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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to any thing but the project of a voyage to the
main. And indeed fo much was I inflamed upon this
account, that it fet my blood into a ferment, and
my pulfe beat high as tho’ I had been in a fever ; till-
nature being, as it were, fatigued and exhaufted with
the very thoughts of it, made me fubmit myfelf to a
fllent repofe.
Certainly it is very ftrange, that I did not dream of
what I was fo intent upon; but inftead of which,
my mind roved on a quite ditrerent thing, altogether
foreign to it. I dreamt, that as I was ifluing from
my caftle one morning, as cuftomary, I perceived up¬
on the fhore two canoes, and eleven lavages coming to
land, who had brought with them another Indiant
whom they defigned to make a facrifice of, in order
to devour : But juft as they were going to give the fa¬
tal blow', methought the poor defigned victim jumpt
away, and ran direffly into a little thick grove be¬
fore my fortification, to abfeond from his enemies;
when perceiving that the others did not follow him
that way, I appeared to him ; that he humbly kneeled
down before me, feeming to pray for my afliftance ;
upon whichlfliewed him my ladder,made him afeend,
carried him to my cave, and he became my fervant;
and when I had gotten this man, I faid to myfelf, now
furely I may have fome hopes to attain the main land ;
for this fellow will ferve me as a pilot, tell me what
to do, and where I mufi go for proviflons •, what places
to ffiun, what to venture to, and what to ei'eape.
But when I awaked, and found all thefe inexpreilible
impreffions of joy entirely vanifhed, 1 fell into the
greateft dejection of fpirits imaginable.
et after all, I made this concluflon, that.my oniv
way of efcaping was to get a favage ; and alter I had
ventured my life to deliver him from the bloody jaws
of his devourers, the natural fenfe he might have of
fuch a prefervation might infpire him with a lafting
gratitude and moft finccre affection. But then tins
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