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

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Speaker 1: Chapter fifteen, Friday's Education. After I had been returned two
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Speaker 1: or three days to my castle, I thought that in
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Speaker 1: order to bring Friday off from his horrid way of
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Speaker 1: feeding and from the relish of a cannibal's stomach, I
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Speaker 1: ought to let him taste other flesh. So I took
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Speaker 1: him out with me one morning to the woods. I went, indeed,
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Speaker 1: intending to kill a kid out of my own flock
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Speaker 1: and bring it home and dress it. But as I
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Speaker 1: was going, I saw a she goat lying down in
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Speaker 1: the shade, and two young kids sitting by her. I
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Speaker 1: catched hold of Friday, hold said I stand still, and
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Speaker 1: made signs to him not to stir. Immediately I presented
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Speaker 1: my piece, shot and killed one of the kids. The
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Speaker 1: poor creature, who had at a distance indeed seen me
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Speaker 1: kill the sabae his enemy, but did not know nor
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Speaker 1: could imagine how it was done, was sensibly surprised, trembled
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Speaker 1: and shook, and looked so amazed that I thought he
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Speaker 1: would have sunk down. He did not see the kid
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Speaker 1: I shot at or perceive I had killed it, but
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Speaker 1: ripped up his waistcoat to feel whether he was not wounded,
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Speaker 1: And as I found presently thought I was resolved to
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Speaker 1: kill him, for he came and kneeled down to me, and,
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Speaker 1: embracing my knees, said a great many things I did
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Speaker 1: not understand, but I could easily see. The meaning was
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Speaker 1: to pray to me not to kill him. I soon
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Speaker 1: found a way to convince him that I would do
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Speaker 1: him no harm, and taking him up by the hand,
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Speaker 1: laughed at him, and, pointing to the kid which I
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Speaker 1: had killed, beckoned to him to run and fetch it,
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Speaker 1: which he did. And while he was one and looking
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Speaker 1: to see how the creature was killed, I loaded my
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Speaker 1: gun again, Bye and bye. I saw a great fowl
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Speaker 1: like a hawk, sitting upon tree within shot. So to
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Speaker 1: let Friday understand a little what I would do, I
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Speaker 1: called him to me again, pointed at the fowl, which
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Speaker 1: was indeed a parrot, though I thought it had been
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Speaker 1: a hawk. I say, pointing to the parrot and to
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Speaker 1: my gun, and to the ground under the parrot, to
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Speaker 1: let him see I would make it fall. I made
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Speaker 1: him understand that I would shoot and kill that bird. Accordingly,
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Speaker 1: I fired and bade him look, and immediately he saw
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Speaker 1: the parrot fall. He stood like one frightened again. Notwithstanding
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Speaker 1: all I had said to him, and I found he
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Speaker 1: was the more amazed because he did not see me
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Speaker 1: put anything into the gun, but thought that there must
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Speaker 1: be some wonderful fund of death destruction in that thing,
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Speaker 1: able to kill man, beast, bird, or anything nearer or
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Speaker 1: far off. And the astonishment this created in him was
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Speaker 1: such as could not wear off for a long time.
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Speaker 1: And I believe if I would have let him, he
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Speaker 1: would have worshiped me and my gun. As for the
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Speaker 1: gun itself, he would not so much as touch it
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Speaker 1: for several days, but he would speak to it and
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Speaker 1: talk to it as if it had answered him when
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Speaker 1: he was by himself, which, as I afterwards learned of him,
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Speaker 1: was to desire it not to kill him. Well after
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Speaker 1: his astonishment was a little over at this I pointed
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Speaker 1: to him to run and fetch the bird I had shot,
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Speaker 1: which he did, but stayed some time, for the parrot,
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Speaker 1: not quite being dead, had fluttered away a good distance
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Speaker 1: from the place where she fell. However, he found her,
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Speaker 1: took her up, and brought her to me, And as
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Speaker 1: I had perceived his ignorance about the gun before, I
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Speaker 1: took this advantage to charge the gun again, and not
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Speaker 1: to let him see me do it, that I might
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Speaker 1: be ready for any other mark that might present. But
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Speaker 1: nothing more offered at that time. So I brought home
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Speaker 1: the kid, and the same evening I took the skin
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Speaker 1: off and cut it out as well as I could, and,
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Speaker 1: having a pot fit for that purpose, I boiled or
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Speaker 1: stewed some of the flesh, and made some very good broth.
