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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end he pi all Jlrengthen thy heart; •wait, I fay, on the
Lord. Such divine comfort did this give me, as to
remove all caufe of fadnefs upon that occafion.
Thus, after a world of apprehenfions and fears,
for three days and nights, at laft I ventured out of
my caftle, and milked my goats, one of which was
almoft fpoiied for want of it. I next, though in
great fear, vifited my bower, and milked my flocks
there alfo ; when growing bolder, I went down to
the (bore again, and mealuring the print of the foot
to mine, to fee whether, perhaps, I myfelf had not
occafioned that mark, I found it much fuperior in
largenefs j and fo I returned home pofleiled with
the notion, that either fome men had been afhore,
or that the ifland muft be inhabited ; and therefore,
that I might be furprized before I was aware.
Struck with a fecond and more terrible fear, fevc-
ral thoughts of fecurjty came into my mind : And
that night I was firfl propofmg to cut down my en-
clofures, and turn my tame cattle wild into the
woods, that the enemy might not find them, and
frequent the ifland in hopes of the fame. Secondly, I
was for digging up my corn fields, for the very fame
reafon : And, lajlly, I concluded to demolifh my
bower, left feeing fuch a place of human contrivance,
they might come farther and attack me in my little
caftle.
Such notions did the fear of danger fuggeft unto
me; and I looked, I thought, like the unfortunate
King Saul, when not only opprefted by the Philifines,
but alio fori'aken by God himfelf: And it is ftrange,
that a little before having entirely reiigned myfelf to
the will of God, 1 fhould now have fo little confi¬
dence in him, fearing thole more who might kill
this fading body, than him who could deftroy my
immortal foul.
Sleep was an utter ftranger to my eyes that night;
yet nature, fpent and tired, fubmittecl to a filent re-
pofe