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CHAPTER IX.

Boiling the Whale's Blubber.. Invention of a Boat Propeller..A Voyage to Prospect

Hill..A Panoramic Prospect.. Whale Island.. A Mammoth's Skeleton.. A New

Use for a Turtle.. More Work.. A Loom constructed.."Saddler and Harness-

Maker".. A Yoke for the Oxen.. Manufacture of Baskets and Panniers.. A Con-

veyance for Mamma..A Practical Joke, of which Ernest is the Victim.. What

is it approaches?.. A Boa-Constrictor.. Its Disappearance.. An Unpleasant

Neighbour.. War to the Death The Boa and its Victim..A Chapter of Horrors

..A Lordly Banquet.. The Victory over Goliath.. Rejoicing mingled with much

Lamentation.. Talk about Dragons and Serpents.. The Secretary-Bird, or Eater

of Snakes.. A Poetical Epitaph.. Hic jacet Asinus.. How to skin a Serpent.. The

Process of Stuffing..Asses forbidden.. A Short Homily on Cowardice.. In the

Track of the Boa.. A Grotto Discovered.. Something about Soap.. Another Sub-

terranean Marvel.. Crystal Palaces ad infinitum.. Gossip about Crystals.. Rudly

in Tears.. Capture of an Eel..A New Expedition.. Arrival at Falcon's-Nest..

Fritz becomes Enthusiastic about Sport.. The Voice of the Charmer..A Cabiai

captured..Fritz's Triumph..Master Ernest's Achievements.. An Adventure

with Rats.. Animals and Musk.. Cinnamon Apples.. A Herd of Hogs.. Devasta-

tion spread amidst their Ranks.. The Result of the Slaughter.. The Peccary..

Roast Pig after the Tahitian Manner.. Cooking Extraordinary.. Voyages of Dis-

covery.. Prospect Hill...

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CHAPTER X.

The Camp and its Natural Rampart.. Where were they?.. The Dreary Desert..
Through Pain to Victory.. Roast Ham à la Tahiti..Some Strange Cavaliers.. A
Delusion of the Senses.. Chit-chat about Ostriches..An Exciting Chase.. Eagle
versus Ostrich.. An Instance of the Divine Wisdom.. Burdens not to be endured
..A Land-Turtle.. Notes in Natural History.. An Oasis in the Desert.. Progress
of the Pilgrims.. Ernest in a State of Alarm.. A Fierce Struggle with Bears..
Ernest penitent..Spolia Opima.. Home again, and a Happy Reunion.. Birds
of Prey.. Fred lands a Gigantic Condor.. Preparing the Bear's Flesh.. Pecks of
Pepper.. They stuff the Huge Condor.. Fred, Rudly, and Fritz, set out on their
Travels..Splitting Ostrich Eggs..A Prospect of Glass Windows.. Return of the
Wanderers..A Recital of their Adventures.. Hunting the Antelope..The Eagle
as Rabbit-Catcher.. The Honey-Guide, or Indicator-Bird.. An Encounter with
Bees.. Cogitation about Coast Defences.. A Bear's Paw..A Voyage on Horse-
back..A Subtle Poison.. Its Uses..A Chase after an Ostrich.. The Refractory
Prisoner.. Taming Processes..Spoiling an Ostrich Nest..Arrival at Bears'
Cavern.. A Dispute about Owning the Captive.. Each to his own Occupation..
A Strange Cavalcade.. Making a Barrier.. Discovery of some Moor Fowls.. Visit
to Rock-House..Settling New Colonies..Something about the Antelope.. Im-
portant Labours.. An Addition to the Museum..Action rersus Inaction..Sweat
of the Brow.. Educating the Ostrich.. Her Training completed.. A Novel Har-
ness..Saddler to His Majesty.. The Question of Ownership once more mooted..

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Hatching Ostrich-Eggs.. Preparation of the Bear's Skin.. An Artificial Drink..
Muscado Wine.. The Manufacture of Hats.. Success in the Matter of Dyes..
Flights of Fancy.. More Hats in Request.. The Ondatara described.. The Habits
of the Beaver.. The Beavers' Community.. Their Engineering Works.. Building
the Dam.. Beaver-Hunting.. The Trade in their Skin.. More Hat Manufacture..
Experiments in the Making of Pottery..

CHAPTER XI.

