feven of them landed, leaving three in the
boat, who kept at a distance from the fhore. We
now loft all hopes of recovering the fhip; for we
imagined if we feized the feven men the reft would
return to the ſhip, and fhe would ſet fail; however,
we had no remedy but patience.
Thoſe who came on fhore kept clofe together,
marching up to the little hill, under which my
habitation lay. When at the top they fhouted &
hallooed: but did not care to venture far from
the fhore, and quickly returned back again. I then
ordered Friday and the mate to go to a rifing
ground, and fhout as loud as they could. They
heard the noiſe, and ran towards it, till they t
to the creek; they then called the boat to fet them
over. This was what I expected They having
croffed the creek, left two men in the boat, taking
the other with them. We left Friday and the
mate to pursue their bufinefs in decoying the fellows
up into the woods, by fhouting and hallooing, while
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in the boat, and the other afleep on the fhore.
This laft ftarting up at our approach, the captain
knocked him down, and called to him in the boat
to yield, or he was a dead man. This he did and
heartily joined us; he being one of thoſe who
had been forced through fear to join the mutiny.
Several hours after Friday came back, and told
me that they had heartily tired the men, by halloo
ing to them from different places; for he heard them
complain they were fo tired they could not walk.
At length we faw them all go to the boat, which
was aground in the creek, the tide having ebbed
out. When they faw the two mer gone, they call
ed to one another in the moit lamentable manner,
faying they were got into an inchanted ifland, that
it was either inhabited, and they fhould be murder-
ed, or that there were devils in it and they ſhould
be devoured. They hallooed and called their com-
rades by their names, and then ran about ringing
their hands like men in defpair; I drew my ambuf
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not be feen, and to get very near them before they
fired; but one of the principal ring-leaders of the
mutiny, with two of the crew came towards us,
and the captain was fo eager at having him in my
power, that he let fly, killed him and another on
the fpot; the third ran for it. I immediately ad-
vanced with my whole army, when the man we
took out of the boat, by my order, called to one of
them by his name.
Tom Smith. The fellow an-
fwered. Who is that, Robinfon! ay, ay, for
God's fake Tom throw down your arms and yield,
or you are all dead men this moment. Yield who
muſt we yield to fays Smith. Where are they
?
Here they are, fays he; here's our captain with
fifty men with him: the boatswain and Will Fry
are killed and I am a prifoner. Will they give us
quarter? fays Smith. The captain then called
out. You know my voice, if you lay down your
and fubmit, you fhall all have your lives but
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Atkins. Upon which Will Atkins called out
for God's fake, captain, fpare my life, the reft are
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captain very ill, at the beginning of the mutiny.
The captain told him he must lay down his arms at
difcretion & truft to the governor's mercy. Upon
which they all fubmitted, & the captain expoftula-
ted with them on their villainous treatment of him.
He told them, that the governor was an English-
man, who intended fending them all to England,
except Atkins, who was to be hanged the next
morning, and he bid him prepare for death.
It was now determined to feize the fhip, and the
captain chofe five of thofe he liked beft to affift him,
while I kept the reft as hoftages for their fidelity.
We then ftopped the breach in the broken boat, &
having manned them both, the captain went to the
him about midnight, got on board, and being faith-
ful feconded, they knocked down the fecond mate
and carpenter with the butt end of their mufkets,
and foon overcame all the reft. Killed the rebel.
captain, and fired feveral guns to give me final
of their fuccefs, which filled me with jo
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ftafy, telling me the fhip and cargo were all mine.
When I faw my deliverance thus put into my
hands, I was ready to fink with furprife; I was not
able to answer one word, but a flocd of tears bro't
me to myſelf, and a little while after I recovered
my fpeech. I then in my turn embraced him as
my deliverer, and we rejoiced together. When
we had talked a while, he called aloud to the boat,
and bid them bring the governor's prefent afhe
and indeed it was a prefent fit for a governor.
mong other things there was a very good fui of
cloath, with two ſhirts and a neckcloth. I drell f
myſelf in them, and then appeared as governor
fore the prifoners. Iafked them what they had
in their defence, telling them I had power to execute
them there. They pleaded the captain's prom
of mercy, and then told them that I intended to
pafenger in the fhip, with all my men ; but
they, if they went could only go as prifoner 66
ferving however, that they might, if they chofe i
fly in the ifland. This they gladly acceptedy and
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returning to the ſhip got every thing ready for my
recption.
