HOW I FOUND THE ISLAND. 



than of ever returning to our own country. Jn this 

 distress, one of our Men, early in the Morning, ery'd 

 " Land! " and we had no sooner ran out of the Cabbin 

 to look, in the hopes of seeing whereabouts in the 

 World we were, but the Ship struck upon a Rock, and 



in a moment, her mo- 

 tion being stopp'd, 

 the Sea broke over 

 S her in such a manner 

 that we expected we 

 should all have perish'd immediately.' " 



" That is clever enough," assented the captain, 

 " and the latitude they were in leaves Juan Fernandez 

 out of the question, for it lies more than 40° to the 

 southward of their last position." 



Passing over the events attendant upon the land- 

 ing of Crusoe, and his dismal moralizings, I turned to 

 the page where we find him, after having in a measure 



