My father came to expect me to study law, but I just wanted to go sailing.One day, I went to the hull, a fellow of mine was about to take his father's ship to London, nothing more than this cracked me up, I must go with him - it was in August 1651, I was 19 years old.
Ship just out of haikou, then met with a terrible waves, makes me feel whole body can't say how sad, the in the mind very fear.I found in painful mood an oath, if god leaving my life in the voyage, after I boarded the land, has been back to my loving parents, from now on must listen to their advice.
But the next day the wind stopped, the wave also rested.The sun is setting, is a beautiful and lovely after that evening, then drank my partner made a bowl of sweet wine, I take it home after the trip to throw to the outside of the cloud nine.My this kind of behavior caused a great misfortune to my life - the willful action often brought disaster to me, but I always not at the moment of disaster to repent.Stay to the danger in the past, forget all of the oath, and desperate to put my life no tricks.
After the first storm like sailing, I have had several different risk.When doing business in guinea to Africa, I captured by a Turkish pirate ship, sold into slavery, through many dangers, I fled to Brazil, where alone have a sugar cane plantation, live very well.But then I also became the victim of the temptation.Brazil because of lack of artificial, are some plantation owners know I had been to Africa for business some slave port market, they tried to coax me to make a voyage, to the area to buy some slaves back to their plantations.
Listen to bad idea, people will be out of luck.Our ship on the rocks in the north of South America a nameless island, all the sailors and the passengers were all drowned, god bless, only I a person is high the waves to the shore, and saved a life.At that time, all I have is a knife, a pipe and a bit of tobacco in the box.Until my physical recovery, can walk, when I walked along the coast.I was pleased that I found fresh water.After drinking the water, took a handful of starvation tobacco in your mouth.I will live on a tree, a comfortable sleep to cheer the spirit, the sea is calm.But the most let me happy is, I have seen the ship until the tide, see it was close to the coast, I found that can be easily swim to the boat.The ship left a dog and two cats, there is no other creatures.But the ship has a lot of daily necessities, so, I will dry up.In order to bring those things over to the island's a bay, I specially made a raft, also on the island of the fresh water and relatively flat a highland is my home.Bread, cheese and lamb, rice, barley and wheat, sugar, flour, dry wood, logs, the rope -- all of these, plus several muskets, two pistols and a few a shotgun, a hammer, and - that is the most useless - thirty six pounds sterling.All these things I day after day - between tide from ship to shore.The thirtieth day night, I'm handling work is done, when I lay down, although afraid as usual, but my heart is filled with gratitude, because I know, I have prepared for later to deal with this desert island and feel secure.
Have a lot of wild fruit trees on the island, but this is I had discovered the for a long time, I put it into raisins.And run wild goats on the island, but if it were not for me to get the guns from the ship, they what is the benefit to me?So I have reason to thank god, let the ship put aside on the coast, until I moved to everything that was useful to me.
If you want to make sure I can survive on this island, there are many things to do.I have done as much as possible a few thing I must do it.But my efforts is not always hand in your good luck.I sowed the seeds of barley and rice for the first time, these precious stock half wasted, the reason is that seeding is not well.I spent a few months hard work, dug several cellar for storage of fresh water.Spent 42 days time, to cut a tree in my first piece of long wooden board.I turned to dry for several weeks and I want to create a dao wheat stone mortar, but had to hollow out a large piece of wood.It took me five months of work, cut down a big tree cycas, split and cut, let it become a very decent canoe, standby to escape from the island, but only because how also can't make it down to the sea, and it had to be left behind.However, each pile failure, taught I didn't know some knowledge.
As for the natural environment, the island has the storm, and the earthquake.I was also adapted for everything.I grow and harvest the barley and wheat;I picked wild grapes, the sun, they became very nutritious raisins;I keep tame goats, then kill to eat, smoked and pickled.Since the supply of food is varied, so is not bad.So for twelve years, meantime, the island in addition to me, I have never seen a people.This has been to that big day, I stumbled upon a person on the beach of light footprints.
I just got a bolt from the blue.I turn my head to listen to the song, the poor, but heard nothing and saw nothing.I ran to the shore, and the sea to see, but the total is only then a footprint!I scare to the extreme, like a person be tracking down, fled back to my place.For three days and three nights, I dare not go out.
This is one of the best!Twelve years after twelve years of pain and hard work, struggle with the natural environment, would be for a person's a footprint terror nervous!But things are like that.After observation, I realized that this is the bravery that the continent's a habit.They took the war caught captive to the island I rarely go to that place, killed after big eat a meal.One morning, I saw from the telescope thirty savages are dancing around the bonfire.They are cooking up a captive, and two are preparing to put onto the fire roasted, then I carried in two loaded muskets, and the sword handle, ran toward them down the saved them in time to eat a prisoner.I save my this person called "Friday", in memory of his is rescued this day, his speech voice became my twenty-five years on the island for the first time I heard voices.He is young, intelligent, is a more advanced tribal barbarians, later in the time I stay on the island, he has always been my a reliable partner.After I taught him a few words of English, on Friday told me on the mainland.I decided to leave the island.We made a boat, this is not far off the coast.When we are almost ready to set sail boat, and there were twenty-one savages in three canoe, took three captive to the island to open party.One of the prisoners is a white, this can turn my spirit is broken.I put the two shotguns, four muskets, two pistols are fitted with double ammunition, gave a small ax on Friday, also he had drunk a lot of sugar cane, I bring the sword, we rushed down the hill and kill them all, only away four barbarians.
One of the prisoners who is the father of Friday.Is that white is Spanish, I saw a few years ago that ship on the rocks on my island of a survivor, I was also from the ship to more than one thousand two hundred pieces of gold, but for the money I have no value, because they are not more valuable than a lot of sand on the beach.
I gave the Spaniard and Friday's father guns and food, let them in my new boat to the Spanish ship wrecked sailors came up to my island.Waiting for when they come back, there is a British ship for sailors rioted conked out on my island.I helped the captain to recapture his ship, with his back to the UK.We walk away two honest sailors also want to go back to the UK, and make trouble to some of the most fierce sailor on the ter, the Spaniard back, stay down on the island.The two at the beginning of their quarrel, but after settled, finally established a thriving colony, over the years, I have had been to the island once again.
When I left the island, has two months on the island for twenty-eight years 29 days.I always thought I would make to the UK, I didn't think I have become a stranger there.My parents have died, it was really too sad, or I can now to their filial piety, because I in addition to the Spanish ship took to one thousand two hundred gold COINS, and twenty thousand waiting for me to go there to receive an honest friend, the friend is a Portuguese captain, before I do that hapless errand, I commissioned him to operate in Brazil's estate.It is to do the job that I lived on the island for twenty-eight years.I saw he was so honest, very happy, I decided to pay him one hundred gold COINS Portugal each year, and every year to pay his son after his death 50 COINS, Portugal as their life-long benefits.
I got married and had three children, because in addition to the above I say I lived in the island to see, and made a voyage, not roam again.I live in here, for I did not deserve to enjoy grateful, determination is now ready to make all travel the longest journey.If I learned anything, it is to realize the value of the retirement and pray over after our days in peace.
Five stories: in addition to make their homes in distress at sea, island, save on Friday, justice, fight, say goodbye to a desert island.