Arrival of the Wet Season.. Various Indoor Industries.. Building a Cajack.. How
they use it in Greenland.. A Chef-d'œuvre.. Diving Apparatus.. Nature re-
generated.. Exploring the Island.. A Visit to the Antelopes.. A Mysterious
Plant.. Librarian and Curator.. A Lecture upon Shells..Some of their Uses..
The Purpura of the Ancients.. Bouquets of Shells.. Musical Shells.. Notes in
Conchology.. Visit to Falcon's-Nest.. A Dish of Jelly.. Excursion to Shark
Island.. Rabbits and their Warrens.. A Descent on Whale Island.. A Solitary
Excursion.. The Plantation ravaged.. Punishment of the Plunderers.. Rudly
makes his appearance.. Return of the Expedition.. A Deserved Reproof..
Goodly Eating.. Rats and Fish.. The Kangaroo described.. An Instance of
Forethought.. Pneumatic Machinery.. The Effect of a Syringe.. A Swollen
Bladder..Flaying a Kangaroo.. Domestic Labour.. No Day without some Work
Harvesting in the Manner of the Italians.. A Comical Affair.. The Solution
of the Enigma.. Threshing Grain on Horseback.. To the Saddle, Troopers!.. An
Apt Quotation.. The Separation of the Chaff.. The Chickens regale themselves
.. Preparing Maize.. Termination of Field Labours.. Skinning Sea-Dogs.. Launch
of the Cajack.. To the Sea! to the Sea!.. A Sudden Alarm.. Carried away by the
Current.. A Fight with a Walrus.. Christening the Cajack.. Three Utilities..A
Wonderful Calculation.. Knowledge is Power..A Storm at Sea.. A Safe Arrival
Home.. Familiar Converse.. Choosing the Better Part.. Nihil humani alienum
a me.. A Wise Proposal.. The Clove Tree, and all about it.. A Superb Company
of Salmon.. Ernest as Lecturer.. To the Height of Science..A Combat with
Boars..Constructing a Drawbridge.. Professor Ernest again.. Fritz's Secret..
What is Pemmican?.. Pounding Bears' Flesh.. Departure of the Travellers..
Manufacture of a Sugar-Pressing Mill.. All about Sugar.. How made.. Its
Varieties.. Mysterious Noises.. Preparations for Combat.. Battle with a Hyæna
.. The Animal defeated.. An Original Letter-Carrier.. All about the Carrier-
Pigeon.. Its Characteristics.. Its Love of Society..A Flight of Pigeons..A
Slaughtering Expedition.. More about Pigeons.. Arrival of Despatches.. To the
Governor of Tent Town.. Frederick's Letter.. The Evening Telegram.. A Narra-
tive of the Expedition to the Woodlands.. They capture a Tapir.. Fred's Prize
.. The Bird of Paradise.. Fact and Fancy.. Talk about Birds in general.. Cutting
down a Palm Tree.. Fred's Narrative.. Assailed by the Cry of Apes.. A Snare
for the Enemy.. A Marvellous Spectacle.. A Devout Silence.. Nocturnal Noises
.. Alarms.. Death of the Enemy.. Rudly's Letter..A Rhapsody.. Another De-
spatch..The Scene of Action.. All about the Elephant.. Fact and Fiction..A
Wonderful Instrument.. Character of the Elephant.. The Work of Fortification
..A la Kamtschatdales.. The Talipat Palm.. A Pleasant and Safe Retreat..An

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Asylum for the Peaceful.. Chocolate for ever!.. The Professor on Cacao.. How

they cultivate it.. Making Chocolate.. A Disquisition on the Banana.. Its vari-

ous Species.. Where met with..A Plant with no Seeds..A Reed Hurdle in Tow

.. Return in Triumph.. Rudly's Special Commission.. Details of Fred's Expedi-

tion.. A Stirring Adventure.. Some Information about Crocodiles.. Novel Ac-

quisitions..Cultivation of the Tea Plant..To Everything its Place.. Rudly in

Danger..The Knight of the Jaguar.. Building Operations.. Fortifying Shark

Island..

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CHAPTER XIL

The Fruits of Labour.. Love of the Fatherland.. Bees and Honey.. The Study of

Natural History.. Tent-Town Gallery.. A Maritime Picture.. The Earthly Para-

dise..Abundance of the Kindly Fruits of the Earth..Bird-Trapping.. Arrival

of the Humming-Birds.. Spice, and all that is Nice.. A Sugar Manufactory..

The Labours of the Day..Snaring Turkeys.. Live Stock.. Unsociable Swine..

Wanted, the Companionship of Man.. The Personnel of the Swiss Robinson

Family.. A Bitter Cry.. Lost and Found again.. Frederick's Narrative..

