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THE ADVENTURES
OF
PHILIP QUARLL.
Extract from the Journal of Mr. Dorrington, on a
Voyage from England to the South Sea.
HAvi Ng concluded my voyage, and being on my
return for England, and wind-bound, I daily walked
about the sea-shore during my stay. Very early one
morning, as I was taking my usual turn, I acci-
dentally fell into discourse with a Spanish Mexican
inhabitant, named Alvarado; and as we were view-
ing the rocks which abound in those seas, he desired
me to take notice of a vast long one, about seven
leagues from shore, which, he said, was supposed
to enclose some land by its great extent; but the
access to it was very dangerous by the reason of the
rocks, which reach so far under water, being in some
places too shallow for boats, and in others too deep
to ford over; and the sea, commonly rough in that
place, hitherto prevented farther research. The ac-
count he gave excited my curiosity to go with him on
a venture. We agreed with a young fellow to row
us to the rock, through which he saw a light; so
pulling off our clothes, we carried them under our
arms, in order to wade it, and, having taken the
hitcher of the boat, we groped along for sure footing.
Being come to the cleft we crept through, and in a
short time we came to the other side of the rock, and
saw a most delightful country, but despaired to get
to it, there being a lake about a mile long at the bot-
tom of the rock, which entirely parted it from the
land; for neither Alamº, nor myself could swim;
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4 THE ADVENTURES OF
but the young fellow, who could, having leaped into
the water, finding all the way but breast high, we
went in also, and waded to the other side, which
ascended gently about five or six feet from the lake
to a most pleasant land, flat and level, covered with
a curious grass: it bore also abundance of fine lofty
treeS. sº , sº . . . ;
Being come near enough, we discerned some ar-
bours apparently made of trees; then indeed I began
to fancy some wild people inhabited them, and
doubted whether it were safe to go nearer, but con-
cealed my doubt .*. intimidate Alvarado
so that he should run away, to which he seemed
much inclined. -
By this time we were come within the reach of
plain discernment. “If these,” said I, “ be the
works of savages, they far exceed our expertest art-
ist.” Their regularity appeared unconfined to the
rules of art, and complete architecture without the
craft of the artist. They were neither houses, huts,
nor arbours, yet had all the usefulness of each.
Being near the middlemost, we examined that first;
it was about nine feet high, and as much square;
the walls were straight and smooth, covered with
green leaves, lying as close and regular as slates on
a slated house. The top went up, rounding like a
cupola, covered in the same manner as the sides.
Being full of admiration at the structure and nature
of the place, we came to a door which was made of
green twigs neatly woven, and fastened with a small
stick through a loop made of the same. The door
being fastened without, we opened it, and the first
thing we saw, being opposite to the door, was a bed
lying on the ground, which was a hard dry earth,
very smooth and clean. . We had the curiosity to
examine what it was made of, and found it another
subject of admiration. The covering was a mat
about three inches thick, made of a sort of grass,
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PHILIP QUARLL. . . 5.
as a leek, felt as soft as cotton, and, as warm as
wool; the bed was made of the same, and in the
same manner, but three times as thick, which made.
it as easy as a down bed; under that lay another,
but somewhat harder. “ . . . . . . . .
At one side of the room stood a table in .
boards, about three feet long, fastened upon four
sticks driven into the ground, and by it a chair made
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of green twigs, the Sa Iſle as the door. At the other
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side of the room lay a chest on the ground; over it,
against the wall, hung a linen jacket and breeches,
such as seamen-wear on board; on another pin hung
a large coat or gown made of the same sort of grass,
and after the same manner as the bed covering, but
not above half an inch thick; and a cap by it of the
same. These we supposed to be a winter garb for
somebody. Going out, we saw at the corner of the
room, behind the door, a couple of firelocks, which
for rust appeared not to have been fit for use many
years. º a ... :
The next we came to was covered with the same sort
of grass as grew on the ground. Having viewed the
place all round, we went in, expecting to find another
dwelling-place, but it proved a kitchen; there being
a parcel of shells of different sizes, which we sup-
posed to be applied for utensils, some being scorched
on the outside as having been on the fire, but ex-
ceedingly clean within. At one end of the room
was a hole cut ifi the ground like a stew-stove; about
three or four feet from that was a fire-place, made of
three stones, fit to roast at; in both which places
appeared to have been a fire made. Upon a shelf
behind the door laid divers sorts of dried fish; and
upon the ground stood, uncovered, two chests with
fish and flesh in salt.
Having viewed this place, we fastened the door as
we found it, and went to the next, made of quite diſ-
ferent stuff to the preceding; being an arbour com-
posed of trees, planted wºn a foot of each other,
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whose branches were woven together in such a regu-
lar manner, that they made several agreeable com-
partments, and so close that nothing but air could
enter; it was the same height and bigness with the
kitchen, which stood at the other end of the dwelling-
place, and made a very uniform wing to it. Having
sufficiently viewed the outside, we went in, and
found several boards, like dressers or tables, in a
pantry, on which lay divers broad and deep shells,
in some of which was butter, in others cream and
milk. On one shelf lay several small cheeses, and
on another a parcel of roots, like Jerusalem arti-
chokes, which seemed to have been roasted. All this
varied the ideas we entertained that it was an her-
mitage, there being sufficient to gratify the appetite,
as well as to support nature. .
