THE ILLUSTRATIONS
| “For a mile, or thereabouts, my raft went very well—” | [Frontispiece] | |
| FACING PAGE | ||
| “My father, a wise and grave man, gave me serious and excellent counsel against what he foresaw was my design” | [2] | |
| “—and making it into a great cross, I set it up on the shore where I first landed—” | [84] | |
| “All this while I sat upon the ground, very much terrified and dejected” | [106] | |
| “In the morning I took the Bible; and beginning at the New Testament, I began seriously to read it—” | [126] | |
| “I reaped it my way, for I cut nothing off but the ears, and carried it away in a great basket which I had made” | [154] | |
| “—and thus I every now and then took a little voyage upon the sea” | [182] | |
| “I stood like one thunderstruck, or as if I had seen an apparition” | [204] | |
| “I laid me down flat on my belly on the ground, and began to look for the place” | [242] | |
| “—and then he kneeled down again, kissed the ground, and taking me by the foot, set my foot upon his head” | [270] | |
| “—we cut and hewed the outside into the true shape of a boat” | [302] | |
| “—and no sooner had he the arms in his hands but, as if they had put new vigor into him, he flew upon his murderers like a fury” | [312] | |
| “At first, for some time I was not able to answer him one word; but as he had taken me in his arms, I held fast by him, or I should have fallen to the ground” | [362] | |
Note. The paintings by Mr. N. C. Wyeth, reproduced in this volume, are fully protected by copyright.