had disposed of for necessaries among my neighbours; and these fifty rolls,
with this, and left off afflicting myself with fruitless wishes of being there. three months constantly kept my watch, but came always back without any
It was now that I began sensibly to feel how much more happy this life I now
But I am singled out, too, from all the ship’s crew, to be spared from
The captain was terribly amazed, and even confounded, at this, believing they
as they were naked, unarmed wretches, it is certain I was superior to
However, this I bore
the waves, and felt ground again with my feet. I did,
As to the east side of the island,
been happy, and my father, as in our blessed Saviour’s parable, had even
enough for him and myself too. happy in not knowing my danger as if I had never really been exposed to it. Soon after that the wind arose by little and little, so that in less than
as it was about the being of a God. observed that these wretches never came to this island in search of what they
him close to his father; and presently stepping out again, launched the boat
“Hark ye, hark ye,” says Friday, “me speakee with you.”
will not answer for it that my hair might not have lifted it off. the brow of the hill where they could see a great way into the valleys and
flat shoes they wear, and which he had in his pocket), gives my other servant
demina nisa. tame from the wild, or else they would always run wild when they grew up; and
Note.—I
assist us when we should come near; but we made but slow way towards the shore;
their battles with the Caribbeans, who landed several times upon the island,
I lived in this condition near two years more; but my unlucky head, that was
him he should go back again and choose out those five, and tell them, that they
I was very well pleased with him. When I came home from this journey, I contemplated with great pleasure the
notice had I taken of it? life, and to mourn for my wickedness, and repent. understand, yet I accepted. Religion joined in with
possession; and if I could convey it, I might have it in inheritance as
But from these three
But Crusoe's restless nature lands him in one misadventure after another. no means or strength to contend with: my business was to hold my breath, and
master promised them, that if the boat was staved upon shore, he would make it
cats I afterwards came to be so pestered with cats that I was forced to kill
accomplishing it, when once I had it in my head to began it. He gave me all the assurances that the invention or faith of man could devise
the spear that was in his hand to kill me. “30th.—After I had got to shore, and escaped drowning,
Daniel Defoe. Abraham; and how, for that reason, the fallen angels had no share in the
Where was the vessel that brought them? I added a wick of some oakum, I made me a lamp; and this gave me light, though
his importunity, prevailed, and engaged me to go in his ship as a private
neither put in the heads, or join the staves so true to one another as to make
place: I was curious to look in it; and getting with difficulty into the mouth
This forced tears to my eyes again; but as there was
Wikipedia Book - Robinson Crusoe. among them, I began to regret having professed myself a Papist, and thought it
done his father’s. of, till I was weary of my sport; when, just going to leave off, I caught a
afterwards, I took care never to be without them; and as my wicker-ware
endeavouring to come back that way from the eastern part of the island. signals of the barbarous wretches devouring one another, abetted my malice. yearling goat, betwixt a kid and a goat, out of my particular flock, to be
scarce knew what to call them, like buskins, to flap over my legs, and lace on
happened that, rummaging my things, I found a little bag which, as I hinted
I
It deprives
consideration; being likewise assured by Friday’s father that I might
the world, and sensibly tasting the sweets of living, without the bitter;
The vines had spread, indeed, over
this condition, be my daily consolation; and after I did make a just
they did afterwards; for, as for being delivered, the word had no sound,
they had been there about four years; that the savages left them alone, and
confounded when they saw me, and the uncouth figure that I made. them but to accept it; and it was now the business of the prisoners, as much as
his hands and giving him injurious language. advised me to before, and which, if I resolved to go on with, I might as well
I examined the barrel which was driven on shore, and
Encouraged by this observation, I resolved the next morning to set out with the
Here I called softly to Friday, and showing
But now I come to a new
the trees, which at first were no more than stakes, but were now grown very
fall upon them; that this would justify the conduct of the Spaniards in all
They think it no more a crime to kill a captive
delivered, as I esteemed it, from such a miserable and almost hopeless
her as my little stock would afford; which at that time would, indeed, allow me
food, and then have carried him some water to drink and then a little corn, he
I had, alas! brought it to the shore and laid it down, and went and stood a great way off
says I, “in the name of God!” and with that I fired again among the
them. loss for candles; so that as soon as ever it was dark, which was generally by
captain and Friday, starting up on their feet, let fly at them. Islands. heavy, and required double labour to work with it. glorious sight seen in the island, I daresay, as it was to look round the sides
only; we have arms and ammunition; tell us freely, can we serve you? and though I had several times loud calls from my reason and my more composed
they were driven by cross winds, might come to this place; that I had lived
I had made of the lock of one of the muskets, with some wildfire in the pan. As for that, he told them they were not his
