Robinson Crusoe
It was an afternoon in the year of 1632 when I was born, in city of York, in England. I came from a good family. My father was a German merchant, and, he came to live in York where he met and married my mother.
I had two brothers, one became a soldier and was killed, and the other one I never knew what happened to him.
I wanted to go to sea. I could not think about anything else, even though my parents and friends didn't like the idea, with strong arguments against it.
( 6/10/2010)
One day I went to the city of Hull and met a friend. My father owned a ship which was going to London, and I was decided to go, even my parents didn't let me go.
When the ship left of the city of Hull the sea was very rough and suddenly I was seasick, and I promised to myself that if God let me live, I would go straight home to my father and never go in a ship again.Next day the sea was a little calmer, but I still felt seasick. The following morning, however, when I got up, the sun was shining on a clear sea, the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. I completely forgot all the promises I had made when I felt so ill.
A few days later, when we came near the shore, a terrible storm blew up. The sea was very rough, and waves broke every few minutes.In the middle of night,one of the men told us that there was a leak on the ship, the ship was sinking. The captain told the men to fire guns to show other boats that we needed help.
(5/11/2010)
When everyone was in the boat, the boat sank. We rowed saved to the shore, but I had no means of returning home.A few days later I met my friend, whose father was the captain of my boat. The captain asked me about myself, and when I told him that my father not wanted me to go to sea, he became quite angry.
I went to London and stayed there for a while.I was undecided whether to sea or going home.There I met the captain of a ship which was going to Africa, he said I could go with the crew, and he told to bring some toys and another small things to trade for gold.The voyage was very well and when we come back, I sell the gold for a lot of money.From there I thought I could become a very rich merchant.
On my second voyage to Africa did not go well.When we were in the North shore of Africa, a pirate ship began a following us.Later than we fired our guns at then, there began a battle, but the pirates won and the survivors became slaves, in this difficult moment, I remembered the words of my father. I worked for the pirates for two years, on this time I made a new friend, Xury.
One day the captain decided to attack a small ship English. Another day the captain ordered me to go with Kury Moley and fish for dinner.I saw there the opportunity to escape, then got ready for a voyage. And then we went "fish". When were in the sea, I launched Moley into the sea, and when he was about to climb and I took a gun pointed at him and told him to swim back to shore, so we started to row, until we saw a Portuguese ship that was going to Brazil and were rescued.
When I arrived in Brazil won a lot of money as a farmer of a sugar plantation, but I noticed that it needed more slaves, so I went to Africa to get slaves. In the middle of the trip was a storm and the boat sank. when I woke up I realized I was on a desert island and only I survived.
I go back to the ship because I need useful things, and I made some rafts to carry the things. I build a hut for saw another ships passing on this area. I passed to counting the days of my stayed on this island.
I began a wrote a diary.One day had a earthquake before, my hut was destroy and I was terrefied. I began very ill and I prepared a medicine, and improved. But when I satayed ill, I prayed to the God to forgive me.
I decided to explore the Island and I build a new hut at the middle of the island,but had in this some of fruits, I carryed some grapes and limes with me.
On the end of december on my third year in the island I made a canoe to go to see, but the canoe was very heavy and I didn't could carry to the shore. So that I made a boat to travel around the Island.
For a while, I lived quietly. I became very good at making things. I made big holes in the ground and then covered them over to catch goats and tame them.
One morning I found three baby goats, I fed them every day, and quickly became tamed.
I made myself clothes and an umbrella behind my hut, I had dug many caves in the rocks where I left the corn and rice.
One day when I was going to where I left the canoe, I saw a footprint in the sand. Suddenly I stopped quickly and run back to my hut, terrified.
One day when I was going to where I left the canoe, I saw a footprint in the sand. Suddenly I stopped quickly and run back to my hut, terrified.
For three days I stayed in, feeling very terrified
(8/11/2010)
After that I went again to see the footprint, but it was bigger than mine, and I went back to my hut.
I started to think about it, because I had lived here for 15 years and never seen anybody.
First I built another wall in front of my hut and planted several trees in front of her, then the only way to enter the house was to use two ladders. And I made a second enclosure.
For the next two years, I didn't go far from my hut,and I went away using my gun, because I was afraid that if the cannibals.
One night on May there was a very bad storm, I was in my hurt when I suddenly heard the sound of a gun. I jumped up and ran up the hill at the back of my hut, where I heard the gun once more.The sound came from the sea. It was a ship calling help.
I went to the ship and shouted to see if someone was alive , but I heard nothing. A few days later, when the sea was calm again I went to see the ship.
It was a Spanish ship, I gained a dog, a survivor of the shipwreck, there weren´t any survivors.I took some clothes, food and drink, gun powder and some money.
One night , I dreamed that the cannibals come back to my island. That dream gave me the idea that I needed help to escaped to the island, I decided to try and save a man from the cannibals so that he could help me.I knew that I i would have to kill a lot of men to do this. And for a long time I worried about this a lot. I didn't want to kill people. I knew that is was wrong. But I had to escape.
