The
Life and Adventures of
Robinson Crusoe
By
Daniel Defoe
_With Illustrations by H. M. Brock_
London
Seeley, Service & Co. Limited
Contents
CHAPTER I--START IN LIFE
CHAPTER II--SLAVERY AND ESCAPE
CHAPTER III--WRECKED ON A DESERT ISLAND
CHAPTER IV--FIRST WEEKS ON THE ISLAND
CHAPTER V--BUILDS A HOUSE--THE JOURNAL
CHAPTER VI--ILL AND CONSCIENCE-STRICKEN
CHAPTER VII--AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE
CHAPTER VIII--SURVEYS HIS POSITION
CHAPTER IX--A BOAT
CHAPTER X--TAMES GOATS
CHAPTER XI--FINDS PRINT OF MAN'S FOOT ON THE SAND
CHAPTER XII--A CAVE RETREAT
CHAPTER XIII--WRECK OF A SPANISH SHIP
CHAPTER XIV--A DREAM REALISED
CHAPTER XV--FRIDAY'S EDUCATION
CHAPTER XVI--RESCUE OF PRISONERS FROM CANNIBALS
CHAPTER XVII--VISIT OF MUTINEERS
CHAPTER XVIII--THE SHIP RECOVERED
CHAPTER XIX--RETURN TO ENGLAND
CHAPTER XX--FIGHT BETWEEN FRIDAY AND A BEAR
CHAPTER I. START IN LIFE
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 afterwards 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; a…