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  middle state, or what might be called the upper station of low life, resolution prompted; but I took my mother at a time when I thought her father to let me go one voyage abroad, if I came home again, and did to London in his fathers ship, and prompting me to go with them with directly home to my father, and never set it into a ship again while I was nothing at all; give us but a good ship and sea-room, and we think The sixth day of our being at sea we came into Yarmouth Roads; the wind days, during which time a great many ships from Newcastle came into the seas, and we thought once or twice our anchor had come home; upon which run away to sea, and would come near us, ordered to fire a gun as a by a ship foundering in the sea.


id: chapter-002
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  sea, he left me on shore to look after his little garden, and do the English ship that he had taken, he resolved he would not go a-fishing prize, and I conveyed them into the boat while the Moor was on shore, board the boat; can you not get a little powder and shot? gone, I turned to the boy, whom they called Xury, and said to him, or go on shore, or come to an anchor; the wind continuing fair till I and came to an anchor in the mouth of a little river, I knew not what, After all, Xurys advice was good, and I took it; we dropped our little Xury said, if I would let him go on shore with Well, Xury, said I, we will both go and if the wild mans come, we to shore with the other hand, and coming close to the creature, put the


id: chapter-003
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  places, as we sailed by, we saw people stand upon the shore to look at shore and laid it down, and went and stood a great way off till we them began to come nearer our boat than at first I expected; but I lay come to the shore, they took heart and came, and began to search for without offering to go near the shore, till I saw the land run out a plantation before my kind friend, the captain of the ship that took me the sea went so high that the boat could not live, and that we should all knew that when the boat came near the shore she would be dashed in carry me a great way towards the shore when it came on, might not carry I was now landed and safe on shore, and began to look up and thank God


id: chapter-004
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  half-an-hour, in which time the rising of the water brought me a little in time to see some ships at sea, and therefore resolved to place the water ebbed away, and left my raft and all my cargo safe on shore. to bring my cargo on shore, which took me up the rest of that day. in pieces, I resolved to set all other things apart till I had got I got on board the ship as before, and prepared a second raft; and, being large casksI went to work to make me a little tent with the sail all those things from the ship, and to get them on shore. board the ship, in which time I had brought away all that one pair of Then I took the pieces of cable which I had cut in the ship, and laid Some days after this, and after I had been on board the ship, and got


id: chapter-005
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  during which time the ship broke in pieces, the wind blowing a little Nov. 4.This morning I began to order my times of work, of going out Nov. 5.This day went abroad with my gun and my dog, and killed a Nov. 14, 15, 16.These three days I spent in making little square three days I killed a large bird that was good to eat, but I knew not Nov. 17.This day I began to dig behind my tent into the rock, to these tools, when they were finished I went on, and working every day, Note.During all this time I worked to make this room or cave Dec. 11.This day I went to work with it accordingly, and got two All this time I worked very hard, the rains hindering me many days, With these thoughts, I resolved to remove my tent from the place where


id: chapter-006
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  May 1014.Went every day to the wreck; and got a great many pieces May 17.I saw some pieces of the wreck blown on shore, at a great but the wind blowing from the shore, nothing came to land that day but day to the 15th of June, except the time necessary to get food, which I June 27.The ague again so violent that I lay a-bed all day, and having the least sense, either of the fear of God in danger, or of thought of it being the hand of God, or that it was a just punishment Me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt impression upon my thoughts at the time of reading them, though not so in the true sense of the words, that I prayed in all my life; for now I a constant reading the Scripture and praying to God, to things of a


id: chapter-007
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  more than a little brook of running water, very fresh and good; but melons upon the ground, in great abundance, and grapes upon the trees. order to do this, I gathered a great heap of grapes in one place, a lesser heap in another place, and a great parcel of limes and lemons in some time, the pleasantness of the place tempting me; but when I came carried the most of them home to my cave, than it began to rain; and about twenty of barley; and now I thought it a proper time to sow it, one grain of what I sowed this time came to anything: for the dry months following, the earth having had no rain after the seed was sown, equinox; and this having the rainy months of March and April to water when it came into my mind that the twigs of that tree from whence I cut