We were scarcely got forty paces farther before
we perceived, at a considerable distance, something
like a man, with another creature, but presently lost
them among the trees. Being gone about a hundred
yards farther, we saw the same again, but nearer
hand and without interruption. The place being
pretty clear of trees, we had the satisfaction of seeing
a venerable old man, with a white beard and a long
head of hair of the same colour; but what the animal
was that was with him we could not tell, for directly it
espied us, it climbed up a tree.
The old man, who, by this time, was come near
enough to hear us speak English, let fall abundle of
sticks he had upon his shoulder, and a hatchet he
carried in his hand, and ran to me, saying, “My
dear countrymen, for I hear ye are Englishmen, by
what accident are ye come hither ? Are ye ship-
wrecked 7” “No, thank God,” said I, “reverend
father; it was mere curiosity brought us here ; but
if I may ask, pray how came you hither?” “By
the help of Providence,” replied the good old man.
“I want for no clothes; I have a change for every
season of the year; and for meat, I have fish, flesh,

PHILIP QUARLL. 2 7
and fowl; and as choice as a man can wish for.
Come, you shall dine with me, and ten to one but I
may give you venison, and perhaps a dish of wild
fowls too. Let's go and see what Providence has
sent us.” So we went to a wood about half a mile
farther, where he had fastened several low nets in
different gaps of the thicket, in one of which hap-
pened to be an animal something like a fawn, twice
as big as a hare, the ºt
the colour of a fox, and faced and
footed like a goat.” Did not I tell you,” said the
good old man, “I might chance to give you venison 7
Now let us look after the fowls.” So we went to a
place where he had hung a long net between two
high trees, with a bag at the bottom to receive the
fowls, which, in the night being stopped by the met,
fluttered to the bottom. There also happened to be
game. A couple of fowls, like woodcocks, but of
the bigness and colour of a pheasant, were taken at
the bottom of the bag. “Well,” said the old man,
“it’s now past noon, let us lose no time, but haste
home to get our dinner ready.” So we went back to
the place where the bundle of sticks lay, which we
made the young fellow with us carry, and went di-
rectly to the kitchen, where, whilst he made a fire,
one cast the animal, and the other two pulled the
fowls, “I am very sorry,” said the oldman, “you
must take that trouble, but your presence has fright-
ened away my servant, who used to do that for me.”
“Have you a servant, then, sir?” said I. “Yes,”
said he, “ and a native of this island.” “Then, sir,’
said I, “that was it we saw run up the tree.” “Yes,”
said he ; my monkey, like myself, are not much used
to company.” “Pray,” returned I, “how do you
bring him so well under your command as to keep
him with you, when he has liberty to run away? I
wonder the wild ones do not entice him from you.”
“I had him very young,” replied the old man, “ and
made much of him; besides, when he was grown up,
the wild ones would not suffer him amongst them, so
that he was forced to remain with me. I had another
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before this, but he, I may say, was sent by Provi-
dence, both to be a help and diversion to me, for he
was so knowing that he took a deal of labour off my
hands, and dispelled many anxious hours, which
the irksomeness of my solitude had at first created.
One day, when I had roasted a quantity of roots,
which I eat instead of bread, having spread them on
* table and chest to, cool, in order to lay them by
for use, I went out, leaving my door open to let the
air in. Having walked an hour or two, I returned
home, where I found a monkey, whom the smell of
the roots had brought, who, during my absence, had
been eating. My presence very much surprised him,
yet he still kept his place, only discontinued eating,
and stared me in the face. This unexpected guest
at once startled me and filled me with admiration,
for certainly no creature of its kind could be com-
pared with it for beauty. His back was a lively
green, his face and belly of a very bright yellow, his
coat all over shining like burnished gold. The ex-
traordinary beauty of the creature raised in me an
ardent desire to keep it; therefore, having resolved to
keep him tied, I went in and shut the door. The
beast, which till then had mot offered to make his
escape, appeared very much disturbed, and stared
about him for some place to get out at ; perceiving
his disorder, I did not advance, but turned my back,
to give him time to compose himself, which he in a
short time did, as appeared by his falling to eat
again. I was overjoyed at his easy composure, so
reached him water in a shell, that the want of nothing
might induce him to retreat. I sat down as near
him as I could, without disturbing him. He came
to it very orderly, and, having drank his fill, he laid
down and looked me in the face. Seeing he had
done, I advanced and took away the shell, at which
he never stirred. º - -
“The forward disposition of the beast made me
resolve to stay within the remainder of the day. So
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• PHILIP QUARLL. * 9
me, and went pretty early to bed, where I had no
sooner laid down than the creature got across the
feet thereof, and continued very quiet till the time I
got up, at which time he was also watching my ac-
tions. I made much of him, which he took very
composedly, standing still to be stroked; and when
I sat down at one side of my table, he would imme-
diately place himself on the other. * * -
“Then, indeed, I thought myselfin a manner secure
of him, and gave him his belly full, as I had done
the day before; but, having occasion to go out, I
went to the door, thinking to shut him in till my re-
turn, but he followed me so close that I could not
open it without endangering his getting out, which,
though he appeared pretty tame, I did not care to
venture, our acquaintance being so very new ; yet,
the creature never offering to go any farther than I
went, I trusted him to go with me, hoping that, if he
went away, the kind usage he met with might, one
day or other, induce him to come back again; but,
to my great surprise as well as satisfaction, he
readily returned with me; yet, as I had occasion to
go out a second time, wanting sticks to make a fire,
for which I was obliged to go near the place where
many of the same kind of monkeys resorted, I was
afraid to trust him with me, lest he should be de-
Coyed by others; therefore, having taken up a bun-
dle of cord with which I tie up my faggots, I watched
an opportunity to get out and leave him behind; but
the beast was certainly apprehensive of my design,
for he always kept near the door, looking steadfastly
at my bundle of cords, as desirous of such another,
which I not having for him, cut a piece off mine, and
gave it him, and seeing I could not leave him behind,
I ventured to let him go with me.
