In the past three years, because I have a lot of time to talk to him, I have lived a full and happy life, if there is such happiness in earthly life.
"Perfect happiness". The barbarian is now a devout Christian, even more devout than myself.
Of course, I have every reason to be hopeful, and I thank God for that. We are all really sorry.
Sin, and get comfort from confession, completely turn over a new leaf, turn over a new leaf. Here, we have a saint.
Scriptures can be read, which means that we are not far from the Holy Spirit and can get his teaching, just like in England.
I often read the Bible and try to explain to him the meaning of those words in the Bible. Friday
We should also study hard and ask questions actively. This gives me a deeper understanding of the Bible than when I read it alone.
Learn more. I've mentioned this before. Besides, according to my experience of seclusion on the island.
Calendar, I have to present my own experience. I think about the knowledge of God and the way Jesus saved mankind.
The truth is so clearly written in the Bible, so easy to accept and understand, which is really for human beings.
It is an infinite and unspeakable happiness. Because, just reading the Bible can make you realize.
A person's own responsibility, and bravely shoulder such a major task: sincerely repent of their sins.
Line, rely on the savior Jesus to save yourself, transform yourself in practice, and obey all the instructions of God; And by
All these understandings are obtained without the help and guidance of others (by "others" here, I mean myself.
My own kind-human beings), and as long as I read the Bible myself, I can learn without a teacher.
Moreover, this simple teaching can also inspire this savage and make him a rare existence in my life.
A devout Christian.
As for all the disputes, entanglements, struggles and controversies about religion in the world, no matter what the doctrine.
It is useless for us to create subtle differences in the world or design various plans in the management of the church. Besides,
In my opinion, it is useless to the rest of the world. The Bible is the most reliable guide to heaven.
-The language of God. Thank God, the Holy Spirit of God teaches us in the language of God and guides us to know the truth.
Reason makes us obey God's instructions wholeheartedly. So, even though we are well aware of the huge impact on the world.
In my opinion, religious disputes in chaos are useless to us. Now, I still play some.
Important things, in the order in which they happened, continue to talk.
Friday and I became good friends, and he could understand almost everything I said. Speak his own English.
I don't speak very well, but I can already talk to me quite fluently. At this time, I told him my life story.
Especially how I came to this island, how I lived here, how many years I have been here, and so on. I
And told him the secret of gunpowder and bullets, because in his view, this is indeed a secret, and taught.
He shot. I also gave him a knife, which made him very happy. I made him another belt. On the conveyor belt,
There is a sling with sabre, just like the sling we use to wear sabre in England. However, in the lifting ring,
I didn't ask him to bring a broadsword, but gave him an axe, because the axe can be used not only in battle,
And it is more useful in peacetime.
I told him about Europe, especially my hometown, England, and how we were.
How do we worship God, how do people get along with each other, and how do we sail to the world?
Doing business all over the world. I told him about the accident of the ship I was on and showed him the size of the sunken ship.
Go to that place. As for the ship, it was shattered by the wind and waves, and now there is no shadow.
I showed him the wreckage of the boat, which was the lifeboat that capsized when we ran for our lives. I
I pushed it into the sea with all my strength, but the boat didn't move at all. Now, this ship also
It almost rotted to pieces. I saw the ship on Friday and stood there thinking for a long time. In a word,
Stop talking. I asked him what he was thinking. He said, "I have seen such a ship come to us." I
I didn't understand him for a long time. Finally, after a detailed inquiry, I understood what he meant: there was once a
A small boat, just like this one, landed where they lived. According to him, this boat was used to ride the wind and waves.
I rushed over. From this, I immediately thought that this must be a European merchant ship on the sea near their coast.
The ship was wrecked on the water, was driven off the ship by the wind and waves, and drifted to their coast. At that time, my brain was really
It was so slow that I never thought that someone would escape from the wrecked ship in a small boat and reach them.
Over there. As for who those people are, of course, I have never thought about it. So, I just want to put it on Friday
Give me a detailed description of the boat.
Friday made it very clear about the boat. Then, he enthusiastically added, "We started with water again.
