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11 - Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe · Classic Adventure Books - Daily

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  Speaker 1: Chapter eleven, fines print of man's foot on the sand.
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  Speaker 1: It would have made a stoic smile to have seen
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  Speaker 1: me and my little family sit down to dinner. There
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  Speaker 1: was my Majesty, the Prince and Lord of the whole island.
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  Speaker 1: I had the lives of all my subjects at my
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  Speaker 1: absolute command. I could hang, draw, give liberty, and take
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  Speaker 1: it away, and no rebels among all my subjects. Then
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  Speaker 1: to see how like a king I dined too, all alone,
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  Speaker 1: attended by my servants. Paul, as if he had been
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  Speaker 1: my favorite, was the only person permitted to talk to me.
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  Speaker 1: My dog, who was now grown old and crazy and
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  Speaker 1: had found no species to multiply his kind upon, sat
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  Speaker 1: allways at my right hand, and two cats, one on
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  Speaker 1: one side of the table and one on the other,
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  Speaker 1: expecting now and then a bit from my hand as
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  Speaker 1: a mark of special favor. But these were not the
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  Speaker 1: two cats which I brought on shore at first, for
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  Speaker 1: they were both of them dead, and had been interred
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  Speaker 1: near my habitation by my own hand. But one of
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  Speaker 1: them having multiplied by I know not what kind of creature.
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  Speaker 1: There were two which I had preserved tame, and whereas
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  Speaker 1: the rest ran wild in the woods, and became indeed
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  Speaker 1: troublesome to me at last, for they would often come
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  Speaker 1: into my house and plunder me too, till at last
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  Speaker 1: I was obliged to shoot them, and did kill a
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  Speaker 1: great many. At length they left me with this attendance,
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  Speaker 1: and in this plentiful manner I lived. Neither could I
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  Speaker 1: be said to want anything but society, and of that
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  Speaker 1: some time after this I was likely to have too much.
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  Speaker 1: I was something impatient, as I have observed, to have
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  Speaker 1: the use of my boat, though very loath to run
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  Speaker 1: any more hazards. And therefore sometimes I sat contriving ways
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  Speaker 1: to get her about the island, and at other times
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  Speaker 1: I sat myself down, contented enough without her. But I
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  Speaker 1: had a strange uneasiness in my mind to go down
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  Speaker 1: to the point of the island. Where As I have
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  Speaker 1: said in my last ramble, I went up the hill
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  Speaker 1: to see how the shore lay and how the current set,
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  Speaker 1: that I might see what I had to do. This
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  Speaker 1: inclination increased upon me every day, and at length I
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  Speaker 1: resolved to travel thither by land, following the edge of
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  Speaker 1: the shore. I did so, But had anyone in England
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  Speaker 1: met such a man as I was it might either
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  Speaker 1: have frightened him or raised a great deal of laughter.
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  Speaker 1: And as I frequently stood still to look at myself,
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  Speaker 1: I could not but smile at the notion of my
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  Speaker 1: traveling through Yorkshire with such an ecuipage, and in such
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  Speaker 1: a dress. Be pleased to take a sketch of my
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  Speaker 1: figure as follows. I had a great, high, shapeless cap
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  Speaker 1: made of a goat skin, with a flap hanging down behind,
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  Speaker 1: as well to keep the sun from me as to
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  Speaker 1: shoot the rain off from running into my neck, nothing
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  Speaker 1: being hurtful in these climates, as the rain might be
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  Speaker 1: upon the flesh under the clothes. I had a short
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  Speaker 1: jacket of goat skin, the skirts coming down to about
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the thighs, and a pair of open
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  Speaker 1: knee breeches of the same. The breeches were made of
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  Speaker 1: the skin of an old he goat, whose hair hung
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  Speaker 1: down such a length on either side like pantaloons, it
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  Speaker 1: reached to the middle of my legs. Stockings and shoes
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  Speaker 1: I had none, but had made me a pair of
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  Speaker 1: somethings I scarce know what to call them, like buskins,
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  Speaker 1: to flap over my legs and lace on either side
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  Speaker 1: like spatter dashes, but of a most barber shape, as
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  Speaker 1: indeed were all the rest of my clothes. I had
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  Speaker 1: on a broad belt of goat skin dried, which I
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  Speaker 1: knew how to draw, together with two thongs of the
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  Speaker 1: same instead of buckles, and in a kind of a frog.
