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CONTENTS

STORY

INTRODUCTION

1

My

first sea journey

1

2

Down

the coast

of

Africa

5

3

The s torm and

the shipwreck

4

A

new

life

o n a n

island

3

5

Learning to live alone

6

6

A

footprint

23

7

Man

Friday

26

8

Escape from the island

33

9

Home in England

39

GLOSSARY

42

ACTIVITIES:

Before

Reading

44

ACTIVITIES:

While

Reading

45

ACTIVITIES:

After Reading

48

ABOUT THE

AUTHOR

52

ABOUT

BOOKWORMS

53



My

first

sea

journey

Before

I

begin my story

I

would like to tell you a litt le

about myself.

I

was born inthe year 1632 in the cityof York in the

north of England. My father was German but he came

to live

and

work in England. Soon after that hemarried

my mother who was English. He r family name was

Robinson so when I was born theycailedmeRobinson

after her.

My

father did wellin his business

and

I

wentto a good

school. He wantedmeto get a good job andlive a quiet

f 1 I f t ~ ~ comfortable life. But

I

/

it :t

.

~ ~ I / k . dIdn t want that

I

wanted adventure and

: ~ an exciting life.

wanted adventure

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I want

to

be a sailor and go

to

sea, I told my mother

and

father. They were very unhappy

about

this.

Please don t go, my father said. You won t be

happy, you know. Sailors have a difficult

and

dangerous

life. And because I loved him,

and

he was unhappy, I

tried to forget about the sea.

But I couldn t forget, and about a year later, I saw a

friend in town. His father had a ship, and my friend said

to me, We re sailing to London tomorrow. Why don t

you come with us?

And so,

on

September 1st, 1651, I went to Hull, and

the next day wesailed for London.

But, a few days later, there was a strongwind.The sea

was rough and dangerous,

and

the ship wen t up and

down, up

and

down. I was very ill

and

very afraid.

f.

The

s

was rough

nd

dangerous

2

y

first sea journey

Oh, I don t want to die I cried. I want to live

f

I

live, ll go home

and

never go to sea again

The nextday thewind dropped, and the sea was quiet

and beautiful again.

Well, Bob, my friend laughed.

How

do you

f l

now? The wind

wasn t

too bad.

What I cried. twas a terrible storm.

Oh,that wasn t a storm, myfriend answered. Justa

littlewind. Forget it. Come and have a drink.

After a few drinkswith myfriend, I felt better. Iforgot

about the danger and decided not t o go home. I didn t

want my friends

and

family to laugh

at m

I stayed inLondon for sometime,

but

I still wanted to

go

to

sea. So, when the captain

of

a ship asked me to go

with him to Guinea in Africa, I agreed. And soI went to

sea for the second time.

t was a good ship

and

everything went well at first,

but I was very

il l

again. Then, when we were near the

Canary Islands, a Turkish pirate ship came after us.

They were famous thieves of the sea at

that

time. There

was a long, hard fight, but when it finished, we and the

ship were prisoners.

The Turkish captain and his men took us to Sallee in

Morocco. Theywantedto sell us as slavesin themarkets

there. But in the endthe Turkishcaptain decided

to

keep

me for himself, and tookme home with him.This was a

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sudden and terrible change in my life. I was now a slave

and this Turkish captain was mymaster.

2

Down

the coast of

frica

For two long years I lived the life

of

a slave. I worked in

the house and the garden, and every day I planned to

escape,

but

it was never possible. I thought

about

it day

and night.

y

master liked to go fishing in a little boat,

and he always took me with him. A man called Moely,

-and a young boy also went with us.

One day my maste r said to us, Some of my friends

want to go fishing tomorrow. Get the boat ready.

So

we put a lot of food and drink on the boat, and the

next morning, we waited for my master and his friends.

But when my master arrived, he was alone.

yfriends don, twant to go fishing today, he said to

me. Butyou gowith Moely and the boy, and catch some

fish

for

our

supper tonight.

Yes, master, I answered quietly, but inside I was

excited. Perhaps now I can escape, I said to myself.

ymaster went back to his friends and we took the

boat

out to

sea. For a time we fished quietly,

and

then I

movedcarefully behindMoely

and

knockedhimintothe

water. Swim I cried. Swim to the shore

y master liked to shoot seabirds and so there were

guns on the boat. Quickly, Itook oneof these guns. Moely

was swimming after the boatand I shouted to him:

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own

the coast

o

frica

6

Then I said to the boy Xury i f y ou h el p m e I l l be a

good friend to you.

you don t help me I ll push you

into the sea too.

But X ur y w as h ap py

to

h el p me. I ll g o all over t he

world with you he cried.

I wanted to sail to the Canary Islands bu t I was afraid

to go to o far from the shore.

t

w as o nl y a s ma ll b oa t.

And so we sailed

on

s ou th f or s om e d ay s. W e ha d very

little water an d it was dangerous country here with

many wild animals. We were afraid bu t we often h ad t o

go on shore to get morewater. Once Iuseda gunto shoot

a wi ld an im al . I don t know what animal it was but it

made a good meal.

For about ten or twelvedays we sailed

on

south down

thecoast

of

Africa.

Thenone

da y wesaw some people

on

the s ho re - s tr an ge w il d p eo pl e wh o did

no t

look

friendly.

no w we ha d little food

and

we really

neededhelp. We were afraid bu t wehad to go on shore.