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Speaker 1: After I had begun to eat some, I gave some
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Speaker 1: to my man, who seemed very glad of it, and
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Speaker 1: liked it very well. But that which was strangest to
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Speaker 1: him was to see me eat salt with it. He
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Speaker 1: made a sign to me that the salt was not
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Speaker 1: good to eat, and putting a little in to his
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Speaker 1: own mouth, he seemed to nauseate it, and would spit
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Speaker 1: and sputter at it, washing his mouth with fresh water
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Speaker 1: after it. On the other hand, I took some meat
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Speaker 1: into my mouth without salt, and I pretended to spit
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Speaker 1: and sputter for want of salt, as much as he
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Speaker 1: had done at the salt. Huh. But it would not do.
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Speaker 1: He would never care for salt with meat or in
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Speaker 1: his broth, at least not for a great while. And
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Speaker 1: then but a very little Having thus fed him with
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Speaker 1: boiled meat and broth. I was resolved to feast him
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Speaker 1: the next day by roasting a piece of the kid.
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Speaker 1: This I did by hanging it before the fire on
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Speaker 1: a string, as I had seen many people do in England,
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Speaker 1: setting two poles up, one on each side of the
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Speaker 1: fire and across the top, and tied the string to
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Speaker 1: the cross stick, letting the meat turn continually. This Friday
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Speaker 1: admired very much, but when he came to taste the flesh,
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Speaker 1: he took so many ways to tell me how much
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Speaker 1: he liked it that I could not but understand him.
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Speaker 1: And at last he told me as well as he could,
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Speaker 1: he would never eat man's flesh any more, which I
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Speaker 1: was very glad to hear. The next day I set
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Speaker 1: him to work beating some corn out and sifting it
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Speaker 1: in the manner I used to do as I observed before,
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Speaker 1: and he soon understood how to do it as well
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Speaker 1: as I, especially after he had seen what the meaning
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Speaker 1: of it was, and that it was to make bread
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Speaker 1: of For after that I let him see me make
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Speaker 1: my bread and bake it too, and in a little
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Speaker 1: time Friday was able to do all the work for
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Speaker 1: me as well as I could do it myself. I
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Speaker 1: began now to consider that having two mouths to feed
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Speaker 1: instead of one, I must provide more ground for my
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Speaker 1: harvest and plant a larger quantity of corn than I
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Speaker 1: used to do. So I marked out a larger piece
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Speaker 1: of land and began the fence in the same manner
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Speaker 1: as before, in which Friday worked not only very willingly
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Speaker 1: and very hard, but did it very cheerfully. And I
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Speaker 1: told him what it was for, that it was for
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Speaker 1: corn to make more bread, because he was now with me,
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Speaker 1: and that I might have enough for him and myself too.
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Speaker 1: He appeared very sensible on that part, and let me
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Speaker 1: know that he thought I had much more labor upon
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Speaker 1: me on his account than I had for myself, and
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Speaker 1: that he would work harder for me if I would
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Speaker 1: tell him what to do. This was the pleasantest year
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Speaker 1: of all the life I led in this place. Friday
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Speaker 1: began to talk pretty well and understand the names of
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Speaker 1: almost everything I had occasion to call for, and of
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Speaker 1: every place I had to send him to, and talked
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Speaker 1: a great deal to me, so that, in short, I
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Speaker 1: began now to have some use for my tongue again,
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Speaker 1: which indeed I had very little occasion for before, besides
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Speaker 1: the pleasure of talking to him, I had a singular
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Speaker 1: satisfaction in the fellow himself. His simple, unfeigned honesty appeared
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Speaker 1: to me more and more every day, and I began
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Speaker 1: really to love the creature. And on his side, I
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Speaker 1: believed he loved me more than it was possible for
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Speaker 1: him ever to love anything before. I had a mind
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Speaker 1: once to try if he had any inclination for his
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Speaker 1: own country again, and having taught him English so well
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Speaker 1: that he could answer me almost any question, I asked
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Speaker 1: him whether the nation that he belonged to never conquered
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Speaker 1: in battle, at which he smiled and said, yes, yes,
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Speaker 1: we always fight the better. That is, he meant always
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Speaker 1: get the better in fight. And so we began the
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Speaker 1: following discourse, Master, you always fight the better. How came
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Speaker 1: you to be taken prisoner? Then? Friday Friday, my nation
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Speaker 1: beat much for all that, Master, how beat if your
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Speaker 1: nation beat them? How came you to be taken? Friday?
