The life and surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, mariner . eignorant of their danger, began to throw themselves into thelong-boat, where we had but five men to defend it. But oneaccident gave our men a complete victory, which deserved ourlaughter rather than anything else, and that was this:— Our carpenter being preparing to grave the outside of theship, as well as to pay the seams where he had caulked her tostop the leaks, had got two kettles just let down into the boat;one filled with boiling pitch, and the other with rosin, tallow. 488 LIFE AND (14DVENTURES and oil, and such s
The life and surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, mariner . eignorant of their danger, began to throw themselves into thelong-boat, where we had but five men to defend it. But oneaccident gave our men a complete victory, which deserved ourlaughter rather than anything else, and that was this:— Our carpenter being preparing to grave the outside of theship, as well as to pay the seams where he had caulked her tostop the leaks, had got two kettles just let down into the boat;one filled with boiling pitch, and the other with rosin, tallow. 488 LIFE AND (14DVENTURES and oil, and such stuff as the shipwrights use for that work;and the man that tended the carpenter had a great iron ladle inhis hand, with which he supplied the men that were at workwith that hot stuff: two of the enemys men entered the boatjust where this fellow stood, being in the fore-sheets; he im-mediately saluted them with a ladleful of the stuff, boiling hot,which so burnt and scalded them, being half naked, that theyroared out like two bulls, and, enraged with the fire, leaped. both into the sea. The carpeiUer saw it, and cried out, Welldone. Jack, give them some more of it; when stepping for-ward himself, he takes one of their mops, and dipping it in thepitch pot, he and his man threw it among them so plentifully,that, in short, of all the men in three boats, there was not onethat was not scalded and burnt with it in a most frightful,pitiful manner, and made such a howling and crying, that Inever heard a worse noise, and, indeed, nothing like it; for itwas worth observing, that though pain naturally makes allpeople cry out, yet every nation have a particular way of ex- OF liOBINSON CRUSOE. 4S9 clamation, and make noises as different from one another astheir speech. I cannot give the noise these creatures made abetter name than howhng, nor a name more proper to the toneof it J for I never heard anything more like the noise of thewolves, which, as I have said, I heard howl in the forest
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