Rebilius Cruso: Robinson Crusoe, in Latin

Contents.

Chapter I. □

1 □ Robinson’s parentage.
2 □ His first adventures.
3 □ His slavetrading voyage.
4 □ The shipwreck.
5 □ They take to the boat.
6 □ It is swamped.
7 □ His narrow escape.
8 □ His forlorn position.
9 □ He sleeps in a tree.
10 □ His mental struggles.
11 □ The dog and long boat.
12 □ He swims to the ship.
13 □ Its condition. The skiff.
14 □ He makes a raft.
15 □ He loads it, first with food ;
16 □ next, with other necessaries.
17 □ He tows off the raft by the skiff.
18 □ Favouring weather.
19 □ It is all but wrecked.
20 □ He sleeps again in a tree.
21 □ His first supper.
22 □ He fastens the raft ;
23 □ and visits the long boat.
24 □ Second visit to the ship.
25 □ He plans a raft on water-tight empty boxes.
26 □ He carries off a few costly articles in the skiff ;
27 □ and tows off whatever will float.
28 □ He lands his train at the nearest point ;
29 □ and explores a natural harbour.
30 □ His dog-and-cat meat.
31 □ He ascertains that he is in an island.
32 □ Its character.
33 □ His precaution against panthers.
34 □ He puts his first raft in safety.
35 □ Third visit to the ship.
36 □ He brings away his new raft.
37 □ Second expedition the same day.

Chapter II. □

38 □ In future, he will write less minutely.
39 □ Weather changes.
40 □ He goes on foot to his harbor.
41 □ Its cliffs and caverns.
42 □ He bathes.
43 □ Sport and affection of the dog.
44 □ Robinson ascends to the table land.
45 □ Shoots a she-antelope and wounds a kid.
46,7 □ How he deals with his booty.
48 □ His mental agitations.
49 □ His ledger of things good and bad.
50 □ How he is soothed.
51 □ He conciliates dog and cat to the kid.
52 □ Thirteen days’ work.
53 □ Why the ship had so much ammunition.
54 □ His search for certain articles.
55 □ He finds iron tools ;
56 □ and baskets of dry beans ;
57 □ and a portion of the plaid dresses.
58 □ He heightens his skiff.
59 □ His device for the long boat.
60 □ He saves it into his harbor.
61 □ Last visit to the ship.
62 □ His raft is wrecked.
63 □ The ship vanishes.

Chapter III. □

64 □ His state of feeling.
65 □ His affection to tame animals.
66 □ His cooking of the beans.
67 □ Recovery of articles from his wrecked raft.
68 □ Details concerning the caverns.
69 □ Smoothness of their floor.
70 □ Solidity of their roofs.
71 □ Their screen of cactuses.
72 □ His bedroom and larder.
73 □ His manifold embarrassments.
74 □ He discovers a pure rill at hand ;
75 □ and a natural dock for the boat.
76 □ He hedges in a spot in the valley.
77 □ He transports certain things to the caverns.
78 □ Numerous gay-hued birds.
79 □ Abundant vegetation.
80 □ Kindling materials.
81 □ Tropical products.
82 □ The creek ends in a land stream.
83 □ Natural fruit gardens.
84 □ He clings to the seaside.
86 □ He recovers the computation of time, and resumes his nautical mathematics.
87 □ How he had learned.
88 □ His register of lunar months.

Chapter IV. □

89 □ How he had learned carpentry.
90 □ He makes a little sledge.
91 □ He arranges his caverns.
92 □ His fear of wild beasts.
93 □ He adapts the ship ladder to a new use.
94 □ Digs a hole under his window.
95 □ He now feels safe.
96 □ On mining.
97 □ On his familiarity with gunpowder.
98 □ Removes to the caverns.
99 □ His encounter with a female antelope.
100 □ His two new young ones.
101 □ Absence of men on the island.
102 □ He amasses fodder and improves two cliff paths.
103 □ He discovers a palm grove eastward ;
104 □ and a forest glen aloft to N.W.
105 □ How he brings down fuel and timber.
106 □ Climate of his island.
107 □ He rows round to the palm grove.
108 □ He cuts a young tree for boat oars.