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Speaker 1: They many more many than my nation. In the place
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Speaker 1: where me was, they take one, two three, and me
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Speaker 1: my nation overbeat them. In the yonder place where me
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Speaker 1: Noah's there, my nation take one two great thousand, Master,
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Speaker 1: But why did not your side recover you from the
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Speaker 1: hands of your enemies? Then, Friday, they run one, two, three,
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Speaker 1: and me and may go in the canoe. My nation
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Speaker 1: have no canoe that time. Master, Well Friday, and what
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Speaker 1: does your nation do with the men they take? Do
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Speaker 1: they carry them away and eat them as these did? Friday? Yes?
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Speaker 1: My nation eat man's too, eat all up? Master? Where
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Speaker 1: do they carry them? Friday? Go to other place where
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Speaker 1: they think? Master? Do they come hither? Friday? Yes, yes,
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Speaker 1: they come hither, come other else place? Master. Have you
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Speaker 1: been here with them? Friday? Yes, I have been here,
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Speaker 1: points to the northwest side of the island, which it
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Speaker 1: seems was their side. By this I understood that my
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Speaker 1: man Friday had formerly been among the savages who used
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Speaker 1: to come on shore on the farther part of the
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Speaker 1: island on the same man eating occasions he was now
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Speaker 1: brought for, and some time later, when I took the
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Speaker 1: courage to carry him to that side, being the same
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Speaker 1: I formerly mentioned, he presently knew the place and told
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Speaker 1: me he was there once. When they ate up twenty men,
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Speaker 1: two women, and one child. He could not tell twenty
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Speaker 1: in English, but he numbered them by laying so many
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Speaker 1: stones in a row and pointing to me to tell
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Speaker 1: them over. I have told this passage because it introduces
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Speaker 1: what follows. That after this discourse I had with him,
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Speaker 1: I asked him how far it was from our island
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Speaker 1: to the shore, and whether the canoes were not often lost.
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Speaker 1: He told me there was no danger, no canoes ever lost,
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Speaker 1: but that after a little way out to see there
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Speaker 1: was a current and wind, always one way in the morning,
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Speaker 1: the other in the afternoon. This I understood to be
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Speaker 1: no more than the sets of the tide as going
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Speaker 1: out or coming in. But I afterwards understood it was
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Speaker 1: occasioned by the great draft and reflux of the mighty
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Speaker 1: river Orinoco in the mouth or a gulf of which river,
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Speaker 1: as I found afterwards our island lay, and that this land,
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Speaker 1: which I perceived to be west and northwest, was the
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Speaker 1: great island Trinidad, on the north point of the mouth
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Speaker 1: of the river. I asked Friday a thousand questions over
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Speaker 1: the country, the inhabitants, the sea, the coast, and what
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Speaker 1: nations were near. He told me all he knew, with
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Speaker 1: the greatest openness imaginable. I asked him the names of
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Speaker 1: the several nations of his sort of people, but could
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Speaker 1: get no other name than Caribs. From whence I easily
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Speaker 1: understood that these were the Caribbees which our maps place
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Speaker 1: on the part of America which reaches the mouth of
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Speaker 1: the river Orinico, to Guyana, and onwards to Saint Martha.
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Speaker 1: He told me that up a great way beyond the moon,
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Speaker 1: that was beyond the setting of the moon, which must
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Speaker 1: be west from their country, there dwelt white bearded men
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Speaker 1: like me, and pointed to my great whiskers which I
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Speaker 1: mentioned before, and that they had killed much mans. That
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Speaker 1: was his word. By all which I understood, he meant
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Speaker 1: the Spaniards, whose cruelties in America had been spread over
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Speaker 1: the whole country and were remembered by all the nations
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Speaker 1: from father to son. I inquired if he could tell
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Speaker 1: me how I might go from this island and get
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Speaker 1: among those white men. He told me, yes, yes, you
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Speaker 1: may go in two canoe. I could not understand what
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Speaker 1: he meant, or make him describe to me what he
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Speaker 1: meant by two canoe, till at last, with great difficulty
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Speaker 1: I found he meant it must be a large boat,
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Speaker 1: as big as two canoes. This part of Friday's discourse.
