150 CRUSOE'S ISLAND. 



made all communication easy. The young Indian 

 was called " Friday," as you will remember, because 

 he was discovered and saved on that day of the week 

 — the first human being the hermit had met and con- 

 versed with in many a long year. 



I " He was a comely, handsome Fellow, perfectly 

 well made, with strait, strong Limbs, not too large ; 

 tall and well shaped. He had a good Countenance, 

 not a fierce and surly Aspect; but seem'd to have 

 Something very manly in his Face. His Hair was 

 long and black, not curl'd like Wool ; his Forehead 

 very high and large, and a great vivacity and spark- 

 ling sharpness in his Eyes. 



" The colour of his Skin was not black, but very 

 tawney ; and yet, not of an ugly nauseous tawney, as 

 the Brazilians and Virginians, and other Natives of 

 America are; but of a bright kind of a dun olive 

 Colour, that had in it something very agreeable, 

 though not easy to describe. His Face was round 

 and plump, his Nose small, but not flat like the Ne- 

 groes' ; a very good Mouth, thin Lips, and his fine 

 Teeth well set, and w^hite as Ivory." 



That is Man Friday's portrait, as drawn by Eobin- 

 son Crusoe, mariner, shortly after these two distin- 

 guished heroes of fiction became acquainted. And it 

 is sufficiently accurate for us to identify, by means of 

 it, the Indian's surviving relatives, many degrees 

 removed — the Caribs of the Lesser Antilles of the 

 present day. 



Friday informed his master that the few poor 

 wretches who escaped would tell their friends on the 