“ Being come to the place where I used to cut dry
sticks, having cut down a sufficient quantity, I began
to lay them across my cord. The creature, having
taken notice of it, did the same to his, and with so


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much "dexterity and agility, that his faggot was
larger and sooner made than mine. Our faggots
being complete, I took up that which I had formed,
to see how he would go about taking up his, which,
being much too heavy for him, he could not lift, so
running round it, I believe twenty times, he looked
me in the face as craving help. Having been suf-
ficiently diverted with the out-of-the-way shifts he
made, I gave him mine, and took up his. The poor
animal appeared overjoyed at the exchange, there-
: cheerfully took up the bundle and followed me
ome.” s “ . . . . * .3,
“Pray, sir, said I, “what became of that won-
derful creature ?” “Alas !” said he, “it was killed
by monkeys of the other kind, which fell upon him
one day as he was going for water by himself; for
the poor dear creature was grown so knowing, that
if at any time either firing or water was wanted, I
had nothing to do but give him the bundle of cord
or the empty vessel, and he would go and fetch
either: in short, he wanted nothing but speech to
complete him for human society. This that I have
now goes about with me, and will carry a faggot or
a vessel of water, pick a fowl, turn a spit or string
when the meat is roasting; yet he is nothing like my
late dear Beaufidelle. Besides, this is unlucky, for
in imitating me, he often does me a mischief. It
was but the other day I had been writing for five or
six hours: I had occasion to go out, and happening
to leave my pen and ink upon the table, and the
parchment I had been writing on close by it, I was
no sooner gone but the mischievous beast falls to
work, scribbling over every word I had been writing,
and when he had done, he lays it by in the chest,
as he saw me do what I had written, my return pre-
vented his doing any further mischief. “Pray, sir,”
said I, “how did you come by him: did he also
give himself to you?” “About eight years ago,”
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PHILIP QUARLL. 11
greener sort of monkeys harbour, at a small distance
from me, this creature dropt off a tree, and lay for
dead. I took him up and opened his windpipe,
which was almost squeezed close, to prevent him
from being strangled. Having recovered its breath,
and seeing no visible hurt about it, I hastened home
with it, gave it warm milk, and laid it on my bed,
so that with careful nursing I quite recovered him,
and, with good keeping, made the rogue thrive to
that degree that he has outgrown the rest of his kind.
Being extremely fond of me, he followed me every
where; and as he used to go with me when I examined
my nets, seeing me now and then take out game, he
would of his own accord, when he saw me busy at
writing, go and fetch what happened to be taken.
One morning early, whilst I was busily employed,
he went out, and having been a considerable time
absent, I went to see after him. As he would often
go and visit the nets in the woods, I went there first,
where I found him very busy with such an animal as
this we have here, which he found in one of the gap
nets, and, being as big as himself, kept him a great
while struggling for mastership; sometimes he would
take it by the ears, and now and then by one leg,
next by the tail, but could not get him along; at
last he laid hold of one of his hind legs, and with
the other hand smote him on the back in order to
drive him, not being able to pull him along, but the
beast, being too strong, still made towards the
thicket, where he certainly would have hauled the
driver had I not come up to help him.” Thus the
old gentleman entertained us with the tricks of his
monkey whilst dinner was dressing.
The dinner being ready we went to the dwelling-
place to eat it. The old gentleman having spread
the cloth, he laid three shells on it, about the bigness
of a middle-sized plate, but as beautiful as pearl.
The first dish he served was soup in a large deep
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he fetched a couple of muscle-shells, which he washed
very clean, then gave Alvarado one and took the
other himself, obliging me to make use of the spoon.
