The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe (Volume 2)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1805. Excerpt: ... bt> AD-VEIfTUB.E|a.OF-i.Rf>BlNS©N CRUSCME, were going round through the grove unconcerned and unwary, when they'%c-re surprised with seeing a light, as of a fire, a very little way off from them, and hearing the voices of men, not of one,-or two, but of a great number. In all the discoveries I had made of the savages land* •ing on the island, it was my constant care to prevent •them making the least discovery of their being any inhabitant upon the place; and when by any necessity -they came to know it, they selt it so efsectually, that they who got away were fcarce able to give any account of it, for we disappeared as soon asi possible, nor did ever any that had seen me, escape to tell any one else, except it were the three savages in our last encounter, who jumped into the boat, of whom I mentioned, that 1 was afraid they should go home, and bring more lielp. Whether it was in consequence of the escape of those men, that so great a number cam:: now together ; or -whether they came ignprantly and by accident on their -usual bloody errand, the Spaniards could not, it seems, -understand; but whatever it was, it had been their business either to have concealed themselves, and not have seen them at all ; much less to have let the savages have seen, that there Were any inhabitants in the place; fout to have sallen upon them so effectually, as that not a man of them should have escaped, which could onlyhave been by getting in between them and their iboats ; but this presence of mind was wanting to them, -which was the ruin of their tranquillity for a great -while. We need not doubt, but that the governor, and the man with him, surprised with this sight, ran back immediately, and raised their sellows, giving them an account of the imminent danger they were all in ; a...