abundance of gestures, which I did not upderstand, laid it down with the head of the savage that he had killed just before me.

breast, where it had made a hole, and no great quantity of blood had followed; but he had bled inwardly, for he was quite dead. He took up his bow and arrows and came back, so I turned to go away, and beckoned to him to follow me, making signs to him that more might come after them.

Upon this he signed to me that he should bury them with sand, that they might not be seen by the rest if they followed; and so I made signs again to him to do so. He fell to work, and in an instant he had scraped a hole in the sand with his hands big enough to bury the first in, and then dragged him into it, and covered him, and did so also by the other. I believe he had buried them both in a quarter of an hour. Then, calling him away, I carried him, not to my castle, but quite away to my cave, on the farther part of the island. So I did not let my dream come to pass in that part, namely, that he came into my grove for shelter.

a little farther, and stopped again, and I could then perceive that he stood trembling, as if he had been taken prisoner, and had just been to be killed, as his two enemies But that which astonished him most was were. I beckoned him again to come to to know how I had killed the other Indian me, and gave him all the signs of encour- so far off. So pointing to him, he made agement that I could think of, and he came signs to me to let him go to him; so I bade nearer and nearer, kneeling down every ten him go as well as I could. When he came or twelve steps in token of acknowledgment to him he stood like one amazed, looking at for my saving his life. I smiled at him, him, turned him first on one side, then on and looked pleasantly, and beckoned to him the other, looked at the wound the bullet to come still nearer. At length he came had made, which it seems was just in his close to me, and then he kneeled down again, kissed the ground, and laid his head upon the ground, and taking me by the foot, set my foot upon his head this, it seems, was in token of swearing to be my slave forever. I took him up and made much of him, and encouraged him all I could. But there was more work to do yet; for I perceived the savage whom I knocked down was not killed, but stunned with the blow, and began to come to himself; so I pointed to him, and showing him the savage, that he was not dead. Upon this he spoke some words to me, and though I could not understand them, yet I thought they were pleasant to hear, for they were the first sound of a man's voice that I had heard, my own excepted, for above twenty-five years. But there was no time for such reflections now. The savage who was knocked down recovered himself so far as to sit up upon the ground, and I perceived that my savage began to be afraid; but when I saw that, I presented my other piece at the man, as if I would shoot him. Upon this my savage, for so I call him now, made a motion to me to lend him my sword, which hung naked in a belt by my side; so I did. He no sooner had it, but he runs to his enemy, and at one blow cut off his head as cleverly, no executioner in Germany could have done it sooner or better; which I thought very strange for one who I had reason to believe never He was a comely, handsome fellow, persaw a sword in his life before, except their fectly well made, with straight strong limbs, own wooden swords. However, it seems, as not too large, tall and well shaped, and as I I learned afterwards, they make their wooden reckon, about twenty-six years of age. He swords so sharp, so heavy, and the wood is so had a very good countenance, not a fierce hard, that they will cut off heads even with and surly aspect; but seemed to have somethem, ay, and arms, and that at one blow thing very manly in his face; and yet he When he had done this, he comes had all the sweetness and softness of an Eulaughing to me in sign of triumph, and ropean in his countenance too, especially brought me the sword again, and with when he smiled. His hair was long and

too.

Here I gave him bread and a bunch of raisins to eat, and a draught of water, which I found he was indeed in great distress for by his running. And having refreshed him, I made signs for him to go lie down and sleep, pointing to a place where I had laid a great parcel of rice straw, and a blanket upon it, which I used to sleep upon myself sometimes so the poor creature lay down and went to sleep.

black, not curled like wool; his forehead | we should dig them up again and eat them! very high and large, and a great vivacity At this I appeared very angry, expressed my and sparkling sharpness in his eyes. The abhorrence of it, made as if I would vomit color of his skin was not quite black, but at the thoughts of it, and beckoned with my very tawny; and yet not of an ugly yellow hand to him to come away; which he did nauseous tawny, as the Brazilians and Vir- immediately, with great submission. I then ginians, and other natives of America are; led him up to the top of the hill to see if his but of a bright kind of a dun olive color, enemies were gone; and, pulling out my that had in it something very agreeable, glass, I looked and saw plainly the place though not very easy to describe. His face where they had been, but no appearance of was round and plump; his nose small, not them, or of their canoes; so that it was plain flat like the negro's; a very good mouth, that they were gone, and had left their two thin lips, and his fine teeth well set and comrades behind them, without any search white as ivory. After he had slumbered, after them. rather than slept, about half an hour, he waked again, and comes out of the cave to me, for I had been milking my goats, which I had in the enclosure just by. When he espied me, he came running to me, laying himself down again upon the ground, with all the possible signs of an humble, thankful disposition, making a many antic gestures to show it. At last he lays his head flat upon the ground, close to my foot, and sets my other foot upon his head, as he had done before; and after this made all the signs to me of subjection, servitude, and submission imaginable, to let me know how he would serve me as long as he lived. I understood him in many things, and let him know I was very well pleased with him. In a little time I began to speak to him, and teach him to speak to me. And first, I made him know his name should be Friday, which was the day I saved his life. I called him so for the memory of the time. I likewise taught him to say Master, and then let him know that was to be my name. I likewise taught him to say Yes and No, and to know the meaning of them. I gave him some milk in an earthen pot, and let him see me drink it before him, and sop my bread in it. And I gave him a cake of bread to do the like, which he quickly complied with, and made signs that it was very good for him.

