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abhorrence at the very thoughts of it, and at the least appear-
ance of it, that he durst not discover it; for I had, by some
means, let him know that J would kill him if he offered it.

When he had done this, we came back to our castle; and
there I fell to work for my man Friday ; and first of all, I gave
him a pair of linen drawers, which I had out of the poor gun-
ner’s chest I mentioned, which I found in the wreck, and
which, with a little alteration, fitted him very well ; and then I
made him a jerkin of goat’s skin, as well as my skill would al-
low (for I was now grown a tolerably good tailor) ; and I gave
him a cap which I made of hare’s skin, very convenient, and
fashionable enough ; and thus he was clothed, for the present,
tolerably well, and was mighty well pleased to see himself
almost as well clothed as his master. It is true, he went
awkwardly in these clothes at first; wearing the drawers was
very awkward to him, and the sleeves of the waistcoat galled
his shoulders and the inside of his arms; but a little easing
them where he complained they hurt him, and using himself
to them, he took to them at length very well.

The next day, after I came home to my hutch with himsI
began to consider where I should lodge him ; and that I might
do well for him and yet be perfectly easy myself, I made a little
tent for him in the vacant place between my two fortifications,
in the inside of the last, and in the outside of the first. As
there was a door or entrance there into my cave, I made a for-
mal framed door-case, and a door to it of boards, and set it up
in the passage, a little within the entrance ; and causing the
door to open in the inside, I barred it upin the night, taking in
my ladder, too; so that Friday could no way come at me in
the inside of my innermost wall without making so much noise
in getting over that it must needs awaken me; for my first
wall had nowa complete roof over it of long poles, covering
all my tent, and leaning up to the side of the hill; which was
again laid across with smaller sticks, instead of laths, and then
thatched over a great thickness with the rice-straw, which was
strong, like reeds ; and at the hole or place which was left to
go in or out by the ladder, I had placed a kind of a trap-door,
which, if it had been attempted on the outside, would not have
opened at all, but would have fallen down and made a great
noise ; as to weapons, I took them all into my side every night.
But I needed none of all this precaution ; for never a man had
a more faithful, loving, sincere servant than Friday was to me ;
without passions, sullenness, or designs, perfectly obliged and
engaged ; his very affections were tied to me, like those of a