THE ILLUSTRATIONS
| “For a mile, or thereabouts, my raft went very well—” | Frontispiece | |
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| “My father, a wise and grave man, gave me serious and excellent counsel against what he foresaw was my design” | 2 | |
| “—and making it into a great cross, I set it up on the shore where I first landed—” | 84 | |
| “All this while I sat upon the ground, very much terrified and dejected” | 106 | |
| “In the morning I took the Bible; and beginning at the New Testament, I began seriously to read it—” | 126 | |
| “I reaped it my way, for I cut nothing off but the ears, and carried it away in a great basket which I had made” | 154 | |
| “—and thus I every now and then took a little voyage upon the sea” | 182 | |
| “I stood like one thunderstruck, or as if I had seen an apparition” | 204 | |
| “I laid me down flat on my belly on the ground, and began to look for the place” | 242 | |
| “—and then he kneeled down again, kissed the ground, and taking me by the foot, set my foot upon his head” | 270 | |
| “—we cut and hewed the outside into the true shape of a boat” | 302 | |
| “—and no sooner had he the arms in his hands but, as if they had put new vigor into him, he flew upon his murderers like a fury” | 312 | |
| “At first, for some time I was not able to answer him one word; but as he had taken me in his arms, I held fast by him, or I should have fallen to the ground” | 362 | |
Note. The paintings by Mr. N. C. Wyeth, reproduced in this volume, are fully protected by copyright.