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The Vagrants in the Woods
Matt Somerville Morgan
Engravers: Butterworth and Heath
1863-64
Wood-engraving
14.4 cm high (exclusive of caption) by 14 cm wide, framed.
Cassell's Robinson Crusoe, page 229.
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Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.
In about five days’ time the vagrants, tired with wandering, and almost starved with hunger, having chiefly lived on turtles’ eggs all that while, came back to the grove; and finding my Spaniard, who, as I have said, was the governor, and two more with him, walking by the side of the creek, they came up in a very submissive, humble manner, and begged to be received again into the society. The Spaniards used them civilly, but told them they had acted so unnaturally to their countrymen, and so very grossly to themselves, that they could not come to any conclusion without consulting the two Englishmen and the rest; but, however, they would go to them and discourse about it, and they should know in half-an-hour. It may be guessed that they were very hard put to it; for, as they were to wait this half-hour for an answer, they begged they would send them out some bread in the meantime, which they did, sending at the same time a large piece of goat’s flesh and a boiled parrot, which they ate very eagerly. [Chapter III, "Fight with the Cannibals," pp. 235-36]
Above: Wal Paget's half-page lithograph of the falling out between the three former mutineers and the two English colonists, "Bade them stand off". [Click on the image to enlarge it.]
Above: Wal Paget's half-page lithograph of the continuing conflict between the three former mutineers and the two English colonists, "With one blow of his fist knocked him down". [Click on the image to enlarge it.]
Last modified 28 March 2018