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 ' Number 25 May 1,1897 
 
 ~ ROBINSON CRUSOE 
 
 BY 
 DANIEL“DEFOE 
 
 | EDITED FOR YOUNG READERS, WITH AN INTRODUCTION 
 FOR TEACHERS BY- 
 
 EDWARD R. SHAW 
 
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 ROBINSON “CRUSOE 
 
 FROM THE NARRATIVE OF 
 
 DANIEL DEFOE 
 
 EDITED FOR YOUNG READERS 
 
 WITH AN INTRODUCTION FOR TEACHERS BY 
 
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INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Tur educational value of our English classic, ‘‘ Robinson Crusoe,” 
 was discovered for us by German educators. The employment 
 of this narrative in German schools for other ends than those it 
 would subserve when regarded merely as a literary production and 
 the ideas and interests developed through its study have led to its 
 employment in American schools. It has formed an addition of 
 great worth to our course of study, and must be regarded as one 
 of the commendable factors towards its enrichment. 
 
 Sufficient test has already been made with the story of ‘‘ Robinson 
 Crusoe” to place it in the third school year. It is at this period of 
 the pupil’s development that the story will yield him, I believe, the 
 greatest good. Some educators would present the story orally in 
 the second school year, and put the printed form into the pupil's 
 hands in the third year. Such a method of treatment, it will be 
 readily seen, is determined by the aim which the educator has in 
 view. In this particular, I am inclined to hold the opinion that the 
 freshness and interest of the story ought not to be anticipated by 
 oral presentation in the second school year. 
 
 The interest that children manifest in this story may not be 
 denied. Those qualities which, in the main, have rendered the 
 narrative so fascinating to older readers since its publication nearly 
 two hundred years ago, are also the qualities which appeal to young 
 
 readers and elicit their interest. Robinson Crusoe, an ordinary 
 » young man, with no gifts to distinguish him above the rank and file 
 of his fellows, yields to the impulse which thousands of young men 
 of every generation have felt to see something beyond their native 
 horizon, to go out and try the great world. Disregarding the 
 
4. INTRODUCTION. 
 
 advice of parents and taking all into his own hands, young Crusoe 
 sets forth. Hardships and evil fortunes come upon him, and at 
 last he is cast away upon an uninhabited island—a situation which, 
 from its very novelty, begets in the reader surprise and conjecture. 
 In this situation the hero, with that power common to all men, sets 
 to work to retrieve, as far as he can, his misfortunes and to adapt 
 himself to new and unknown conditions—conditions that rouse the 
 reader’s imagination to picture those with which man contended in 
 more primitive times. 
 
 It becomes a question, then, as to what this interest on the part of 
 pupils may be made to yield towards their mental development and 
 equipment. 
 
 In the first place, the absorbing interest in the adventures and 
 makeshifts of the hero stimulates the pupil to progress in acquiring 
 the power to read. Technique is, in this case, mastered because of 
 the inviting content. It is well to remember that the pupil learns 
 to read by reading, and that he will not read much that is uninviting. 
 
 In this edition extreme care has been exercised to introduce new 
 words very gradually in the first part of the book and to provide for 
 much repetition after their incorporation into the narrative, thus 
 obviating, to as great an extent as possible, the necessity for formal 
 drill upon them as mere words. 
 
 In the latter part of the book new words have been introduced 
 somewhat more rapidly, the pupil’s advancement at this stage making 
 this not only permissible, but advisable. 
 
 In the next place, after each chapter has been read, the pupil should 
 be led to give back its substance in oral form. In doing this he is 
 gaining power to grasp large thought-wholes as wholes and to set 
 these forth in such words as he can command. This exercise gives 
 the pupil one kind of training of great value—a kind, moreover, 
 which receives too little attention in American schools. 
 
 Another form of the presentation of these thought-wholes is their 
 written reproduction. Here large opportunity is afforded to give 
 the pupil practice in spelling, the use of capitals, and the more obvi- 
 ous requirements of punctuation. While, however, these formal 
 
INTRODUCTION. 5 
 
 ends are subserved, a more important result inures to the pupil in 
 the perception he gains from the reproduction in writing into the 
 sequence and connection of sentences to comprise a thought-whole. 
 A word of caution might be inserted here to the effect that it is 
 pest not to lay too much stress upon the errors made. Attention 
 should be called to these in a general way, but not to such a degree 
 as to render them unduly prominent in the pupil’s mind and thereby 
 hinder freedom of written expression. With proper guidance and 
 continued practice in written reproduction, pupils will gradually 
 work out of their errors and inaccuracies. 
 
 In the last place, and what must by no means be regarded as un- 
 important, is the discussion with the pupils, as the reading progresses, 
 of the many economic and social topics suggested by the narrative. 
 In this respect the story of ‘‘ Robinson Crusoe ” 
 and fruitful. 
 
 To this end, the teacher should call out the thought of the class 
 
 is especially rich 
 
 and then supplement this with her own on such topics as—1. The 
 dependence of man upon Nature. 2. The dependence of man upon 
 his fellows, leading directly to a consideration, in a simple manner, 
 of the division of labor in society. 8. Crusoe’s longing for com- 
 panionship, calling forth an appreciation of the notion that man is a 
 social being. 4. The responsibility of man towards others of his 
 fellows, introduced by the finding of Friday and the care of him. 0. 
 Crusoe’s religious nature, his recognition of God, his submission to 
 that higher Power, and the solace and spiritual aid these afford him 
 in bearing the hardships and loneliness which fell upon him. 
 
 The discussion of these topics and others plainly suggested in the 
 narrative, opens the pupil’s mind to an apprehension of certain ideas 
 of economic, social, and spiritual significance, and creates in his 
 mind centres of interest that will render him better able to appre- 
 ciate the institutional life in which he lives and which is his heritage 
 out of a long and mighty past. 
 
 University HEIGHTS, 
 New York Crry, August, 1897. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 . Roprnson’s First SHIPWRECK 
 
 . Roprinson Two Y@ARS A SLAVE 
 . ROBINSON’s SECOND SHIPWRECK 
 
 . ROBINSON MAKES A Rar . 
 
 . ROBINSON ALONE ON THE ISLAND 
 . RoBinson Buritps a House 
 
 . RoBINSON MAKES A CALENDAR. 
 . Roprnson’s LONELINESS 
 
 . FURNISHING THE HousE 
 
 . AN HARTHQUAKE 
 
 . Rosprinson Sick 
 
 . RoBINson’s CoUNTRY Houss 
 
 . RoBINSON’s JOURNEY TO THE OTHER SipE 
 
 OF THE ISLAND 
 
 . GRINDING CoRN AND Maxine BREAD 
 
 . RoBrnson Maxzs Aa Boat . 
 
 . ROBINSON Makes His Own CLOTHES 
 
 . RoBrInson AND His Faminy at DINNER . 
 . THE FoormMarRK IN THE SAND . 
 
 . RoBrinson Guarps His CastLE AND Frock 
 . Roprnson Szuzs A HEART-SICKENING SIGHT 
 . Ropinson Finps a BEAUTIFUL CAVE 
 
 . RoBInson SErs SAVAGES ON THE SHORE . 
 . A VESSEL IS WRECKED ON THE ISLAND 
 
 . RoBrinson’s DREAM 
 
 . RoBINSON Has A ComPANION AT Last 
 
 . Roprinson NaMzES THE SAVAGE FRIDAY 
 
 . Fripay LEARNS TO Work. 
 
 . Frrpay Becomes A CHRISTIAN. 
 
 . Fripay Trxtts Asout His Own Country 
 . RoBINSON AND FRIDAY MAKE A NEw Boar 
 . ROBINSON AND FripAy SAVE A SPANIARD’S 
 
 LIFE 
 
 . ERIDAY’S FATHER AND THE SPANIARD 
 . A SHIP AND Its Crew Come TO THE ISLAND 
 . RoBrinson HELpPs THE CAPTAIN. 
 . RoBINSON Gors Homs to ENGLAND 
 
ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 ROBINSON’S FIRST SHIPWRECK. 
 
 I was born at York in the year 1632. My father 
 was a merchant. I had two brothers. One of them 
 went to war and was killed in a battle. The other 
 left home, and we never heard of him again. As I 
 was the only child my parents then had, they 
 wished me to stay with them, and they said they 
 would do everything they could to make me happy. 
 
 But I did not like living at home. My head was 
 filled with thoughts of rambling, and nothing would 
 do for me but going to sea. My father, when he 
 heard of this, felt it very much, so he talked to me 
 a great deal about it. He told me that if I would 
 stay with him he would do well by me, and that I 
 should have an easy and a happy life, but that if I 
 would go away in spite of the advice and wish of 
 my parents, God would not bless me. Some evil, 
 he said, would happen to me where there would be 
 no one to help me, and I would be sorry when too late. 
 
ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 Iwas much touched by my father’s words, so I 
 made up my mind to think no more of going to sea. 
 But very soon I again began to have thoughts of 
 rambling, and being now eighteen years of age, I 
 made up my mind to run away from home. One 
 day happening to be at Hull, a seaport town not 
 far from York, I met a friend who was going to 
 London in a ship belonging to his father. He asked 
 me to go with him, telling me that it would cost me 
 nothing, and he pressed me so hard that at last I 
 said I would go. 
 
 We went on board the same day and set sail for 
 London. But our ship was only a little way out 
 of the harbor when a great storm came on, which 
 made the waves rise mountain high. As I had 
 never been at sea before, I was dreadfully sick 
 and much frightened. I thought that every wave 
 would swallow us up. 
 
 I now began to think upon what I had done. I 
 thought of the advice my father had given me, and 
 how I had gone away from home without telling 
 him. I felt that the storm was sent upon me from 
 Heaven for thus leaving my parents. In my great 
 fear I said many times that if God would spare my 
 life on this voyage, I would go straight home to my 
 father as soon as I set foot on dry land, and never 
 go on a ship again. | 
 
ROBINSON’S FIRST SHIPWRECOK. 9 
 
 I had these wise thoughts as long as the storm 
 lasted. But next day the wind ceased blowing and 
 the sea became calm. The sun shone out bright, 
 and his beams falling upon the water, made a sight 
 which I thought the finest I had ever seen. I slept 
 well that night, for I was no longer sea-sick. My 
 fears too had left me, and I forgot what, during the 
 storm, I had said I would do. 
 
 But soon another storm came on. The sixth day 
 of our being at sea we came into Yarmouth Roads. 
 Here the wind began to blow much harder than 
 before, so that even the sailors were frightened. I . 
 could hear the captain, as he went in and out of 
 the cabin, say to himself several times: “ Lord, be 
 merciful to us! we shall all be lost.” 
 
 As for myself I lay in the cabin quite stupid 
 with sickness and fear. But the worst was yet to 
 come. In the middle of the night one of the sailors 
 cried out that there was four feet of water in the 
 hold. Then all hands were called to the pump. 
 At that word my heart, as I thought, died within 
 me, and I fell back on the bed near which I had 
 been sitting in the cabin. But the sailors roused 
 me, and said that I was as well able to pump as 
 any one else. Then I went to the pump and 
 worked very hard. 
 
 While we were pumping out the water, the cap- 
 
10 ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 tain had one of the men fire a gun for luck. The 
 firing was heard by the people on a ship not far 
 ahead of us, and they sent a boat to help us. We 
 had great trouble in getting into the boat, as the 
 sea was so rough. We were not much more than 
 a’ quarter of an hour out of our ship when we saw 
 her sink, Then I knew for the first time what 
 was meant by a ship’s going down at sea, I[ 
 could hardly look up when the sailors told me she 
 was sinking, for I was almost dead with fright. 
 
 The men worked hard at the oars to bring the 
 boat to land, and we saw a great many people run- 
 ning along the beach to help us when we should 
 ~ come near. Soon afterwards we got safe on shore. 
 Then we walked to Yarmouth. Here we were 
 treated very kindly. Some of the merchants and 
 shipowners of the town gave us money enough to 
 pay our way to London or back to Hull. 
 
 CHAPTER IL. 
 
 ROBINSON TWO YEARS A SLAVE, 
 
 Ir I had now had the good sense to go home to 
 my parents, I should have been happy, but I was 
 still bent on rambling, and as I had money in my 
 pocket, I went to London. There I went on board 
 
ROBINSON TWO YEARS A SLAVE. Fi 
 
 a vessel bound to the coast of Africa on a trading 
 voyage. The captain was very kind to me. He 
 taught me how to steer a ship at sea and many 
 other things a sailor ought to know. 
 
 But our voyage was the most unhappy one man 
 ever made. For as we were sailing towards the 
 /Canary Islands we were set upon by a pirate or 
 robber ship belonging to the Moors, on the north- 
 west coast of Africa. We did our best to defend 
 ourselves, but the pirates were too strong for us. 
 So they took our ship and carried us all off to Sal- 
 lee, the place in Africa in which they lived. 
 
 This was a sad change for me. I now thought 
 with sorrow of what my father had said, that if I 
 did not take his advice some evil would happen to 
 me where I would have no one to help me. But 
 much worse was yet to come, as will be seen later 
 on in my story. 
 
 The captain of the robber ship kept me as his. 
 slave, and I lived with him for two years. But he 
 did not treat me so badly as I had feared. He 
 often went fishing in a boat along the coast, and he 
 always took me and a small boy named Xury with 
 him. Once he sent us out by ourselves. This was 
 the very thing I had long wished for. JI had never 
 given up hope of being some day able to get away, 
 and now the chance had come at last. 
 
12 ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 The fishing boat was a good-sized one, with sails 
 and a small cabin. Before starting I put im some 
 food and water. Then Xury and I set sail. We 
 steered straight out to sea until we lost sight of 
 land. J now told Xury that I did not mean to go 
 back to Sallee, for I had made up my mind to be no 
 longer a slave. I also told him I would be good to 
 him and take care of him if he would help me. He 
 said he would do so, and that he was willing to go 
 with me all over the world. 
 
 I then turned our little vessel to the southeast. 
 As the wind was fair and the sea smooth, we made 
 such good sail that by three o’clock in the after- 
 noon of the next day I was sure we were more than 
 a hundred miles from Sallee, and far beyond the 
 reach of my late master. But so great was my fear 
 of again falling into his hands that I would not stop 
 until we had sailed on in the same way for five 
 days. 
 
 We were now in sight of land, but I was afraid 
 to go ashore, not knowing what country it was or 
 what sort of people lived there. Giving the helm 
 to Xury, I went into the cabin and sat down to 
 think what I ought to do, when all on a sudden the 
 boy cried out, “Master! master! a ship! a ship!” 
 I rushed from the cabin and found him almost out 
 of his senses with fright. He thought it was a ship 
 
ROBINSON’S SECOND SHIPWRECK. 13 
 
 sent from Sallee by his old master to catch us. But 
 I soon saw that it was a European vessel, and I 
 waved a flag for help. The people on the ship see- 
 ing the flag, waited for us to come up to them. 
 They wondered very much when I told them my 
 story, and the captain took me and Xury on board 
 his vessel. 
 
 CHAPTER UL 
 ROBINSON’S SECOND SHIPWREOK. 
 
 I cannot tell how happy I was to be at last out 
 of danger of being again taken by the pirates. The 
 captain was very kind to us. He told me he would 
 carry us without charge to Brazil, where he was 
 then going. He wished to buy Xury, but I did not 
 like to sell the poor boy who had helped me in 
 gaining my freedom. However, as Xury himself 
 was willing, I let the captain have him. He said he 
 would treat him well and set him free in a few 
 years. He also bought the boat and all that I had 
 in it. 
 
 We arrived safe in Brazil after a voyage of twen- 
 ty-two days. I soon learned that the planters im 
 that country lived well and became rich, so I made 
 up my mind to be a planter. With the money that 
 the captain had given me for my boat and the other 
 
14 ROBINSON, CRUSOE. 
 
 things, I bought some land and. began to raise sugar 
 and tobacco. 
 
