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　　The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoeby Daniel Defoe

　　[Here Will Atkins said his heart sunk within him to hear a pooruntaught creature desire to be taught to know God, and he such awicked wretch, that he could not say one word to her about God, butwhat the reproach of his own carriage would make most irrational toher to believe; nay, that already she had told him that she couldnot believe in God, because he, that was so wicked, was notdestroyed.]

　　I made no hesitation, but told him I would do it. I made someceremony in letting him understand that it was wholly on hisaccount; and that, seeing I could not prevail on him, I would showmy respect to him by my concern for his son. He sent the next dayfor his son; and in about twenty days he came back with themessenger, bringing six or seven horses, loaded with very richfurs, which, in the whole, amounted to a very great value. Hisservants brought the horses into the town, but left the young lordat a distance till night, when he came incognito into ourapartment, and his father presented him to me; and, in short, weconcerted the manner of our travelling, and everything proper forthe journey.

　　But this mutiny had brought us to an anchor for that night; thewind also falling calm next morning, we found that our two men whohad been laid in irons had stolen each of them a musket and someother weapons (what powder or shot they had we knew not), and hadtaken the ship's pinnace, which was not yet hauled up, and run awaywith her to their companions in roguery on shore. As soon as wefound this, I ordered the long-boat on shore, with twelve men andthe mate, and away they went to seek the rogues; but they couldneither find them nor any of the rest, for they all fled into thewoods when they saw the boat coming on shore. The mate was onceresolved, in justice to their roguery, to have destroyed theirplantations, burned all their household stuff and furniture, andleft them to shift without it; but having no orders, he let it allalone, left everything as he found it, and bringing the pinnaceway, came on board without them. These two men made their numberfive; but the other three villains were so much more wic

pon a camel!"says the old pilot, holding up both his hands; "why, there is afamily of thirty people lives in it."

　　Upon inquiry we found it was a French merchant ship of three-hundred tons, home-bound from Quebec. The master gave us a longaccount of the distress of his ship; how the fire began in thesteerage by the negligence of the steersman, which, on his cryingout for help, was, as everybody thought, entirely put out; but theysoon found that some sparks of the first fire had got into somepart of the ship so difficult to come at that they could noteffectually quench it; and afterwards getting in between thetimbers, and within the ceiling of the ship, it proceeded into thehold, and mastered all the skill and all the application they wereable to exert.

　　First, I carried with me some servants whom I purposed to placethere as inhabitants, or at least to set on work there upon myaccount while I stayed, and either to leave them there or carrythem forward, as they should appear willing; particularly, Icarried two carpenters, a smith, and a very handy, ingeniousfellow, who was a cooper by trade, and was also a general mechanic;for he was dexterous at making wheels and hand-mills to grind corn,was a good turner and a good pot-maker; he also made anything thatwas proper to make of earth or of wood: in a word, we called himour Jack-of-all-trades. With these I carried a tailor, who hadoffered himself to go a passenger to the East Indies with mynephew, but afterwards consented to stay on our new plantation, andwho proved a most necessary handy fellow as could be desired inmany other businesses besides that of his trade; for, as I observedformerly, necessity arms us for all employments.

her, he could not understand a word they said; however, aftersome signs to him not to come near them at his peril, the fellowcame back no wiser than he went; only that by their dress, he said,he believed them to be some Tartars of Kalmuck, or of theCircassian hordes, and that there must be more of them upon thegreat desert, though he never heard that any of them were seen sofar north before.