The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-16


 on for many days and found that all the coast was infested with wild beasts to such degree that not even the wild 1 and savage negroes would dispute pos- I session with the ieopards. Hons and other furious beasts that harbored there. Robinson Crusoe succeeded In shoot | Ing a lion that was more terrible and l great than any he had seen before, and he dried the monsters hide on the cab In roof. After twenty-five dayh of sail ing along this dreadful shore he fell in with q Portugese ship bound to the l Brazils.
 l The captain took them aboard and Erefused all recompense, but declared I that he would land him safely in Bra zil If should take from you what | you have" said he, "you would only be starved there. and thus would take away the life I have given"
 He bought the long boat. for eighty pieces of eight. gave Robinson Crusoe sixty pieces for the Hons skin and oth- CT hides. and on arrival in Ail-saints' Day sold Crusoe's cargo to such ad- vantage that he cleared 22o pieces of I eight.
 This was not all. The captain bought I xury for sixty pieces. Robinson Cru soc was reluctant to sell the boy, but the captain agreed to set him at lib- ertyy within ten years if he turned Christian. and xury was willing. so the sale was made.
 He was not ashore long before he regretted bitterly that he had sold the boy who had helped him to his own I liberty.
 1 : He bought land and made ready great piece for planting sugar canes. Then he found that he needed help and none could be had; and he real ized that he had, indeed, done a great wrong when he sold xury. However, 1t was too late to remedy the wrong and Robinson Crusoe had no way out of 1t save to go on by himself and ia- Dor with his own hands.
 It struck him with unpleasant fofcs | that he had gone 5000 miles and pass ed through slavery and shipwreck to enter that very middle station or up- per degree of low life which his fath- CT had advised in England.
 I4 What grieved him more than all was that he had hardly Q neighbor to speak I with him. and he fretted at the soii- I tude. Afterward he reflected often how unjustiy he had called that life solitude before he knew what true solitude was. Ssat
 But these thoughts did not come to him then. He increased in wealth as 1 his plantation improved. only to wish l for something more. He could not stay in one spot. He was restless to wan l der.
 He began to speak to his fellow planters at every opportunity about the coast of Guinea, and fired them with Ilust. They grew particularly excited over the prospectNo obtaining plenty | of slaves, for the Braziis were short l of laborers and the business of slave dealing was private perquiste of the thrifty kings of Spain and Portugal, who kept prices excessively high. l te nn1r aNf Nfae Ia v,ln ata ton in his absence and hold 1t safely for him if he would take charge of the ship. Robinson Crusoe knew that it was preposterous for him to go, In three or four yesrs. ne might with fair ssSa to his % Sasinsss # biantinE; bSt he he could not sresist tKefttsnfpf 5.9t ber. isss. M being fs tiss N NsaiGss G day & 7 as the one eight years ago. When. he ran away from home. he embafksd with fourteen 1 with cargo Of trade stuff such as beads. knives, scissors and hatchets. I They passed the line fn about twelve days and were In seven degrees twen- I ty-two minutes northern latitude when a great tornado took them. It came from the southeast. changed to the northwest and then settled to the northeast whence 1t blew 90 hard for twelve days that they had to let the ship drive. . l On the twelfth day the master made an observation and found that the ves- 4 sel swas in about II degrees north iati-- ltuzteE but that he was 22 degrees of Il longitude difference west of Cape St. Augnstinnrsloff which they had been | when they made their last observation. This showed them that they were on Ethe coast of Guinea beyond the River Amazones. and toward that of the River oronoque. commonly called the Great River.
 They steered westward with their crippled vessel in the hope of reaching the English Caribbe Islands. where they might make repairs; but in the latitude of l2 degrees IS minutes a secondstorm fell upon them and after they had driven before 1t for some days the ship struck.
 Tn moment. her way being stopped. the sea broke over her. Expecting her to break up at any moment they got the boat over and committed them selves to Gods mercy and the wild sea. The wind drove them toward shore which lay about league away. When they approached 1t, 1t. looked more I frightful than the sea. A raging wave. inountainrlike. came rolling astern. It gave the sailors not time to say, "Oh, God!" before they were swallowed up.
 Of all that wretched crew. Robinson Crusoe alone came ashore. He was cast T up and drawn back aud cast up and drawn back till a merciful surf threw him beyond reach of succeeding waves. 1 When he recovered. he could do ,noth. ing for a time except walk up and down raising his hands to heaven. un- able to express his transports and ee- stacy. After a while. however, the realization that he had neither food nor drink, that he was on a strange shore where wild beasts or wilder men might attack him. overwhelmed him with af
 iictIon, Despairtng of life and yet clinging to it. he climbed Into tree and there spent the night in thousand fears.
 When he awoke the sea was quiet and the first object his eyes saw was the ship, driven to within a mile of the beach. When the tide ebbed he was able to come dry-shod within a quarter of a mile of her, and the discovery that the whole ships company would have been saved had they remained on the ship. brought tears to his eyes. for the solitude in which he. was had begun to afrlict him already.
 He reused himself to action and I swam to the ship to see what might be saved. He found the provisions dry and filled his pockets with biscuits, which he ate as he worked. He flung. a few loose spars overheard and tied | them together to make raft. Then he emptied three seamen's chests and low cred them to 1t. Into them he piled | Dutch cheese, bread. rice, dried goats flesh and some European corn which was left from chicken food. He added l-g- -A NN V-N. lN-