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York, where my fat
- tive of Bremen, had ſettled, a -
got a handſome eſtate by merchandiſe. My
heart began to be very early fill'd with ramb-
ling thoughts; and tho’, when I grew up, my
father often perſuaded me to ſettle to ſome
buſineſs, and my mother uſed the tendereſt
intreaties, yet nothing could prevail upon me
- &
to lay aſide my deſire of going to ſea; and I at
length reſolved to gratify my roving diſpoſi-
tion, nothwithſtanding the extreme uneaſineſs
of my father and mother, always ſh at
my leaving them. As if bent c
ſtruction, I hardened my
and kind advice of the
and I being : . . º. º. ºf
f my c

ck, and my compations laughed .
of punch made ; me kal f- drunk, º
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i. The weather continued
!al days, and we at length came
mouth-Roads, where we caſt anchor,
wind. After riding here for four
e were unde
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but when the maſter came by me, and ſaid
we ſhould be all loſt, f: terribly frightened!
º §§ a diſmal fight I never before ſaw
the ſea ran mountains-high, and broke upon us
every three or four minutes: A ſhip foun-
dered at a diſtance; two ſhips that were near
us had cut their maſt by the board; and the
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mate and boatſwain begged of the maſter to
let them cut away our foremaſt. I cannot
ſº then ſeized! I was in ten times more terror
on account of my having ſlighted my former
convictions, than even at death itſelf! The
ſtorm ſtill incre >....:3-…. . . . .” -------> is but
§§
expreſs the horror of mind with wh
too ſeldom ſeen) the maſter, the boatſwain,
and ſeveral others at prayers, expecting hat
, every mament the ſhip would go to the b
In the middle of the n
who had been down º purpoſe, cried out,
we had ſprung a leak, and had four feet water
in the hold!. Upon which all hands were
called to the pump. I worked with the ref
but the water gained upon us, and it was
apparent that the ſhip would foul
ſtorm, however, beginning to abat
fired guns for help, and a light ſhip,
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en us ſufficient to carry us
eturned home, my father would

ad a merchant;
vet:ture, which yie
my return, alm
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all carried priſoners into Sallee,
longing to the Moors. . . . . . . .
ge I found was not ſo dread ſui
firſt apprehended; nor was I carried,
as the reſt of our men were, to the Emperor's
Court, but was kept by the Captain of the
opes that he would carry me with
* that he wou ld ºfome time or º
it to ſea, he left ; : : :
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s of powder and ſhot, whi th w ere.
ſhip, as they deſigned to have ſp;
came on board, telling me that
ordere
declined going, and o
and boy, to fail out with th
ſoint fiſh, for his friends were
At this moment the hopes c
darted into my thoughts, and 1
we muſt not preſume to eat cur.
he ſaid that was true, and b
baſket of ruſk, and thre
into the boat.
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shore. So he turned about, and fºam towards
the land, and as he was an excellen; ſwimmer,
I make no doubt that he reached it with eaſe. ,
When he was gone, 1 turned to the boy,
whom they called Xury, and ſaid to him, Xury,
if you will be faithful to me, I will make you. . .
a great man; but if you will not ſtroke your
face to be true to me, (that is, ſwear by
Mlahomet and his father's beard) I muſt throw
| face, and ſpoke ſo innocently, that I could not
go ºver all the world with me. . . .
ſe I was in view ºf Muley, I ſtood out
that he might think me gone to the
any body in his wits would have
ſooner grew dark, that, I fool-
ered to the
ſuch fa
d my courſe, and ſle
d having a fresh gals of wind,
before the end
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.error was greatly increaſed when we
ſaw one of them ſwimming to our
ings
emſelves, making
the cabin door and ſnatching up a
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; º hand, and diſpatched him quite, &
i now reſolved to take cff his ſkin, and going
a-ſhore the boy and I accompliſhed it, but not
After this ſtop, we ſtill proceeded to the
ſouthwward for ten or twelve days, in hopes
of making the river Gambia or Senegal. We
now ſaw that the land was inhabited, and that
the people were black, and ſtark naked. I made
ſigns to them fºr ſomething to eat, and they
making ſigns for me to ſtay, I lowered tail
ºntººrºº sº. then, ran up into the
leſs ºran half an hour they
%:.." . . . . . . ; two pieces of dried fleſh, and
:orn; but though I was willing to accept &
was loath to venture on ſhore to them,
ey were as much afraid of us; but they º
fe way for us ań; for they brought it
lore, and laying it down, went away wº
1 at a diſtance till we fetched it on
for we had nothing that we
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two barrels of muſket-bullets, a large bag of
| ſmall shot, all the men's cloaths I could find,
a hammock and ſome bedding, and to my great. "
cor itort brought all ſafe to land. º
| | I now built a little hut with ſome ſails,
and poles which I cut for that purpoſe, and
| took in every thing I thought would ſpoil.
I then made a bed upon the ground, and ſlept
very comfºrtably all night. . .
After I had made five or fix of theſe voyages, ,
and thought I had nothing more to expe&from
the ship worth taking, I found a great hogs-
head of bread, three large rumlets of rum, ,
a box of fine ſugar, and a barrel of fine flour. * *
I had been thirteen days on shore, and had
been eleven times on board the ship, but pre-
paring the twelfth time to go on board, the
| wind began to riſe, however I ventured on
| board, and found three razors, with a dozen
| hard, ant I let myſelfdown, and ſwam to land: 32...... 3
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than all the


print of oot. Havingſ
in the ſtrongeſt manner, I
ſecurity for my goats : I
ground, containing about th
middle of a hollow and
... I had now been twenty-t

