THE FIRST PART OF ‘‘ ROBINSON CRUSOE.”

Passions in the Managing and Correcting of Children.”
brought to 1719, in which year, on the 25th of April, first appeared “ Tire

LIFE AND STRANGE SURPRIZING ADVENTURES OF RoBINSON CRUSOE.”

There can be no doubt
that the foundation of
this fascinating romance,
which for a century and
a half been the
favourite companion not
only of English boys but
of English men, was
afforded by the narrative
of Alexander Selkirk’s
experiences, as recorded
by Captain Woodes Rogers
in his account of “A
Cruising Voyage Round
the World: first to the
South Seas, thence to the
East Indies, and home-
ward by the Cape of Good
Nope; begun in 1708, and
finished in 1711.” Alex-
ander Selkirk was a native
of Largo, in the county
of Fife, where he was
born in 1676. In Dam-
pier’s expedition to the
South Seas he seryred as
a sailor on board Captain
Stradling’s ship; but quar-
relling with his officer,
deserted from the vessel
at the island of Juan
Fernandez in September
1704, and there lived alone

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LIFE

STRANGE SURPRIZING

ADVENTURES

OF

ROBINSON CRUSOE,
Of TORK, Mariner:

Who lived Eight and Twenty Years,

all alone In an an -inhabited Ifland on the
Coaft of AMERICA, near the Mouth of
the Great River of OROONOQUE;

Having been caft on Shore"by Shipwreck, where-;
in all the Men perifhed but himfelf.
WITH
An Account how he was at faft as ftrangely deli-
ver'd by PYRATES.
Written by Himfelf.

LON DOWN
Printed for W Taytok atthe Ship in Parer-Nofler-

Row. MDCCXIX.

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until released by Captain Woodes Rogers in February 1709.

Thus I am

 

 

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 1718, 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,