I kept there with him all that night; but as soon as it was day I beckoned to him to come with me, and let him know I would give him some clothes; at which he seemed very glad, for he was stark naked. As we went by the place where he had buried the two men he pointed exactly to the place, and showed me the marks that he had made to find them again, making signs to me that

The place was

But I was not content with this discovery; but having now more courage, and consequently more curiosity, I takes my man Friday with me, giving him the sword in his hand with the bow and arrows at his back, which I found he could use very dexterously, making him carry one gun for me, and I two for myself, and away we marched to the place where these creatures had been, for I had a mind now to get some fuller intelligence of them. When I came to the place, my very blood ran chill in my veins, and my heart sunk within me at the horror of the spectacle. Indeed, it was a dreadful sight, — at least it was so to me; though Friday made nothing of it. covered with human bones, the ground dyed with their blood, great pieces of flesh left here and there, half eaten, mangled and scorched; and, in short, all the tokens of the triumphant feast they had been making there, after the victory over their enemies. I saw three skulls, five hands, and the bones of three or four legs and feet, and abundance of other parts of the bodies; and Friday, by his signs, made me understand that they brought over four prisoners to feast upon; that three of them were eaten up, and that he, pointing to himself, was the fourth; that there had been a great battle between them and their next king, whose subjects it seems he had been one of; and that they had taken a great number of prisoners, all which were carried to several places by those that had taken them in the fight, in order to feast upon them, as was done here by these wretches upon those they brought hither.

I caused Friday to gather all the skulls, bones, flesh, and whatever remained, and lay them together on a heap, and make a great

fire upon it, and burn them all to ashes. I thickness with the rice straw, which was found Friday had still a hankering stomach strong like reeds; and at the hole or place after some of the flesh, and was still a cannibal in his nature: but I discovered so much abhorrence at the very thoughts of it, and at the least appearance of it, that he durst not discover it; for I had by some means let him know that I would kill him if he offered it.

waistcoat to feel if he was not wounded, and, as I found, presently thought I was resolved to kill him; for he came and kneeled down to me, and embracing my knees, said a great many things I did not understand, but I could easily see that the meaning was to pray me not to kill him.

disposition of things, that should hide that | amazed that I thought he would have sunk light from some, and reveal it to others, and down. He did not see the kid I had shot at yet expect a like duty from both. But or perceive I had killed it, but ripped up his I shut it up, and checked my thoughts with this conclusion: first, That we did not know by what light and law these should be condemned; but that as God was necessarily, and by the nature of his being, infinitely holy and just, so it could not be but that if these creatures were all sentenced to absence from himself, it was on account of sinning against that light which, as the Scripture says, was a law to themselves; and by such rules as their consciences would acknowledge to be just, though the foundation was not discovered to us. And, second, That still as we are all the clay in the hand of the Potter, no vessel could say to him, Why hast thou formed me thus ?

But to return to my new companion. I was greatly delighted with him, and made it my business to teach him everything that was proper to make him useful, handy, and 'helpful; but especially to make him speak, and understand me when I spoke and he was the aptest scholar that ever was, and particularly was so merry, so constantly diligent, and so pleased, when he could but understand me, or make me understand him, that it was very pleasant to me to talk to him. And now my life began to be so easy, that I began to say to myself, that could I but have been safe from more savages, I cared not if I was never to remove from the place while I lived.

I soon found a way to convince him that I would do him no harm, and taking him up by the hand, laughed at him, and pointing to the kid which I had killed, beckoned him to run and fetch it, which he did; and while he was wondering and looking to see how the creature was killed, I loaded my gun again, and by and by I saw a great fowl like a hawk sit upon a tree within shot; so, to let Friday understand a little what I would do, I called him to me again, pointing to the fowl, which was indeed a parrot, though I thought it had been a hawk. I say, pointing to the parrot, and to my gun, and to the ground under the parrot, to let him see I would make it fall, I made him understand that I would shoot and kill that bird. Accordingly I fired, and bade him look, and immediately he saw the parrot fall. He stood like one frighted again, notwithstanding all I had said to him; and I found he was the more amazed because he did not see me put anything into the gun, but thought that there must be some wonderful fund of death and destruction in that thing, able to kill man, beast, bird, or anything, near or far off; and the astonishment this created in him was such as could not wear off for a long time; and I believe, if I would have let him, he would have worshipped me and my gun! As for the gun itself, he would not so much as touch it for several days after; but would speak to it, and talk to it as if it had answered him, when he was by himself; which, as I afterwards learned of him, was to desire it not to kill him.