Some white people were rescued in the park. "This just made me further understand his meaning. I immediately asked him if he had it on board.
White people. He said, "Yes, a boatload of white people." I asked him how many white people he had, and he pulled with his finger.
Tell me, there are seventeen. I asked them where they were now. He replied, "They are all alive, and they
Living in our tribe. "His words immediately gave me a new association. I think those white people must be
I met the crew of the big ship that had an accident on the island last time. When the ship hit the rocks, they knew it would come sooner or later.
Sinking, I got on the boat and escaped. They landed on the desolate coast where the barbarians lived.
Therefore, I further inquired about the whereabouts of those white people. Tell me again and again on Friday,
They still live there now. They have lived there for four years. Savages leave them alone and provide them with food.
Eat it. I asked him, why didn't they kill those white people and eat them? Friday said, "No, we and them.
Be brothers. "In this regard, my understanding is that there is a truce between them. Then, he added:
"They only eat people in wartime and don't eat people at ordinary times." In other words, they only eat what they caught in the war.
Prisoners generally don't eat people.
After a long time, one day, it was sunny, and Friday and I accidentally walked up the hill on the east side of the island.
Top. There, on a sunny day, I once saw America. At that time, Friday was full.
I stared at the mainland for a while, and suddenly I danced unexpectedly and called me.
I used to be a few steps away from him because I happened to be far away from him. I asked him what was going on. He said:
"Oh, I'm glad! How interesting I saw my hometown, I saw my tribe! " At this point, I
I saw unusual joy in his face. His eyes sparkled, revealing an eager excitement and
He looks fascinated, as if he wants to go back to his hometown at once. Seeing his mood, I began to think.
I can't help being wary of Friday, so my relationship with him is not as good as before. I have no doubt, as long as
When he can return to his tribe on Friday, he will forget not only his religious beliefs, but also his rights.
All my obligations. He won't hesitate to tell people in his tribe about me, maybe even.
Take one or two hundred of his compatriots to the island and have a human flesh dinner with me. At that time, he will be like eating war.
Happy as a captured prisoner.
These thoughts of mine really wronged the poor honest man greatly. For this reason, I was very dissatisfied with him later.
Apologize However, my doubts increased at that time, and I couldn't rule them out for several weeks. I played tricks on him.
I have taken many precautions, and I am not as friendly and affectionate to him as before. In doing so, I
All wet again. In fact, he is as loyal and grateful as ever, and has never thought about these things at all.
Love. It turned out that he was not only a devout Christian, but also a grateful friend.
friends. I am really satisfied with his quality.
However, before my doubts about him are eliminated, I will test him every day, hoping that he will inadvertently.
Expose my thoughts to prove my suspicion of him. But I found that everything he said was wrong.
I am so honest and flawless that I can't find anything that makes me suspicious. So, although I feel insecure,
He still won my trust. During this time, he didn't see my doubts about him at all, and neither did I.
According to the suspicion, he is pretending.
One day, we walked up that mountain again. But this time there was fog on the sea, and there was no mainland at all.
I said to Friday, "Friday, don't you want to go back to your hometown and your tribe?" He said:
"Yes, I really want to go back to my tribe." I said, "What are you going to do when you go back? You must cross the field again.
Live, eat human flesh again, eat people as before? "His face immediately became serious.
Zi shook his head desperately and said, "no, no, tell them to be good people and pray to God on Friday."
Tell them to eat cereal bread, beef and mutton, drink milk and stop eating human flesh. "I said," and then they
It will kill you. Hearing this, he said somberly, "No, they won't kill me. he
Children love learning. "He means that they are willing to learn. Then, he added, they had already disembarked.
Those beards who came here learned a lot of new things. Then I asked him if he wanted to go back. He smiled.
Tell me he can't swim that far. I told him that I could make him a canoe. He said, if I want to
If he wants to go with him, he will. "I'll go?" I said, "They ate me when I went?" "No,no..
Yes, "he said," I told them not to eat you. I told them to love you very much! "What he means is,
He will tell them how I killed his enemy and saved his life. So, he will make them love me. receive
Then he tried to describe how they treated the seventeen white people well. Those white people were killed after the shipwreck.
