... Here's one morning, shortly after dawn, I saw five canoes pulled up dry on the beach .[...] I was shocked, I did not understand why they had come in large group and I wondered if I could have dared to face twenty or thirty savages all together. I finally decided to play all out .[...] [...] I saw the group of savages at the time were dancing around the flame, according to their habit, and their gestures and their faces were at once grotesque and frightening. Meanwhile, some of them dragged out of a canoe two prisoners, carrying him on the beach. In an instant one of them was shot down with a powerful shot and just three bat [...] wild rush to the body of the unhappy, quartered at the end of cooking, while the other victim was left waiting for the butchers ended the first part of their task and then make the same service. " But at that moment the hapless, desperate [...] with the impulse of those who almost died on me, suddenly jumped to the side of his tormentors and left in a mad race along the beach, heading towards the punto sottostante la mia fortezza. Confesso che mi spaventai, quando lo vidi arrivare alla mia volta [...] Tra lui e la fortezza c'era quella piccola insenatura [...] Giunto in quel punto, il poveretto avrebbe dovuto gettarsi in acqua e attraversare al cala a nuoto, altrimenti gli altri lo avrebbero raggiunto e catturato. E così fece il fuggitivo: benchè in quel momento la marea stesse salendo, si tuffò senza la minima esitazione [...],raggiunse la sponda opposta, riprendendo subito a correre alla velocità di prima. Quando anche i tre inseguitori si trovarono davanti all'insenatura, notai che solo due sapevano nuotare.[...] I due che s'erano tuffati nuotavano lentamente. [...] Allora ecco risorgermi nella mente, urgente e irresistibile, the idea to get me a servant, a helper, perhaps a companion, my time had come, at last, and I really felt called by Providence to save the lives of the poor creature fell to the .[...] a shortcut along the beach, so come and see me between the pursuer and the pursued .[...] my sight frightened him because the other [...] I motioned with his hand to go back and after a while , finding them below pursuers, took advantage of his confusion to settle down with the butt of a rifle shot that made him fell down. The fugitive meanwhile, had stopped [...] he sat there motionless and seemed uncertain about the direction to take, but more inclined to give it to him to legs to come closer. [...] Finally I was next and once again fell to kneel, bow their heads to the ground, grabbed my foot and laid it on the head, meaning that gesture that I would be forever enslaved. Him up, patted him, and with gestures and smiles reassured him as best I could. [...] "My wild" [...] made me understand by signs of wanting [...] the sword 'and contented himself, when he had the gun in his hands, rushed on his enemy and net with a shot from the neck cut off his head with such skill that no true perpetrator could have done with more precision. [...] After that I invited him to follow me ...
Adapted from "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe.