 I was now in a fair way of doing well, but I was 
 not yet content. My mind was still as full of 
 thoughts of travel as before I had left my father’s 
 house. One day some planters who were neigh-, 
 bors of mine came to me and told me they were 
 fitting out a ship to send to Africa for slaves. They 
 asked me to go as clerk to the captain, telling me I 
 should have a share of the slaves to pay me for 
 going. I gladly agreed, and so the ship was got 
 ready. In an evil hour for myself I went on board, 
 the 1st of September, 1659, the very day on which, 
 eight years before, I had left my father and mother 
 in spite of their good advice. 
 
 We set sail on the same day. Our ship carried 
 eleven men, besides the captain, his boy, and my- 
 self. In about twelve days we passed the equator, 
 and then a storm came on which took us quite out 
 of our course, so that we did not know where we 
 were. It blew so hard: that for many days we 
 could do nothing but drift away before the wind 
 and the high waves. None of us had any hope 
 of saving our lives. Two of our men and the boy 
 were washed overboard and drowned. 
 
 Early one morning there was a cry of “Land!” 
 We all rushed from the cabin to look out, but just 
 
ROBINSON’S SECOND SHIPWRECK. 15 
 
 then the ship struck upon a sand-bank and the sea 
 broke over her in such a way that we thought we 
 were about to be buried in the deep. One of our 
 two boats was broken by dashing against the ship’s 
 rudder. The mate laid hold of the other, and 
 with the help of the rest of the men got her over 
 the side of the vessel. Then we all jumped into 
 her and let her go. We were now in the wild sea, 
 and though we had no hope we worked hard at the 
 oars. We prayed to God, and pulled as well as we 
 could towards the land. But when we had rowed 
 about three miles, a huge wave, mountain high, 
 came rolling behind us. It struck us with such 
 force that it upset the boat at once and threw us 
 all into the sea. | 
 
 I cannot tell how I felt when I sank into the 
 water. Though I swam very well, I could not free — 
 myself from the waves so as to draw my breath, 
 till I was driven a long way in on the shore. I 
 then got on my feet and ran towards the land 
 as fast as I could. But soon I was overtaken by 
 another wave as high as a hill, and then another 
 which dashed me against a rock so that it left 
 me almost senseless. However, a little of my 
 strength came again, and [ held on to the rock till 
 the wave went back. Then I took another run. 
 This time I got to the mainland, where I climbed 
 
ROBINSON CRUSOE, 
 
 16 
 
 - 
 
 up the cliffs of the shore, and sat down upon the 
 grass, free from danger, and quite out of the reach 
 of the water. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 ROBINSON MAKES A RAFT. 
 
 I was now landed and safe on shore. The first 
 thing I did was to raise my eyes to Heaven and 
 give thanks to God for His mercy to me. I alone 
 was saved. My mates were all drowned. I never 
 saw them afterwards, or any sign of them except 
 three hats, one cap, and two shoes. 
 
 When I had rested myself a little, I walked about 
 on the shore to see what kind of a place I was in, 
 and what was next to be done. JI was in a very 
 wretched state. I was wet all over; I had no 
 change of clothes, nothing to eat or drink, and I 
 began to fear that I must die of hunger or be eaten 
 by wild beasts. I had no gun to kill any animal 
 for my food, or to defend myself against any animal 
 that might come at me. I had nothing about me 
 but a knife, a tobacco-pipe, and a little tobacco in a 
 box. This was all I had, and the thought of it put 
 me in such a state of mind that for a while I ran 
 about like a madman. 
 
 But it soon began to get dark, and I had to think 
 
ROBINSON MAKES A RAFT. 17 
 
 where I was to pass the night. I could not lie on 
 the ground for fear of wild animals, so the only 
 thing left for me to do was to get up into a thick 
 tree which I saw near me. But before doing this I 
 went to search for water, as I was very thirsty. To 
 my great joy I found some, and after taking a good 
 drink, I climbed into the tree, where I fixed myself 
 so that if I slept I should not fall down. I also 
 cut off a branch, and made out of it a short, thick 
 stick to defend myself with, if I should need to do 
 so. In a few minutes I fell fast asleep, for I was 
 very tired. 
 
 When I awoke it was broad daylight. The storm 
 was now over, and the sea was smooth. Looking 
 out upon the water, I saw that the ship had been 
 lifted off the sand-bank, and driven almost as far as 
 the rock against which I had been dashed. She 
 seemed to be standing upright, and not more than a 
 mile from the place where I was. 
 
 I now came down from my tree and began to 
 look about me again. ‘The first thing I saw was the 
 boat, which the sea had tossed up on the shore, 
 nearly two miles to the right of me. I started off 
 to walk to it, but I found a neck or inlet of water, 
 about half a mile broad, between me and where the 
 boat was. I then came back, and began to think of 
 
 trying to reach the ship. This I was able to do 
 2 
 
18 ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 about midday, when the tide was out so far that I 
 could walk to within a short distance of the wreck. 
 I pulled off my clothes, went down to the water 
 edge, and swam up to the vessel. I caught hold of 
 a rope which I saw hanging down her side, and 
 climbed to the deck. 
 
 The first thing I did was to search for food. I 
 was very glad to find that the ship’s store of food 
 had not been wet, and I took a handful of biscuit 
 and began to eat. While eating I looked about in 
 search of other things, for there was no time to lose, 
 as I had to get ashore before the coming in of the 
 tide. 
 
 I soon found a number of things which I knew 
 would be of use to me, but how was I to carry 
 them from the ship? I could think of no way ex- 
 cept a raft, and so I set about to make one. There 
 were several large spars of wood on the deck. I 
 flung as many of them overboard as I could handle, 
 taking care to tie each with a rope so that it might 
 not drift away on the water. 
 
 When this was done I went down the ship’s side, - 
 and pulling the spars towards me, I fastened four 
 of them together at both ends by means of ropes. 
 I then laid other spars on them crosswise. My raft 
 was now made, and I could walk upon it; but it 
 would not bear a very heavy weight, for the pieces 
 
ROBINSON MAKES A RAFT. 19 
 
 of wood were too light, so I set to work again. 
 With a carpenter’s saw which I found in the ship, I 
 cut a mast into three parts and laid these down and | 
 fastened them over the cross-spars. This made the 
 raft strong enough. | 
 
 The next thing to do was to load my raft. I 
 first laid upon it all the planks and boards I could 
 find. Then I made haste to get as much as I was 
 able of the things I should most want. I emptied 
 three of the seamen’s chests, and lowered them down 
 upon the raft. Into them I put bread, rice, three 
 Dutch cheeses, five pieces of goat’s flesh and the 
 remains of some corn in a bag which had been laid 
 by for fowl we had brought to sea with us. There 
 had been a little batley and wheat together, but 
 I afterwards found that the rats had eaten or 
 spoiled it. 
 
 While I was packing the chests I noticed that 
 the tide was coming in, and I saw that my coat, 
 shirt, and vest, which I had left on shore, had been 
 swept away. This put me in mind to look for 
 clothes on the ship, and I found some, but I took 
 only what I needed just then, for there were other 
 things I wanted to get, which I knew would be of 
 great use tome. After a long search I found the 
 carpenter’s chest of tools. This was of more value 
 to me than a shipload of gold would have been at 
 
ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 LOADING RAFT FROM WRECK. 
 
 that time. I also got two guns, two pistols, and a 
 pair of old swords. I knew there were three bar- 
 rels of gunpowder in the ship, and I searched until 
 I found them. 
 
ROBINSON MAKES A RAFT. 21 
 
 After putting all these things upon my raft, I 
 began to think how I should get it to the land. I 
 had neither sails nor oars, and a gust of wind might 
 upset my little store into the water. But the sea 
 was calm, the tide was setting in to the shore, and 
 a gentle breeze was blowing that way. All this 
 was in my favor. I had the good luck also to find 
 two or three broken oars belonging to one of the 
 boats, and two saws, an ax, and a hammer. 
 
 I now started off with my cargo, The raft went 
 very well, only that it drifted a little one side from 
 where I had landed before. I then saw that the 
 tide set towards that place, and I hoped to find 
 there some creek or river, up which I might get 
 to land with my goods. It turned out to be as I 
 had hoped. When I came near the shore I saw an 
 opening in the land, like the mouth of a river, which 
 it really was. I guided my raft into it as well as I 
 could, trying to keep in the middle of the stream. 
 
 Here I came very near losing my cargo, for one 
 end of the raft ran upon a shoal of sand, and the 
 other end being in the water, it sloped so that all 
 my things would have slipped off, had I not quickly 
 set my back against the chests to keep them in their 
 places. I had to remain in that way until the tide 
 rose higher, and floated my raft off the shoal. 
 
 Then I moved up the stream and soon came to a 
 
22 ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 little cove on the right-hand shore. Here I saw a 
 flat piece of ground which I knew the tide would, in 
 a little while, flow over. When this piece of ground 
 was covered with water about a foot deep, I thrust 
 the raft in, and fastened it by sticking the two 
 broken oars into the earth, one at one end and one 
 at the other. Then I waited till the tide went out, 
 and so I had my raft and cargo safe at last on dry 
 land. 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 ROBINSON ALONE ON THE ISLAND. 
 
 My next work was to find a safe place to store 
 my goods, and to fix upon some spot for myself to 
 live in. I did not yet know where I was, whether 
 the country was an island or a continent, or whether 
 there were people in it or not. There was a high 
 hill not far off, and I thought that if I should climb 
 to the top of it, I might see better what kind of a 
 place I was in. So I took a gun and a pistol and 
 some powder, and set off for the hill. 3 
 
 When I reached the top and gazed all around, I 
 found to my great grief that I was on an island. 
 On every side I saw the ocean spread out before 
 me, and there was no land in sight, except some 
 
ROBINSON: ALONE ON THE ISLAND. 23 
 
 rocks a long way off, and two small islands which 
 lay about ten miles away to the west. 
 
 I saw no houses nor any signs of men or women 
 being in the place, so I supposed, as indeed I after- 
 wards found to be the case, that I myself was the 
 only person on the island. I was glad to think that 
 there were no wild beasts, for I could see none. 
 But there were plenty of birds of many different 
 kinds. As I was coming back from the hill I shot 
 at a large bird that was sitting on a tree at the side 
 of a wood. I believe it was the first gunshot that 
 had been heard there since the beginning of the 
 world. The moment I fired, great numbers of 
 birds flew up from all parts of the wood, screaming 
 and crying, but not one of them was of any kind 
 that I had ever seen before. I also saw two or 
 three animals like hares running out of the wood. 
 The bird that I killed was like a hawk, except that | 
 it had no sharp claws. Its flesh was not fit to eat. 
 
 I now came back to my raft and began to carry 
 off my goods. This took me the rest of the day. 
 Towards evening I made a hut for myself with the 
 chests and boards, and here I slept that night. 
 
 Next morning I thought of the ship again, and 
 made up my mind to get as much out of her as I 
 could, for I knew that the first storm that came 
 would break her all in pieces, and sweep everything 
 
24 ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 belonging to her far beyond my reach. I swam out 
 as before and made another raft. Then I gathered 
 up as many things as I thought it would carry. In 
 the carpenter’s store I found three bags of nails and 
 spikes, a great screw-jack, several hatchets and a 
 grindstone. In another part of the wreck I got 
 seven or eight guns, two barrels of bullets, some 
 more powder, and a large bag of shot. I also took 
 all the clothes I could find, and the sails and bed- 
 ding, among which was a hammock. I put all these 
 things on my raft and got them safe ashore. 
 
 When I came back to my hut I saw a creature 
 like a wildcat sitting on one of the chests. I went 
 towards her and she ran off,a little distance. Then 
 she stood still, and looked full in my face, as if she 
 wished to make friends with me. I pointed my 
 gun at her, but she did not stir, for, I suppose, 
 she had never seen any one with a gun before, and 
 did not know what it meant. I threw her a piece 
 of biscuit and she went up to it and smelled of it. 
 Then she ate it and looked for more. But I had no 
 more to spare, so she marched away. 
 
 I now went to work to make a tent with the sails 
 and some poles that I cut for the purpose, When 
 it was finished I put into it everything that I knew 
 would be spoiled by being left out in the rain or 
 sun. Then I piled all the empty chests and barrels 
 
ROBINSON ALONE ON THE ISLAND. 25 
 
 in a circle round the tent to make it strong, and 
 closed up the door with boards. When I had done 
 this I spread one of the beds upon the ground and 
 went to bed for the first time on my island. I 
 slept well until morning, for after my hard day’s 
 work I was very tired. 
 
 In the morning I swam to the ship again. I 
 thought I ought to get out of her all that I could, 
 so every day I went aboard and brought off some- 
 thing. I took away all the ropes and twine and 
 sails and canvas that I could find. One day, to my 
 great joy, I found a large hogshead of bread, three 
 casks of rum, a box of sugar, and a barrel of flour. 
 Then I began to cut up the great cable of the ship 
 into pieces so that I could easily move them, and to 
 take out all the bits of iron that I could. But 
 the raft on which I carried these things upset just 
 at the entrance to the little cove, and threw me 
 and my cargo into the water. No great harm was 
 done, however, for as I was near the shore, I soon 
 reached dry land, and when the tide was out I 
 got most of the pieces of cable and some of the 
 iron. 
 
 I now had been thirteen days on the island and 
 had brought away from the ship all that one pair 
 of hands could bring. If the weather had remained 
 calm, I believe I would have carried off the whole 
 
26 ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 vessel piece by piece. The last time I went out, the 
 wind began to rise and I had to make haste to get 
 back. Just before I left the ship I found a box 
 in the cabin in which were two or three razors, 
 a pair of large scissors, a dozen knives and forks 
 and about two hundred dollars in gold and silver 
 coin. 7 
 
 I smiled at the sight of this money. “Oh drug!” 
 said I aloud, “what art thou good for? Thou art 
 of no use to me. One of these knives is of more 
 value than thou. Remain where thou art and go 
 to the bottom of the sea as a thing not worth sav- 
 ing.” However, I thought I might as well take it 
 with me, so I wrapped the coins up in a piece of 
 cloth, and began to think of making another raft. 
 But while I was getting ready to do this I saw that 
 a storm was coming, and that it blew from the land. 
 As I could not move a raft against the wind, there 
 was nothing for me now to do but to swim ashore 
 with all I could carry. I reached my little tent in 
 safety and lay down to sleep with all my goods 
 all about me. 
 
 It blew very hard all night, and in.the morning, 
 when I looked out, behold! no ship was to be seen. 
 I was a little troubled at this, still I felt glad in 
 thinking that I had made the most of my time 
 while the ship was within reach. I had taken 
 
ROBINSON BUILDS A HOUSE. 27 
 
 everything I could out of her, and there was noth- 
 ing left that I was able to bring away even if I 
 had had more time. 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 ROBINSON BUILDS A HOUSE. 
 
 I now began to think about fixing on a good spot 
 where I might build some kind of a house to live 
 in. After looking around for a while, I found a 
 little bit of plain or level ground at the foot of a 
 hill. The front of this hill, facing the plain, was as 
 steep as a wall, so that nothing could come down 
 upon me from the top. On the side of the hill, or 
 rock, there was a hollow place worn a little way in, 
 like the mouth to a cave. Here, I said, I will make 
 my house. The plain was about a hundred yards 
 broad and two hundred yards wide. It looked 
 towards the sea and was well sheltered from the 
 heat of the sun, for it was on the northwest side 
 of the hill. 
 
 The first thing I did was to draw a half circle, 
 ten yards wide, round in front of the hollow place 
 in the rock. Into this space I carried all my goods, 
 after which I set about to build a tent. I made it 
 double, so that I had one tent within another, and 
 
28 ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 I covered the outside tent with a large sailcloth. 
 Then I fixed up a hammock in my new house 
 to sleep in, which was better than lying on the 
 ground. 
 
