goats. diamonds or any other precious stones, or gold which I rather supposed it to
many boughs of trees, so thick that she was as well thatched as a house; and
earthenware vessels in the fire, burnt as hard as a stone, and red as a tile. Then all
the ground, all close huddled together, and had just sent the other two to
Robinson Kreutznaer; but, by the usual corruption of words in England, we are
and swam across the channel, which lay between the ship and the sands, and even
The poor creature, who had at a distance, indeed, seen
all the operations necessary for making the corn, when I had it, fit for my
least been more cheerfully supported under this new surprise, and perhaps
in his hands, but, as if they had put new vigour into him, he flew upon his
of having a boat to go off to sea at last. them with necessaries; and I made the other two carry provisions to a certain
And now our case was very dismal indeed; for we all saw plainly that the sea
great occasion for many things which I had no way to furnish myself with but by
I not been delivered, and wonderfully too, from sickness—from the most
Chapter 3 – Woman . at low water. and, indeed, except the noise I once heard on the shore of Africa, of which I
As for my cats, they multiplied, as I have observed, to that
in the next rainy season, made the enclosure strong like a wall, indeed
of it, and not be able to make the island again; and indeed, had I not got
found it hurried me farther and farther out from the eddy, which was on my left
and so far every morning in vain, so my opinion of the action itself began to
how I enlarged my cave, and what conveniences I made, I shall give a full
Spaniard, and the savage that had gone with him, or that I had any way to have
believe in these four firings we had killed seventeen or eighteen of them, and
and boxes, to separate the powder, and to keep it a little and a little in a
from mankind, and condemned to what I call silent life; that I was as one whom
willing to capitulate. My
Jan. 3.—I began my fence or wall; which, being still jealous of my
It was happy for the poor man that it was my man Friday; for, having been used
As I have troubled you with none of my sea journals, so I shall trouble you now
away, I carried him, not to my castle, but quite away to my cave, on the
Providence, as in such cases generally it does, resolved to leave me entirely
make it fall down, setting pieces of wood to thrust and guide it right in the
some alcamies (a fowl like our curlews) for ourselves, for I know he keeps the
must lay down his arms at discretion, and trust to the governor’s mercy:
first mentioned, where I had been so bruised by the wave dashing me against it. and his countenance discovered a strange eagerness, as if he had a mind to be
the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side, and to consider
cabin to look out, in hopes of seeing whereabouts in the world we were, than
been very glad to have had my boat again on my side of the island; but I knew
sedate, retired life, as you may well suppose; and my thoughts being very much
so I began to say, “Can God Himself deliver me from this place?”
This violent rain forced me to a new work—viz. then he should carry him to our dwelling, where I would take care of him. invaded them, and ruined their plantations, and how they fought with that whole
putting it in practice. Now, as the waves were not so high as at
assistants, and that the governor would keep the other two, and the three that
However, Xury could not cut off his
any more of them came on shore there again—that is to say, I neither saw
which required fire, such as burning of pots and pipes, &c., into my new
Sometimes I fancied it must be the devil, and reason joined in with me in
about: upon which they all soon came to the boat: but it was past all their
I did so; but had any one in England met such a man as I was, it must
well, and began to ripen apace. it and part it; nor, if made into meal, how to make bread of it; and if how to
new captain had received the reward of his villainy, and that they would see
I had not a
we could not see the continent, I called to him, and said, “Friday, do
landed in this horrid place. where I had reserved my little winding passage into it. set it up on the shore where I first landed—“I came on shore here
place: I was curious to look in it; and getting with difficulty into the mouth
knew the place, and told me he was there once, when they ate up twenty men, two
to draw ourselves in a close line was the only way; so we formed in a moment;
Upon this, I told him that, if he desired it, I would
what might be called the upper station of low life, which he had found, by long
wind would have overset all my navigation. The two rows did
In this second sleep I had this terrible
nothing within my reach to lay hold of. with it could desire. more; but the first inconvenience was, it was up hill towards the creek. good boat, and I might go to sea in her very easily. in his hand. to take away this discouragement, I resolved to dig into the surface of the
how I should lose a day out of my reckoning in the days of the week, as it
clothed, for the present, tolerably well, and was mighty well pleased to see
It would take up
Upon the whole, I was by this time so fixed upon my design of going over with
and the captain, as soon as I told him my thoughts, was ready to sink at the
shores or posts pitched upright to the top, with two pieces of boards across
entirely depended. know the virtue and goodness of any of the fruits or plants which I should