Skirting the Coast..A Natural Arch.. Clouds of Sea-Swallows.. Material for

Jelly.. The End of Fred's Story.. Pearls of Great Price.. A New River St. John

..A Natural Harbour.. Capture of a Sea-Otter.. Frederick's Secret..Save a

Poor Castaway!..A Message by Sea.. A Human Being within Reach.. Hopes

and Fears.. The Professor lectures upon Pearls.. Pearl-Fishery.. The Process

of Diving.. Miscellaneous Talk about Pearls.. The Sea-Otter.. The Toga Virilis

.. Preparations for Pearl-Fishery.. Departure of the Travellers.. Out at Sea..

The Nautilus described.. Into Pearl Bay.. Collecting Sea-Swallows' Nests.. The

Pleasures of Hope.. Back again.. A Bivouac.. Rudly assailed by a Wild Pig..

Ernest's Narrative.. Something about Truffles.. Head and Hams.. Nankeen..

Cooking the Pig..Some Terrible Noises.. The Apparition of a Lion..A Glorious

Victory.. Lioness to the Rescue!.. The Death of Juno..A Torchlight Burial..

An Epitaph in Prose.. Roast à la Tahiti..An Erroneous Partiality.. The King

of Animals dethroned.. Return to Tent-Town.. Frederick sets out.. Going in

Search..Adventure with a Whale.. All about the Cachalot.. A Striking Appari-

tion.. Frederick in Savage Guise.. Pantomime in Earnest.. Rejoice and be Glad

.. The Stranger.. To the Smoking Rock.. He is Welcome, Welcome!.. A New

Brother..Second Sight.. Miss Jenny.. Her Reception.. A Troop of Black Wolves

..Skinning the Spoil.. Miss Jenny's Expedition.. Charming the Jackal.. A Wolf

in Sheep's Clothing.. The Fruits of Invention and Necessity.. Miss Jenny's

Industry..

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CHAPTER XIII.

Fishing with Strange Bait.. Pearl-Gathering.. Frederick's Narrative.. Calm after
Storm..An Unwelcome Apparition.. An Orang-Outang in Sight.. In Search
of the Smoking Rock.. Escape from Alligators.. A great Striped Tiger.. Eagle
versus Tiger.. The Lost One Found.. Brother and Sister.. To Rest for the Night

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.. Miss Jenny's History.. A Homeward Voyage.. Wrecked.. Maidenly Solitude

..

Visit to Prospect Hill..To Shark Island..A Welcome Home..A Goodly

Feast.. Long Live Miss Jenny !.. A Journey en famille.. A Daughter and a

Sister..

CONCLUSION.

End of the Rainy Season.. A Descent upon Shark Island.. Men! Men!.. A Ship in

Distress?.. Friends or Enemies?.. Hopes and Fears.. A Man-of-War in the Dis-

tance.. Reconnoitring the Stranger.. Welcome, Englishmen!.. Pomp and Dignity

.. Rigging the Pinnace.. Interview with the Captain of the Stranger Ship.. New

Friends.. Contact with Civilized Society.. Departure of Frederick and Fritz..

The Last Memorable Night.. Farewell!..

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INTRODUCTION.

[FROM THE FRENCH OF CHARLES NODIER]

O Daniel De Foe, one day, a great thought came; the idea occurred to him of surrounding a man with all those conditions most dreaded by humanity: necessity, peril, and, before all, solitude. He resolved that his hero, in this desperate state of misery and abandonment, should have but two auxiliaries: the moral courage which never quails, and that proverbial providence of the unfortunate which helps those who help themselves. He resolved to show how much might be accomplished by the natural instinct of self-preservation, the patience of a resolute and energetic character, and, finally, by that faculty of resignation which is patience exalted into the rank of Christian virtues.

The English ROBINSON CRUSOE is the inimitable type of Man in Solitude, and I can easily understand how powerfully it would have affected the morose and melancholy imagination of Rousseau.† The type, however, is truly religious, truly moral, truly social; and this last quality is as precious as it is extraordinary in a personage whom misfortune reduces to the most absolute isolation. Of the three chief duties of an intelligent creature towards God, towards himself, towards the creatures which resemble him, Robinson Crusoe discharged the first two with admirable and touching fervour; he is tormented by the need of fulfilling the third, and as quickly as he may he does fulfil it, for he wanted but a neighbour to prove that he could love him. When, however, this conjuncture takes place, the dramatic interest of the story is at an end. Robinson Crusoe has his fields, his plantations, his

[* "Robinson Crusoe" was first published in 1719. There can be little doubt that it was suggested to De Foe by the narrative of Alexander Selkirk, who lived for four years on the uninhabited island of Juan Fernandez.--Translator.]

[ A great French writer, born 1712, died 1775; the author of "Julie," "La Nouvelle Héloise," and other works. His genius was of a morbid and brooding character; brilliant, but unhealthy.-Translator.]