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Speaker 1: I began to relish very well, and from this time
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Speaker 1: I entertained some hopes that one time or another I
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Speaker 1: might find an opportunity to make my escape from this place,
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Speaker 1: and that this for savage might be a means to
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Speaker 1: help me. During the long time that Friday had now
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Speaker 1: been with me, and that he began to speak to
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Speaker 1: me and understand me. I was not wanting to lay
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Speaker 1: a foundation of religious knowledge in his mind. Particularly. I
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Speaker 1: asked him one time who made him? The creature? Did
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Speaker 1: not understand me at all, but thought I had asked
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Speaker 1: who was his father? But I took it up by
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Speaker 1: another handle and asked him who made the sea, the
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Speaker 1: ground we walked on, and the hills in the woods.
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Speaker 1: He told me it was one been a mucky that
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Speaker 1: lived beyond all. He could describe nothing of this great person,
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Speaker 1: but that he was very old, much older he said,
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Speaker 1: than the sea or land, than the moon or the stars.
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Speaker 1: I asked him, if this old person had made all things,
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Speaker 1: why did not all things worship him? He looked very grave,
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Speaker 1: and with a perfect look of innocence, said all things
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Speaker 1: say oh to him. I asked him if the people
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Speaker 1: who die in his country went away anywhere. He said, yes,
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Speaker 1: They all went to ben a mucky. Then I asked
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Speaker 1: him whether those they eat up went thither too, He
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Speaker 1: said yes. From these things, I began to instruct him
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Speaker 1: in the knowledge of the true God. I told him
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Speaker 1: that the great maker of all things lived up there,
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Speaker 1: pointing up towards heaven, that he governed the world by
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Speaker 1: the same power and providence by which he made it,
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Speaker 1: that he was omnipotent and could do everything for us,
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Speaker 1: give everything to us, take everything from us. And thus
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Speaker 1: by degrees I opened his eyes. He listened with great attention,
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Speaker 1: and received with pleasure the notion of Jesus Christ being
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Speaker 1: sent to redeem us, and of the manner of making
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Speaker 1: our prayers to God, and his being able to hear
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Speaker 1: us even in heaven. He told me one day that
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Speaker 1: if our God could hear us up beyond the sun,
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Speaker 1: he must needs be a greater God than there been
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Speaker 1: a mucky who lived but a little way off, and
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Speaker 1: yet could not hear till they went up to the
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Speaker 1: great mountains, where he dwelt to speak to them. I
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Speaker 1: asked him if he ever went thither to speak with him.
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Speaker 1: He said no, They never went that way, that were
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Speaker 1: young men. None went thither, but the old men, whom
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Speaker 1: he called there uhwakaki, that is, as I made him
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Speaker 1: explain to me their religious or clergy, and that they
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Speaker 1: went to say oh so he called, saying prayers, and
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Speaker 1: then came back and told them what BENAMUCKI said. By this,
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Speaker 1: I observed that there is a priestcraft even among the
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Speaker 1: most blinded, ignorant pagans in the world, and the policy
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Speaker 1: of making a secret of religion in order to preserve
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Speaker 1: the veneration of the people to the clergy, not only
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Speaker 1: to be found in the Roman, but perhaps all religions
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Speaker 1: in the world, even among the most brutish and barbarous savages.
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Speaker 1: I endeavored to clear up this fraud to my man Friday,
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Speaker 1: and told him that the pretense of their old men
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Speaker 1: going up to the mountains to say oh to their
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Speaker 1: God been a mucky was a cheat, and their bringing
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Speaker 1: word from thence what he said was much more so,
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Speaker 1: that if they met with any answer or spake with
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Speaker 1: anyone there, it must be an evil spirit. And then
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Speaker 1: I entered into a long discourse with him about the devil,
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Speaker 1: the origin of him, his rebellion against God, his enmity
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Speaker 1: to man, the reason of it his settling himself up
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Speaker 1: in the dark parts of the world to be worshiped
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Speaker 1: instead of God and as God, and the many stratagems
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Speaker 1: he made use of to delude mankind to their ruin.
