Accidents > Life and most surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner, who lived eight and twenty years in an uninhabited island on the coast of America, near the mouth of the great river Oroonoque

THE
LIFE AND ADVENTURES
O F
ROBINSON CRUSOR.
IN the year 1632, I was born at yorh, of a repu¬
table family. My father was a native of Bre¬
men, who merchandizing at Hull for fome time,
gained a very plentiful fortune, and married iny
mother in Tork, who received her firft breath in that
country. And as her maiden name was Rcbi/fon,
I was called Robittfon Kreutxnaer ; which not being
ealily prouounced in the hngUJh tongue, we are
commonly known by the name of Crufae.
I was the youngeft of three brothers ■, the elded
was a Lieutenant Colonel in Lockhart's regiment,
but (lain by the Spaniards: What became of the
other I could never learn.
No charge nor pains were wanting in my educa¬
tion, my father defigning me for the law ; yet no-
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