VOL II.

PLATE X.

Title to Vol. II. with a beautiful Vignette, compofed of Robinson Crufoe's Implements of Husbandry.

SUBJECT OF PLATE XI.

FRONTISPIECE.-Robinion Crufoe's first Interview with the Spaniards on his fecond Landing.

"First he turned to me, and pointing to them, faid, Thefe, Sir, are fome of the gentlemen who owe their lives to you: and then turning to them, and pointing to me, he let them know who I was: upon which they all came up one by one, not as if they had been failors, and ordinary fellows, and I the like, but really as if they had been ambassadors or noblemen, and I a monarch or a great conqueror." See page 42.

SUBJECT OF PLATE XII.

The Plantation of the two Englishmen.

"The two men had innumerable young trees planted about their hut, that when you came to the place, nothing was to be feen but a wood; and though they had their plantation twice demolished, once by their own countrymen, and once by the enemy, as fhall be fhewn in its place; yet they had reftored all again, and every thing was flourishing and thriving about them." See page 90.

SUBJECT or PLATE XIII.

The two Englishmen retreating with their Wives and Children.

"Now, having great reafon to believe that they were betrayed, the first thing they did was to bind the flaves which were left, and cause two of the three men, whom they brought with the women, who, it seems, proved very faithful to them, to lead them with their two wives, and whatever they could carry away with them, to their retired place in the woods." See page 96.

SUBJECT or PLATE XIV.

The Spaniards and Englishmen burning the Indians' boats. "They went to work immediately with the boats; and getting fome dry wood together from a dead tree, they tried to fet fome of them on fire, but they were fo wet, that they would scarce burn; however, the fire fo burned the upper part, that it foon made them unfit for fwimming in the fea as boats." See page 113.

SUBJECT

Robinson Crusoe diftributing Tools of Hufbandry among the Inhabitants

"I brought them out all my store of tools, and gave every man a digging-fpade, a fhovel, and a rake, for we had no harrows or ploughs; and to every separate place a pick-axe, a crow, a broadaxe, and a faw." See page 134.

SUBJECT OF PLATE XVI.

A View of the Plantation of the three Englishmen. 10 "Upon this he faced about just before me, as he walked along, and putting me to a full ftop, I most heartily thank God, and you, fo evident a call to fo bleffed a work."

made me a very low bow: Sir, fays he, for giving me See page 151.

PLATE XVII.

Head of De Foe to face the Title of the LIFE.

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The wonders of this man's life exceeds all that (he thinks) is to be found extant; the life of one man being scarce capable of a greater variety.

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