Robinson Crusoe

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Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe

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

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That evil influence which carried me first away from my father’s house—which hurried me into the wild and indigested notion of raising my fortune, and that impressed those conceits so forcibly upon me as to make me deaf to all good advice, and to the entreaties and even the commands of my father—I say, the same influence, whatever it was, presented the most unfortunate of all enterprises to my view; and I went on board a vessel bound to the coast of Africa; or, as our sailors vulgarly called it, a voyage to Guinea.

It was my great misfortune that in all these adventures I did not ship myself as a sailor; when, though I might indeed have worked a little harder than ordinary, yet at the same time I should have learnt the duty and office of a fore-mast man, and in time might have qualified myself for a mate or lieutenant, if not for a master.  But as it was always my fate to choose for the worse, so I did here; for having money in my pocket and good clothes upon my back, I would always go on board in the habit of a gentleman; and so I neither had any business in the ship, nor learned to do any.

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In this distress, the wind still blowing very hard, one of our men early in the morning cried out, “Land!” and we had no sooner run out of the cabin to look out, in hopes of seeing whereabouts in the world we were, than the ship struck upon a sand, and in a moment her motion being so stopped, the sea broke over her in such a manner that we expected we should all have perished immediately; and we were immediately driven into our close quarters, to shelter us from the very foam and spray of the sea.

It is not easy for any one who has not been in the like condition to describe or conceive the consternation of men in such circumstances.  We knew nothing where we were, or upon what land it was we were driven—whether an island or the main, whether inhabited or not inhabited.  As the rage of the wind was still great, though rather less than at first, we could not so much as hope to have the ship hold many minutes without breaking into pieces, unless the winds, by a kind of miracle, should turn immediately about.  In a word, we sat looking upon one another, and expecting death every moment, and every man, accordingly, preparing for another world; for there was little or nothing more for us to do in this.  That which was our present comfort, and all the comfort we had, was that, contrary to our expectation, the ship did not break yet, and that the master said the wind began to abate.

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