The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Defoe, Daniel, PUBLISHER: Wildside Press, We set out on ong>theong> 5th of February from Ireland, and had a very fair gale of wind for some days. As I remember, it might be about ong>theong> 20th of February in ong>theong> evening late, when ong>theong> mate, having ong>theong> watch, came into ong>theong> round-house and told us he saw a flash of fire, and heard a gun fired; and while he was telling us of it, a boy came in and told us ong>theong> boatswain heard anoong>theong>r. This made us all run out upon ong>theong> quarterdeck, where for a while we heard nothing; but in a few minutes we saw a very great light, and found that ong>theong>re was some very terrible fire at a distance; immediately we had recourse to our reckonings, in which we all agreed that ong>theong>re could be no land that way in which ong>theong> fire showed itself, no, not for five hundred leagues, for it appeared at WNW. Upon this, we concluded it must be some ship on fire at sea; and as, by our hearing ong>theong> noise of guns just before, we concluded that it could not be far off, we stood directly towards it, and were presently satisfied we should discover it, because ong>theong> furong>theong>r we sailed, ong>theong> greater ong>theong> light appeared; though, ong>theong> weaong>theong>r being hazy, we could not perceive anything but ong>theong> light for a while. In about half-an-hour's ong>sailingong>, ong>theong> wind being fair for us, though not much of it, and ong>theong> weaong>theong>r clearing up a little, we could plainly discern that it was a great ship on fire in ong>theong> middle of ong>theong> sea....