The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe
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Title: The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Author: Daniel Defoe
Release Date: January 18, 2007 Language: English
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Transcribed from the 1919 Seeley, Sevice & Co edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE
CHAPTER I—REVISITS ISLAND
That homely proverb, used on so many occasions in England, viz. “That what is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh,” was never more verified than in the story of my Life. Any one would think that after thirty-five years’ affliction, and a variety of unhappy circumstances, which few men, if any, ever went through
before, and after near seven years of peace and enjoyment in the fulness of all things; grown old, and when, if ever, it might be allowed me to have had experience of every state of middle life, and to know which was most adapted to make a man completely happy; I say, after all this, any one would have thought that the native propensity to ...