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feast upon them, as was done here by these wretches upon those
they brought hither.

I caused Friday to gather all the skulls, bones, flesh, and what-
ever remained, and lay them together in a heap, and make a
great fire upon it, and burn them all to ashes. I found Friday
had still a hankering stomach after some of the flesh, and was
still a cannibal in his nature ; but I showed so much abhorrence
at the very thoughts of it, and at the least appearance of it, that
he durst not discover it: for I had, by some means, let him know
that I 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 gunner’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 allow (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 him, I 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 formal 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 up in the night, taking in my ladders, too; so
that Friday could no way come at me in the inside of my inner-
most wall, without making so much noise in getting over that it
must needs awaken me; for my first wall had now a 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 trap-door, which, if it had been attempted on the out-