. Crusoe's Island; a bird-hunter's story . directly from Crusoes ownjournal— The Master made an observation as well ashe could, and found that he was in about 11° of northLatitude, so that we were gotten beyond the coast ofGuiana, and beyond the river Amazones, towards theRiver Oroonoque (Orinoco) commonly called the GreatEiver. Bless my stars! said the captain, when I readthis to him, that does look like Tobago. But go on;Im anxious to see where he fetched up. So we changd our course, and steer1 d awayN. W. by W., in order to reach some of the EnglishIslands ; but a second Storm came upon us
. Crusoe's Island; a bird-hunter's story . directly from Crusoes ownjournal— The Master made an observation as well ashe could, and found that he was in about 11° of northLatitude, so that we were gotten beyond the coast ofGuiana, and beyond the river Amazones, towards theRiver Oroonoque (Orinoco) commonly called the GreatEiver. Bless my stars! said the captain, when I readthis to him, that does look like Tobago. But go on;Im anxious to see where he fetched up. So we changd our course, and steer1 d awayN. W. by W., in order to reach some of the EnglishIslands ; but a second Storm came upon us and droveus so out of the way of all humane Commerce, that,had all our lives been saved, as to the Sea, we wererather in danger of being devourd by the Salvages, HOW I FOUND THE ISLAND. 5 than of ever returning to our own country. In thisdistress, one of our Men, early in the Morning, crydLand! and we had no sooner ran out of the Cabbinto look, in the hopes of seeing whereabouts in theWorld we were, but the Ship struck upon a Rock, and. in a moment, her mo-tion being stoppd,the Sea broke overher in such a mannerthat we expected weshould all have perishd immediately.; That is clever enough, assented the captain, and the latitude they were in leaves Juan Fernandezout of the question, for it lies more than 40° to thesouthward of their last Passing over the events attendant upon the land-ing of Crusoe, and his dismal moralizings, I turned tothe page where we tind him, after having in a measure 6 CRUSOES ISLAND. recovered from his disaster, setting out on a tour ofexploration. When I passd the Yale where my Bower stood,I came within view of the Sea, and, it being a clearDay, I fairly descried Land—whether an Island or aContinent, I could not tell; but it lay very high, at avery great distance. And later, when he had a companion in the faith-ful Friday, he says : I askd him how far it wasfrom our Island to the Shore, and whether Canoeswere not often lost. And he told
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