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Title: The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Author: Daniel Defoe

Release Date: April 6, 2010 [eBook #521]
Originally released: February 28, 1996

Language: English

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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF
ROBINSON CRUSOE***

Transcribed from the 1919 Seeley, Service & Co. edition by David Price,
email ccx074@pglaf.org

The
Life and Adventures
of
Robinson Crusoe

By
Daniel Defoe

* * * * *

_With Illustrations by H. M. Brock_

* * * * *

London
Seeley, Service & Co. Limited
38 Great Russell Street

CHAPTER I--START IN LIFE

I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family,
though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who
settled first at Hull. He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving
off his trade, lived afterwards at York, from whence he had married my
mother, whose relations were named Robinson, a very good family in that
country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but, by the
usual corruption of words in England, we are now called--nay we call
ourselves and write our name--Crusoe; and so my companions always called
me.

I had two elder brothers, one of whom was lieutenant-colonel to an
English regiment of foot in Flanders, formerly commanded by the famous
Colonel Lockhart, and was killed at the battle near Dunkirk against the
Spaniards. What became of my second brother I never knew, any more than
my father or mother knew what became of me.

Being the third son of the family and not bred to any trade, my head
began to be filled very early with rambling thoughts. My father, who was
very ancient, had given me a competent share of