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05 - The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe · Classic Adventure Books Collection

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Chapter five, a great victory. It was five or six months after this
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before they heard any more of the savages, in which time our men were
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in hopes they had either forgot their former bad luck or given over hopes of
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better, when on a sudden they were invaded with a most formidable fleet of
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no less than eight and twenty canoes, full of savages, armed with bows
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and arrows, great clubs, wooden swords, and such like engines of war.
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And they brought such numbers with them that, in short, it put
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all our people into the utmost consternation. As they came on shore in the
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evening, and at the easternmost side of the island. Our men had that
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night to consult and consider what to do. In the first place, knowing
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that their being entirely concealed was their only safety before, and would be much
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more so now, while the number of their enemies would be so great,
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they resolved first of all to take down the huts which were built for the
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two Englandish men, and drive away their goats to the old cave, because
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they supposed the savages would go directly thither as soon as it was day to
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play the old game over again. Though they did not now land within two
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leagues of it. In the next place, they drove away all the flocks
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of goats they had at the old Bower, as I called it, which
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belonged to the Spaniards, and in short left as little appearance of inhabitants anywhere
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as was possible. And the next morning early they posted themselves with all their
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force, at the plantation of the two men, to wait for their coming.
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As they guessed, so it happened, these new invaders, leaving their
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canoes at the east end of the island, came ranging along the shore directly
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towards the place, to the number of two hundred and fifty. As near
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as our men could judge, our army was but small. Indeed, but
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that which was worse, they had not arms for all their number. The
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whole account, it seems, stood thus thus first as two men, seventeen
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Spaniards, five Englishmen Old Friday, the three slaves taken with the women who
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proved very faithful, and three other slaves who lived with the Spaniards. To
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arm these they had eleven muskets, five pistols, three fowling pieces, five
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muskets or fowling pieces, which were taken by me from the mutinous seamen,
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whom I reduced two swords and three old halbirds to their slaves. They did
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not give either musket or fusey, but they had each a halbird or a
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long staff like a quarter staff, with a great spike of iron fastened into
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each end of it, and by his side a hatchet. Also, every
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one of our men had a hatchet. Two of the women could not be
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prevailed upon, but they would come into the fight, and they had bows
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and arrows, which the Spaniards had taken from the savages. When the first
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action happened which I have spoken of, where the Indians fought with one another,
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and the women had hadad two the chief Spaniard whom I described so often,
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commanded the whole, and will Atkins, who though a dreadful fellow for
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wickedness, was a most daring bold fellow, commanded under him. The savages
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came forward like lions, and our men, which was the worst of their
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fate, had no advantage in their situation, only that will Atkins, who
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now proved a most useful fellow with six men, was planted just behind a
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small thicket of bushes as an advanced guard with orders to let the first of
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them pass by, and then fire into the middle of them, and as
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soon as he had fired, to make his retreat as nimbly as he could
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round a part of the wood, and so come in behind the spaniards where
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they stood, having a thicket of trees before them. When the savages came
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on, they ran straggling about every way in heaps, out of all manner
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of order, and will Atkins let about fifty of them pass by him.
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Then, seeing the rest come in a very thick throng, he orders three
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of his men to fire, having loaded their muskets with six or seven bullets
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apiece, about as big as large pistol bullets. How many they killed or
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wounded, they knew not, but the consternation and surprise was inexpressible among the
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savages. They were frightened to the last degree to hear such a dreadful noise
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and see their men killed and others hurt. But see nobody that did it.
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When in the middle of their fright will Atkins and his other three let
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fly again among the thickest of them, and in less than a minute the
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first three, being loaded again, gave them a third volley had will Atkins
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and his men retired immediately as soon as they had fired as they were ordered
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to do, or had the rest of the body been at hand, to
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have poured in their shot continually. The savages had been effectually routed, for
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the terror that was among them came principally from this that they were killed by
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the gods with thunder, ag and lightning, and could see nobody that hurt
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them, but will Atkins, staying to load, again, discovered the cheat.
