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THAT evil influence which… It was my great misfortune that in… It was my lot first of all to fall… I embraced the offer; and entering… This was the only voyage which I…
AFTER this stop, we made… When I had pursued this resolutio… We made signs of thanks to them, f… It is impossible to express the as… The other creature, frighted with…
WHEN I waked it was broad… When I came down from my apartmen… A little after noon I found the s… It was in vain to sit still and wi… My raft was now strong enough to b…
September 30, 1659.—I, poo… All the rest of the day I spent i… From the 1st of October to the 24… From the 26th to the 30th I worke… The 31st, in the morning, I went…
WHEN I came down to the s… This wholly diverted my thoughts f… No one that shall ever read this a… I had, alas! no divine knowledge.… In the relating what is already pa…
I HAD NOW been in this u… It was on the 15th of July that I… The next day, the sixteenth, I we… I spent all that evening there, an… The next day, being the nineteenth…
I MENTIONED before tha… I could not tell what part of the… Besides, after some thought upon t… With these considerations, I walk… I was exceedingly diverted with th…
BUT FIRST I was to prep… It would make the reader pity me,… However, as the sun baked these tw… Though I miscarried so much in my… But all this would not answer my e…
I CANNOT say that after… However, though my little periagua… For this purpose, that I might do… I fixed my umbrella also in the st… It was the 6th of November, in th…
IT WOULD have made a St… But these were not the two cats wh… I was something impatient, as I h… I had a great high shapeless cap,… I had a short jacket of goat’s ski…
WHILE this was doing, I… For this purpose, after long consi… Accordingly, I spent some time to… I immediately went to work with th… But to go on. After I had thus se…
I WAS now in the twenty-t… It was now the month of December,… I was indeed terribly surprised at… Then I prepared myself within, pu… They had two canoes with them, whi…
HAVING NOW brought all… I am now to be supposed retired in… It was one of the nights in the ra… After these thoughts had for some… When these thoughts were over, my…
AFTER I had been two or… I soon found a way to convince him… Having thus fed him with boiled me… The next day I set him to work be… I began now to consider, that havi…
UPON THE WHOLE, I was… Upon the whole, as I found by all… When she was in the water, though… I was near two months performing t… After all this was done, I had my…
IN a little time, however,… I asked him what he thought would… He answered, with a great deal of… Upon these assurances, I resolved… His caution was so seasonable, and…
WHILE we were thus prepar… As the ship lay almost two leagues… We had, upon the first appearance… The other prisoners had better usa… The captain was terribly amazed, a…
HAVING DONE all this I… Some time after this, the boat was… When I took leave of this island,… When I came to England I was as… I met with one piece of gratitude…
BUT NEVER was a fight m… My man Friday had delivered our g… I was surprised to see the fellow… The bear was walking softly on, an… When we came to the tree, there wa…