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Introduction
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
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Of my birth and education- My desire to go to sea I go
on board a ship bound for London - The ship is wrecked
in a severe storm off Yarmouth and I barely escape with
my life I make my way by land from Yarmouth to
London
CHAPTER II
I fall in with the master of a ship about to sail for the coast
of Guinea, and I make a prosperous voyage with him-
I start on a second voyage to Guinea, but the ship is
taken by pirates-At the Moorish port of Sallee I live a
captive for two years-On escaping I cruise for many
days southward along the African coast until I am taken
up by a Portuguese trader bound for the Brazils
CHAPTER III
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I buy land in the Brazils and become a planter — In 1659, I
begin a voyage to Africa after negroes -The ship is
driven out of its course by storms and is wrecked on a
strange coast- We launch the ship's boat, but it is over-
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turned and I alone reach the land alive-My first day
on the island and my visit to the ship-I make a raft
and carry much goods to shore-I continue to go to the
ship nearly every day for some time and bring away all
I can
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CHAPTER IV
I seek a place where I can make my dwelling-Having pitched
my tent and fortified it, I dig a cave- A thunderstorm
frights me with the thought that the lightning might ex-
plode all my powder-I separate the powder into small
parcels and bestow it in a number of different places -
Of how I killed goats for my food, and of how I kept a
reckoning of time by cutting notches on a post
CHAPTER V
Of my work day by day- I am greatly astonished to find
some stalks of rice and barley springing up near my
dwelling-An earthquake nearly destroys my cave-
The wrecked ship is heaved up in a new posture and I
bring many more things out of it - I have a violent attack
of ague
In a chest where I had stowed various articles
I find a Bible, and the reading of it greatly comforts me.
CHAPTER VI
I recover from my ague- Of a journey I made into the island
-I discover melons, limes, and abundance of grapes fit
for raisins Of my cats- I dig up a piece of ground and
sow my grain-I travel to the other side of the island,
and I bring home a young parrot and a kid I captured
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CHAPTER VII
I return from my wandering journey - Of how I made me a
board for a long shelf-I harvest my first crop of barley
and rice - My troubles in making pots and jars - I build
a boat, but am not able to launch it—I make some clothes
and a great umbrella out of the skins of animals
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I hew out a second boat, get it into the water, and begin a
voyage around the island-A swift current carries me
a great distance to sea-With difficulty I get back, and
being landed on the north side of the island I return
home on foot-I capture some young goats and fence
them a pasturage Of my dress and appearance - I am
surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the
shore-I strengthen my defences
CHAPTER IX
I place part of my herd of goats in a more retired part of my
dominions- I find on the shore skulls and other bones
of human bodies where the savages have feasted on their
fellow-creatures-Of my inventions to destroy some of
the cannibals-I discover a natural cave in the interior
of the island
CHAPTER X
Of my life and surroundings in the twenty-third year of my
residence in the island-I am startled one foul night
with the noise of a gun fired at sea— In the morning I
see the wreck of a ship cast away on some distant rocks
—I make a voyage in my boat to the wreck-The sav
ages land on my side of the island with several captives
-One of the prisoners escapes and runs up into the
island- I rescue him from his pursuers and he becomes
my servant and I name him Friday.
CHAPTER XI
I teach Friday to help me in my work-He learns to talk
English and tells me of his nation, and of their wars and
religion and of some white men who dwelt with his
people- We make another boat and fit it with a mast
and sails
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CHAPTER XII
Three more canoes come to the island-I discover a white
man among the prisoners brought by the savages-We
attack the cannibals and release the white man, who
proves to be a Spaniard, and another prisoner whom
Friday finds is his old father-Sixteen of the Spaniard's
countrymen being on the mainland, whither they had
escaped from a wreck four years previous, he goes after
them accompanied by Friday's father
CHAPTER XIII
I discover an English ship anchored near the island - A boat
from the ship comes to the shore with eleven men in it,
three of whom seem to be prisoners - The prisoners
being left on the beach, while the rest go away inland, I
go to the prisoners' assistance and learn that they are the
captain and mate of the ship and a passenger - I like-
wise learn that the crew has mutinied - By strategy we
capture all of the crew who had come to the island
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CHAPTER XIV
Of the measures we took to regain possession of the ship-I
accept the offer of the captain to take me back to Eng-
land, and I leave my island after having been there more
than eight and twenty years - I reach England and find
that nearly all my relatives and old friends are dead-I
visit Lisbon and discover that the Portuguese captain
who carried me to the Brazils is still alive- From him I
learn that my plantation in the Brazils has largely in-
creased in value-He assists me to sell it and I return
to England
CHAPTER XV
I marry and stay in my native land for seven years - My
wife dying, my wandering disposition again takes posses-
sion of me- My nephew, being commander of a ship
about to make a voyage to the East Indies, proposes to
take me with him - We seek out my island-Of the five
mutineers left behind by the ship which carried me to
England, and of the Spaniards who came to the island
soon after I left
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CHAPTER XVI
Numerous savages visit the island and two hostile nations
engage there in battle-The three worst Englishmen and
the Spaniards come to blows and the Englishmen are
turned out of the plantation - They establish homes on
the other side of the island — They presently take one of
the boats and go away, but return after two and twenty
days- With them they bring eight savages, five of whom
-The women become the wives of the five
are women
Englishmen