The Life & Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe Part-2

 

The Life & Adventures Of  Robinson Crusoe Part-2

A Ship bound for London; never any young Adventurers than mine. The Ship was no sooner gotten out of the Misfortunes, I believe, began sooner, or continued longer in a most frightful manner; and as I had never been at Sea Humber, but the Wind began to blow, and the Winds' to rise in my Mind: I began now seriously to reflect upon what 

Before I was most inexpressibly sick in Body and terrified of Heaven for my wicked leaving my Father's House, and had done, and how justly I was overtaken by the Judgment abandoning my Duty; all the good Counsel of my Parents, my Father's Tears, and my Mother's Entreaties came now fresh into my Mind, and my Conscience, which was not yet come to the Pitch of Hardness to which it has been since

reproached me with Contempt of Advice, and the Breach of my Duty to God and my Father.

All this while the Storm increased, and the Sea, which I had never been upon before, went very high, tho' nothing like what I have seen many times since; no, nor like what I saw a few days after But it was enough to affect me then, who was but a young Sailor, and had never known anything of the matter. I expected every Wave would have swallowed us up, and that every time the Ship fell down, as I thought,

in the Trough or Hollow of the Sea, we should never rise more; and in this Agony of Mind, I made many Vows and Resolutions, that if it would please God here to spare my Life this one Voyage if ever I got once my Foot upon dry Land again, I would go directly home to my Father, and never set it into a Ship again while I lived; that I would take

his Advice, and never run me into such Miseries as these anymore. Now I saw plainly the Goodness of his Observations about the middle Station of Life, how easy, how comfortably he had lived all his Days, and never had been exposed to Tempests at Sea, or Troubles on Shore; and I resolv'd that I would, like a true repenting Prodigal,

go home to my Father. 

These wise and sober Thoughts continued all the while the Storm continued, and indeed sometime after;