THE FIRST PART OF “ ROBINSON CRUSOE,” 29

Passions in the Managing and Correcting of Children.” Thus I am
brought to 1719, in which year, on the 25th of April, first appeared ‘ THE
LIFE AND STRANGE SuRPRIZING ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE.”
There can be no doubt
that the foundation of

this fascinating romance, THE

which for a century and

a half has been the L I F E
favourite companion not

only of English boys but AND

of English men, was

afforded by the narrative STRANGE SURPRIZING
of Alexander Selkirk’s

experiences, as recorded A D VE N A R E S
by Captain Woodes Rogers
in his account of “A
Cruising Voyage Round || ROBINSON CRUSOE,

the World: first to the : )
South Seas, thence to the OF TOR K, Mariner:

East Indies, and home- | Who lived Eight and Twenty Years,
ward by the Cape of Good all alone.In an un-inhabited Iland on the

OF

Hope; begun in 1708, and Coaft of AMERICA, near the Mouth of
finished in 1711.” Alex- the Great River of OngonooveE;

es Sete pha ee Having been oalt on Shore"by Shipwreck, where-
of Largo, in the county in all the Men perithed but himflf,

of Fife, where he. was WITH

born in 1676. In.Dam- | | An Account how he was at faft as ftrangely deli-
pier’s expedition to the vefd by PIRATES,

South Seas he served as
a sailor on board Captain
Stradling’s ship ; but quar- LONDON :
relling with his officer, | |PimedforW PE a eo
deserted from the vessel

at the island of Juan
Fernandez in September REDUCED FAC-SIMILE OF TITLE PAGE TO VOL. I. OF THE
1704, and there lived alone FIRST EDITION OF “‘ ROBINSON CRUSOE.”

until released by Captain Woodes Rogers in February 1709.

Selkirk returned to England in 1711. In the following year his extra-
ordinary story was published by Captain Woodes Rogers, from whose
“Cruising Voyage” it was reprinted, in a quarto tract of twelve pages,
shortly afterwards. Another account appeared in Captain Edward Cooke’s
“ Voyage” (1712); and on the 8rd December 1713, in the 26th number of
“The Englishman,” it was again related by Sir Richard Steele, who had
seen and conversed with its hero in London.

Written by Rimfelf.