Subtitle: With an Account of His Deliverance; and His After Surprising Adventures
General Books publication date: 2009
Original publication date: 1824
Original Publisher: Printed for T. Hughes
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Excerpt: I had three encouragements. First, A smooth and calm sea. Secondly, The tide rising and setting in to the shore. Thirdly, What little wind there was, blew me towards the land. And thus, having found two ov three broken oars belonging to the boat, and besides the tools which were in the chest, I found two saws, an axe, and a hammer, and with this cargo I put to sea. For a mile, or thereabouts, my raft went very well, only that I found it drive a little distant from the place where I had landed before, by which I perceived there was some indraught of the water, and consequently I hoped to find some creek or river there, which I might make use of as a port to get to land with my cargo. As I imagined, so it was ; there appeared before me a little opening of the land. I found a strong current of the tide set into it, so I guided my raft as well as I could, to keep in the middle of the stream. But here I had like to have suffered a second shipwreck, which, if I had, I think verily would have broken my heart; for knowing nothing of the coast, my raft run aground, at one end of it, upon a shoal, not being aground at the other end, it wanted but a little that all my cargo had slipped off towards that end that was afloat, and so fallen into the water : I did my utmost by setting my ...]]> Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:32:25 +0000 es Copyright 202 6BiblioEteca Technologies SL