Having eaten sufficiently of the soup, he carried the
remains into the kitchen, and brought in the boiled
meat, with oyster-sauce in another shell, and it eat
as delicious as house-lamb. Having done with that,
he fetched in the other half of the beast roasted, and
several sorts of delicious pickles. The fowls were
next put on table, of which we eat heartily; and a
small cheese of his own making. I begged him to
inform us by what accident he came hither, and how
he had so long maintained so good a state of health.
To which he answered, “Time would not permit
him to relate his own history, but that he would
give it me in writing, having, for want of other occu-
pation, made a memorial.”
The old gentleman next took us to see some curious
clusters of trees, which proceeded from one single
plant, and showed us several natural curiosities, as
a parcel of rocks that appeared at a distance like a
handsome city, and many others. The day being
far spent, the old gentleman takes me by the hand—
“Come,” said he, “ let us go home, that I may
give you the memorial I have promised you, and then
my blessing and hearty prayers for your departure
and happy arrival.” So we went to his habitation,
where he gave me a roll of parchment.
The good man then took me in his open arms, and
embraced me with all the tenderness that words and
actions could express. He attended me to the lake
side, and, after bidding each other farewell, we got
to our boat. I took one of the oars, and by the help
of our sail in a short time reached our ship. .
At my arrival in England, I communicated the con-
tents of my journal to a friend, as also the memoirs
given me by Mr. Quarll, in order to be printed. -

Edward DoRRINGTON.
PHILIP QUARLL. 13
An Account of the Life of Philip Quarll, taken from the
Memoirs he gave to Mr. Dorrington.
PHILIP QUARLL was born in the parish of St. Giles,
London. His father having unfortunately ruined himself by
building, was at last reduced to work at brick-making, Onº
day, a neighbour, who had the care of the child in his mā;
ther's absence, having contracted a particular love for him,
took him by the hand, and led him to his mother, them at
work at an old lady's house in another street. The house-
keeper, who was naturally fond of children, takes him in
her arms, and runs up to her lady. This good lady having
often kissed him, wished he had been her own. “But why,”
said she, “cant I do for him, though no kin to me by birth ?
Now, I'll give him education, the principal and most ne-
cessary care by which real love can be expressed to a child.”
She sent him to a boarding-school, where she intended to
have kept him till he was by years and learning qualified
for some genteel trade, intending to leave him something in
her will. But now ill-fate began to show its averseness to
poor Phil's happiness: the worthy lady died suddenly, and
was interred three days after. The master having conceived
a particular love for the boy, was very much vexed at the
thought of his going away. At length the old man con-
sented to give him his learning, if his relations would find
‘him in board and other necessaries; so he continued to go
to school for four years longer. At the death of the old
man, Phil was obliged to return to his mother, who, not
being in a capacity to do for him, proposed to him to learn
some trade, having, by her hard working and frugal living
made shift to lay up five pounds, and which she dedicated
to that purpose. And as there lived in the neighbourhood
a locksmith, he chose to be bound to him, which was done
in about a month's time. They both agreed wonderfully
well, the master being very kind and good-natured, and
the boy as diligent and careful. But this happiness, though
slight, was but of a short continuance, for the poor man,
having been bound for a relation who failed, had all his
effects seized upon, and himself thrown into a gaol, so poor
Phil was again obliged to come to his mother.
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One day, as Phil was wandering by the Thames' side, a
captain of an East India ship taking a particular fancy to
him, asked him whether he would go to sea; and that if
he was so disposed, he would provide very well for him.
The gentle manner in which he spoke to the boy, and his
mild countenance, made a vast progress in his affections; so
having accepted his offer, he desired that he might run
home, and acquaint his mother of it. The captain, having
taken his name and place of abode, gave him half-a-crown
to spend with his mother, then come to him, and he need
bring no clothes with him, for he would provide every thing
necessary for him.
The overjoyed boy having told his mother of the event,
gave her the money, being in great haste to return to his
master; so having embraced his tender mother, and she her
dear son, weeping over each other some time, he left her at
her work, and hastened to his new master, who was glad to
see him, and went that moment to buy him clothes and
linen fit for the sea.
In a few days after they set sail for a three year's voyage.
During their sailing, I. being often with the man at the
helm, soon learned the compass, and by the instructions
every body on board strove to give him, in a little time he
was qualified for a sailor; which his master being sensible
of, allowed him a sailor's pay the following voyage.
Quarll, after this, hearing of a ship bound to the South
Seas, the captain of her having been first mate of the ship
to which Quarll had formerly belonged, encouraged him to
venture that voyage. -
On the first day of the fourth month of their voyage, the
wind veered to the south-west, and blew a violent gale;
and there being a great sea, the ship took a deal of water.
The wind continuing several days, they perceived themselves
near some rocks; and, it growing dark, they despaired of
saving the ship. At length, there came a sea which dashed
the ship to shatters against the rock, and flung Quarll on the
rock, where, having the good fortune to fall in the cleft, he
was hindered from being washed back into the sea. The
rest of the crew were drowned. *
When day-light came he looked about him, but, alas !
could see nothing but the dreadful effects of the late tem-
pest; dead corpses, broken planks, and battered chests.

