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apsby Martin Ursell
CONTENTS
STORY
INTRODUCTION
1
My
first sea journey
1
2
Down
the coast
of
Africa
5
3
The s torm and
the shipwreck
4
A
new
life
o n a n
island
3
5
Learning to live alone
6
6
A
footprint
23
7
Man
Friday
26
8
Escape from the island
33
9
Home in England
39
GLOSSARY
42
ACTIVITIES:
Before
Reading
44
ACTIVITIES:
While
Reading
45
ACTIVITIES:
After Reading
48
ABOUT THE
AUTHOR
52
ABOUT
BOOKWORMS
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My
first
sea
journey
Before
I
begin my story
I
would like to tell you a litt le
about myself.
I
was born inthe year 1632 in the cityof York in the
north of England. My father was German but he came
to live
and
work in England. Soon after that hemarried
my mother who was English. He r family name was
Robinson so when I was born theycailedmeRobinson
after her.
My
father did wellin his business
and
I
wentto a good
school. He wantedmeto get a good job andlive a quiet
f 1 I f t ~ ~ comfortable life. But
I
/
it :t
.
~ ~ I / k . dIdn t want that
I
wanted adventure and
: ~ an exciting life.
wanted adventure
n
an excitinglife
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I want
to
be a sailor and go
to
sea, I told my mother
and
father. They were very unhappy
about
this.
Please don t go, my father said. You won t be
happy, you know. Sailors have a difficult
and
dangerous
life. And because I loved him,
and
he was unhappy, I
tried to forget about the sea.
But I couldn t forget, and about a year later, I saw a
friend in town. His father had a ship, and my friend said
to me, We re sailing to London tomorrow. Why don t
you come with us?
And so,
on
September 1st, 1651, I went to Hull, and
the next day wesailed for London.
But, a few days later, there was a strongwind.The sea
was rough and dangerous,
and
the ship wen t up and
down, up
and
down. I was very ill
and
very afraid.
f.
The
s
was rough
nd
dangerous
2
y
first sea journey
Oh, I don t want to die I cried. I want to live
f
I
live, ll go home
and
never go to sea again
The nextday thewind dropped, and the sea was quiet
and beautiful again.
Well, Bob, my friend laughed.
How
do you
f l
now? The wind
wasn t
too bad.
What I cried. twas a terrible storm.
Oh,that wasn t a storm, myfriend answered. Justa
littlewind. Forget it. Come and have a drink.
After a few drinkswith myfriend, I felt better. Iforgot
about the danger and decided not t o go home. I didn t
want my friends
and
family to laugh
at m
I stayed inLondon for sometime,
but
I still wanted to
go
to
sea. So, when the captain
of
a ship asked me to go
with him to Guinea in Africa, I agreed. And soI went to
sea for the second time.
t was a good ship
and
everything went well at first,
but I was very
il l
again. Then, when we were near the
Canary Islands, a Turkish pirate ship came after us.
They were famous thieves of the sea at
that
time. There
was a long, hard fight, but when it finished, we and the
ship were prisoners.
The Turkish captain and his men took us to Sallee in
Morocco. Theywantedto sell us as slavesin themarkets
there. But in the endthe Turkishcaptain decided
to
keep
me for himself, and tookme home with him.This was a
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sudden and terrible change in my life. I was now a slave
and this Turkish captain was mymaster.
2
Down
the coast of
frica
For two long years I lived the life
of
a slave. I worked in
the house and the garden, and every day I planned to
escape,
but
it was never possible. I thought
about
it day
and night.
y
master liked to go fishing in a little boat,
and he always took me with him. A man called Moely,
-and a young boy also went with us.
One day my maste r said to us, Some of my friends
want to go fishing tomorrow. Get the boat ready.
So
we put a lot of food and drink on the boat, and the
next morning, we waited for my master and his friends.
But when my master arrived, he was alone.
yfriends don, twant to go fishing today, he said to
me. Butyou gowith Moely and the boy, and catch some
fish
for
our
supper tonight.
Yes, master, I answered quietly, but inside I was
excited. Perhaps now I can escape, I said to myself.
ymaster went back to his friends and we took the
boat
out to
sea. For a time we fished quietly,
and
then I
movedcarefully behindMoely
and
knockedhimintothe
water. Swim I cried. Swim to the shore
y master liked to shoot seabirds and so there were
guns on the boat. Quickly, Itook oneof these guns. Moely
was swimming after the boatand I shouted to him:
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own
the coast
o
frica
6
Then I said to the boy Xury i f y ou h el p m e I l l be a
good friend to you.
you don t help me I ll push you
into the sea too.
But X ur y w as h ap py
to
h el p me. I ll g o all over t he
world with you he cried.
I wanted to sail to the Canary Islands bu t I was afraid
to go to o far from the shore.
t
w as o nl y a s ma ll b oa t.
And so we sailed
on
s ou th f or s om e d ay s. W e ha d very
little water an d it was dangerous country here with
many wild animals. We were afraid bu t we often h ad t o
go on shore to get morewater. Once Iuseda gunto shoot
a wi ld an im al . I don t know what animal it was but it
made a good meal.
For about ten or twelvedays we sailed
on
south down
thecoast
of
Africa.
Thenone
da y wesaw some people
on
the s ho re - s tr an ge w il d p eo pl e wh o did
no t
look
friendly.
no w we ha d little food
and
we really
neededhelp. We were afraid bu t wehad to go on shore.
