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But what need I have been concerned at the tediousness of any-
thing I had to do, sceing I had time enough to do it in, nor had
I any other employment if that had been over, at least that I
could foresee, except the ranging the island to seek for food, which
I did more or less every day.

I now began to consider seriously my condition, and the circum-
stance I was reduced to, and I drew up the state of my affairs in
writing, not so much to leave them to any that were to come after
me, for I was like to have but few heirs, as to deliver my thoughts
from daily poring upon them, and afflicting my mind; and as my
reason began now to master my despondency, I began to comfort
myself as well as I could, and to set the good against the evil, that
I might have something to distinguish my case from worse; and I
stated it very impartially, like debtor and creditor, the comforts I
enjoyed against the miseries I suffered, thus :—

vit. Goop.

Tam cast upon a horrible desolate
island, void of ail hope of recovery.

Tam singled out and separated as
it were. from all the world, to be
miserable.

I am divided from mankind, a
solitaire, one banished from human
society.

T have not clothes to cover me.

Iam without any defence or means
to resist any violence of man or beast.

I have no soul to speak to, or re-
lieve me.

But I am alive, and not drowned,
as al] my ship’s company was.

But Iam singled out, too, from all
the ship’s crew to be spared from
death; and He that miraculously
saved me from death can deliver me
from this condition.

But I am not starved, and perish-
ing on a barren place, affording no
sustenance,

But I am ina hot climate, where,
if I had clothes, I could hardly wear
them.

But I am cast on an island where
I see no wild beasts to hurt me, as |
saw on the coast of Africa; and what
if I had been shipwrecked there?

But God wonderfully sent the ship
in near enough to the shore, that 1]
have gotten out so many necessary
things as will either supply my wants,
or enable me to supply myself even
as long as I live.

Upon the whole, here was an undoubted testimony that there