Part 6 (1/2)
After he had sluain, and caoats which I had in the enclosure just by: when he espied round, with all the possible signs of an huestures to show it At last he lays his head flat upon the ground, close to my foot, and sets my other foot upon his head, as he had done before; and after this ns to inable, to letas he lived I understood his, and let him knoas very well pleased with hian to speak to him; and teach him to speak to me: and first, I let him know his name should be Friday, which was the day I saved his life: I called hiht him to say Master; and then let hiht hiave him some milk in an earthen pot, and let hiave him a cake of bread to do the like, which he quickly coood for hiht; but as soon as it was day I beckoned to hiive hilad, for he was stark naked As ent by the place where he had buried the two men, he pointed exactly to the place, and showed ns to ain and eat thery, expressed hts of it, and beckoned with reat submission I then led hione; and pulling out lass I looked, and saw plainly the place where they had been, but no appearance of theone, and had left their two comrades behind them, without any search after them
But I was not content with this discovery; but having now e, and consequentlyhim the sword in his hand, with the bow and arrows at his back, which I found he could use very dexterously, un for me, and I two for myself; and ae marched to the place where these creatures had been; for I had a ence of them When I came to the place my very blood ran chill in my veins, and my heart sunk within me, at the horror of the spectacle; indeed, it was a dreadful sight, at least it was so toof it The place was covered with hureat pieces of flesh left here and there, half-eaten, led, and scorched; and, in short, all the tokens of the triu there, after a victory over their enemies I saw three skulls, five hands, and the bones of three or four legs and feet, and abundance of other parts of the bodies; and Friday, by his signs, ht over four prisoners to feast upon; that three of the to hireat battle between the, of whose subjects, it seereat number of prisoners; all which were carried to several places by those who had taken theht, in order to feast upon theht hither
I caused Friday to gather all the skulls, bones, flesh, and whatever rereat fire upon it, and burn the stomach after some of the flesh, and was still a cannibal in his nature; but I showed so hts of it, and at the least appearance of it, that he durst not discover it: for I had, by some means, let him know that I would kill him if he offered it
When he had done this, we came back to our castle; and there I fell to work for ave hiunner's chest I mentioned, which I found in the wreck, and which, with a little alteration, fitted hioat's skin, as well as ood tailor); and I gave him a cap which I made of hare's skin, very convenient, and fashi+onable enough; and thus he was clothed, for the present, tolerably well, and was hty well pleased to see himself almost as well clothed as his master It is true he went aardly in these clothes at first: wearing the draas very aard to hialled his shoulders and the inside of his ar the hith very well
The next day, after I caan to consider where I should lodge hiht do well for him and yet be perfectly easy myself, I made a little tent for him in the vacant place between my two fortifications, in the inside of the last, and in the outside of the first As there was a door or entrance there into my cave, I made a formal framed door-case, and a door to it, of boards, and set it up in the passage, a little within the entrance; and, causing the door to open in the inside, I barred it up in the night, taking in my ladders, too; so that Friday could no way co soover that it must needs awakenpoles, covering all ain laid across with sreat thickness with the rice- strahich was strong, like reeds; and at the hole or place which was left to go in or out by the ladder I had placed a kind of trap- door, which, if it had been attempted on the outside, would not have opened at all, but would have fallen down and reat noise - as to weapons, I took theht But I needed none of all this precaution; for never , sincere servant than Friday was to ns, perfectly obliged and engaged; his very affections were tied to me, like those of a child to a father; and I daresay he would have sacrificed his life to save ave me of this put it out of doubt, and soon convinced me that I needed to use no precautions for ave me occasion to observe, and that onder, that however it had pleased God in His providence, and in the governreat a part of the world of His creatures the best uses to which their faculties and the powers of their souls are adapted, yet that He has bestowed upon them the same powers, the same reason, the saation, the saratitude, sincerity, fidelity, and all the capacities of doing good and receiving good that He has given to us; and that when He pleases to offer the these, they are as ready, nay, ht uses for which they were bestowed than we are This , as the several occasions presented, how h we have these powers enlightened by the great lae of His word added to our understanding; and why it has pleased God to hide the like saving knowledge froe by this poor savage, would make a much better use of it than we did Fronty of Providence, and, as it were, arraign the justice of so arbitrary a disposition of things, that should hide that sight from some, and reveal it - to others, and yet expect a like duty frohts with this conclusion: first, that we did not knohat light and law these should be condemned; but that as God was necessarily, and by the nature of His being, infinitely holy and just, so it could not be, but if these creatures were all sentenced to absence froht which, as the Scripture says, was a law to themselves, and by such rules as their consciences would acknowledge to be just, though the foundation was not discovered to us; and secondly, that still as we all are the clay in the hand of the potter, no vessel could say to him, ”Why hast thou formed reatly delighted with hi that was proper to make him useful, handy, and helpful; but especially to make him speak, and understand me when I spoke; and he was the aptest scholar that ever was; and particularly was so ent, and so pleased when he could but understand me, or make me understand him, that it was very pleasant for an to say to es, I cared not if I was never to remove from the place where I lived