When he was gone, I talked to the men, told
them my ftory, and how I managed all my houſe-
hold bulinefs; left a letter for the fifteen Spani-
ards, and made them promife to treat them in
common with their felves. The next day I went
en board the fhip taking Friday with me; but did
not weigh that evening, and before we got off,
two of the men fwam to us from the fhore, defir-
ing to be taken in, or they would be murdered, to
which we agreed, and they afterwards became ho-
neft fellows. On the other hand, two men in the
hip, fearing to be called to an account in Enge
land, took the pinnace, and joined their old com-
rades on fhore. Thus I left the ifland, after being
on it twenty-eight years.
On my arrival in England, I was as perfect
ftranger as if I had never been known there; my
faithful ſtewart, the widow, was become poor my
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living. The merchant concerned in the ſhip I had
faved, heard the captain's ftory, invited me to an
entertainment, and made me a prefent of near 200l.
I then went to Liſbon, to ſee after my effects in
the Brafils, and found the generous captain, who
had been fo much my friend, ftill alive, and he put
me in the way of recovering the produce of my
plantations. And a few months after there arrived
hips in the Tagus, with effects for my ufe, to the
amount of 50,000l. befides 10col. a year, which
I expected to receive annually from my plantations.
Having converted my money into bills of ex-
change, I refolved to travel to England by land,
over the Pyrenian mountains. Poor Friday was
terribly frightened when he faw mountains coyer-
ed with fnow, and felt cold weather. As we were
travelling, our guide was affaulted by two wolves;
when, inftead of drawing his piftol, he called out
to uš, and I bid Friday haften to ſee what was the
matter; when like a bold fellow he rode up and
that the wolf which had faftened on the man and
she other which had faftened on the horſe Red. At
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the report of his piftol we haftened up, and faw in
what manner he had delivered our guide; when on
a fudden a monftrous bear rufhed out of a wood,
which furpriſed us all, except Friday, who with
joy and courage in his countenance, cried O! O!
O! mafter, if you give me leave, me fhakee te hand
with him, me makee you good laugh. You fool,
faid I, he'll eat you up. Eatee me up, me makce
you much laugh. The bear walked foftly on, till
Friday coming pretty near, calls as if the bear
could understand him, Harkee, harkee, me fpeakee
wit you, and then flung a great ſtone at his head.
As foon as he felt the ftone, he came after him with
monftrous long ftrides. Away ran Friday towards
us as if he wanted help. Is this your making us
laugh, you dog? faid I in a paffion, mount your
hofe, that we may fhoot the creature.
No foots
no foot, faid he, you get much laugh, and laying
down his gun he climbed up a tree. The bear
ftopped to fmell at the gun, and climbed the tree
after him, when Friday getting to the fmall end of
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fell to fhaking the bough, crying, Now you fee me
teachee the bear dance. The creature turned to
fee which way he fhould go back, and Friday fays,
What you come no farther, pray you come farther.
You no come farther, me go. You no come to me,
me come to you. Then bending the bow down he
flipped off of it, and taking up his gun ftood ftill.
The bear finding his enemy gone, came with the
hinder-end foremoft down the tree: when Friday
clapping the muzzle of his gun to his ear, fhot him
dead. Then turning to us he cried, So me kill
bear in my country, So you kill them, faid I, you
rogue, why you have no guns. No, faid he, no
gun, but great much long arrows. During the refe
of this journey we were terribly peftered by the
wolves, of which we killed feventy. I however
arrived fafe at Dover, with all my wealth about
me, when I placed the good widow who had been
my fteward, in eafy circumftances.
Some time after I married, and not knowing
how to live without employment, retired into the
country to a little farm; but in the middle of the
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felicity my wife died, leaving me three children.
