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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there was nothing but gratitude, and the fincereft love:
He found me not only his deliverer, but his preferver
and comforter; not a fevere and cruel tyrant, but a
kind, loving, and affable friend. He wanted for no
r. '.nner of fuftenance ; and when he was ill, or out
of order, 1 was his phyflcian, not only for his body,
but his foul; and therefore no wonder was it that
fuch an innocent creature, long fince divefted of his
former natural cruelty, fhould have an uncommon
concern at fo cruel a reparation from me, which
pierced him to the very ibid, and made him delire
even to die rather than live without me.
After 1 had told Friday, in a very carelefs manner,
that he (hould be at his liberty as foon as the boat was
made, the language of his eyes expreffed all imagi¬
nable confufion, when immediatel^running to one of
his hatchets which.he ufed to wear as a defendve
weapon, he gives it into my hand, with a heart fo
full that he could ibarce 1’peak. Friday, laid I, what
is it you mean i What muff I do with this ? Only kill
Friday, faid he, Friday no care live long. But what
muff I kill you for, replied I again. Ah! dear Ma fiery
ivkat make you Friday favefrom eat a me up, Jo keep long
Friday, make Friday love God, mid not love Benamuc-
kee ; and novo Friday/iw/ away, never fee Friday more!
Astho’ the poor creature had laid, Alas ! my dearelf,
kindeff Maffer, how comes it to pafs that after having
ventured your precious life to fave me from the jaws
of devouring cannibals, like mj'felf; after fuch a tender
regard to provide for me fuch comfortable nourilh-
menf, and continuing fo long a kind mafter, and moft*
fincere friend ; and after making me for lake the fade
notion of an Indian deity, and worihip the trye God in
fpirit and in truth: After ail this, I lay, how comes it
now that you are willing to fend me away to rr.y for¬
mer courle of living, by which means undoubtedly we
fha1! be dead to each other; but greater muft be my
misfortune, that I (hall never behold the heft friend
Ihave in this world any more ! And this certainly, the’
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