Chapter 6 - Friday

October 1st, 1(559 Every morning, I make up when I hear the birds singing. I have • a breakfast of fruit and coconut milk, and then I prepare the raft to go to the ship. In the afternoon, I go for a walk and explore the island. Slowly, I find I am not afraid to be (done. December 25th, 1659 It's Christmas day and it's mining. I felt lonely in the morning, ' but then I made two new shelves. I cleaned and organised the tent. j ¡Vow / have a candle ¡it and / am writing, and i feel very peaceful. Hard work makes me fee! good. January 1st, 1660 Today I found a dog! What a surprise! It 's a small brown dog with dark eyes and a very friendly face. I call him Poll, and I want to teach him to hunt. May 14th, 1660 Each day I see that I have everything I need. I fish when I want. In my garden I have rice and com, and the island has fruit, cocoa trees and sugar plants. But I still think of ways to leave. June 23rd, 1660 I am dying. I feel it. I am cold, then hot. My whole body hurts. If someone finds this diary', I want my parents to know that I am sorry for not listening to them. Chapter 4 - A New Friend

I did not die that day in 1660, but I felt very different about life after that. I saw that life is a gift. It's easy to die on an island when you are alone. There's no medicine. There's no one to help you.
I learnt new things all the time. The best month to start my vegetable garden was in February because it rained in March and April. I made plates and cups from wood or coconut shells. It felt like I was the only man on this earth, and I had to learn everything by myself. The biggest problem was that I wanted to talk to someone. Then something wonderful happened.
Poll and I went for a walk one day through the forest. I heard a bird flying around my head, and I saw that it was a parrot. A small green parrot with yellow feathers on top ofits head.
"Hello."
"Hello."
"It talks! It talks Poll, it talks!"
"It talks, it talks!"
That little bird made me laugh, and I was so happy to have a new friend. Every day, I tried to teach it a new word. After several years, we could almost have a dialogue. I came back to our tent in the morning after a swim in the sea, and we had conversations like this:
"What should we have for breakfast?"
"Fruit and milk. Fruit and milk."
"And what do you want for breakfast?"
"Nuts. Nuts."
"You see, Poll, he knows what he wants."
"Stupid Poll. Stupid Poll."
Poll barked when the bird said this. I didn't want to teach him that, but he heard me say it and he remembered it.
I talked to Poll and the parrot like they were people. It made me feel very good, but there was still something missing. I still wanted to see another person.
I made a small boat from a tree. But the sea was too dangerous, so I stayed close to the island.
The island I was on was large. I found many new beaches and many new kinds of fruits with the boat. And that's when I saw the footprints. Someone else was on the island, but I did not know if they were friendly or not. 
Chapter 5 - The Natives

After I saw the footprints, I stayed close to my tent. I thought natives might be on the island. When I went out, I took Poll and the gun with me.
I didn't see anyone else on the island for a long time. Maybe someone came to the island, saw that no one was there, and then left. But that meant others knew about the island. I was always afraid that they might come again.
One night, I had a very strange dream. I saw that there were natives on the island and had two native prisoners with them. They were going to kill one. He escaped and found me. He was very friendly.
"I can help you leave the island," he said.
When I woke up, I felt both afraid and happy. I was afraid of the natives, but the one in my dream was so kind, I felt he was a friend.
Time passed. I planted new kinds of food, I hunted and I thought of new ways to leave the island. Then, one morning, when I was on the hill above the beach, I saw five canoes on the beach. Near them I saw about thirty natives sitting around a fire. One of the natives was a prisoner. The others wanted to kill him.
Suddenly, the prisoner started to run. He ran into the forest, and ten or twelve others took their spears and went after him. I climbed down the hill to go back to my tent, but I stopped in the forest when I heard their voices. They spoke in a strange language. I realised they were close to my tent, so I ran ahead to stop them.
I knew the island very well, so I knew where to hide. They tried to swim across the small river at the bottom of my hill. The prisoner got out of the water first. He ran towards where I was hiding behind a tree. There were only two other natives following him now. When they got out of the water, I came out from behind the tree and fired two shots and killed them both. The prisoner stopped running. I think he was more surprised to see me than to hear the sound of my gun. He fell to his knees, tired.
"It's alright. I'm not going to kill you."
The prisoner did not understand me. He crawled along the ground and kissed my foot. I think he thought I was the king of this island. I tried to make him understand me by using my hands.
"It's OK. I am a friend. Come! I'll give you food. Come, come!"
And that's how I started one ofthe best friendships of my life.

Chapter 6 - Friday

I took the native prisoner to my tent. He was very hungry, and I gave him bread, water and raisins. He did not know any English. I did not know what his name was, so I gave him one myself.
"I will call you Friday. Today is Friday and that is the day I saved your life. You are Friday."
Friday looked at me as if I was saying something strange. "It's all right. I will teach you my language." And so I taught Friday English, and he was a very good student.
"Friday, what is this?"
"That's a gun."
"And what do guns do?"
"They kill people."
"But they also kill animals for food."
I shot the gun by mistake. Friday was frightened!
"Don't kill me, master Robinson. Please don't kill me."
"It's OK, I won't kill you. I'm sorry."
The bird began to talk.
"Guns kill people. Guns kill people."
"Master Robinson, why did you teach a bird to talk?"
"I wanted a friend."
"We eat birds. "
"Guns kill people. Guns kill people."
Life with Friday and Poll and the bird became very funny.
Friday knew a lot about the sea and the islands near ours.
He said it was possible to leave the island, and we began to build a boat. Then I thought about the natives on those islands.
"Will they try to kill me?"
"No, master Robinson. We are friendly if you are friendly."
"Then, why did those others want to kill you?"
"We had a king, a very good king. But some of our people wanted more power. They killed our king, and then they killed the people who liked him."
"Were you one of those people?"
"Yes, I loved our king very much."
Friday's feelings surprised me. I had different ideas about natives. I soon understood that Friday loved me as much as he loved that king. I often think that I was put on that island for a reason. Alone, I had to learn how to do things by myself. I also had time to think about what was really important in life. Friday taught me the greatest lesson: friendship is everything.

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