Excerpt from The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who Lived Twenty-Eight Years in an Uninhabited Island on the Coast of America, Near the Mouth of the Great River Oronoque I was the youngefi of three brothers. The eldefl 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 warning in my educa. Tion. My father defigned me for the 'law'; yet no thing would ferve me but 1 mutt go to fea, both a gainfi the will of my father, the tears or my mother. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.