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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would make a vifit to the Indian town, where thefe
dogs, fo they called them, reflded, afking me at
the fame time to go along with them ; for they did
not doubt, befides getting a good booty, but they
fliould find Tom Jeffery there, for that was the
unhappy man we miffed. But I utterly refufed to
go, and commanded them back, being unwilling to
hazard dieir lives, as the fafety of the fhip wholly
depended upon them. Notwithftanding all I could
fay to them, they all left me but oi«e, and the fu-
percargo: So we three came back to the boat, where
a boy was left, rofolving to ftay till they returned.
At parting I told them I iiippofed mod of them
would run the fame fate with Tom Jeffery. To
this they replied, Conic bays, come along, •well •war¬
rant •well come off fife etiough : And fo away they
went, notwithftanding all my admonitions, either
concerning their own fafety, or the prefervation of
the Ihip. Indeed they were gallantly armed, every
man having a mulket, bayonet, and a piftol, befides
cutlaffes, hangers, pole-axes, and hand-granadoes.
They came to a few Indian houfes at firft, which
not being the town they expefled, they went far¬
ther, and finding a cow tied to a tree, they conclu¬
ded that flie would be a fufficient guide, and fo it
proved ; for after they untied her, fhe led them di-
reftly to the town, which confifted of above two
hun 'red houfes, feveral families living in home of
the huts together. At their arrival, all being in a
profound fleep, the failofs agreed to divide them-
felves into three bodies, and fet three parts of the
town on fire at once ; to kill thofe that were efcaping,
and plunder the reft of the houfes. Thus defperate-
ly refolved they went to work ; but the firft party
had not gone far, before they called out to the reft,
that they had found Tom Jeffery; whereupon they
all ran up to the place, and found the poor fellow
ndecd hanging up naked by one arm, and his throat
Z 2 cut