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The Life, Adventures, and Piracies of Captain Singleton
The Life Adventures and Piracies of Captain Singleton Author:Daniel Defoe Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: like with them, which was also granted them : and thus we were set on shore to shift for ourselves. At our first coming into the island we were terrified exce... more »edingly with the sight of the barbarous people : whose figure was made more terrible to us than it really was, by the report we had of them from the seamen ; but when we came to converse with them a while, we found they were not cannibals, as was reported, or such as would fall immediately upon us and eat us up ; hut they came and sat down by us, and wondered much at our clothes and arms, and made signs to give us some victuals, such as they had. which was only roets and plants dug out of the ground, for the present, but they brought us fowls and flesh afterwards in good plenty. This encouraged the other four men that were with m very much, for they were quite dejected before; but now they began to be very familiar with them, and made signs, that if they would use us kindly, we would stay and live with them ; which they seemed glad of, though they knew little of the necessity we were under to do so, or how much we were afraid of them. However, upon second thoughts, we resolved that we would only stay in that part so long as the ship rid in the bay, and then making them believe we were gone with the ship, we would go and place ourselves, if possible, where there were no inhabitants to be seen, and so live as we could, or perhaps watch for a ship that might be driven upon the coast, as we were. The ship continued a fortnight in the roads repairing some damage which had been done her in the late storm, and taking in wood and water; and during this time the boat coming often on shore, the men brought us several refreshments, and the natives believing we only belonged to the ship, were civil enough. We lived in a kind ...« less