The Solitary of Juan Fernandez, or the Real Robinson Crusoe
Saintine, Joseph Xavier, 1798-1865
English
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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.
CHAPTER I.
The Royal Salmon.—Pretty Kitty.—Captain Stradling.—William Dampier.—Reveries and Caprices of Miss Catherine.
CHAPTER II.
Alexander Selkirk.—The College.—First Love.—Eight Years of Absence.—Maritime Combats.—Return and Departure.—The Swordfish.
CHAPTER III.
The Tour of the World.—The Way to manufacture Negroes.—California.—The Eldorado.—Revolt of Selkirk.—The Log-Book.—Degradation.—A Free Shore.
CHAPTER IV.
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.
CHAPTER V.
Labors of the Colonist.—His Study.—Fishing.—Administration.—Selkirk Island.—The New Prometheus.—What is wanting to Happiness.—Encounter with Marimonda.—Monologue.
CHAPTER VI.
The Hammock.—Poison.—Success.—A Calm under the Tropics.—Invasionof the Island.—War and Plunder.—The Oasis.—The Spy-Glass.—Reconciliation.
CHAPTER VII.
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.
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