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我发觉他是一个驾船的能手，可以把船划得比我快一倍。所以，在船上，我对他说："好啦，星期五，我们可以到你的部族去了吗？"听了我的话，他楞住了。看来，他似乎是嫌这船太小，走不了那么远。这时，我又告诉他，我还有一只大一点的船。于是，第二天，我又带他到我存放我造的第一只船的地方，那只船我造了却无法下水。他说，船倒是够大。可是，我一直没有保护它，在那儿一躺就是二十二、三年，被太阳晒得到处干裂并朽烂了。星期五告诉我，这样的船就可以了，可以载"足够的食物、饮水和面包。"他是这样说的。 Upon the whole, I was by this Time so fix'd upon my Design of going over with him to the Continent, that I told him we would go and make one as big as that, and he should go home in it. He answer'd not one Word, but look'd very grave and sad: I ask'd him what was the matter with him? He ask'd me again thus; Why, you angry mad with Friday, what me done? I ask'd him what he meant; I told him I was not angry with him at all. No angry! No angry! says he, repeating the Words several Times, Why send Friday home away to my Nation? Why, (says I) Friday, did you not say you wish'd you were there? Yes, yes, says he, wish be both there, no wish Friday there, no Master there. In a Word, he would not think of going there without me; I go there! Friday, (says I) what shall I do there? He turn'd very quick upon me at this: You do great deal much good, says he, you teach wild Mans be good sober tame Mans; you tell them know God, pray and live new Life. Alas! Friday, (says I) thou knowest not what thou sayest, I am but an ignorant Man my self Yes, yes, says he, you teachee me Good, you teachee them Good. No, no, Friday, (says I) you shall go without me, leave me here to live by my self as I did before. He look'd confus'd again at that Word, and running to one of the Hatchets which he used to wear, he takes it up hastily, comes and gives it me, What must I do with this? says I to him. You take, kill Friday; (says he.) What must I kill you for? said I again. He returns very quick, What you send Friday away for? take, kill Friday, no send Friday away. This he spoke so earnestly, that I saw Tears stand in his Eyes: In a Word, I so plainly discover'd the utmost Affection in him to me, and a firm Resolution in him, that I told him then, and often after, that I would never send him away from me, if he was willing to stay with me. 总之，我这时已一心一意打算同星期五一起到大陆上去了。我对他说，我们可以动手造一条跟这一样大的船，让他坐着回家。他一句话也没有说，脸上显出很庄重、很难过的样子。我问他这是怎么回事。他反问我道："你为什么生星期五的气？我做错了什么事？"我问他这么说是什么意思，并告诉他，我根本没有生他的气。"没有生气！没有生气！"他把这句话说了一遍又一遍。"没有生气为什么要把星期五打发回家？"我说："星期五，你不是说你想回去吗？""是的，是的，"他说，"我想我们两个人都去，不是星期五去，主人不去。”总而言之，没有我，他是绝不想回去的。我说，"我去！星期五，我去那儿有什么事好做呢？"他马上回答说："你可以做很多、很多的好事。你可以教我们这些野人，使他们成为善良的人，有头脑的人，和气的人。你可以教他们认识上帝，祈祷上帝，使他们过一种新的生活。""唉，星期五，"我说，"你不知道你在说些什么啊？我自己也是一个无知的人啊！""你行，你行，"他说，"你能把我教好，也就能把他们大家都教好。 "“不行，不行，星期五，"我说，"你一个人去吧，让我一个人留在这儿，仍像以前一样过日子吧。"他听了我的话，又给弄糊涂了。他登时跑去把他日常佩带的那把斧头取来交给我。 "你给我斧头干什么？"我问他。"拿着它，杀了星期五吧！"他说。"我为什么要杀星期五呢？"我又说。他马上回答说："你为什么要赶走星期五呢？拿斧头杀了星期五吧，不要赶他走。"他说这几句话的时候，态度十分诚恳，眼睛里噙着眼泪，简言之，我一眼就看出，他对我真是一片真情，不改初衷。因此，我当时就对他说，只要他愿意跟我在一起，我再也不打发他走了。这话我后来还经常反反复复对他说了无数次。 Upon the whole, as I found by all his Discourse a settled Affection to me, and that nothing should part him from me, so I found all the Foundation of his Desire to go to his own Country, was laid in his ardent Affection to the People, and his Hopes of my doing them good; a Thing which as I had no Notion of my self, so I had not the least Thought or Intention, or Desire of undertaking it. But still I found a strong Inclination to my attempting an Escape as above, founded on the Supposition gather'd from the Discourse, (viz.) That there were seventeen bearded Men there; and therefore, without any more Delay, I went to Work with Friday to find out a great Tree proper to fell, and make a large Periagua or Canoe to undertake the Voyage. There were Trees enough in the Island to have built a little Fleet, not of Periagua's and Canoes, but even of good large Vessels. But the main Thing I look'd at, was to get one so near the Water that we might launch it when it was made, to avoid the Mistake I committed at first. 