 I now began to dig into the 
 hollow place behind my tent 
 # to make more room for my 
 D> goods. In doing this I was at 
 7 agreat loss for want of proper 
 tools. I had no pickax, 
 or spade, or wheelbarrow 
 
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 LOCATION OF HOUSE. 
 
 to carry away the earth and stones. For a pickax I 
 had to use one of the iron crowbars I got out of the 
 ship, which did very well for the purpose. I could 
 have made a wheelbarrow, all except the wheel, but 
 ‘I had not the least thought of how to go about this, 
 so I had to give up the idea. For taking away the 
 earth I made a thing like e hod that laborers use 
 
ROBINSON BUILDS A HOUSE. 29 
 
 for carrying mortar and bricks. In one of my ram. 
 bles I found a tree of the kind which in Brazil is 
 called the irontree, because the wood of it is very 
 hard. I made a shovel out of a piece of this wood. 
 It took me a great while to chip it and pare it into 
 the right shape, and it did not last very long, hav- 
 ing no iron upon it. 
 
 At length my cave was finished, as I thought, but 
 one day a large mass of earth fell suddenly down 
 from the top and one of the sides. By good luck I 
 was not in it at the time. If I had been I might 
 have been killed. To prevent the earth from falling 
 again I propped up the roof with strong posts, and 
 above them I put boards for a ceiling. 
 
 I next set to work to make a wall round my tent. 
 In the half circle I had first marked out I fixed two 
 rows of strong stakes, driving them into the ground 
 until they stood very firm. The stakes were about 
 five feet high, and sharp at the top, and the two 
 rows were about six inches apart. Then I took the 
 pieces of cable which I had cut in the ship, and laid 
 them in rows one upon another between the rows of 
 the stakes up to the top. I also made a bank of 
 earth two feet high up against the stakes on the in. 
 side, and a wall of sods two feet thick up to the top 
 on the outside. 
 
 When I had finished my wall, it was so strong 
 
30 - ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 that neither man nor beast could get in. I left no 
 place for a door because I did not wish to have one. 
 I got in and out by a short ladder, which I lifted 
 up after me whenever I went in. But some time 
 afterwards I made a back door to my house. This 
 I did by digging through the side of my cave on the 
 right, until I had made an opening into the plain on 
 the outside of my wall. I also made a roof over my 
 tent, of poles or rafters, which J laid across from the 
 top of the sod wall to the side of the rock, and I 
 covered it with leaves and boughs of trees like thatch. 
 This kept out the rain, which often fell very heavy. 
 
 All these things took me a very long time to do. 
 It was nearly a whole year before I had finished my 
 fence or paling. The stakes had to be cut and 
 dressed in the woods and then carried to the little 
 plain on the hillside. This was very hard and slow 
 work. Sometimes I spent two days in cutting and 
 bringing home one stake, and another day in driv- 
 ing it into the ground. 
 
 CHAPTER VIL. 
 ROBINSON MAKES A CALENDAR. 
 
 Wuite busy with other things I did not forget 
 about keeping count of time. I thought of this when 
 
ROBINSON MAKES A CALENDAR. 31 
 
 I had been about ten or twelve days on the island. 
 I had then no books or pens or ink, but I saw that 
 without marking the days in some way, I should 
 soon not be able to know one day from another. 
 After thinking a while I fixed upon a plan. I gota 
 long post and nailed a thick board crossways upon 
 it near the top. Upon this board I cut the follow- 
 ing words in capital letters with my knife - 
 
 I CAME ON SHORE HERE 
 
 ON THE 
 
 30TH OF SEPTEMBER, 1659 = Egost 
 
 Then I set the 
 cross upright and | 
 fixed it firmly in the ag 
 ground on the spot - Hl 
 where I first landed. ~“===35as it} =n" 
 I had made the post . Nh 
 Square on the sides, 
 and on one of the sides I 
 cut a notch every day. = 
 On the seventh day I cut “"= 
 a notch twice the length 
 for Sunday, and a notch 
 twice that length again 
 
 | on every first day of a . CALENDAR, 
 
 C/ Ui oni 
 = Ni (in pal ta 
 ei 
 
32 ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 month. ‘This was my calendar, and I kept it fairly 
 well, except that after a time I failed to make the 
 notch long on Sunday, and so I then could not tell 
 that day from any other. 
 
 But soon after I put up my calendar post I found 
 plenty of paper, pens, and ink in one of the parcels 
 I had taken from the ship. I also found three 
 Bibles, two or three prayer-books, and several other 
 books. I took great care of all these things, and as 
 long as the ink lasted I wrote a daily account of 
 nearly everything I did and everything that hap- 
 pened tome. This is how I began my account: 
 
 “September 30, 1659. I, poor miserable Robinson 
 Crusoe, being shipwrecked during a dreadful storm, 
 came on shore on this unfortunate island, which I 
 called the ‘Island of Despair,’ all the rest of the 
 
 ship’s company being drowned, and I almost dead.” 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 ROBINSON’S LONELINESS. 
 
 I was now fixed in my house, and I was much 
 better off than I had expected to be when I was 
 cast ashore after the shipwreck. But I could not 
 help often thinking over my lonely lot. I was cut 
 off from all the world, without hope of ever seeing 
 
 friends or perhaps any human being again. Then 
 
ROBINSON’S LONLINESS. 33 
 
 tears would start to my eyes and run down my 
 cheeks, and I would wonder why God had allowed 
 me to be made so unhappy, that I could hardly be 
 thankful for such a life. 
 
 But something always came into my mind to 
 check me for thinking so. It is true I was cast on 
 a lonely island, but my life was spared ; I was not 
 drowned, as all my mates were. I was away from 
 all the rest of mankind, but I was saved from death, 
 and He who had saved me could bring me back to 
 my friends. I had no one to speak to or help me, 
 but there were no wild beasts or savage men to kill 
 or hurt me. What would have become of me if I 
 had been left in the state in which I was when I 
 was cast upon the shore, without food, without 
 clothes, without shelter? What would have beep 
 my case if the ship had not been driven so near the 
 shore, or if the second storm had come on before I 
 had had time to get so many things out of the 
 wreck .to supply my wants ? 
 
 I talked to myself in this way when I felt lonely 
 or unhappy, and so all my sad thoughts ended in 
 thanks to God for His mercy and goodness to me. 
 I also began to be content with my lot, and I gave 
 up looking out to sea in hope of spying a coming 
 ship, as I used to do every day for a good while 
 after being cast upon the island. 
 
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34 ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 FURNISHING THE HOUSE. 
 
 Durine the time I was building my house I now 
 and then did something to make it comfortable in- 
 side. I madea table and a chair with the boards 
 I got on the ship. Talso fixed up some shelves in 
 my cave to put my things on, and keep them in an 
 orderly way, so that I might know where to find 
 anything when I needed it. 
 
 It was not easy for me to make those shelves, for 
 I was not used to the work, and I had not the right 
 tools to make boards in the proper way. When I 
 wanted a board, I had to cut down a tree and chip 
 it on both sides with my ax till I had it as thin as 
 I wished it to be. Then I made it as smooth as I 
 could with my adz, one of the tools I found im the 
 ship carpenter’s chest. This was a very slow way 
 of making boards, and very wasteful, for I could 
 make only one out of a whole tree. However, I 
 had plenty of time and plenty of trees. 
 
 At first I was at a great loss for want of light at 
 night. I had no lamp or candles, and as there was 
 no pleasure in sitting in the dark, I went to bed 
 shortly after sunset. But I soon thought of the 
 goat’s fat, and IJ put some of it in a clay dish which 
 
AN EARTHQUAKE. 35 
 
 I baked in the sun, and with a wick of hemp, got 
 from old ropes belonging to the ship, it made a very 
 good lamp. 
 
 In searching among my things one day, I came 
 upon the corn bag in which barley and some other 
 grain was kept for feeding our chickens at sea. As 
 I wanted the bag and there seemed to be nothing 
 left in it but husks and dust, I shook the stuff out 
 of it on one side of my wall under the rock. This 
 was just before a heavy fall of rain, and in about 
 a month afterwards I noticed small green blades 
 shooting up where I had shaken the bag. In a 
 little while longer I saw ten or twelve ears of 
 barley and stalks of rice. Later on, when they 
 became ripe, I carefully saved them for seed, hop- 
 ing in time to have corn to make bread of. And 
 at the proper season I sowed my seed and had a 
 small crop, which I again saved and sowed. It 
 was not until the fourth year that I touched a 
 grain of it to eat. 
 
 - CHAPTER X. 
 AN EARTHQUAKE. 
 
 Tue day after my wall was finished a frightful 
 thing happened. As I was busy-inside the wall, a 
 
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 36 ROBINSON CRUSOK. 
 
 quantity of earth fell down from the roof of my 
 cave and from the rock over my head. I hurried 
 out in great fear, and I saw at once that it was an 
 earthquake, for the ground shook beneath me. I 
 saw also that the sea was in great motion. Then 
 there came another shock and then another, the 
 earth shaking and swaying dreadfully. 
 
 I was filled with fear, and sat down upon the ~ 
 
 ground, not knowing what to do. Every moment 
 I feared that the hill would fall upon my tent and 
 bury me and all my things beneath it. The air 
 now began to get dark, and soon after the wind 
 rose, and in about half an hour it blew so hard that 
 trees were torn up by the roots. This lasted for 
 about three hours, and then it got calm, but rain 
 began to fall heavily. 
 
 It rained all that night and next day. I now 
 thought it would not be safe for me to live any 
 longer in the cave and that I must fix my tent in 
 ~ gome better place. But I lost courage when I began 
 to think of the time and labor it would take with- 
 out proper tools. The few tools I had were not as 
 good as when I first came on the island. They were 
 now blunt and notched with all the chipping and 
 cutting I had done. I had a grindstone, but I could 
 not turn it and grind my tools at the same time, for 
 
 I should have to use both my hands in holding a 
 
 pe anm 
 
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‘ ROBINSON SICK. 37 
 
 tool to the stone. At length, however, after a great 
 deal of thinking and labor, I made a wheel with a 
 string fixed to it, by means of which I was able to 
 turn the stone with my foot. I then spent two days 
 sharpening my tools, and I found that my wheel 
 and string worked very well. 
 
 CHAPTER XI. 
 ROBINSON SIOK. 
 
 Ir rained so hard one day that I had to stay in 
 my tent, and in the evening I felt a chill all over 
 me. Next morning I was sick, and before night I 
 became much worse. I had a severe headache, and 
 I could get no sleep, A fit of shivering would come 
 upon me, and then a cold fit with sweating. This 
 lasted for seven hours. But though I was very ill 
 and weak I had to go out with my gun to find some- 
 thing to eat. I killed a goat and had hard work to 
 carry it home. Next day I was not able to leave 
 my bed. I ate nothing and I was nearly dead with 
 thirst, but I had not strength enough to stand up to 
 get water. I lay on my bed, not knowing what was 
 to become of me, and often erying out, “Lord, look 
 upon me. Lord, pity me.” At last I fell asleep and 
 did not wake till morning. 
 
38 ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 After a while I felt somewhat better. Then I got 
 up and went out with my gun, but being still weak, 
 I did not go far. I sat down upon the ground, look- 
 ing out upon the water, and as I sat, thoughts like 
 these began to come into my mind: 
 
 What is the earth and what is the sea? Who 
 made them? What am I and what are all the 
 other creatures in the world 2? Who made us? 
 Surely we are all made by some great Power. 
 What is that Power? It is certainly God. 
 Then if He has made all these things, He 
 guides and takes care of them. And nothing 
 can be without His knowledge. He knows then 
 that I am here, and it is by His will that all 
 these evils have come upon me. 
 
 Then I thought—Why has God done this to me ? 
 
 What have I done to be thus used ? | 
 
 But quickly a voice, as if within me, seemed to 
 answer: “Dost thou ask what thou hast done? 
 Look back upon thy life so ill-spent, and ask why 
 thou wert not punished long ago ?—why thou wert 
 not killed by the Moors? Ask why thou wert not 
 drowned with all the rest of the ship’s crew ?” 
 
 With such thoughts in my mind, I rose up and 
 went back to my tent. Before going to bed I took 
 out one of my Bibles. I had not looked into the 
 Holy Book for many years before, and, as if God 
 
ROBINSON’S COUNTRY HOUSE. 39 
 
 were guiding me at that moment, the first words 
 that caught my eyes when I opened it were these: 
 
 “Call upon Me in the day of trouble and I will help thee.” 
 
 These words were very fitting to my case, and I 
 thought much upon them then and afterwards. Be- 
 fore I lay down to sleep, I prayed earnestly to God 
 to fulfil the promise to me that if I called upon 
 Him in my trouble, He would save me. I believe I 
 must have slept all through the next day and night, 
 for I since found that I missed one notch on my 
 calendar post. However, I was very much the bet- 
 ter for my.sound sleep. In the morning I took my 
 Bible again, and every day I read a portion of it, 
 morning and evening. 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 ROBINSON’S COUNTRY HOUSE. 
 
 In about twelve months after the time I was cast 
 ashore my house was finished, and it was as strong 
 and safe as I could make it. I now thought I 
 would go to see other parts of the island where I 
 had not yet been, and so I set out for a journey into 
 the country. I first went up by the little creek, 
 and when I had gon? a few miles I found that it 
 
40 ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 was no more than a little brook of running water. 
 On its banks were beautiful meadows covered with 
 
 fine grass. Above these meadows I saw a great 
 deal of the tobacco plant, which grew there to a 
 large size. I also saw many aloe plants and sugar- 
 canes. 
 
 Further on I came to higher ground, partly cov- 
 ered with woods. Here there were fruit-trees and 
 plants of different kinds. I did not know the names 
 of many of them, but I found melons and limes and 
 grapes in great plenty. The grapes were now ripe, 
 and they hung in large clusters from the vines 
 which had spread over the trees. I gathered a 
 quantity and left them to dry in the sun. After- 
 wards I did the same every season, so that I always 
 had a supply of dried grapes, or raisins, and they 
 were very pleasant and good to eat. 
 
 I did not go back to my house that night, for the 
 weather was warm and I wished to go farther into 
 the island. I slept in a tree, and next morning | 
 travelled on about four miles in a northerly direc- 
 tion, with hills in front of me, until I came to an 
 opening where the land sloped off towards the west. 
 Here I found a spring of water on the side of a hill, 
 and the valley below was so green and fresh and 
 beautiful that it looked like a planted garden. I 
 saw a great many cocoa trees, Jso orange and lemon 
 
ROBINSON’S COUNTRY HOUSE. 4] 
 
 and citron trees. But they were all wild and few 
 of them had fruit, at least not at that time. How- 
 ever, I found some green limes which were very 
 pleasant to eat, and the juice of them, mixed with 
 ~ water, made a very cooling drink. 
 
 I thought this would be a good place to live in, 
 and for some time I had it in my mind to build a 
 house and move all my things there. But I soon 
 saw that 1t would not be a wise thing to do. I still 
 
 had hope that some day a ship would come by the 
 island, so that I might have a chance of getting 
 away. But the valley was not in view of the sea, 
 and if I lived there, a ship might pass and I might 
 not see it, so I lived on in my cave at the shore. 
 
 However, I often went to the beautiful valley, and 
 I built a sort of tent or bower in it with a high fence 
 around it, and a ladder to go in and out. The fence 
 was made of stakes or slips of willow which I cut 
 in the woods. I was well pleased on finding that 
 they soon took root and threw out branches, and in 
 a season or two I had a nice hedge round my bower. 
 In this pleasant spot, in the midst of trees and fruits 
 and flowers, I sometimes spent two or three days 
 and nights together, so that I now had my country 
 house and my seaside house. 
 