At first they were afraid

of

us too. Perhaps white

people never visited this coast. We did

no t

speak their

language

of

course so we used ou r hands

and

faces to

show

that

wewere hungry. They came with food for us

butthen they moved away quickly. Wecarried the food

to ou r boat

and

they watched us. I tried

to

thank them

bu t I ha d nothing to give them.

Just then

tw o

big wild cats came

d ow n t o

the shore



9

Down

the coast

of

Africa

Then I rememberedtheguns which made a lot ofsmoke

ThenI remembered the gunswhich made a lot

of

smoke.

A few minutes later the ship saw us and turned.

When we were on the ship, the Portuguese captain

listened to my story. He was going to Brazil and agreed

to help me, but he wanted nothing for his help.

No,

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I think they were leopards

from the mountains . I think they were leopards . The

people were afraid of these wild cats , and the women

cried out. Quickly, I

took

a gun,

and

shot one

of

the

animals. The second wild cat r an back up into the

mountains.

Gunswere newto theseAfricanpeople, and they were

afraid of the loud noise and the smoke. But they were

happy about the dead wild cat. I gave them the meat of

the dead animal, andtheygave us more food andwater.

We nowhad alot of food andwater, andwe sailedon.

Eleven days later we came near the Cape Verde Islands.

We could see them, but we couldn't get near because

there was no wind. We waited.

SuddenlyXury called to me, 'Look, a ship '

He was right We called

and

shouted and sailed

our

little boatas fast aswe could. But the ship did not see us.



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said, when Itriedto payhim. Perhaps,one day, someone

will help

me

when I need it.

But hegaveme money for my boat, andfor Xury, too.

Atfirst, Idid

notwant to

sellXury as a slave,after all

ou r

dangerous adventures together. But Xurywas happy to

go to the captain, an d the capta in was a good man. In

ten years time, he said, Xury can go free.

When we arrived in Brazil three weeks later , I said

goodbye to the captain

and

Xury, leftthe ship, and went

to begin a new life.

3

The

storm

and

the shipwreck

I stayed in Brazil and worked hard for some years. By

then I wasrich but also bored. One day somefriends

came to me and said, We re going to Africa to do

business. Why don t you comewith us? We ll all be rich

after this journey

ow stupid I was I had an easy, comfortable life in

Brazil, but, of course, I agreed. Andso, in 1659,Iwentto

sea agam.

At first, all went well, but then there was a terrible

storm. Fortwelve days thewind and the rain didn t stop.

Welostthreemenin the sea, an d soonthe ship had holes

in its sides. We re all going to die this time, I said to

The storm nd the shipwreck

ne of the sailors saw land

rough and

ou r

little

boat

could no t live for long in

that

wild water.

a lf a n hour

later the angry sea turned

our boat

over

and we were all in the water. I looked round for my

friends, but I couldsee nobody. I was alone.



I tied the piecesofwoo

together

with

rope

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fell r the w t sand

h t

d ay I wa s lucky a nd th e sea c ar rie d me to the

shore. I could

not

see the land only mountains of water

all around me. Then suddenly I felt the ground under

myfeet. Anothermountain ofwater came pushed me up

the beach and I fell on the wet sand.

At first I was very thankful to be alive. Slowly I gotto

my feet nd w en t h igh er up t he s hor e. F ro m t he re I

looked outto sea. Icould see our ship but itwas wrecked

and there was nobody near it. There was nobody in the

w at er . All my fr iends we re de ad. I w as alive b ut in a

strange wild country with no food no water nd no

gun.

It was d rk now nd I was tired. I was afraid to sleep

on the shore. Perhaps there were wild animals there. o I

went up into a tree and I stayed there all night.

4

A new life on

n

island

When daycame thesea wasquietagain. Ilookedfor

our

hip and to my surprise it was still there and still in one

piece. I t hi nk I c an swim t o i t I sa id t o myself. o I

walkeddown to the sea nd before long I was t the ship

nd was swimminground it. But how couldI get on to it?

the end Igot inthrougha hole inthe side but itwasn t

asy.

Therewas a lotofwaterin theship butthe sandunder

the sea wasstillholdingthe ship in oneplace. Theback of

the ship was high out of the wa te r a nd I wa s very

thankful for this because all the ship s food was there. I

was very h un gr y so I bega ll to eat something

t

once.

Then I decided to take

orne of i t back to the

horewith me. Buthow

ould I get it there?

I looked around the

hip nd after a few

minutes I found some

long pieces

of

wood. I

tiedthem togetherwith

rope. Then I got the

things th t I wa nt ed

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Robinson Crusoe

from the ship. There

was a big boxof food

- rice a nd s al te d

meat andhard ship s

bread. I also

took

many strong knives

I tookmany tools and other tools the

ship s sails and ropes paper pens books an d seven

guns.

ow

I needed a little sailfrom the ship an d then I

was ready. Slowly and carefully I went back to

the

shore.

was difficult to stop my things from falling into

the sea

but

in the end I got everything

on

to the shore.

ow

I needed somewhere to keep my things.

Therewere some hills

around

me so I decided to build

myselfa little house on one of them. I walked to the top

of the highest hill an d looked down. I was very unhappy

because I saw then that I wa s on a n island. There were

two smaller islandsa few miles away

and

after that only

the sea. Just the sea for mile after mile after mile.

After a time I found a littlecave inthe side of a hill. In

front of i t there was a good place to make a home. So I

used the ship s sails rope an d pieces of wood an d after

a l ot

ofhard work

I

ha d

a very fine tent. The cave

at

the

back of mytentwasa good place

to

keep myfood

an d

so

I called it my kitchen . That night Iwent to sleep in my

new home.