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  Speaker 1: On either side of this, instead of a sword and dagger,
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  Speaker 1: hung a little saw in a hatchet, one on one
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  Speaker 1: side and one on the other. I had another belt,
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  Speaker 1: not so broad, and fastened it in the same manner,
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  Speaker 1: which hung over my shoulder, and at the end of it,
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  Speaker 1: under my left arm, hung two pouches, both made of
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  Speaker 1: goat's skin, two in one of which hung my powder,
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  Speaker 1: and in the other my shot. At my back I
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  Speaker 1: carried my basket, and on my shoulder my gun, and
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  Speaker 1: over my head a great clumsy, ugly goat skin umbrella,
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  Speaker 1: but which after all was the most necessary thing I
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  Speaker 1: had about me next to my gun. As for my face,
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  Speaker 1: the color of it was really not so mulatto like
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  Speaker 1: as one might expect from a man not at all
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  Speaker 1: careful of it, and living within nine or ten degrees
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  Speaker 1: of the equinox. My beard I had once suffered to
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  Speaker 1: grow till it was about a quarter of a yard long,
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  Speaker 1: But as I had both scissors and razors sufficient, I
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  Speaker 1: had cut it pretty short except what grew on my
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  Speaker 1: upper lip, which I had trimmed into a large pair
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  Speaker 1: of Mahometan whiskers, such as I had seen worn by
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  Speaker 1: some Turks at Sali. For the Moors did not wear
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  Speaker 1: such though the Turks did. Of these mustachios or whiskers.
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  Speaker 1: I will not say they were long enough to hang
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  Speaker 1: my hat upon them, but they were of a length
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  Speaker 1: and shape monstrous enough, and such as in England would
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  Speaker 1: have passed for frightful. But all this is by the bye,
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  Speaker 1: for as to my figure, I had so few to
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  Speaker 1: observe me that it was of no manner of consequence.
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  Speaker 1: So I say no more of that. In this kind
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  Speaker 1: of dress, I went my new journey, and was out
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  Speaker 1: five or six days. I traveled first along the seashore,
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  Speaker 1: directly to the place where I first brought my boat
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  Speaker 1: to an anchor to get upon the rocks. And having
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  Speaker 1: no boat now to take care of, I went over
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  Speaker 1: the land a nearer way of the same height that
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  Speaker 1: I was upon before. When looking forward to the points
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  Speaker 1: of the rocks which which lay out, and which I
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  Speaker 1: was obliged to double with my boat. As is said above,
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  Speaker 1: I was surprised to see the sea all smooth and quiet,
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  Speaker 1: no rippling, no motion, no current anymore than in other places.
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  Speaker 1: I was at a strange loss to understand this, and
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  Speaker 1: resolved to spend some time in the observing of it,
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  Speaker 1: to see if nothing from the sets of the tide
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  Speaker 1: had occasioned it. But I was presently convinced how it was.
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  Speaker 1: That is that the tide of ebbsetting from the west
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  Speaker 1: and joining with the current of waters from some great
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  Speaker 1: river on the shore, must be the occasion for this current,
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  Speaker 1: and that according as the wind blew more forcibly from
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  Speaker 1: the west or from the north, this current came nearer
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  Speaker 1: or went farther from the shore. For waiting thereabouts till
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  Speaker 1: evening I went up to the rock again, and then
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  Speaker 1: the tide of Ebb being made, I plainly saw the
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  Speaker 1: current again as before, only that it ran farther off,
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  Speaker 1: being near half a league from the shore, whereas in
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  Speaker 1: my case it set close upon the shore and hurried
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  Speaker 1: me and my canoe along with it, which at another
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  Speaker 1: time it would not have done. This observation convinced me
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  Speaker 1: that I had nothing to do but to observe the
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  Speaker 1: ebbing and the flowing of the tide, and I might
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  Speaker 1: very easily bring my boat about the island again. But
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  Speaker 1: when I began to think of putting it in practice,
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  Speaker 1: I had such a terror upon my spirits at the
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  Speaker 1: remembrance of the danger I had been in, that I
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  Speaker 1: could not think of it again with any patience. But
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  Speaker 1: on the contrary, I took up another resolution, which was
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  Speaker 1: more safe, though more laborious, And this was that I
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  Speaker 1: would build, or rather make me another periagua or canoe,
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  Speaker 1: and so have won for one side of the island
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  Speaker 1: and one for the other. You are to understand that
