inevitably lost, had saved themselves in their
boat, and were landed upon that wild shore among the savages. Upon this
I inquired of him more critically what was become of them. He assured me
they lived still there; that they had been there about four years; that
the savages left them alone, and gave them victuals to live on. I asked
him how it came to pass they did not kill them and eat them. He said,
"No, they make brother with them;" that is, as I understood him, a truce;
and then he added, "They no eat mans but when make the war fight;" that
is to say, they never eat any men but such as come to fight with them and
are taken in battle.

It was after this some considerable time, that being upon the top of the
hill at the east side of the island, from whence, as I have said, I had,
in a clear day, discovered the main or continent of America, Friday, the
weather being very serene, looks very earnestly towards the mainland,
and, in a kind of surprise, falls a jumping and dancing, and calls out to
me, for I was at some distance from him. I asked him what was the
matter. "Oh, joy!" says he; "Oh, glad! there see my country, there my
nation!" I observed an extraordinary sense of pleasure appeared in his
face, and his eyes sparkled, and his countenance discovered a strange
eagerness, as if he had a mind to be in his own country again. This
observation of mine put a great many thoughts into me, which made me at
first not so easy about my new man Friday as I was before; and I made no
doubt but that, if Friday could get back to his own nation again, he
would not only forget all his religion but all his obligation to me, and
would be forward enough to give his countrymen an account of me, and come
back, perhaps with a hundred or two of them, and make a feast upon me, at
which he might be as merry as he used to be with those of his enemies
when they were taken in war. But I wronged the poor honest creature very
much, for which I was very sorry afterwards. However, as my jealousy
increased, and held some weeks, I was a little more circumspect, and not
so familiar and kind to him as before: in which I was certainly wrong
too; the honest, grateful creature having no thought about it but what
consisted with the best principles, both as a religious Christian and as
a grateful friend, as appeared afterwards to my full satisfaction.

While my jealousy of him lasted, you may be sure I was every day pumping
him to see if he would