s kept it sunk in water), I brought it out, showed it him,
and we both went into it. I found he was a most dexterous fellow at
managing it, and would make it go almost as swift again as I could. So
when he was in, I said to him, "Well, now, Friday, shall we go to your
nation?" He looked very dull at my saying so; which it seems was because
he thought the boat was too small to go so far. I then told him I had a
bigger; so the next day I went to the place where the first boat lay
which I had made, but which I could not get into the water. He said that
was big enough; but then, as I had taken no care of it, and it had lain
two or three and twenty years there, the sun had so split and dried it,
that it was rotten. Friday told me such a boat would do very well, and
would carry "much enough vittle, drink, bread;" this was his way of
talking.

CHAPTER XVI--RESCUE OF PRISONERS FROM CANNIBALS

Upon the whole, I was by this time so fixed upon my design of going over
with him to the continent that I told him we would go and make one as big
as that, and he should go home in it. He answered not one word, but
looked very grave and sad. I asked him what was the matter with him. He
asked me again, "Why you angry mad with Friday?--what me done?" I asked
him what he meant. I told him I was not angry with him at all. "No
angry!" says he, repeating the words several times; "why send Friday home
away to my nation?" "Why," says I, "Friday, did not you say you wished
you were there?" "Yes, yes," says he, "wish we both there; no wish
Friday there, no master there." In a word, he would not think of going
there without me. "I go there, Friday?" says I; "what shall I do there?"
He turned very quick upon me at this. "You do great deal much good,"
says he; "you teach wild mans be good, sober, tame mans; you tell them
know God, pray God, and live new life." "Alas, Friday!" says I, "thou
knowest not what thou sayest; I am but an ignorant man myself." "Yes,
yes," says he, "you teachee me good, you teachee them good." "No, no,
Friday," says I, "you shall go without me; leave me here to live by
myself, as I did before." He looked confused again at that word; and
running to one of the hatchets which he used to wear, he takes it up
hastily, and gives it to me. "What must I do with this?" says I to him.
"You take kill Friday," says he. "What must kill you for?" said I again.
He returns very quick--"What you send Friday away f