By the lofs of my fage counsellor, I became like a
Thip without a pilot that could only fail before the
wind. One of my brother's children I had brought
up to fea, and had given him a fhip. He was going
to China, and came one morning to afk me if
would go with him to fee my beloved iſland. I
had had fuch a romantic' ſcheme for fome time in
my thoughts, and therefore readily cloſed with his
propofal. Having made my will, and fettled my
eftate upen my children, we fet fail, taking with
me fome fervants, two carpenters, a fmith, and an
ingenious fellow whom I called my Jack-of-all-
trades, with a confiderable quantity of all kinds of
neceffaries, for the ufe of my fubjects on the island.
"In this voyage we took on board the paffengers
and crew of a fhip, confumed by fire, and fet them
on fhore at Newfoundland, and foon after relieved
another fhip, where all on board were perifhing
for want of proviñons. On board this laft were,
three paffengers and an old lady, her fon, and a maid
fervant, who were fo neglected by the hungry fai-
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iors, that they were barely alive when we meet
them; and the old lady died that night. The youth
and the maid went with us to my ifland, as did a
young prieſt whom we took out of the other fhip.
As foon as we came in fight of it, I called to
Friday, and aſked him if he knew where he was,
when clapping his hands he cried, O yes, O there,
and danced and capered like a mad fellow. Now
Friday, faid I, we fhall fee your father; at which
he looked very dejected, and with his tears running
down his face, faid, No, no, no fee him mare, no
ever more fee again. He long ago die, long ago.
He much old man.
When we went on fhore, at the tide of the flood,
the first man I faw was the Spaniard, whofe life I
had faved. I had ordered that no one ſhould land
but myfelf; however, there was no keeping Fri-
day on board, for he faw his father, and he flew
like an arrow out of a bow. If there was the fame
affection in our part of the world, we ſhould have
no need of the fifth commandment.
The Spaniard I mentioned came towards the
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boat, carrying a flag of true, and he did not know
me till I spoke to him in Portuguese. When giv
ing the mufket to the man that was with him, he
threw his arms abroad to embrace me, faying he
was inexcufable in not knowing his good angel &
deliverer. I went with him to my old habitation,
which was made far ftronger than when I left it.
When I enquired the reafon of this, he told me
the three barbarians, not contented with being
moderately their mafters, wanted to be their mur-
derers, and they had been obliged to difarm them.
The only juſt thing the rogues did, was to give
them the letter, and paper of directions I left for
them. The Spaniards who were brought over by
Friday's father, worked for them, while they ram-
bled about the iſland catching tortoifes, & fhooting
parrots. With this they were contented, and they
went on pretty well, but the three brutes would:
not let their two countrymen, who afterwards
came on fhore, live with them; but they being in-
duftrious fellows, built themfelves two little huts
at a diſtance, cultivated fome land, and had a little
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thriving farm, when the unnatural rafcals told them
that the illand was theirs by the gift of the gover-
nor, and that they fhould not build upon their land,
without paying them rent.
The two honeft men,
as I call them for diftinction, believing they jefted,
cold them they ſhould get a fcrivener to draw up
the writing, but the villains answered, that they
were not in jeſt, and immediately fet fire to one of
their huts; blows enfued, in which the two got
the better of the three; however the rafcals, who
ftill loved to do miſchief, deſtroyed their corn on
the ground, and tore up their plantations. The
Spaniards reproved them for their cruelty to their
countrymen; but the rogues faid the ifland was
theirs, and the others fhould be their fervants.
They then treated them alſo with the utmoſt in-
folence, ſo that the Spaniards were obliged to dif-
arm them; but on promife of better behaviour,
they let them have their arms again, which they
had not poffeffed a week, when they began to threa-
ten and bully the two Engliſhmen as before.
About this time a great number of favages of dif
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ferent nations landed, and fought a battle, in which
thirty-two were killed upon the fpot. Three of
the routed party ran up into the woods, who being
taken prifoners, they made them their flaves.
Their terror of the favage armies made them all
friends for ſome time, but about two years after,
they were obliged again to difarm thofe turbulent
Englishmen, who had almoſt killed one of the
flaves, and ftruck at the Spaniard with a hatchet.