When they came ashore, he called them "bearded people".
From this period on, I have to admit that I really want to venture across the ocean to see if I can meet those people with beards.
Close. I have no doubt that those people are either Spanish or Portuguese. I have no doubt that once I
If we can meet them, we can try to escape from here. Because, on the one hand, we are on the mainland; On the other hand,
We are a group with many people. This is better than staying alone on an island 40 nautical miles from the mainland.
It's much easier to leave here. So, a few days later, I took Friday to work, and I was talking.
He said, I gave him a boat and told him to go back to his tribe. To this end, I took him to the small.
A place on the other side of the island where ships are stored. I've been sinking the boat underwater, so when I get there, I'll put it away first.
Drain the water, and then let the boat float out of the water to show him and sit with him.
I found that he is an expert in navigation and can row a boat twice as fast as me.
So, on the boat, I said to him, "OK, Friday, can we go to your tribe?"
He was stunned by my words. He seems to think that the ship is too small to go that far. At this point, I
Tell him I have a bigger boat. So, the next day, I took him to my shop, where I made the first one.
A boat. I built it but I can't go into the water. He said that the boat is big enough. However, I didn't.
With protection, it lay there for twenty-two or three years, cracked and rotted by the sun everywhere. week
Tell me, such a boat will do. It can carry "enough food, water and bread." That's what he said
Yes
Anyway, I'm preoccupied with going to the mainland on Friday. I said to him, we
You can build such a big boat and let him sit at home. He didn't say a word, his face showed.
Very solemn and sad. I asked him what was going on. He asked me, "Why were you born on Friday?"
Angry? What did I do wrong? "I asked him what he meant by this and told him that I didn't have him at all.
Poison gas. "Don't be angry! Not angry! " He said this sentence over and over again. "Why not get angry?
Take Friday home? "I said," Friday, didn't you say you wanted to go back? " "Yes, yes," he said
He said, "I think both of us will go, not on Friday, and neither will the host." In a word, without me, he
I never want to go back. I said, "I'll go! What am I going to do there on Friday? " He will be back soon.
Answer: "You can do many, many good things. You can teach us barbarians to be kind.
People, people with brains, kind people. You can teach them to know God, pray for God, and let them live.
A new life. ""Oh, Friday, "I said." Don't you know what you're talking about? Me, too.
Ignorant people! ""You can, you can, "he said." If you can teach me well, you can teach all of them well.
""no, no, Friday, "I said." Would you like to leave me here alone?
Live as before. "He listened to my words and was confused again. He cried and ran to put the one he wore every day.
Give me the axe.
"Why did you give me an axe?" I asked him. "Take it and kill Friday!" He said. "Why me?
How about killing Friday? "I said again. He immediately replied, "Why did you drive Friday away? Kill with an axe
Let's go on Friday. Don't send him away. "When he said these words, his attitude was sincere and his eyes were fixed.
Tears, in short, I can see at a glance that he is sincere to me and will not change his original intention. So, I am.
Tell him that as long as he is willing to stay with me, I will never send him away again. Later, I often reversed this statement.
I told him over and over again.
In a word, judging from all his conversations, his affection for me is firm and he definitely doesn't want to leave.
Me. He wants to go back to his hometown out of love for his tribe and hope for me.
It is good for them to go together. However, I'm not sure if it will be useful to them if I go.
So, I don't want to go to the opposite mainland for this. However, I always have a strong desire and hope in my heart.
I wish I could get out of here. The basis of this wish is that from his conversation, I learned that there are seventeen people there who have Hu.
Son of man. So I immediately went with Friday to find a big tree that can be cut down and make a new life with it.
Point the canoe in order to drive it to the other side of the continent. The island is full of trees, which is enough to build one.
A small fleet, and not just a canoe fleet, but a fleet that can build big ships.
But my main purpose is to find a tree by the water. In this way, after the completion, you can escape in the water.
The mistake I made last time.
Finally found one on Friday. He is much better than me in what kind of wood to use for shipbuilding. until
Today, I can't tell the name of the tree we cut down, only that it looks like tropical American yellow.