总之，从他全部的谈话看来，他对我的情意是坚定不移的，他绝对不愿离开我。他之所以想回到自己的家乡去，完全是出于他对自己部族的热爱，并希望我一起去对他们有好处。可是，我去了是否对他们会有用处，我自己却毫无把握，因此，我也不想为此而去对面的大陆。但是，我心里一直有一种强烈的愿望，希望我能从这儿逃走。这种愿望的根据，就是从他的谈话里得知那边有十七个有胡子的人。因此我马上就跟星期五一起，去找一颗可以砍伐的大树，拿它造条大一点的独木舟，以便驾着它到对面的大陆上去。这岛上到处是树木，足够用来造一支小小的船队，而且不仅仅是造一支独木舟的船队，而是可以造一支大船的船队。但我的主要目的，是要找一棵靠近水边的树。这样，造好之后就可以下水，避免我上次犯的错误。 At last, Friday pitch'd upon a Tree, for I found he knew much better than I what kind of Wood was fittest for it, nor can I tell to this Day what Wood to call the Tree we cut down, except that it was very like the Tree we call Fustic, or between that and the Nicaragua Wood, for it was much of the same Colour and Smell. Friday was for burning the Hollow or Cavity of this Tree out to make it for a Boat. But I shew'd him how rather to cut it out with Tools, which, after I had shew'd him how to use, he did very handily, and in about a Month's hard Labour, we finished it, and made it very handsome, especially when with our Axes, which I shew'd him how to handle, we cut and hew'd the out-side into the true Shape of a Boat; after this, however, it cost us near a Fortnight's Time to get her along as it were Inch by Inch upon great Rowlers into the Water. But when she was in, she would have carry'd twenty Men with great Ease. 最后，星期五终于找到了一棵。用什么木料造船，他要比我内行得多。直到今天，我还说不上我们砍下来的那棵树叫什么名字，只知道样子像热带美洲的黄金木，或者是介于黄金木和中南美的红杉之间的树。那种红杉又称巴西木，因为这树的颜色和体味都与这两种树相似。星期五打算用火把这棵树烧空，造成一只独木舟，但我教他用工具来凿空。我把工具的使用方法告诉他之后，他立即很机灵地使用起来了。经过一个月左右的辛勤劳动，我们终于把船造好了，而且造得很好看。我教星期五怎样使用斧头后，我俩用斧头把独木舟的外壳砍削得完全像一条正规的小船。这以后，我们差不多又花了两星期的工夫，用大转木一寸一寸地推到水里去。一旦小船下水，我们发现它载上二十个人也绰绰有余。 When she was in the Water, and tho' she was so big it amazed me to see with what Dexterity and how swift my Man Friday would manage her, turn her, and paddle her along; so I ask'd him if he would, and if we might venture over in her; Yes, he said, he venture over in her very well, tho' great blow Wind. However, I had a farther Design that he knew nothing of, and that was to make a Mast and Sail and to fit her with an Anchor and Cable: As to a Mast, that was easy enough to get; so I pitch'd upon a strait young Cedar-Tree, which I found near the Place, and which there was great Plenty of in the Island, and I set Friday to Work to cut it down, and gave him Directions how to shape and order it. But as to the Sail, that was my particular Care; I knew I had old Sails, or rather Pieces of old Sails enough; but as I had had them now six and twenty Years by me, and had not been very careful to preserve them, not imagining that I should ever have this kind of Use for them, I did not doubt but they were all rotten, and indeed most of them were so; however, I found two Pieces which appear'd pretty good, and with these I went to Work, and with a great deal of Pains, and awkward tedious stitching (you may be sure) for Want of Needles, I at length made a three Corner'd ugly Thing, like what we call in England, a Shoulder of Mutton Sail, to go with a Boom at bottom, and a little short Sprit at the Top, such as usually our Ships Long Boats sail with, and such as I best knew how to manage; because it was such a one as I had to the Boat, in which I made my Escape from Barbary, as related in the first Part of my Story. 