14

w

life

o

an island

The next dayI thought about the possible dangers on

he island. Were there wild animals an d perhaps wild

ople too on my island? I didn t know but I was very

fraid.

o

I dec ide d t o b uil d a very s tr on g fence. I c ut

own young trees and put them in the ground in a half

ircle around the front of my tent. I used m an y of the

hip sropes too and intheend myfence was s strong as

stone wall. obodycould get over it through it or

round it.

Making tents

an d

building fences is ha rd work. I

needed manytools to help me.

o

I decided togo backto

he ship again and get some more things.

I went back twelve times but soon after my twelfth



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visit there was anotherterrible storm. The next morning

when

looked ou t to sea there was no ship.

When sawthat wasvery unhappy. Whyam alive

and why are all my friends dead? asked myself.

What

will happen

to

me now a lone on this island without

friends? Ho w can ever escape from it?

Then

told myself

that

was lucky -lucky to be alive

lucky to have food

and

tools lucky to be young

and

strong. But

knew that my island was somewhere offthe

coast of South America. Ships did

not

often come down

this coast an d

said to myself I m going to be on this

islandfor a long time. So on a long piece of wood cut

these words:

I CAMEHERE

ON

30TH

SEPTEMBER 1659

After that I decided to make a cutfor each day.

5

earning

to

live alone

I still needed a lot of things. Well I said I m going to

have to make them. So every day I worked.

First of all I wanted to make mycave bigger. I carried

out stonefrom the cave

an d

after many days

hard

work

I had a large cave inthe side of the hill. Then I needed a

table and a chair and that was my nex t job. I ha d to

w or k o n t he m for a long time. I also w ant ed t o make

Learning to live alone

laces to pu t all my food and allmy tools andguns. But

very time I wanted a piece of wood I ha d t o c ut d ow n a

r

e

It

was long slow difficult work

an d

during the

n

xt

months

lea rnt to be very clever with m y tools.

here was no hurry.

ha d

all the time in the world.

also went out every day and a lways ha d my gun

with me. Sometimes

killeda wildanimal and then

ha d

at to eat.

But when it got dark had to go to bed because

ha d

light.

couldn t read

or

write because

couldn t see.

or a long time

didn t

know what to do. Butin the end

Jea rntilOw to use the f at of d ea d an imals t o m ak e a

light.

The weather on my island was usually very hot and

there were often storms and heavy rain. ThenextJune it

r inedall the time

and

.,. r.

c ouldn t go out ver y

-

often. I was also ill for

orne weeks bu t

lowly I got better.

When I was stronger I

began to go out again.

he first time I killed a

wild a nima l and the

second time I caught a

big

turtle.

I caughta big turtle

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Robinson rusoe

I was on the island for ten months before I visited

other parts of it. Duringthose months Iworked hard on

mycave andmyhouseandmy fence.

Now

Iwas readyto

find

out

more

about

the rest of the island.

First, I walked along the side of a little river. There, I

found open groundwithout trees. Later, I came to more

trees with many different fruits. I decided to take a lot of

the fruit, andto put it to dry inthe sun for a time. Then I

could keep it for many months.

That night Iwent to sleep ina tree for the secondtime,

andthe nextday Iwenton withmy journey. Soon I came

to an openingin the hills. In front ofme, everythingwas

green,

and

there were flowers everywhere. There were

also a lot of different birds and animals. I saw

that

my

house was on the worst side of the island. But I didn t

want to move from there.

was myhome now. I stayed

away for three days, and then I came home. But I often

went back to the other, greener side of the island.

And somy lifewent on. Every month I learnt to do or

to makesomethingnew. ButI had troubles and accidents

too. Once there was a terrible s torm with very heavy

rain. The roofof my cave fell in, and nearly killed me I

had to build it up again with many pieces ofwood.

I had a lot offood now. I cooked itover a fire or dried

it in the sun.

So

I always had meat during the rainy

months when I could not go out with a gun. I learnt to

18

earning to live alone

make pots to keep my food in.

utI wantedverymuchto make

harder, stronger pot - a pot

hat would

not

break in a fire. I

ried many times, but I could

ot do it. Then one day I was

lucky. I made some new pots

nd put themin a very hot fire.

hey changed colour, but did y first p t

ot break. I left them there for many hours , and when

hey were cold again, I found that they were

hard

and

trong. That night I was very happy. I had hotwater for

first time

on

the island.

By then, I also

had

my

own

bread. That was luck,too.

ne day I found a little bag. We used i t on the ship, to

keep thechickens food in. There

was still some of the food inthe

bag, and I d ropped some of it

;) onto the ground. A month later

,

I saw something bright green

there, and after six monthsI had

a very small field of corn. I was

1 very excited. Perhaps now I

couldmake my own bread

was easy to say, butnot so

easy to do. is a lot of

work

to

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Robirzson rusoe

make bread fromcorn.

any

people eat bread, but

how

many people can take

corn

from a field and make bread

out of it without help? I had to learn and to make many

new things, andit was a year beforeI cookedand ate my

first bread.

During all this time I never stopped thinking about

escape. When I travelled across to the other side of the

island, I could see the

other

islands,

and

I said to myself,

Perhaps I can get there with a boat. Perhaps I can get

back to England one day.

o I decidedto make myself a boat. I cut down a big

tree, and then began to make a longhole init. was hard

work,

but

about sixmonthslater, I had a very fine canoe.