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Some of the savages, who were at a distance spying them, came
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upon them behind, and though Atkins and his men fired at them also two
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or three times and killed above twenty, retiring as fast as they could,
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yet they wounded Atkins himself and killed one of his fellow Englishmen with their arrows,
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as they did afterwards, one Spaniard, and one of the Indian slaves
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who came with the women. This slave was a most gallant fellow, and
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fought most desperately, killing five of them with his own hand, having no
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weapon but one of the armed staves and a hatchet. Our men being thus
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hard laid, at Atkins wounded and two other men killed, retreated to a
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rising ground in the wood, and the Spaniards, after firing three volleys upon
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them, retreated also, for their number was so great and they were so
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desperate, that though above fifty of them were killed, and more than as
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many wounded, yet they came on in the teeth of our men, fearless
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of danger, and shot their arrows like a cloud. And it was observed
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that their wounded men, who were not quite disabled, were made outrageous by
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their wounds, and fought like madmen. When our men retreated, they left
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the Spaniard and the Englishmen that were killed behind them, and the savages,
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when they came up to them, killed them over again in a wretched manner,
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breaking their arms, legs and heads with their clubs and wooden swords like
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true savages. But finding our men were gone, they did not seem inclined
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to pursue them, but drew themselves up in a ring, which is it
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seems their custom, and shouted twice in token of their victory, after which
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they had the mortification to see several of their wounded men fall, dying with
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the mere loss of blood. The Spaniard governor, having drawn his little body
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up together upon a rising Atkins, though he was wounded would have had them
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march and charge again altogether at once. But the Spaniard replied, Signor Atkins,
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you see how their wounded men fight. Let them alone till morning.
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All the wounded men will be stiff and sore with their wounds, and faint
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with the loss of blood, and so we shall have the fewer to engage.
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This advice was good, but will Atkins replied merrily, that is true,
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Signor, and so shall I too, And that is the reason I
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would go on while I am warm. Well, Signor Atkins, says the
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Spaniard, you have behaved gallantly and done your part. We will fight for
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you if you cannot come on. But I think it best to stay till
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morning. So they waited. But as it was a clear moonlight night,
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and they found the savages in great disorder about their dead and wounded men,
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and a great noise and hurry among them where they lay, they afterwards resolved
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to fall upon them in the night, especially if they could come to give
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them but one more volley before they were discovered, which they had a fair
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opportunity to do. For one of the Englishmen in whose quarter it was where
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the fight began led them round between the woods and the seaside westward, and
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then turning short south. They came so near where the thickest of them lay,
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that before they were seen or heard, eight of them fired in among
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them, and did dreadful execution upon them. In half a minute more,
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eight others fired after them, pouring in their small shot in such a quantity
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that abundance were killed and wounded, And all this while they were not able
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to see who hurt them or which way to fly. The Spaniards charged again
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with the utmost expedition, and then divided themselves into three bodies, and resolved
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to fall in among them. All together. They had in each body eight
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persons, that is to say, twenty two men and the two women,
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who, by the way, fought desperately. They divided the firearms equally in
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each party, as well as the halberds and staves. They would have had
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the women keep back, but they said they were resolved to die with their
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husbands. Having thus formed their little army, they marched out from among the
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trees and came up to the teeth of the enemy, shouting and hallooing as
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loud as they could. The savages stood all together, but were in the
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utmost confusion, hearing the noise of our men shouting from three quarters together,
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they would have fought if they had seen us, For as soon as we
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came near enough to be seen, some arrows were shot, and poor old
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Friday was wounded, though not dangerously. But our men gave them no time,
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but running up to them, fired among them three ways, and then
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fell in with the butt ends of their muskets, their swords, armed staves
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and hatchets, and laid about them so well that in a word they set
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up a dismal screaming and howling, flying to save their lives which way soever
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they could. Our men were tired with the execution, and killed or mortally
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wounded in the two fights, about one hundred and eighty of them, the
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rest, being frightened out of their wits, scoured through the woods and over
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the hills with all the speed that fear and nimble feet could help them to.
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And as we did not trouble ourselves much to pursue them, they got
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all together to the seaside, where they landed and where their canoes lay.
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But their disaster was not at an end yet, for it blew a terrible
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storm of wind that evening from the sea, so that it was impossible for
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them to go off, Nay, the storm continuing all night. When the
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tide came up, their canoes were, most of them driven by the surge
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of the sea, so high upon the shore that it required infinite toil to
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get them off, and some of them were even dashed to pieces against the
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beach. Our men, though glad of their victory, yet got little rest
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that night. But having refreshed themselves as well as they could, they resolved
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to march to that part of the island where the savages were fled and see
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what posture they were in. This necessarily led them over the place where the
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fight had been, and where they found several of the poor creatures, not
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quite dead and yet past recovering life, a sight disagreeable enough to generous minds.
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For a truly great man, though obliged by the law of battle to
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destroy his enemy, takes no delight in his misery. However, there was
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no need to give any orders in this case, for their own savages,
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who were their servants, despatched these poor creatures with their hatchets. At length,
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they came in view of the place where the more miserable remains of the
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savage's army lay, where there appeared about one hundred. Still. Their posture
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was generally sitting upon the ground, with their knees up towards their mouth,
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and the head put between the two hands, leaning down upon the knees.