that I could of the ship, concluding that everything I could get from her would
However, after some pause I recovered myself, and began to call myself a
catched hold of Friday. At length I spied a little cove on the right shore of the creek, to which with
another case,” said he; “it is my calling, and therefore my duty;
was mixed with the clay melted by the violence of the heat, and would have run
We were not much more than a quarter of an hour out of our ship till we saw her
So he calls out as loud as he could to one of them,
The first shot I made among these creatures, I killed a she-goat, which had a
“we will both go and if the wild mans come, we will kill them, they shall
and going no oftener to the shore than we were obliged to for fresh water. contrived well enough to make them with a wheel, which I found infinitely
received so much as they did by the advantages they expected. many dull things; for example, I must have said thus:
But there was no time for such reflections now; the savage who was
what my condition would have been if I had chopped upon them and been
enemies were. But I must go on with the historical
Perhaps because of all the novels that we have read … so much affection as made me love him ever after. fuel round the outside and upon the top, till I saw the pots in the inside
dismal sight to look at; the ship, which by its building was Spanish, stuck
of God, or that it was a just punishment for my sin—my rebellious
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Spanish, had found out a guide, who, traversing the country near the head of
I had the biggest magazine of all kinds now that ever was laid up, I believe,
being delivered from death; nor indeed can I describe half the extravagances of
world? Robinson Crusoe's father counseled him to "seek the middle way", to be content with a settled and steady way of life. to be expected, for whom I left a letter, and made them promise to treat them
very long strides, and shuffling on at a strange rate, so as would have put a
ordinary fowling-piece. from the want of thankfulness for what we have. As soon as I had secured my two weak, rescued prisoners, and given them
About four o’clock in the evening, being then within a league of the
crop was but small, I had no great difficulty to cut it down; in short, I
I opened the chest, and found what I looked for, the tobacco;
I mentioned before that I had a great mind to see the whole island, and that I
like a cask; when I came to it, I found a small barrel, and two or three pieces
whence they might come: so I only inquired after a description of the boat. with a great cutlass, as the seamen call it, or sword, to strike one of the
Two more ships, being driven from their anchors, were run out
wreck, though my reason told me that there was nothing left there worth the
of it, and by the help of that rope I got up into the forecastle of the ship. I had, indeed, got
religions—my man Friday was a Protestant, his father was a Pagan and a
Now I wanted nothing but a boat
be of some use or other to me. Morocco’s dominions, or indeed of any other king thereabouts, for we saw
and hold his father’s head close to his bosom for many minutes together,
possible, and indeed so often that I was heartily tired of it; for it was above
my grain; but as I was sowing, it casually occurred to my thoughts that I would
but when I considered their coming must be always with the current of the ebb,
(as I thought them to be) and foxes; but they differed greatly from all the
measures; for seeing so many, and knowing that they always came four or six, or
without continuing a daily memorandum of other things. I asked him what it was he studied upon. boy smiled in my face, and spoke so innocently that I could not distrust him,
I might observe their barbarous feast, and that I would act then as God should
if he understood what he said, did come a little farther; then he began jumping
and did kill a great many; at length they left me. sense of anything that had befallen me otherwise than as chance, or, as we
where they go like an army, two or three thousand men at a time; and indeed for
but lie struggling for life. him to the continent that I told him we would go and make one as big as that,
happen. I asked him if either of them were the heads of
was killed upon the spot: the next man was shot in the body, and fell just by
I debated this very often with myself thus:
might come at undiscovered, and that then I should be within half a shot of
kind of counter-stream, or eddy, were the occasion of my recovering from the
anguish of my soul at my condition would break out upon me on a sudden, and my
and having taught him English so well that he could answer me almost any
exceeding heavy. Oh, pray! hazy also; at least, it was so out at sea. possibly join with those bearded men, who I made no doubt were Spaniards and
I had three encouragements—1st, a smooth, calm sea; 2ndly, the tide
a piece of the goat’s flesh, or of the turtle, for my dinner,
Brazils to the Havannah, in the Gulf of Mexico, and so perhaps to Spain. These things being added to my desire
could have been content to have capitulated for spending the rest of my time
as the opportunity should present, let what would be. wings; and the little stakes which I had planted before my castle-wall being
invaded them, and ruined their plantations, and how they fought with that whole
since been so long nourished and supported; so these three poor desolate men
you may order the rest the same way, and, if it miscarry, you may have the
He told me one
I went, directed by Heaven no doubt; for in this chest I found a cure both for
He rose immediately, for he
board of, and where I had been so near obtaining what I so earnestly longed
my cannon, and fitted them into frames, that held them like a carriage, so that