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Speaker 1: How he had a secret access to our passions and
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Speaker 1: to our affections, and to adapt his snares to our inclinations,
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Speaker 1: so as to cause us even to be our own tempters,
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Speaker 1: and run upon our destruction by our own choice. I
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Speaker 1: found it was not so easy to imprint right notions
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Speaker 1: in his mind about the devil as it was about
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Speaker 1: the being of God. Nature assisted all my arguments to
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Speaker 1: evidence to him even the necessity of a great first
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Speaker 1: cause and overruling governing power, a secret directing providence, and
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Speaker 1: of the equity and justice of paying homage to Him
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Speaker 1: that made us and the like. But there appeared nothing
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Speaker 1: of this kind in the notion of an evil spirit,
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Speaker 1: of his origin, his being, his nature, and above all
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Speaker 1: his inclination to do evil, and to draw us in
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Speaker 1: to do so too. And the poor creature puzzled me
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Speaker 1: once in such a manner by a question merely natural
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Speaker 1: and innocent, that I scarce knew what to say to him.
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Speaker 1: I had been talking a great deal to him of
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Speaker 1: the power of God, his omnipotence, his aversion to sin,
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Speaker 1: his being a consuming fire to the workers of iniquity.
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Speaker 1: How as He had made us all, he could destroy
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Speaker 1: us all and all the world in a moment. And
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Speaker 1: he listened with great seriousness to me. All the while
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Speaker 1: after this, I had been telling him how the devil
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Speaker 1: was God's enemy in the hearts of men, and used
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Speaker 1: all his malice and skill to defeat the good designs
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Speaker 1: of Providence and to ruin the Kingdom of Christ in
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Speaker 1: the world and the like. Well, says Friday, But you
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Speaker 1: say God is so strong, so great. Is he not
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Speaker 1: much strong, much might as the devil? Yes, yes, as
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Speaker 1: I Friday, God is stronger than the devil. God is
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Speaker 1: above the devil, and therefore we pray to God to
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Speaker 1: tread him down under our feet and enable us to
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Speaker 1: resist his temptations and quench his fiery darts. But says
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Speaker 1: he again, if God much stronger, much might as the
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Speaker 1: wicked devil, why God no kill devil, So make him
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Speaker 1: no more to wicked. I was strangely surprised at this question,
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Speaker 1: and after all though I was now an old man.
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Speaker 1: Yet I was but a young doctor, and ill qualified
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Speaker 1: for a couculist or a salver of difficulties. And at
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Speaker 1: first I could not tell what to say, and so
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Speaker 1: I pretended not to hear him and ask him what
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Speaker 1: he said. But he was too earnest for an answer
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Speaker 1: to forget his question, so that he repeated it in
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Speaker 1: the very same broken words as above. By this time
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Speaker 1: I had recovered myself a little, and I said, God
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Speaker 1: will at last punish him severely. He is reserved for
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Speaker 1: the judgment and is to be cast into the bottomless
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Speaker 1: pit to dwell with everlasting fire. This did not satisfy Friday,
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Speaker 1: but he returns upon me, repeating my words, reserve at last,
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Speaker 1: You know understand, But why not kill the devil? Now?
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Speaker 1: Not kill great ago? You may as well ask me,
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Speaker 1: said I, Why God does not kill you or me
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Speaker 1: when we do wicked things here that offend him? We
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Speaker 1: are preserved to repent and be pardoned. He mused sometime
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Speaker 1: on this. Well, well, says he mighty affectionately, that well,
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Speaker 1: so you I devil, all wicked, all preserve, repent, God
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Speaker 1: pardon all. Here I was run down again by him
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Speaker 1: to the last degree. And it was a testimony to
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Speaker 1: me how the mere notions of nature, though they will
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Speaker 1: guide reasonable creatures to the knowledge of God and of
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Speaker 1: a worship or homage due to the supreme being of God,
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Speaker 1: as the consequence of our nature, yet nothing but divine
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Speaker 1: revelation can form the knowledge of Jesus Christ and of
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Speaker 1: redemption purchased for us, of a mediator of the New Covenant,
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Speaker 1: and of an intercessor at the footstool of God's throne.
