THE SOLITARY OF
JUAN FERNANDEZ;
OR, THE REAL
ROBINSON CRUSOE
BY THE AUTHOR OF PICCIOLA.
TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH
BY ANNE T. WILBUR.
MDCCCLI.
CONTENTS.
The Royal Salmon.—Pretty Kitty.—Captain Stradling.—William Dampier.—Reveries and Caprices of Miss Catherine.
Alexander Selkirk.—The College.—First Love.—Eight Years of Absence.—Maritime Combats.—Return and Departure.—The Swordfish.
The Tour of the World.—The Way to manufacture Negroes.—California.—The Eldorado.—Revolt of Selkirk.—The Log-Book.—Degradation.—A Free Shore.
Inspection of the Country.—Marimonda.—A City seen through the Fog.—The Sea every where.—Dialogue with a Toucan.—The first Shot.—Declaration of War.—Vengeance.—A Terrestrial Paradise.
Labors of the Colonist.—His Study.—Fishing.—Administration.—Selkirk Island.—The New Prometheus.—What is wanting to Happiness.—Encounter with Marimonda.—Monologue.
The Hammock.—Poison.—Success.—A Calm under the Tropics.—Invasionof the Island.—War and Plunder.—The Oasis.—The Spy-Glass.—Reconciliation.
A Tête-a-tête.—The Monkey's Goblet.—The Palace.—A Removal.—Winterunder the Tropics—Plans for the Future.—Property.—A burst ofLaughter.—Misfortune not far off.
A New Invasion.—Selkirk joyfully meets an ancient Enemy.—Combat ona Red Cedar.—A Mother and her Little Ones.—The Flock.—Fête in theIsland; Pacific Combats, Diversions and Swings.—A Sail.—The BurningWood.—Presentiments of Marimonda.
The Precipice.—A Dungeon in a Desert Island.—Resignation.—The passingBird.—The browsing Goat.—The bending Tree.—Attempts at Deliverance.—Success.—Death of Marimonda.
Discouragement.—A Discovery.—A Retrospective Glance.—Project ofSuicide.—The Last Shot.—The Sea Serpent.—The Porro.—A Message.—Another Solitary.
The Island of San Ambrosio.—Selkirk at last knows what Friendship is.—The Raft.—Visits to the Tomb of Marimonda.—The Departure.—The twoIslands.—Shipwreck.—The Port of Safety.
The Island of Juan Fernandez.—Encounter in the Mountains.—Discussion.—A New Captivity.—Cannon-shot.—Dampier and Selkirk.—Mas a Fuera.—News of Stradling.—Confidences.—End of the History of the realRobinson Crusoe.—Nebuchadnezzar.