(as he thought) yet was so frighted with the fire and noife of my piece, that he stood stock-still, and neither came forward nor went backward, though he seemed rather inclined to fly ftill, than to come on. I hallooed again to him, and made signs to come forward, which he easily understood, and came a little way, then ftopped again, and then a little farther, and stopped again; and I could then perceive that he stood trembling, as if he had been taken prifoner, and had just been to be killed, as his two enemies were. I beckoned him again to come to me, and gave him all the figns of encouragement that I could think of; and he came nearer and nearer, kneeling down every ten or twelve steps, in token of acknowledgment for faving his life. I fmiled at him and looked pleafantly, and beckoned to him to come ftill nearer. At length he came close to me, and then he kneeled down again, kiffed the ground, and laid his head upon the ground, and taking me by the foot, fet my foot upon his head: This, it seems, was in token of fwearing to be my flave for ever. 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 favage, whom I knocked down, was not killed, but stunned with the blow, and began to come to himself: fo I pointed to him, and shewed him the favage, 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 found of a man's voice that I had heard, my own excepted, for above fiveand-twenty years: but there was no time for fuch reflections now: the favage, who was knocked down, VOL. I. recovered

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recovered himself fo far as to fit up upon the ground; and I perceived that my favage began to be afraid; but when I faw that, I prefented my other piece at the man, as if I would fhoot him: upon this my favage, for fo I call him now, made a motion to me to lend him my fword, which hung naked in a belt by my fide; fo I did: he no fooner had it, but he runs to his enemy, and at one blow cut off his head fo cleverly, no executioner in Germany could have done it fooner or better; which I thought it very ftrange for one, who, I had reason to believe, never faw a fword in his life before, except their own wooden fwords: however it feems, as I learned afterwards, they make their wooden fwords fo fharp, fo heavy, and the wood is fo hard, that they will cut off heads even with them, nay, and arms, and that at one blow too. When he had done this, he comes laughing to me in fign of triumph, and brought me the fword again, and, with abundance of gestures, which I did not understand, laid it down, with the head of the favage that he had killed, just before me.

But that which aftonished him moft was, to know how I had killed the other Indian fo far off; fo pointing to him, he made figns to me to let him go to him: fo I bade him go, as well as I could: When he came to him, he flood like one amazed, looking at him; turned him first on one fide, then on t'other; looked at the wound the bullet had made, which it seems was just in his breast, where it had made an hole, and no great quantity of blood had followed; but he had bled inwardly, for he was quite dead: then he took up his bow and arrows, and came back; fo I turned to go away, and beckoned him to follow

me, making figns to him that more might come

after them.

Upon this he figned to me, that he should bury them with fand, that they might not be seen by the reft, if they followed; and fo I made figns again to him to do fo: he fell to work, and in an instant he had scraped an hole in the fand with his hands, big enough to bury the first in, and then dragged him into it, and covered him, and did fo alfo 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; viz. that he came into my grove for fhelter.

Here I gave him bread, and a bunch of raifins to eat, and a draught of water, which I found he was indeed in great diftrefs for, by his running; and having refreshed him, I made figns for him to go lie down and fleep, pointing to a place where I had laid a great parcel of rice-straw, and a blanket upon it, which I used to fleep upon myself fometimes: fo the poor creature lay down, and went to fleep.

He was a comely handsome fellow, perfectly wel made, with ftraight long limbs, not too large, tall, and well-shaped, and, as I reckon, about twenty-fix years of age. He had a very good countenance, not a fierce and furly afpect, but feemed to have fomething very manly in his face, and yet he had all the fweetness and foftness of an European in his countenance too, especially when he smiled: his hair was long and black, not curled like wool; his forehead very high and large, and a great vivacity and Sparkling

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fparkling sharpness in his eyes. The colour of his fkin was not quite black, but very tawny, and yet not of an ugly yellow naufeous tawny, as the Bra= filians and Virginians, and other natives of America are; but of a bright kind of a dun olive colour, that had in it fomething very agreeable, though not very eafy to defcribe. His face was round and plump, his nose small, not flat like the negroes, a very good mouth, thin lips, and his teeth fine, well-fet, and white as ivory. After he had flumbered, rather than flept, 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 inclosure just by: when he espied me, he came running to me, laying himself down again upon the ground, with all the poffible figns of an humble thankful difpofition, making many antic geftures to fhew it. At laft he lays his head flat upon the ground, close to my foot, and fets my other foot upon his head, as he had done before; and after this, made all the figns to me of subjection, fervitude, and fubmiffion imaginable, to let me know how much 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 fhould be Friday, which was the day I faved his life; and I called him fo for the memory of the time: I likewife taught him to fay Mafter, and then let him know that was to be my name; I likewife taught him to say Yes and No, and to know the meaning of them: I gave him fome milk in an earthen pot, and let him fee me drink it before him, and fop my bread in it;

and I gave him a cake of bread to do the like, which he quickly complied with, and made figns that it was very good for him.

I kept there with him all that night; but as soon as it was day, I beckoned him to come with me, and let him know I would give him some clothes; at which he feemed 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 fpot, and fhewed me the marks that he had made to find them again, making figns to me that we fhould dig them up again, and eat them; at this I appeared very angry, expreffed my abhorrence of it, made as if I would vomit at the thoughts of it, and beckoned with my hand to him to come away, which he did immediately, with great fubmiffion: I then led him up to the top of the hill, to see if his enemies were gone, and pulling out my glafs, I looked, and faw plainly the place where they had been, but no appearance of them, or of their canoes; fo that it was plain that they were gone, and had left their two comrades behind them, without any fearch after them.

But I was not content with this difcovery; but having now more courage, and confequently more curiofity, I took my man Friday with me, giving him the fword in his hand, with the bow and arrows at his back, which I found he could ufe 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 fome fuller intelligence of them. When I came to the place, my very blood ran chill in my veins, and my heart funk within me at the horror of the spectacle; indeed

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