id: chapter-008
title: chapter-008
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  I mentioned before that I had a great mind to see the whole island, and I took another way to come back than that I went, thinking I could well the position of the sun at that time of the day. supply; these took up great part of the day. so much of my time went away with so little workviz. going along by the place to see how it throve, I saw my little crop time, it would please God to supply me with bread. to accomplish this great work of providing myself with corn and bread. I had got the first handful of seed-corn, which, as I have said, came me a great many days to make it, yet, for want of iron, it not only works; and as I had resolved to use none of the corn for bread till I


id: chapter-009
title: chapter-009
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  several smaller things with better success; such as little round pots, flat dishes, pitchers, and pipkins, and any things my hand turned to; to begin to use it freely; for my bread had been quite gone a great ships boat, which, as I have said, was blown up upon the shore a great I went to work upon this boat the most like a fool that ever man did ship-loadings of corn, but I had no use for it; so I let as little grow just reflection, that all the good things of this world are no farther any corn of my own, and great reason I had to be thankful that I had could bear no other clothes on but a shirt; and it was a very great first thing I made of these was a great cap for my head, with the hair


id: chapter-010
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  had a boat, I thought of nothing but sailing round the island. league more, so that I was obliged to go a great way out to sea to Having secured my boat, I took my gun and went on shore, climbing up a even my boats length from the shore, but I found myself in a great the current was on both sides of the island, I knew in a few leagues Just as I had set my mast and sail, and the boat began to stretch away, the current which carried me away at first; so that when I came near of the island, I found the water at least still, and running no way; boat close to the shore, in a little cove that I had spied under some I was now at a great loss which way to get home with my boat!


id: chapter-011
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  having no boat now to take care of, I went over the land a nearer way went farther from the shore; for, waiting thereabouts till evening, I my boat about the island again; but when I began to think of putting it grew all like trees, and were by this time grown so big, and spread so upon lower ground, lay my two pieces of corn land, which I kept duly innumerable fluttering thoughts, like a man perfectly confused and out for how should any other thing in human shape come into the place? came on shore from my boat: this cheered me up a little, too, and I else but my own foot; and why might I not come that way from the boat, went down thus two or three days, and having seen nothing, I began to lived on the spot, yet that there might sometimes come boats off from


id: chapter-012
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  ways to preserve them: one was, to find another convenient place to dig deal of time and labour, I thought was the most rational design. a mans foot; for as yet I had never seen any human creature come near thought I saw a boat upon the sea, at a great distance. all this time, but began rather to think of making another; for I could Things going on thus, as I have said, for some time, I seemed, Sometimes I thought of digging a hole under the place where they made fowling-piece I loaded with near a handful of swan-shot of the largest island, never came with any thoughts of finding anything here, and mind to doing or not doing anything that presented, or going this way was a place of security, and such a retreat as I wanted; I thought was


id: chapter-013
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  As soon as I saw them shipped and gone, I took two guns upon my cleared up, I saw something at a great distance at sea, full east of my great sorrow, the wreck of a ship, cast away in the night upon those times obliged men to stave, or take in pieces, their boat, and Other times I fancied they were all gone off to sea in their boat, and It was now calm, and I had a great mind to venture out in my boat to of those currents, I should be carried a great way out to sea, and current, which set eastward, and which carried me at a great rate; and to suppose the ship had a great deal of wealth on board; and, if I may I came to the till in the chest, I found there three great bags of


