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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 Oroonoque
Year: 1811 (1810s)
Authors: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Subjects: Crusoe, Robinson (Fictitious character) Shipwreck survival Castaways Islands
Publisher: London, The Booksellers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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long time, ydefpairing of a fudden deliverance, or that both ammunitioand provifion might be fpent before fuch thing happened, Icoveted as much as I could; and fo long as the fhip re-mained in that condition, I daily brought away one necef*fary or other ; particularly the rigging, fails, and cordage,fome twine, a barrel of wet powder, fome fugar, a barrelof meal, three calks of ruin, and^ what indeed was moftwelcome to me, .a whole hogfhead of bread. The next time I went I cut the cables in pieces, carriedoff a hawfer whole, with a great deal of iron-work, andmade another raft with the mizen and fprit-faii yard; butthis be ing fo unweildy, by the too heavy burden I had uponit, and not being ablefo dexterously to guide it as the former,both my cargo and I were overturned. For my part, allthe damage I fuflained was a wet ikin ; and, at low water,after much labour in diving, I got moil of the cables, andfome pieces of iron.Thirteen days I had now been in the ifland, and eleve* he : >n
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* OF ROBINSON CRUSOE. 25 time* ca board, bunging away all that was poffible ; and Ibelieve had the weather been calm, I mould have broughtaway the whole (hip piece by piece. As I was going thetwelfth time, the wind began to nfe; however 1 venturedat low water, and rummaging the cabin, in a locker I foundfeveral razors, fcifTors, and feme dozens of knives, andforks; and in another thirty-fix pounds of pieces of eight,filver and geld. Ah! fimple vanity,* faid I, whom/this world fo much dotes on, where is now thy virtue, thy excellency to me? You cannot procure, me one thingis needful, nor ^remove me from this defolate ifland to au place of plenty. One of thefe knives, fo meanly eiieemed,is to me mere preferable than all this heap. Een, there-«*fore, remain where t-hou art, to fink in the deep as unre-** garded, even as a creature whofe life is not worth pre-*< ferving. Yet, after all this exclamation, I wrapt it up in apiece of canvas, and began to think of making another raft :but

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