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  Speaker 1: now I had, as I may call it, two plantations
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  Speaker 1: in the island. One my little fortification or tent, with
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  Speaker 1: the wall about it under the rock, with the cave
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  Speaker 1: behind me, which by this time I had enlarged into
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  Speaker 1: several apartments or caves, one within another. One of these,
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  Speaker 1: which was the driest and largest, and had a door
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  Speaker 1: out beyond my wall or fortification, that is to say,
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  Speaker 1: beyond where my wall joined to the rock, was all
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  Speaker 1: filled up with the large earthen pots of which I
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  Speaker 1: have given an account, and with fourteen or fifteen great baskets,
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  Speaker 1: which would hold five or six bushels each. Where I
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  Speaker 1: laid up my stores of provisions, especially my corn, some
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  Speaker 1: in the ear cut off short from the straw, and
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  Speaker 1: the other rubbed out with my hand. As for my wall,
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  Speaker 1: made as before with long steaks or piles, these piles
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  Speaker 1: grew all like trees, and were by this time grown
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  Speaker 1: so big and spread so very much, that there was
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  Speaker 1: not the least appearance to any one's view of any
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  Speaker 1: habitation behind them near this dwelling of mine. But a
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  Speaker 1: little farther within the land, and upon lower ground, lay
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  Speaker 1: my two pieces of corn land, which I kept duly
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  Speaker 1: cultivated and sowed, and which duly yielded me their harvest
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  Speaker 1: in its season. And whenever I had occasion for more corn,
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  Speaker 1: I had more land adjoining as fit as that. Besides this,
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  Speaker 1: I now had my country seat, and I had now
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  Speaker 1: a tolerable plantation there also. For first, I had my
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  Speaker 1: little bower, as I called it, which I kept in repair,
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  Speaker 1: that is to say, I kept the hedge which encircled
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  Speaker 1: it constantly fitted up to its usual height, the latter
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  Speaker 1: always standing on the inside. I kept the trees, which
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  Speaker 1: at first were no more than steaks, but were now
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  Speaker 1: grown very firm and tall, always cut so that they
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  Speaker 1: might spread and grow thick and wild, and make the
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  Speaker 1: more agreeable shade, which they did effectually to my mind.
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  Speaker 1: In the middle of this, I had my tent, always standing,
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  Speaker 1: being a piece of a sail, spread over poles, set
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  Speaker 1: up for that purpose, and which never wanted any repair
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  Speaker 1: or renewing. And under this I made me a squab
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  Speaker 1: or couch, with the skins of the creatures I had killed,
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  Speaker 1: and with other soft things, and a blanket laid on them,
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  Speaker 1: such as belonged to our sea bedding, which I had
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  Speaker 1: saved in a great watchcoat to cover me. And here,
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  Speaker 1: whenever I had occasion to be absent from my chief seat,
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  Speaker 1: I took up my country habitation. Adjoining to this, I
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  Speaker 1: had my enclosures for my cattle, that is to say,
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  Speaker 1: my goats, and I had taken an inconceivable deal of
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  Speaker 1: pains to fence and enclose this ground. I was so
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  Speaker 1: anxious to see it kept entire lest the goats should
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  Speaker 1: break through, that I never left off till with infinite labor,
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  Speaker 1: I had stuck the outside of the hedge so full
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  Speaker 1: of small steaks, and so nearer one to another, that
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  Speaker 1: it was rather a pale than a hedge, and there
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  Speaker 1: was scarce room to put a hand through between them, which, afterwards,
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  Speaker 1: when these stakes grew, as they all did in the
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  Speaker 1: next rainy season, made the enclosure strong like a wall,
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  Speaker 1: indeed stronger than any wall. This will testify for me
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  Speaker 1: that I was not idle, and that I spared no
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  Speaker 1: pains to bring to pass whatever appeared necessary for my
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  Speaker 1: comfortable support. For I considered the keeping up a breed
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  Speaker 1: of tame creatures. Thus at my end would be a
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  Speaker 1: living magazine of flesh, milk, butter, and cheese for me
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  Speaker 1: as long as I lived in the place, if it
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  Speaker 1: were to be forty years, And that keeping them in
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  Speaker 1: my reach depended entirely upon my perfecting my enclosures to
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  Speaker 1: such a degree that I might be sure of keeping
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  Speaker 1: them together, which by this method indeed I so effectually
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  Speaker 1: secured that when these little steaks began to grow, I
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  Speaker 1: had planted them so very thick that I was forced
