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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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red my leave togo on fhore. Go then, faid I. Upon which taking alittle gun in one hand, he fwam to (hore with the other, andcoming clofe to the lior> put a period to his life by (hootinghim again through the head. But this was (pending our ammunition in vain, the flefhnot being good to eat. Xury was like a champion, andcomes ori board for a hatchet, to cut off the h^ad of his ene-my; but net having urength to perform it, he cut off andbrought me a foot. I bethoughr^me, however* that his fiunv,ou;d be of ufe. This work coft Xury and me a wholeday; when fp re a ding it on the top of our cabin, the hotbeams of the fun effectually dried it in two days time, andit afterwards ferved me f r a bed to lie on. And now we failed foutherly, living fparingjy on our pro-vifions, and went no oftener on (hore than we were ob igedforfrefli water. My defign was to make the river Gambiaor Senegal, c.r any where about the Cape de Verde, in hopes -to meet fome European (hip. If Providence did novfo fa*
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/ OtF ROBINSON CRUSOE. V5 vaur me, iriy next courfe was to feek for the iilands, or !ofemy life amongft the Negroes. And, in a word, I put mywhole ftrefs upon this, Either that I mud meet withfome (hip* or certainly peri11i.,> One day as we were failing along, we faw people fiand©n the more looking at us; we could aifo perceive theywere black and ftark naked. I was inclined to go on tore,but Xury cried, <cNo, no;* however, 1 approached nearer,and 1 found they run along the more by me a good way.They had no weapons in their hands, except one, who helda long (lick, which Xury told me was a lar.ee, with whichthey could kill at a great diftance. 1 talked to them by figns,and made them fenfible I wanted fomething to eat; theybeckoned me to itop my boat, while two of them ran upinto the country, and in lefs than half an hour came back,and brought with them two pieces of dried flefh and (omecorn, which we kindly accepted ; and to prevent any fearson either fide, they brought the food

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