 On very wet days I remained within doors, and I 
 
 always found pty to do in putting things in or. 
 
49 ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 der, and in making such things as | needed and was 
 able to make with the tools I had. When I wasa 
 boy at home I often spent much of my time In a 
 basket-maker’s shop in the town where my father 
 lived, and from watching the men at work I soon 
 BR very well how it was done. All that I now 
 -eded, therefore, in order to make baskets, was the 
 proper kind of rods or twigs, and one day I thought 
 of the willow hedge around my bower. So I went 
 to my country house and cut a great many twigs 
 and set them to dry, and I found that they did quite 
 well. Then I had new work at home for rainy days. 
 I made a great many baskets which were very useful 
 for holding and carrying things in. 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 ROBINSON'S JOURNEY TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE 
 ISLAND. 
 
 Som time after building my country house I be- 
 gan to have a wish to see more of the island, so I 
 set out again, taking with me my dog and. gun and 
 hatchet and much more powder than usual, with a 
 great bunch of raisins for food on the way. I passed 
 near the valley where my bower stood, and in a 
 little while came in view of the on the west 
 
— bb 
 
 ROBINSON’S JoURy ACROSS THE ISLAND. 43 
 
 This was right across the island from the side on 
 which I lived. The sky was very clear, and look- 
 ing out upon the ocean, straight before me, I could 
 see land at a distance, as it seemed, of about fifty or 
 sixty miles. I did not know what it was, but I 
 thought it must be South America. 
 
 I found the side of the island where I now was 
 much pleasanter than my own. There were fine 
 woods and beautiful fields full of grass and flowers. 
 I saw a great many parrots, and after a good deal of 
 
 trouble I caught a young one, which I brought 
 
 home. It was along time before I could make it 
 speak, but at last it learned to call me by my name 
 very well. 
 
 In this journey on the west side I saw a great 
 many hares and foxes as well as goats. There 
 were also large numbers of pigeons. They did 
 not build their nests in trees, but in the holes of 
 rocks. I afterwards caught some young ones, a2!) 
 tried to breed them up tame, but when they grew’ 
 older they all flew away. 
 
 I walked along the coast for about twelve miles 
 towards the east, and set up a tall pole on the beach 
 for a mark. The shore here was covered with tur. 
 tles, and there were a great many penguins and 
 other seabirds of different kinds which I had not 
 
 Sen before. On my way home my dog caught a 
 
44 ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 young kid, and I ran up and saved it alive. I 
 brought it to my bower, which was not far off, and 
 leaving it in a yard there, returned to my seaside 
 house. 
 
 I had been absent for some days, and I was very 
 glad to get home again. I rested from hard work 
 for nearly a week, durmg which time I made a cage 
 for Poll, who soon began to be very friendly with 
 me. Then I thought of the kid and I went to fetch 
 it home. When I reached my bower I found the 
 poor thing almost starved, for it could not get out. 
 After I fed it, it followed me home like a dog, and 
 from that time it became one of my family. 
 
 But afterwards I caught and tamed two or three 
 goats, and soon there were young ones. Then I 
 fenced in a small park for my stock, and before 
 very long my flock numbered twenty or thirty, so 
 that, I had plenty of milk, as well as goat’s flesh, 
 
 uenever I wanted. it. 
 
 CHAPTER XIV. 
 GRINDING CORN AND BAKING BREAD. 
 
 Iv was more than three years before I had a good 
 crop of corn. The first year the seed did not grow 
 very well, for I had not sown it in the proper se! 
 
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GRINDING CORN AND BAKING BREA. 47 
 
 son. There were two dry seasons and two rainy 
 seasons in the island, and when I came to know 
 about them, I found I could have two harvests 
 every year. March and April, and September and 
 October were the rainy months. The other months 
 
 were dry and warm. I dug a piece of ground for a | 
 
 cornfield, and made a fence about it with stakes 
 that grew into a hedge, as at my country house. 
 This kept out the wild goats and hares, which be- 
 fore had done much harm to my crops. But when 
 the fence was up I found that I had to do some. 
 thing to save my corn from the birds. I shot many 
 of them; still they came in great numbers, and I 
 began to fear that they would ruin all my harvest. 
 Then I tried a plan which worked well. I took three 
 dead birds, which I had shot, and hung them up in 
 the field to scare the others. After this no bird came 
 near my corn so long as the dead ones hung there. 
 
 The sowing of my corn was very hard work. 
 Having no plow or spade to turn up the earth, I 
 had to do it with my wooden shovel, which took 
 me a very long time. For a harrow, or rake, I 
 had to use a heavy bough of a tree, which I dragged 
 over the surface of the soil, after I had scattered 
 my seed. When my corn was ripe I had to cut it 
 down, as well as I could, with a sickle made out of 
 one of the old swords I found in the ship. 
 
ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 But the greatest trouble I had was in grinding 
 my corn. I had no mill, nor tools to cut and dress 
 stones to grind with, even though I had known how 
 to do such work. The only thing I could think of 
 was to get a great block of hard wood, and to scoop 
 out a round hole on one side of it. Into this hole 
 I put some of my corn, and pounded it with a thick 
 piece of wood which I had made round at one end. 
 I now had meal, but how was I to sift it to take 
 away the husks or chaff? It was a long time before 
 I could think of any way of doimg this. At last I 
 remembered that among the clothes I took out of 
 the ship, there were some pieces of thin calico, or 
 muslin, which the men had used for neckties.. I 
 fastened two or three of these together and shook 
 my meal through it, and I found that the plan 
 worked very well. 
 
 The next thing was to bake my bread. I had to 
 do without yeast, for I knew no way of making any. 
 But I had to have an oven of some kind, so I set 
 to thinking how to supply this want. There was 
 plenty of clay on the island very fit for making tiles 
 and vessels, and I made up my mind to try if I could 
 do it. This took a long time and a great deal of 
 labor. After digging the clay and kneading it into 
 a paste, I shaped it into vessels as well as I could. 
 I made some of them square and about two feet long 
 
ROBINSON MAKES A BOAT. 47 
 
 and nine inches deep. I also made large square tiles. 
 The vessels I made first were very ugly, ill-formed 
 things, and I had to try many times before I got 
 them into a shape to please me. Then I left them 
 to dry in the sun. The next thing was to burn them 
 in a large fire, so as to make them hard and strong 
 enough for use. 
 
 All this took me many days, but at length, to my 
 great joy, I found that I had a vessel in which J 
 could boil my meat and make broth. And I after- 
 
 ‘wards made all the vessels I needed—pots, dishes, 
 
 pitchers, and other things. With the square tiles I 
 made a floor or paving, on which I baked my bread 
 after heating the floor with a strong fire. When I 
 had set my dough in loaves upon the tiles, I placed 
 
 - the square vessels down upon them go as to cover 
 
 them, and then drew the fire round about my vessels, 
 or ovens, as I might call them. Thus I baked my 
 loaves. In a little time I made cakes and puddings 
 of my rice, of which I also raised a good quantity. 
 
 CHAPTER XV. 
 
 ROBINSON MAKES A BOAT. 
 
 Arter IJ had seen the land in the distance, from 
 the other side of my island, I often wished that I 
 
48 ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
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 could get to that place. I thought there might be 
 people on it, and that if I were there, 1 might see 
 some vessel which would take me to America or to 
 England. But how was I to get there? I thought 
 of the ship’s boat that had been thrown up on the 
 shore by the storm, so I went to look at it. It lay 
 almost where it did at first, but the force of the 
 
 wind and waves had turned it bottom upwards. If: 
 
 I could have launched it into water I believe it 
 would have carried me to Brazil. All my strength 
 was not enough, however, to do this, though I tried 
 hard and for a long time. 
 
 At last I gave it up, and then it came into my 
 mind that I could make a boat or canoe out of the 
 trunk of a tree, so J soon set about the work. I fixed 
 upon a large cedar tree, and it took me twenty days 
 to cut it down. The trunk of it was six feet thick 
 and twenty-two feet long. I spent a month chip- 
 ping and shaping it outside in the form of a boat, 
 and three months in cutting and working the inside 
 of it. When this was done it was a very good boat, 
 and large enough to carry more than twenty men. 
 
 But all my time and labor were spent in vain, 
 for I could not get it to the water. It lay about a 
 hundred yards from the creek, and it was so big 
 and heavy that I was not able to stir it. I now 
 saw how foolish it is to begin any work without 
 
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 ROBINSON MAKES A BOAT. 49 
 
 being quite sure one can finish it. Still I was bent 
 on having a boat that I could use, so I cut down 
 another tree and made a light canoe, which I was able 
 easily tomove. Then I dug’a canal or trench from the 
 creek to where it lay, and launched it into the water. 
 
 My vessel was now afloat, but it was too small for 
 a long sea voyage, so I had to give up the thought 
 of trying to reach the land that I could see from 
 the hilltops on the east. The canoe was of some 
 service to me, however. I fitted it up with a mast 
 
 -and sail, and had many pleasant trips in it along the 
 
 coast of my little kingdom, as I might call it, for 
 I was indeed king and lord of the whole island, 
 though I had no one to rule over except my dog 
 and cats and goats and my pretty Poll. 
 
 I taught Poll to repeat my name and say a few 
 other words, and she was the only talking compan- 
 ion I had for many years. Once, after coming ashore 
 from a long trip in my canoe, during which I nearly 
 lost my life, for I went out too far, I walked to my 
 bower, or country house, and crossing the fence, I 
 lay down in the shade to rest my limbs, for I was 
 very tired. In a few moments I fell asleep, but you 
 may fancy my surprise when I was wakened by a 
 voice crying out, “Robin Crusoe! Poor Robin Cru- 
 soe! Where have you been? How came you here, 
 poor Robin Crusoe ?” | ; 
 
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50 ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 I started up in great fear. I could not think for 
 the moment who or what it could be, but as soon 
 as my eyes were wide open I saw my pretty Poll 
 sitting on the top of the hedge. Then I knew that 
 it was she that had spoken, for I had taught her 
 those words myself, and she would often perch on 
 my thumb, and, with her bill close to my face, would 
 ery, “Where have you been? How came you here, 
 poor Robin Crusoe?” I did not know how the bird 
 had got to my bower, for I had left her at my house 
 on the other side of the island. But she seemed 
 glad to see me again, and I carried her with me 
 home, as I always called my seaside house. 
 
 CHAPTER XVI. 
 
 ROBINSON MAKES HIS OWN CLOTHES. 
 
 Wuen I had been four years on the island, which 
 was at the time I had finished the first boat, my 
 clothes were almost all worn out, and so I had to 
 think about making some. I had nothing to make 
 them of except the skins of the animais I had killed. 
 These I had saved up, after drying them in the sun, 
 and I now found them very useful. I made a hat 
 and coat and breeches and leggings, all of goatskin, 
 with the hair outside. 
 
ROBINSON MAKES HIS OWN CLOTHES. 51 
 
 Dressed in this suit, I looked avery strange figure 
 when I went to hunt or to take a ramble through 
 my island. My hat was a very high one, and it had 
 
 MY NEW SUIT. 
 
 a flap hanging down behind to keep the rain from 
 running into my neck. My coat had skirts reaching 
 to the middle of my thighs, and my breeches, or 
 short trousers, were open at the knees for coolness, 
 
ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 52 
 
 the weather being sometimes very hot. As for 
 shoes and stockings, I had none, but my leggings 
 served me very well instead. I had a belt of goat: 
 skin round my waist, in which on one side hung my 
 saw, and on the other a hatchet. I had also a belt 
 over my shoulder, and at the end of it, under my 
 left arm, were fastened two goatskin bags con- 
 taining powder and shot. On my back I carried 
 a basket, and on my shoulder my gun. 
 
 I must not forget to mention my umbrella, which 
 was of very great use to me in shading me from the 
 sun as well as keeping off the rain. It took me a 
 great deal of time and labor to make this umbrella. 
 I spoiled two or three before I made one that I 
 could use. The chief trouble I had was to make it 
 so that I could let it down. But at last I did this, 
 and whenever I went out I carried my goatskin 
 umbrella under my arm. 
 
 CHAPTER XVII. 
 ROBINSON AND HIS FAMILY AT DINNER. 
 
 I wap now most things that I wanted except 
 friends of my own kind, and this I had at that time 
 no hope of ever having again. Still I had a great 
 
 deal to make me happy and thankful to God. 
 
; 
 ROBINSON AND HIS FAMILY AT DINNER. 53 
 
 I must not forget to state that there were two 
 cats and a dog in the ship. I found the three alive 
 when I first went to the wreck, and I carried the | 
 
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 MY LITTLE FAMILY. 
 
 cats ashore with me. The dog swam ashore him- | 
 : self after me. | 
 It would have made one smile to see me and my 
 
 little family sit down to dinner. My dog always 
 
 sat on the floor close to my chair, and my two cats, 
 
 one.on each side of the table, kept gazing at me, 
 
54 ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 expecting now and then a bit from my own hand. 
 My pretty Poll was there too, the only one with 
 whom I could have a friendly talk. | 
 
 For my meals I always had plenty of ies that 
 were good and pleasant to eat. I had soup when I 
 wished for it, and flesh, roast or boiled, and bread 
 and milk. I also had butter and cheese, which, after 
 a great deal of trouble, I got to be able to make 
 very well, and for dessert I had raisins and rice 
 pudding. , 
 
 My table was well supplied, and I never began to 
 eat without thanking God for His mercy and good- 
 ness to me. I felt how much reason I had to be 
 thankful and content. How much better off was I 
 than I could have hoped when I was cast ashore from 
 the wreck! At that time it seemed as if I could 
 do nothing but lie down and die of hunger, but 
 God had sent me everything that I really needed. 
 He had sent me the means to get food and clothing 
 and shelter for myself. He had spread for me a 
 good table in a far-away island, where one might 
 think man could not live. 
 
 I had therefore great reason to be thankful to 
 God, and I learned to take pleasure in the things | 
 had, instead of feeling unhappy about what I had ~ 
 not. And so I came to think that many people are 
 unhappy because they do not try to enjoy what God 
 
THE FOOTMARK IN THE SAND. 55 
 
 has given them, but are always wishing for things 
 He has not given them, and which, if they only 
 thought rightly upon it, they would find they did 
 not really need. 
 
 CHAPTER XVIL 
 THE FOOTMARK IN THE SAND. 
 
 Tuus I lived on my island for several years with- 
 out anything very wonderful happening to me. I 
 sowed and reaped my corn, and took care of my 
 stock, and went boating, and made baskets and 
 other useful things within doors in wet weather, 
 and so I spent my time. I often passed days to- 
 gether at my country house, for it was here I raised 
 and dried my grapes, and had my goat park. 
 Whenever I went for a sail I also visited my 
 bower, as it was about half way between my cave 
 at the seaside and the little creek towards the 
 northern part of the island where I kept my boat. 
 
 But now I come to tell of a thing that fright- 
 ened me very much. One day during my fifteenth 
 year in the island, as I was going towards my boat, 
 I was startled at beholding on the sand the print of 
 a man’s naked foot. I felt as if I had seen a ghost. 
 T listened and looked around, but could not see. or 
 
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 thinking that I might have been mistaken. 
 
THE FOOTMARK IN THE SAND. 57 
 
 there it was—a man’s footmark—toes, heel and 
 every part exact. 
 
 What did it mean? How did it come there? I 
 could not think how, but I hurried home to my 
 cave in great fear, often looking behind me, and 
 thinking that every stump of a tree at a distance 
 was a man. When I came to my castle, for so I 
 now called it, I fled into it as if a wild beast were 
 at my heels. 
 