Jin Mu, or a tree between Huang Jinmu and Sequoia in Central and South America. That kind of redwood is also called Brazilian wood because
This tree is similar to these two kinds of trees in color and smell. On Friday, the tree will be burned empty, resulting in a
Canoe, but I taught him to hollow it out with tools. After I told him how to use these tools, he became very clever at once.
Use it wisely. After a month or so of hard work, we finally built the ship, and it has been built.
Very good. After I taught Friday how to use an axe, we cut the shell of the canoe with an axe.
An ordinary boat. Since then, we have spent nearly two weeks chipping away the wood inch by inch.
Push it slowly into the water. As soon as the boat got into the water, we found that it was more than enough to carry twenty people.
After the boat was launched, although it was very big, it was really clever to drive it freely and paddle like a fly on Friday.
And agile, which surprised me greatly. So I asked him if we could cross the sea on this boat. "Yes," he said.
He said, "Even if the wind is strong, we can cross the sea by it." However, I have other plans for this ship. Friday is right.
I know nothing about it. I'm going to equip the canoe with masts and sails, as well as anchors and cables. Speaking of masts,
That's easy. I chose a small straight fir tree, which is everywhere on the island, and I found one nearby.
I asked Friday to cut down the tree and taught him to cut it into a mast. But sailing is a bit nerve-racking. I
Know that I hide a lot of old sails, or a lot of old canvas. But these things have been around for 26 years,
I didn't take good care of it, because I never thought that these things would be useful before. Therefore, I
There is no doubt that those old canvases have rotted. In fact, most of them are rotten. However, from here
Among some rotten canvases, I still found two canvases, which looked good, so I started to make sails.
Because there is no needle, sewing is very laborious and time-consuming. It took a lot of effort to make a triangle.
Things look ugly. The sail looks like our English spinnaker; When in use, the bottom of the mast
Put a crossbar under it and another crossbar on the roof, just like the sail on our lifeboat. this
I am familiar with planting sails. Because that's the sail of the long ship I escaped from Babali.
I have described it in detail in the first part of this book.
This last job took me nearly two months, because I wanted to manufacture and equip.
The mast and sail are made as perfect as possible. In addition, I have a small mast rope to help support it.
Mast. I also made a front sail at the bow, which can sail against the wind. More importantly, I installed it at the stern.
A rudder is installed so that you can turn freely when changing direction. Of course, my shipbuilding skills are not excellent, but
Knowing these things is very useful and necessary, so I will work hard and try my best to do it.
Of course, I tried several times in the manufacturing process and failed. If you count all these, the time spent.
And build the ship itself.
When the ship is equipped, I will teach Friday how to use the sail and rudder. He is certainly an excellent rower.
Hands, but don't know anything about using sails and rudder. He saw me steering with both hands and sailing freely at sea.
I also saw that the sail changed with the direction of the ship, one moment it was full of wind, and the other moment it was full of wind.
I couldn't help being surprised-I was just a little dumbfounded. However, I soon taught him how to use the rudder and sail.
Soon he will be able to drive skillfully and become an excellent sailor. This is just a compass, but I still can't.
To make him understand its function, fortunately, there is little foggy weather in this area, and the coast can always be seen during the day and night.
Look at the stars. I don't really need a compass. Of course, the rainy season is different, but the rainy season is generally everyone.
If you don't go out, let alone Hainan Airlines, it's rare to even walk around the island.
I live on this desert island, and now it's twenty-seventh year, although the past three years seem to be.
Does it count? Because since Friday's company, life has been very different from before. I'm like the past.
Similarly, with gratitude, I spent the anniversary of my visit to the island. If I had enough reason to thank you in the past,
The word of God is even more so now. Because now I have more facts to prove that God cares about me,
And in front of me, I have shown great hope that I can get out of the predicament soon, and there is a great possibility of success.
I have a clear feeling in my heart that I am not far from the day of disaster and know that I will not stay here anymore.
Last year. Nevertheless, I still farm, dig, plant and build fences as before. in addition
It is the daily work of collecting and drying raisins, and everything goes on as usual.