At first they were afraid
of
us too. Perhaps white
people never visited this coast. We did
no t
speak their
language
of
course so we used ou r hands
and
faces to
show
that
wewere hungry. They came with food for us
butthen they moved away quickly. Wecarried the food
to ou r boat
and
they watched us. I tried
to
thank them
bu t I ha d nothing to give them.
Just then
tw o
big wild cats came
d ow n t o
the shore
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Down
the coast
of
Africa
Then I rememberedtheguns which made a lot ofsmoke
ThenI remembered the gunswhich made a lot
of
smoke.
A few minutes later the ship saw us and turned.
When we were on the ship, the Portuguese captain
listened to my story. He was going to Brazil and agreed
to help me, but he wanted nothing for his help.
No,
he
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I think they were leopards
from the mountains . I think they were leopards . The
people were afraid of these wild cats , and the women
cried out. Quickly, I
took
a gun,
and
shot one
of
the
animals. The second wild cat r an back up into the
mountains.
Gunswere newto theseAfricanpeople, and they were
afraid of the loud noise and the smoke. But they were
happy about the dead wild cat. I gave them the meat of
the dead animal, andtheygave us more food andwater.
We nowhad alot of food andwater, andwe sailedon.
Eleven days later we came near the Cape Verde Islands.
We could see them, but we couldn't get near because
there was no wind. We waited.
SuddenlyXury called to me, 'Look, a ship '
He was right We called
and
shouted and sailed
our
little boatas fast aswe could. But the ship did not see us.
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said, when Itriedto payhim. Perhaps,one day, someone
will help
me
when I need it.
But hegaveme money for my boat, andfor Xury, too.
Atfirst, Idid
notwant to
sellXury as a slave,after all
ou r
dangerous adventures together. But Xurywas happy to
go to the captain, an d the capta in was a good man. In
ten years time, he said, Xury can go free.
When we arrived in Brazil three weeks later , I said
goodbye to the captain
and
Xury, leftthe ship, and went
to begin a new life.
3
The
storm
and
the shipwreck
I stayed in Brazil and worked hard for some years. By
then I wasrich but also bored. One day somefriends
came to me and said, We re going to Africa to do
business. Why don t you comewith us? We ll all be rich
after this journey
ow stupid I was I had an easy, comfortable life in
Brazil, but, of course, I agreed. Andso, in 1659,Iwentto
sea agam.
At first, all went well, but then there was a terrible
storm. Fortwelve days thewind and the rain didn t stop.
Welostthreemenin the sea, an d soonthe ship had holes
in its sides. We re all going to die this time, I said to
The storm nd the shipwreck
ne of the sailors saw land
rough and
ou r
little
boat
could no t live for long in
that
wild water.
a lf a n hour
later the angry sea turned
our boat
over
and we were all in the water. I looked round for my
friends, but I couldsee nobody. I was alone.
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I tied the piecesofwoo
together
with
rope
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fell r the w t sand
h t
d ay I wa s lucky a nd th e sea c ar rie d me to the
shore. I could
not
see the land only mountains of water
all around me. Then suddenly I felt the ground under
myfeet. Anothermountain ofwater came pushed me up
the beach and I fell on the wet sand.
At first I was very thankful to be alive. Slowly I gotto
my feet nd w en t h igh er up t he s hor e. F ro m t he re I
looked outto sea. Icould see our ship but itwas wrecked
and there was nobody near it. There was nobody in the
w at er . All my fr iends we re de ad. I w as alive b ut in a
strange wild country with no food no water nd no
gun.
It was d rk now nd I was tired. I was afraid to sleep
on the shore. Perhaps there were wild animals there. o I
went up into a tree and I stayed there all night.
4
A new life on
n
island
When daycame thesea wasquietagain. Ilookedfor
our
hip and to my surprise it was still there and still in one
piece. I t hi nk I c an swim t o i t I sa id t o myself. o I
walkeddown to the sea nd before long I was t the ship
nd was swimminground it. But how couldI get on to it?
the end Igot inthrougha hole inthe side but itwasn t
asy.
Therewas a lotofwaterin theship butthe sandunder
the sea wasstillholdingthe ship in oneplace. Theback of
the ship was high out of the wa te r a nd I wa s very
thankful for this because all the ship s food was there. I
was very h un gr y so I bega ll to eat something
t
once.
Then I decided to take
orne of i t back to the
horewith me. Buthow
ould I get it there?
I looked around the
hip nd after a few
minutes I found some
long pieces
of
wood. I
tiedthem togetherwith
rope. Then I got the
things th t I wa nt ed
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from the ship. There
was a big boxof food
- rice a nd s al te d
meat andhard ship s
bread. I also
took
many strong knives
I tookmany tools and other tools the
ship s sails and ropes paper pens books an d seven
guns.
ow
I needed a little sailfrom the ship an d then I
was ready. Slowly and carefully I went back to
the
shore.
was difficult to stop my things from falling into
the sea
but
in the end I got everything
on
to the shore.
ow
I needed somewhere to keep my things.
Therewere some hills
around
me so I decided to build
myselfa little house on one of them. I walked to the top
of the highest hill an d looked down. I was very unhappy
because I saw then that I wa s on a n island. There were
two smaller islandsa few miles away
and
after that only
the sea. Just the sea for mile after mile after mile.
