Contents.

Contents.Chapter I.□1□Robinson’s parentage.2□His first adventures.3□His slavetrading voyage.4□The shipwreck.5□They take to the boat.6□It is swamped.7□His narrow escape.8□His forlorn position.9□He sleeps in a tree.10□His mental struggles.11□The dog and long boat.12□He swims to the ship.13□Its condition. The skiff.14□He makes a raft.15□He loads it, first with food ;16□next, with other necessaries.17□He tows off the raft by the skiff.18□Favouring weather.19□It is all but wrecked.20□He sleeps again in a tree.21□His first supper.22□He fastens the raft ;23□and visits the long boat.24□Second visit to the ship.25□He plans a raft on water-tight empty boxes.26□He carries off a few costly articles in the skiff ;27□and tows off whatever will float.28□He lands his train at the nearest point ;29□and explores a natural harbour.30□His dog-and-cat meat.31□He ascertains that he is in an island.32□Its character.33□His precaution against panthers.34□He puts his first raft in safety.35□Third visit to the ship.36□He brings away his new raft.37□Second expedition the same day.Chapter II.□38□In future, he will write less minutely.39□Weather changes.40□He goes on foot to his harbor.41□Its cliffs and caverns.42□He bathes.43□Sport and affection of the dog.44□Robinson ascends to the table land.45□Shoots a she-antelope and wounds a kid.46,7□How he deals with his booty.48□His mental agitations.49□His ledger of things good and bad.50□How he is soothed.51□He conciliates dog and cat to the kid.52□Thirteen days’ work.53□Why the ship had so much ammunition.54□His search for certain articles.55□He finds iron tools ;56□and baskets of dry beans ;57□and a portion of the plaid dresses.58□He heightens his skiff.59□His device for the long boat.60□He saves it into his harbor.61□Last visit to the ship.62□His raft is wrecked.63□The ship vanishes.Chapter III.□64□His state of feeling.65□His affection to tame animals.66□His cooking of the beans.67□Recovery of articles from his wrecked raft.68□Details concerning the caverns.69□Smoothness of their floor.70□Solidity of their roofs.71□Their screen of cactuses.72□His bedroom and larder.73□His manifold embarrassments.74□He discovers a pure rill at hand ;75□and a natural dock for the boat.76□He hedges in a spot in the valley.77□He transports certain things to the caverns.78□Numerous gay-hued birds.79□Abundant vegetation.80□Kindling materials.81□Tropical products.82□The creek ends in a land stream.83□Natural fruit gardens.84□He clings to the seaside.86□He recovers the computation of time, and resumes his nautical mathematics.87□How he had learned.88□His register of lunar months.Chapter IV.□89□How he had learned carpentry.90□He makes a little sledge.91□He arranges his caverns.92□His fear of wild beasts.93□He adapts the ship ladder to a new use.94□Digs a hole under his window.95□He now feels safe.96□On mining.97□On his familiarity with gunpowder.98□Removes to the caverns.99□His encounter with a female antelope.100□His two new young ones.101□Absence of men on the island.102□He amasses fodder and improves two cliff paths.103□He discovers a palm grove eastward ;104□and a forest glen aloft to N.W.105□How he brings down fuel and timber.106□Climate of his island.107□He rows round to the palm grove.108□He cuts a young tree for boat oars.Chapter V.□109□He arranges his armory.110□His other apartments.111□His laundry operations.112□Treatment of his skin and hair.113□Distress from cold.114□His leathern tippet.115□His mat for the back.116□Defence for head and cheeks in heat.117□He shapes his new oars.118□Exercises his boat in harbor.119□From his skiff he sees a lofty mountain.120□How he cooks waterfowl.121□How he gets tame pigeons.122□His toil in carrying.123□His spirits suddenly fail.124□His religious agitation.125□His tackle to catch a rabbit.126□He catches two.126*□ He plaits new shoes.Chapter VI.□127□He explores the high mountain.128□Panorama from the summit.129□The mainland is on the south.130□He discovers vine plants, and brings home citrons and lemons half-ripe.131□He returns by an easy and natural road.132□Joy makes him liberal.133□Threefold character of the island.134,5□He explores the hill west of the creek.136□He catches a parrot.137□He makes a rabbit-hutch.138□He reads of elephant catching.139□He plans to catch a fully-grown antelope alive.140-2□The battle and victory.143□He catches a female alive, and two kids.144□Steady morning rains. North of the palm grove, he surveys eastward more of the coast ;145□with tortoises on wide sands.146□Why he has no palms in his harbor.147□Sport of the dog with the kids.148□Their swiftness.149□Description of the antelopes.150□He trains them to the little sledge ; his harness.151□His dog learns to watch the flock.152□He trains them to his whistle.153□His schemes for food.154□His fishing.155□His weir-net.156□. He moralizes on his own character.Chapter VII.□157□His dressing of fish.158□His unleavened bannocks.159□His home garden.160□His argumentation with himself.161,2□How he is affected by his mother’s birthday.163□His funeral feast.164□He finishes it in the glen.165,6□The parrot’s talk.167-9□He brings home a tortoise.170□The hull of the ship is cast up.171□He ventures upon it within the reef.172□An ague seizes him.173□His dread of darkness ; he drinks, first lemonade ;174□afterwards, Cinchona.175□He gets oil and eggs from the tortoise.176□He makes lampwicks.177□The weather clears.178□Birth of new kittens.179□Other new broods.180-2□Development of his religious sentiment.183□The Popish Prayer-book.184□The lessons which he now learnt.Chapter VIII.