ll the ship's crew, to be spared
to be miserable. from death; and He that
miraculously saved me from death
can deliver me from this
condition.

I am divided from mankind--a But I am not starved, and
solitaire; one banished from perishing on a barren place,
human society. affording no sustenance.
I have no clothes to cover me. But I am in a hot climate, where,
if I had clothes, I could hardly
wear them.
I am without any defence, or But I am cast on an island where
means to resist any violence of I see no wild beasts to hurt me,
man or beast. as I saw on the coast of Africa;
and what if I had been
shipwrecked there?

I have no soul to speak to or But God wonderfully sent the ship
relieve me. in near enough to the shore, that
I have got out as 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 was scarce any
condition in the world so miserable but there was something negative or
something positive to be thankful for in it; and let this stand as a
direction from the experience of the most miserable of all conditions in
this world: that we may always find in it something to comfort ourselves
from, and to set, in the description of good and evil, on the credit side
of the account.

Having now brought my mind a little to relish my condition, and given
over looking out to sea, to see if I could spy a ship--I say, giving over
these things, I began to apply myself to arrange my way of living, and to
make things as easy to me as I could.

I have already described my habitation, which was a tent under the side
of a rock, surrounded with a strong pale of posts and cables: but I might
now rather call it a wall, for I raised a kind of wall up against it of
turfs, about two feet thick on the outside; and after some time (I think
it was a year and a half) I raised rafters from it, leaning to the rock,