After a time I found a littlecave inthe side of a hill. In
front of i t there was a good place to make a home. So I
used the ship s sails rope an d pieces of wood an d after
a l ot
ofhard work
I
ha d
a very fine tent. The cave
at
the
back of mytentwasa good place
to
keep myfood
an d
so
I called it my kitchen . That night Iwent to sleep in my
new home.
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w
life
o
an island
The next dayI thought about the possible dangers on
he island. Were there wild animals an d perhaps wild
ople too on my island? I didn t know but I was very
fraid.
o
I dec ide d t o b uil d a very s tr on g fence. I c ut
own young trees and put them in the ground in a half
ircle around the front of my tent. I used m an y of the
hip sropes too and intheend myfence was s strong as
stone wall. obodycould get over it through it or
round it.
Making tents
an d
building fences is ha rd work. I
needed manytools to help me.
o
I decided togo backto
he ship again and get some more things.
I went back twelve times but soon after my twelfth
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visit there was anotherterrible storm. The next morning
when
looked ou t to sea there was no ship.
When sawthat wasvery unhappy. Whyam alive
and why are all my friends dead? asked myself.
What
will happen
to
me now a lone on this island without
friends? Ho w can ever escape from it?
Then
told myself
that
was lucky -lucky to be alive
lucky to have food
and
tools lucky to be young
and
strong. But
knew that my island was somewhere offthe
coast of South America. Ships did
not
often come down
this coast an d
said to myself I m going to be on this
islandfor a long time. So on a long piece of wood cut
these words:
I CAMEHERE
ON
30TH
SEPTEMBER 1659
After that I decided to make a cutfor each day.
5
earning
to
live alone
I still needed a lot of things. Well I said I m going to
have to make them. So every day I worked.
First of all I wanted to make mycave bigger. I carried
out stonefrom the cave
an d
after many days
hard
work
I had a large cave inthe side of the hill. Then I needed a
table and a chair and that was my nex t job. I ha d to
w or k o n t he m for a long time. I also w ant ed t o make
Learning to live alone
laces to pu t all my food and allmy tools andguns. But
very time I wanted a piece of wood I ha d t o c ut d ow n a
r
e
It
was long slow difficult work
an d
during the
n
xt
months
lea rnt to be very clever with m y tools.
here was no hurry.
ha d
all the time in the world.
also went out every day and a lways ha d my gun
with me. Sometimes
killeda wildanimal and then
ha d
at to eat.
But when it got dark had to go to bed because
ha d
light.
couldn t read
or
write because
couldn t see.
or a long time
didn t
know what to do. Butin the end
Jea rntilOw to use the f at of d ea d an imals t o m ak e a
light.
The weather on my island was usually very hot and
there were often storms and heavy rain. ThenextJune it
r inedall the time
and
.,. r.
c ouldn t go out ver y
-
often. I was also ill for
orne weeks bu t
lowly I got better.
When I was stronger I
began to go out again.
he first time I killed a
wild a nima l and the
second time I caught a
big
turtle.
I caughta big turtle
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I was on the island for ten months before I visited
other parts of it. Duringthose months Iworked hard on
mycave andmyhouseandmy fence.
Now
Iwas readyto
find
out
more
about
the rest of the island.
First, I walked along the side of a little river. There, I
found open groundwithout trees. Later, I came to more
trees with many different fruits. I decided to take a lot of
the fruit, andto put it to dry inthe sun for a time. Then I
could keep it for many months.
That night Iwent to sleep ina tree for the secondtime,
andthe nextday Iwenton withmy journey. Soon I came
to an openingin the hills. In front ofme, everythingwas
green,
and
there were flowers everywhere. There were
also a lot of different birds and animals. I saw
that
my
house was on the worst side of the island. But I didn t
want to move from there.
was myhome now. I stayed
away for three days, and then I came home. But I often
went back to the other, greener side of the island.
And somy lifewent on. Every month I learnt to do or
to makesomethingnew. ButI had troubles and accidents
too. Once there was a terrible s torm with very heavy
rain. The roofof my cave fell in, and nearly killed me I
had to build it up again with many pieces ofwood.
I had a lot offood now. I cooked itover a fire or dried
it in the sun.
So
I always had meat during the rainy
months when I could not go out with a gun. I learnt to
18
earning to live alone
make pots to keep my food in.
utI wantedverymuchto make
harder, stronger pot - a pot
hat would
not
break in a fire. I
ried many times, but I could
ot do it. Then one day I was
lucky. I made some new pots
nd put themin a very hot fire.
hey changed colour, but did y first p t
ot break. I left them there for many hours , and when
hey were cold again, I found that they were
hard
and
trong. That night I was very happy. I had hotwater for
first time
on
the island.
By then, I also
had
my
own
bread. That was luck,too.
ne day I found a little bag. We used i t on the ship, to
keep thechickens food in. There
was still some of the food inthe
bag, and I d ropped some of it
;) onto the ground. A month later
,
I saw something bright green
there, and after six monthsI had
a very small field of corn. I was
1 very excited. Perhaps now I
couldmake my own bread
was easy to say, butnot so
easy to do. is a lot of
work
to
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make bread fromcorn.
any
people eat bread, but
how
many people can take
corn
from a field and make bread
out of it without help? I had to learn and to make many
new things, andit was a year beforeI cookedand ate my
first bread.
