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

ROBINSON CRUSOE.
fliore for a mark, concluding that my next journey
fhoulcl bq on the other tide of the ifland, eaft from
my cattle, and i'o round till I came to my poll again.
However I took another way back, thinking I could
not mifs by having a conftant view of the country -y
but fcarce had I travelled three miles, when I de-
Icended into a very large valley, fo furrounded with
Jaills that were covered with wood, that I had no guide
but by the fun, nor even then unlefs I knew well
the pofition of the fun at that time of the day. What
added to my misfortune was, the weather proved fo
hazy, for three or four days, as to oblige me to re¬
turn to my poll by the fea fide, and fo backwards the
fame way I came. My dog furprized a kid in this
journey, and would have killed it, had I not pre¬
vented him. I had often been muling whether I
could not get a kid or two, and fo raife a breed of
tame goats to fupply me after my ammunition was
fpent. Upon which I made a collar for this little
creature with a firing made of rope-yarn which I al¬
ways carried about with me ; and when I came to
my bower, there I inclofed and left him, and after a ,]
month’s time in this journey I came home to my old
habitation.
Nobody can fuppofe otherwife, but that I had a
plealing fatisfaflion, when I returned to my little
callle, and repofed myfelf in my hammock. After ’
this journey, I retted myffelf a week, and the prin¬
cipal concern I then had was to make a cage for my
pretty poll. And then I began to conlider the poor
kid 1 had left at my bower ; and immediately I went
to fetch it home. When I came there, I foilnd the
young creature almoll ilarved ; when feeding it with
branches of fuch fhrubs as I could find, I tied it as
before ; but there was no occalion, for it followed me
like a dog ; and as I conllantly fed it, became fo lo¬
ving, gentle, and fond, that.it commenced one of my
domefucs, and would never leave me.