280 FRIDAYS LOVE FOR HIS MASTER,

answered not one word, but looked very grave and sad. 1 asked
him, “What was the matter with him?” Heasked me again thus,
“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! no angry!” says he, repeating the words several
times ; “why send Friday home away to my nation?” “ Why,”
says I, “ Friday, did you not say you wished you were there?”
“Yes, yes,” says he; “wish be both there—no wish Friday there,
no master there.” In a word, he would not think of going there
without me. “T 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 to 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,
comes and gives itme. ‘What must I do with this?” says I to him.
“You take kill Friday,” says he. “ What must I kill you for?”
said Lagain. He returns very quick, ‘‘ What you send Friday away
for ?—take kill Friday, no send Friday away.” ‘This he spoke so
earnestly, that I saw tears stand in his eyes. Ina word, I so plainly
discovered the utmost affection in him to me, and a firm resolution
in him, that I told him then, and often after, that I would never
send him away from me, if he was willing to stay with me.

Upon the whole, as I found by all his discourse a settled affection
to me, and that nothing should part him from me, so I found all the
foundation of his desire to go to his own country was laid in his
ardent affection to the people and his hopes of my doing them
good; a thing which, as I had no notion of myself, so I had not
the least thought or intention or desire of undertaking it. But
still I found a strong inclination to my attempting an escape, as
above, found on the supposition gathered from the discourse—
namely, that there were seventeen bearded men there; and _there-
fore, without any more delay, I went to work with Friday to find