PHILIP QUARLL, 15
Turning from these objects, he returned thanks to Provi-
dence for his wonderful deliverance; climbed up the rock,
and saw land at the inside, bearing both trees and grass.
“Heaven be praised ſ” said he, “I shall not perish upon
these barren rocks;” so made a shift to go down to it, the
weather then being calm.
Being come to the other side of the rock, he found at the
bottom of it a narrow lake, which separated it from the
land; therefore, pulling off his clothes, the water being but
shallow, he º over with them in his arms, and, dressing
himself, he walked up a considerable way in the island;
he sat down under a cluster of trees, and being very much
fatigued lay down and slept.
Being awaked, he was led by curiosity to go to the rock
he had been cast upon, where, hearing a sudden noise
which issued from a creek, he had the curiosity to go and
see what occasioned it. Here he saw a large cod-fish dab-
bling in a hole in the rock, where the late storm had cast it,
So taking off his stockings, he got into the hole where the
fish lay, and running his garters through the gills, he drag-
ged it out. Going along, he found several oysters and
cockles, which the sea had cast upon the rock, and having
a knife about him, he sat down and eat a few. Having re-
freshed himself, he cheerfully dragged the fish after him to
the place where he lay the night before. Here he picked
up a parcel of dry leaves, and with his knife and flint made
a fire presently, and broiled a slice of fish; and night draw-
ing on, he laid himself down to sleep. He awoke in the
morning pretty fresh and hearty; but, as he had no cover-
ing, he began to think of making himself a house, and re-
solved to go to that part of the rock where he was ship-
wrecked, to see if he could discover any thing among the
wreck that might be serviceable to him, where, to his great
joy, he discovered the handle of a hatchet just above the
surface of the water. Having got this tool, he dressed
himself, and walked out again to look for a convenient place
to make his hut on. He walked several hours, and could
find none more sheltered from the cold winds than that
where he already lay, being in the middle of the island,
well fenced with trees, which stood very thick. The place
being fixed upon, he cut down some trees that grew in the
way, and cleared a spot of ground about twelve feet square,
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leaving one tree standing at each corner, and with young
plants filled the distance between quite round, setting them
about six inches asunder, leaving a vacancy for the door.
His enclosure being made, he bends the branches at the
top from both sides, and weaved them across one another,
making a cover to it, which being something too thin, he
laid other branches over, till they were grown thicker.
Having finished the top, he went about the sides, for which
purpose, taking large branches, he stript them of their small
twigs, and wove them between the plants; then made a
door after the same manner. Thus, after fifteen days hard
labour, he finished his barrack. As he was walking one
day, he observed some monkies scratching something out
of the ground, some of which they eat, and carried the rest
to their home. His hopes that the roots might be fit for
use made him hasten to the place. Having by the leaves
(which they tore off) found some of the same, he dug them
up, and carried them to his barrack, and in the ashes roasted
them, which eat something like chesnuts done in the same
manner. As soon as he had dined, he went out to dig up
a good quantity. In his way he saw a tortoise, of about a
foot over, crawling before him. “ Heaven be praised l’”
said he, “here is what will supply me both with victuals
and an utensil to dress them in.” He ran, therefore, and
turned it on its back to keep it from getting away. Being
thus provided with a boiling utensil, he often had a change,
by means of those admirable roots, some of which heroasted
for bread, others he boiled with salt cod. He now resolved
to make himself a table to eat his victuals upon, and a chair
to sit on; these, after two or three days %. labour, he
completed; and, as winter was coming on, he made another
longer but thinner mat to cover himself with,
He next day made a spade of wood, and taking a sack
made of rushes, he dug up a quantity of roots, and having
picked a sufficient number of off-sets to stock about two
acres of land, he returned home, then fixed upon a spot of
ground near his habitation, and dug it up as well as he could
with his wooden instrument, in order to sow the off-sets,
which having completed in about twenty days, he implored
a blessing upon his labour, and left it to time to bring forth.
Thus, having finished the work about his barrack, he re-
solved to take a more particular view of the island. He



PHILIP QUARLL, . 17
walked to the lake which parts the land from the rock, and
goes along the side of it quite round the island, finding all
the way new objects of admiration; some parts of the rocks
resembling ramparts of an old fortification, other parts chal-
lenging the likeness to a city and clusters of houses, with
here and there a high steeple standing above the other build-
ings. As he was walking, he happened to sneeze opposite
to a place in the rock, which was hollowed in after the man-
ner of the inside of some church, and was answered from
a multitude of different voices issuing from that place; in-
mediately he sung several psalms and hymns, with as much
devotion as if he had been in the company of a number of
skilful and celebrated choristers. Having spent a consi-
derable time there with much pleasure, he proceeded in his
walk, being resolved to make that his place of worship for
the future, and attend it twice a day constantly. Having
been round the island, which, to the best of his judgment,
was eleven miles in circumference, he resolved to employ the
next day in viewing the inside, so went to bed early.
