Hello, my name is Robinson Crusoe and I'm here to talk about my life. I've been on this island, since 30th September 1659. My story began when I left my house with 19 years old, I wanted to go to the sea, because I wanted to travel around the world. So I went to sea with a friend in his father's ship , without my father's permission. I went to London and to Africa, there I sold toys for gold and I came back. When I went to Africa again I was captured by pirates and I had to work as a slave at the Pirate Ship.
One day the pirate captain sent me to fish in a small boat, that had food and drink for some days, with Xury, another slave, and Moley. When we were far away from the shore I pushed Moley into the sea, I pointed the gun at his head and said that if he came back I would shoot him. Then he swam away. After that, I promised Xury that if he did everything I said, I wouldn't throw him into the sea. We were carried down the coast of Africa, because I knew that European ships came further south. After a while Xury saw a Portuguese ship, so I fired my gun to call attention. The captain of the ship helped us and took us to Brazil.
In Brazil, I became very rich being a planter of sugar. Suddenly I realized that I had a lot of money but it wasn't the life I wanted and I came back to sea. One day, when I was in the ship traveling to Africa to buy slaves, one big storm started and our ship was blown across the rough sea for twelve days. When it finally died down. We decided to go Barbados, but another storm started and the ship sank. I 'm the only one that survive, but I'm alone in this island.Date 21/10/2010
Chapters 4 to 7
When I woke up, I saw the shipwreck, near to the shore, and went to there for caught somethings for myself, like food, clothes, tools, guns and gunpowder. So I built a raft. After that, I made small hut near to a hill and made one more raft to carried more things from the ship and put in a little tent that I made. In the next day, I put the things in the cave and built two strong fences. I also find goats on the island and I started to hunt then. After this, I wrote in a large piece of wood the date I arrived here, for don't lost the track of time.
In the following months, I improved my hut and started to write a diary. One day, I found rice and corn growing near my home. After sometime a earthquake shook the island and a few days later I went down the wreck and I saw a turtle, cooked and ate it. After a couple months after the earthquake I became very ill and I decided that I have to made a medicine of tobacco and rum. I also began to read the Bible and pray to thank God for my life.
When I was well again, I decided to explore the island. I went to the other side of it. After tree day exploring the area, I returned home. At last, I decided to build another hut in the new side. I spent a year exploring this side and the 30th of September came once more, the end of my second year here. So, I decided try to do bread for me. I built a pot, a way of grinding and a kind of bread oven. After that I started to think about how I could escape from the island. I built a canoe, but I did it so long of the coast and I couldn't get it to there. Then, I built another on the coast. And, at last, on 6th November, in my six year on the island, I tried escape. But the currents were so strong and the wind was blowing hard and I returned. I was happy because I have saved.
Chapters 8 and 9
One day, I found a footprint in the same when I was walking on the beach. I was terrified because I thought that this was a cannibal footprint and I ran to my hut and stayed there for a few weeks. In this period of time I slept very bad worried about the cannibals. I prayed, read the Bible and I felt braver. So I got away from my hut once more to explore the island. Then a few years later, I decided that I couldn't stay alone any more. After some more years, I saw a ship during a storm. So, I went to it and saw two dead men. I took some food, drink, gunpowder, clothes and money from the wreck. One night, I dreamed with the cannibals and I saved one person from them. One day, I saw five canoes and more than 30 cannibals. They was trying caught one prisoner, but I succeeded in saving him.Chapters 10 and 11
The man that I saved was tall, good-looking and about twenty-six years old. He had a very good face and a long hair. His skin was very dark and his nose was small. I told him for Friday, because that was the day that I saved him, and he told me for Master. I taught him to say yes and no and brought him to my hut in the next day. After, I went down with him and I saw half-eaten flesh and bones on the floor. So, I went back to my hut and took some clothes for Friday. After some days, I started to teach him the English and he learnt so quickly. One day, Friday said that he saw six canoes on the shore. I went with him and we started to kill the cannibals. He killed two cannibals and hurt three more and I killed one and hurt two. The others cannibals ran around. Eventually, they escaped and I saved two prisoners. One of them was Spanish and the other was a cannibal. After a little time, Friday said me why he was so happy. This cannibal was his father.Chapters 12 and 13
I felt like a king because I saved two people and now they were loyal to me. I was asleep one morning when Friday shot to me that "they have come back". I saw a boat coming towards the island, with my telescope I could see that it was an English boat coming from an English ship. When they came closer I saw that something was wrong, there were three prisoners. In the afternoon, I went where they were. The prisoners were too frightened, but the other sailors were sleeping. I talked with them and they told me that had been mutiny on the ship, one of them was the captain. I could die, but I decided to leave the island. I found out that they had two guns. So, I was with them in their ship. I told them my story and I gave them some food and drink, they were amazed to hear my story. Now we had to decide how to get the ship back and out of the island. We got the ship back and did somethings: we put three of the worst men in the cave and tied up the others at my bower. I said to the captain that I would stay one more night on the island, while we got the ship ready. That night I told to our prisoners my story, because they will stay on the island and I'll let them free. At last it was time to get home, on the 19th of December 1686 I left the island. After twenty-eight years, two months and nineteen days.Chapter 14
I arrived in England in June 1867, after thirty-five years. I found out Yorkshire too different. My parents were died. I went to London to knew about my plantation in Brazil. There, I found my friend that saved me and Xury from the sea off the coast of Africa. The captain told me that my plantation in Brazil was very well, so I wrote letters to the people in Brazil. After some time, them answered to me and gave me money. Suddenly I found that I was a very rich man. And its's the end of my story, there are some other very surprising things, that happened to me, I may perhaps write about them one day.
By Eduardo Rezende and Gabriel Pinho
