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The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe (1); Life, Adventures, and Piracies of Captain Singleton, and Life of Colonel Jack. 1854
The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe Life Adventures and Piracies of Captain Singleton and Life of Colonel Jack 1854 - 1 Author:Daniel Defoe Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1854 Original Publisher: Henry G. Bohn Subjects: English fiction Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial acces... more »s to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: It wanted but a little consultation to resolve now upon our voyage. The first design was only to coast it round the island, as well to see if we could seize upon any vessel fit to embark ourselves in, as also to take hold of any opportunity which might present for our passing over to the main ; and, therefore, our resolution was to go on the inside, or west shore of the island, where at least at one point, the land stretching a great way to the north-west, the distance is not extraordinary great from the island to the coast of Africa, Such a voyage, and with such a desperate crew, I believe was never made; for it is certain we took the worst side of the island to look for any shipping, especially for shipping of other nations, this being quite out of the way; however, we put to sea, after taking all our provisions and ammunitions, bag and baggage, on board. We had made both mast and sail for our two large periaguas, and the other we paddled along as well as we could; but when a gale sprung up, we took her in tow. CHAPTER m. CONTINUATION OF THE VOYAGE -- TRADE WITH THE NATIVES THEIR KINDNESS WE LAND, AND ENCAMP AT POINT DESPERATION FURTHER PROCEEDINGS AND ADVENTURES ON THE ISLAND WE DISCOVER THE WRECK OF A DUTCH VESSEL AT SEA AFTER FOUR MONTHS LABOUR, WE CONSTRUCT A VESSEL FIT TO CARRY US OFF SAIL FOB THE MAINLAND OF AFRICA, AND REACH IT IN SAFETY. We sailed merrily forward for several days, meeting with nothing to interrupt us. We saw several of the natives in small canoes, catching fish, and sometimes we endeavoured to come ...« less