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Speaker 1: I say, nothing but a revelation from Heaven can form
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Speaker 1: these in the soul, And that therefore the gospel of
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Speaker 1: our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, I mean, the Word
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Speaker 1: of God and the Spirit of God promised for the
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Speaker 1: guide and sanctifier of his people, are the absolutely necessary
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Speaker 1: instructors of the souls of men, and the saving knowledge
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Speaker 1: of God and the means of salvation. I therefore diverted
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Speaker 1: the present discourse between me and my man, rising up
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Speaker 1: hastily as upon some great occasion, of going out, then
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Speaker 1: sending him for something a good way off, I seriously
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Speaker 1: and would guide me so to speak to him from
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Speaker 1: the fallen angels had no share in the redemption, that
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Speaker 1: he came only to the lost sheep of the House
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Speaker 1: of Israel. I had God knows more sincerity than knowledge
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Speaker 1: in all the methods I took for this poor rich's instruction,
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Speaker 1: to him, I really informed and instructed myself in many
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Speaker 1: things that either I did not know or had not
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Speaker 1: upon searching into them for the information of this poor savage.
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Speaker 1: And I had more affection in my inquiry after things
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Speaker 1: upon this occasion than ever I felt before. So that
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Speaker 1: whether this poor wild wretch was better for me or no,
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Speaker 1: I had great reason to be thankful that ever he
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Speaker 1: came to me, my grief sat lighter upon me, my
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Speaker 1: habitation grew comfortable to me beyond measure. And when I
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Speaker 1: reflected that in this solitary life which I had been
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Speaker 1: confined to, I had not only been moved to look
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Speaker 1: up to heaven and to seek the hand that had
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Speaker 1: I knew the soul of a poor savage and bring
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Speaker 1: these things, a secret joy ran throughout every part of
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Speaker 1: the most dreadful of all afflictions that could possibly have
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Speaker 1: befallen me. I continued in this thankful frame. All the
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Speaker 1: remainder of my time, and the conversation which employed the
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Speaker 1: hours between Friday and me was such as made the
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Speaker 1: three years which we lived there together perfectly and completely happy.
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Speaker 1: If any such thing as complete happiness can be formed
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Speaker 1: in a sub lunary state. This savage was now a
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Speaker 1: equally penitent and comforted restored penitence. We had here the
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Speaker 1: I always applied myself in reading the Scripture to let
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Speaker 1: what I read, And he, again, by his serious inquiries
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Speaker 1: and questionings, made me, as I said before, a much
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Speaker 1: better scholar in the scripture knowledge than I should ever
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Speaker 1: I cannot refrain from observing here also from experience, in
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Speaker 1: and inexpressible a blessing it is that the knowledge of
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Speaker 1: is so plainly laid down in the Word of God,
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Speaker 1: so easy to be received and understood, that as the bear,
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Speaker 1: reading the scripture made me capable of understanding enough of
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Speaker 1: work of sincere repentance for my sins and laying hold
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Speaker 1: reformation in practice and obedience to all God's commands, And
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Speaker 1: this without any teacher or instructor, I mean human. So
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Speaker 1: the same plain sufficiently served to the enlightening of this
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Speaker 1: savage creature and bringing him to be such a Christian
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Speaker 1: as I have known few equal to him in my life.
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Speaker 1: As to all the disputes, wrangling, strife, and contention which
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Speaker 1: have happened in the world about religion, whether niceties and
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Speaker 1: doctrines or schemes of church government, they were all perfectly
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Speaker 1: useless to us, and for aught I can yet see
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Speaker 1: they have been so to the rest of the world.
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Speaker 1: We had the sure guide to heaven, that is the
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Speaker 1: Word of God. And we had blessed be God comfortable
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Speaker 1: views of the Spirit of God teaching and instructing by
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Speaker 1: his word, leading us into all truth, and making us
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Speaker 1: both willing and obedient to the instruction of His word.
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Speaker 1: And I cannot see the least use that the greatest
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Speaker 1: knowledge of the disputed points of religion, which have made
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Speaker 1: such confusion in the world, would have been to us
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Speaker 1: if we could have obtained it. But I must go
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Speaker 1: on with the historical part of things, and take every
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Speaker 1: part in its order. After Friday and I became more
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Speaker 1: intimately acquainted, and that he could understand almost all I
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Speaker 1: said to him, and speak pretty fluently, though in broken English.
