to escape. Then Robinson
took his party and the rest of the prisoners into the castle, where,
from the rock, they watched for the landing of the second boat.

The Captain and mate were very nervous, and despaired of taking this
fresh body of men, but Robinson was quite confident of success, and
put heart into them by his cheerfulness.

Of the prisoners in his castle, there were two whom the Captain
believed to be honest men, and on their promising solemnly to keep
faith, and to fight for him, Robinson released them.

The crew of the second boat, when they landed, were terribly
surprised to find the first boat empty and stove in, and they were
seen anxiously consulting what to do. Then they hallooed and fired
volleys. Getting no reply, they were evidently alarmed, for they all
jumped into their boat and began to pull off to the ship. In a few
minutes, however, they seemed to change their minds, for again they
landed, this time leaving three men in charge of the boat, and keeping
her in the water. The other seven came ashore, and started in a body
across the island to look for their lost comrades. But they did not
care to go far, and soon stopped, again firing volleys and hallooing.
Getting again no reply, they began to march back to the sea. Whereupon
Robinson ordered Friday and the mate to go over the creek to the west
and halloo loudly, and wait till the sailors answered. Then Friday and
the mate were to go further away and again halloo, thus gradually
getting the men to follow them away from shore.

This plan succeeded very well, for when the sailors, thinking they
heard their missing friends hail, ran to find them, their way was
stopped by the creek, over which they had to get the boat to carry
them. They took with them, then, one of the three men whom they had
left in the boat, and ordered the others to moor the boat to a tree,
and remain there.

This was just what Robinson wanted. And, moreover, one of the men
played still further into his hands, for he left the boat and lay down
under a tree to sleep. On him the Captain rushed, and knocked him down
as he tried to rise to his feet, whereupon the sailor left in the boat
yielded, and more readily that he had joined the mutineers very
unwillingly, and was now glad of the chance to rejoin his Captain.

Meantime Friday and the mate, by hallooing and answering, drew the
rest of the boat's crew from hill to hill through the woods, till at
last they had got them so