The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner: who lived eight and twenty years all alone in an un-inhabited island on the coast of America, near the mouth of the great river of Oroonoque; having been cast on shore by shipwreck, wherein all the men perished but himselfWith an account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by pyrates . THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES O F Robinson Crusoe, &V. Was born in the Year 1632, in theCity of York, of a good Family, thonot of that Country, my Father be-ing a Foreigner of Bremen, who fettledfirft at Hull 1 He got a good Eftateb
The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner: who lived eight and twenty years all alone in an un-inhabited island on the coast of America, near the mouth of the great river of Oroonoque; having been cast on shore by shipwreck, wherein all the men perished but himselfWith an account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by pyrates . THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES O F Robinson Crusoe, &V. Was born in the Year 1632, in theCity of York, of a good Family, thonot of that Country, my Father be-ing a Foreigner of Bremen, who fettledfirft at Hull 1 He got a good Eftateby Merchandize, and leaving off hisTrade, lived afterward at Tork, from whence he hadmarried my Mother, whofe Relations were , a very good Family in that Country, andfrom whom I was called Robinfon Kreutz,naer j but bythe ufual Corruption of Words in England, we arenow called, nay we call our felves, and write ourNameCrfl/c^and fo my Companions always called me. B I had. I had two elder Brothers, one of which wasLieutenant-Collonel to an EngBJh Regiment of Footin Flanders, formerly commanded by the famousCo\. Lockhart, and was killed at the Battle near Dun-kirk againft the Spaniards; What became of my fe-corid Brother I never knew, any more than my Fa-ther or Mother did know what was become of me. Being the third Son of the Family, and not bredto any Trade, my Head began to be filld veryearly with rambling Thoughts: My Father, whowas very ancient, had given me a competent Shareof Learning, as far as Houfe-Education, and aCountry Free-School generally goes, and defigndme for the Law,* but I would be fatisfied with no-thing but going to Sea, and my Inclination to thisled me fo flrongly againft the Will, nay, the Com-mands of my Father, and againft all the Entreaties,and Perfuafions of my Mother, and other Friends,that there feemd to be fomething fatal in thatpropenfion of Nature tending directly towardsthe Life of Mifery which was to befal me. My Father
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