V L ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ·

~ : I l

earning to live alone

Next, I had to get itdown to the sea.

ow

stupid I was

Why didn t I think before I began work?

Of

course, the

anoe was too heavy. I couldn t move it I pul led and

ushed and tried everything, but it didn t move. I was

v

ry

unhappy for a long time after that.

That happened in myfourth year on the island. In my

ixthyearI did makemyselfa smaller canoe,

but

Idid not

ry to escape in it. The boat was too small for a long

umey, andI did notwant to die at sea. The islandwas

y home now,notmyprison, and Iwas justhappyto

be

live A year or two later, I made myselfa second canoe

nthe othersideof theisland. I also builtmyselfa second

ouse there, and so I had two homes.



6

A

footprint

23

hen, oneyear,somethingstrange and terrible happened.

I often walked along the shore,

and

one day I saw

omething in the sand. I went over to look

at

i t more

refully, and stoppedin

udden surprise.

It was a footprint- the

otprint of a man

Who could this be?

Afraid, I looked

around

m

I listened. I waited.

Nothing. I was more and

more afraid. Perhaps this

It was a footprint

man was one

of

those wild people who killed and ate

thermen I looked everywhere,

but

there was nobody,

nd no o ther footpr int. I turned and hurr ied home.

There ssomeone onmyisland, I saidto myself. Perhaps

h knows

about

me Perhaps he s watching me now

from behind a tree Perhaps he wants to kill me.

That night I couldn t sleep. The next day I got all my

guns readyand I put morewoodand youngtrees around

my house.

obody

could s me now. But, after fifteen

years alone on theisland,I was afraid,and I didnot leav

my

cave for three days.

Soon

hadgoat s milk to drink.

y life was still busy from morning to night. There

were always things to

do

or to make. I learnt to make

new clothes for myself from the skins of dead animals.

They looked verystrange, itis true, but theykeptmedry

in the rain.

Ikeptfood andtools at bothmy houses,

and

also wild

goats. There were manygoats on the island, and I made

fields with high fences to keep them in. They learnt to

take food from me, and soon I had goat s milk to drink

every day. I also worked

hard

in my cornfields. And so

many years went by.

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Robinson Crusoe

In t he e nd I h ad t o go o ut t o milk my g oats. But for

tw o

years I wasafraid. I stayednear myhome and Inever

us ed m y g un s b ec aus e I d id n t w an t t o m ak e a noise. I

could no t forget the foo tp rint bu t I saw an d heard

nothing more and slowly I began to feel happier.

One day a year later Iwas over

on

the westside

of

the

i sl an d. F ro m t he re I c ou ld see t he

other

islands and I

could also see a boat far

o ut t o

sea. fy ou h av e a

boat

I thought it s easy to sail across to this island. Perhaps

that exp lain s the fo otp rin t- it was a v isitor fro m o ne of

the

other

islands.

I began

to

move more freely

around

the island again

and built myselfa third house. t was a very secret place

in a cave.

N o

wild man will ever find

that

I s ai d to

myself.

Then oneyear somethinghappened which I can never

forget. I was again on thewest side of the island an d was

walking alo ng the sho re. Sud denly I saw someth in g

whichmade me feel ill. There were heads arms feet and

other pieces

of

men s bodies everywhere. Fora minute I

couldn t

think

an d

then I understood. Sometimes there

were figh ts b etween the wild men on the other islands.

Thentheycamehere to my islandwith their prisoners to

kill them cookthem an d eatthem. Slowly I went home

but

I w as

v e ~ y

angry.

Ho w

cou ld men d o this?

For many mo nth s I watched carefully for the smo ke

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footprint

from fires but I didn t see anything. Somehow the wild

men came an d went

and

I never

saw

them.

I

was angry

nd afraid. I wanted to sh oo t th em all b u t there were

many

of

them and only one

of

me. Perhaps I can sh oo t

two or three I said to myself bu t thentheywill kill and

at me.

Then o ne morn in g in my twenty-third y ear on the

island I was ou t in my fields an d I sawth esmo ke fro m a

reo Quickly I went up the hill to watch.

There were n in e men around the fire and they were

ooking their terrible food. Thenthese wild men danced

o un d the fire sin ging an d sho utin g. This went on for

~ I i : f ~ f A

1

. i l

:;

The wil men danced round the fir singing n shouting

25



7

Man Friday

I wanted people a friend somebody to talk to

om b od y w ho c ou ld help me es cape f rom my i sl an d.

n m or ni ng

wokeup andmadea plan. I ll try tocatch

n o f t he p ri so ne rs o f t he w il d m en s ai d t o myself.

be

happy to be alive and perhaps he ll help me to

·3

pe. watched day

and

night butfora yearand a half

re

were no boats.

Thenone dayfive boatscame. There were about thirty

n and theyhad two prisoners. They madetheir fire on

sand and danced round it. Then theykilled oneof the

ri

on er s a nd b eg an t o c oo k t he ir t er ri bl e m ea l. T he

ond prisonerwaited underthe trees with two men to

tch him. Suddenly the prisoner turned and ran. The

women ran after him but the other wild men were busy

ound the

fire

and did not see what was happening.

The prisoner

ran

like a wild goat and soon

saw

that

was coming near the bottom of my hill. As fast as

ould ran down the hill and jumped out o f the trees

tween the prisoner

and

the

two

wild men.

hit the first·

an with the wooden end of my gun and he fell down

ut hadto shoot thesecond man. Thepoor prisonerdid

not move.

