The story of Alexander Selkirk by Goodrich Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) 1793-1860

Author:Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Selkirk, Alexander, 1676-1721, Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731, Voyages and travels
Publisher: Philadelphia, H.F. Anners
Published: 1841-12-05T05:00:00+00:00

the motion of the feet of the man of Juan Fernandez. On the contrary, they felt the lighter for being unshod ; and in process of time, their soles became so hardened, that he could run over rocks and sands, and all the rough surface of the soil, without minding it, or suffering from it, any more than the goats that fled before him, did, when they scampered from crag to crag.

CHAPTER VII.

A needle invented. Mending and making garmenls. A resting place. Meditations. He makes a knife. Spaniards land and pursue him. His escape. Their departure. A icay to get fire. He finds plums. Makes a basket.

Selkirk found that not only his shoes must be cast aside, but that, time and a wild life, conspired to turn the rest of his clothing into tatters. He had no needle or thread to mend them; but, he found out a way to tack his rags together so as to make them hang on him a little longer ; and thereby proved that necessity is indeed ' the mother of invention.'

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