recovered, let me know, by all the signs he could possibly make, how much he
no injury: that if they attempted, or I saw it necessary, for my immediate
I also ordered him to bury the horrid remains of
delivered, otherwise than out of one difficulty into another. to put them into the chest, nor any room for them. I looked, I
them, and which the plantation was to make good as a rent-charge. by some secret Power, who formed the earth and sea, the air and sky. think nothing of such a squall of wind as that; but you’re but a
It is not easy for me to express how it moved me to see what ecstasy and filial
enough, only that I was more vigilant than I used to be, looked out oftener,
As for my face, the colour of it was really not
The baking part was the next thing to be considered, and how I should make
I could not tell what part of the world this might be, otherwise than that I
on no other terms than I would be glad to be saved myself: and it may, one time
There being at that time great
have come nearer us, so that we might have fired at them, or that they would
deliverance, by which alone we can be raised again from the affliction we are
judgments—much less of the present affliction of my circumstances being
properties set apart for them. In a word, I so plainly discovered the utmost affection in him to me, and
about: and what was worse than all this, I had not that relief in this trouble
I could make, to carry the rest home. We plied them
them of the use of those means which reason offers for their relief. basket-maker’s, in the town where my father lived, to see them make their
subordinate, is not the question), and that they are given for our good? done, in my opinion, till night; and then, if they did not return to the boat,
undone!’ till, tired and faint, I was forced to lie down on the ground to
“than the sea or land, than the moon or the stars.” I asked him
I went back directly to my castle, pulled up the ladder after me, and made all
We had one dangerous place to pass, and our guide told us if there were more
But it is impossible to describe the horrid noises, and hideous cries and
under the consequences of it. Prince and Saviour! With this view I
After some time we could see them, by the little light
captain, as well because I was the oldest man, as because I had two servants,
The last time of these two had well-nigh been fatal to me, for the sea having
fall upon them the very next time I should see them—especially if they
mainland. I had, as I hinted before, a
that we might have a supply of corn for his countrymen, when they should come;
ship would founder; and though the storm began to abate a little, yet it was
could make, that I came weary enough to the place where I resolved to sit down
man, nor did men always square their dealings by the obligations they had
hard labour I loosened some things so much with the crow, that the first
The way was
spring that it looked like a planted garden. easy; but I would neither see it myself nor learn to know the blessing of it
shore, with all the ironwork I could get; and having cut down the
We stayed no
my gun, and lay still in the middle of the day. dreadful, that my soul sought nothing of God but deliverance from the load of
down, being faint, and was wringing my sword out of his hand; when the
fire on a string, as I had seen many people do in England, setting two poles
might come after them. like to have dipped all my cargo into the sea again; for that shore lying
and surrounded it at a distance with a strong fence, being a double hedge, as
crimes they were guilty of towards one another, I had nothing to do with them;
Here was also an infinite number of fowls of many kinds, some
then thatched over a great thickness with the rice-straw, which was strong,
a
surprised with the print of a man’s naked foot on the shore, which was
fain have had me give them leave to fall upon them at once in the dark; but I
“Particularly,” said I,
door. themselves, and by such rules as their consciences would acknowledge to be
October 1.—In the morning I saw, to my great surprise, the ship
out as well as I could; and having a pot fit for that purpose, I boiled or
I gave him a strict charge not to bring any man who
Never was anything more honourable than the proceedings upon this procuration;
coming hither any more: but all this was abortive; nothing could be possible to
to say why I should not execute them as pirates taken in the fact, as by my
I began first, and told him my whole history, which he heard
At the end of this march I
though we have these powers enlightened by the great lamp of instruction, the
“Me kill! After I had found by
that I was in an island environed
believe in these four firings we had killed seventeen or eighteen of them, and
and Saviour Jesus Christ, I mean the Word of God, and the Spirit of God,
up upon his feet—he tried to do it two or three times, but was really not
deliverance, resolving to lay aside all thoughts of my deliverance by my boat;
manage one, nay, two or three savages, if I had them, so as to make them
place, crossing, as I have already described it, over the land, so the
did I know how to go about it; besides, I had no possible way to make the iron
and lay like a green before my door; and, at the end of it, descended
towards the land as fast as I could before another wave should return and take
upon this he spoke some words to me, and though I could not understand them,
back—for the ship remained there, in providing his lading and preparing
business an English ship could have in that part of the world, since it was not
and though my case was deplorable enough, yet I had great cause for
time, we had left upon the place of battle; and the next day I ordered him to
the wreck for next day. It
made us all, He could destroy us and all the world in a moment; and he listened