“O yonder there,” says he, “one, two, three canoes; one, two,
devoured. every day at low water I went on board, and brought away something or other;
It was my advantage in one respect, that I did not know what
Robinson Crusoe. fallen and killed, as he thought, yet was so frightened with the fire and noise
Where are you? I swam round her twice, and the second
found the boat fast aground in the creek, the tide ebbed out, and their two men
repent, and none to assist me, he was so moved that he broke off the discourse,
thought it a proper time to sow it, after the rains, the sun being in its
to meat with thankfulness, and admired the hand of God’s providence,
In this course we
I turned to Friday, and
live, or that they ever reached their own coast. ought not to complain, seeing I had not the due punishment of my sins; that I
horror at the very naming of the white bearded man; and going to the tree, I
made a sign to me that the salt was not good to eat; and putting a little into
settlement of some addition to his estate after my decease. turtle; and have thought it no more crime to kill and devour me than I did of a
up their milk. must be near the Spanish dominions, and perhaps was all inhabited by savages,
preserve the veneration of the people to the clergy, not only to be found in
when the two ladders were taken down no man living could come down to me
The first was
some stratagem with them in the boat to get them on shore. because he did not see me put anything into the gun, but thought that there
the comfort which the conversation of one of my fellow-Christians would have
had travelled up the brook, and so on to where I built my bower, and where I
me from the stupefied condition I was in, filled me with horror; and I thought
examined my account, I found I had kept a true reckoning of years. the boat. life, such, perhaps, as was never heard of in the world before, I shall take it
travel with me as a servant, besides my man Friday, who was too much a stranger
So he calls out as loud as he could to one of them,
upon us, we kept our way forward, as fast as we could make our horses go,
Portuguese; not doubting but, if I could, we might find some method to escape
two fowling-pieces—for I had three in all—and
there the sorry, useless stuff lay; I had no more manner of business for
the next place, my interest in the Brazils seemed to summon me thither; but now
In Daniel Defoe's fictional autobiogrpahy Robinson Crusoe, originally published in 1719, the titular character escapes a career in law and sets off on a ill-fated sea journey. to make it hollow, so as to make a boat of it—if, after all this, I must
my cannon, and fitted them into frames, that held them like a carriage, so that
his life to me, and acknowledge it upon all occasions as long as he lived. Another trick I tried upon him, which he innocently came into
you may be sure, to be satisfied, I took my gun in my hand, and ran towards the
lift, and had tossed it into the boat; and I had a great jar of fresh water,
they did not, they must, as I thought, have endeavoured to have saved
your enemies, then? Lastly, I wrote to my partner, acknowledging his industry in
horse to a middling gallop; away reins Friday, and takes his course as if he
looked at it till my eyes were not able to hold to look any longer; whether it
to its smoothness of surface and settled calmness by the abatement of that
judgment to go home, yet I had no power to do it. “Seignior,” said I, with as
His real name is Robinson Kreutznaer. particular merchants and owners of ships, and had money given us sufficient to
I left them. with my father, and such kind and tender expressions as she knew my father had
stern, which was broke in pieces and parted from the rest by the force of the
at length I resolved to travel thither by land, following the edge of the
Why don’t you shoot him?” “No shoot,”
them on shore. Where have
said, sixteen, still alive, should come over; and least of all would it be
island; which, as it was some comfort, on one hand—for, seeing her set
Then I prepared myself within, putting myself in a posture of defence. they have, they will certainly murder us all.” “Have they any
whole of the remaining part of the month of July; and though upon second
climbed the rocks first, to get above them, and then had frequently a fair
fresh into my mind; and my conscience, which was not yet come to the pitch of
it came to pass in the world that the wise Governor of all things should give
without fire, by mere mallet and chisel, and by the dint of hard labour, till I
This filled
boat put her off to a good distance from the shore, and came to an anchor to
I was not drowned. two chests I had room to suppose the ship had a great deal of wealth on board;
them I was the person the governor had ordered to look after them; and that it
These things being added to my desire
this country, I will bring you the produce of them, God willing, at my return;
lived there at peace, indeed, with the savages, but were very sore put to it
chains, for a terror to others. This was
up tame; but it would not eat; so I was forced to kill it and eat it myself. So,
Now I began to construe the words mentioned above, “Call on Me, and I
which was quite cured, and some also that was green, and not quite cured. and will have satisfaction in point of honour—that is his first quality:
stop the breach of one, and man them. bend my course; none of these thoughts, I say, so much as came in my way; but
bread, rice, three Dutch cheeses, five pieces of dried
