| CHAPTER I | |
| PAGE | |
| Robinson’s Family—His Elopement from His Parents | [1] |
| CHAPTER II | |
| First Adventures at Sea—Experience of a Maritime Life—Voyage to Guinea | [8] |
| CHAPTER III | |
| Robinson’s Captivity at Sallee—Escape with Xury—Arrival at the Brazils | [21] |
| CHAPTER IV | |
| He Settles in the Brazils as a Planter—Makes Another Voyage and Is Shipwrecked | [42] |
| CHAPTER V | |
| Robinson Finds Himself on a Desolate Island and Procures a Stock of Articles from the Wreck—He Constructs His Habitation | [61] |
| CHAPTER VI | |
| Robinson Carries All His Riches, Provisions, Etc., into His Habitation—Dreariness of Solitude—Consolatory Reflections | [77] |
| CHAPTER VII | |
| Robinson’s Mode of Reckoning Time—Difficulties Arising from Want of Tools—He Arranges His Habitation | [83] |
| CHAPTER VIII | |
| Robinson’s Journal—Details of His Domestic Economy and Contrivances—Shock of an Earthquake | [91] |
| CHAPTER IX | |
| Robinson Obtains More Articles from the Wreck—His Illness and Affliction | [109] |
| CHAPTER X | |
| His Recovery—His Comfort in Reading the Scriptures—He Makes an Excursion into the Interior of the Island—Forms His “Bower” | [120] |
| CHAPTER XI | |
| Robinson Makes a Tour to Explore His Island—Employed in Basket Making | [139] |
| CHAPTER XII | |
| He Returns to His Cave—His Agricultural Labors and Success | [146] |
| CHAPTER XIII | |
| His Manufacture of Pottery, and Contrivances for Baking Bread | [157] |
| CHAPTER XIV | |
| Meditates His Escape from the Island—Builds a Canoe—Failure of His Scheme and Resignation to His Condition—He Makes Himself a New Dress | [164] |
| CHAPTER XV | |
| He Makes a Smaller Canoe in Which He Attempts to Cruise Round the Island—His Perilous Situation at Sea—He Returns Home | [180] |
| CHAPTER XVI | |
| He Rears a Flock of Goats—His Diary—His Domestic Habits and Style of Living—Increasing Prosperity | [192] |
| CHAPTER XVII | |
| Unexpected Alarm—Cause for Apprehension—He Fortifies His Abode | [203] |
| CHAPTER XVIII | |
| Precautions Against Surprise—Robinson Discovers that His Island Has Been Visited by Cannibals | [215] |
| CHAPTER XIX | |
| Robinson Discovers a Cave, Which Serves Him as a Retreat Against the Savages | [229] |
| CHAPTER XX | |
| Another Visit of the Savages—Robinson Sees Them Dancing—He Perceives the Wreck of a Vessel | [240] |
| CHAPTER XXI | |
| He Visits the Wreck and Obtains Many Stores from it—Again Thinks of Quitting the Island—Has a Remarkable Dream | [249] |
| CHAPTER XXII | |
| Robinson Rescues One of Their Captives from the Savages, Whom He Names Friday, and Makes His Servant | [266] |
| CHAPTER XXIII | |
| Robinson Instructs and Civilizes His Man Friday and Endeavors to Give Him an Idea of Christianity | [279] |
| CHAPTER XXIV | |
| Robinson and Friday Build a Canoe to Carry Them to Friday’s Country—Their Scheme Prevented by the Arrival of a Party of Savages | [294] |
| CHAPTER XXV | |
| Robinson Releases a Spaniard—Friday Discovers His Father—Accommodation Provided for These New Guests, Who Were Afterward Sent to Liberate the Other Spaniards—Arrival of an English Vessel | [310] |
| CHAPTER XXVI | |
| Robinson Discovers Himself to the English Captain—Assists Him in Reducing His Mutinous Crew, Who Submit to Him | [335] |
| CHAPTER XXVII | |
| Atkins Entreats the Captain to Spare His Life—The Latter Recovers His Vessel from the Mutineers, and Robinson Leaves the Island | [355] |
THE ILLUSTRATIONS
| “For a mile, or thereabouts, my raft went very well—” | [Frontispiece] | |
| FACING PAGE | ||
| “My father, a wise and grave man, gave me serious and excellent counsel against what he foresaw was my design” | [2] | |
| “—and making it into a great cross, I set it up on the shore where I first landed—” | [84] | |
| “All this while I sat upon the ground, very much terrified and dejected” | [106] | |
| “In the morning I took the Bible; and beginning at the New Testament, I began seriously to read it—” | [126] | |
| “I reaped it my way, for I cut nothing off but the ears, and carried it away in a great basket which I had made” | [154] | |
| “—and thus I every now and then took a little voyage upon the sea” | [182] | |
| “I stood like one thunderstruck, or as if I had seen an apparition” | [204] | |
| “I laid me down flat on my belly on the ground, and began to look for the place” | [242] | |
| “—and then he kneeled down again, kissed the ground, and taking me by the foot, set my foot upon his head” | [270] | |
| “—we cut and hewed the outside into the true shape of a boat” | [302] | |
| “—and no sooner had he the arms in his hands but, as if they had put new vigor into him, he flew upon his murderers like a fury” | [312] | |
| “At first, for some time I was not able to answer him one word; but as he had taken me in his arms, I held fast by him, or I should have fallen to the ground” | [362] | |
Note. The paintings by Mr. N. C. Wyeth, reproduced in this volume, are fully protected by copyright.
ROBINSON CRUSOE
CHAPTER I
Robinson’s Family—His Elopement from His Parents
I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull. He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my mother, whose relations were named Robinson, a very good family in that country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but by the usual corruption of words in England we are now called, nay, we call ourselves, and write our name, Crusoe, and so my companions always called me.
I had two elder brothers, one of which was lieutenant-colonel to an English regiment of foot in Flanders, formerly commanded by the famous Colonel Lockhart, and was killed at the battle near Dunkirk against the Spaniards; what became of my second brother I never knew, any more than my father and mother did know what was become of me.
Being the third son of the family, and not bred to any trade, my head began to be filled very early with rambling thoughts. My father, who was very old, had given me a competent share of learning, as far as house-education and a country free school generally goes, and designed me for the law; but I would be satisfied with nothing but going to sea; and my inclination to this led me so strongly against the will, nay, the commands, of my father, and against all the entreaties and persuasions of my mother and other friends, that there seemed to be something fatal in that propension of nature tending directly to the life of misery which was to befall me.