CHAPTER XV
- FRIDAY'S EDUCATION
AFTER I had been two or three days returned toFriday off fro, and froht to let hi to the woods I went, indeed, intending to kill a kid out of oing I saw a she-goat lying down in the shade, and two young kids sitting by her I catched hold of Friday ”Hold,” said I, ”stand still;” and ns to him not to stir: immediately I presented my piece, shot, and killed one of the kids The poor creature, who had at a distance, indeed, seen e, his eneine hoas done, was sensibly surprised, treht he would have sunk down He did not see the kid I shot at, or perceive I had killed it, but ripped up his waistcoat to feel whether he was not wounded; and, as I found presently, thought I was resolved to kill hi s I did not understand; but I could easily see thewas to pray me not to kill him
I soon found a way to convince hi hi to the kid which I had killed, beckoned to him to run and fetch it, which he did: and while he ondering, and looking to see how the creature was killed, I loaded reat fowl, like a hawk, sitting upon a tree within shot; so, to let Friday understand a little what I would do, I called hiain, pointed at the fohich was indeed a parrot, though I thought it had been a hawk; I say, pointing to the parrot, and to round under the parrot, to let him see I would make it fall, I made hily, I fired, and bade him look, and ihtened again, notwithstanding all I had said to him; and I found he was the un, but thought that there must be so, able to killnear or far off; and the astonishment this created in hi time; and I believe, if I would have let hiun itself, he would not so much as touch it for several days after; but he would speak to it and talk to it, as if it had answered him, when he was by himself; which, as I afterwards learned of him, was to desire it not to kill him Well, after his astonishment was a little over at this, I pointed to him to run and fetch the bird I had shot, which he did, but stayed so quite dead, had fluttered away a good distance from the place where she fell: however, he found her, took her up, and brought her to un before, I took this advantage to charge the gun again, and not to let hiht be ready for any otherht ho I took the skin off, and cut it out as well as I could; and having a pot fit for that purpose, I boiled or stewed soood broth After I had begun to eat solad of it, and liked it very well; but that which was strangest to hin toa little into his own mouth, he seemed to nauseate it, and would spit and sputter at it, washi+ng his mouth with fresh water after it: on the other hand, I took some meat into my mouth without salt, and I pretended to spit and sputter for want of salt, as much as he had done at the salt; but it would not do; he would never care for salt with reat while, and then but a very little
Having thus fed him with boiled meat and broth, I was resolved to feast hi a piece of the kid: this I did by hanging it before the fire on a string, as I had seentwo poles up, one on each side of the fire, and one across the top, and tying the string to the cross stick, letting the meat turn continually This Friday admired very much; but when he came to taste the flesh, he took so many ways to tell me hoell he liked it, that I could not but understand him: and at last he told me, as well as he could, he would never eat lad to hear
The next day I set hi it in the manner I used to do, as I observed before; and he soon understood how to do it as well as I, especially after he had seen what theof it was, and that it was to make bread of; for after that I let him see me make my bread, and bake it too; and in a little time Friday was able to do all the work for an now to consider, that having two round for er quantity of corn than I used to do; so I an the fence in the same ly and very hard, but did it very cheerfully: and I told him what it was for; that it was for corn to ht have enough for him and myself too He appeared very sensible of that part, and let ht I had much more labour upon me on his account than I had for myself; and that he would work the harder for me if I would tell him what to do
This was the pleasantest year of all the life I led in this place Friday began to talk pretty well, and understand the na I had occasion to call for, and of every place I had to send hian now to have soain, which, indeed, I had very little occasion for before Besides the pleasure of talking to hiular satisfaction in the fellow hined honesty appeared to an really to love the creature; and on his side I believe he lovedbefore
I had a mind once to try if he had any inclination for his own country again; and having taught hilish so well that he could answer me almost any question, I asked hied to never conquered in battle? At which he sht the better;” that is, he an the following discourse:- MASTER - You always fight the better; how came you to be taken prisoner, then, Friday?