They obliged them now to live in a different
part of the iſland; and cultivate the earth for them-
felves, when the mad rogues, weary of working,
took the canoe, and went among the favages to get
them fervants. The people treated them very
civilly, and in exchange for a knife, a hatchet, and
fix or feven bullets, gave them eleven men, and
five women, whom they had taken prisoners to
eat; and they were obliged to hurry away, or they
would have compelled them to begin their inhuman
feaft.
Before they came to the island, they fet eight of
their prifoners at liberty. The Spaniards would
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not marry any of the women, but each of the
Englishmen chofe one of them for his wife, and
afterwards became more civilized.
They had now another vifit from the favages;
they kept cloſe while they were in the ifland;
but when they faw them embark, had the curiofity
to go to the place where they had been; when to
their furpriſe, they found 3 favages left faft afleep
upon the fhore. They could not think of killing
thefe naked wretches, and did not want fervants,
however they took them prifoners; but unfortu-
nately one of them made his efcape, and foon af-
ter returned with a large body of his countrymen.
This fellow had been kept at one of the huts of the
honeft Englishmen, and thefe two poor men had but
juſt time to remove their wives and children, be-
fore they faw their houfes in flames. On this they
retreated, and fent a flave to the Spaniards for
help. They, however, halted at the entrance of a
thick wood, when two of the favages running di
rectly towards them, they climbed into a high trees
They now faw three following the two, & five more
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following at a diſtance. They let the two firſt pals,
then fired at three; the firft they killed, and wound-
ed the fecond, who was the fugitive prifoner that
had brought all this mifchief upon them. The five
behind terrified at the report of the guns, ftood
ftill; but the yells and ſcreams of their wounded
companion brought them all in a huddle about him.
Both the Englishmen now let fly together, and as
the five fell down, they thought they had killed
them all; and therefore without charging their
pieces, they defcended from the tree, and went bold-
ly to the place where they found four alive, two
of them but very little hurt, and one of them not
at all; but they foon put the wounded man out of
his pain with the flocks of their mufkets; and then
bound the unhurt man hand and foot, and left him.
They then went to the retreat where they had
left their wives, and found that the two first men
had been near the place in fearch of them. Herd
feven of the Spaniards came to their affiftance,
bringing with them the favage whom they had left
bound,~ Emboldened by this aſſiſtance, they re-
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folved to go in queft of the other favages. They
difcovered that they had attempted to carry off the
dead, and foon after they faw them all embark.
About fix months after this they were invaded
by a moſt formidable fleet, 28 canoes full of fava-
ges, armed with bows and arrows, great clubs and
wooden fwords. To oppoſe this force there were
17 Spaniards, 5 Englishmen, old Friday, and 6
flaves. To arm theſe they had 16 mufkets, 5 pif-
tols, 3 fowling pieces, 2 fwords, and 3 old halberts.
To the flaves they gave each a halbert, or a long
ſtaff pointed with iror, and a hatchet, two of the
women would need fight, and had bows and ar
rows, and each a hatchet, the old Spaniard, whofe
life I had faved, commanded, and Will A-
kins, one of the three daring Engliſhmen, dom-
manded under him.
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The favages came forward like lions, and Atkins
with five men, being placed behind a thicket with
orders to let the firft pafs, he fuffered about fifty to
go, and then ordered three of the men to fire their
muſkets, which were loaded with fix or føven bula
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lets a piece, among the thickeft of them. How
many they killed they knew not, but the poor wret-
shes feemed frighted to the laft degree. Then the
other three fired, and after them the first three in
lefs than a minute. Had they now retired, as they
were ordered, it would have been well; but ftay-
ing to charge again, fome favages at a diftance faw
them, and furrounded them behind, wounded At-
kins himself, and killed an Englishman, a Spani
ørd, and a gallant Indian ſlave, who with no other
weapon but an armed ftaff and a hatchet, killed five
men.
