Accidents > Life and most surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner, who lived eight and twenty years in an uninhabited island on the coast of America, near the mouth of the great river Oroonoque

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ROBINSON CRUSOE.
Encouraged at this, I fet up my patron’s antient,
and fired a gun, both as fignals of diftrefs ; upon
which they very kindly lay to ; fo that in three hours
time I came up with them. They fpoke to me in
Portuguefe, Sp'anijh, and French^ but neither of thefe
did I underhand ; till at length a Scots failor called,
and then I told him I was an Englijhman, who had
efcaped from the Moors of Sallee; upon which they
took me kindly on board, with all my effefls.
Surely none can exprefs that inconceivable joy my
heart felt at this my happy deliverance; who, from
being a miferable and forlorn creature, was not only
relieved, but in favour with the mafter of the Ihip,
whom in return for my deliverance I offered all I had
to him : God forbid, laid he, that IJhould take any
thing from you ;. every thing flail be delivered to you •when
you come to Bralil: If I have faved your life, it is no
more than 1 flould e>:pecl to receive myfelf from any
other, when in the fame circumflances, I flould happen
to meet the like deliverance ; and flould I take from you
what you have, and leave you at Bralil, why this
would only be taking away a life I have given ; my cha¬
rity teaches me better ; thofe effeBs you have willfupport
you, there, and frovide you a pajfage home again. And
indeed he acted with the drifted: judice in what he
did, taking my things in his podedion, and gi¬
ving me an exa£t inventory, even to ray earthen jars.
He bought my boat of me for the Ihip’s ufe, giving
me a note of eighty pieces of eight, payable at Bra-
ftl, and if any body odered more he would make it
up. He alfo gave me dxty pieces for my boy Xury.
It was with great reludtance I was prevailed upon to
fell the child’s liberty, who had ferved me fo faith¬
fully ; but the boy himfelf was willing, and it was
agreed* that after ten years, he fhould be made free,
upon his renouncing Mahometanifn and embracing
Chridianity.
Having a pleafant voyage to the Brafls, we ar¬
rived