During all this time I never stopped thinking about
escape. When I travelled across to the other side of the
island, I could see the
other
islands,
and
I said to myself,
Perhaps I can get there with a boat. Perhaps I can get
back to England one day.
o I decidedto make myself a boat. I cut down a big
tree, and then began to make a longhole init. was hard
work,
but
about sixmonthslater, I had a very fine canoe.
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~ : I l
earning to live alone
Next, I had to get itdown to the sea.
ow
stupid I was
Why didn t I think before I began work?
Of
course, the
anoe was too heavy. I couldn t move it I pul led and
ushed and tried everything, but it didn t move. I was
v
ry
unhappy for a long time after that.
That happened in myfourth year on the island. In my
ixthyearI did makemyselfa smaller canoe,
but
Idid not
ry to escape in it. The boat was too small for a long
umey, andI did notwant to die at sea. The islandwas
y home now,notmyprison, and Iwas justhappyto
be
live A year or two later, I made myselfa second canoe
nthe othersideof theisland. I also builtmyselfa second
ouse there, and so I had two homes.
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A
footprint
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hen, oneyear,somethingstrange and terrible happened.
I often walked along the shore,
and
one day I saw
omething in the sand. I went over to look
at
i t more
refully, and stoppedin
udden surprise.
It was a footprint- the
otprint of a man
Who could this be?
Afraid, I looked
around
m
I listened. I waited.
Nothing. I was more and
more afraid. Perhaps this
It was a footprint
man was one
of
those wild people who killed and ate
thermen I looked everywhere,
but
there was nobody,
nd no o ther footpr int. I turned and hurr ied home.
There ssomeone onmyisland, I saidto myself. Perhaps
h knows
about
me Perhaps he s watching me now
from behind a tree Perhaps he wants to kill me.
That night I couldn t sleep. The next day I got all my
guns readyand I put morewoodand youngtrees around
my house.
obody
could s me now. But, after fifteen
years alone on theisland,I was afraid,and I didnot leav
my
cave for three days.
Soon
hadgoat s milk to drink.
y life was still busy from morning to night. There
were always things to
do
or to make. I learnt to make
new clothes for myself from the skins of dead animals.
They looked verystrange, itis true, but theykeptmedry
in the rain.
Ikeptfood andtools at bothmy houses,
and
also wild
goats. There were manygoats on the island, and I made
fields with high fences to keep them in. They learnt to
take food from me, and soon I had goat s milk to drink
every day. I also worked
hard
in my cornfields. And so
many years went by.
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In t he e nd I h ad t o go o ut t o milk my g oats. But for
tw o
years I wasafraid. I stayednear myhome and Inever
us ed m y g un s b ec aus e I d id n t w an t t o m ak e a noise. I
could no t forget the foo tp rint bu t I saw an d heard
nothing more and slowly I began to feel happier.
One day a year later Iwas over
on
the westside
of
the
i sl an d. F ro m t he re I c ou ld see t he
other
islands and I
could also see a boat far
o ut t o
sea. fy ou h av e a
boat
I thought it s easy to sail across to this island. Perhaps
that exp lain s the fo otp rin t- it was a v isitor fro m o ne of
the
other
islands.
I began
to
move more freely
around
the island again
and built myselfa third house. t was a very secret place
in a cave.
N o
wild man will ever find
that
I s ai d to
myself.
Then oneyear somethinghappened which I can never
forget. I was again on thewest side of the island an d was
walking alo ng the sho re. Sud denly I saw someth in g
whichmade me feel ill. There were heads arms feet and
other pieces
of
men s bodies everywhere. Fora minute I
couldn t
think
an d
then I understood. Sometimes there
were figh ts b etween the wild men on the other islands.
Thentheycamehere to my islandwith their prisoners to
kill them cookthem an d eatthem. Slowly I went home
but
I w as
v e ~ y
angry.
Ho w
cou ld men d o this?
For many mo nth s I watched carefully for the smo ke
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footprint
from fires but I didn t see anything. Somehow the wild
men came an d went
and
I never
saw
them.
I
was angry
nd afraid. I wanted to sh oo t th em all b u t there were
many
of
them and only one
of
me. Perhaps I can sh oo t
two or three I said to myself bu t thentheywill kill and
at me.
Then o ne morn in g in my twenty-third y ear on the
island I was ou t in my fields an d I sawth esmo ke fro m a
reo Quickly I went up the hill to watch.
There were n in e men around the fire and they were
ooking their terrible food. Thenthese wild men danced
o un d the fire sin ging an d sho utin g. This went on for
~ I i : f ~ f A
1
. i l
:;
The wil men danced round the fir singing n shouting
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Man Friday
I wanted people a friend somebody to talk to
om b od y w ho c ou ld help me es cape f rom my i sl an d.
n m or ni ng
wokeup andmadea plan. I ll try tocatch
n o f t he p ri so ne rs o f t he w il d m en s ai d t o myself.
be
happy to be alive and perhaps he ll help me to
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pe. watched day
and
night butfora yearand a half
re
were no boats.
Thenone dayfive boatscame. There were about thirty
n and theyhad two prisoners. They madetheir fire on
sand and danced round it. Then theykilled oneof the
ri
on er s a nd b eg an t o c oo k t he ir t er ri bl e m ea l. T he
ond prisonerwaited underthe trees with two men to
tch him. Suddenly the prisoner turned and ran. The
women ran after him but the other wild men were busy
ound the
fire
and did not see what was happening.