Atkins was obliged to retire, as were alſo the
Spaniards, who had behaved with great galantry,
killing about fifty of their enemies. Atkins, tho'
wounded, would have had the governor march and
charge them in a body; but the Spaniard replied,
Seignior Atkins, let them alone till morning, when
they will be ſtiff with their wounds, and faint with
lofs of blood. That's true, Seignior, replied At-
kini, but fo fhall I too, and that's the reafon why
I would go while I am warm. Seignior Atkins,
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returned the Spaniard, you have behaved gallant-
ly, and done your part, and therefore we will fight
for you. But it being a clear moon-light night
they refolved to fall on them; eight of them let fly
among the favages, and then eight more; loading
and firing as faft as they could Then they rani
in three parties among them, and did great execu-
tion, killing in the two fights 180. The reft with
nimble feet got to the fea fide, where their canoes
lay; but they could not embark, for it blew a ter
rible ſtorin, and the next morning the canoes were
driven by the furge of the fea fo far upon the fhore
that it required infinite labour to get them off..
Will Åtkins now adviſed the commander to de-
ftroy their canoes, and they foon made them unfic
for fwimming at fea, this made the poor wretches
quite defperate; they ran about the ifland, pulled
my plantation at the bower to pieces; trod the corn
underfoot, and did our men ineftimable damage,
who were forced to hunt them like wild beats,
However when they were reduced by hunger and
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ted, and the Spaniards gave them food, with all
kind of neceffaries, and permitted them to have a
plantation. Theſe people foon became civilized,
for the Spaniards and English went among them;
though the Indians were forbid, on pain of death,
to go to their ſettlements.
This was the fituation of the iſland at my arris
val with the addition of twenty little children, for
the women had all been fruitful. My coming was
a particular relief, becauſe I furniſhed them with
knives, fhovels, pick-axes, and every thing they
could want.
When the Spaniards and English were all af-
fembled, I told them I came to eſtabliſh them
there, and not to remove them: but before I de-
livered them the ftores I had brought, I aſked them
one by one if they could fhake hands with ach
other, and engage in a ftrict friendship and union
of intereft, fo that there might be no more miſun-
derſtanding amongst them. Will Atkins faid very
frankly, they had met with afflictions enough to
make them all fober, and enemies enough to make
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them all friends: that for his part he would live
and die with them, and if I defired it, would aſk
the Spaniards pardon for the brutiſh things he had
done to them; but the Spaniard faid he had beha-
ved fo gallantly in fighting against their common
enemies, that he merited being trufted, and then
moft heartily embraced this occafion of affuring
him, that they never wifhed to have any feparate
intereft. Upon thefe frank declarations of friend-
hip, we made a fplendid feaſt, dining all together.
We had fix pieces of beef and four of pork out of
the fhip; our punch bowl, and materials to fill it;
ten bottles of claret, and ten of beer; and the Spa-
niards roafted five whole kids, fome of which
were fent to our feamen on board. At this feaſt
we were innocently merry, and then I produced
my cargo, and prefented the artificers I had bro't
with I took on fhore with me the young man
whofe mether was ftarved to death, and the maid
with the French ecclefiaftic, we had faved out of
the burning fhip. This prieft, who was a very
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and, faid, with great good manners, that I ought
to attempt the converfion of my favage fubjects,
and to have the women lawfully married to the
men they lived with. I told him I could not ftay
for the firft, and as to the laft, I would fpeak to
the men about it. He then faid in a kind of exta-
cy, if I would give him leave he would stay in the
ifland to be their inftructor, adding, he should be
thankful if he could be the happy inftrument of
converting these thirty-feven favages, though he
never fet his foot off the iſland while he lived.
Some time after this I converfed with my En-
glishmen about their wives; and Will Atkins, as
fpokefman for the reft, faid, that if any man would
carry him to England, & make him captain of the
beft fhip in the navy, he would not go without he
might carry his wife and children with him, and
that he would be married the next day, if there
was a clergyman upon the ifland. I then inform-
ed them that the French gentleman was a minifter,
and that they should be married the next morning;
but before this pious pricft would perform the ce-
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remony, he wanted to perfuade the men to con-
vert their wives; but as they did not underſtand
French, nor he English, I was their interpreter on
both fides. He told them, that he was afraid they
were but indifferent Chriftians, and unless they
would promiſe to teach their wives as well as they
could, he would not marry them. Lord, Sir, faid
Will Atkins, how fhould we teach them religion!
we know nothing of it ourfelves. If I was to tell
my wife of God and Chrift, and Heaven and hell,
and that wicked people went to the Devil, fhe
would aſk me where I intended to go? The priest
faid, let him but repent himſelf, and he'll foon be-
come an excellent preacher to his wife. The fel-
low feemed much affected, and faid he would have
fome talk with her.