After I had been two or three days returned to my castle, I thought that, in order to bring Friday off from his horrid way of feeding, and from the relish of a cannibal's stomach, I ought to let him taste other flesh; so I took him out with me one morning to the woods. I went, indeed, intending to kill a kid out of my own flock, and bring him home and dress it; but, as I was going, I saw a she-goat lying down in the shade, and two young kids sitting by her. I catched hold of Friday. Hold, says I, "stand Well, after his astonishment was a little still" and made signs to him not to stir. over at this, I pointed to him to run and Immediately I presented my piece, shot, and fetch the bird I had shot; which he did, but killed one of the kids. The poor creature, stayed some time; for the parrot, not being who had at a distance indeed seen me kill quite dead, was fluttered a good way off from the savage, his enemy, but did not know, or the place where she fell; however, he found could imagine, how it was done, was sensibly her, took her up, and brought her to me; surprised, trembled and shook, and looked so | and, as I had perceived his ignorance about

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the gun before, I took this advantage to | so I marked out a larger piece of land, and charge the gun again, and not let him see me began the fence in the same manner as bedo it, that I might be ready for any other fore; in which Friday not only worked very mark that might present. But nothing more willingly and very hard, but did it very offered at that time; so I brought home the cheerfully. And I told him what it was for ; kid, and the same evening I took the skin off, that it was for corn to make more bread, and cut it out as well as I could; and having because he was now with me, and that I a pot for that purpose, I boiled or stewed might have enough for him and myself too. some of the flesh, and made some very good He appeared very sensible of that part, and broth; and after I had begun to eat some, I let me know that he thought I had much gave some to my man, who seemed very glad more labor upon me on his account than I of it, and liked it very well. But that had for myself; and that he would work the which was strangest to him was to see me harder for me, if I would tell him what to eat salt with it. He made a sign to me that do. the salt was not good to eat, and putting a little into his own mouth, he seemed to nauseate it, and would spit and sputter at it, washing his mouth with fresh water after it. On the other hand, I took some meat in my mouth without salt, and I pretended to spit and sputter for want of salt as fast as he had done at the salt. But it would not do, he would never care for salt with his meat, or in his broth; at least, not for a great while, and then but a very little.

Having thus fed him with boiled meat and broth, I was resolved to feast him the next day with roasting a piece of the kid. This I did by hanging it before the fire in a string, as I had seen many people do in England, setting two poles up, one on each side of the fire, and one cross on the top, and tying the string to the cross-stick, letting the meat turn continually. This Friday admired very much; but, when he came to taste the flesh, he took so many ways to tell me how well he liked it, that I could not but understand him; and at last he told me he would never eat man's flesh any more, which I was very glad to hear.

The next day I set him to work to beating some corn out, and sifting it in the manner I used to do, as I observed before; and he soon understood how to do it as well as I, especially after he had seen what the meaning of it was, and that it was to make bread of; for after that I let him see me make my bread, and bake it too, and in a little time Friday was able to do all the work for me as well as I could do it myself.

I began now to consider that, having two mouths to feed instead of one, I must provide more ground for my harvest, and plant a larger quantity of corn than I used to do;

This was the pleasantest year of all the life I led in this place. Friday began to talk pretty well, and understand the names of almost everything I had occasion to call for, and of every place I had to send him to, and talk a great deal to me; so that, in short, I began now to have some use for my tongue again, which indeed I had very little occasion for before, that is to say, about speech. Besides the pleasure of talking to him, I had a singular satisfaction in the fellow himself. His simple unfeigned honesty appeared to me more and more every day, and I began really to love the creature; and, on his side, I believe he loved me more than it was possible for him ever to love anything before.

I had a mind once to try if he had any hankering inclination to his own country again ; and having learned him English so well that he could answer me almost any questions, I asked him whether the nation that he belonged to never conquered in battle. At which he smiled, and said, "Yes, yes; we always fight the better"; that is, he meant always get the better in fight; and so we began the following discourse: "You always fight the better," said I; "how came you to be taken prisoner, then, Friday?"

Friday. My nation beat much for all that. Master. How beat; if your nation beat them, how came you to be taken?

Friday. They more many than my nation in the place where me was; they take one, two, three, and me. My nation overbeat them in yonder place, where me no was; there my nation take one, two, great thousand.

Master. But why did not your side recover you from the hands of your enemies, then?

Friday. They run one, two, three, and me,