The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe

e got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived afterwards at York, from whence he had married my mother, whose relations were named Robinson, a very good family in that country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but, by the usual corruption of words in England, we are now called—nay we call ourselves and write our na

miseries and hardships,

not bred to any trade

What became of my second brother I never knew, any more than my father or mother knew what became of

make them amends

He bade me observe it, and I should always find that th

that these things were all either too

violent calenture by the excessive heat of the climate

He told me it was men of desperate fortunes

asked me what reasons, more than a mere wandering inclination, I had for leaving my father’s house and my native country,