id: chapter-014
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  After these thoughts had for some time entertained me, I came to When these thoughts were over, my head was for some time taken up in considering the nature of these wretched creatures, I mean the savages, course; none of these thoughts, I say, so much as came in my way; but my castle, I saw upon the shore two canoes and eleven savages coming to thought in my sleep that he came running into my little thick grove savages came near me for a great while. wretch would be taken there; but when the savage escaping came thither, laid it down, with the head of the savage that he had killed, just hand to him to come away, which he did immediately, with great had, by some means, let him know that I would kill him if he offered night, taking in my ladders, too; so that Friday could no way come at


id: chapter-015
title: chapter-015
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  poor creature, who had at a distance, indeed, seen me kill the savage, knees, said a great many things I did not understand; but I could Master.Well, Friday, and what does your nation do with the men they Friday.Yes, my nation eat mans too; eat all up. the same man-eating occasions he was now brought for; and some time He said, Yes. From these things, I began to instruct him in the knowledge of the true God; I told him that the great Maker of all things lived up there, Well, says Friday, but you say God is so strong, so great; is may as well ask me, said I, why God does not kill you or me, when we this boat, Friday stood, musing a great while, and said nothing. boat like come to place at my nation. Friday told me such a boat


id: chapter-016
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  You take kill Friday, says he. Friday to find out a great tree proper to fell, and make a large shore at high-water mark, I made my man Friday dig a little dock, just I came down again to Friday, and told him I was resolved to go down to called softly to Friday, and showing him a great tree which was just at and took up the fowling-piece, and Friday did the like; he saw me cock Now, Friday, says I, laying down the discharged pieces, and taking up tree; two killed at the next shot; two killed by Friday in the boat; Friday came back to me presently; and then I spoke to the Spaniard to To remedy this, I went to work in my thought, and calling to Friday to of hand-barrow to lay them on, and Friday and I carried them both up


id: chapter-017
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  be directed wholly and absolutely by my orders till they were landed countrymen, who were, as he said, sixteen, still alive, should come occasion; and as we had our escape or deliverance upon our thoughts, it and the old savage, the father of Friday, went away in one of the time; and wishing them a good voyage, I saw them go, agreeing with them when my man Friday came running in to me, and called aloud, Master, I presently saw a boat at about a league and a half distance, standing ship, and one that I had reason to believe was manned by my own myself long in this posture till I saw the boat draw near the shore, as By this time I was come; and when they saw their danger, and that it would certainly come on shore in their other boat to look for them, and


id: chapter-018
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  We had, upon the first appearance of the boats coming from the ship, in the boat put her off to a good distance from the shore, and came to I ordered Friday and the captains mate to go over the little Friday and the captains mate to their business, I took the rest with the captain coming to me, I told him my project for seizing the ship, Friday and the two men who came on shore with the captain. captain of one, with four of the men; and himself, his mate, and five had brought off the men and the boat, but that it was a long time they came to the ships side; when the captain and the mate entering captain with me, I caused the men to be brought before me, and I told new captain hanging at the yard-arm of the ship, and told them they had


id: chapter-019
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  ships account, in the year 1686, after I had been upon it to my particular satisfaction, my old friend, the captain of the ship old, and had left off going to sea, having put his son, who was far from a young man, into his ship, and who still used the Brazil trade. The old man did not know me, and indeed I hardly knew him. man told me he had not been in the Brazils for about nine years; but inquired of the old captain how it came to pass that the trustees world believing so also, your partner and trustees did offer to account brought me an account of the first six years income of my plantation, shipwrecked coming home to Lisbon, about eleven years after my having way, with an account that so much snow was falling on the French side


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  manner as that which followed between Friday and the bear, which gave My man Friday had delivered our guide, and when we came up to him he frightened, when on a sudden we espied the bear come out of the wood; Friday coming pretty near, calls to him, as if the bear could Friday, who had, as we say, the heels of the bear, came up Come away, and take your horse, that we may shoot the creature. bear soon came to the tree, and we followed at a distance: the first When we came to the tree, there was Friday got out to the small end of the tree; and the bear, just as if he understood what he said, did come a little farther; then he began jumping again, and the bear stopped called to Friday to stand still and we should shoot the bear: but he


