“ Being come to the place he heard the noise proceed from, he sees a fine large cod-fish, near six feet long, dabbling in a hole in the rock, where the late storm had cast it.
One under condemnation of death, and just arrived at the place of execution, could not be more rejoiced at the coming of a reprieve, than he was at the sight of the fish, having felt several sick qualms, forerunners of the death he thought he was doomed to. Heaven be praised! said he, here is my dream right; where Providence rescued my life from the grim jaws of death, there it has provided me wherewithal to support it. ”

“ Having slept quietly the remainder of the night, he awoke in the morning pretty fresh and hearty, but very much disturbed at his late dream, which he feared presaged and prognosticated some approaching evil; but as he could make no comparative allusion of the old lady, who rescued him from the monster, he concludes it must be an inspiration of Providence (whom the grave old lady did personate in the dream) who lately had preserved him from a death by all appearance unavoidable, to keep him from despair in this his great extremity, promising to be at hand upon occasion. ”

“ Being awaked, he makes reflections upon his dream, which, though he imagined it might proceed from the emptiness of his stomach, being customary for people to dream of victuals when they go to bed hungry; yet at that time it may prove ominous; so driven by necessity, and led by curiosity, he went, to the same side of the rock he had been cast upon, where having stood several hours without seeing shipping, or aught that might answer his dream, the air coming from the sea being pretty sharp, and he faint, having taken no manner of food for near three days, he gave over all hopes of relief. ”

“ Quarle, being bold and active, took a hatchet which tumbled about the deck, and ran up the shrouds, in order to cut down what stopt the working of the main-yard, but by that time he was got up, there came a sea which dashed the ship to shatters against the rock; and with the violence of the shock, flung Quarle, who was astride upon the main-yard, on the top of the rock, where, having the good fortune to fall in a clift, he was hindered from being washed back again into the sea and drowned, as every body were that belonged to the ship. ”

“ Now being entirely reconciled to the state of life Providence, on whom he fully depended, had been pleased to call him to, he resolves to make provision of these excellent roots; and with his hatchet he cuts a piece of a tree wherewith he makes a shovel, in order to dig them up with more ease: with this instrument he went to the place where he had observed they grew thickest, which being near the monkeys quarters, they came down from off the trees in great numbers, grinning as if they would have flown at him ”

“ As soon, therefore, as he had dined, he went out on purpose to dig a good quantity; but as he was going to the place where he had taken notice they grew pretty thick, he sees a tortoise, of about a foot over, crawling before him: heaven be praised! said he, here is what will supply me both with victuals, and utensils to dress it in; he ran, therefore, and turned it on its back, to keep it from getting away, whilst he went to fetch his hatchet, that he might cut the bottom shell from the top, in order to make a kettle of the deepest, and a dish of the flat part. ”

“ Having concluded upon catching some animals which he had seen in the woods, he considers by what means, having no dogs to hunt, nor guns to shoot: having paused a while, he resolves upon making gins, wherewith he had seen hares catched in Europe; thus, taking some of the cords which he found with a sail at the outside of the rock, he goes to work, and makes several, which he fastens at divers gaps in the thicket within the wood, through which he judged that sort of beast he had a mind for went. ”

“ The ground on which I do and must lie is hard, and doubtless in the winter will grew damp, which, with want of covering, may occasion agues and fevers, the cholic and the rheumatism, and twenty racking distempers, which may cause me to repent my having escaped a milder death. ”

“ Having gratefully returned thanks to heaven for his late deliverance, he commits himself to its care, then settles and falls to sleep, and slept till hunger awaked him to the morning, having dreamed over-night of abundance of victuals, which he fain would have come at, but was kept off by a cross cook, who bid him go and fish for some ”

“ Those few made him wish for more, which yet he had no room to hope for, they being raised by saed which the island did not produce; these few, said he, which at present are hardly sufficient to satisfy a womans longing, may, with time and industry, be improved to a quantity large enough to serve me for a meal, then lays them up against a proper time to set them, so spent the remainder of that summer in walking about the island, watering his lodge, weeding his root plantation, attending his nets, which now and then supplied him with an antelope or goat, to eat at intervals between ”

“ Having a considerable time admired the beast, which all the while stood unconcerned, now and then eating of the roots that lay before him, he shuts the door, and goes in, with a resolution of staying within all day, in order to tame it, which he hoped would be no difficult matter, his disposition being already pretty familiar, little thinking Providence, who sent him thither, had already qualified him for the commission he bore ”

“ ON the 4th of July 1643, Philip Quarle, a native of Bristol, being then about eighteen years of age, entered as a sailor on board of the ship Endeavour, bound for the South Sea, which set sail with a fair wind on the 7th of the same month They sailed on for the space of a month; though the wind, in changing full in their teeth, and very high withal, obliged them to cast anchor, in order to lie by till the wind did serve ”

“ Being provided with the most necessary furniture he wanted, he thinks on more conveniences, resolving to make himself a table to eat his victuals upon, and a chair to sit on: thus having cut several sticks above four feet long, he drives them in a row a little way in the ground ”

“ Having completed that piece of work, he goes and visits his plantations, which he finds in a thriving condition, the roots being, in six months time, grown from the bigness of a pea (as they were when first set) tc that of an egg: his antelopes also were come to their full growth and complete beauty, which exceeded most fourfooted beasts, having a majestic presence, body and limbs representing a stag, and the noble march of a horse: so every thing concurred to his happiness. ”