CHAPTER XXVII

ATKINS ENTREATS THE CAPTAIN TO SPARE HIS LIFE--THE LATTER RECOVERS HIS VESSEL FROM THE MUTINEERS, AND ROBINSON LEAVES THE ISLAND 355

THE ILLUSTRATIONS

“For a mile, or thereabouts, my raft went very well--” _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

“My father, a wise and grave man, gave me serious and excellent counsel against what he foresaw was my design” 2

“--and making it into a great cross, I set it up on the shore where I first landed--” 84

“All this while I sat upon the ground, very much terrified and dejected” 106

“In the morning I took the Bible; and beginning at the New Testament, I began seriously to read it--” 126

“I reaped it my way, for I cut nothing off but the ears, and carried it away in a great basket which I had made” 154

“--and thus I every now and then took a little voyage upon the sea” 182

“I stood like one thunderstruck, or as if I had seen an apparition” 204

“I laid me down flat on my belly on the ground, and began to look for the place” 242

“--and then he kneeled down again, kissed the ground, and taking me by the foot, set my foot upon his head” 270

“--we cut and hewed the outside into the true shape of a boat” 302

“--and no sooner had he the arms in his hands but, as if they had put new vigor into him, he flew upon his murderers like a fury” 312

“At first, for some time I was not able to answer him one word; but as he had taken me in his arms, I held fast by him, or I should have fallen to the ground” 362

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