832 CRUSOE’S RETURN TO ENGLAND,

captain, at my intercession, caused their chests and clothes to be
added; which they took, and were very thankful for. I also en-
couraged them, by telling them that if it lay in my way to send
any vessel to take them in, I would not forget them.

When I took leave of this island I carried on board for relics
the great goat-skin cap I had made, my umbrella, and my parrot;
also I forgot not to take the money I formerly mentioned, which
had lain by me so long useless that it was grown rusty, or tar-
nished, and could hardly pass for silver till it had been a little
rubbed and handled; as also the money I found in the wreck of
the Spanish ship.

     
   
 

   

SAND a thus I tafe the island the 19th of December,

<a; as I found by the ship’s account, in the year

Se? teats: two months, and nineteen days; being
. “= delivered from this second captivity the same
day of the month that I first made my escape in
the Barco Longo from among the Moorsof Sallee.

In this vessel, after a long voyage, I arrived in England the
11th of June, in the year 1687, having been thirty and five years
absent.

When I came to England, I was as perfect a stranger to all the
world as if I had never been known there. My benefactor and
faithful steward, whom I had left in trust with my money, was alive,
but had had great misfortunes in the world ; was become a widow
the second time, and very low in the world. I made her easy as
to what she owed me, assuring her I would give her no trouble;
but on the contrary, in gratitude to her former care and faithful- -
ness to me, I relieved her as my little stock would afford, which
at that time would indeed allow me to do but little for her; but I
assured her I would never forgot her former kindness to me: nor