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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ing them away, I fet down my loaves, and whelm¬
ing down the earthen pots upon them, drew the
alhes and coals all around the outfide of the pots to
continue the heat •, and in this manner I ufed to
bake my barley loaves, as well as if I had been a
complete paftry-cook, making myfelf of the rice feve-
ral cakes and puddings.
It is no wonder that all thefe things took me up
the beft part of a year, fince what intermediate time
1 had was bellowed in managing my new harveft and
hufbandry; for in the proper feafon I reaped my
corn, carried it home, and laid it up in the ear in
my large'balkets, till I had time to rub, inftead of
threlhing it. And now indeed my corn increafed
fo much, that it produced me about twenty bulhels
of barley, and as much of rice, fo that I not only be¬
gan to ufe it freely, but was thinking how to enlarge
my barns, and was refolved to fow as much at a time
as would be fufficient for me for a whole year.
All this while the profpeft of land, which I had
feen from the other fide of the. ifland, ran in my
mind. I Hill meditated a 'deliverance from this
place, though the fear of greater misforunes might
have deterred me from it: For after I had attained
that place, I run the hazard of being killed and
eaten by the devouring canibals: And if they were
not fo., yet I might be flain, as other Europeans had
been who fell into their hands. Notwithllandin<r
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all this, my thoughts ran continually upon'•my ac¬
quiring that Ihore: And now I wanted my boy JCury,
and the long boat, with the fhoulder of mutton
fail. Then I went to the fhip’s boat that had been
call a great way on the Ihore in the late ftorm. She
was but a little removed ; but her bottom was turn¬
ed up by the impetuofity and fury of the waves
and wind. With all the ftrength I had, I tried
whatever I could do, with levers and fullers I had
cut from the wood, to turn her, and repair the da-
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