ng so hard all
night, and that from the north-west, which was against them, that I could
not suppose their boat could live, or that they ever reached their own
coast.

But to return to Friday; he was so busy about his father that I could not
find in my heart to take him off for some time; but after I thought he
could leave him a little, I called him to me, and he came jumping and
laughing, and pleased to the highest extreme: then I asked him if he had
given his father any bread. He shook his head, and said, "None; ugly dog
eat all up self." I then gave him a cake of bread out of a little pouch
I carried on purpose; I also gave him a dram for himself; but he would
not taste it, but carried it to his father. I had in my pocket two or
three bunches of raisins, so I gave him a handful of them for his father.
He had no sooner given his father these raisins but I saw him come out of
the boat, and run away as if he had been bewitched, for he was the
swiftest fellow on his feet that ever I saw: I say, he ran at such a rate
that he was out of sight, as it were, in an instant; and though I called,
and hallooed out too after him, it was all one--away he went; and in a
quarter of an hour I saw him come back again, though not so fast as he
went; and as he came nearer I found his pace slacker, because he had
something in his hand. When he came up to me I found he had been quite
home for an earthen jug or pot, to bring his father some fresh water, and
that he had got two more cakes or loaves of bread: the bread he gave me,
but the water he carried to his father; however, as I was very thirsty
too, I took a little of it. The water revived his father more than all
the rum or spirits I had given him, for he was fainting with thirst.

When his father had drunk, I called to him to know if there was any water
left. He said, "Yes"; and I bade him give it to the poor Spaniard, who
was in as much want of it as his father; and I sent one of the cakes that
Friday brought to the Spaniard too, who was indeed very weak, and was
reposing himself upon a green place under the shade of a tree; and whose
limbs were also very stiff, and very much swelled with the rude bandage
he had been tied with. When I saw that upon Friday's coming to him with
the water he sat up and drank, and took the bread and began to eat, I
went to him and gave him a handful of raisins. He looked up in my face
with all the tokens of gratitude and thankfulness that could a