He

was afraid of the noise

of

my gun.

called to him and tried to show him that

was

riendly. Slowly he moved nearer to me but justthen the

firstwild man began to get upfrom theground.Then the

prisoner spoke and

understood that he w an te d my

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7

Man Friday

Robinson rusoe

For two years never went anywhere without my gun.

felt lonely and afraid and had many sleepless nights.

O ne n ig ht t he re w as a very b ad s to rm a nd thought

heard the sound of guns out

at

sea. The next morning

looked out and sawa ship.

was lying on its side not far

from the shore. Quickly put my little boat inthe water

and sailed out to it.

There were tw o dead

men on the ship but no

one alive. T he bodies o f

the other sailors were lost

in the sea. took some

clothes and tools and also

a box of Spanish gold

and

silver money.

w as a ri ch

m an n ow bu t what use

was money to

me?

could

not buy anything with it.

What use was money to me

about two hours and then they got into their boats and

sailed away.

went down to the shore

and

sawthe blood

ofthe dead men

on

the sand. The next time they come

I m goingto kill them said angrily.



o inson

rusoe

Man Friday

29

nd then left quickly. I took my prisoner to my secret

ave

on

the

other

side

of

the island

an d

gave him food

nd drink. After that he went to sleep.

Hewas a fine young man about twenty-five years old,

and well-built, with a kind face an d a nice smile.

He

h

d a brown skin, b lack hair, bright eyes

an d

strong

white teeth . I decided to give

hi m

the name of

M an

riday , because I first saw him

on

a Friday.

When he

woke

up in the morning, he ra n

ou t

to me. I

smilking my goatsin the field, an d he gotdownon the

und an d

pu t

his headnear myfoot. I understood

that

was thanking me, and I tried to show him

that

I was

i friend.

I began to teach h im t o speak English, an d soon he

uld say his name, Master

an d

Yes

an d

N o . H ow

od it was to hear

an s voiceagain

L ter that daywe

nt back

to

my

thouse. Wewent

fully along the

h

bu t

there

. no boats

an d

wild men. Just

ou and bones all

r the sand. I felt

There were bonesall over the sand

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sword.

Ho w

happy Iwastohearwords again I gave him

my

sword an d

at

once he

cut

off the head

of

his enemy.

Hurriedly, we hid the dead bodies under some leaves,



Robinson rusoe

Man riday

1looked, an d there to thenorth-west, between the sea

and the sky, was a long thin piece of land. 1learnt later

thatit wasthe island of Trinidad, an d

that

my island was

in the m o ut h o f the River Orinoco on the north coast of

South America.

30

ill,

bu t

Friday wanted to eat the pieces

of

men s bodies

which were still on the ground. 1showed him that this

was terrible for me, an d he understood.

When we got to my house, 1gave Ma n Friday some

trousers, an d 1made him a coat

an d

a hat . He liked his

new clothes very much. Then 1made him a little tent to

sleep in,

bu t

for a few weeks 1always

took

mygun

to

bed

with me. Perhaps Fridaywas still a wild

m an a n d

would

try to kill mein the night. Atfirst, Fridaywas very afraid

of mygun. Sometimes he talked to it, an d asked it n o t t o

kill him.

Friday was a quick learner

an d

his English

go t

better

day by day. He helped me with the goats a nd w it h the

work

in the cornfields, and soon we were good friends. 1

enjoyed teachinghi m and, most of all, having a friend to

talkto. This was the happiestof all my years on the island.

Friday an d 1lived together happily for three years. 1

told hi m the story of my adventures a nd a b ou t life in

England, an d he told me about his country an d his

people. On e day wewere

at

the

t op o f

the highest.hill on

the island,

and

we were looking

ou t

to sea.

was a very

clear

day

and we could seea long way. Suddenly, Friday

began to jump up

an d

down very excited.

What s the matter? 1said.

Look Master, look Friday cried. I can see my

country. Look over there



Robinson Crusoe

I began to think again about escape. Perhaps Friday

wanted to gohome too. Perhaps togetherwecouldget to

his country. But

what

then? Would Friday stil l be my

friend, or would his people kill me and eat me?

I took Friday to the other side of the island and

showed him my big canoe. t still lay under the trees.

t

was veryold now, and there were holes in the wood.

Could a

boat

like this sail to your country, Friday? I

asked him.

hyes, he answered. A

boat

likethis cancarry a lot

of food and drink.

Thenwe llmakeanothercanoe likeit,and you cango

home in it, Isaid.

But Fridaylooked very unhappy. Whyare you angry

with me? he asked. Whathave I done? Why do you

want to send me home?

But I thought you wanted to go home, I said.

Yes. But youmustcomewith me. Killme

i youwant,

but don t send me away from you

Then I saw that Friday was a t rue friend, and so I

agreed to go with him. We began

work on

the canoe

at

once. Friday chose the tree himself - he understood

wood better

than Idid- and we cut itdown.We worked

hard

and in a month the

boat

was finished. Two weeks

later itwas inthe sea, and we began to get ready for ou r

long journey.

sc pe

from

the island

Iwas no w inmy twenty-seventh year on the island, and

I did

not w ant

to be there for another year. We worked

hard to get the corn in, and t o make a lot of bread. We

had dried fruit and salted meat, and big pots to keep

water in. One evening Friday went ou t to look for a

turtle for meat and eggs. But in less than a n

hour

he was

back, and he looked very afraid.

