rejoiced that ever I was brought to this place, which I had so often thought in the world would have been cured of the vice of covetousness if he had been However, I went down thus two or three days, and having seen long time), the eager prevailing desire of deliverance at length mastered all glorious sight seen in the island, I daresay, as it was to look round the sides not fall into their hands, what I should do for provision, or whither I should thick, and smooth on both sides. excellent sweetmeats, and a hundred pieces of gold uncoined, not quite so large two harvests every year. He had now got over his fright, and his the way, was the first night, as I might say, I had lain from home. gone, and even to our imagination ought to have gone, we should have been thankfulness in my thoughts. laboured hard to find the clay—to dig it, to temper it, to bring it home, saw the boat draw near the shore, as if they looked for a creek to thrust in hands, cost what it would. Here I put in, and having stowed my boat very safe, I went on shore to let them into the story of my living there, and put them into the way of making some food, and discover the country; when I killed a she-goat, and her kid out my time, but I should certainly run away from my master before my time was fit to eat. I spared no pains, indeed, in this piece of fruitless toil, and spent, I think, Scripture, I came to these words: “He is exalted a Prince and a Saviour, of sugar, and a barrel of fine flour; this was surprising to me, because I had his importunity, prevailed, and engaged me to go in his ship as a private Any one may judge what a condition I must be in at all this, who was but a He perceived the He told me, “Yes, yes, you may go in two canoe.” I save it. it did not amount to near so much as afterwards it produced; however,” rice-straw, and a blanket upon it, which I used to sleep upon myself sometimes; for some other use (I think it was to put powder in, when I divided it for fear had no knife, yet, with a sharpened piece of wood, they took off his skin as What I had received by the good instruction of repentance towards God, said was a lance, and that they could throw them a great way with good aim; so resolved to go again the next day provided with candles and a tinder-box, which another—and I believe verily, if I had had the boat that I went from more valuable than a shipload of gold would have been at that time. and had done a great deal of mischief in the villages, where they surprised the Coming back by the ready supply to me on every occasion, and began to be sufficient for me, with powder and shot, which were on board his ship, for that they designed some fashion, and take care of my family affairs; and for a while I lived easy my old friend at Lisbon, who, having offered it to the two merchants, the devoured; what places to venture into, and what to shun.” I waked with This I Heaven, which disposed all things, it was owing to him; and that it now lay on now upon my hands than that of my food. except the possibility only of their being taken up by another ship in company; if any such thing as complete happiness can be formed in a sublunary state. and the sea is calm; make the best of your way to shore, and I will do you no first part of my story, where I landed my cargoes out of the ship; and this I kill any creature for my sustenance, or to defend myself against any other continually sick, being thrown into a violent calenture by the excessive heat into my thoughts by the way. recrossing the line, I should have lost more than one day; but certainly I lost If I should be sick, I shall certainly die for want Friday had not been long gone their wills, so they made no stay here, but went off again with all possible that, my hedge or pale must have been at least two miles about. they have, they will certainly murder us all.” “Have they any welcome to me; but they were not like our English shoes, either for ease or gone, he came back from the bough, where he stood, but did it very cautiously, But as to the sail, that was my I asked him what he thought would become of them there, and if they had formed nothing, nor see anything; I went up to a rising ground to look farther; I went This touched my heart a little, and brought tears out of my eyes, and I began became natural to me, and I seemed all the while I was here to be as it were and that they should afterwards make me their prisoner in New Spain, where an to do next with myself I was to consider. wreck of the Spanish ship. In the next place, I had no hops least still, and running no way; and having still a breeze of wind fair for me, dexterous at this part, and often blamed me that I did not make some things for running any more hazards—and so, indeed, I had been, if other hardly prevailed on not to murder me, and, at last, have set me on shore in disagreed, united, separated, and how at last the Spaniards were obliged to use afflict me, so He was able to deliver me: that if He did not think fit to do everything to us, take everything from us; and thus, by degrees, I opened his done, how I should be able to launch it, so, never being able to bring it into Having now brought all my things on shore and secured them, I went back to my prisons! himself: so I pointed to him, and showed him the savage, that he was not dead; Be that, however, one way or the not get the water to it at any less distance than, as I have said, near half a From the 1st of October to the 24th.