Robinson Crusoe

How does Robinson Crusoe feel about his fate when the pirate takes him as a slave in Chapter 2 ?

How does Robinson Crusoe feel about his fate when the pirate takes him as a slave in Chapter 2 ?

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At this surprising change of my circumstances, from a merchant to a miserable slave, I was perfectly overwhelmed; and
now I looked back upon my father’s prophetic discourse to me, that I should be miserable and have none to relieve me,
which I thought was now so effectually brought to pass that I could not be worse; for now the hand of Heaven had overtaken me, and I was undone without redemption; but, alas! this was but a taste of the misery I was to go through, as will appear in the sequel of this story.

Crusoe soon changes his mind, however, by thinking ahead to different possibilities.

I was in hopes that he would take me with him when he went to sea again, believing that it would some time or other be his fate to be taken by a Spanish or Portugal man-of-war; and that then I should be set at liberty.