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Speaker 1: To me, I acquainted him with my own history, or
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Speaker 1: coming to this place, how I had lived here, and
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Speaker 1: how long. I let him into the mystery, for such
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Speaker 1: it was to him of gunpowder and bullet, and taught
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Speaker 1: him how to shoot. I gave him a knife, which
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Speaker 1: he was wonderfully delighted with, and I made him a
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Speaker 1: England we wear hangers in and in the frog. Instead
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Speaker 1: not only as good a weapon in some cases, but
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Speaker 1: much more useful upon other occasions. I described to him
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Speaker 1: the country of Europe, particularly England, which I came from,
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Speaker 1: how we lived, how we worshiped God, how we behaved
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Speaker 1: of the wreck which I had been on board of,
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Speaker 1: where she lay, But she was all beaten in pieces
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Speaker 1: before and gone. I showed him the ruins of our boat,
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Speaker 1: which we lost when we escaped, and which I could
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Speaker 1: not stir with my whole strength then, but was now
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Speaker 1: fallen almost to pieces. Upon seeing this boat, Friday stood
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Speaker 1: what it was he studied upon. At last says he me,
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Speaker 1: see such boat like come to place at my nation.
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Speaker 1: I did not understand him a good while, but at last,
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Speaker 1: when I had examined further into it, I understood by
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Speaker 1: him that a boat such as that had been came
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Speaker 1: on shore upon the country where he lived. That is,
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Speaker 1: as he explained, it was driven thither by stress of weather.
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Speaker 1: I presently imagined that some European ship must have been
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Speaker 1: cast away upon their coast. The boat might get loose
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Speaker 1: and drive ashore, But was so dull that I never
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Speaker 1: once thought of men making their escape from a wreck thither,
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Speaker 1: much less whence they might come. So I only inquired
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Speaker 1: after a description of the boat. Friday described the boat
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Speaker 1: to me well enough, but brought me better to understand
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Speaker 1: him when he added, with some warmth, we saved the
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Speaker 1: white man's from drown Then I presently asked if there
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Speaker 1: were any white mans, as he called them, in the boat. Yes,
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Speaker 1: he said, the boat full of white mans. I asked
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Speaker 1: him how many? He told upon his fingers, seventeen. I
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Speaker 1: asked him, then, what became of them? He told me
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Speaker 1: they live, they dwell at my nation. This put new
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Speaker 1: thoughts into my head, for I presently imagined that these
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Speaker 1: might be the men belonging to the ship that was
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Speaker 1: cast away in the sight of my island, as I
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Speaker 1: now called it, and who, after the ship was struck
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Speaker 1: on the rock and they saw her inevitably lost, had
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Speaker 1: saved themselves in their boat, and were landed upon that
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Speaker 1: wild shore among the savages. Upon this I inquired of
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Speaker 1: me they still lived there, that they had been there
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Speaker 1: about four years, that the savages left them alone and
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Speaker 1: gave them victuals to live on. I asked him how
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Speaker 1: it came to pass that they did not kill them
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Speaker 1: and eat them. He said, no, no, they make brother
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Speaker 1: with them, that is, as I understood him, a truce.
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Speaker 1: And then he added, they now eat men's but when
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Speaker 1: make the war fight, that is to say, they never
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Speaker 1: some considerable time that, being upon the top of the
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Speaker 1: as I have said, I had in a clear day
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Speaker 1: discovered the main or continent of America Friday, the weather
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Speaker 1: being very serene, looks very earnestly towards the mainland, and
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Speaker 1: in a kind of surprise falls jumping and dancing, and
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Speaker 1: calls out to me. For I was at some distance
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Speaker 1: from him. I asked him, what was the matter? Oh, joy,
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Speaker 1: says he, Oh glad there see my country, there, my
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Speaker 1: nation observed. An extraordinary sense of pleasure appeared in his face,
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Speaker 1: and his eyes sparkled, and his countenance discovered a strange earnestness,
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Speaker 1: as if he had a mind to be in his
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Speaker 1: many thoughts into me, which made me at first not
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Speaker 1: so easy about my new man Friday as I was before.