The prisoner
ran
like a wild goat and soon
saw
that
was coming near the bottom of my hill. As fast as
ould ran down the hill and jumped out o f the trees
tween the prisoner
and
the
two
wild men.
hit the first·
an with the wooden end of my gun and he fell down
ut hadto shoot thesecond man. Thepoor prisonerdid
not move.
He
was afraid of the noise
of
my gun.
called to him and tried to show him that
was
riendly. Slowly he moved nearer to me but justthen the
firstwild man began to get upfrom theground.Then the
prisoner spoke and
understood that he w an te d my
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Man Friday
Robinson rusoe
For two years never went anywhere without my gun.
felt lonely and afraid and had many sleepless nights.
O ne n ig ht t he re w as a very b ad s to rm a nd thought
heard the sound of guns out
at
sea. The next morning
looked out and sawa ship.
was lying on its side not far
from the shore. Quickly put my little boat inthe water
and sailed out to it.
There were tw o dead
men on the ship but no
one alive. T he bodies o f
the other sailors were lost
in the sea. took some
clothes and tools and also
a box of Spanish gold
and
silver money.
w as a ri ch
m an n ow bu t what use
was money to
me?
could
not buy anything with it.
What use was money to me
about two hours and then they got into their boats and
sailed away.
went down to the shore
and
sawthe blood
ofthe dead men
on
the sand. The next time they come
I m goingto kill them said angrily.
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Man Friday
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nd then left quickly. I took my prisoner to my secret
ave
on
the
other
side
of
the island
an d
gave him food
nd drink. After that he went to sleep.
Hewas a fine young man about twenty-five years old,
and well-built, with a kind face an d a nice smile.
He
h
d a brown skin, b lack hair, bright eyes
an d
strong
white teeth . I decided to give
hi m
the name of
M an
riday , because I first saw him
on
a Friday.
When he
woke
up in the morning, he ra n
ou t
to me. I
smilking my goatsin the field, an d he gotdownon the
und an d
pu t
his headnear myfoot. I understood
that
was thanking me, and I tried to show him
that
I was
i friend.
I began to teach h im t o speak English, an d soon he
uld say his name, Master
an d
Yes
an d
N o . H ow
od it was to hear
an s voiceagain
L ter that daywe
nt back
to
my
thouse. Wewent
fully along the
h
bu t
there
. no boats
an d
wild men. Just
ou and bones all
r the sand. I felt
There were bonesall over the sand
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sword.
Ho w
happy Iwastohearwords again I gave him
my
sword an d
at
once he
cut
off the head
of
his enemy.
Hurriedly, we hid the dead bodies under some leaves,
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Man riday
1looked, an d there to thenorth-west, between the sea
and the sky, was a long thin piece of land. 1learnt later
thatit wasthe island of Trinidad, an d
that
my island was
in the m o ut h o f the River Orinoco on the north coast of
South America.
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ill,
bu t
Friday wanted to eat the pieces
of
men s bodies
which were still on the ground. 1showed him that this
was terrible for me, an d he understood.
When we got to my house, 1gave Ma n Friday some
trousers, an d 1made him a coat
an d
a hat . He liked his
new clothes very much. Then 1made him a little tent to
sleep in,
bu t
for a few weeks 1always
took
mygun
to
bed
with me. Perhaps Fridaywas still a wild
m an a n d
would
try to kill mein the night. Atfirst, Fridaywas very afraid
of mygun. Sometimes he talked to it, an d asked it n o t t o
kill him.
Friday was a quick learner
an d
his English
go t
better
day by day. He helped me with the goats a nd w it h the
work
in the cornfields, and soon we were good friends. 1
enjoyed teachinghi m and, most of all, having a friend to
talkto. This was the happiestof all my years on the island.
Friday an d 1lived together happily for three years. 1
told hi m the story of my adventures a nd a b ou t life in
England, an d he told me about his country an d his
people. On e day wewere
at
the
t op o f
the highest.hill on
the island,
and
we were looking
ou t
to sea.
was a very
clear
day
and we could seea long way. Suddenly, Friday
began to jump up
an d
down very excited.
What s the matter? 1said.
Look Master, look Friday cried. I can see my
country. Look over there
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I began to think again about escape. Perhaps Friday
wanted to gohome too. Perhaps togetherwecouldget to
his country. But
what
then? Would Friday stil l be my
friend, or would his people kill me and eat me?
I took Friday to the other side of the island and
showed him my big canoe. t still lay under the trees.
t
was veryold now, and there were holes in the wood.
Could a
boat
like this sail to your country, Friday? I
asked him.
hyes, he answered. A
boat
likethis cancarry a lot
of food and drink.
Thenwe llmakeanothercanoe likeit,and you cango
home in it, Isaid.
But Fridaylooked very unhappy. Whyare you angry
with me? he asked. Whathave I done? Why do you
want to send me home?
But I thought you wanted to go home, I said.
Yes. But youmustcomewith me. Killme
i youwant,
but don t send me away from you
Then I saw that Friday was a t rue friend, and so I
agreed to go with him. We began
work on
the canoe
at
once. Friday chose the tree himself - he understood
wood better
than Idid- and we cut itdown.We worked
hard
and in a month the
boat
was finished. Two weeks
later itwas inthe sea, and we began to get ready for ou r
long journey.
sc pe
from
the island
Iwas no w inmy twenty-seventh year on the island, and
I did
not w ant
to be there for another year. We worked
hard to get the corn in, and t o make a lot of bread. We
had dried fruit and salted meat, and big pots to keep
water in. One evening Friday went ou t to look for a
turtle for meat and eggs. But in less than a n
hour
he was
back, and he looked very afraid.