Master Master he cried. There s a great ship near

the island,

and

men are comingto the shore in a boat

There s a greatship nearthe island

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obinson

Crusoe

1jumped u p a nd r an

with

him d ow n t o

th e

shore.

To

my great surprise, 1sawthat it was an English ship But

wh y

was it here? English ships never came this way.

Perhaps they were pirates Don t let them see you,

Friday 1called. We ll hide in the trees an d

watch.

There were eleven men in the boat but three of them

were prisoners. Theirarmswere tied with rope, bu t their

legs were free an d they could walk. T he o th er sailors

pushed the three prisoners

up

the beach, laughing an d

shouting an d hittingthem. Then some

of them

sat down

on the sand and began to drink. Others walked away to

look at

the island,

an d

tw o

men stayed

to watch

theboat.

Th e three prisoners walked slowly along the beach an d

satdown under a tree,

no t

far from us. They lookedvery

unhappy.

Veryquietly, 1came up behindthem through the trees,

an d called

ou t

to

them

in English.

Don t

be afraid, 1said.

I m an

Englishman. Perhaps

1can help you.

The three menturned and looked at me. They did no t

answer at once; they were to o surprised. Perhaps they

thought

1

was

a wild ma n myself, in

my

strange home-

made clothes

of

animals skins, a nd w it h my long hair

an d beard. Then the oldest ma n spoke.

I am the captain of that ship, he said,

a nd

these tw o

men are my first and secondofficers. Lastnight therewas

34

Escape

from

the

isl nd

Perhaps they thought was a wildmanmyself

with my long hair and beard

a mutiny,

and

the seamen took the ship from me. No w

they re going to leave the three of us here, to die on this

island.

Do these mutineers have guns?

Onlytwo he answered, a nd they ve left those on the

boat.

All right, 1said. We ll fight them, bu t i fweget your

ship back for you, you must take me back to England.

The captain agreedimmediately an d

thanked

me very

warmly for

my

help. Friday ran back

to

myhouse to get

all the guns, an d the captain an d 1made a plan.

35



obinson

rusoe Escape from the island

The first part was easy because the seamen were no t

ready for a fight. We shot the tw o men at the boat, an d

the captain

shot

another man. This man,

To m

Smith,

was theworst of themall an d he began themutiny on the

ship. Then the captain talked to the other five men, an d

. they agreed to help him. They did no t really

want to

be

mutineers, bu t they were afraid of Tom Smith.

Now

I said to the capta in, we must get back

your

ship.

Ho w

many men are

on

it?

Twenty-six, the captain replied,

a nd

they will fight

hard

because they won t

want to

go home.

is death for

all mutineersin England. But

no t

all themen are bad.

I m

sure that some

of

them will help me.

Jus t then we saw another boat, which was coming

from the ship to the shore.There wereten men init,

an d

they all ha d guns. We ra n into the trees an d waited.

was a long

hard

fight,

bu t

by

now

i t was d a rk a nd

this helped us very much. We ra n here

an d

there in the

trees, calling

and

shouting. Th e seamen could no t see us

an d

did no t

know

ho w many men they were fighting. In

the end the first officer shouted

to

them:

P ut d o wn

your

guns an d stop fighting The captain

has fifty island people

to

help him. We can kill you all

So

the seamen stopped fighting an d we

took

their

guns. Three

of

the men agreed to come back to the

captain,

an d

we

put

the others in mycave. Friday and I

t

wasa long hard fight

37



om

in England

[

have a fine ship uncle

my

nephew said.

And so, in 1694, I wen t to sea again, a nd h ad many

more adventures. Perhaps one day I l l wri te

another

book about them.

Ihave a fine ship, uncle, he said. I mgoing ou t

to

the

East Indies - India, Malaya, the Phi lippines

Wh y

don t

you come with me?

Robinson Crusoe

Poor Friday was veryafraid

of thesnow.

In Lisbon I found the Portuguese captain,

who

took me

inhis ship to Brazil, all those years ago. wasgood to see

him again,

and

he helped me with my business. Soon I

was ready to go home

again- byland. No more

adventures

and

dangers

by sea for me

was a long,

hard

journey.We

ha d

to cross

the mountains between

Spain

an d

France in

winter, and thesnowwas

deep.

Poor

Friday was

very afraid of the snow.

In his country it was

always hot, and he d id

no t like cold weather.

Back

in

ngland I

found a house and began

to livea quiet life.

My

tw o nephews came to livewith me.

The younger one wanted to be a sa ilor , and so I found

him a place

on

a ship. After a while I married,

a nd h ad

three children,

tw o

sons an d a daughter.

Then

my wife

died, and my nephew,

wh o

was now the capta in

of

a

ship, camehome to seeme. He knew

that

Idid no t really

like a quiet life.

40



GLOSS RY

captain

the

mo st i mpo r ta n t p er so n o n

a s hi p

coast l an d w hi ch is

near

t he s ea

dry

the opposite of

wet

great very big

master the m an w ho y ou w or k f or a nd w ho is more important

t h an y o u

mutineer somebody who takes part in a m ut in y

mutiny when sailors fight

and

take the ship from the captain

and officers

nephew

the s o n o f y o ur b r ot h er

or

sister

o ff ic er a n important person on a s hi p w h o w o rk s w it h t he

captain

p ir at e s om eo ne w ho sails on t h e s e a and steals from other

ships

roof

the top of a building o ve r y o ur h ea d

s hi pw re ck a n a cc id en t when a s hip b re ak s up in a s to r m o r

on

the rocks

shore the ground where the l an d a n d sea meet

slave a person who belongs to a master and

wh o

is given

no

m on ey f or h is work

uncle y o ur mo th e r s o r y o ur father s brother

w re ck t o b re ak s om et hi ng completely

obinson rusoe

TIVITIES

4

4



ACTIVITIES

ACTIVITIES

Before Reading While Reading

Before you

read Chapter

4

A

new

life

on

an island , ca n

you

guess what

Crusoe

finds on the island?

