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Title: The Solitary of Juan Fernandez, or The Real Robinson Crusoe

Author: Joseph Xavier Saintine

Release Date: March 4, 2004 [EBook #11441]

Language: English

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THE SOLITARY OF JUAN FERNANDEZ;

OR,

THE REAL ROBINSON CRUSOE


BY THE AUTHOR OF PICCIOLA.


TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH
BY
ANNE T. WILBUR.



MDCCCLI.



CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

The Royal Salmon.--Pretty Kitty.--Captain Stradling.--William Dampier.
--Reveries and Caprices of Miss Catherine.

CHAPTER II.

Alexander Selkirk.--The College.--First Love.--Eight Years of Absence.
--Maritime Combats.--Return and Departure.--The Swordfish.

CHAPTER III.

The Tour of the World.--The Way to manufacture Negroes.--California.
--The Eldorado.--Revolt of Selkirk.--The Log-Book.--Degradation.
--A Free Shore.

CHAPTER IV.

Inspection of the Country.--Marimonda.--A City seen through the Fog.
--The Sea every where.--Dialogue with a Toucan.--The first Shot.
--Declaration of War.--Vengeance.--A Terrestrial Paradise.

CHAPTER V.

Labors of the Colonist.--His Study.--Fishing.--Administration.
--Selkirk Island.--The New Prometheus.--What is wanting to Happiness.
--Encounter with Marimonda.--Monologue.

CHAPTER VI.

The Hammock.--Poison.--Success.--A Calm under the Tropics.--Invasion
of the Island.--War and Plunder.--The Oasis.--The Spy-Glass.
--Reconciliation.

CHAPTER VII.

A Tete-a-tete.--The M

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