Master Master he cried. There s a great ship near
the island,
and
men are comingto the shore in a boat
There s a greatship nearthe island
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obinson
Crusoe
1jumped u p a nd r an
with
him d ow n t o
th e
shore.
To
my great surprise, 1sawthat it was an English ship But
wh y
was it here? English ships never came this way.
Perhaps they were pirates Don t let them see you,
Friday 1called. We ll hide in the trees an d
watch.
There were eleven men in the boat but three of them
were prisoners. Theirarmswere tied with rope, bu t their
legs were free an d they could walk. T he o th er sailors
pushed the three prisoners
up
the beach, laughing an d
shouting an d hittingthem. Then some
of them
sat down
on the sand and began to drink. Others walked away to
look at
the island,
an d
tw o
men stayed
to watch
theboat.
Th e three prisoners walked slowly along the beach an d
satdown under a tree,
no t
far from us. They lookedvery
unhappy.
Veryquietly, 1came up behindthem through the trees,
an d called
ou t
to
them
in English.
Don t
be afraid, 1said.
I m an
Englishman. Perhaps
1can help you.
The three menturned and looked at me. They did no t
answer at once; they were to o surprised. Perhaps they
thought
1
was
a wild ma n myself, in
my
strange home-
made clothes
of
animals skins, a nd w it h my long hair
an d beard. Then the oldest ma n spoke.
I am the captain of that ship, he said,
a nd
these tw o
men are my first and secondofficers. Lastnight therewas
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Escape
from
the
isl nd
Perhaps they thought was a wildmanmyself
with my long hair and beard
a mutiny,
and
the seamen took the ship from me. No w
they re going to leave the three of us here, to die on this
island.
Do these mutineers have guns?
Onlytwo he answered, a nd they ve left those on the
boat.
All right, 1said. We ll fight them, bu t i fweget your
ship back for you, you must take me back to England.
The captain agreedimmediately an d
thanked
me very
warmly for
my
help. Friday ran back
to
myhouse to get
all the guns, an d the captain an d 1made a plan.
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rusoe Escape from the island
The first part was easy because the seamen were no t
ready for a fight. We shot the tw o men at the boat, an d
the captain
shot
another man. This man,
To m
Smith,
was theworst of themall an d he began themutiny on the
ship. Then the captain talked to the other five men, an d
. they agreed to help him. They did no t really
want to
be
mutineers, bu t they were afraid of Tom Smith.
Now
I said to the capta in, we must get back
your
ship.
Ho w
many men are
on
it?
Twenty-six, the captain replied,
a nd
they will fight
hard
because they won t
want to
go home.
is death for
all mutineersin England. But
no t
all themen are bad.
I m
sure that some
of
them will help me.
Jus t then we saw another boat, which was coming
from the ship to the shore.There wereten men init,
an d
they all ha d guns. We ra n into the trees an d waited.
was a long
hard
fight,
bu t
by
now
i t was d a rk a nd
this helped us very much. We ra n here
an d
there in the
trees, calling
and
shouting. Th e seamen could no t see us
an d
did no t
know
ho w many men they were fighting. In
the end the first officer shouted
to
them:
P ut d o wn
your
guns an d stop fighting The captain
has fifty island people
to
help him. We can kill you all
So
the seamen stopped fighting an d we
took
their
guns. Three
of
the men agreed to come back to the
captain,
an d
we
put
the others in mycave. Friday and I
t
wasa long hard fight
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om
in England
[
have a fine ship uncle
my
nephew said.
And so, in 1694, I wen t to sea again, a nd h ad many
more adventures. Perhaps one day I l l wri te
another
book about them.
Ihave a fine ship, uncle, he said. I mgoing ou t
to
the
East Indies - India, Malaya, the Phi lippines
Wh y
don t
you come with me?
Robinson Crusoe
Poor Friday was veryafraid
of thesnow.
In Lisbon I found the Portuguese captain,
who
took me
inhis ship to Brazil, all those years ago. wasgood to see
him again,
and
he helped me with my business. Soon I
was ready to go home
again- byland. No more
adventures
and
dangers
by sea for me
was a long,
hard
journey.We
ha d
to cross
the mountains between
Spain
an d
France in
winter, and thesnowwas
deep.
Poor
Friday was
very afraid of the snow.
In his country it was
always hot, and he d id
no t like cold weather.
Back
in
ngland I
found a house and began
to livea quiet life.
My
tw o nephews came to livewith me.
The younger one wanted to be a sa ilor , and so I found
him a place
on
a ship. After a while I married,
a nd h ad
three children,
tw o
sons an d a daughter.
Then
my wife
died, and my nephew,
wh o
was now the capta in
of
a
ship, camehome to seeme. He knew
that
Idid no t really
like a quiet life.