FRIDAY - My nation beat much for all that
MASTER - How beat? If your nation beat them, how came you to be taken?
FRIDAY - They more many than my nation, in the place where me was; they take one, two, three, and me: my nation over-beat them in the yonder place, where reat thousand
MASTER - But why did not your side recover you from the hands of your enemies, then?
FRIDAY - They run, one, two, three, and o in the canoe; my nation have no canoe that time
MASTER - Well, Friday, and what does your nation do with the men they take? Do they carry them away and eat them, as these did?
FRIDAY - Yes, my nation eat mans too; eat all up
MASTER - Where do they carry them?
FRIDAY - Go to other place, where they think
MASTER - Do they come hither?
FRIDAY - Yes, yes, they come hither; come other else place
MASTER - Have you been here with them?
FRIDAY - Yes, I have been here (points to the NW side of the island, which, it seems, was their side)
By this I understood that es who used to come on shore on the farther part of the island, on the saht for; and soe to carry hi the same I formerly mentioned, he presently knew the place, and told me he was there once, when they ate up twenty lish, but he nu to e, because it introduces what follows: that after this discourse I had with him, I asked him how far it was from our island to the shore, and whether the canoes were not often lost He told er, no canoes ever lost: but that after a little way out to sea, there was a current and wind, always one way in the , the other in the afternoon This I understood to be noin; but I afterwards understood it was occasioned by the great draft and reflux of the ulf of which river, as I found afterwards, our island lay; and that this land, which I perceived to be W and NW, was the great island Trinidad, on the north point of the mouth of the river I asked Friday a thousand questions about the country, the inhabitants, the sea, the coast, and what nations were near; he told inable I asked him the naet no other name than Caribs; from whence I easily understood that these were the Caribbees, which our maps place on the part of America which reaches from the mouth of the river Orinoco to Guiana, and onwards to St Martha He told reat way beyond theof the moon, which must be west from their country, there dhite bearded reat whiskers, which I mentioned before; and that they had killed much mans, that was his word: by all which I understood he meant the Spaniards, whose cruelties in America had been spread over the whole country, and were remembered by all the nations from father to son
I inquired if he could tellthose white o in two canoe” I could not understand what he meant, or make him describe to reat difficulty, I found heas two canoes This part of Friday's discourse I began to relish very well; and from this tiht find an opportunity to ht be atian to speak toto lay a foundation of religious knowledge in his mind; particularly I asked him one time, who ht I had asked as his father - but I took it up by another handle, and asked hiround alked on, and the hills and woods He told me, ”It was one Bena of this great person, but that he was very old, ”much older,” he said, ”than the sea or land, than the moon or the stars” I asked his, why did not all things worshi+p hirave, and, with a perfect look of innocence, said, ”All things say O to him” I asked him if the people who die in his country went away anywhere? He said, ”Yes; they all went to Benamuckee” Then I asked him whether those they eat up went thither too He said, ”Yes”
Froe of the true God; I told hi up towards heaven; that He governed the world by the same power and providence by which Hefor us, give everything to us, take everything frorees, I opened his eyes He listened with great attention, and received with pleasure the notion of Jesus Christ being sent to redee our prayers to God, and His being able to hear us, even in heaven He told me one day, that if our God could hear us, up beyond the sun, he reater God than their Benamuckee, who lived but a little way off, and yet could not hear till they went up to the great mountains where he dwelt to speak to them I asked him if ever he went thither to speak to hi men; none went thither but the old men,” whom he called their Oowokakee; that is, as I y; and that they went to say O (so he called saying prayers), and then came back and told them what Benamuckee said By this I observed, that there is priestcraft even aans in the world; and the policy of ion, in order to preserve the veneration of the people to the clergy, not only to be found in the Roions in the world, even aes