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excerpt from Robinson Crusoe
When I waked it was broad day, the weather clear,
by Daniel Defoe
surprised me most was, that the ship
and the storm abated, so that the sea did not rage and swell as before. But that which
was lifted off in the night from the sand where she lay by the swelling of the tide, and was driven up almost
far as the rock which I at first mentioned, where I had been
so bruised by the wave dashing me against it. This being within about
the shore where Iwas, and the ship seeming to stand upright still,
mile from
my use.
wished myself on board, that at least I might save some necessary things for
When I came down from my apartment in the tree, I looked about me again, and the first thing I found was the
boat, which lay, as the wind and the
sea had tossed her on up, upon the land, about two miles on my right hand. I walked as far as I could upon the shore to have got to her; but found
neck or inlet of water between me and
at the ship, where I hoped to find
the boat which was about half a mile broad; so I came back for the present, being more intent upon getting