船下水后，虽然很大，可是星期五驾着它回旋自如，摇桨如飞，真是又灵巧又敏捷，使我大为惊异。于是我就问他，我们能不能坐这只船过海。“是的，"他说，"我们能乘它过海，就是有风也不要紧。"可是，我对船另有设计，星期五对此就一无所知了。我要给独木舟装上桅杆和船帆，还要配上锚和缆索。说到桅杆，那倒容易。我选了一根笔直的小杉树，这种树岛上到处都是，附近就找到了一棵。我让星期五把树砍下来，并教他削成桅杆的样子。可是船帆就有点伤脑筋了。我知道我藏了不少旧船帆，或者说有不少块旧帆布。但这些东西已放了二十六年了，也没有好好保管，因为以前我从来没有想到这些东西还会有什么用处。因此，我毫不怀疑，那些旧帆布早已烂掉了。事实上，大部分也确实烂掉了。可是，从这些烂帆布中间，我还是找到了两块帆布，看上去还不错，于是就动手用来做船帆。因为没有针，缝制起来就十分费力费时。花了不少力气，才勉强做成一块三角形的东西，样子丑陋不堪。那船帆的样子像我们英国的三角帆；用的时候，帆杆底下装一根横木，船篷上再装一根横木，就像我们大船的救生艇上装的帆一样。这种帆我是驾轻就熟了。因为我从巴巴里逃出来的那艘长艇上，装的就是这种帆。关于这件事，我在本书的第一部分已详细叙述过了。 
这最后一项工作，差不多花了我两个月左右的功夫，因为我想把制造和装备桅杆和船帆的工作做得尽可能完美无缺。此外，我还配上小小的桅索以帮助支撑桅杆。我在船头还做了个前帆，以便逆风时行船。尤其重要的是，我在船尾还装了一个舵，这样转换方向时就能驾御自如了。我造船的技术当然不能算高明，然而知道这些东西非常有用，而且是必不可少的，也就只好不辞辛劳，尽力去做了。在制造过程中，我当然几经试验和失败。如果把这些都计算在内，所花费的时间和力气，和造这条船本身相差无几。 After all this was done too, I had my Man Friday to teach as to what belong'd to the Navigation of my Boat; for though he knew very well how to paddle a Canoe, he knew nothing what belong'd to a Sail, and a Rudder; and was the most amaz'd, when he saw me work the Boat too and again in the Sea by the Rudder, and how the Sail gyb'd, and fill'd this way, or that way, as the Course we sail'd chang'd; I say, when he saw this, he stood like one, astonish'd and amaz'd: However, with a little Use, I made all these Things familiar to him; and he became an expert Sailor, except that as to the Compass, I could make him understand very little of that. On the other hand, as there was very little cloudy Weather, and seldom or never any Fogs in those Parts, there was the less occasion for a Compass, seeing the Stars were always to be seen by Night, and the Shore by Day, except in the rainy Seasons, and then no body car'd to stir abroad, either by Land or Sea. 小船装备完毕，我就把使用帆和舵的方法教给星期五。他当然是个划船的好手，可是对使用帆和舵却一窍不通。他见我用手掌舵，驾着小舟在海上往来自如，又见那船帆随着船行方向的变化，一会儿这边灌满了风，一会儿那边灌满了风，不禁大为惊讶--简直惊讶得有点发呆了。可是，不久我就教会了他使用舵和帆，很快他就能熟练驾驶，成了一个出色的水手。只是罗盘这个东西，我却始终无法使他理解它的作用，好在这一带很少有云雾天气，白天总能看到海岸，晚上总能看到星星，所以也不大用得着罗盘。当然雨季情况就不同了，可是雨季一般谁都不出门，不要说出海航行了，就是在岛上走走也很少。 I was now entred on the seven and twentieth Year of my Captivity in this Place; though the three last Years that I had this Creature with me, ought rather to be left out of the Account, my Habitation being quite of another kind than in all the rest of the Time. I kept the Anniversary of my Landing here with the same Thankfulness to God for his Mercies, as at first; and if I had such Cause of Acknowledgment at first, I had much more so now, having such additional Testimonies of the Care of Providence over me, and the great Hopes I had of being effectually, and speedily deliver'd; for I had an invincible Impression upon my Thoughts, that my Deliverance was at hand, and that I should not be another Year in this Place: However, I went on with my Husbandry, digging, planting, fencing, as usual; I gather'd and cur'd my Grapes, and did every necessary Thing as before. 我流落到这个荒岛上，现在已经是第二十七个年头了，虽然最后三年似乎可以不算在里面。因为自从我有了星期五作伴，生活和以前大不相同了。我像过去一样，怀着感激的心情，度过了我上岛的纪念日。假如我过去有充分的理由感谢上帝的话，那现在就更如此了。因为现在我有更多的事实表明上帝对我的关怀，并且在我面前已呈现了极大的希望，我可以很快脱离大难，成功的可能性也极大。我心里已明确地感觉到，我脱离大难的日子为期不远，知道自己在这儿不会再呆上一年了。尽管如此，我仍像过去一样，照样耕作、挖土、种植、打围篱。另外就是采集和晒制葡萄干这些日常工作，一切都如常进行。
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