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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fuch an extraordinary fwiftnefs, that he was out of
tight as it were in an inftant; but at his return I per¬
ceived him flacken his pace, becaufe he had fome-
tliing in his hand: And this I found to be, as he ap¬
proached nearer, an earthen jug with fome water to
his father, and two more cakes of bread, which
he delivered into my hands. Being very thirfty my-
felf, I drank fome of the water, of which, when his
father had drank fufficiently, it more revived his
fpirits than all the rum I had given him.
I then called Friday to me, and ordered him to
carry the Spaniard one of the cakes and fome water,
who was repofing himfelf upon a green place under
the ihade of a tree, but fo weak, that though he
exerted himfelf, he could not Band upon his feet.
Upon which I ordered Friday to rub and bathe his
ankles with rum as he did his father’s. But every
minute he was employed in this, he would caft a wilh-
ful eve towards the boat where he left his father
fitting ; who fuddenly difappearing, he flew like
lightning to him ; and finding he only laid himfelf
down to eafe his limbs, he returned back to me pre-
fently ; and then I fpoke to the Spaniard to let Fri¬
day help him, and lead him to the boat, in ordfr to
be conveyed to my dwelling, where I would take care
of him : Upon which Friday made nothing to take
him upon his back, and fo carried him to the canoe.
Jetting him clofe by his father; and prefently ftepping
out again, launched the boat off, and paddled it along
the iliore falter than I could walk, though the wind
blew very hafd too ; and having brought them fate to
the creek, away he runs to fetch the other canoe,
which he brought to the creek almoft as loon as I got
to it by land; when wafting me over, he took our new
guefts out of the boat. But fo tveak were they, that
I was forced to make a kind of hand-barrow ; and
when I came to my caftle, not being willing to make
an entrance into my wall, we made .them a band-
lome tent, covered with old fails and boughs of trees,
making