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  Speaker 1: to pull some of them up again. In this place,
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  Speaker 1: also I had my grapes growing, which I principally depended
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  Speaker 1: on for my winter store of raisins, and which I
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  Speaker 1: never failed to preserve very carefully as the best and
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  Speaker 1: most agreeable dainty of my whole diet. And indeed they
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  Speaker 1: were not only agreeable, but medicinal, wholesome, nourishing and refreshing
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  Speaker 1: to the last degree. As this was about halfway between
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  Speaker 1: my other habitation and the place where I had laid
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  Speaker 1: up my boat, I generally stayed and lay here in
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  Speaker 1: my way thither, for I used frequently to visit my boat,
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  Speaker 1: and I kept all things about or belonging to her,
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  Speaker 1: in very good order. Sometimes I went out in her
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  Speaker 1: to divert myself, but no more hazardous voyages would I
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  Speaker 1: go scarcely, ever, above a stone's cast or two from
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  Speaker 1: the shore. I was so apprehensive of being hurried out
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  Speaker 1: of my knowledge again by the currents, or winds, or
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  Speaker 1: any other accident. But now I come to a new
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  Speaker 1: scene of my life. It happened one day about noon,
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  Speaker 1: going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the
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  Speaker 1: print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which
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  Speaker 1: was very plain to be seen in the sand. I
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  Speaker 1: stood like one thunderstruck, or as if I had seen
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  Speaker 1: an apparition. I listened, I looked round me, but I
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  Speaker 1: could hear nothing nor see anything. I went up to
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  Speaker 1: a rising ground to look farther. I went up the
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  Speaker 1: shore and down the shore, but it was all one.
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  Speaker 1: I could see no other impression but that one. I
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  Speaker 1: went to it again to see if there were any more,
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  Speaker 1: and to observe if it might not be my fancy.
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  Speaker 1: But there was no room for that, for there was
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  Speaker 1: exactly the print of a foot toes heel, in every
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  Speaker 1: part of a foot. How it came thither I knew not,
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  Speaker 1: nor could I in the least imagine. But after innumerable
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  Speaker 1: fluttering thoughts, like a man perfectly confus used and out
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  Speaker 1: of myself, I came home to my fortification, not feeling,
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  Speaker 1: as we say the ground. I went on, but terrified
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  Speaker 1: to the last degree, looking behind me at every two
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  Speaker 1: or three steps, mistaking every bush and tree, and fancying
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  Speaker 1: every stump at a distance to be a man. Nor
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  Speaker 1: is it possible to describe how many various shapes my
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  Speaker 1: affrighted imagination represented things to me, how many wild ideas
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  Speaker 1: were found every moment in my fancy, and what strange,
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  Speaker 1: unaccountable whimsies came into my thoughts. By the way, when
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  Speaker 1: I came to my castle, for so I think I
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  Speaker 1: called it. Ever after this I fled into it like
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  Speaker 1: one pursued. Whether I went over by the latter as
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  Speaker 1: first contrived, or went in at the hole in the
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  Speaker 1: rock which I had called a door, I cannot remember no,
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  Speaker 1: nor could I remember the next morning, for never frightened
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  Speaker 1: hair fled to cover or fox to earth with more
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  Speaker 1: terror of mind than I to this retreat. I slept
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  Speaker 1: none that night. The farther I was from the occasion
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  Speaker 1: of my fright the greater my apprehensions were, which is
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  Speaker 1: something contrary to the nature of such things, and especially
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  Speaker 1: to the usual practice of all creatures in fear. But
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  Speaker 1: I was so embarrassed with my own frightful ideas of
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  Speaker 1: the thing that I formed nothing but dismal imaginations to myself,
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  Speaker 1: even though I was now a great way off. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I fancied it must be the devil, and reason joined
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  Speaker 1: in with me in this supposition, For how could any
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  Speaker 1: other thing in human shape come into the place? Where
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  Speaker 1: was the vessel that brought them? What marks were there
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  Speaker 1: of any other footstep? And how was it possible a
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  Speaker 1: man should come there? But then to think that Satan
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  Speaker 1: should take human shape upon him in such a place
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  Speaker 1: where there could be no manner of occasion for it,
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  Speaker 1: but to leave the print of his foot behind him,
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  Speaker 1: And that even for no purpose, too, for he could
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  Speaker 1: not be sure I should see it. This was an amusement.