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Speaker 1: And I made no doubt but that if Friday could
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Speaker 1: get back to his own nation again, he would not
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Speaker 1: only forget all his religion, but all his obligation to me,
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Speaker 1: and would be forward enough to give his countrymen an
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Speaker 1: account of me, and come back, and perhaps with a
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Speaker 1: hundred or two of them, make a feast upon me,
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Speaker 1: at which he might be as merry as he used
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Speaker 1: to be with those of his enemies when they were
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Speaker 1: taken in war. I wronged the poor, honest creature very much,
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Speaker 1: for which I was very sorry afterwards. However, as my
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Speaker 1: jealousy increased and held some weeks, I was a little
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Speaker 1: more circumspect and not so familiar and kind to him
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Speaker 1: as before, in which I was certainly wrong too, the honest,
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Speaker 1: grateful creature, having no thought about it, but what consisted
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Speaker 1: with the best principles, both as a religious Christian and
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Speaker 1: as a grateful friend, as appeared afterwards to my full
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Speaker 1: satisfaction while my jealousy of him lasted. You may be
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Speaker 1: sure I was every day pumping him to see if
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Speaker 1: he would discover any of the new thoughts which I
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Speaker 1: suspected were in him. But I found everything he said
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Speaker 1: was so honest and so innocent that I could find
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Speaker 1: nothing to nourish my suspicion. And in spite of all
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Speaker 1: my uneasiness, he made me at last entirely his own again.
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Speaker 1: Nor did he in the least perceive that I was uneasy,
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Speaker 1: and therefore I could not suspect him of deceit. One day,
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Speaker 1: walking up the same hill, but the weather being hazy
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Speaker 1: at sea so that we could not see the continent,
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Speaker 1: I called to him and said, Friday, do you not
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Speaker 1: wish yourself in your own country, your own nation? Yes,
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Speaker 1: my own nation. What would you do there? Said I?
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Speaker 1: Would you turn wild again, eat men's flesh again, and
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Speaker 1: be as savage as you were before? He looked, full
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Speaker 1: of concern and shaking his head, said no, no, Friday.
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Speaker 1: eat man again? Why then said I to him, they
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Speaker 1: will kill you. He looked grave at that, and then said, no, no,
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Speaker 1: by this they would be willing to learn. He added
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Speaker 1: that they learned much of the bearded man's that came
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Speaker 1: in the boat. Then I asked him if he would
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Speaker 1: go back to them. He smiled at that and said
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Speaker 1: that he could not swim so far. I told him
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Speaker 1: I would make a canoe for him. He told me
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Speaker 1: he would go if I would go with him. I go,
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Speaker 1: says I, Why they will eat me if I come there? No, no,
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Speaker 1: says he me. Make they know eat you me, make
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Speaker 1: they love much you. He meant he would tell them
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Speaker 1: how I had killed his enemies and saved his life,
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Speaker 1: and so he would make them love me. Then he
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Speaker 1: were to the seventeen white men, or bearded men, as
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Speaker 1: he called them, who came on shore there in distress.
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Speaker 1: bearded men, who I made no doubt were Spaniards and Portuguese.
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Speaker 1: Not doubting, but if I could, we might find some
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Speaker 1: method to escape from thence, being upon the continent and
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Speaker 1: a good company together, better than I could from an
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Speaker 1: island forty miles off the shore alone and without help.
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Speaker 1: So after some days I took Friday to work again
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Speaker 1: by way of discourse, and told him I would give
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Speaker 1: him a boat to go back to his own nation.
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Speaker 1: And accordingly I carried him to my frigate, which lay
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Speaker 1: on the other side of the island, and, having cleared
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Speaker 1: it of water, for I always kept it sunk in water,
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Speaker 1: I brought it out, showed it to him, and we
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Speaker 1: both went into it. I found he was a most
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Speaker 1: dexterous fellow at managing it, and would make it go
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Speaker 1: almost as swift again as I could. So when he
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Speaker 1: was in I said to him, well, now, Friday, shall
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Speaker 1: we go to your nation. He looked very dull at
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Speaker 1: my saying so, which it seems was because he thought
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Speaker 1: the boat was too small to go so far. I
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Speaker 1: then told him I had a bigger So the next
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Speaker 1: day I went to the place where the first boat lay,
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Speaker 1: which I had made, but which I could not get
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Speaker 1: into the water. He said that was big enough, But then,
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Speaker 1: as I had taken no care to it, it had
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Speaker 1: lain there two or three and twenty years. The sun
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Speaker 1: had so split and dried it that it was rotten.
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Speaker 1: and would carry much enough vital drink, bread. This was
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