 I slept none that night, my mind was so filled 
 with dread. Somebody had surely been on the 
 island. I was thankful that I was not on the shore 
 at the time. Perhaps more than one had come. 
 Perhaps it was some of the savages from the main- 
 land, across from my island, who had gone out to 
 sea in their canoes, and they might come again and 
 kill me. And if they did not find me, they might 
 find out my house and destroy all my corn and 
 carry off my goats. 
 
 I thought often afterwards how strange the na- 
 ture of man is. To-day we love what to-morrow we 
 hate. To-day we seek what to-morrow we shun. 
 To-day we wish to have what to-morrow we fear. 
 So it was shown in me at this time. For during all 
 those fifteen years, my only grief was that I was cast 
 off from the whole human family, and often I felt 
 that to see one of my own kind would be the great- 
 
58 ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 est blessing that Heaven could bestow upon me. 
 Yet now I was ready to sink into the earth with 
 fear, at the bare idea of a man having set foot on 
 the island. 
 
 For three days I remained in my castle, my mind 
 filled with thoughts of being found and killed by 
 the savages. One morning, when I took up my Bi- 
 - ble, the first words I saw on opening it were, “ Wait 
 on the Lord; be of good courage, and He shall 
 strengthen thy heart.” These words gave me new 
 heart, and I took courage to go out again. I began ~ 
 to feel the want of food, for I had nothing in the 
 house but cakes and water. I knew too that my 
 goats needed to be milked, so I set off for my coun- 
 try house. On the way I often looked behind, fear- 
 ing that some one might be following me, but after 
 [had gone to my bower and back two or three days 
 I got to be less afraid. 
 
 Still I could not forget about the mark in the 
 sand, and I now began to think it might be the 
 _ print of my own foot. Strange I had not thought 
 
 of this before! So I went to the place again, and 
 measured the mark, but I found it was much larger 
 than my own foot. Iwas now more afraid than 
 ever, and I hurried back to my castle, feeling cer- 
 tain that people had been on the island, and think- 
 ing they might come upon me at any moment. 
 
ROBINSON GUARDS HIS CASTLE AND FLOCK. 59 
 
 CHAPTER XIX. 
 ROBINSON GUARDS HIS CASTLE AND FLOOK. 
 
 I was now sorry I had a back door to my cave 
 and that it was on the outside of my wall, for I 
 thought if any of the savages came and found my 
 house, they could get in by this door. I then saw I 
 must have another wall. Some years before I had 
 planted a double row of trees round in front of my 
 fence. These trees were so close to one another that 
 all I had now to do was to drive a few stakes be- 
 tween them, and my new wall would soon be made. 
 I strengthened this new wall or fence with blocks 
 of wood and old cables, and I had seven holes in it 
 for seven guns. Then I made it ten feet thick by 
 piling earth up against it on the inside. This earth 
 I dug at the back of my cave, and carried out in 
 baskets. I set the guns in the holes, fitting them 
 into frames which held them tightly, and I could 
 fire all the seven guns in two minutes. | 
 
 Thus I built my fort. When it was finished I 
 planted the space all around in front of it with 
 trees, and in a few years I had a wood about my 
 castle so thick that no person would ever think any 
 one lived there. I had no path through it nor door 
 
60 ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 or gate to the wall. I got in and out from the rock 
 at the back by two ladders. One reached from a 
 ledge of the rock to the top of the outer wall, and 
 the other from that to the ground. When I took 
 away the ladders, as I always did after going in or 
 out, no man could come down into my castle with- 
 out great danger to himself. 
 
 I had now to think of my goats. What if the 
 savages should come and carry them off? It would 
 be a very great loss to me. I might shoot a wild 
 goat when I wanted flesh meat, but without the 
 tame ones I could have no milk or butter or cheese. 
 The plan I thought of was to make two or three 
 small yards or parks at a distance from one another, 
 and put into each a few of my best young goats. 
 Then, if anything happened to my flock at the bower, 
 I should still have some left. So I searched through 
 the woods and soon found bits of land such as I 
 wanted. After strongly fencing these plots I put 
 some of my goats into each of them, and I now felt 
 that my castle and my stock were as safe as they 
 could be made. 
 
 About this time my dog. died, at which I was 
 much grieved. He had been a faithful friend and 
 companion to me for sixteen years, and then died of 
 old age. But I still had my pretty Poll and cats 
 more than I wanted. 
 
ROBINSON SEES A HEART-SICKENING SIGHT. 61 
 
 CHAPTER XX. 
 ROBINSON SEES A HEART-SICKENING SIGHT. 
 
 Axsout two years after I had seen the footmark 
 in the sand, I was rambling one day on the west 
 point of the island. I had gone to the top of a hill 
 farther out than I had been before, when I saw 
 something like a boat upon the sea at a great dis- 
 tance off. I gazed at it for a long time, but could 
 -not make out whether it was really a boat or not. 
 Then I came down the hill to the shore, and there a 
 shocking sight met my eyes. The bones of men lay 
 scattered over the sand. I grew sick at heart and 
 almost fell down in a faint. When I had come to 
 myself a little, I saw the marks of a fire with a ring 
 around the spot, as if some persons had. been sitting 
 there at a feast. 
 
 I was now quite sure that the savages sometimes 
 came to the island. However, as it seemed that they 
 came no farther than the shore, I was not so much 
 frightened as when I saw the footmark. But I took 
 great care to do nothing that would make a noise 
 which they might hear. For two years I never once 
 fired my gun, though I always had it with me when 
 I went out. I would not drive a nail or chop wood, 
 
 and I baked my bread during the night so that no 
 
62 ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 smoke might be seen in the daytime. But I after- 
 wards found a way of having a fire without smoke. 
 I burned wood under sods, as I had seen done in 
 England, until it became charcoal. Then I put the 
 fire out. This charcoal burned well and gave good 
 heat without making any smoke. 
 
 Every morning for some time I went to the top of 
 the hill about three miles from my castle to look 
 out for boats. I took with me my glass, which I 
 had found in one of the seamen’s chests on the 
 wreck. With this I could see things at a great 
 distance off, but I saw no boats or savages, though 
 I kept watch on the hill a while every day for three 
 months. 
 
 I did not forget my own little boat, which was in 
 the creek on the west side of the island. Fearing 
 the savages might find it, I took it away to the east 
 side—the side on which my castle was—and ran it 
 into a small cove under some high rocks, where I 
 knew nobody would be likely to come. 
 
 After this for a good while I spent most of my 
 time within doors. I seldom went out except to 
 milk my goats and get wood for making charcoal. 
 
ROBINSON FINDS A BEAUTIFUL CAY 63 
 
 CHAPTER XXI. 
 ROBINSON FINDS A BEAUTIFUL CAVE. 
 
 One day when I was in the woods cutting branches 
 to make charcoal, I saw a hollow space’at the back 
 of some thick bushes. I went to look at it, and 
 going into the opening, I found that it was high 
 enough for me to stand up in. But I quickly got 
 out of the place, for on peering in I saw two broad, 
 shining eyes which twinkled like two stars. I was 
 very much frightened, still I would not go away 
 without finding out what the thing was, so I set fire 
 to a branch of a tree and rushed in with it in my 
 hand. I had not gone three steps, when I was al- 
 most as much frightened as before, for I heard a 
 loud sigh like that of a person in pain, and then a 
 sound as.if some one had spoken, and then another 
 sigh. I stepped back in great fear. 
 
 After a little while, I took courage and went in 
 again, holding the lighted stick over my head. 
 Then I found that the thing that frightened me 
 so much was a large goat. He was lying on the 
 ground breathing hard and dying of old age. I 
 stirred him a little to see if I could get him out, and 
 “he tried to stand up, but was not able. So I let 
 him lie there, and I thought with myself that if any 
 
64 ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 of the savages should come to the cave while he 
 had life in him, he would frighten them as much 
 as he frightened me. 
 
 I then began to look round the place, and I saw 
 that the cave was a very small one. There was an 
 opening or passage at the end of it, which was so 
 low that I could not get in except on my hands and 
 knees. I did not try to do this, as I had not light 
 enough, but I came the next day with candles, for I 
 now made good ones of goats’ lard. I then crept 
 into the passage, and crawled along on my hands 
 and feet about ten yards, until I found myself in a 
 cave nearly twenty feet high. When I stood up 
 and the light of my two candles fell upon the sides 
 and roof of this cave, it seemed as if a thousand 
 lights were around me. It was the most delightful 
 place I had ever seen on the island. ‘The walls shone 
 like glittering stars. What was in the rock to make 
 it shine so, I did not know, but I thought it was 
 gold or precious stones. 
 
 I was very glad that I had found this cave. The 
 floor was dry and level, and there was no dampness 
 on the walls. I thought it would be the best place 
 to hide from the savages if ever they found out my 
 two houses. The old goat died the same day, and I 
 dug a big hole and buried him. Then I brought 
 
 _ to the cave some of my guns and pistols and powder 
 
. ROBINSON SEES SAVAGES ON THE SHORE. aq 
 
 and shot, as they were the things I most wished 
 to save. I left five guns in the wall at my castle, 
 and stored the rest in the cave, except one that I 
 carried about with me. 
 
 CHAPTER XXII. 
 
 ROBINSON SEES SAVAGES ON THE SHORE. 
 
 Ar the time I found the cave, I had been twenty- 
 
 three years on the island, and I was so used to the 
 
 place that I would have been content to remain in 
 it all my life, if I were quite sure no savages would 
 come to disturb me. Though I was alone, I made 
 my spare time pass very pleasantly. I had my 
 pretty Poll to speak to, and two more parrots which 
 talked very well and would call “Robin Crusoe,” . 
 but not like the first, for J had taken more pains in 
 teaching her than the others. Then I had always 
 about me two or three kids, which I taught to feed 
 out of my hand, and I had some tame sea-birds that 
 I caught upon the shore. 
 
 With these I amused myself in the evenings after 
 my day’s work of sowing or reaping my corn and 
 attending to my goat parks. And so I would have 
 been very content with my life only for fear of the 
 savages. One morning very early, just after I got 
 
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ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 out of my castle to go to my cornfield, I was 
 startled at seeing a light as of fire upon the shore. 
 To my great terror, it was on my side of the island, 
 and, as I thought, not more than two miles off. I 
 hastened back to my house, where I remained for 
 some hours thinking what I ought to do. But I 
 could not sit any longer without knowing the 
 cause of the fire. So, taking my glass, I went out, 
 and going up to the top of the hill, I lay down 
 with my face to the ground and looked towards the 
 shore. 
 
 Then for the first time I saw the savages. There 
 were nine of them sitting round a fire on the sand. 
 They did not need a fire for warming themselves, 
 for the weather was hot, but they made it, as I sup- 
 posed, for cooking their horrid food of men’s flesh, 
 which they had brought with them—whether alive 
 or dead, I did not know. They had two canoes 
 dragged up on the shore, and after a while I saw 
 them drag the canoes back into the water and row 
 or paddle away. 
 
 As soon as they were gone I took two guns on my 
 shoulders, two pistols in my belt, and my sword by 
 my side, and went with all the speed I could to the 
 hill near which I had first seen bones scattered on 
 the sand. When I reached this hill I found that 
 
 there had been three canoes more of savages at that 
 
A VESSEL IS WRECKED ON THE ISLAND. 67 
 
 place, for I saw all the canoes at sea rowing towards 
 the land in the distance. 
 
 - 1 now made up my mind that the next time I saw 
 any of those savages, I would fire upon them and 
 kill as many of them as I could, for I knew what 
 they had come to the island to do. But afterwards 
 I thought it would not be right for me to kill them. 
 They had done me no harm. God had given me no — 
 power over them. And perhaps they did not know 
 
 that they were doing wrong. 
 
 CHAPTER XXIII. 
 A VESSEL IS WRECKED ON THE ISLAND. 
 
 Axsout a year after I had seen the savages, a 
 great thunder-storm came on. It was on the six- 
 teenth of May, as I found from my wooden calen- 
 dar, which J still kept. The storm blew very hard 
 all day and all night, so that I had to stay within 
 doors. About bedtime, as I was reading my Bible, 
 I heard the noise of a gun coming, as I thought, 
 from the sea. I rushed out and hastened to the top 
 of the hill, and just then I heard another gun. Be- 
 lieving that it must be from a ship in distress, I 
 gathered a large heap of wood and set fire to it, 
 hoping that the people in the ship would see it, as 
 
68 ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 I think they did, for as soon as the heap blazed up, 
 there was another shot, and -in a few minutes two 
 or three more. Then I piled up more wood go as to 
 keep the fire burning all night. 
 
 In the morning when I looked out I saw some- 
 thing a great distance off in the sea on the south. 
 Taking my gun in my hand, I ran to the rocks on 
 the south side of my island, where I had once been 
 nearly lost with my little boat. Then getting upon 
 a cliff, I plainly saw the wreck of a ship, cast away 
 upon the rocks during the night. I could not see 
 any person on the wreck or near it, though I had 
 my glass; so I did not know whether any of the 
 people had been saved. or not. 
 
 I cannot tell how much I longed for even one 
 person to be saved from this wreck. While I 
 
 stood watching it I cried aloud several times, “Oh, | 
 
 that one soul had been saved out of this ship to 
 come to me, so that I might have one companion, 
 one fellow-creature to speak to me!” In all my 
 lonely life on the island I had never felt so strong a 
 desire for a companion, or so much grief for the 
 want of one. I repeated a thousand times the 
 
 words “Oh, that even one had been saved!” But I’ 
 
 never knew till the last year of my being on the 
 island whether any one had been saved out of that 
 ship or not. 
 
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A VESSEL IS WRECKED ON THE ISLAND. 69 
 
 I now thought I would go out to the wreck in 
 my canoe, and see whether I could find anything in 
 it that would be of use to me. So I hastened back 
 to my castle to make ready for the voyage. I took 
 some bread and rice and cheese and raising and a 
 bottle of goat’s milk and a jar of water. These I 
 carried down to my boat, and then I got the little 
 vessel out and started off. I rowed along the shore 
 until I came to the north-west point of the island. 
 Here I found the sea so rough that I did not think 
 it safe to go out far from the land; so I turned into 
 a little creek, where I remained for that night, sleep- 
 ing In my canoe. 
 
 Early in the morning, as the tide was going out 
 and the sea was calmer, I set off again. In less 
 than two hours I came up to the wreck. It was a 
 sad sight to see. The ship was stuck fast, jammed 
 in between two rocks. Her stern had been beaten 
 to pieces by the waves and her masts broken off. 
 When I came close to where she lay, a dog jumped 
 yelping into the sea and swam up to me. I took 
 him into my boat and gave him some bread, which he 
 seized and ate like a starving wolf. I then gave him 
 water, and he lapped it up so eagerly that he would 
 have burst, if I had let him take all he wanted. 
 
 After this I went on board. In the cook’s room 
 I found two men dead, with their arms fast about 
 
70 | ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 one another. There was no one alive on the ship, 
 and most of the goods I saw were spoiled by water. 
 I guessed the vessel had been bound for Spain. I 
 took two of the seamen’s chests into my boat with- 
 out opening them at the time. I also took a small 
 cask of liquor, a horn of powder, a fire-shovel, two 
 brass kettles, and a copper pot. With this cargo 
 and the dog I came away, and reached the island 
 again in the evening. 
 
 I slept that night in the boat. In the morning I 
 got my things ashore, and I thought it best to store 
 them in my new cave. I found some good shirts 
 and handkerchiefs and neckties in one of the chests. 
 In the other I found three bags of gold coins and 
 some bars of gold. I had no use whatever for this 
 money. I would have given it all for three or four 
 pairs of shoes and stockings, for I had had none on 
 my feet for many yeers. I had, indeed, now got two 
 pairs of shoes, which I took off the drowned men in 
 the wreck, but they were so large and heavy that 
 they were of little use to me. 
 