The next morning he walked along the land, which he
found very level, covered with a delightful grass, and
adorned with trees of various sorts, and in some places
clusters of them. He came to a noble and spacious wood,
whose shades seemed to have been made for the abode of
peace and bliss. Here he found several pleasant walks,
some straight, edged with lofty trees, as if planted for plea-
sure; others crooked and winding, bordered with a thick
edge of pimentos, which cast a most fragrant smell: here and
there several bushes and dwarf trees, wherein, sheltered
many different kinds of wild beasts and fowls. . On his way
home he picked a sample of every different herb he thought
might be eatable. He boiled a slice of his salt fish with
some roots, and then the herbs he brought with him, which
proved of divers tastes, and all excellent.
Thus thoroughly easy in his mind, he proposed to spend
the afternoon at the outside of the rock, in viewing the sea
and looking for oysters. Here he saw at a distance some.
thing like linen hanging, which he found, by certain marks,
was the mainsail of his ship, with a piece of the yard fas-
tened to it; so ripping the sail in pieces, he rolled it up in
such bundles as he could conveniently carry away, and laid
them down till he got a few oysters, proceeding to grope
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in holes with a stick as he went on. About forty paces
further, he found a chest in a cleft, which not being able to
lift, he was obliged to fetch his hatchet and break it open,
from which he took out a suit of clothes and some linen;
the next thing was a roll of several sheets of parchment,
guite clean. At the bottom of the chest lay a runnet of
brandy, a Cheshire cheese, a leather bottle full of ink, with
a parcel of pens and a pen-knife. So, by degrees, he took
home the chest and what was in it.
Coming to the rock one day after a storm, he saw a
quantity of fish, with a great number of shells, of different
shapes and sizes, lying on the shore. Taking up as many
fish and shells as he could carry, he went home, and bring-
ing his sack, at several times brought away all the fish, and
as many shells as he had occasion for; of some he made
boilers and stew-pans, of others dishes and plates; some he
kept water in, and in others fish and pickle.
The next morning he went about salting his fish. Havin
laid by as many as he thought he could eat whilst fresh, he
improves the fair weather to dry one part of the remainder
and keep the rest in pickle. The winter being near at hand,
and the weather being cold, confined him within doors. He
employed his idle hours in beautifying his utensils, some as
fine as if they had been of pearl.
Quarll, whom bad weather had confined within doors a
considerable time, at the first appearance of spring found
himself quite revived. His stomach growing qualmish with
eating fish, he wished to have a little flesh. Taking some
of the cords which he found with the sail at the rock, he
went to work, and made several snares, which he fastened
at divers gaps in the thicket of the wood, through which he
thought that sort of beast he had a mind for went.
He got up betimes the next morning, and went to examine
them, in one of which º an animal something like a
fawn and the colour of a deer, as big as a well grown hare.
He opened its mouth, and finding by the grass in it that it
was not a beast of prey, he took it home. He hung one
quarter of the animal upon a string before a good fire and
roasted it. Having dined deliciously, he went about making
nets, in order to take his game alive for the future; and as
he had no small twine, he was obliged to unravel the sail,
and with the thread twisted some the bigness he judged
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proper for that use. He formed a couple of nets about four
feet square, which he fastened in the room of the killing
snares. Several days after this, he found in one two ani-
mals as big as a kid, of a bright dun, their horns upright
and straight, their shape like a stag. The animals he found
were antelopes, so with cords he fastened them to the out-
side of his lodge, and with constant feeding, in two months
made them so tame that they followed him up and down,
and would eat out of his hand. This added much to the
pleasure he took in his habitation, which by this time was
covered with green leaves, the stakes it was made of having
struck root and shot out young branches. -:
His former hut now became a pleasant harbour; he con-
trived to make it as commodious as beautiful. Thus, having
fixed upon a place by the side of his lodge for a kitchen,
twelve feet in length, and eight in breadth, which he en-
closed with the turfs that covered the outside of his harbour,
before it was thick enough of itself to keep out the cold;
then having laid sticks across the top of the walls, which
were about eight feet high, he laid the turf thereon, leaving
an open place for the smoke to go out at. The outside being
done, he went about the inside necessaries. Having finished
that piece of work, he visited his plantations, which he
found in a thriving condition, the roots being grown from
the size of a pea to that of an egg. Having resolved, as
the summer approached, to thin his clothing by degrees, he
fell to ripping his jacket, in the lining of which he found
seven peas and three beans, which got in at a hole in the
Qorner of his pocket.
Those few made him wish for more, but he thought they
might be improved to a quantity large enough to serve him for
a meal, so laid them up against a proper time to set them.
He now began to think of providing for his antelopes
against the approaching winter, so made a lodge for them at
the back of his kitchen with sticks, which he drove into the
ground, and smaller branches he interwove between them.
