Before You Read: Target Vocabulary
Essential words to understand this chapter easily.
caution
/ˈkɔːʃn/Great care taken to avoid danger, mistakes, or risk.
mutiny
/ˈmjuːtəni/An open rebellion of sailors or soldiers against their officers.
desolate
/ˈdesələt/Empty, uninhabited, and giving an impression of bleak loneliness.
authority
/ɔːˈθɒrəti/The official power or right to give orders, make decisions, and control others.
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Before we could send for the other Spaniards on the mainland, we needed more food. We spent months expanding our fields of corn and rice, cutting heavy planks of wood, and drying large baskets of grapes. When our harvest was complete, I sent the Spaniard and Friday's father in a canoe to fetch their companions, giving them guns, ammunition, and food for the journey. Eight days after they departed, a strange and unexpected event took place. Early in the morning, Friday ran inside shouting that our friends had returned. But when I looked through my spyglass, I saw an English...
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