The way was
amazement and fear, and had no more power to attempt their own escape than
my nation.”. particularly this one: How infinitely good that Providence is, which has
“you shall on shore and kill him.” Xury, looked frighted, and said,
out on the outside of my pale or fortification. like. - Nook -
We knew nothing
from wild beasts; for, he said, in these great snows it was frequent for some
possible, and indeed so often that I was heartily tired of it; for it was above
eat of our patron’s bread. earth out of my cave, and laying it at the foot of the wall, and walking upon
sand, swim away. the point. find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious
thereabouts; but I took so many turns and re-turns to see what discoveries I
All that I could
We
I worked excessive hard these three or four months to get my wall done; and the
that he had made to find them again, making signs to me that we should dig them
cause us even to be our own tempters, and run upon our destruction by our own
Neither was this all; for my goods being all English manufacture, such as
creature that had offended Him, had likewise a judicial right to condemn me to
that I might not fall into the hands of the barbarians, or that I might not lay
having set his foot in the island. well, when on a sudden I found I was in danger of losing it all again by
wolves in the country we should find them there; and this was a small plain,
After this experiment, I need not say that I wanted no sort of earthenware for
me next morning, and told me they had been musing very much upon what I had
making (for I made very good candles now of goat’s tallow, but was hard
However, as I found there was no laying them up on heaps, and no carrying them
joy, I cried out aloud, “Jesus, thou son of David! sun, being set out too hastily; and how many fell in pieces with only removing,
really the work of Providence to me, that should order or appoint that ten or
way home, with the same rapidity of the currents. Upon this the captain
English merchants also, and two young Portuguese gentlemen, the last going to
It cost me near three months more to clear the
laborious—and this was, that I would build, or rather make, me another
latitude we were in, and not exactly knowing, or at least remembering, what
found their nests, and got their young ones, which were very good meat. Spaniards, had the old story of their lives and of the villains I left there;
little kid by her, which she gave suck to, which grieved me heartily; for when
As for my solitary life, it was nothing. resentments of wrongs, the same sense of gratitude, sincerity, fidelity, and
I made a collar for this little creature, and with a string, which I made of
my experience before I had it, and this I am going to relate was one of the
did it so familiarly, and talked so articulately and plain, that it was very
soul and body. But what need I have been concerned at the tediousness of anything I had to do,
which was about the end of June; and, laying up every corn, I resolved to sow
would be as wild in so much compass as if they had had the whole island, and I
These reflections oppressed me for
murderers who often put to death the prisoners taken in battle; or more
I told him I looked upon him as a man sent by Heaven to
of the hill, where there was a flat place, as I observed before, and then
towards the Straits’ mouth (as indeed any one that had been in their wits
fortification joined to the rock: upon maturely considering this, therefore, I
done, was sensibly surprised, trembled, and shook, and looked so amazed that I
have a further supply: at the same time I sent my two sisters in the country a
To come, then, by the just degrees to the particulars of this part of my story. “But,” says the old man, “I have one piece of news to
but must of necessity be drowned, or driven south to those other shores, where
proper place, under a rock, and marked out a semicircle for my encampment;
another, as if they had been in chase of some prey, and had it in view; they
circumstances; one having been married and left a widow; and the other having a
It was a great comfort to me afterwards that I did so, for not one grain of
went to the tree, and getting up into it, endeavoured to place myself so that
arms ready, and our eyes about us; but we saw no more wolves till we came
boat, but I showed him how to cut it with tools; which, after I had showed him
place, it occurred to me that although the usage they gave one another was thus
up in a tree, flay it, dress it, and cut it in pieces, and bring it home in a
was not so with me. as follows: Three killed at our first shot from the tree; two killed at the
to this island were not very frequent, for it was above fifteen months before
killed the fatted calf for me; for hearing the ship I went away in was cast
This appeared so
other pieces of ironwork. to sea towards them; otherwise I might now easily have found some of these
me like a cellar to my house. found water enough—for my raft drew about a foot of water—I thrust
And thus I
Christian nations of Europe, as a mere butchery, a bloody and unnatural piece
but must gnaw it with my teeth, and pull it with my claws, like a beast. till it began to be light enough to move; then I turned it, and made one side
fits—for so I called them; and I had in five or six days got as complete
They
But the man was most hurt; for the raging creature had
asked him in the Portuguese tongue what he was. hands, to take from so great a part of the world of His creatures the best uses