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GLOSS RY
captain
the
mo st i mpo r ta n t p er so n o n
a s hi p
coast l an d w hi ch is
near
t he s ea
dry
the opposite of
wet
great very big
master the m an w ho y ou w or k f or a nd w ho is more important
t h an y o u
mutineer somebody who takes part in a m ut in y
mutiny when sailors fight
and
take the ship from the captain
and officers
nephew
the s o n o f y o ur b r ot h er
or
sister
o ff ic er a n important person on a s hi p w h o w o rk s w it h t he
captain
p ir at e s om eo ne w ho sails on t h e s e a and steals from other
ships
roof
the top of a building o ve r y o ur h ea d
s hi pw re ck a n a cc id en t when a s hip b re ak s up in a s to r m o r
on
the rocks
shore the ground where the l an d a n d sea meet
slave a person who belongs to a master and
wh o
is given
no
m on ey f or h is work
uncle y o ur mo th e r s o r y o ur father s brother
w re ck t o b re ak s om et hi ng completely
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TIVITIES
4
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ACTIVITIES
ACTIVITIES
Before Reading While Reading
Before you
read Chapter
4
A
new
life
on
an island , ca n
you
guess what
Crusoe
finds on the island?
Read
Chapters
1
to
3. C ho os e t he b es t
question word
for
these questions
an d
then
answer
t he m. U se
th e ma p on
p ag e 4
to
help you.
h t / Where
1 happened
to
C r us oe w h en h e s ai le d
to
London?
2 did he go when he left London?
3 was the s hip w hen the
pirate
s hi p c am e a f te r it?
4
di d
the Turkish
pirate captain take
Crusoe?
5 was t he sudden
an d
terrible change in Crusoe s life?
6 did
C ru so e a nd X ur y
go
when
they escaped?
7 did the African people give
Crusoe and
Xury?
8 was the Portuguese captain going?
9 did Crusoe s friends want t o go to get rich?
10 happened to t he s hi p in t he s to rm ?
d id t h e s ea c ar r y C ru so e?
12 did Crusoe sleep
that
first night?
4
F oo d a nd
water
5 Pi rat es
6 A c ave
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1 A
box
of gold
2 An
empty
o l d h ou s e
3 W il d a ni ma ls
R ea d t he s to ry introduction on t h e f ir st p ag e and the back
cover. What d o y ou k no w n ow a bo ut this story? Tick on e
bo x for each sentence.
YES
NO
1
Robinson
Crusoe
has a
boring
life.
2
He is i n a s hi p s ai li ng from South America
when there is a terrible
storm.
3
ll h is f ri en ds d ie i n t he s hi pw re c k.
4
When
h e a rr iv es o n t h e i sl an d he m ee ts
some
other
people.
5
One
d ay he finds a
footprint
i n t he s an d.
6
He leaves
th e
island
after
fifteen years.
2
What is going t o h ap p en i n t hi s s to ry ? Can
yo u
guess? Tick
on e
box for each sentence.
YES
NO
1
C r us oe l ea rn s t o g ro w c or n a nd make bread.
2
He builds himself a boat
an d
sails away.
3
He
is
often very hungry on the island.
4
Th e ma n wh o
left the
footprint
is
an enemy.
5
Th e
footprint
w as m ad e by s om eo ne
wh o
was also shipwrecked on the island.
6
Finding the footprint changes Crusoe s life.
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ACTIVITIES While Reading
Read Chapters
4
and
5.
How
did Crusoe live
on the
island?
Make
sentences
from
this table.
fire
to
m a ke a t ab le .
f ro m a b ig t re e.
a t en t
to
make bread.
clothes
to
make
strong
pots.
the
sun
He made
from animals skins.
He used
lights
t o d ry f ru it
and
meat.
a
canoe
f r om t he s h ip s s ai ls .
wood
fields
to k ee p w i ld g oa t s i n.
to build fences.
corn
from animals fat.
Before you read Chapter 6 A
footprint
can y o u g ue ss t he
answers to these questions?
1
Where
does
Crusoe
find the footprint?
a
i n a fi eld
b on
t h e s h or e
c
outside his house
2
Who
made the footprint?
a
a p i ra te
b
a w il d
man c
a shipwrecked sailor
Read Chapters
6
and
7. Are these sentences
true
T)
or
false
F ? R ew r it e t h e f al se o ne s
with the
correct
information
1 C ru so e w as v er y a fr ai d of t he w il d m en at first.
2 The wild men
came
to the i sl a nd t o k il l and eat turtles.
3
Crusoe
helped Man Friday to escape
from
t h e w il d m en .
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ACTIVITIES While Reading
4 F ri da y
made
Crusoe some clothes
and
a t en t.
S
Friday
wanted to
go
home
to
Trinidad
alone.
6
Crusoe and
F ri da y m ad e a
new
c a no e f or t he i r e sc ap e.
Before
you read Chapter
8,
can
you guess
how Crusoe and
Friday escape
from
the island?
Choose
one of these ideas.
1
They
sail to Trinidad i n t h e c an oe .
2
They
sail
back
t o E ng la nd i n an English ship.
3
They
fight some pirates and take their ship.
Read
Chapters 8
and
9, and then put t he se s en te nc es i n t h e
right order.
1 The
captain
told Crusoe that the mutineers
planned to
leave
him and
his officers on the island to die.
2
Ba,ck
i n E n gl a nd , C r us o e
got
married
and had
a family.
3 C ru so e w as v ery s ur pr is ed w he n a n E ng li sh s hi p a rr iv ed .
4 B ec au se
of
this, the
captain was
very
happy
to
take
Crusoe
and
Friday home.
S So
Crusoe sailed
with
him,
and had more
adventures.
6 Eleven m en f ro m t he s hi p c am e to t he s ho re i n a boat
but the captain and his two officers were prisoners.
7 B ut l at er , his
nephew planned
to
s ai l t o t h e E a st I nd ie s.