Some time after, in the midſt of a very -
ſtormy night, I was ſtartled by the firing of
a gun? I hated to the top of the hill, and
heard auother. I imaginee that theſe were
| ſignals of a ſhip in diſtreſs, and ſuch it proved.
| I cannot expreſs by any poſſible energy of
| words, the emotion I felt at this weeck - a
| Othat there had been but one ſaved, that I
| Under the power of this impreſſion, nothing
would ſatisfy me but I muſt go in my boat to
ſee this wreck, which hay at a little diſtance.
| I furniſhed myſelf with a ſtock, of proviſions, "
for fear of being driven out to ſca. I ſet ſail, ,
and in two hours I reached the ſhip, which
buil. On my coming near her,
:d and cried; but there wºrs, no
men lying drowned in the cook-
. He cook-roºm, with 'º
r aims faſt about one-ancther, and all the
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| and he ſtruck off his head at one blow, and
buried both the bodies in the ſand. I then
| took him away to my cave at the farther end
| uſ the iſland, and gave him bread and a bunch
of raiſins to eat, and a draught of water,
| which he wanted much. He was a well made
handſome fellow, of about twenty-ſix years of
age, of an olive coloursd complexion, with
| long black hair, a ſmall noſe not flat, and fine º º
teeth, as white as ivory.
| 1 began to ſpeak to him, and teach him to
ſpeak to me. And firſt I made him to know ,
| that his name ſhould be briday, which was . . .
the day, whereen 1 ſaved his life. I taught
| him to ſay Maſter, and let him know that was
| Having now more courage, and conſequently
| more curioſity, I took my man Friday with
| me, giving him the ſword in his hand, with
the bow and arrows at his back, which I found ,
ºne could uſe very dexterouſly. I alſo gave
him one gun to carry, and taking two for my-
ſelf, away we marched to the place where his
nemies had been. When arrived at the ſpot,
my blood run cold in my veins, when I ſaw
| yed with blood; great pieces of fleſh were
left here and there, halfeaten, mangled and
fºorched. I ſaw three ſkulls, five hands, and
of three or four legs and feet; and
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º º * * to aſhes, .x. º W ſh en this .# w as … done, we º retur n ed
The next day I made a little tent on the
outſide of my fortification, and at night took
in my ladder, that he might not get at me
while Lºſlept. But there was no need of this
precaution, for never man had a more faithful
ſervant; he had the ſame affection for me as
a child has for a father; and, I dare ſay, he
would have ſacrificed his life to ſave mine.
I was greatly delighted with him, and made
it my buſineſs to teach him everything proper
to render him uſeful, eſpecially to ſpeak, and
underſtand me when I ſpoke; and he was the
apteſt ſcholar I ever ſaw ; and was ſo merry,
* - ſo diligent, and ſo pleaſed when he could un-
‘derſtand me, or make me underſtand him, that
he was a very agreeable companion, , ,
* The next day I ſet him to beat out ſome
corn, and fift it; and ſoon after I let him ſee
a little time Friday, was able to do all the
work for me, as well as myſelf.
2. §§ nd it neceſſary to ſow a larger
quantity of corn than i uſed to do, and there-
fore with Friday's aſſiſtance enlarged my
fence. In ſhort, this was the pleaſanteſt year.
* I had in the iſland; for as my man began to
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as he was then brought for; and ſome time
after, when I brought him to that fide, he
knew the piace, and told me he was there once,
when they eat up twenty men, two women,
| and a child; but not knowing how to tell
twenty, he numbered them by laying ſo many
ſtones in a row, and pointing to me to count .
I did not fail to inſtrućt this poor creature,
as well as I was able, in the principles of re-
ligion, and he liſtened to me with great atten.
tion. One day, when I had been talking to
him on this ſubjećt, he told me... that if our
God could hear us beyond the ſun, he was
a greater God than their Benamnukee, who
lived but a little way off, and yet could not * *
hear till the Oowckakee, or prieſts, went up
to the mountains, where he dwelt, to ſpeak .
to him. I then told him my ſtory, and let him
in to the myſtery of gun powder and bullets,
a knife, which he was wonderfully fond of
I alſo made him a belt, with a frog hanging
o it; and inſtead of a hanger gave him a
hatchet. I likewiſe gave him an account of
the wreck I had been on board of, and ſhewed
him the ruins of our boat when I eſcaped,
and which I could not ſtir with all my ſtrength
then, but was now almoſt fallen to pieces.--
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