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CHUSOE'S ADVENTURES. 77
So Bhoda began and told the whole story, from the
time of her arrival with the Chimney-Elf at Argos Yilla,
ending by saying that she had always wanted very
much to know more of Robison Crusoe, and begging
him to tell her something about himself and his island.
At this request Crusoe shook his head.
" You'll go and make a book of it, and that's been
done once too often already," said he. "I was vexed
enough at that moonbeam for putting it
head."
into De Foe's
But Hhoda promised so earnestly that she never
should think of such a thing as writing a book, and was
so eager, and so timid, and so interested, that Eobinson
Crusoe finally consented to trust her. Settling himself
comfortably upon one corner of the carpet, he began his
history from the time when he returned to his island,
after being rescued and taken home by the captain of
the mutinous crew.
The rest of the story, as written in
the book of his adventures, Crusoe declared to her to be
a mistake of the moonbeam's, the truth being that after a
short experience upon the mainland, he had found himself
so little pleased "with the way things were managed,
that he had set sail, with his man Friday, determined to
return to his island and spend his days there.
After numerous adventures, very wonderful, but not
to be narrated without breaking the promise made by
Khoda before listening to them, Crusoe and Friday had
found the island, and destroyed the boat which brought