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The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, Who Lived Eight-And Twenty Years in an Uninhabited Island, on the
The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York Mariner Who Lived Eight-And Twenty Years in an Uninhabited Island on the Author:Daniel Defoe Title: The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, Who Lived Eight-And Twenty Years in an Uninhabited Island, on the Coast of America, Near the Mouth of the Great River Oronooko. With an Account of His Deliverance Thence Subtitle: And His After Surprising Adventures General Books publication date: 2009 Origin... more »al publication date: 1816 Original Publisher: Printed by and for H. Mozley Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: We sailed northward upon the coast, in order to gain Africa, till we made Cape Augustine; from whence going farther into the ocean, out of sight of land, we steered as though we were bound for the isle Fernand de Norenba, leaving the islands on the east; and then it was that we met with a terrible tempest, which continued for twelve days successively, so that the winds carried us wheresoever they pleased. In this perplexity one of our men died, and one man and a boy were washed overboard. When the weather cleared up a little, we found ourselves in eleven degrees north latitude, upon the coast of Guinea. Upon this the captain gave reasons for returning; which I opposed, counselling him to stand away for Uarbadoes, which, as I supposed, might be attained in fifteen days. So altering our course, we sailed northwest and by west, in order to reach the Leeward islands; but a second storm succeeding drove us to th westward; so that we were justly afraid of falling into the hands of cruel savages, or the paws of devouring beasts of prey. In this great distress, one of our men, early in the morning cried out, " Land, land !" which he had no sooner cried out, but our ship struck upon a sand-bank, and in a moment the sea broke over her in such a manner, that we expected...« less