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  Speaker 1: The other way, I considered that the devil might have
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  Speaker 1: found out abundance of other ways to have terrified me
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  Speaker 1: than this of this single print of a foot, that
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  Speaker 1: as I lived quite on the other side of the island,
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  Speaker 1: he would never have been so simple as to leave
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  Speaker 1: a mark in a place where it was ten thousand
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  Speaker 1: to one whether I should ever see it or not,
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  Speaker 1: and in the sand, too, which the first surge of
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  Speaker 1: the sea upon a high wind would have defaced entirely.
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  Speaker 1: All this seemed inconsistent with the thing itself, and with
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  Speaker 1: all the notions that we usually entertain of the subtlety
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  Speaker 1: of the devil. Abundance of such things as these assisted
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  Speaker 1: to argue me out of all apprehensions of its being
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  Speaker 1: the devil. And I presently concluded then that it must
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  Speaker 1: be some more dangerous creature, that is, that it must
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  Speaker 1: be some of the savages of the mainland opposite, who
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  Speaker 1: had wandered out to sea in their canoes, and either
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  Speaker 1: driven by the currents or by contrary winds, had made
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  Speaker 1: the island and had been on shore, but were now
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  Speaker 1: gone away to see, being as loath perhaps to have
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  Speaker 1: stayed in this desolate island as I would have been
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  Speaker 1: to have had them. While these reflections were rolling in
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  Speaker 1: my mind, I was very thankful in my thoughts that
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  Speaker 1: I was so happy as not to be thereabouts at
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  Speaker 1: that time, or that they did not see my boat,
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  Speaker 1: by which they would have concluded that some inhabitants had
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  Speaker 1: been in the place and perhaps have searched farther from me.
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  Speaker 1: Then terrible thoughts racked my imagination about their having found
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  Speaker 1: out my boat, and that there were people here, and
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  Speaker 1: that if so, I should certainly have them come again
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  Speaker 1: in greater numbers and devour me. That if it should
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  Speaker 1: happen that they should not find me, yet, they would
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  Speaker 1: find my enclosure, destroy all my corn, and carry away
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  Speaker 1: all my flock of tame goats, and I should perish
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  Speaker 1: at last for mere want. Thus my fear banished all
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  Speaker 1: my religious hope, all that former confidence in God which
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  Speaker 1: was founded upon such wonderful experience as I had had
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  Speaker 1: of His goodness, As if he that had fed me
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  Speaker 1: by miracle, hitherto could not preserve by his power the
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  Speaker 1: provision which he had made for me by his goodness.
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  Speaker 1: I reproached myself, with my laziness, that would not sow
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  Speaker 1: any more corn one year than would just serve me
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  Speaker 1: till the next season, as if no accident could intervene
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  Speaker 1: to prevent my enjoying the crop that was upon the ground.
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  Speaker 1: And this I thought so just a reproof that I
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  Speaker 1: resolved for the future to have two or three years
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  Speaker 1: corn beforehand, so that whatever might come I might not
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  Speaker 1: perish for want of bread. A strange, a checker work
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  Speaker 1: of providence is the life of a man. And by
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  Speaker 1: what secret different springs are the affections hurried about as
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  Speaker 1: different circumstances present. Today we love what tomorrow we hate.
