How does the native character Friday manage to escape from his captors, leading to his historic first encounter with Robinson Crusoe?
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Correct answer: He seizes a distraction to sprint toward Crusoe's fortified hill, outrunning his pursuers.
Friday is one of several captives brought to the island to be slaughtered and eaten. Seizing an opportunity, he breaks away and runs along the shore toward Crusoe's side of the island. Crusoe, observing from a ridge, intervenes to knock down and shoot Friday's pursuers, binding Friday to him through an immediate debt of life-saving gratitude.
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