as if she had a mind to be acquainted with me. In a little time, however, no more canoes appearing, the fear of their coming
like an anchor, to hold the side of it fast to the shore, near a flat piece of
My father, a wise and grave man, gave me serious and excellent counsel against
This was the 21st. one of the iron crows; which, however, though I found it, made driving those
enjoy myself. the waves, and felt ground again with my feet. this did my work but in a wooden manner; and though it cost me a great many
drowned and myself spared, I was surprised with a kind of ecstasy, and some
my expedition. some plant I had not seen; but I was surprised, and perfectly astonished, when,
her alone, Jack, can’t you? now brought out for the slaughter. and was now very careful not to be much wet. whence they came? branch, and the bear got about half-way to him. was the most preposterous thing that ever man in such circumstances could be
she wondered how I could think of any such thing after the discourse I had had
After these ceremonies were past, and after all his good things were brought
with the captain of a ship; and after five years, finding him a sensible, bold,
the middle of this I had my tent always standing, being a piece of a sail
kid, and bred her up tame, and I was in hopes of getting a he-goat; but I could
This, he said, he knew; because he heard them all cry out so, in their
great deal to me; so that, in short, I began now to have some use for my tongue
frightened as before; for I heard a very loud sigh, like that of a man in some
made more haste out than I did in, when looking farther into the place, and
success, which, you may be sure, I was very glad to hear, having sat watching
May 8.—Went to the wreck, and carried an iron crow to wrench up
large bird that was good to eat, but I knew not what to call it. I
It
To this purpose, getting a kind of letter of
than surprising to come but ten days before out of Old Castile, where the
villainous behaviour to the captain, and how they had run away with the ship,
away upon some desolate island, that had nobody there but himself. this was done I went down the ship’s side, and pulling them to me, I tied
of the negroes or Indians; but not at all considering the particular
much Spanish as I could make up, “we will talk afterwards, but we must
canoes, and go and fetch our muskets and other firearms, which, for want of
carried to England to be hanged. seventy-four moidores in my favour. a reprieve brought to him—I say, I do not wonder that they bring a
wind increased, and we had all hands at work to strike our topmasts, and make
and showed them all the contrivances I had made during my long, long inhabiting
coming, or, indeed, for the two years past. But it was rather exclamation, such as, “Lord, what
plenty of in the island, and I set Friday to work to cut it down, and gave him
rest of the ship’s company being drowned, and myself almost dead. All the stern and quarter of her were beaten
dram out of our patron’s case of bottles which I mentioned before; and we
among it to see what damage was already done, and found they had spoiled a good
One who wants to get joy of book reading especially in very less time can go for it. come with me, and let him know I would give him some clothes; at which he
piece. It was not without infinite labour that I
the rest; and I resolved, if possible, to get one of these savages into my
wretch should come into my ship? Well, but
I made her very easy
escape. pleasant, fruitful, and no farther from the mainland than as I had seen) was
seen with the same eyes then that I see with now. much longer than I expected; for though the island itself was not very large,
We had nothing now to do but to watch for them in the dark, and to fall upon
and laying two or three short pieces of plank upon them crossways, I found I
their new enterprise; and terribly apprehensive he was that they would be too
them; for Friday gave them candles (such as we made ourselves) for their
employments that were before me, such as: first, my duty to God, and the
and presently after we saw about a hundred coming on directly towards us, all
therefore resolved to stand away for Barbadoes; which, by keeping off at sea,
my use; but I must needs say as to the shapes of them, they were very
The next day I made another voyage, and now, having plundered the ship of what
very happy for me; for otherwise they would have landed just at my door, as I
wickedness I drowned all my repentance, all my reflections upon my past
away we marched to the place where these creatures had been; for I had a mind
After I had begun to
I found presently it flew up into my head
and some danger; for the wind began to blow pretty fresh in the morning; but we
Well, however, I lugged this money home to my cave, and laid
ten young she-goats and two he-goats to this piece, and when they were there I
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was guided and encouraged to pray earnestly to God for deliverance: when I had
as well as he could, “O master! Towards night, I fixed upon a
This machine cost me a full
had killed them all, for I saw them all fall of a heap into the boat, though I
being a soft oozy sand, almost like a quicksand. subject. My condition began now to be, though not less miserable as to my way of living,
June 18.—Rained all day, and I stayed within. between the Spanish country and Brazils, where are found the worst of savages;
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