He shut the front and covered the tops, leaving both ends
open for the antelopes to go in at; then laid dry grass for
them to lie on. Thus having laid up a considerable quantity
of roots, and being stocked with salt fish, both dried and
pickled, he was pretty well provided for his cattle and him
self against the ensuing winter. **
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The succeeding spring he began to clear a spot of ground
to cultivate his peas and beans in. Turning up the ground,
he found several sorts of roots that looked to be eatable,
some whereof were as big as a large carrot. He took a
sample of every root and boiled them. Most of them proved
as good, if not better, vegetables, than ever he eat in Eng-
land. Seven peas having produced one thousand, and three
beans one hundred, he returned thanks to Providence for
that vast increase, and laid them by, in order to set them in
a proper season, as he had done before. By this time his
antelopes had kidded, one brought four and the other three.
This addition to his provision very much rejoiced him. The
old ones being well fed, the young ones throve a-pace, and
grew fat, so that in six weeks time they were large and fit to
eat. He killed one, which proved to be more delicious than
any house-lamb. This he lived upon as long as he could keep
it palatable, having reserved one of the females; and the
other for time he should be scanty and in want of flesh. The
winter being now very wet, he took a walk to his planta-
tions; next he went to examine his nets, in which he found
a brace of fowls like ducks, large and exceedingly beauti-
ful; these he cut the wings of, put them into the pond, and
made baskets for them to shelter in, which he placed in the
branches of those trees that hung closest to the water, takin
care to feed them daily with roots roasted and boiled. The
five antelopes had by this time kidded and brought sixteen
young ones. His peas and beans were also wonderfully im-
proved, having that season enough to stock the ground the
year following. 3.
In this prosperous way he lived fifteen years, during which
time he made himself a winter garb of the soft grass, which
reached to his heels, and a cap of the same. r .
Being one day upon the rocks, he saw something like an
Indian canoe. Fearing there might be some of these people
on the island, he hastened home to secure what he had, but
was too late: they had been there already, and had taken
away the clothes he found in the chest, which being too little
for him, hung on a pin behind the door. Had they been
content with that he would not have regarded it, but they
carried away some of his curious shells, and, what grieved
him most, his bow and arrow.
As he was looking about him, he saw two men come down
from the rock, with each a bundle on his arm, and going to

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something he took to be a chest, and having put their load
into it, pushed it away, and rowed to a long boat that lay
at some distance, behind a jetting part of the rock, which
screened it from his sight, as also the ship it belonged to.
He found those villains had rifled his habitation, not leav-
ing him so much as one of the mats to keep his body from
the ground. His winter garb also was gone, and what else
they could find for their use. -
There happening to be nothing the remainder of the year
worthy of record, he employed it in his customary occupa-
tions, as pruning and watering his lodge and dairy, making
his mats to lie on, as also winter garb ; every day milking
his antelopes and goats, making now and then butter and
cheese, attending his nets, and such like useful employments.
In the mean time the French mariners returned, it being
much about the same season ; and being resolved to take
him away, and all they could make any thing of, out of the
island, were provided with implements to accomplish their
design; as ropes to bind what they could not get alive, and
saws and hatchets to cut down logwood and brazil; like-
wise flat-bottomed boats to tow in shallow water, and thus
by degrees to load their ship with booty. The implements
in a flat-bottomed boat were towed to the very foot of the
rock, which pretty well loaded the boat. The men on board
embarked in two niore of the same sort of boats, but were
no sooner in them than a storm arose, which dashed their
vessel to pieces, and washed them into the sea, in which
they perished, oversetting the boat on shore, with the load
and the lad underneath it.
One morning, when he had roasted a parcel of those roots
which he used to eat instead of bread; having spread them
on his table and chest to cool, he went out to walk, leaving
his door open to let the air in. -
His walk, though graced with all the agreeables nature
could adorn it with to make it delightfnl, were not sufficient
to expel anxious thoughts from his mind.
Under this melancholy uneasiness he once returned home,
where Providence had left a remedy for his grievance, which
was a most beautiful monkey of the finest kind, to dissipate
his melancholy. Beholding the wonderful creature, he was at
once filled with joy and admiration. “Long,” said he, “I
endeavoured in vain to get one, though of the worst kind, and
here Providence has sent me one of unparalleled beauty.
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Having a considerable time admired the beast, which
stood unconcerned, now and then eating of the roots that
lay before, he went in and shut the door, in order to tame
him, which having found out by the creature's surprising
docility, he returned his Benefactor most hearty thanks for
that miraculous gift.
One day, as this rare animal was officiating in the charge
it had of its own accord taken, being gone for wood, he
found in his way a wild pomegranate; he took it home, and
then returned for his faggot; in which time Quarll cut it
open, and finding it of a dull lusciousness, imagined it might
be used with things of an acid and sharp taste; having, there-
fore, boiled some water, he put it into a vessel, with a sort
of herb which is of the taste and nature of cresses, and some
of the pomegranate, letting them infuse some time, now and
then stirring it; which the monkey having taken notice of,
did the same; but one very hot day, happening to lay the
vessel in the sun it made it turn sour. Quarll was well
pleased with this accident, and so continued the souring of
the liquor, which proving excellent, he made a five gallon
vessel of it, having several which he found upon the rock."
