resh 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 meat or in his broth; at least, not
for a great while, and then but a very little.

Having thus fed him with boiled meat and broth, I was resolved to feast
him the next day by roasting a piece of the kid: this I did by hanging it
before the fire on a string, as I had seen many people do in England,
setting two 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 how well 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 man's flesh any more, which I was very glad to
hear.

The next day I set him to work beating some corn out, and sifting 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 the meaning of
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 me as well as I could do it myself.

I began now to consider, that having two mouths to feed instead of one, I
must provide more ground for my harvest, and plant a larger quantity of
corn than I used to do; so I marked out a larger piece of land, and began
the fence in the same manner as before, in which Friday worked not only
very willingly and very hard, but did it very cheerfully: and I told him
what it was for; that it was for corn to make more bread, because he was
now with me, and that I might have enough for him and myself too. He
appeared very sensible of that part, and let me know that he thought 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 names of almost
everything I had occasion to call for, and of every place I had to send
him to, and talked a great deal to me; so that, in short, I began now to
have some use for my tongue again, which, indeed, I had very little
occasion f