One morning I saw five canoes in the shore of my island.I went to the top of my hill and saw then. I could see more than thirty cannibals, they had built a fire and they were dancing around it, and they took two prisoners from the boat. They knocked one man down, and they started to cut him up.
Suddenly the other prisoner saw that he had a chance went away.He ran on the sand, to my part of the island. I was frightened of the cannibals found my hut, but only three cannibals come after him.
The prisoner swam quickly the river, but one of the three cannibals back, because he not could swim. And I saw the chance of gain a servant. I ran down the hill towards the men.
I knocked down the prisoner and fire the other.The man was grateful, and to show her gratitude put my foot on his head.
I call him Friday he had long hair and a black one and the very dark, thin lips, small nose and face of a very good person, less 26 years.
Then he dreams he came up to me and made several showed signs and be thankful, knelt and put my foot in healthy head and this sign meant that he wanted to work for me for the rest of his life. And I called him Friday because it was the day that saved him and told him to call me master. Friday tried to eat one of the cannibals killed which made me very angry.Friday wouldn't return to his country, because in his country because he was presumed dead.
(19/11/2010)
I felt like a king because I saved the lives of all my people. The Spanish captain told me that there were sixteen of his men on the mainland.And they couldn't make a boat because they didn't have tools. I asked him if he thought his men would like to come to my island and I told him that we could make a boat and escape together.
The Spanish asked me if I wanted to go to Spain with him, but said he could not because I'm English and if I went to Spain to kill me.
The Spanish man was very grateful with me. And said to me, if I wanted, he would go back to the mainland with Friday's father. He would talked to the men and make than promised to follow me.
Friday was surprised that a boat was coming and it was not their friends.My friend told me to be careful.So I climbed on top of my hill and saw, and realized that they had three prisoners in Europe.So I decided to talk to the prisoners, conversed with the captain, who was held prisoner. He told me that his men had made a mutiny
I also talked to the captain that I would help him with the first two conditions, he would obey me, second that if we could get his ship he would take me to England.The captain was happy to confirm this.I gave him his two gun men, and they managed to kill the men who led the mutiny. And the captain forced the survivors swear allegiance.
After a while the guys just were in the boat fired their weapons, and have received no response. So ten man armed with guns came to find the rest of the crew. Not finding the rest of the crew, they were returning to the boat, but heard voices and decided to see what it was, that was my plan to stop them returning to the boat and make them get lost in the forest. They followed the voices and were surprised by us.
Soon after, the captain and his men, those who still obeyed and were not prisoners, they went to the boat to recapture.The captain said to me that if they could recapture, they shoot seven times going to signal that the boat could recapture.
Several hours later I hear the sound of gunfire. We recapture the ship. I talked with the prisoners, if they wanted to return to England, but I realized that if they came back they would die, so they decided to stay on the island, and I taught them how to plant, making clothing, and some other stuff. The captain asked me when I would leave and I said well I can, I was finally coming home.
After a while the guys just were in the boat fired their weapons, and have received no response. So ten man armed with guns came to find the rest of the crew. Not finding the rest of the crew, they were returning to the boat, but heard voices and decided to see what it was, that was my plan to stop them returning to the boat and make them get lost in the forest. They followed the voices and were surprised by us.
Several hours later I hear the sound of gunfire. We recapture the ship. I talked with the prisoners, if they wanted to return to England, but I realized that if they came back they would die, so they decided to stay on the island, and I taught them how to plant, making clothing, and some other stuff. The captain asked me when I would leave and I said well I can, I was finally coming home.
I arrived in England and it seemed strange to me, I needed money, so I decided to see what had happened to my sugar plantation, so I went to Lisbon.
There I met a friend, the boat captain who had saved me from the pirates. We talked and he said that supervisors were taking care of the plantation for me. We sent letters to them and they responded with a letter and sending five thousand pounds.I decided to return to England on foot, as all my trips with ships had something bad happened. Midway through the trip we were attacked by wolves, but we spend putting powder on fallen trees and burning.
After a while, I decided to see how it was my island and saw that she was taken by the Spanish and Friday's father. And they also had wives and therefore they had twenty children on the island. When I returned to England I decided send more food and other things.Now my island was habitue.
There I met a friend, the boat captain who had saved me from the pirates. We talked and he said that supervisors were taking care of the plantation for me. We sent letters to them and they responded with a letter and sending five thousand pounds.I decided to return to England on foot, as all my trips with ships had something bad happened. Midway through the trip we were attacked by wolves, but we spend putting powder on fallen trees and burning.
After a while, I decided to see how it was my island and saw that she was taken by the Spanish and Friday's father. And they also had wives and therefore they had twenty children on the island. When I returned to England I decided send more food and other things.Now my island was habitue.
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