Having now a store of vinegar, and being a great lover of
pickles, calling to mind he had often in his walks seen some-
thing like young mushrooms, he made it his business to look
for some; thus he picked up a few, of which Beaufidelle
having taken notice, immediately ranges about, and, being
nimbler footed than his master, picked double the qnantity
in the same space of time, so that he soon had enough to
serve him for the next season. º
His good success in making that sort of pickle encou
raged him to try others; he therefore examined every kind
of bud and seed: having at last found that of a wild parsnip,
almost the bigness of a pickling cucumber, green and crisp,
he pickled some of them, which, being nearly of the same
colour and make, he fancied them quite of the taste.
His beans being at this time large enough for the first
crop, he gathered some for his dinner, cutting the shells into
narrow slips and pickling them.
Having nothing to crave or wish for, he laid down with a
peaceable mind; his sleep was not interrupted with frightful
fancies. He put his trust in Providence, who, in various
manners, had rescued him from death, being above thirty
years protected and maintained in a place remote from all
human help and assistance.
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Notwithstanding his firmness, he was once obliged to give
way to the weakness of his nature on hearing a strange noise
at a distance in the air, which, having reached the place
where he stood, covered it with darkness for some minutes.
The noise having ceased, and that which intercepted the
light dispersed, he opened the door to discover the cause of
so surprising and sudden a darkness, which having found out
by a number of dead birds, of several kinds, lying on the
ground, he was seized with no small amazement.
Lest the dead birds should infect the island, he and his
monkey carried them to the other side of the rock, and threw
them into the sea. Having cleared the place, and being
tired with going up and down the rugged rock, he staid at
home the remainder of the day, and at night went to bed;
but as the late omen of approaching evil had pre-occupied
his thoughts with cares concerning his country, his mind ran
upon it during the night.
As yearly stripping the eagles of their eggs had prevented
their increase, it favoured and advanced that of the crea-
tures in the island, on whose young they fed; so that the
number of wild monkies being greatly augmented, made
their food scanty, which caused them sometimes to come and
steal out of Quarll's ground. Beaufidelle, whose good keep-
ing and warm lying had made him thrive in bigness and
strength exceeding his kind, finding some of them stealing
his master's roots, beat them away, which obliged those subtle
creatures to come several together, the better to be able to
encounter him, which Quarll having taken notice of, and being
willing to add a new sport to his usual diversions, cut a
stick of the size that the creature could manage, and taking
his own staff, exercised it before him, while he did the same
with his ; and, apprehending what use it was given him for,
he had it often in his hands, and with it drove away the others
when they came, though ten or a dozen together, so that the
roots were well guarded by his continual watching; which
made those sly and spiteful creatures watch an opportunity
to take him at a disadvantage; thus, by chance, finding him
going for water, and not having his staff, a number fell upon
him, and so bit and beat him that he lay as dead; but his
master appearing put them to flight.
Quarlſ, being come to the place where his beloved Beau-
fidelle lay, could not forbear shedding tears, but finding still
breath in him, it gave him hopes of his recovery; and taking


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him carefully up in his arms, he hastens home, and gives him
a little of the liquor he had made, which by that time had
both body and spirit; then, having laid him upon his bed, and
covered him with his winter wrapper, he makes a fire and
warms some of the said liquor and fresh butter, wherewith
he washes him all over, so lays him down again, giving him
all the attendance he could during his illness, which held but
one week, at the end of which he died, to his unspeakable
grief; and from that time he grew so melancholy, that he
had not the courage to go on with his memorial; till having
a most remarkable dream about twelve months after, he
changed his resolution, and proëeeded in his memoirs; and
as he set down his dream, he also did the death of his beloved
beast, it happening near the same time.
Being one day somewhat fatigued by a long walk, he sat
down under the next cluster of trees, and was soon lulled to
sleep, during which he dreamed that he saw an old man sit-
ting in a large circle, around which all the signs of the Zodiac
were, and the old gentleman appeared extremely busy string-
ing of small beads, some white and some black. Being weary
went away, leaving the old gentleman stringing his beads;
who, seeing him go, laid by his work and followed him, and
having overtaken him, asked him what he had been looking
at all that time. He modestly replied, he had been admiring
his work;ſh doing which he hoped there was no offence.
“No,” said the old man, “provided thou learnest something
by what thou hast seen.” To which he answered, “It was
impossible for him to learn such a mysterious business with
once seeing it done, so much less, being entirely a stranger
to it.” “A stranger to it art thou?” replied the old man in
a surly manner; “and hast wasted so much of my work 1 "I
am Time, whom thou hast often ill used, and whose white
and black beads, thou hast seen me string, are good and
bad moments I crowd into minutes, which I link into hours:
thus weave days, wherewith years are composed. Thou
hast seen me complete the present year.”—So vanished.
As the rest of his memoir is related by Mr. Dorrington, in
the former part of this work, it is unnecessary to repeatithere.
THE END.
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