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  Speaker 1: Today we seek what tomorrow we shun. Today we desire
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  Speaker 1: what tomorrow we fear, nay even tremble at the apprehensions
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  Speaker 1: of This was exemplified in me at this time in
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  Speaker 1: the most lively manner imaginable, for I, whose only affliction
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  Speaker 1: was that I seemed banished from human society, that I
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  Speaker 1: was alone circumscribed by the boundless ocean, cut off from mankind,
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  Speaker 1: and condemned to what I call silent life, that I
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  Speaker 1: was as one whom Heaven thought not worthy to be
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  Speaker 1: numbered among the living, or to appear among the rest
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  Speaker 1: of his creatures. That to have seen one of my
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  Speaker 1: own species would have seemed to me a raising me
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  Speaker 1: from death to life, and the greatest blessing that Heaven itself,
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  Speaker 1: next to the supreme blessing of salvation could bestow. I
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  Speaker 1: say that I should now tremble at the very apprehensions
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  Speaker 1: of seeing a man, and was ready to sink into
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  Speaker 1: the ground at but the shadow or silent appearance of
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  Speaker 1: a man having at his foot in the island. Such
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  Speaker 1: is the uneven state of human life, and it afforded
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  Speaker 1: me a great many curious speculations. Afterwards, when I had
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  Speaker 1: a little recovered my first surprise, I considered that this
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  Speaker 1: was the station of life. The infinitely wise and good
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  Speaker 1: providence of God had determined for me. That, as I
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  Speaker 1: could not foresee what the ends of divine wisdom might
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  Speaker 1: be in all this, so I was not to dispute
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  Speaker 1: his sovereignty, who, as I was his creature, had an
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  Speaker 1: undoubted right by creation to govern and dispose of me
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  Speaker 1: absolutely as he thought fit, and who, as I was
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  Speaker 1: a creature that had offended him, had likewise a judicial
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  Speaker 1: right to condemn me to what punishment he thought fit,
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  Speaker 1: and that it was my part to bear his indignation
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  Speaker 1: because I had sinned against him. I then reflected that
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  Speaker 1: as God, who was not only righteous but omnipotent, had
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  Speaker 1: thought fit thus to punish and afflict me, so he
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  Speaker 1: was able to deliver me, that if he did not
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  Speaker 1: think fit to do so, it was my unquestioned duty
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  Speaker 1: to resign myself absolutely and entirely to his will. And
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  Speaker 1: on the other hand, it was my duty also to
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  Speaker 1: hope in him, pray to him, and quietly to attend
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  Speaker 1: to the dictates and directions of his daily providence. These
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  Speaker 1: thoughts took up many hours of mine days, nay, I
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  Speaker 1: may say weeks and months. And one particular effect of
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  Speaker 1: my cogitations on this occasion I cannot omit. One morning, early,
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  Speaker 1: lying in my bed and filled with thoughts about my
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  Speaker 1: danger from the appearances of savages. I found it discomposed
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  Speaker 1: me very much, upon which these words of scripture came
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  Speaker 1: into my thoughts. Call upon me in the day of trouble,
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  Speaker 1: and I will deliver Thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
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  Speaker 1: Upon this, rising cheerfully out of my bed, my heart
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  Speaker 1: was not only comforted, but I was guided and encouraged
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  Speaker 1: to pray earnestly to God for deliverance. When I had
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  Speaker 1: done praying, I took up my Bible, and, opening it
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  Speaker 1: to read, the first words that presented to me were,
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  Speaker 1: wait on the Lord, and be of good cheer, and
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  Speaker 1: He shall strengthen thy heart. Wait, I say, on the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: It is impossible to express the comfort this gave me.
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  Speaker 1: In answer, I thankfully laid down the book and was
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  Speaker 1: no more said, at least on that occasion. In the
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  Speaker 1: middle of these cogitations, apprehensions, and reflections, it came into
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  Speaker 1: my thoughts one day that all this might be a
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  Speaker 1: mere chimera of my own, and that this foot might
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  Speaker 1: be the print of my own foot when I came
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  Speaker 1: on shore from my boat. This cheered me up a
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  Speaker 1: little too, and I began to persuade myself it was
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  Speaker 1: all a delusion, that it was nothing else but my
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  Speaker 1: own foot, and why might I not come that way
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  Speaker 1: from the boat as well? As I was going that
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  Speaker 1: way to the boat. Again. I considered also that I
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  Speaker 1: could by no means tell for certain where I had
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  Speaker 1: trod and where I had not, and that if at
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  Speaker 1: last this was the only print of my own foot,
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  Speaker 1: I had played the part of those fools who tried
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  Speaker 1: to make stories of specters and apparitions, and then are
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  Speaker 1: frightened at them more than anybody. Now I began to
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  Speaker 1: take courage and to peep abroad again, for I had
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  Speaker 1: not stirred out of my castle for three days and nights,
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  Speaker 1: so that I began to starve for provisions, for I
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  Speaker 1: had little or nothing with indoors, but some barley cakes
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  Speaker 1: and water. Then I knew that my goats wanted to
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  Speaker 1: be milked too, which usually was my evening diversion, and
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  Speaker 1: the poor creatures were in great pain and inconvenience for
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  Speaker 1: want of it, and indeed it almost spoiled some of them,
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  Speaker 1: and almost dried up their milk. Encouraging myself. Therefore, with
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  Speaker 1: the belief that this was nothing but the print of
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  Speaker 1: one of my own feet, and that I might be
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  Speaker 1: truly said to start at my own shadow, I began
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  Speaker 1: to go abroad again and went to my country house
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  Speaker 1: to milk my flock. But to see with what fear
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  Speaker 1: I went forward how often I looked behind me, how
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  Speaker 1: I was ready every now and then to lay down
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  Speaker 1: my basket and run for my life. It would have
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  Speaker 1: made anyone have thought I was haunted with an evil conscience,
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  Speaker 1: or that I had been lately most terribly frightened, And
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  Speaker 1: so indeed I had. However, I went down thus two
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  Speaker 1: or three days, and having seen nothing, I began to
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  Speaker 1: be a little bolder, and to think there was really
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  Speaker 1: nothing in it but my own imagination. But I could
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  Speaker 1: not persuade myself fully of this till I should go
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  Speaker 1: down to the shore again and see this print of
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  Speaker 1: a foot, and measure it by my own and see
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  Speaker 1: if there was any similitude or fitness, that I might
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  Speaker 1: be assured that it was my own foot. But when
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  Speaker 1: I came to the place first, it appeared evidently to
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  Speaker 1: me that when I laid up my boat, I could
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  Speaker 1: not possibly be on shore anywhere thereabouts. Secondly, when I
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  Speaker 1: came to measure the mark with my own foot, I
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  Speaker 1: found my foot not so large by a great deal.