□185□He saws down the horns of the male antelope.186□Use of the horns.187□He makes a drill,188□with a bow,189□and guide ;190□also a larger sledge.191□Deficiency of leather.192□How he makes fine ropes.193□His small bridge.194□His beach road.195□New kids.196□Contrivance for picking cocoa nuts.197□Experiments on leaves, pith and bark.198,9□Migration of his flock.200□He sleeps in a hammock under the sky.201□He makes the rush mat for his back.202□His dress in the heat.203□His preparation of a yam garden.204□His siesta.205□His raisins.206□New products of the soil.207□Turpentine or Resin.208□Midday with the dog.209-11□More fruits.212□Unsuccessful expedition in the long boat.213□He cannot return against the wind ;214□his distress.215□The parrot comes to comfort him.216□He trudges home, leaving the boat.217□He fixes the latitude ;218□plants his kitchen garden.219□Adds to his stores of food.220□Insufficiency of his store-chests.221□His first attempt at pottery.222□He builds a furnace.223□Makes huge square jars of coarse pottery.224□He sets up a target for practice.225□His preserving of fruit.226□His recovery of glass beads.Chapter IX.□227□Two boats of black savages arrive.228□He arms ;229□goes forth and views a cannibal feast.230□A captive escapes.231□Robinson shoots one pursuer dead and wounds another ;232□but saves the life of the latter.233□Binds up his wound.234□Ascertains that the two boats have departed.235□He brings the fugitive to his caverns.236□Returns to bury the dead ;237□and bring home the wounded man.238□He tries the temper of the fugitive.239□His deliberation and assumed majesty.240□His careful treatment of the fugitive (Elapsus).241□He astonishes both men with his pistols,—also Elapsus with telescope and watch.242□He pours away nearly all the brandy and rum.243□Elapsus makes good sandals for Robinson.244□Robinson gives him a handsome plaid ;245□also cloaks to both.246□He takes Elapsus to the scene of the murderous feast.247□Elapsus reveals the virtues of trees and shrubs,248□and talks of Indian poultry.249, 250□Various palms and their uses.251□Thoughts about the long boat.252□Convalescence of Secutor.253□Elapsus devises a royal badge for Robinson.254□Robinson accepts it ;255□and gives a secondary badge to Elapsus.256□Description of the two men.257□Elapsus is curious about work in iron.258□Skill of both men in wattling and plaiting.259□Skill of Secutor in cookery ; his making of tea.260□Why Robinson resolves to show no distrust.261□He teaches both the sword-exercise.262□Armor used in it.263□Secutor makes new arrows.264□Robinson plans a cross-bow.265□The men execute it.Chapter X.□266□Expedition to fetch the boat.267□Mending of the sails.268□It tacks well.269□Elapsus pronounces it,Not yet good.270□Secutor enlarges the kitchen garden.271□Their sport in swimming.272□Trial of soap-making.273□Secutor as groom and gardener.274□Reliefs for the men’s toil.275,6□Elapsus works bulwarks and flaps (outriggers) for the boat.277□Robinson studies how to fulfil his demands of ironwork.278□With Elapsus he makes a longer excursion on the hills.279□Gets a view of the ridges and under cliff on the north-east.280□The three work together at the smithy.281□The parrot is killed by a falcon. How Elapsus comforts Robinson.282□Diligent work during the rains.283□Secutor’s enmity to the rabbits.284□Robinson’s literary occupation.285□His talk with them during their work.286□They present him with a royal dress.287□They try the new rig of the boat.288□Petition of the two men concerning wives.289□Robinson’s anxieties.290□His first question.291□Their further suggestions.292□His fresh objections.293□He insists on first surveying the coast.Chapter XI.□294□Their new manufactures.295□Robinson plays the hydrographer.296□Elapsus finds the rice plant.297□They survey the west coast.298□Difficulty about currents.299□Problem of the flock, solved by Elapsus.300□They agree to hew new oars.301□Robinson claims better missiles.302□Their reply reproves him.303□Their activity.304□They carry home the fruit crop.305,6□Some account of their own country.307□Calculations of Elapsus.308□Secutor’s account of the late war.309□Why neither tribe comes to the island.310□Robinson promises to sail within four days.311□Energy of Secutor.312□Zoology of the mainland.313□Robinson’s final preparations.314□Fate of the tame rabbits.315□The three put to sea at evening ;316□and at dawn see land.317□The two men resume their true names.318□Reception by the populace.319□The shooting match.320□Sister of Gelavi ;321□also his bride.322□Robinson consents to everything.323□They are towed out with honor.324□The return voyage.325□They land at the Garden-port.326□What of the flock ?

Chapter I.□

Chapter II.□

Chapter III.□

Chapter IV.□

Chapter V.□

Chapter VI.□

Chapter VII.□

Chapter VIII.□

Chapter IX.□

Chapter X.□

Chapter XI.□


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