Robinson and his friends sailed from Brazil to Africa to prepare to buy black slaves, the ship ran aground after a storm in the sea, a group of more than a dozen people in a small boat to save themselves, only Robinson died alone, washed by the waves to a desert island, since then, he has lived tenaciously on the desert island.
He lived alone on the island until his 25th year, and finally one day, with his courage and wisdom, he captured an escaped savage (prisoner of war of the cannibal tribe) among the cannibal tribes that often came to the island to eat people.
In the years before that, during his tour of the island, he found that on the other side of the island, people from cannibal tribes often came to the island in canoes, killed the prisoners they had captured in the war, celebrated victory in the carnival, and then opened the chests and abdomen of the captives one by one, and then roasted and eaten them like roast lamb with firewood.
For two years, he had been fighting in his mind, thinking about whether to use his own weapons to kill these man-eating barbarians on the island one by one. Later, I still felt powerless, dispelled this crazy idea, and honestly stayed in the place where I camped, because there was no sign of cannibals on this side of the island.
After another two years, on the side of the island he thought was safe, he suddenly found the footprints of several people on the beach, and he began to suspect that people from the cannibal tribe had come here, so he was so frightened that he hid in his castle for a long time, and did not dare to go out. He was afraid of being caught and eaten by the people of the cannibal tribe, and this fear and anxiety made him sleep and eat.
So he went nowhere every day, and during the day he carefully climbed to the top of the hill on his castle to observe the beach in seclusion. Later, people from the cannibal tribe were seen driving two canoes to the island and raising a bunch of bonfires. When they were gone, he ran over and looked at some bones on the ground.
Through this observation, he learned the law of the people of the cannibal tribe on the island, they came at high tide and walked at low tide. The purpose of going to the island was to eat their prisoners of war by the sea, without going deep into the heart of the island. In this way, he felt that his situation was relatively safe, and every day he began to eat and sleep normally, and think about problems normally.
One night in horror and fear he had a dream that the men of the man-eating tribe had come to the island again to feed the prisoners, and one of the prisoners of war had run out, and he was desperately running towards the woods in the direction of Robinson's castle, and the people behind him were desperately chasing him. Awakened by this nightmare, he felt it necessary to catch a wild man and find a helper for leaving the desert island in the future.
For the next few months, he prepared for this adventure, armed himself, and went to scout near the beach every day, waiting for the cannibal tribe to come again, but to no avail. About a year and a half later, when he was already feeling disheartened, early one morning, he suddenly found that 5 canoes had docked on this side of the island, and the people on board had already landed and did not know where they were going.
He climbed to the top of a small hill and observed them with a telescope. No less than thirty of them were found, and they had already started a fire and were roasting meat there. As for what was burning, he couldn't see clearly, only to see them dancing around the fire in all sorts of barbaric poses and footwork.
From the telescope he saw them dragging out two hapless savages (prisoners of war) from the small boat, two savages that they had probably put on the ship beforehand and were now to be dragged out to kill. He saw one of them being beaten by them with a stick or a wooden knife, and fell down, followed by two or three wild men who ran up, disemboweled, and prepared to cook. The other captive stood dumbfounded, waiting for them to come.
The poor fellow, seeing that his hands and feet were untied and left unattended for a while, instinctively wanted to escape, suddenly jumped out of their circle and ran along the coastline at an incredible speed toward Robinson, with three wild men chasing him. There was a river ahead, and the fleeing savage quickly jumped into the middle of the river and swam ashore, and the three men who chased him behind him, one of them could not swim, and the other two also swam over.
It was at this time that an irresistible thought arose in Robinson's mind: Now is a good opportunity for me to find a servant, and perhaps I will find a partner, a helper, which is obviously God calling me to save the life of this poor creature.
So he took his gun and rushed down, shouting to the fleeing savage, signaling him not to be afraid, I will come to your rescue. Robinson confronted the two wildlings who were catching up, killing one with a gun and stunned the other. The fleeing savage was also frightened and disembodied, and later settled down under Robinson's appeasement. Robinson gave him a knife and signaled that he could take revenge and kill another wild man chasing him with his own hands.
Later, the savage, who had been rescued by Robinson, became his servant, and he named him "Friday" because the day he was saved was Friday. This "Friday" also served as a victor on the island, eating prisoners of war from another tribe, who was also a wild man among the cannibals. This "Friday" under Robinson's training, gradually became Robinson's good partner, good helper.
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