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  Speaker 1: Both these things filled my head with new imaginations, and
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  Speaker 1: gave me the vapors again to the highest degree, so
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  Speaker 1: that I shook with cold like one in an ague,
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  Speaker 1: and I went home again, filled with the belief that
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  Speaker 1: some man or men had been on shore there, or
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  Speaker 1: in short, that the island was inhabited, and I might
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  Speaker 1: be surprised before I was aware. And what course to
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  Speaker 1: take for my security I knew, not, oh, what ridiculous
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  Speaker 1: resolutions men take when possessed with fear. It deprives them
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  Speaker 1: of the use of those means which reason offers for
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  Speaker 1: their relief. The first thing I proposed to myself was
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  Speaker 1: to throw down my enclosures and turn all my tame
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  Speaker 1: cattle wild into the woods, lest the enemy should find them,
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  Speaker 1: and then frequent the island in prospect of the same
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  Speaker 1: or the like booty. Then the simple thing of digging
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  Speaker 1: up my two cornfields, lest they should find such a
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  Speaker 1: grain there, and still be prompted to frequent the island.
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  Speaker 1: Then to demolish my bower and tent, that they might
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  Speaker 1: not see any vestiges of habitation, and be prompted to
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  Speaker 1: look farther in order to find out the person's inhabiting.
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  Speaker 1: These were the subject of the first night's cogitations. After
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  Speaker 1: I was home again, while the apprehensions which had so
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  Speaker 1: overrun my mind were fresh upon me, and my head
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  Speaker 1: was full of vapors. Thus fear of danger is ten
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  Speaker 1: thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to
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  Speaker 1: the eyes. And we find the burden of anxiety greater
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  Speaker 1: by much than the evil which we are anxious about.
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  Speaker 1: And what was worse than all this, I had not
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  Speaker 1: that relief in this trouble that from the resignation I
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  Speaker 1: used to practice I hoped to have. I looked. I
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  Speaker 1: thought like Saul, who complained not only that the Philistines
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  Speaker 1: were upon him, but that God had forsaken him. For
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  Speaker 1: I did not now take due ways to compose my
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  Speaker 1: mind by crying to God in my distress and resting
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  Speaker 1: upon his providence as I had done before for my
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  Speaker 1: defense and deliverance, which if I had done, I had
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  Speaker 1: at least been more cheerfully supported under this new surprise,
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  Speaker 1: and perhaps carried through it with more resolution. This confusion
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  Speaker 1: of my thoughts kept me awake all night. But in
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  Speaker 1: the morning I fell asleep, and, having by the amusement
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  Speaker 1: of my mind, been as it were, tired and my
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  Speaker 1: spirits exhausted, I slept very soundly and waked much better
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  Speaker 1: composed than I had ever been before. And now I
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  Speaker 1: began to think sedately, and upon debate with myself, I
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  Speaker 1: concluded that this island, which was so exceedingly pleasant, fruitful,
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  Speaker 1: and no farther from the mainland than as I had seen,
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  Speaker 1: was not so entirely abandoned, as I might imagine. That
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  Speaker 1: although there were no stated inhabitants who lived on the
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  Speaker 1: spot yet, that there might sometimes come boats off from
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  Speaker 1: the shore, who, either with design or perhaps never, but
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  Speaker 1: when they were driven by cross winds, might come to
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  Speaker 1: this place. That I had lived there fifteen years now
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  Speaker 1: and not met with the least shadow or figure of
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  Speaker 1: any people yet, and that if at any time they
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  Speaker 1: should be driven here, it was probable they went away
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  Speaker 1: again as soon as ever they could, seeing that they
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  Speaker 1: had never thought fit to fix here upon any occasion.
