This observation of mine put a great many thoughts into me, which made me at first not so easy about my new man Friday as I was before; and I made no doubt but that, if Friday could get back to his own nation again, he would not only forget all his religion but all his obligation to me, and would be forward enough to give his countrymen an account of me, and come back, perhaps with a hundred or two of them, and make a feast upon me, at which he might be as merry as he used to be with those of his enemies when they were taken in war.
Ciò mi diede tanto da pensare, che su le prime non feci così buon viso come in passato al mio servo. Non dubitai in quel momento che se Venerdì fosse tornato addietro fra i suoi, avrebbe posto in dimenticanza non solamente la sua religione, ma quante obbligazioni mi professava, e forse sarebbe andato più in la: avrebbe scoperto (furono queste allora le mie paure) ai suoi compatriotti il mio ricovero, e, tornato addietro con un centinaio o due di essi, costoro avrebbero fatto allegro pasto delle mie carni come usavano co’ nemici presi in guerra.