162 CRUSOE ON A TOUR.

 

“1 CAME WITHIN VIEW OF THE SEA TO TITE WEST.”

nibals, or men-eaters, and fail not to murder and devour all the
human bodies that fall into their hands.

With these considerations I walked very leisurely forward. [
found that side of the island where I now was much pleasanter
than mine; the open or savanna fields sweet, adorned with flowers
and grass, and full of very fine woods. I saw abundance of parrots,
and fain I would have caught one, if possible, to have kept it to
be tame. and taught it to speak to me. I did, after some pains-