While he was gone, the prieſt married the other
three couple. Will Atkins then came in, and I
began to talk to him, and aſked him who was his
father He answered a better man than I ever ſhall
be, he was a clergyman; he would have given me
a good
education ; but like a beaſt I deſpiſed all
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inftruction. I murdered my poor father; for my
bad behaviour broke his heart. But how comes
this to touch you juſt now, Will, I replied. Why,
faid he, you fet me to teach my wife, and fhe has
been preaching fuch a fermon to me, as I shall ne-
ver forget. I told her God had appointed marrie
age; when ſhe told me I had no God in my coun-
try; and when I laughed at her for faying fo, fhe
faid No laugh, Why laugh me! This nothing to
laugh. If God makee me, why you no tell me long
ago. Have you de great God in your country, you
no know him? No Jay O to him! No do good ting
for him? that no impoffible ! I replied it was very
true for all that. Why, faid fhe, he no makee you
good live? You say me he is great, can make me
kill when he will. Why be no makee kill when
you no ferve him? He no know. Yes I anfwer-
ed, he knows and fees all things, and hears us
fpeak. What! returned the, he no hear you fiwear,
curfe, fpeak the great damn! Yes, yes, he hears
it all, I cried. Where he then the muchee great
power strong! He never makee kill, never angry
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when we do wicked, then be no good himself, or
no great able. Yes, my dear, fays I, he does
fometimes puniſh in this world, and many are cut
off in their fins, and then go to hell where they are
miferable forever. He no makes you dead! fhe re-
turned, and you no tell him tank you for all that!
I am an ungrateful dog, that's true, I returned.
I wish you makee me know God, the replied, I no
make him angry; I no do bad wicked ting. I'll
pray to God to teach you, he replied; when the
returned, He give all ting, then he makee me good,
if I wish to be good; he ſpare me, no makee kill me
when I no be me take, think, believe him to be
great God, me will tank him with you my dear.
Atkins faid, that he could here forbear no longer,
but prayed with his wife. In a word, the poor
woman, after fome converfation with the prieſt, in
which I was interpreter, defired of herself to be
baptized, which was done, and fhe was afterwards
married; and my Jack-of-all-trades was married
to the woman whom I had faved from ſtarving.
Soon after this, having, by my fovereing autho-
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rity, divided the lands amongst them to prevent
quarrelling, I left the iſland; but I had not been
from it three days, when we diſcovered a great
number of canoes, which came very near us, on
which we made figns for them to put back, which
they did; but diſcharged about fix hundred arrows
at us, and wounded one of our men.
Being unwilling to fire upon them, I ordered
Friday to speak to them, when inſtantly they dif-
charged another flight of arrows, that killed poor
Friday, no other man being in their fight. Enrag-
ed at the lofs of my old fervant, I gave them a broad
fide which overfet many of their canoes, and the
reft fled fo faft that in a little time there was not
one to be ſeen.
We now fteered to the Eaft-Indies, ftayed a few
days at the Cape of Good Hope, where we took in
freſh water, and failed to Madagascar, where the
people behaved with civility, and traded with our
men; but one night, many of the crew being on
ſhore, and I in the boat, which was at anchor very
near it, we heard them fire their guns, and call
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aloud for the affiftance of the boat. We foon row-
ed to fhore; but our men were in too much hafte
and jumped into the water; for they were purſued
by three or four hundred of the natives. Seven
of them we took up, one was killed in the begin-
ning of the fray, and one was left behind. I found
that this outrage proceeded from the fellow that
was miſſing, who endeavoured to be rude to a girl,
that came to fell them milk. I was unwilling te
go & leave the fellow in the hands of thefe barbari-
ans, and therefore the next night we went on fhore.
