Saintine, Joseph Xavier, 1798-1865 / 2008-07-22 00:00:00
EBOOK SOLITARY OF JUAN FERNANDEZ ***
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THE SOLITARY OF JUAN FERNANDEZ;
OR,
THE REAL ROBINSON CRUSOE
BY THE AUTHOR OF PICCIOLA.
TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH
BY
ANNE T. WILBUR.
MDCCCLI.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
The Royal Salmon.--Pretty Kitty.--Captain Stradling.--William Dampier.
--Reveries and Caprices of Miss Catherine.
CHAPTER II.
Alexander Selkirk.--The College.--First Love.--Eight Years of Absence.
--Maritime Combats.--Return and Departure.--The Swordfish.
CHAPTER III.
The Tour of the World.--The Way to manufacture Negroes.--California.
--The Eldorado.--Revolt of Selkirk.--The Log-Book.--Degradation.
--A Free Shore.
CHAPTER IV.
Inspection of the Country.--Marimonda.--A City seen through the Fog.
--The Sea every where.--Dialogue with a Toucan.--The first Shot.
--Declaration of War.--Vengeance.--A Terrestrial Paradise.
CHAPTER V.
Labors of the Colonist.--His Study.--Fishing.--Administration.
--Selkirk Island.--The New Prometheus.--What is wanting to Happiness.
--Encounter with Marimonda.--Monologue.
CHAPTER VI.
The Hammock.--Poison.--Success.--A Calm under the Tropics.
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