The Eerie Adventures of the Lycanthrope Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe & H.P. Lovecraft & Peter Clines

Author:Daniel Defoe & H.P. Lovecraft & Peter Clines [Lovecraft, H. P. & Clines, Peter & Defoe, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Permuted Press
Published: 2014-01-16T05:00:00+00:00

The dark church, my plans

my rational mind

But to go on.

I went about the whole island, searching for another private place, when, wandering more to the west point of the island than I had ever done yet and looking out to sea, I thought I saw a boat upon the sea at a great distance. I had found a perspective-glass or two in one of the seamen's chests, which I saved out of our ship, but I had it not about me. This was so remote I could not tell what to make of it, tho’ I looked at it till my eyes were not able to hold to look any longer. Whether it was a boat or not, I do not know, but as I descended from the hill I could see no more of it. I resolv’d to go no more out without a perspective-glass in my pocket.

When I was come down the hill to the end of the island, where, indeed, I had never been before, I was presently convinced that seeing the print of a man's foot was not such a strange thing in the island as I imagined. It was a special providence I was cast upon the side of the island where the savages never came. I should easily have known nothing was more frequent than for the canoes from the main, when they happened to be a little too far out at sea, to shoot over to that side of the island for harbour.

When I was come down the hill to the shore, as I said above, being the south west point of the island, I was confounded and amazed. Nor is it possible for me to express the horror of my mind at seeing the shore spread with skulls, hands, feet, and other bones of human bodies. I observ’d a place where there had been a fire made and a circle dug in the earth, where I supposed the savage wretches, according to their dreadful customs, had sat down to their inhuman feastings upon the bodies of their fellow creatures.

I further observ'd this whole corner of the island had been shaped and arrang'd to serve their needs, and just as I had made a homestead on my side of the island, the savages had made a church for their awful beliefs. Many trees had strange symbols and shapes cut within their bark, and these symbols were also painted large on many stones, altho' the growls of the beast told me what the paint most certainly was. I stepp'd over the bones and skulls to closer examine a tree, and saw the cuts and carving were very old. The sand itself, indeed, was all red with long use. This savage church had been here on my island long before the fateful night that brought the beast and I to the shores here. Tho' now I wonder'd the wisdom of calling it my island, and if it ever had been.

Twelve great strides from the fire-circle

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