Read

Chapters

1

to

3. C ho os e t he b es t

question word

for

these questions

an d

then

answer

t he m. U se

th e ma p on

p ag e 4

to

help you.

h t / Where

1 happened

to

C r us oe w h en h e s ai le d

to

London?

2 did he go when he left London?

3 was the s hip w hen the

pirate

s hi p c am e a f te r it?

4

di d

the Turkish

pirate captain take

Crusoe?

5 was t he sudden

an d

terrible change in Crusoe s life?

6 did

C ru so e a nd X ur y

go

when

they escaped?

7 did the African people give

Crusoe and

Xury?

8 was the Portuguese captain going?

9 did Crusoe s friends want t o go to get rich?

10 happened to t he s hi p in t he s to rm ?

d id t h e s ea c ar r y C ru so e?

12 did Crusoe sleep

that

first night?

4

F oo d a nd

water

5 Pi rat es

6 A c ave

45

1 A

box

of gold

2 An

empty

o l d h ou s e

3 W il d a ni ma ls

R ea d t he s to ry introduction on t h e f ir st p ag e and the back

cover. What d o y ou k no w n ow a bo ut this story? Tick on e

bo x for each sentence.

YES

NO

1

Robinson

Crusoe

has a

boring

life.

2

He is i n a s hi p s ai li ng from South America

when there is a terrible

storm.

3

ll h is f ri en ds d ie i n t he s hi pw re c k.

4

When

h e a rr iv es o n t h e i sl an d he m ee ts

some

other

people.

5

One

d ay he finds a

footprint

i n t he s an d.

6

He leaves

th e

island

after

fifteen years.

2

What is going t o h ap p en i n t hi s s to ry ? Can

yo u

guess? Tick

on e

box for each sentence.

YES

NO

1

C r us oe l ea rn s t o g ro w c or n a nd make bread.

2

He builds himself a boat

an d

sails away.

3

He

is

often very hungry on the island.

4

Th e ma n wh o

left the

footprint

is

an enemy.

5

Th e

footprint

w as m ad e by s om eo ne

wh o

was also shipwrecked on the island.

6

Finding the footprint changes Crusoe s life.



ACTIVITIES While Reading

Read Chapters

4

and

5.

How

did Crusoe live

on the

island?

Make

sentences

from

this table.

fire

to

m a ke a t ab le .

f ro m a b ig t re e.

a t en t

to

make bread.

clothes

to

make

strong

pots.

the

sun

He made

from animals skins.

He used

lights

t o d ry f ru it

and

meat.

a

canoe

f r om t he s h ip s s ai ls .

wood

fields

to k ee p w i ld g oa t s i n.

to build fences.

corn

from animals fat.

Before you read Chapter 6 A

footprint

can y o u g ue ss t he

answers to these questions?

1

Where

does

Crusoe

find the footprint?

a

i n a fi eld

b on

t h e s h or e

c

outside his house

2

Who

made the footprint?

a

a p i ra te

b

a w il d

man c

a shipwrecked sailor

Read Chapters

6

and

7. Are these sentences

true

T)

or

false

F ? R ew r it e t h e f al se o ne s

with the

correct

information

1 C ru so e w as v er y a fr ai d of t he w il d m en at first.

2 The wild men

came

to the i sl a nd t o k il l and eat turtles.

3

Crusoe

helped Man Friday to escape

from

t h e w il d m en .

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ACTIVITIES While Reading

4 F ri da y

made

Crusoe some clothes

and

a t en t.

S

Friday

wanted to

go

home

to

Trinidad

alone.

6

Crusoe and

F ri da y m ad e a

new

c a no e f or t he i r e sc ap e.

Before

you read Chapter

8,

can

you guess

how Crusoe and

Friday escape

from

the island?

Choose

one of these ideas.

1

They

sail to Trinidad i n t h e c an oe .

2

They

sail

back

t o E ng la nd i n an English ship.

3

They

fight some pirates and take their ship.

Read

Chapters 8

and

9, and then put t he se s en te nc es i n t h e

right order.

1 The

captain

told Crusoe that the mutineers

planned to

leave

him and

his officers on the island to die.

2

Ba,ck

i n E n gl a nd , C r us o e

got

married

and had

a family.

3 C ru so e w as v ery s ur pr is ed w he n a n E ng li sh s hi p a rr iv ed .

4 B ec au se

of

this, the

captain was

very

happy

to

take

Crusoe

and

Friday home.

S So

Crusoe sailed

with

him,

and had more

adventures.

6 Eleven m en f ro m t he s hi p c am e to t he s ho re i n a boat

but the captain and his two officers were prisoners.

7 B ut l at er , his

nephew planned

to

s ai l t o t h e E a st I nd ie s.

8 So Cr us oe and F r id ay h el pe d t he

captain

to fight the

mutineers and g et b a ck h is s hi p.