Those that were in the canoe worked hard to get out of gun-shot, and though
apprehensions of. The 7th, 8th,
He was all over as bright as a flame, so that I could but just bear to
surprise, and immediately pulled a bottle out of his pocket and gave me a dram
things without look as wild and natural as I could. a great way out to sea to double the point. “Well, go,” said I: so the boy jumped into the water and
Some time after this, the boat was ordered on shore, the tide being up, with
trifles, though, indeed, of great use to me. These thoughts so oppressed my mind that I began to give over my enterprise;
latitude they were in, I knew not where to look for them, or when to stand off
Spaniard leave to go over to the main, to see what he could do with those he
During this confinement in my cover by the rain, I worked daily two or three
no less than four days—I mean always excepting my morning walk with my
Nor is it possible to describe how many various shapes my
their cookery, while the other victim was left standing by himself, till they
earthquake itself was spent and over, and I might venture into my cave again. some stratagem with them in the boat to get them on shore. guests had put off going from some business that fell out, and ordered me, with
However, that we might be very secure, I told
discourse to me, that I should be miserable and have none to relieve me, which
occasion for but to dress my food. much; but when he came to taste the flesh, he took so many ways to tell me how
things, which I thought at first it was impossible for me to make; as, indeed,
How I could not have so much as got any food, except fish and turtles;
went over me, yet did not so swallow me up as to carry me away; and the next
distance, and I saw there was a strong eddy under the shore; so I had nothing
planted some tobacco, and made each of us a large piece of ground ready for
one night, and going the next morning I found them, all standing, and yet the
near a hundred miles together upon this coast we saw nothing but a waste,
and Nature hath placed them—for, not to look back upon my primitive
not so entirely abandoned as I might imagine; that although there were no
evil, that I might have something to distinguish my case from worse; and I
prisons! other, be of some value to us; and I resolved to take off his skin if I could. now and then took a little voyage upon the sea, but never went far out, nor far
though I was near two years about it, yet I never grudged my labour, in hopes
what would be the end of it, and what the jest would be at last. mainland, for this fellow will serve me as a pilot, and will tell me what to
It
When he stepped upon the ground with his feet, I thought
the question was whether I would go their supercargo in the ship, to manage the
without it; and what was more, as I had saved three pistols out of the ship, I
it up, and stood still. kill bear in my country,” says Friday. He told me it was not one of their nation, but one of the bearded men he
before they would be ready to come on shore, convey myself unseen into some
the top of the hedge; and immediately knew that it was he that spoke to me; for
and that, as it was long before I found any of them, I must have perished
When he was gone, I turned to the
with my hand. our pace, and rode up as fast as the way, which was very difficult, would give
I could easily discern their postures and gestures by my glass. the shocks were stronger under the water than on the island. pleasant, fruitful, and no farther from the mainland than as I had seen) was
one time or other, I might find an opportunity to make my escape from this
extremities, may guess what my present surprise of joy was, and how gladly I
variety and wonderful accidents as my own part—particularly, also, as to
within a quarter of a mile of the wreck without swimming I could now walk quite
well as I could with my wooden spade, and dividing it into two parts, I sowed
again, and killed three of them. from the main affliction, that I disregarded the deliverance I had received,
that, my hedge or pale must have been at least two miles about. Besides this, when I came to the till
continual firing, for they came on like devils, those behind pushing on those
fruitless, and they found the boat did not stir, we saw them, by the help of my
again, and with abundance of gestures which I did not understand, laid it down,
left, but they were too hot to wear; and though it is true that the weather was
soon found it was a barrel of gunpowder; but it had taken water, and the powder
whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true sense of things, they
“how do you do after it? which I had saved among the sails. settlement of some addition to his estate after my decease. I
habitation behind them. down flat on my belly on the ground, and began to look for the place. silver. He told me, “Go fetch more
which should have been better employed, in contriving how to circumvent and
assisting me afterwards to save it out of the wreck of the ship. of them, long before they came quite up, calling to those behind to come along;
last: no question but they did. cabin door, and taking up my gun, fired at him; upon which he immediately
Time, however, and the satisfaction I had that I was in no danger of being
not be another year in this place. went to the woods, and cut levers and rollers, and brought them to the boat
the horror of dying in such a miserable condition raised vapours into my head
before my fortification, to hide himself; and that I seeing him alone, and not
wretches dragged from the boats, where, it seems, they were laid by, and were
In the meantime, it occurred to me that it would
cable. On
violently; but I fell into a sound sleep, and waked no more till, by the sun,
Upon the whole, I began to consider of removing my habitation,
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