Upon the whole, I was by this time so fixed upon my design of going over with him to the continent, that I told him we would go and make one as big as that, and he should go home in it.  He answered not one word, but looked very grave and sad.  I asked him what was the matter with him?  He asked me again, “Why you angry mad with Friday? what me done?” I asked him what he meant:  I told him I was not angry with him at all.  “No angry!” says he, repeating the words several times, “why send Friday home away to my nation?”—­“Why,” says I, “Friday, did not you say you wished you were there?”—­“Yes, yes,” says he, “wish be both there; no wish Friday there, no master there.”  In a word, he would not think of going there without me.  “I go there, Friday!” says I, “what shall I do there?” He returned very quick upon me at this:  “You do great deal much good,” says he; “you teach wild mans be good, sober, tame mans; you tell them know God, pray God, and live new life.”—­“Alas!  Friday,” says I, “thou knowest not what thou sayest; I am but an ignorant man myself.”—­“Yes, yes,” says he, “you teachee me good, you teachee them good.”—­“No, no, Friday,” says I, “you shall go without me; leave me here to live by myself, as I did before.”  He looked confused again at that word; and running to one of the hatchets which he used to wear, he takes it up hastily, and gives it to me.  “What must I do with this?” says I to him.  “You take kill Friday,” says he.  “What must I kill you for?” said I again.  He returns very quick, “What you send Friday away for?  Take kill Friday, no send Friday away.”  This he spoke so earnestly, that I saw tears stand in his eyes:  in a word, I so plainly discovered the utmost affection in him to me, and a firm resolution in him, that I told him then, and often after, that I would never send him away from me, if he was willing to stay with me.

Upon the whole, as I found, by all his discourse, a settled affection to me, and that nothing should part him from me, so I found all the foundation of his desire to go to his own country was laid in his ardent affection to the people, and his hopes of my doing them good; a thing, which, as I had no notion of myself, so I had not the least thought, or intention, or desire of undertaking it.  But still I found a strong inclination to my attempting an escape, as above, founded on the supposition gathered from the discourse, viz. that there were seventeen bearded men there:  and, therefore, without any more delay, I went to work with Friday, to find out a great tree proper to fell, and make a large periagua, or canoe, to undertake the voyage.  There were trees enough in the island to have built a little fleet, not of periaguas, or canoes, but even of good large vessels:  but the main thing I looked at was, to get one so near the water that we might launch it when it was made, to avoid the mistake I committed at first.  At last, Friday pitched upon a tree; for I found he knew much better than I what kind of wood was fittest