Chapter 8- i find a footprint in the sand
My live is very quietly in the island now. I become very good at marking things out of the wood. I made some large holes in the ground and then covered them over. Next morning I found three baby goats in the holes. I made a large enclousure and put them inside.
After a year and a half I had a lot of tame goats, so now, as well as goat's meat, i also had milk, butter, cheese and make clothes with the skins. At back of my hunt were two pieces of land where I grew my corn.
Anyway, I was walking to the plance where i kept my boat and, suddenly, i saw a footprint!. I stopped, look around me, i couldn't see or hear anything, I come back to my hut the most fast that I could, felling terrified.
I did not sleep that night. The possibility that could had someone in the island.. could be dangerous? maybe not... Could be some cannibals? Or my own foot? I didn't know but it make me speculate.
I come back to the footprint and see that was bigger than the mine.Again, I was afraid to think about it.So, the first thing that I've done it's another wall around my hut, and plant lots of trees in front of it.
I also made a second enclousure and moved a few goats there. I wanted to be sure that if anything happened if my goats, I had others to keep me alive. I starting looking for a third encousure too.
Teo years later i had seen the footprint,i saw a boat on the sea, many miles away. I've go to see it most closely and i saw a terrible sight. The men on the sand, the were dead by cannibals, were a lot of the parts and blood..I had been on the island for twenty three years by now.
one day when I'm cutting wood near my second goat enclousure.I foud a large hole in the ground.the holeled into an underground cave.there are something in the rock-perhaps gold.
One night on may ,when there are a bad storm in the island ,I hear a sound of a gun.I ran up the hill and saw a Spanish ship.
A few days later ,when the sea was calm I go to the ship and found guns ,gunpowder and money, but I didn´t find any people. One night I dreamed that the cannibals come back to my island and I saved a man that they were going to kill and eat.This man is very thankful and become my servant.This dream gave a idea because I need some help to escape from the island.
One morning I saw five canoes in the shore and I think that are thirty cannibals and they going to go to the hole.
Suddenly, one man had a chance to escape and started to run across the sand to my part of the island but only three cannibals followed him but when the man started to swim the river one canibal stop to followed him.
It was my chance .I caught my gun and run to the shore .When I arrived I shouted 'Stop' to the prisoner and kill the others two cannibals using my gun.
The prisoner was so afraid but now he become my servant.-
Chapter 10- I call him Friday
My new servant was young, tall and a good-looking man. He had a long black hair and his skin was very dark. he looked a good person.
After a nap he came to me, he made a lot of sings to show me how thankful he was, he wanted to show me that he would work for me the rest of his life.
I call him Friday, because that was the day when I saved his life. I taught him to call me 'Master', and to say some words, and gave him some bread and milk.
In the next day, we were to the place where the two cannibals were buried, Friday wanted to eat them, but showed him that that made me very angry and I think he understood. After this we going to see that the cannibals had gone.So, taking Friday with me, I went down to the shore, getting there, my blood turned cold... The shore were covered with half-eaten flesh and bones and the ground was red with blood. I made Friday pick everything up and burn it.
When we got back to my hut, I gave him some clothes and made a little more protection of my hut, I would feel safe at night.
Wathever, I began to teach him many things. Most importantly, to speak and to understand me. Now I had a home,company and support, I would be happy to stay on the island forever.
Over year, Friday and me work very hard together and he became to speak english very well.
I also talk about God with Friday, I taught him about the Christian religion and he make me lots of questing, he was really interested. My life in the island had helped me to know God. And now I was helping a poor cannibal to know God too.
cap 11 we fight against the cannibals
One day Friday told that there were whites mans living in the island about four year, and the canibals wouldn't eat them because they only eat whocome to fight with them.
A long time after this, we were to the east side of island and we saw the mainland, and Friday start to celebrate because It were his land!.