 I now set about to carry the things I had got in 
 the wreck to my new cave. When this was done, I 
 went back to my boat and rowed her along the 
 shore to her old harbor in the little creek, where I 
 laid her up. I then went home to my castle, and 
 found everything there safe as I had left it. 
 
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 CHAPTER XXIV. 
 ROBINSON’S DREAM. 
 
 One night soon after I had been at the wreck, I 
 had a very strange dream. I dreamed that as I was 
 going out in the morning from my castle, I saw 
 upon the shore two canoes and eleven savages, 
 and that they had with them another savage, whom 
 they were going to kill and eat. On a sudden this 
 savage jumped away and ran for his life, and I 
 thought he came running into my little grove, be- 
 fore my fort, to hide himself. Seeing him alone, 
 for, as I thought, the other savages did not follow 
 him that way, I showed myself to him, smiling upon 
 him and encouraging him. He knelt down before 
 me and begged me to help him, and I brought him 
 into my house and he becamg my servant. Then I 
 thought I said to myself, “Now I may set out to 
 sail my boat to the mainland, for this man will 
 serve me as a pilot and tell me what to do, and 
 what sort of people there are in that country.” I 
 waked up very happy with the thought that I was 
 going to get away from the island, but in a moment 
 I knew it was only a dream, and I felt much dis- 
 appointed. 
 
 I thought a good deal over this dream, If I 
 
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 could get one of those savages in that way, what a 
 good thing 1t would be! I would then have a com- 
 panion, and perhaps he would help me, as I said in 
 my dream, to make a passage over the sea to that 
 land in the distance. With these thoughts in my 
 mind I now kept on the lookout every day for 
 savages, hoping that if any came, I should be able in 
 some way to get one to come to my castle. 
 
 CHAPTER XXV. 
 ROBINSON HAS A ‘COMPANION AT LAST. 
 
 Axzovut a year and a half after my dream, I was 
 surprised one morning by seeing five canoes on the 
 shore on my side of the island. The people belong. 
 ing to them were all landed and out of sight, and I 
 knew there must be a great many, for each canoe 
 could hold five or six. 
 
 I went back to my castle and sat down for a 
 while, listening to hear if they made any noise. 
 But I heard nothing. Then I set my guns at the 
 foot of my ladder, and climbing up the hill, I stood 
 a little lower down than the top of it, so as not to 
 ‘show myself to the savages, if they should turn 
 their eyes that way. I had my glass with me, and 
 when I looked through it to the shore I saw about 
 
ROBINSON HAS A COMPANION AT LAST. 73 
 
 thirty savages. They had a fire kindled, and they 
 were all dancing round it. In a few minutes I saw 
 them drag two men from the boats. They knocked 
 down one of these men, and then killed him, while 
 the other was left standing by himself till they 
 should be ready for him. 
 
 At that moment this poor wretch started off and 
 ran with great speed towards the part of the coast 
 near my house. I was dreadfully frightened, for I 
 thought at first that they were all following him, 
 - and that, as in my dream, he might run into my 
 little grove, but that, unlike the dream, the other 
 savages might come too, and find him and me there. 
 I began to be less afraid, however, when I saw that 
 only three were following the man who was trying 
 to escape, and that he was gaining ground on them, 
 so that if he could keep up the same speed for half 
 an hour, he would get away from them. 
 
 Now, between the place where the savages had 
 come ashore and my castle, there was the little creek 
 already mentioned, in which I had landed my rafts 
 from the wreck. When the poor flying savage came 
 to this creek, he plunged in and swam over in a few 
 minutes. Two of the others plunged in and swam 
 after him, but they were twice as long in getting 
 over the creek. The third savage, not being able 
 _ to swim, went back to his comrades at the shore. 
 
44 ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 I now thought the time had come for me to try 
 to get a servant and companion. I felt too that I 
 was called by God to save this poor creature’s life. 
 So I ran down the ladder, fetched two of my guns, 
 and hastened to the top of the hill. Then I crossed 
 over towards the sea, until I got between the man 
 who was running away and the two who were fol- 
 lowing him. I cried out to the poor fellow, and he 
 looked back, but at first he was as much frightened 
 at me as at them. I beckoned to him with my hand 
 to come to me, and then going towards the other 
 two, I rushed upon one of them and knocked him 
 down with a blow of my gun. I did not like to 
 fire because the men at the shore might hear the 
 noise. When the other savage, who was following, 
 saw his companion knocked down, he suddenly 
 stopped as if frightened. Then I went towards 
 him, but as I came near he raised his bow and arrow 
 to take aim at me, so I fired at him and killed hin. 
 
 The poor savage who had been running away 
 had now stopped. But though he saw both his 
 enemies fall, he was so much frightened by the 
 noise of my gun that he was about to start off 
 again. I again cried out to him and made signs to 
 him to come up tome. Then he came towards me 
 a little way, and again stopped, and soon he came 
 still nearer and stopped again. I saw he was trem- 
 
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 bling with fear, and I made all the signs I could 
 
 think of to let him know 
 I was his friend. At last 
 he came close up to me 
 and kneeled down and 
 kissed the ground. Then 
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 But there was more work still todo. The savage 
 I had knocked down was not killed. He was only 
 stunned by the blow, and I saw he was sitting up. 
 My savage or slave, as I might now call him, saw 
 this too, and he spoke some words to me. I did not 
 understand what he said, but the words were very 
 pleasant to my ears, for they were the first sound of 
 man’s voice, except my own, that I had heard for 
 twenty-five years. 
 
 When I raised my gun to fire at the savage on the 
 ground, my slave made a sign to me to give him my 
 sword. As soon as he got it, he ran up, to the man, 
 and with one blow cut off his head. He then came 
 back to me, laughing, with the head and the sword, 
 and laid both at my feet. He wondered very much 
 at seeing that I had killed the other savage without 
 going near him, and he made signs to me to let him 
 go to where the man was lying. When he came up 
 to him, he turned him first on one side and then on 
 the other, and looked with surprise at the wound the 
 shot had made, for he could not understand how it 
 had been done. 
 
 My savage now took up his bow and arrows, and 
 I beckoned to him to come away, but he made signs 
 that he should bury the dead men. So he fell to 
 work, and in a very short time he scraped two holes 
 in the sand with his hands, and threw the bodies in, 
 
ROBINSON NAMES THE SAVAGE FRIDAY. TE 
 
 and covered them up. Then I took him off to my 
 cave on the other side of the island, for I did not 
 think it would be wise to let him see my castle yet 
 awhile. 
 
 CHAPTER © XVI. 
 ROBINSON NAMES THE SAVAGE FRIDAY. 
 
 WueEn we came to the cave, I gave my companion 
 some bread and raisins, and a drink of water. He 
 . ate and drank heartily, and I then showed him a 
 place to sleep, where I had laid some straw and a 
 blanket. The poor creature was soon asleep, for he 
 was tired after his long run. 
 
 He was a very handsome man, tall and well shaped, 
 and, as I thought, about twenty-six years of age. 
 He had long, black hair, a high and large forehead, 
 and his eyes were sparkling and bright. His skin 
 was of a light-brown color. His face was round and 
 plump, and very pleasing to look at, and his teeth 
 were as white as ivory. 
 
 After sleeping for about half an hour, he woke up 
 and came out to where I was milking my goats in 
 one of my parks close by. The moment he saw me 
 he ran up to me, making all the signs he could to 
 show that he was thankful. He laid himself down 
 upon the ground, and took hold of one of my feet 
 
ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 and set it upon his head, as he has done before, to 
 let me know that he would serve me as long as he 
 lived. I made signs that I understood what he 
 wished to tell me, and that I was very well pleased 
 with him. 
 
 In a little while I began to teach him to speak to 
 me. I let him know his name should be Fripay, 
 which was the day I had saved his life. I also 
 taught him that my name was to be Masrer. Then 
 we had our first meal together, and I kept him with 
 me at the cave that night. 
 
 Inthe morning I took him with me to the shore 
 where the savages had been. They had gone away 
 without searching for their comrades who had fol- 
 lowed Friday, but they had left behind them what 
 it made me sick to look at. The place was covered 
 with the bones and some of the flesh of the poor 
 savages they had killed. Friday told me afterwards 
 that they had brought three other prisoners with 
 them besides himself. He said there had been a 
 battle in their country between two tribes, and that 
 the savages who came to the island belonged to the 
 tribe that had won in the fight. They had taken a 
 great number of prisoners, and the poor wretches 
 had all been carried off to several places by those 
 who had taken them. 
 
 I could see that Friday had a desire to eat some 
 
ROBINSON NAMES THE SAVAGE FRIDAY. 79 
 
 of the flesh, but I let him understand as well as I 
 could how much I was displeased at the thought 
 of such a thing, and that I would kill him if he 
 attempted to do it. I then made him gather up 
 the bones in a heap and burn them all to ashes. 
 
 When this was done I took him to my castle, and 
 I set to work to get him some clothes. I gave him 
 a pair of lmen drawers which I had by me. It was 
 one of the things which I had got from the wreck 
 long before. Then I made him a cap of hare’s skin 
 and a coat of goatskin like my own. He seemed 
 much pleased with his clothes, though at first he 
 went about very awkwardly in them, for until then 
 he had never worn any. But he soon got used to 
 them. | 
 
 I next had to think where I should make a sleep- 
 ing place for my servant. I did not like to have 
 him in my own room, as I might call it, for I was 
 not yet sure that I could safely trust him to be 
 so near me while I slept. But I made a bed for 
 him in the space between my two walls, and at 
 night I took away the ladders and barred up the 
 door, so that nobody could get in without making 
 a noise that would wake me up. I soon found, 
 however, that I had no need to be afraid of Fri- 
 day. No one ever had a more faithful, loving 
 servant or friend than he was to me. 
 
ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 CHAPTER XXVIL 
 FRIDAY LEARNS TO WORK. 
 
 I was more and more pleased with Friday every 
 day, and I made it my business to teach him every- 
 thing that could be useful to him. He was very 
 willing and eager to learn. In a short time he came 
 to understand what I said to him, and was able to 
 speak to me very well in English. And now I 
 began to be happy, having a companion at last. I 
 thought I could live content on the island all my 
 life, if I were sure that no more savages would 
 come. ) 
 
 Friday was very much puzzled about my gun. 
 He could not think how I had killed the savage 
 with it. One morning, a few days after he had 
 come, I took him out with me to the woods. On 
 the way I saw a goat lying in the shade with two 
 young ones at her side. I raised my gun and fired 
 and killed one of the kids. Friday trembled with 
 fear. He did not see the kid I shot at and he 
 thought I meant to kill himself. He was so fright- 
 ened that he tore open his coat and looked at his 
 breast to find if there was a wound in it the same 
 as he had seen in the savage. Then he came and 
 kneeled down to me and caught me by the knees 
 
FRIDAY LEARNS TO WORK. 
 
 and spoke to me with tears in his eyes. I did not 
 quite understand what he said, but I knew he was 
 praying to me not to kill him. 
 
 I soon, however, let him see that I would do him 
 no harm, but it was not so easy to make him under- 
 stand about the gun. I loaded it again and told 
 him to watch me firing at a bird in the air. He 
 watched and saw the bird fall to the ground the 
 moment I fired. Still he was as much frightened 
 as before. He thought there was some terrible 
 being inside the -gun that could kill man or beast 
 or bird, near or far off. If I had let him, I believe 
 he would have prayed to the gun as if it were a 
 god. For a good while he would not touch it, but 
 when I was out of sight he would talk to it, and he 
 afterwards told me he used to ask it not to kill 
 him. 
 
 I brought home the kid and made broth of it. 
 Friday took some and liked it well, but he won- 
 dered very much to see me use salt with mine. He 
 made a sign to me that salt was not good to eat. 
 He put a little in his mouth and spit it out and 
 washed his mouth with water, to show how unpleas- 
 ant the taste was to him. Then I took some broth 
 without salt, and spit it out to show him how much 
 I disliked it in that way. Still Friday would never 
 
 eare for salt with his food. 
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ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 Next day I set Friday to work grinding and sift- 
 ing corn. He soon learned to do it well, and he 
 was very willing and glad to do it, when he knew 
 it was for bread. Then I showed him how to make 
 bread and bake it, and in a short time he was able 
 to do all the work as well as myself. 
 
 CHAPTER XXVIII 
 FRIDAY BECOMES A CHRISTIAN. 
 
 As soon as Friday had learned English well 
 enough to speak to me and answer me when I 
 spoke, I began to talk to him about God. I asked 
 him who made him. The poor creature did not 
 understand me at all. Then I asked him who made 
 the sea, the ground we walked on, the hills and 
 woods. He said it was “Benee,” that lived “be- 
 yond all.” 
 
 He could tell nothing of this person but that he 
 was “older than the sea or land, the moon or 
 stars.” I asked him why all people did not pray 
 to Benee if he had made all things. Friday an- 
 swered that all things said “O” to him. I asked 
 him if the people who died in his country went any- 
 where after death. He said they all went to Benee. 
 Then I began to tell him of the true God. I 
 
FRIDAY BECOMES A CHRISTIAN. 83 
 
 pointed up towards heaven and said that God lives 
 there. I told him it was He who had made all 
 things, that He can do everything for us, that He 
 can give us all we want, or take away from us all 
 we have. 
 
 I then told him that God can look into our 
 hearts, that He knows all our thoughts, hears all 
 our words, and sees all that we do. I said that 
 God is very good, that He loves all His creatures, 
 that He loves them more and more when they do 
 what is right, and that He is displeased when they 
 do wrong. 
 
 I also made him understand how good it is to 
 pray to God, who helps and blesses those who do so 
 in the right way. Then I told him about Christ 
 and what He had done for all men, and I read to 
 him often from the Bible and tried to make him 
 understand what it meant. 
 
 Friday always listened with great attention and 
 respect when I spoke about these things, and soon I 
 had the joy of finding that his heart and mind were 
 turned to the true God and to a firm hope of happi- 
 ness in Christ. 
 
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 CHAPTER XXIX. 
 FRIDAY TELLS ABOUT HIS OWN COUNTRY. 
 
 Arrer some time, when Friday could under- 
 stand nearly everything I said to him, I told him 
 how I had come to the island, how long I had been 
 there, and how I had lived in it. I showed him the 
 boat from which I had been cast ashore, for it re- 
 mained still in the same place, though it was now 
 almost fallen to pieces. When Friday saw this boat 
 he stood thinking a good while. At last he said, 
 “Me see such boat like come to place at my coun- 
 try.” I did not well understand him at first, but 
 after getting him to tell me more about it, I thought 
 some ship must have been wrecked on the coast of 
 the country from which he had come, and that the 
 boat he spoke of must have belonged to that ship. 
 
 Friday then told me that there were white men in 
 the boat, and that they had been saved. “ We save 
 the white mans from drowns,” said he, “the boat 
 full of white mans.” I asked how many there were, 
 and he counted seventeen upon his fingers, and 
 when I asked what had become of them he said, 
 “They live, they dwell at my country.” » 
 
 I now thought that those men must have been on 
 the ship that had been wrecked on the rocks to the 
 
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 FRIDAY TELLS ABOUT HIS OWN COUNTRY. 85 
 
 south of my island. I could hardly believe, how- 
 ever, that they could be still alive, if they had been 
 cast ashore among the savages, so I asked Friday 
 again. But he told me they were surely alive, that 
 they had been there for four years, and that the 
 savages were good to them. I asked him how it 
 was that they did not kill and eat the “white 
 mans,” and he said, “They no eat mans but when 
 make the war fight.” By this he meant that they 
 never eat men except those taken in battle. 
 
 Some time after this we were on the top of a hill 
 from which, on a clear day, the mainland of Amer- 
 ica could be seen. Friday gazed at the sea as if 
 looking out for something, and in a little while he 
 began jumping and dancing and calling to me, for I 
 was a short distance from him. “ What is the mat- 
 ter, said 1?” coming up to him. “Oh, joy!” cried 
 he, “oh, glad! there see my country!” His eyes 
 sparkled with delight, and he stretched out his 
 hands towards his country as if longing to be there. 
 