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When our men came within two musket shots of them, the Spaniard governor ordered
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two muskets to be fired without ball to alarm them. This he did that
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by their countenance he might know what to expect, whether they were still in
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heart to fight, or were so heartily beaten as to be discouraged, and
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so he might manage accordingly. This stratagem took for as soon as the savages
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heard the first gun and saw the flash of the second, they started up
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upon their feet in the greatest consternation imaginable. And as our men advanced swiftly
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towards them, they all ran, screaming and yelling away, with a kind
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of howling noise which our men did not understand and had never heard before.
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And thus they ran up the hills into the country. At first, our
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men had much rather, the weather had been calm, and they had all
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gone away to sea. But they did not then consider that this might probably
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have been the occasion of their coming again in such multitudes as not to be
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resisted, or at least to come so many and so often as would quite
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desolate the island and starve them. Will Atkins, therefore, who notwithstanding his
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wound, kept always with them, proved the best counselor in this case.
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His advice was to take the advantage that offered and step in between them and
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their boats, and so deprive them of the capacity of ever returning any more
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to plague the island. They consulted long about this, and some were against
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it, for fear of making the wretches fly to the woods and live there
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desperate. And so they should have them to hunt like wild beasts, be
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afraid to stir about their business, and have their plantations continually rifled, all
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their tame goats destroyed, and in short be reduced to a life of continual
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distress. Will Atkins told them they had better have to do with a hundred
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men than with a hundred nations. That as they must destroy their boats,
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so they must destroy the men, or be all of them destroyed themselves.
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In a word, he showed them the necessity of it so plainly that they
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all came into it. So they went to work immediately with the boats,
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and getting some dry wood together from a dead tree. They tried to set
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some of them on fire, but they were so wet that they would not
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burn. However, the fire so burned the upper part that it soon made
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them unfit for use at sea. When the Indians saw what they were about,
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some of them came running out of the woods, and, coming as
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near as they could to our men, kneeled down and cried oa, oa,
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wharamokoa, and some other words of their language, which none of the
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others understood anything of, But as they made pitiful gestures and strange noises,
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it was easy to understand. They begged to have their boats spared, and
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that they would be gone and never come there again. But our men were
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now satisfied that they had no way to preserve themselves or to save their colony,
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but effectually to prevent any of these people from ever going home again,
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depending upon this that if even so much as one of them got back into
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their country to tell the story, the colony was undone, so that,
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letting them know that they should not have any mercy, they fell to work
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with their canoes and destroyed every one that the storm had not destroyed before,
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at the sight of which the savages raised a hideous cry in the woods,
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which our people heard plain enough, after which they ran about the island like
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distracted men, so that, in a word, our men did not really
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know what at first to do with them. Nor did the Spaniards, with
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all their prudence, consider that while they made those people thus desperate, they
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ought to have kept a good guard at the same time upon their plantations.
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For though it is true they had driven away their cattle and the Indians did
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not find out their main retreat, I mean my old castle at the hill,
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nor the cave in the valley, yet they found out my plantation at
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the bower, and pulled it all to pieces, and all the fences,
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and planting about it, trod all the corn underfoot, tore up the vines
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and grapes, being just then almost ripe, and did our men inestimable damage,
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though to themselves not one farthing's worth of service. Though our men were
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able to fight them upon all occasions, yet they were in no condition to
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pursue them or hunt them up and down, for as they were too nimble
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of foot for our people when they found them single. So our men durst
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not go abroad single, for fear of being surrounded with their numbers. The
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best was they had no weapons, for though they had bows, they had
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no arrows left, nor any materials to make any, nor had they any
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edge tool among them. The extremity and distress they were reduced to was great,
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and indeed deplorable. But at the same time our men were also brought
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to very bad circumstances by them, for though their retreats were preserved, yet
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their provision was destroyed and their harvest spoiled. And what to do or which
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way to turn themselves, they knew not. The only refuge they had now
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was the stock of cattle they had in the valley by the cave, and
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some little corn which grew there, and the plantation of the three englishmen.
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Will Atkins and his comrades were now reduced to two, one of them being
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killed by an arrow which struck him on the side of his head just under
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the temple, so that he never spoke more. And it was very remarkable
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that this was the same barbarous fellow that cut the poor savage slave with his
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hatchet and who afterwards intended to have murdered the Spaniards. I looked upon their
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case to have been worse at this time than mine was at any time after
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I first discovered the grains of barley and rice and got into the manner of
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planting and raising my corn and my tame cattle. For now they had,
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as I may say, a hundred wolves upon the island, which would devour
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everything they could come at, yet could be hardly come at themselves. When
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they saw what their circumstances were, the first thing they concluded was that they
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would, if possible, drive the savages up to the farther part of the
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island southwest, that if any more came on shore they might not find one
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another. Then that they would daily hunt and harass them, and kill as
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many of them as they could come at, till they had reduced their number.
