Providence Difplay'd, 



Or a very Surprizing 



ACCOUNT 



OF ONE 



Mr. Alexander Selkirk, 



Maimer of a Merchant-Man call'd the Cinque^- 

 Ports J who Dreaming that the Ship would 

 foon afcer be loll, he defired to be left on 

 a Dcfolace liland in the South-Seas, where 

 he liv'd Four Years and Four Months, with- 

 out feeing the Face of Man, the Ship be- 

 ing afterwards caft away as he Dreamed. 



AS ALSO, 



How he came afccrwardjs co be miraculoufly Prefcrv'd 

 and Redeemed from that fatal Place, by Two Br/ffcl 

 Privateers, call'd tiie Duke and Dutchefi; that took 

 the Rich Aquapulco Ship worth One Hundred Tunn 

 of Gold, and brought it to England. 

 To which is added. 



An Account of his Life and Convcrfation, Birth, and 

 Education. His Defcription of the Ifland where he 

 was caft; how he fubfifted 5 the feveral ftrange 

 Things he faw, and how he us'd to fpend his Time. 

 With Tome Pious Ejaculations that he ufcd, Com* 

 pos'd during his Melancholy Refidence there. 



Written ly his own Handy and attejied by mofjt of the 

 Emi nent Merchants upon the Royal Exchangb. 



London: Printed by J.Read^in White-Fryers^ ijxx. 



Title-page of Selkirk's Journal, 1712. 

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