Robinson Crusoe

by Slava Vaskovskii

Artwork: Daniel Defoe

Joined May 2022
Published Books 1

This book about englishmen who was 18 years old , name his was Robinsone Crusoe. He ran away from home to become a sailor. In sea was shipwrecks and only he survived. He was washed up on an uninhabited island.

On island i survival a lot years , I used improvised means to move the remining items from the destroyed ship. When i returned to the shore again , I realized that i was on a desert island. I build a tent out of sails and surrounded it with empty boxes to protect it from animals. Behind the tent, i dug a cave in the hill that served as my cellar . Once , during a severe thunderstorm, I was afraid that one lightning strike could destroy all my gunpowder , and after that i put it in different bags and stored it separately. I discovered that there were goats on the island , and i started hunting them.

In order not’to lose track of time , i created a simulated calendar – i drove a large log into the sand , on which i marked the days with notches. Together with the things from the ship , I transported two cats and a dog who lived with me.

The waves washed the wreckage of the ship to the island , I got access to its hold . also on the shore i found a large turtle , the meat of which replenished my diet.

With the beginning of the rains, I got sick , i had a strong fever. it was possible to be cured with the help of tobacco tincture with rum.
During the exploration of the island , sugar cane , melons , wild lemons and grapes were grown. I dried the last one in the sun to prepare raisins for the future. In a blooming green valley , I made myself a second home – a cottage in the woods.

Soon one of the cats brought three kittens.

I also learned to accurately divide the seasons into rainy and dry. I tried to stray at home during rainy periods so as not to get sick.

I built a small boat to circumnavigate the island by sea . skirting the underwater rocks , I sailed far from the shore and got into the jet of the sea current, which carried me further and further away. However , soon the current weakened , and i managed to return to the island , which i was infinitely glad of.

Somehow i found a human footprint on the shore. I hid at home and spent the whole night thinking about how a person ended up on the island . Having calmed down , I even began to think that this was my own trail. However , when I returned to the same spot , I saw that the footprint was much larger than my foot.In fear, I wanted to disband all the cattle and dig up both fields, but then calmed down and changed my mind. then I realized that the savages come to the island only occasionally, so it’s important for me to just stay out of their sight. For added security, I drove stakes into the gaps between the trees that were densely planted earlier, thus creating a second wall around my dwelling.

Six Indian pirogues landed on the island. The savages brought two prisoners with them. While they were engaged in the first, the second rushed to run away. Three people were chasing the fugitive, two of them I shot with a pistol, and the third was killed with a saber by the fleeing man himself. I beckoned the frightened fugitive to me. then he took the savage to the grotto and fed him. The savage showed by all possible signs that from this day on he would serve me all his life. I started gradually teaching him the right words. First of all, he said he would call it Friday in memory of the day when he saved his life. Taught the words “yes” and “no”. The savage offered to eat the dead enemies, but I refused. Friday has become a real companion for me.

I begin to suspect Friday of wanting to escape from the island, but the native proves his loyalty to me. The savage himself offers to help return home. Then we made a raft out of a tree trunk in a month. I put a mast with a sail in the boat.

After waiting out the rainy season, we began to prepare for the upcoming trip. One day the savages landed on the shore with the following prisoners. we killed the cannibals. The rescued prisoners were a Spaniard and Friday’s father.

The Spaniard said that the savages sheltered seventeen Spaniards whose ship was wrecked off a neighboring island, but the rescued are in extreme need. I agreed with the Spaniard that his comrades would help me with the construction of the ship.

Soon after we built the boat, I returned to my homeland. By that time, my parents had died, and my sisters, children and other relatives met me at home. Everyone listened with great enthusiasm to my incredible story, which I told from morning to evening.

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