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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my man Friday as before ; for by this appearance I
made no difpute, but that if he could get back thither
again, he would not only be unmindful of what reli¬
gion I had taught him, but likewife of the great obli¬
gation that he owed me for his wonderful deliverance:
Nay, that he would not only inform his countrymen
of me, but accompany hundreds of them to my king¬
dom, and make me a miferable facrifice, like thofe
unhappy wretches taken in battle.
IndeeJI was very much to blame to have thefe cruel
and unjuft fufpicions, and muft freely own I wronged
the poor creature very much, who was quite of a con¬
trary temper : And had he that difcerning acutenefs
which many Europeans have, he would have perceived
my coldnefs and indifference, and alfo have been very
much concerned upon this account: For as I was now
more circunffpecl, I had much leffened my kindnefs
and familiarity with him: And. while this jealoufy
continued, I ufed that artful way (now too much in
falhion to occafton ftrife and diffenlion) of pumping
him daily, thereby to difcover whether he was deceit¬
ful in his thoughts and inclinations : But certainly he
had nothing in him but what was confident with the
beft^irinciples, both as a religious Chriftian and grate¬
ful friend : And indeed I found every thing he faid was
fo ingenuous and innocent, that I had no room for fuf-
picion, and in fpite of all uneaftnefs, he not only made
me entirely his own again, but alfo caufed me much
to lament that I ever conceived one ill thought of him.
As we were walking up the fame hill- another day,
when the weather being fo hazy at fea that I could
not perceive the continent, Friday, faid, I don’t you
wifti yourfelf to be in your own country, your own
nation, among your old friends and acquaintance ?
Fes, faid he, me much O glad to be at my own nation.
And what would you do there, Friday ? laid I, would
you turn wild again, eat man’s fleftt, and be a fivage
as 'you was formerly ? No, no, (aiffwered he, full of
I\1 3 concern