 This made me feel very uneasy. I began to have 
 doubts about Friday. I thought he wished to be 
 with his own people again, and I feared that if he 
 got there, he would tell them about me and perhaps 
 come back to the island with a number of savages, 
 and make a feast upon me, as they did with the 
 poor wretches on the shore. 
 
86 ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 But I wronged the poor creature very much by 
 my doubts, as I found out afterwards. For some 
 time, however, I was not so friendly with him as 
 before, and while my fears lasted I was every day 
 asking him questions to see if I could find out what 
 his wishes really were. 
 
 “Friday,” said I to him one day, “would you not 
 like to be in your own country again?” 
 
 “Yes,” he said, “I be much O glad to be at my 
 country.” 
 
 “What would you do there?” said I. “ Would you 
 eat man’s flesh and be a savage as you were before ?” 
 
 Friday looked very thoughtful, and shaking his 
 head, he answered, “ No, no; Friday tell them live 
 good; tell them pray God; tell them eat corn- 
 bread, cattle-flesh, milk; no eat mans again.” 
 
 “Why, then,” said I, “they would kill you.” 
 
 “No, no,” said he, “they no kill me; they willing 
 love learn.” 
 
 Then I asked him if he would go back. He 
 smiled at this and told me he could not swim,so 
 far. I told him I would make a canoe for him. 
 He said he would go if I would go with him. 
 
 “Tgo?” said I. “Why, they will eat me if I come 
 there.” 
 
 “No, no,” cried Friday, “me make them no eat 
 you, me make them much love you.” 
 
ROBINSON AND FRIDAY MAKE A NEW BOAT. 87 
 
 He meant he would tell them how I had saved 
 his life, and so he would make them love me. Then 
 he told me how kind they were to the seventeen white 
 men who had been cast on their shore in distress. 
 
 CHAPTER XXX. 
 ROBINSON AND FRIDAY MAKE A NEW BOAT. 
 
 I now began to have a wish to go over to Friday’s 
 country. I felt sure that if I could join the white 
 men there, we could find some means of getting to 
 England or Spain, for I believed that those men be- 
 longed to Spain. So after some days I took Friday 
 to see my little boat, which I had not shown him 
 before. He thought it was too small to go so far, 
 Then I took him to the boat I had first made, but 
 could not get into the water. This was large enough, 
 Friday said. We could not use it, however, for it 
 was now somewhat rotten, having lain there in the 
 sun and rain for more than twenty years. I told 
 Friday we would make another boat as big, and 
 that he should go home in it. He made me no an- 
 swer, but he looked very sad. I asked him what 
 was the matter. Then he said: 
 
 “Why you angry mad with Friday ? What me 
 
 done 2?” 
 
88 ROBINSON CRUSOE 
 
 I told him I was not angry with him. 
 
 “No angry?” said he. “Why send Friday home 
 away to my country?” 
 
 “Why,” said I, “did you not say you wished you 
 were there?” 
 
 “Yes, yes,” said he, “wish we both there; no 
 wish Friday there, no master there.” 
 
 “TI go there, Friday!” said I. “What shall I do 
 there?” 
 
 “You do great deal much good,” answered Fri- 
 day, quickly. “You teach wild mans be good; you 
 tell them know God, pray God, and live new life.” 
 
 “No, no, Friday,” said I. “You shall go without 
 me; leave me here to live by myself as I did before.” 
 
 He looked very grieved when I said this, and he 
 ran and took one of his hatchets, which he used to 
 wear, and gave it to me. 
 
 “What must I do with this, Friday ?” said I. 
 
 “You take kill Friday. What you send Friday 
 away for? Take kill Friday; no send Friday away.” 
 
 I saw tears in the poor creature’s eyes as he spoke, 
 and I was now so sure of his friendship and love 
 for me that I told him I would never send him away 
 if he was willing to stay with me. — 
 
 Then I made up my mind that we should have 
 a new boat. As Friday knew better than I what 
 kind of wood was fittest for it, I let him find out a 
 
ROBINSON AND FRIDAY MAKE A NEW BOAT. 
 
 tree, which he soon did. He also cut down the tree, 
 and his plan was to burn out a hollow in the trunk 
 for the inside of the boat. But I showed him how 
 to use tools to cut it out, as I myself had done be- 
 fore, and he did the work very well. 
 
 We had our vessel finished in less than two 
 months. She was large enough to carry twenty 
 men. We made rollers and put them under her, 
 and we rolled her inch by inch until we got her 
 into the water. I was surprised to see how well 
 Friday could manage her, and turn her and paddle 
 her along when she was afloat. He was used to 
 canoes. I asked him if she would carry us over. 
 He said, “Yes, we go in her very well, though 
 great blow wind.” 
 
 But I had a thought that he knew nothing of. It 
 was to make a mast and a sail, and have an anchor 
 for our boat. So I set Friday to work to cut down 
 a straight young cedar tree for a mast, and we made 
 a sail from some sails I had saved from the wreck. 
 Then we made a rudder for steering our vessel. 
 When all this was done, I taught Friday how to 
 manage the boat with the sail. He learned quickly, 
 for he was very attentive to everything I told him, 
 and he was soon as good a sailor as myself. 
 
ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 CHAPTER XXXII. 
 ROBINSON AND FRIDAY SAVE A SPANIARD’S LIFE. 
 
 I wap been now twenty-six years on the island. 
 Friday had been with me nearly two years, and I 
 felt more than ever how good God had been to me 
 in sending me so faithful a companion. 
 
 It was the rainy season, and we had to wait for 
 fair weather before starting on our voyage. But 
 we were getting our things ready every day. One 
 morning I sent Friday to the shore for a tortoise, 
 which we got once a week for the sake of the eggs 
 as well as the flesh. He had not been gone long, 
 when he came running back in great haste, and 
 before I had time to speak he cried out, “Oh, Mas. 
 ter! Oh, sorrow! Oh, bad!” 
 
 “ What’s the matter, Friday ?” said I. 
 
 “Oh, yonder there,” cried he, “one, two, three 
 canoes !” 
 
 The poor fellow shook with fear, for he thought 
 they had come to search for him, and that they 
 would kill kim and eat him. 
 
 “Well, Friday,” said I, “don’t be afraid ; we shall 
 fight them ; can you fight, Friday ?” 
 
 “Me shoot,” said he, “but there come many great 
 number.” 
 
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 ROBINSON AND FRIDAY SAVE A SPANIARD’S LIFE. 91 
 
 “No matter,” said I, “our guns will frighten those 
 we do not kill.” 
 
 We at once made ready to fight. We loaded six 
 guns and two pistols with bullets. I hung my 
 sword by my side and Friday took his hatchet. 
 Then I went up the hill with my glass to look at 
 the savages. I found there were twenty-one of them, 
 with three prisoners and three canoes. They had 
 landed on the shore near where there was a thick 
 wood close to the sea. 
 
 I came down to Friday and told him I would kill 
 them all, and asked him if he would stand by me. 
 He said he would die “when master bid die.” I 
 gave him a pistol to stick in his belt, and three guns 
 to carry on his shoulder, for he was not now afraid 
 of a gun, and he could use one as well as myself. I 
 took the other pistol and three guns. I ordered 
 Friday to keep close behind me and not to shoot or 
 speak a word till I should bid him. 
 
 We then started off. We went a roundabout way 
 to get into the wood without letting the savages see 
 us, and we came to the side of it next to where they 
 were. I pointed to a great tree at the corner of the 
 wood, and whispered to Friday to go there and see 
 what they were doing. He soon came back and told 
 me they were all around their fire eating one of the 
 prisoners. Another prisoner, he said, lay bound on 
 
92 ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 the sand and they would eat him next. He was not 
 a savage but a white man, and Friday thought he 
 was one of those he had told me of before, who had 
 been cast ashore in their country. i: 
 
 I was filled with horror and anger when I heard ) 
 this, but there was not a moment to lose, and so we 
 moved on behind some bushes, until we came to 
 a little hill from which we had a full view of the 
 savages, about eighty yards off. Nineteen of the 
 wretches were sitting upon the sand all together, 
 and the other two were stooping over the poor white : 
 man to untie the cords that bound him. 
 
 “ Now, Friday,” said I, “ the time is come; we must 
 shoot to save the white man; do just as you see me 
 do.” 
 
 I took up a gun and aimed at the savages. Friday 
 was ready when I gave the word “Fire!” and we both 
 fired at the same moment. With the first shot we 
 killed three of them and wounded five others. The 
 savages who were not hurt jumped up in terror. 
 They did not know which way to run or which way 
 to look. Friday kept his eyes on me to watch what 
 I would do next. I took up another gun and he did | 
 the same. “Let fly at them,” said I, and we both | 
 fired again. Only two were killed this time, but ; 
 several were wounded, and they ran yelling around 
 as if they were mad. 
 
ROBINSON AND FRIDAY SAVE A SPANIARD’S LIFE. 93 
 
 I now picked up another loaded gun, and bidding 
 Friday follow me, I rushed out of the wood and 
 down to the shore. We shouted as loud as we 
 could, and made for the spot where the poor white 
 prisoner was lying on the sand. The two who had 
 been about to untie him ran to a canoe at the first 
 noise of our guns, and three others followed them. 
 I bade Friday to fire at them, and I thought he had 
 killed them all, for I saw them fall into the boat. 
 Two of them, however, got up again, but two were 
 killed and one was wounded. 
 
 While Friday was firing, I was helping the white 
 man. With my knife I cut the cords that bound 
 him. He could not stand up for a little while, he 
 was so weak, but I gave him something to drink 
 out of a bottle I had brought with me, and it 
 strengthened him very much. He told me he be- 
 longed to Spain, and he said all he could to show 
 how thankful he was to me for saving his lite. 
 Then I gave him my sword and a pistol and told 
 him to use them, for there was more fighting to do. 
 He quickly fell upon the savages, and killed two of 
 them in an instant. 
 
 At the same time, Friday fought them with his 
 hatchet, and he struck down a savage at every blow. 
 It was not long until they were all killed except 
 four, who got mto a canoe, and rowed away. I 
 
94 ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 * 
 
 jumped into another canoe, crying to Friday to 
 follow me, for I wished to catch the men who were 
 escaping, lest they might come back with more say- 
 ages. In this canoe I found the other poor pris- 
 oner bound hand and foot and almost dead with 
 fear. I cut the cords and set him free. 
 
 When Friday came up I bade him speak to the 
 poor man in his own language and tell him he was 
 safe. But as soon as Friday heard the man speak 
 and looked in his face, he threw his arms around 
 his neck and kissed him and showed in every way 
 he could how happy he was to see him. He 
 jumped about, and danced, and sang, then wept 
 and wrung his hands, and then danced and sang 
 again. It was a good while before I could get Fri- 
 day to speak .to me, or tell me what was the mat- 
 
 ter, but at last he told me that the poor prisoner 
 
 was his father. 
 
 CHAPTER XXXII. 
 FRIDAY’S FATHER bis THE SPANIARD. 
 
 WE now gave up the thought of following the 
 four savages. It was well’ we did so, for in a short 
 time the wind began to blow so hard that the canoe 
 - must have been upset if we had gone far out. We 
 
FRIDAY’S FATHER AND THE SPANIARD. 95 
 
 felt sure that the savages never reached their own 
 country. 
 
 I cannot tell half the things Friday did to show 
 his love for his father and his joy at seeing him. 
 He went into the boat and out of it a great many 
 times, and when he went in he would sit down by 
 him, and hold his head to his breast. He rubbed 
 his arms and ankles, which were stiff with the cords, 
 and he fetched him bread and raisins. I gave him 
 some drink out of my bottle, and we gave food and 
 drink to the Spaniard also. 
 
 They were both too weak to walk much, and so 
 Friday took them round along the shore in the 
 canoe, and I walked across and met them at our 
 little creek. They sat on the bank while I made a 
 hand-barrow, in which Friday and myself carried 
 them to our castle: We fixed up a tent for them 
 outside the outer wall, for they were not yet strong 
 enough to get into our house by the ladders, as 
 Friday and I always did. We made two beds for 
 them in this tent, with blankets to le on and 
 blankets to cover them. 
 
 Then Friday killed a young goat, and we prepared 
 a good dinner for the poor weak men. We had 
 roast meat and boiled meat, and good broth with 
 rice and barley in it. We all sat down to our meal 
 together in the new tent, and I did everything I 
 
96 ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 could to cheer the new comers and make them com- 
 fortable. 
 
 After dinner Friday went round the shore with 
 the canoe and fetched home our guns, which we had 
 left behind for want of time. The next day I or. 
 dered him to bury the dead bodies of the savages. 
 He did this so well that when I went to the place 
 again I saw no marks of what had happened 
 there. 
 
 I now began to talk with my new friends, and 
 first I got Friday to ask his father if he thought the 
 savages who had gone off in the canoe would come 
 back and bring more with them. He said he 
 thought they must have been lost in the storm, but 
 if they had got home they would tell their people 
 that their comrades had been killed by thunder and 
 lightning and that they had been attacked by two 
 spirits sent down from heaven to destroy them. He 
 knew this, he said, because he heard them all cry out 
 so to one another at the shore. His people could 
 not believe that men could dart fire, and speak 
 thunder, and kill at a distance, as they had been 
 killed. 
 
 Still I was uneasy for a while, and was always 
 ready with my little army, which now numbered 
 four men. We watched the shores now and then 
 to see if there was any sign of savages, and we felt 
 
FRIDAY’S FATHER AND THE SPANIARD. OE 
 
 that we were strong enough for a hundred of them 
 whenever they should come, 
 
 After a little time, as no savages came, I began to 
 think again of making a voyage to the mainland. 
 Friday’s father said, if I would go, the people of his 
 tribe would treat me well, because I had been so 
 good to him. I then talked with the Spaniard. 
 He said there were sixteen of his countrymen with 
 the savages, and that the savages treated them 
 kindly, but they had great trouble to get food 
 enough. I[ asked him if he thought they would be 
 willing to come over to my island, and I said that if 
 they would come, we might all together be able to 
 work out some plan of getting to our own countries. 
 We might build a vessel large enough to carry us to 
 Brazil. 
 
 He thought very well of this, and he said that if 
 I wished it, he would take Friday’s father with him 
 and go over and speak to his countrymen among 
 the savages about my plan and come back with their 
 answer. But he did not think it would be wise to 
 take his countrymen to the island until I had a 
 larger stock of corn and rice. What I had now, he 
 said, was not more than enough for. four, and if 
 sixteen were added to my family, we should be in 
 want. It would be better, he thought, for me to let 
 him and Friday and his father dig more land and 
 
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98 ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 sow more corn, and that we should wait for another 
 harvest, so that there might be plenty of food for 
 his countrymen when they should come. 
 
 This was very good advice, so we all set to work 
 and dug as much land as we had seed for, and we 
 sowed our seed. Then we went out among the 
 wild goats and got about twenty young kids and 
 added them to our flock. When the season came 
 for gathering grapes we gathered a much larger 
 quantity than usual, and hung them up in the sun 
 to be dried. We also made a great many baskets 
 to hold our corn in. 
 
 When the proper time came, we gathered in our 
 corn, and there was more than had ever been on the 
 island before. We had enough to feed ourselves, 
 and all the sixteen Spaniards, if they had been with 
 us, till the next harvest. 
 
 And now, as we had plenty of food, the Spaniard 
 and Friday’s father got ready to go. I gave them 
 a gun and some powder, and bread and grapes 
 enough for themselves for many days, and a supply 
 for the sixteen Spaniards for eight days. They 
 then put all these provisions into one of the canoes. 
 After wishing them a good voyage, I saw them off 
 and told them to hang out’a signal, or flag, when they 
 came in sight of the island on their return, so that 
 we might know them before they got near the shore. 
 