We landed without any noife, but could not find
him we wanted. I was then for going aboard, bur
they refolved to feek for their companion in the
Indian town, which was at a little diftance; nor
could I diſſuade them from this mad exploit. Their
firſt deſign was only plunder! but ſeeing there
comrade mangled and hung upon a tree, they were
fo enraged, that they fet fire to the town in three
places. My nephew, who was in the ſhip at a
diftance, feeing the flames, came with thirteen
men to the boat where I was. He was ſurpriſed
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to fee me and the fupercargo in the boat. with no
more than two failors; but however he refolved to
go after his men, and I went with him. When
we came near the town, we faw three women
ftark naked, and after them fixteen or feventeen
men flying in the greateft confternation, purſued
by three of our English butchers. My very foul
fhrunk within me, and I verily believe, had our
three English failors continued pursuing I should
have ordered our men to fire upon them. Some of
the poor flying wretches were miferably burnt.
We foon faw our boatswain, who was one of the
forwardeft in thefe acts of cruelty. He fet up a
fhout of triumph at feeing me; captain, noble
captain, I am glad you are come, cried he, villains,
hell hounds, dogs, we have fworn to fpare none of
them; I'll kill as many of them as poor Tom had
hairs. Barbarous wretch, cried I, what are you
doing? ſtand ſtill, or you are a dead man this
minute, Why, fir, faid he, if you want a reaſon for
what we have done, look here: he then fhewed
me the poor fellow hanging by one arm, with his
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throat cut. At this fight my nephew, and thoſe
we brought with us, were as enraged as thofe who
had been in the maffacre, and went altogether to
finish their bloody work, leaving with me only the
fupercargo, and two other men with whom I walk-
ed back to the boats, and returned on board, ſend-
ing the pinnance back to fetch the men, who got
en board in the morning, unhurt, except one of
them being a little fcorched, and another having
fprained his ancle.
I was extremely angry with my nephew and all
the men, about this affair; and at laft, on my fre-
quently fhewing my abhorrence of this maffacre, as
I always called it, they mutined. I was then on fhore
at Bengal, and one and all faid they would leave
the ſhip, if ever I fet foot in it. My nephew, the
captain, was obliged to comply, but fent me money
and other neceffaries.
I took lodging in the houfe of an English wo-
man, where I got acquainted with a merchant; we
bought a fhip, and went a voyage to China, which
proved very fuccefsful, and made another to the
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fpice iflands, with the like good fortune. We
then bought a large veffel; but this purchaſe had
like to have coft us our lives; for the people of
whom we had bought her, having had their cap-
tain killed on fhore, had ran away with the fhip,
and turned pirates: this we heard in the river
Cambodia, which obliged us to fly, and were pur-
fued by five of the East India company's boats,
which we kept off with our guns, and made the
beſt of our way to Tonqain, under the utmoft ter-
ror of being feized and hanged as pirates. Our
ſhip having ſprung a leak, we here laid her down
to ſtop it.
While fhe was in this condition, the natives not
feeing our men, came round us in twelve large
boats, fuppofing it to be a wreck; we were in an
ill poſture for fighting, all hands being at work re-
pairing the fhip's bottom, and immediately fet about
righting the fhip: but before we could do it, they
had boarded our long boat to make prifoners of
fome of our men.
The first they feized was an Engliſhman, who
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inftead of firing his muſket he had in his hand, laid
it down in the boat and feizing the fellow by the
ears, he by main force dafhed his brains out againſt
the gunnel; while a Dutchman, with the but-end
of the muſket, knocked down five of them. In
the mean time a fellow who attended the carpen
ter with a kettle of boiling pitch, faluted the Pa-
gans with a ladle of the hot ftuff, which the car-
penter ſeeing, cry'd, well done, Jack, and dipping
a mop into the boiling pitch, fprinkled it profufely
over them, which made them howl moft dreadfully's
and another kettle of the fame materials gave us
a compleat victory without firing a gun.
We left this bay the next morning, and failed to
Nanquin, when to our great joy we fold our veſſel
to a merchant of Naan, and afterwards travelled
with a large caravan, through China, Siberia,
Muscovy, and arrived at London on the 11th of
January, 1705; having been abfent from England
this laft time, ten years and nine months. And,
now refolved to harraſs myſelf no more, I am pre-
paring for a longer journey than all thoſe, for I
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have lived feventy two years, chequered with in-
finite variety, and have been taught fufficiently the
value of retirement, and the bleffing of ending my
days in peace, and in the true worship of my
Almighty Deliverer. .
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