8 So Cr us oe and F r id ay h el pe d t he
captain
to fight the
mutineers and g et b a ck h is s hi p.
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Reading
ACTIVITIES
fter Reading
1
Use th e words below
to
complete this p ag e f ro m R o bi n so n
Crusoe s diary. Use each word once.
catch fat fences fishing gun happy holes home
raining salted shoot skins stronger tree woo
TH AUGUST 1669:
At
last it
has
stopped This
morning
I
cu t
down a
because I
need more
.
Th e
goats have
broken two
already
so I
must
make
them . Later I went
ou t
in my canoe bu t I
didn t
anything. Fo r dinner
I
a t e t he
last
of the
meat
so tomorrow I
must
go ou t
w it h t he
an d try to something. I need more for my
lights, an d also some t o m ak e a n e w c o at - this on e
is full of
.
Bu t I
am well
an d
- this isl an d is my
now.
2
Imagine
that yo u
have
to
spend
a year
alone
on an
island
like
Robinson
Crusoe s. Explain
wh y
these things will,
or
will not be useful on th e island.
Example: Matches will be useful fo r lighting fires.
3 Here is a
new illustration for
th e story.
F in d t he b es t
place
i n t he s to ry t o
pu t
the picture and answer these questions.
Th e picture goes on page
.
1
What
is Robinson Crusoe doing?
Wh y
has
Ma n
Friday
pu t
his
head
on th e
ground?
3 Wh y doesn t
Ma n
Friday speak to Crusoe?
No w
write
a caption
for the illustration.
--
a knife chickens
a tent a bottle
a sword
a gu n
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salt
money
pe n a n d p a pe r
matches
Caption _
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CTIVITIES ft r eading
CTIVITIES ft r eading
4 Pu t these words into four groups, under these headings.
I
ANIMALS
I I
PEOPLE
I
TRANSPORT
I
FOOD
boat bread canoe captain corn eggs fruit goat
leopard meat pirate prisoner sailor ship slave turtle
No w
find these sixteen
words
in the
word
search below,
and
draw
a line
through
them.
Th e words
go from left
to
right,
and
from
t o p t o b o tt o m.
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C
P
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R A T E A
E N S R E G E G
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L
E V R R
E
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0
E H T E R E
No w
write
down
all the letters
t hat d on t
have a line
through
them. Begin
with th e
first line
an d
go across each
line to the end. You will have twenty-nine letters, which will
make eight words in tw o sentences.
1 Who said these two sentences?
2
Who
was he talking to?
3 Where were they?
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5 Here are Robinson Crusoe and the captain talking about the
mutineers.
Put
their conversat ion in the
r ig h t o rd er and
write in the speakers names. Crusoe speaks first (3).
1 Leave them here. My island can be their prison.
2
That s
true, you have. But
how
will they live?
3 What will you d o w it h t he mutineers, captain?
4 They
won t
escape easily, captain. Remember-
I ve been here for twenty-seven years.
5
I k no w
that. But it s
h ar d t o
kill so
many
men.
6
They
can have my three houses, my cornfields,
my goats,
and
all my tools.
Their
life will be easy.
7
I
agree
with
you, my friend. But
what can
I do?
8
But they ll escape from it and go free
9 Yes, it will . Ah, you re a kind man Mr Crusoe.
10
I ll have to
shoot them Mr
Crusoe. All mutineers
must die, you know.
6 There a famous question about this story. Why wa s there
only one footprint on th e sand? Here are three possible
answers. Which on e do yo u like best, and why?
1
Th e
m an c am e
to
t he shore in a boat got out
pu t
one
foot on the sand, then go t back into his boat again.
2
Th e
ma n had only one leg.
3 There were other footprints on the sand, but th e sea
washed them
away
before
Robinson
Crusoe
got
there.
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Daniel Defoe was
born
in
London
in 1660,
th e
son
of
a
butcher
called James
Foe
Daniel later
changed
his name to
Defoe,
because it
was
a more
fashionable
name . He went
to
a church
school, and then went into business, buying and selling
different
things,
an d travelling
all
o v er E u ro p e. He
fought
against
on e
king
Games
II), an d
l at er j oi ne d t he a rm y
of
another king William III). H e w en t t o p ri so n twice because
he
wrote
clever
booklets against
the church
an d
the
government.
He travelled a lot,
worked as spy started
his ow n
newspaper,
and
has
m or e t ha n 500 pieces of
writing
to his
name - more than any other writer in th e English language.
It
was
a very full , busy , an d
exciting
life.
He died
in 1731, i n
Ropemaker s Alley, London.
When he
was
nearly sixty years o ld, h e beg an to write
novels.
These include
Captain Singleton Moll Flanders and
Roxana bu t
he
is remembered best
today
for Robinson
Crusoe This
was
his first novel, written in 1719, and it was an
immediate success.
Defoe
used the
t r ue s t or y
of a
sailor
called
Alexander
Selkirk, w h o w a s left by
pirates
on Juan
Fernandez,
a smal l i sl and i n
the
Pacific O ce an . H e lived
t he re a lo ne f or
four years,
an d
was
rescued
by a
ship
in 1709.
Many
people
call Robinson Crusoe the first English novel.
It
appears in many
different languages,
films
a re m ad e
of it,
an d t h e s t or y
of
C r us o e o n
his
island is
still
enjoyed today
by
both
children
and
adults
all
over
the
world.
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