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 A SHIP AND ITS CREW COME TO THE ISLAND. 99 
 
 CHAPTER 
 XXXII. 
 
 A SHIP AND 
 ITS CREW 
 COME TO THE 
 ISLAND. 
 
 Eieut days af- 
 ter the Spaniard 
 and Friday’s 
 father left, I was 
 asleep in my castle one 
 morning when Friday 
 came running in and calling 
 out, “Master, master, they 
 are come, they are come!” 
 I jumped up, and as soon as 
 I could get on my clothes, 
 I went out through my little 
 grove, and turned my eyes 
 towards the sea. To my great 
 surprise, there was a boat with 
 
 Yp, 
 a sail headingforthe shore. I } 
 Hdly; 
 
 called Friday, and told him i 
 
 fl 
 these were not the people we ~ 
 were expecting. Then I took A SHIP IN SIGHT. 
 
100 ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 my glass and went to the top of the hill to get a 
 better view. I had hardly set foot on the hill, 
 when I caught sight of a ship lying at anchor, 
 about five miles out at sea on the south of the 
 island. ? ° 
 
 I was sure it was an English ship, and I cannot 
 tell how glad I was to see it. Still I thought it 
 better to keep on my guard until I knew why they 
 had come to the island. It was a part of the world 
 in which there was no trade or business for English 
 ships, and there had been no storm to drive them 
 out of their course. Perhaps they might be bad 
 men who had come there to commit some crime. 
 So I would not show myself for a little. 
 
 The boat was now near the shore, and I saw there 
 were eleven men in it, all English, as I thought. 
 In a few minutes they ran the boat in on the beach, 
 about half a mile from where I stood. Five or six 
 of them jumped out, and took with them three men 
 bound as prisoners. 
 
 Friday, who was at my side, now said to me: 
 “Oh, master, you see English mans eat prisoner well 
 as savage mans.” 
 
 “Why, Friday,” said I, “do you think they are 
 going to eat them?” 
 
 “Yes,” said Friday, “they will eat them.” 
 
 “No, no,” said I, “Friday, I am afraid they will 
 
A SHIP AND ITS CREW COME TO THE ISLAND. 101 
 
 kill them, but you may be sure they will not eat 
 them.” 
 
 One of the men now raised asword, and I thought 
 the prisoners would be killed on the spot. But the 
 fellow did not strike, and the whole five or six 
 who had first’ got out of the boat ran off along 
 the shore towards the woods, as if to see what kind 
 of country. they were in. They left the prisoners 
 free to go where they pleased, and the poor men sat 
 down upon the ground, looking very sad. 
 
 While the five or six were rambling through the 
 woods the tide went out, and so their boat now lay 
 on the ground a good distance from the water. Two 
 men had remained in the boat, and had fallen asleep. 
 When they awoke they called out for their com- 
 rades, who soon came back to the shore, and tried. 
 to drag the boat down to the water, but they could 
 not move it. Then they all rambled off into the 
 woods, and I heard one saying to another, “We 
 must wait; we can’t float her till the next tide.” 
 
 I now thought I would go and talk to the prisoners, 
 and find out what was the matter. I knew that the 
 tide would not be in for ten hours, and I was sure 
 the men would not come back for a good while. 
 So I took two guns and gave Friday three, and told 
 him to keep behind me. Then I marched off. When 
 the prisoners saw me they started up, and were 
 
102 ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 about to run away, for they were frightened at my 
 strange dress. I spoke to them and said: 
 
 “Do not be afraid ; you have a friend near.” 
 
 “Then,” said one of them, pulling off his hat, 
 “he must be sent from heaven; are you an angel ?” 
 
 “No,” said I, “if God had sent an angel, he 
 would have come in better clothes, I ama man 
 and an Englishman, and I am willmg to help you. 
 You see I have a servant here, and we have arms. 
 What is the matter ?” 
 
 “Our case, sir,” said he, with tears running down 
 his face, “is too long to tell, but in short, I was 
 the captain of that ship. This is my mate and the 
 other is a passenger. The sailors have taken the 
 ship from me, and they have carried us ashore to 
 leave us here to die. Some of them are now in that 
 wood, and I fear they may have heard you talk. If 
 they have, they will kill us all.” 
 
 I then asked him if the men had any firearms, 
 and he told me they had two guns, but had left one 
 of them in the boat. 
 
 “Well,” said I, “leave the rest to me ;I believe they 
 are all asleep. It is an easy thing to kill them, but 
 perhaps it would be better to take them prisoners,” 
 
 He told me that two of them were very bad men, 
 and if those two were taken prisoners, he thought the 
 rest would come back to their work and be obedient, 
 
ROBINSON HELPS THE CAPTAIN. 1038 
 
 “Then, sir,” said I, “if I help you and save the 
 ship, are you willing to do two things for me? 4 
 
 Before I could speak further, he grasped my hand 
 and said he would do whatever I wished. If I could 
 save the ship, she would be altogether under my_ 
 orders, and he would serve me and go with me, he 
 said, wherever I liked to take him. The mate and 
 the passenger said the same thing. 
 
 CHAPTER XXXIV. 
 ROBINSON HELPS THE CAPTAIN. 
 
 I wow sent Friday to my castle for more guns and 
 pistols and powder and shot, and gave them to the 
 captain and his comrades, and we waited for the 
 men to come out of the wood. In a short time two 
 of them appeared. The mate and passenger rushed 
 forward and fired, and the two men fell. Then the 
 others came running towards us, but when they saw 
 our guns pointed at them they cried out and begged. 
 for mercy. 
 
 The captain told them he would spare their lives, 
 if they would show him that they were sorry for 
 what they had done, and would help him to get 
 back the ship. They were very willing to do this, 
 and they promised to be obedient and faithful in the 
 
104 ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 future. However, we bound them hand and foot, 
 and we sent the two of them, who had been very 
 bad, to the cave at the other side of the island, and 
 left them there with enough to eat and drink, telling 
 them if they would be quiet, we would soon set 
 them free. | 
 
 We also took the oars and sails away from the 
 boat, and made a big hole in the bottom of it, so 
 that it would be of no use to the men in the ship if 
 they should come to help their comrades. 
 
 I now brought the captain and his companions to 
 my castle, and told them about myself. When they 
 heard that I had been alone on the island for so 
 many years, and that I had lived so well without 
 any one to help me, they were greatly surprised. 
 
 But we had to think about saving the ship, for 
 the captain told me there were still twenty-six men 
 in her, and they had all taken part against him. We 
 did not know what to do at first, as we were too few 
 to go out in the boat to attack so many. 
 
 At last we thought it would be better to wait and 
 see what the men in the ship would do. I was sure 
 that some of them would soon come ashore to see 
 what had happened to their comrades. And so they 
 did. Ina little while we heard a gun fired at the 
 ship. Then they hung out a flag as a sign to the 
 men on shore to come away. When they saw that 
 
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ROBINSON HELPS THE CAPTAIN. 105 
 
 the boat did not stir, they fired again, and made 
 more signs, and at last they put out another boat 
 and rowed towards the shore. 
 
 There were ten men in this boat. As soon as they 
 came ashore they dragged their boat up on the 
 beach, and ran to the other boat; which was close 
 by. They were much surprised to find:that the oars 
 and sail had been taken away, and that there was a 
 hole in the bottom of it. They shouted out for their 
 comrades, and getting no answer, they marched up 
 to the top of the little hill under which my house 
 was, and gazed around, and shouted till they were 
 tired. Then they went back to their boat, as if they 
 meant to return at once to the ship. The captain was 
 very uneasy, for he feared that if they got to the 
 ship again they would sail off with her. 
 
 But I thought of a plan to prevent this. I ordered 
 Friday and the captain’s mate to go into the wood, 
 about half a mile from the boat, and shout until the 
 men should hear them and answer, and then to go 
 farther off and shout again, always keeping out of 
 sight, and always going further off and shouting, so 
 as to draw the sailors away through the island with 
 the belief that it was their comrades who were ery- 
 ing for help. This plan worked well. The moment 
 the men at the boat heard the first shout, all except 
 two of them ran along the shore towards where 
 
ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 the voice came from, and soon we lost sight of 
 them. 
 
 The captain and the passenger and myself now 
 hurried down to the boat, taking with us the five 
 prisoners, whom we thought we could trust to help 
 us. One of the two men was on the shore, and the 
 captain ran up to him and knocked him down. We 
 then called to the other who was in the boat. He 
 quickly came out and promised to jom us if we 
 would spare him. The captain pardoned him, and 
 now we had a little army of nine men, ready for the 
 others when they should come. | 
 
 Friday and the mate had done their part well. 
 By their shouting they had drawn the sailors from 
 wood to wood and hill to hill, until they had gone 
 round the island. Friday was back several hours 
 before they were, and when they came it was dark. 
 We could hear them, as they came along, saying to 
 one another that they had got into an enchanted 
 island, and would all be killed. After a little, 
 we could see them running about wringing their 
 hands and weeping. Sometimes they would go 
 and sit down in the boat to rest, then come 
 ashore and walk about, then do the same thing 
 over again. 
 
 My men wanted to fall upon them at once in the 
 dark, but I wished to spare them, and kill no more 
 
ROBINSON HELPS THE CAPTAIN. 107 
 
 than could be helped. I wished also to make sure 
 that none of them would escape. SoI ordered Friday 
 and the captain to creep upon their hands and feet, 
 and try to get up close to them before firing. While 
 they were doing this, three of the sailors came walk- 
 ing towards them. The captain and Friday started 
 up and fired. One of them, who was the leader, 
 and the worst of them all, was killed, another was 
 wounded, and the third ran away. At the noise of 
 the firing I went forward with my little army. We 
 came upon them in the dark and they could not see 
 how many we were. Then I made the man they 
 had left in the boat, who was now on our own: side, 
 call out to them to ask if they were willing to yield 
 to the captain, and help him against the others who 
 were on the ship. So he called out to one of them, 
 “Tom Smith! Tom Smith!” 
 
 Smith answered, “Who’s that?’’ and then the 
 other said, 
 
 “Tom Smith, throw down your arms and yield, 
 or you will all be killed.” 
 
 “Whom must we yield to ?” asked Smith. “Where 
 are they ?” 
 
 “Here we are,” said our man; “here’s our captain 
 with the governor of the island. Some of our men 
 are killed and some of them are prisoners. If you 
 do not yield you are all lost.” 
 
108 ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 “Will they give us mercy?” cried Smith; “if 
 they will we will yield.” 
 
 Then the captain himself called out, “Smith, you 
 know my voice; if you lay down your arms at once, 
 you shall have your lives.” 
 
 They’ all now came up and begged for merey. 
 They said they were sorry for what they had done, 
 and they promised that if the captain would pardon 
 them, they would in future obey his orders and 
 help him in every way they could. We then 
 bound them, as we had done the others, and sent 
 them off to the cave as prisoners. 
 
 Our next work was to try to take the ship from 
 the men who were in her. We first repaired the 
 boat in which a hole had been made. Then the 
 captain picked out nine of the sailors whom he 
 thought he could trust, and took them and the 
 mate and passenger with him to the ship in the two 
 boats. The passenger and four men were in one 
 boat, and the captain and mate and five men in the 
 other. Friday and I remained on the island to 
 watch the prisoners whom the captain was afraid 
 to take with him, for they had been very bad men, 
 and he would not trust them. 
 
ROBINSON GOES HOME TO ENGLAND. 109 
 
 CHAPTER XXXV. 
 
 ROBINSON GOES HOME TO ENGLAND. 
 
 Brrore the captain left, he promised that if he 
 should have the good fortune to take the ship, he 
 would fire seven guns as a signal to me that he had 
 succeeded. I sat waiting on the shore until I heard 
 the guns, seven shots one after another. It was 
 near two o’clock in the morning. Then I went 
 home to my castle and lay down to sleep. 
 
 I was wakened by the noise of a gun, and in a 
 few minutes I heard some one calling out, “Gov- 
 ernor! governor!” for this was the name they now 
 gave me. It was the captain who called. I went 
 out, and he took me up to the top of the hill. Then 
 pointing to the ship, he said, “My dear friend, 
 there’s your ship; she is all yours, and so are we, 
 and all that belongs to her.” 
 
 I cast my eyes to the ship. There she was, not 
 more than half a mile from the shore, for they had 
 brought her to anchor near the mouth of the creek 
 in which I had landed my rafts from the wreck 
 twenty-eight years before. J was so overcome with 
 joy that if the captain had not taken me by the 
 hand, I should have fallen to the ground in a faint. 
 When I came to myself a little I lifted up my mind 
 
Tue ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 and heart to God in thankfulness for His goodness 
 to me. I also thanked the captain, saying that I 
 looked upon him as a friend sent to me from 
 Heaven. 
 
 After we had talked a while, the captain told me 
 what they had done at the ship. When they 
 reached her they found that most of the men 
 aboard were asleep. There were only two on 
 watch, and they thought that the men in the boats 
 were their comrades, so they did not attempt 
 to prevent them from going on deck. The two 
 watchmen were made prisoners In a moment. 
 Then the captain and his men hastened through 
 the ship to the places where the others were lying 
 asleep, and seized and bound them before they knew 
 what had happened. Thus the ship was saved. 
 
 The captain now sent down to the boat for some 
 things he had taken with him from the ship for me. 
 He brought me a large quantity of good things to 
 eat and drink, such things as I had not tasted for 
 many years. But what was better, he brought 
 me shirts, and shoes and stockings, and a hat, and 
 a suit of his own clothes which had been very 
 little worn, and which fitted me well. I was very 
 glad to get these things, but I felt as awkward 
 for a while in my new suit as Friday felt when 
 he first put on the clothes I had made for him. 
 
ROBINSON GOES HOME TO ENGLAND. 111 
 
 We now began to think what we should do with 
 the prisoners at the cave. The captain did not like 
 to take them back to the ship, for they had been 
 very bad men, and he was afraid they would not 
 keep their promises to behave well in the future. 
 I thought the best thing to do would be to leave 
 them on the island. The captain said he would be 
 very glad to leave them. “Well,” said I, “Tiel 
 talk with them.” So I sent Friday and two of the 
 sailors to the cave for the five prisoners. 
 
 When they came I told them their conduct had 
 been so bad that the captain could not again trust — 
 them as sailors on his ship. I said to them that jf 
 they were taken back to England they would be 
 hanged, but that I wished to save their lives, and 
 So would set them free if they were willing to 
 remain on the island. 
 
 They were very glad of this offer, and they 
 thanked me very much and said they would rather 
 stay there than go to England. Then I told them 
 the story of my life on the island, and showed them 
 how they might be very comfortable and happy. on 
 it. I showed them my castle, and my cornfields 
 and my goat parks and my bower, and told them - 
 ‘they could have all, as I was going to England on 
 ithe ship. I showed them how I ground my corn 
 and baked my bread and dried my grapes. I told 
 
112 ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 them about the sixteen Spaniards who might come 
 to the island with Friday’s father, and I made them 
 promise to treat them well if they came, and tell 
 them that I had gone to England. 
 
 Next day I went on board the ship, taking Fri- 
 day with me, for he would not think of parting 
 from me, and I had become so fond of him that it 
 would have grieved me much to leave him behind. 
 I carried with me as relics my goat’s-skin cap, my 
 umbrella, and my parrot. I also took the money and 
 gold bars I had found in the wrecks, for | was now. 
 going where they would be of some use to me, 
 
 I left the island on the 19th of December, 1686. 
 T had been on it twenty-eight years, two months and 
 nineteen days. After a long voyage I arrived in 
 England on the 11th of June, 1687, having been 
 absent thirty-five years. 
 
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