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THE
AND
ADVENTURES
OP
ROBINSON CRUSOE.
Embellished with Elegant Engravings.
LONDON:
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fall; and being much fatigued, slept
very comfortably till morning.
A little after noon, I found the sea
very calm, and the tide ebbed so far out
that I could come within a quarter of a
mile of the ship. The weather being
extremely hot, I swam to the ship, and
to my great joy saw that all the ship's
provisions were dry; and being well
disposed to eat, I went into the bread
room, and slipping on a waistcoat, fill-
ed my pockets with biscuit, and ate as
I went about other things; l also found
some rum in the great cabin, of which
I took a large dram, to enable me to
accomplish my design.
As I found several spare yards, and
some large spars of wood, I next broke
open and emptied three of the seamen's
chests: then lowered them down upon


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and to my great comfort brought all
safe away.
I now went to work to make a little
hut with the sail and some poles, which
I cut for that purpose; and into it I
brought every thing I knew would spoil
either with the sun or rain: I piled all
the empty chests and casks in a circle
round the hut to fortify it from any
sudden attempt from man or beast; I
blocked up the door with boards, and
spreading one of the beds on the ground*
laying my two pistols just at my head
and my gun by me, I went to bed, and
slept very quietly all night.
I had been thirteen days on shorej
and had been eleven times on board the
ship. Rummaging the cabin, I disco-
vered a locker with drawers in it, in one
of which I found two or three razors,


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great Ugly goafs-skin umbrella. My
beard was cut short, except what grew
on my upper lip, which I had trimmed
into a large pair of Mahometan whis-
kers; but as for my figure, I had so
few to observe it, that it was of no man*
ner of consequence.
In this figure 1 went my new jour-
ney, and was out five or six days. One
day at noon, I was exceedingly sur*
prised with the print of a man's foot on
the shore, which was so plainly to be
seen in the sand, that, in approaching
nearer the strand, I was perfectly con-
founded and amazed.
I had now been twenty-two years in
the island, and was so naturalized to the
place, that had I been secure as to the
savages, I fancied, I could have been
contented to have staid in it, till (like


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the goat) I had died of mere old age;
but, in my twenty-third year, going out
at break of day, I was surprized with
the light of a fire upon the shore, to-
wards the end of the island.
Some time after, in the midst of a
stormy night, I was startled at the fi-
ring of guns; these, I thought, were the
signals of a ship in distress, and such it
proved, as I discovered the next day. I
cannot explain by any possible energy
of words, the emotion I felt at the sight
of this rich wreck. Oh ! that there had
been but one saved! (I cried,) that I
might have had one companion! one
fellow-creature to have spoken to, and
have comforted me in my affliction.
After this acquisition, I lived in my
old manner, though terrified with fears
of the savages. One morning very


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towards the boat, carrying a flag of
truce, I went with bim to my old ha-
bitation, which was made far stronger
than when I left it. When I enquired
the reason of this, he told me the three
barbarians, not contented with being
moderately their masters, wanted to be
their murderers, and they had been ob-
liged to disarm them.
About this time a great number of
savages of different nations landed, and
fought a battle, in which thirty-two
more were killed upon the spot.
They had not long after another
visit from the savages; and were inva-
ded by a most formidable fleet, armed
with bows and arrows, great clubs, and
wooden swords. To oppose this force,
there were seventeen Spaniards, five
Englishmen, old Friday, and aix slaves.