Friday's boat and the rescue of two captives

1 The small green island floats in a calm blue sea, smoke rising from its slope

3 Friday vaults the fence crying that three canoes have landed, and Crusoe rises, startled

4 Through Crusoe's spyglass, a bearded European lies bound with rushes on the sand

5 Above the cannibal shore, Crusoe and Friday kneel side by side with muskets raised

6 Crusoe and Friday fire into the feasters, who leap up in panic amid white gunsmoke

7 On the beach, Crusoe kneels over the gasping Spaniard and saws through his rush bonds