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And if they could at last tame them and bring them to anything,
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they would give them corn and teach them how to plant and live upon their
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daily labor. In order to do this, they so followed them and so
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terrified them with their guns, that in a few days, if any of
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them fired a gun at an Indian, if he did not hit him,
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yet he would fall down for fear. So dreadfully frightened were they that they
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kept out of sight farther and farther till at last our men followed them,
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and almost every day, killing or wounding some of them. They kept up
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in the woods or hollow places, so much that it reduced them to the
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utmost misery for want of food, and many were afterwards found dead in the
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woods without any hurt, absolutely starved to death. When our men found this,
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it made their hearts relent, and pity moved them, especially the generous
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minded Spaniard governor, and he proposed, if possible, to take one of
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them alive, and bring him to understand what they meant, so far as
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to be able to act as interpreter, and go among them and see if
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they might be brought to some conditions that might be depended upon to save their
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lives and do us no harm. It was some while before any of them
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could be taken, but being weak and half starved, one of them was
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at last surprised and made a prisoner. He was sullen at first and would
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neither eat nor drink, but finding himself kindly used and victuals given to him,
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and no violence offered him. He at last grew tractable and came to
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himself. They often brought Old Friday to talk to him, who always told
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him how kind the others would be to them all, that they would not
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only save their lives, but give them part of the island to live in,
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provided they would give satisfaction, that they would keep in their own bounds
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and not come beyond it to injure or prejudice others. And that they should
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have corn given to them to plant and make it grow for their bread,
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and some bread given them for their present subsistence. And Old Friday bade the
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fellow go and talk with the rest of his countrymen and see what they said
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to it, assuring them that if they did not agree immediately, they should
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be all destroyed. The poor wretches, thoroughly humbled and reduced in number to
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about thirty seven, closed with the proposal at the first offer, and begged
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to have some food given them, upon which twelve Spaniards and two Englishmen,
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well armed with three Indian slaves, and Old Friday, marched to the place
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where they were. The three Indian slaves carried them a large quantity of bread,
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some rice boiled up to cakes and dried in the sun, and three
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live goats. And they were ordered to go to the side of a hill,
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where they sat down ate their provisions very thankfully, and were the most
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faithful fellows to their words that could be thought of, For except when they
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came to beg victuals and directions, they never came out of their bounds.
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And there they lived. When I came to the island and I went to
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see them, they had taught them both to plant corn, make bread,
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breed tame goats, and milk them. They wanted nothing but wives in order
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for them soon to become a nation. They were confined to a neck of
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land, surrounded with high rocks behind them, and lying plain towards the sea
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before them. On the southeast corner of the island. They had land enough,
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and it was very good and fruitful, about a mile and a half
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broad and three or four miles in length. Our men taught them to make
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wooden spades, such as I had made for myself, and gave among them
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twelve hatchets and three or four knives. And there they lived, the most
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subjected, innocent creatures that ever were heard of. After this, the colony
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enjoyed a perfect tranquility with respect to the savages till I came to revisit them,
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which was about two years after. Not but that now and then some
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canoes of savages came on shore for their triumphal unnatural feasts. But as they
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were of several nations, and perhaps had never heard of those that came before,
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or the reason of it, they did not make any search or inquiry
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after their countrymen, and if they had, it would have been very hard
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to have found them out. Thus, I think I have given a full
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account of all that happened to them till my return. At least that was
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worth Notice. The Indians were wonderfully civilized by them, and they frequently went
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among them, but they forbid, on pain of death, any one of
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the Indians coming to them, because they would not have their settlement betrayed again.
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One thing was very remarkable, viz. That they taught the savages to
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make wicker work or baskets. But they soon outdid their masters, for they
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made abundance of ingenious things in wicker work, particularly baskets, sieves, bird
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cages, cupboards, et cetera. As all also chairs, stools, beds,
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couches, being very ingenious at such work when they were once put in
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the way of it. My coming was a particular relief to these people,
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because we furnished them with knives, scissors, spades, shovels, pickaxes,
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and all things of that kind which they could want. With the help of
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those tools, they were so very handy that they came at last to build
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up their huts or houses, very handsomely, rattling or working it up like
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basket work all the way round. This piece of ingenuity, although it looked
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very odd, was an exceeding good fence as well against heat, as against
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all sorts of vermin. And our men were so taken with it that they
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got the Indians to come and do the like for them, So that when
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I came to see the two englishmen's colonies, they looked at a distance as
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if they all lived like bees in a hive. As for will Atkins,
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who was now become a very industrious, useful and sober fellow, he had
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made himself such a tent of basket work, as I believe was never seen.
