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Often appears with: southern rocks reef · slavery and bondage · shipwreck and peril at sea · shipwreck · ship at anchor · sallee · portuguese rescue · escape from slavery · diplomacy and embassies · conquest, plunder, and captives · captivity and escape
Usually: narrative (2) · confronting death (1) · the stranger's arrival (1) · curiosity (1)
“I will carry you thither in charity, and those things will help to buy your subsistence there, and your passage home again.” Daniel Defoe, The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe · insight
Unable to signal directly, Robinson fires a gun and waves a signal, the Portuguese ship shortens sail to pick him up, and he tells them he escaped slavery from the Moors at Sallee.
and did not design to come any nearer to the shore; upon which I stretched out to sea as much as I could, resolving to speak with them if possible. With all the sail I could make, I found I should not be able to come in their way, but that they would be gone by before I could make any signal to them: but after I had crowded to the utmost, and began to despair, they, it seems, saw by the help of their glasses that it…
At dawn Robinson spots a ship anchored offshore, runs to the southern rocks where he previously was wrecked by a current, and sees the wreck of a vessel cast onto concealed reefs, then speculates on possible rescue or disaster outcomes.
a hull I could not distinguish—no, not with my glass: the distance was so great, and the weather still something hazy also; at least, it was so out at sea. I looked frequently at it all that day, and soon perceived that it did not move; so I presently concluded that it was a ship at anchor; and being eager, you may be sure, to be satisfied, I took my gun in my hand, and ran towards the south side of the island to th…