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ount that therewere people in the island, and also how few and weak they were; forthis savage, as observed before, had never been told, and it wasvery happy he had not, how many there were or where they lived; norhad he ever seen or heard the fire of any of their guns, much lesshad they shown him any of their other retired places; such as thecave in the valley, or the new retreat which the two Englishmen hadmade, and the like.

　　W.A. - Yes, He can: He can do all things.

od account of ourselves, could prove where we were when the shipput in, of whom we bought her, and the like; and what was more thanall the rest, if we were put upon the necessity of bringing itbefore the proper judges, we should be sure to have some justice,and not to be hanged first and judged afterwards.

his thoughts hungcontinually upon the conversion of the thirty-seven savages, andfain be would have stayed upon the island to have undertaken it;but I convinced him, first, that his undertaking was impracticablein itself; and, secondly, that perhaps I would put it into a way ofbeing done in his absence to his satisfaction.

This discourse extremelyaffected me, and called to my mind Friday's ecstasy when he met hisfather, and the poor people's ecstasy when I took them up at seaafter their ship was on fire; the joy of the mate of the ship whenhe found himself delivered in the place where he expected toperish; and my own joy, when, after twenty-eight years' captivity,I found a good ship ready to carry me to my own country. All thesethings made me more sensible of the relation of these poor men, andmore affected with it.

ual course tothe eastward. This, however, put us to some inconvenience: for,first, the winds, when we came that distance from the shore, seemedto be more steadily against us, blowing almost trade, as we callit, from the E. and ENE., so that we were a long while upon ourvoyage, and we were but ill provided with victuals for so long arun; and what was still worse, there was some danger that thoseEnglish and Dutch ships whose boats pursued us, whereof some werebound that way, might have got in before us, and if not, some othership bound to China might have information of us from them, andpursue us with the same vigour.

　　"Sir," says he, "asking your pardon for such freedom, you are rightin this, that, it being done in your absence, you could not becharged with that part of the crime; but, I beseech you, flatternot yourself that you are not, therefore, under an obligation to doyour utmost now to put an end to it. You should legally andeffectually marry them; and as, sir, my way of marrying may not beeasy to reconcile them to, though it will be effectual, even byyour own laws, so your way may be as well before God, and as validamong men. I mean by a written contract signed by both man andwoman, and by all the witnesses present, which all the laws ofEurope would decree to be valid."

s; that I bought some for my mistress, and went and dinedvery heartily. I thought my stomach was full after this, as itwould have been after a good dinner; but when I awaked I wasexceedingly sunk in my spirits to find myself in the extremity offamily. The last glass of wine we had I drank, and put sugar init, because of its having some spirit to supply nourishment; butthere being no substance in the stomach for the digesting office towork upon, I found the only effect of the wine was to raisedisagreeable fumes from the stomach into the head; and I lay, asthey told me, stupid and senseless, as one drunk, for some time.The third day, in the morning, after a night of strange, confused,and inconsistent dreams, and rather dozing than sleeping, I awakedravenous and furious with hunger; and I question, had not myunderstanding returned and conquered it, whether if I had been amother, and had had a little child with me, its life would havebeen safe or not. This lasted about three hours, during which timeI was twice

　　With those thoughts I considered my new engagement; that I had awife, one child born, and my wife then great with child of another;that I had all the world could give me, and had no need to seekhazard for gain; that I was declining in years, and ought to thinkrather of leaving what I had gained than of seeking to increase it;that as to what my wife had said of its being an impulse fromHeaven, and that it should be my duty to go, I had no notion ofthat; so, after many of these cogitations, I struggled with thepower of my imagination, reasoned myself out of it, as I believepeople may always do in like cases if they will: in a word, Iconquered it, composed myself with such arguments as occurred to mythoughts, and which my present condition furnished me plentifullywith; and particularly, as the most effectual method, I resolved todivert myself with other things, and to engage in some businessthat might effectually tie me up from any more excursions of thiskind; for I found that thing return upon me chiefly whe