THE ILLUSTRATIONS

“For a mile, or thereabouts, my raft went very well—” [Frontispiece]
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“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.