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It was one hundred and twenty paces round on the outside, as I
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measured by my steps. The walls were as close worked as a basket in
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panels or squares, of thirty two in number, and very strong, standing
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about seven feet high. In the middle was another not above twenty two paces
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round, but built stronger, being octagon in its form. And in the
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eight corners stood eight very strong posts, round the top of which he laid
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strong pieces knitted together with wooden pins, from which he raised a pyramid for
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a handsome roof of eight rafters joined together very well, though he had no
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nails, and only a few iron spikes, which he made himself too,
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out of the old iron that I had left there. Indeed, this fellow
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showed abundance of ingenuity in several things which he had no knowledge of. He
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made him a forge with a pair of wooden bellows to blow the fire.
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He made himself charcoal for his work, and he formed out a the iron
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crows a middling good anvil to hammer upon. In this manner he made many
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things, but especially hooks, staples and spikes, bolts and hinges. But
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to return to the house, after he had pitched the roof of his innermost
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tent, he worked it up between the rafters with basket work, so firm,
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and thatched that over again so ingeniously with rice straw, and over that
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a large leaf of a tree which covered the top. That his house was
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as dry as if it had been tiled or slated. He owned indeed that
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the savages had made the basket work for him. The outer circuit was covered
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as a lean to all round this inner apartment, and long rafters lay from
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the thirty two angles to the top posts of the inner house, being about
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twenty feet distant, so that there was a space like a walk within the
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outer wicker wall and without the inner near twenty feet wide. The inner place
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he partitioned off with the same wicker work, but much fairer, and divided
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into six apartments, so that he had six rooms on a floor, and
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out of every one of these there was a door, first into the entry
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or coming into the main tent, another door into the main tent, and
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another door into the space or walk that was round it. So that walk
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was also divided into six equal parts, which served not only for a retreat,
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but to store up any necessaries which the family had occasion for these six
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spaces, not taking up the whole circumference. What other apartments the outer circle
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had were thus ordered. As soon as you were in at the door of
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the outer circle, you had a short passage straight before you to the door
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of the inner house. But on either side was a wicker partition, and
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a door in it, by which you went first into a large room or
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storehouse twenty feet wide and about thirty feet long, and through that into another
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not quite so long, So that in the outer circle were ten handsome rooms,
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six of which were only to become at through the apartments of the inner
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tent, and served as closets or retiring rooms to the respective chambers of the
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inner circle, and four large warehouses or barns, or what you please to
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call them, which went through one another, two on either hand of the
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passage that led through the outer door to the inner tent. Such a piece
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of basket work, I believe was never seen in the world, nor a
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house or tent so neatly contrived, much less so built. In this great
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beehive lived the three families, that is to say, will Atkins and his
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companion. The third was killed, but his wife remained with three children,
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and the other two were not at all backward. To give the widow her
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full share of everything. I mean as to their corn, milk, grapes,
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et cetera, and when they killed a kid or found a turtle on
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the shore, so that they all lived well enough. Though it was true
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they were not so industrious as the other two, as has been observed already.
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One thing, however, cannot be omitted, viz. That as for
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real religion, I do not know that there was anything of that kind among
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them. They often indeed put one another in mind that there was a God,
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by the very common method of seamen swearing by his name. Nor were
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their poor, ignorant, savage wives much better for having been married two Christians,
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as we must call them, For as they knew very little of God
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themselves, so they were utterly incapable of entering into any discourse with their wives
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about a God, or to talk anything to them concerning religion. The utmost
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of all the improvement which I can say the wives had made from them was
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that they had taught them to speak English pretty well. And most of their
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children, who were near twenty in all, were taught to speak English too,
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from their first learning to speak, though they at first spoke it in
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a very broken manner like their mothers, None of these children were above six
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years old when I came thither, for it was not much above seven years
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since they had fetched these five savage ladies over. They had all children,
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more or less. The mothers were all a good sort of well governed,
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quiet, laborious women, modest and decent, helpful to one another, mighty
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observant, and subject to their masters. I cannot call them husbands, and
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lacked nothing but to be well instructed in the Christian religion and to be legally
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married, both of which were happily brought about afterwards by my means, or
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at least in consequence of my coming among them. End of Chapter five.