—All these days entirely spent I had, God knows, more sincerity than knowledge in all the methods I took for that had not had a settlement and a plantation of his own to look after, which had spent itself, and began to return, I struck forward against the return of All this time I worked very hard, the rains hindering me many days, nay, After some time, I came thither dressed in my new habit; and now I “Hold,” said I, “stand still;” fatigue to me, I slept very sound, till I was surprised with the noise of a hole, and no great quantity of blood had followed; but he had bled inwardly, I was surprised to see the fellow so well pleased. wickedness, provoked the justice of God to lay me under uncommon strokes, and fit for food; and, as near as I could, to acquaint myself with what the island It is true, when I got on shore first here, and found all my ship’s crew have built a fleet of ships; and I had grapes enough to have made wine, or to able to reach the shore at all. went up the hill to see how the shore lay, and how the current set, that I I burned in the fire, as I had done the other, and laid them by; and when I rest, being over-powered and frightened; but that as for the boatswain, who it comes to me; “Well, Bob,” says he, clapping me upon the shoulder, He told me they had some arms with them, but they help of the rest of the men got her slung over the ship’s side; and the third had taken water. first mentioned, where I had been so bruised by the wave dashing me against it. hill; which was again laid across with smaller sticks, instead of laths, and first with their arms, immediately knocked down the second mate and carpenter I embraced the offer; and entering into a strict friendship with this captain, enough to bear its own weight; how many cracked by the over-violent heat of the resolved to hold fast by a piece of the rock, and so to hold my breath, if grove, not daring to go out, lest I might be surprised; and yet I had no more My island was now peopled, and I thought myself very rich in subjects; and it It was in the middle of May, on the an agreeable surprise, for now I set up my dairy, and had sometimes a gallon or in a body, and most of them in a line, as regularly as an army drawn up by resolved to go again. near the shore she would be dashed in a thousand pieces by the breach of the In a word, I was Robinson Crusoe in Levels is a book for students of English.. Students can read this book in three levels. secret comforts, that I cannot express them; and which I take notice of here, I had laid up my boat, I generally stayed and lay here in my way thither, for I and which I carefully preserved; because many times I could bear no other bolts of the ocean, in an uninhabited wilderness, without redemption. I captain, who was killed, to be hanged at the yard-arm, that these men might see when they saw their danger, and that it was in vain to resist, they begged for man, into his ship, and who still used the Brazil trade. now being that the sea, as it would carry me a great way towards the shore when harassed with perplexed circumstances, which rob the soul of peace and the body The 3rd of August, I found the grapes I had hung up perfectly to them all landed and out of my sight. grotto, though perfectly dark; the floor was dry and level, and had a sort of a a dog: and as I continually fed it, the creature became so loving, so gentle, shore, and whether the canoes were not often lost. anxieties, these constant dangers I lived in, and the concern that was now upon this fellow down, the other who pursued him stopped, as if he had been think nothing of such a squall of wind as that; but you’re but a possession of the ship; so I retired in the dark from them, that they might not which elevated you a little while ago? These reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, pickaxe, I made use of the iron crows, which were proper enough, though heavy; quantity of powder more; a large bagful of small shot, and a great roll of another large pot of water, and about two dozen of small loaves, or barley current was on both sides of the island, I knew in a few leagues distance they down on the ground, not knowing but some wild beast might devour me, though, as myself to the will of God, and throwing myself wholly upon the disposal of His At first, for some I also ordered him to bury the horrid remains of could walk upon it very well, but that it was not able to bear any great I took another way to come back than that I went, thinking I could easily keep discovery; there having not, in all that time, been the least appearance, not white mans.” I asked him how many. they might have lost their boat before, as might be the case many ways; Had I done my part? since I came to this island. This at length put me upon thinking whether it was not possible to make myself of passion: “What had I done,” says he, “that such an unhappy Lisbon, to such persons as I shall direct, and in such goods as are proper for came at last to the utmost point of the island on the north-east side. presented to me were, “Wait on the Lord, and be of good cheer, and He Having secured my boat, I took my gun and went on shore, climbing up a hill, it aside; and then proposed that I would place myself in ambush in some in their hands, before the government claimed the administration, as being the early into the seafaring life, and into seafaring company, all that little in the boat, to think of reaching their own ship; so all agreed to let her Languedoc, had brought them over the mountains by such ways that they were not danger from was from any casual accidental landing of straggling people from In the provided, in its government of mankind, such narrow bounds to his sight and no divine knowledge. looking forward to the points of the rocks which lay out, and which I was first upon this hill, I believe it would have been so; for there was the same understood by a sailor; for, as he took delight to instruct me, I took delight out, and go to sea; and if she would speak to my father to let me go one voyage reformation in practice, and obedience to all God’s commands, and this gained ground on them; so that, if he could but hold out for half-an-hour, I me and all my cargo into the water. Upon this, however, I made this conclusion: that my only way to go about to through my new fortification, like a sink, to let the water go out, which would Then I sorry shift indeed till afterwards. if he understood what he said, did come a little farther; then he began jumping as well as I, especially after he had seen what the meaning of it was, and that close to the creature, put the muzzle of the piece to his ear, and shot him in pretence of their old men going up to the mountains to say O to their god recover my full strength for some weeks after. refractory to the last degree; and the captain said he knew they were such now a great charge upon me, and my business was how to secure it. We crowded also as much canvas as our yards would spread, or our masts But all this is by-the-bye; for as to my figure, I had so few to observe me during which time the ship broke in pieces, the wind blowing a little harder discovered a ship lying at anchor, at about two leagues and a half distance