Robinson Crusoe

&#8230;and making it into a great cross, I set it up on the shore where i first landed

All this while I sat upon the ground, very much terrified and dejected

—and no sooner had he the arms in his hands but, as if they had put new vigor into him, he flew upon his murderers like a fury

—and then he kneeled down again, kissed the ground, and taking me by the foot, set my foot upon his head

—and thus I every now and then took a little voyage upon the sea

At first, for some time I was not able to answer him one word; but as he had taken me in his arms, I held fast by him, or I should have fallen to the ground

For a mile, or thereabouts, my raft went very well..

I laid me down flat on my belly on the ground, and began to look for the place

I reaped it my way, for I cut nothing off but the ears, and carried it away in a great basket which I had made

I stood like one thunderstruck, or as if I had seen an apparition

In the morning I took the Bible; and beginning at the New Testament, I began seriously to read it

My father, a wise and grave man, gave me serious and excellent counsel against what he foresaw was my design

—we cut and hewed the outside into the true shape of a boat