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  Speaker 1: That the most I could suggest any danger from was
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  Speaker 1: from any casual accidental landing of straggling people from the
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  Speaker 1: main who, as it was likely, if they were driven hither,
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  Speaker 1: were here against their wills. So they made no stay here,
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  Speaker 1: but went off again with all possible speed, seldom staying
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  Speaker 1: one night on shore lest they should not have the
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  Speaker 1: help of the tides and daylight back again. And that
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  Speaker 1: therefore I had nothing to do but to consider of
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  Speaker 1: some safe retreat in case I should see any savages
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  Speaker 1: land upon the spot. Now I began sorely to repent
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  Speaker 1: that I had dug my cave so large as to
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  Speaker 1: bring a door through again, which door, as I said,
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  Speaker 1: came out beyond where my fortification joined to the rock.
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  Speaker 1: Upon maturely considering them, therefore, I resolved to draw me
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  Speaker 1: a second fortification, in the manner of a semicircle, at
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  Speaker 1: a distance from my wall, just where I had planted
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  Speaker 1: a double row of trees about twelve years before, of
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  Speaker 1: which I made mentioned. These trees, having been planted so
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  Speaker 1: thick before, they wanted but few piles to be driven
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  Speaker 1: between them, that they might be thicker and stronger, and
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  Speaker 1: my wall would be soon finished. So that I now
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  Speaker 1: had a double wall, and my outer wall was thickened
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  Speaker 1: with pieces of timber, old cables and everything I could
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  Speaker 1: think of to make it strong, having in its seven
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  Speaker 1: little holes about as big as I might put my
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  Speaker 1: arm out at In the inside of this I thickened
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  Speaker 1: my wall to about ten feet thick, with continually bringing
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  Speaker 1: earth out of my cave and laying it at the
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  Speaker 1: foot of the wall, and walking upon it, and through
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  Speaker 1: the seven holes I contrived to plant the muskets, of
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  Speaker 1: which I took notice that I had got seven on
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  Speaker 1: shore out of the ship. These I planted like my cannon,
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  Speaker 1: and I fitted them into frames that held them like
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  Speaker 1: a carriage, so that I could fire all the seven
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  Speaker 1: guns in two minutes time. This wall I was many
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  Speaker 1: a weary month in finishing, and yet never thought myself
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  Speaker 1: safe till it was done. When this was done, I
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  Speaker 1: stuck all the ground without my wall, for a great
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  Speaker 1: length everyway as full with steaks or sticks of the
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  Speaker 1: ossier like wood which I had found so apt to grow,
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  Speaker 1: as they could well stand, insomuch that I believe I
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  Speaker 1: might set in near twenty thousand of them, leaving a
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  Speaker 1: pretty large space between them and my wall, that I
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  Speaker 1: might have room to see my enemy, and they might
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  Speaker 1: have no shelter from the young trees if they attempted
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  Speaker 1: to approach my outer wall. Thus, in two years time
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  Speaker 1: I had a thick grove, and in five or six
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  Speaker 1: years time I had a wood before my dwelling, growing
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  Speaker 1: so monstrously thick and strong that it was indeed perfectly impassable,
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  Speaker 1: and no men of what kindsoever could ever imagine that
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  Speaker 1: there was anything beyond it, much less a habitation. As
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  Speaker 1: for the way which I proposed to myself to go
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  Speaker 1: in and out, for I left no avenue, it was
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  Speaker 1: by setting two ladders, one to a part of the
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  Speaker 1: rock which was low, and then broke in, and left
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  Speaker 1: room to place another ladder upon that, so that when
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  Speaker 1: the two ladders were taken down, no man living could
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  Speaker 1: come down to me without doing himself mischief. And if
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  Speaker 1: they had come down, they were still on the outside
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  Speaker 1: of my outer wall. Thus I took all the measures
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  Speaker 1: human prudence could suggest for my own preservation, and it
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  Speaker 1: will be seen at length that they were not altogether
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  Speaker 1: without just reason, though I foresaw nothing at that time
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  Speaker 1: more than my mere fear suggested to me. End of
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  Speaker 1: Chapter eleven.