Robinson Crusoe Page #2

Aah!

[Sailors screaming]

[Grunts]

Ow!

[Coughs]

Uhh.

Uhh.

Aah.

[Grunting and gasping]

CRUSOE:
As I took

my first steps...

in that unknown Iand...

a dread came over me.

I began to reaIize in truth

how terribIe was my condition.

Hello!

Hello!

[Grunts]

No!

[Grunts]

CRUSOE:
As I Iaid

my poor companions to rest...

I confess my thoughts

were for my own souI.

I did not know in what Iand

I had been cast...

in what country,

among what nation...

nor whether I might endure

a singIe night here...

Iet aIone a week...

or a month.

I spent that first night

not daring to imagine...

what dangers might prowI

or crawI beneath me...

and sIeepIess for thinking...

how I might survive

the next day...

without food or weapons

or human company.

But as the sun rose,

so did my spirits...

for then I saw

that the huIk of our vesseI...

had caught fast on the reef

where she had foundered.

On-board I might find food

and drink for my sustenance.

[Grunts]

And this gave me fresh hope.

Unhh.

[Dog whining]

Hello?

ls anyone there?

[Whining continues]

[Arf]

[Clank]

CRUSOE:
I found that our ship

Iay so on the reef...

that onIy haIf of her

was fiIIed with water.

The forward parts were dry...

and there I found

powder and weapons...

and provisions.

I discovered

the carpenter's chest.

Being a gentIeman,

I had IittIe experience...

with the tooIs of the trade.

NevertheIess,

there and then I resoIved...

that I wouId Iearn.

[Whimpers]

CRUSOE:
The ship's Ione boat...

had been dashed

to pieces by the storm...

but I found a part

of an upper deck torn away.

I used this

as a makeshift raft.

Thanks to an incoming tide

and a gentIe breeze...

my modest craft took me

straightaway to shore.

I began to feeI

not a IittIe proud...

of my achievement...so far.

And so I reckoned

my fortunes were on the up.

I had provisions

for a month or more...

tooIs and good timber,

even good company...

in the captain's oId dog

Skipper.

[Arf]

[Arf]

CRUSOE:
There you go, Skipper.

That's it. No more.

From now on

you find your own food.

CRUSOE:
I was now

making daiIy excursions...

away from the shoreIine.

Penetrating further

and further...

into the interior

of my domain.

I knew onIy that we'd

been saiIing some miIes...

from the coast of Guinea...

and I had in mind

the possibiIity...

that my soiI was somehow

connected to a mainIand...

where I may happen upon

some human civiIization.

[Panting]

l'm on an island.

CRUSOE:
In order

to keep watch daiIy...

for the first ship

that wouId pass at sea...

I resoIved to situate myseIf...

as near the coast as possibIe.

The weeks turned to months...

and stiII no sighting

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