I WAS now in the twenty-third year of my residence in this island, and was so naturalised to the place and the manner of living, that, could I but hav...
HAVING now brought all my things on shore and secured them, I went back to my boat, and rowed or paddled her along the shore to her old harbour, where...
AFTER I had been two or three days returned to my castle, I thought that, in order to bring Friday off from his horrid way of feeding, and from the re...
UPON the whole, I was by this time so fixed upon my design of going over with him to the continent that I told him we would go and make one as big as ...
IN a little time, however, no more canoes appearing, the fear of their coming wore off; and I began to take my former thoughts of a voyage to the main...
WHILE we were thus preparing our designs, and had first, by main strength, heaved the boat upon the beach, so high that the tide would not float her o...
HAVING done all this I left them the next day, and went on board the ship. We prepared immediately to sail, but did not weigh that night. The next mor...
BUT never was a fight managed so hardily, and in such a surprising manner as that which followed between Friday and the bear, which gave us all, thoug...
Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fi...
For the next eight or ten months, Oliver was the victim of a systematic course of treachery and deception.He was brought up by hand.The hungry and des...