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CTIVITIES fter

Reading

ACTIVITIES

fter Reading

1

Use th e words below

to

complete this p ag e f ro m R o bi n so n

Crusoe s diary. Use each word once.

catch fat fences fishing gun happy holes home

raining salted shoot skins stronger tree woo

TH AUGUST 1669:

At

last it

has

stopped This

morning

I

cu t

down a

because I

need more

.

Th e

goats have

broken two

already

so I

must

make

them . Later I went

ou t

in my canoe bu t I

didn t

anything. Fo r dinner

I

a t e t he

last

of the

meat

so tomorrow I

must

go ou t

w it h t he

an d try to something. I need more for my

lights, an d also some t o m ak e a n e w c o at - this on e

is full of

.

Bu t I

am well

an d

- this isl an d is my

now.

2

Imagine

that yo u

have

to

spend

a year

alone

on an

island

like

Robinson

Crusoe s. Explain

wh y

these things will,

or

will not be useful on th e island.

Example: Matches will be useful fo r lighting fires.

3 Here is a

new illustration for

th e story.

F in d t he b es t

place

i n t he s to ry t o

pu t

the picture and answer these questions.

Th e picture goes on page

.

1

What

is Robinson Crusoe doing?

Wh y

has

Ma n

Friday

pu t

his

head

on th e

ground?

3 Wh y doesn t

Ma n

Friday speak to Crusoe?

No w

write

a caption

for the illustration.

--

a knife chickens

a tent a bottle

a sword

a gu n

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salt

money

pe n a n d p a pe r

matches

Caption _

9



CTIVITIES ft r eading

CTIVITIES ft r eading

4 Pu t these words into four groups, under these headings.

I

ANIMALS

I I

PEOPLE

I

TRANSPORT

I

FOOD

boat bread canoe captain corn eggs fruit goat

leopard meat pirate prisoner sailor ship slave turtle

No w

find these sixteen

words

in the

word

search below,

and

draw

a line

through

them.

Th e words

go from left

to

right,

and

from

t o p t o b o tt o m.

L

I

C

P

I

R A T E A

E N S R E G E G

M

0

S H I

P

0

Y

R

G S

P

F

C

S L

A V

E S

A

A R

0

A

T

0

A

U I

R U N N T R

y

C

L

I

L E

0 0 M

K

0 0

0

T U R T

L

E V R R

E

R C .A

P

T

A I

N

T

C

A N

0

E H T E R E

No w

write

down

all the letters

t hat d on t

have a line

through

them. Begin

with th e

first line

an d

go across each

line to the end. You will have twenty-nine letters, which will

make eight words in tw o sentences.

1 Who said these two sentences?

2

Who

was he talking to?

3 Where were they?

50

5 Here are Robinson Crusoe and the captain talking about the

mutineers.

Put

their conversat ion in the

r ig h t o rd er and

write in the speakers names. Crusoe speaks first (3).

1 Leave them here. My island can be their prison.

2

That s

true, you have. But

how

will they live?

3 What will you d o w it h t he mutineers, captain?

4 They

won t

escape easily, captain. Remember-

I ve been here for twenty-seven years.

5

I k no w

that. But it s

h ar d t o

kill so

many

men.

6

They

can have my three houses, my cornfields,

my goats,

and

all my tools.

Their

life will be easy.

7

I

agree

with

you, my friend. But

what can

I do?

8

But they ll escape from it and go free

9 Yes, it will . Ah, you re a kind man Mr Crusoe.

10

I ll have to

shoot them Mr

Crusoe. All mutineers

must die, you know.

6 There a famous question about this story. Why wa s there

only one footprint on th e sand? Here are three possible

answers. Which on e do yo u like best, and why?

1

Th e

m an c am e

to

t he shore in a boat got out

pu t

one

foot on the sand, then go t back into his boat again.

2

Th e

ma n had only one leg.

3 There were other footprints on the sand, but th e sea

washed them

away

before

Robinson

Crusoe

got

there.

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Daniel Defoe was

born

in

London

in 1660,

th e

son

of

a

butcher

called James

Foe

Daniel later

changed

his name to

Defoe,

because it

was

a more

fashionable

name . He went

to

a church

school, and then went into business, buying and selling

different

things,

an d travelling

all

o v er E u ro p e. He

fought

against

on e

king

Games

II), an d

l at er j oi ne d t he a rm y

of

another king William III). H e w en t t o p ri so n twice because

he

wrote

clever

booklets against

the church

an d

the

government.

He travelled a lot,

worked as spy started

his ow n

newspaper,

and

has

m or e t ha n 500 pieces of

writing

to his

name - more than any other writer in th e English language.

It

was

a very full , busy , an d

exciting

life.

He died

in 1731, i n

Ropemaker s Alley, London.

When he

was

nearly sixty years o ld, h e beg an to write

novels.

These include

Captain Singleton Moll Flanders and

Roxana bu t

he

is remembered best

today

for Robinson

Crusoe This

was

his first novel, written in 1719, and it was an

immediate success.

Defoe

used the

t r ue s t or y

of a

sailor

called

Alexander

Selkirk, w h o w a s left by

pirates

on Juan

Fernandez,

a smal l i sl and i n

the

Pacific O ce an . H e lived

t he re a lo ne f or

four years,

an d

was

rescued

by a

ship

in 1709.

Many

people

call Robinson Crusoe the first English novel.

It

appears in many

different languages,

films

a re m ad e

of it,

an d t h e s t or y

of

C r us o e o n

his

island is

still

enjoyed today

by

both

children

and

adults

all

over

the

world.

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