Chapter V. □

109 □ He arranges his armory.
110 □ His other apartments.
111 □ His laundry operations.
112 □ Treatment of his skin and hair.
113 □ Distress from cold.
114 □ His leathern tippet.
115 □ His mat for the back.
116 □ Defence for head and cheeks in heat.
117 □ He shapes his new oars.
118 □ Exercises his boat in harbor.
119 □ From his skiff he sees a lofty mountain.
120 □ How he cooks waterfowl.
121 □ How he gets tame pigeons.
122 □ His toil in carrying.
123 □ His spirits suddenly fail.
124 □ His religious agitation.
125 □ His tackle to catch a rabbit.
126 □ He catches two.
126* □ He plaits new shoes.

Chapter VI. □

127 □ He explores the high mountain.
128 □ Panorama from the summit.
129 □ The mainland is on the south.
130 □ He discovers vine plants, and brings home citrons and lemons half-ripe.
131 □ He returns by an easy and natural road.
132 □ Joy makes him liberal.
133 □ Threefold character of the island.
134,5 □ He explores the hill west of the creek.
136 □ He catches a parrot.
137 □ He makes a rabbit-hutch.
138 □ He reads of elephant catching.
139 □ He plans to catch a fully-grown antelope alive.
140-2 □ The battle and victory.
143 □ He catches a female alive, and two kids.
144 □ Steady morning rains. North of the palm grove, he surveys eastward more of the coast ;
145 □ with tortoises on wide sands.
146 □ Why he has no palms in his harbor.
147 □ Sport of the dog with the kids.
148 □ Their swiftness.
149 □ Description of the antelopes.
150 □ He trains them to the little sledge ; his harness.
151 □ His dog learns to watch the flock.
152 □ He trains them to his whistle.
153 □ His schemes for food.
154 □ His fishing.
155 □ His weir-net.
156 □. He moralizes on his own character.

Chapter VII. □

157 □ His dressing of fish.
158 □ His unleavened bannocks.
159 □ His home garden.
160 □ His argumentation with himself.
161,2 □ How he is affected by his mother’s birthday.
163 □ His funeral feast.
164 □ He finishes it in the glen.
165,6 □ The parrot’s talk.
167-9 □ He brings home a tortoise.
170 □ The hull of the ship is cast up.
171 □ He ventures upon it within the reef.
172 □ An ague seizes him.
173 □ His dread of darkness ; he drinks, first lemonade ;
174 □ afterwards, Cinchona.
175 □ He gets oil and eggs from the tortoise.
176 □ He makes lampwicks.
177 □ The weather clears.
178 □ Birth of new kittens.
179 □ Other new broods.
180-2 □ Development of his religious sentiment.
183 □ The Popish Prayer-book.
184 □ The lessons which he now learnt.

Chapter VIII. □

185 □ He saws down the horns of the male antelope.
186 □ Use of the horns.
187 □ He makes a drill,
188 □ with a bow,
189 □ and guide ;
190 □ also a larger sledge.
191 □ Deficiency of leather.
192 □ How he makes fine ropes.
193 □ His small bridge.
194 □ His beach road.
195 □ New kids.
196 □ Contrivance for picking cocoa nuts.
197 □ Experiments on leaves, pith and bark.
198,9 □ Migration of his flock.
200 □ He sleeps in a hammock under the sky.
201 □ He makes the rush mat for his back.
202 □ His dress in the heat.
203 □ His preparation of a yam garden.
204 □ His siesta.
205 □ His raisins.
206 □ New products of the soil.
207 □ Turpentine or Resin.
208 □ Midday with the dog.
209-11 □ More fruits.
212 □ Unsuccessful expedition in the long boat.
213 □ He cannot return against the wind ;
214 □ his distress.
215 □ The parrot comes to comfort him.
216 □ He trudges home, leaving the boat.
217 □ He fixes the latitude ;
218 □ plants his kitchen garden.
219 □ Adds to his stores of food.
220 □ Insufficiency of his store-chests.
221 □ His first attempt at pottery.
222 □ He builds a furnace.
223 □ Makes huge square jars of coarse pottery.
224 □ He sets up a target for practice.
225 □ His preserving of fruit.
226 □ His recovery of glass beads.

Chapter IX. □

227 □ Two boats of black savages arrive.
228 □ He arms ;
229 □ goes forth and views a cannibal feast.
230 □ A captive escapes.
231 □ Robinson shoots one pursuer dead and wounds another ;
232 □ but saves the life of the latter.
233 □ Binds up his wound.
234 □ Ascertains that the two boats have departed.
235 □ He brings the fugitive to his caverns.
236 □ Returns to bury the dead ;
237 □ and bring home the wounded man.
238 □ He tries the temper of the fugitive.
239 □ His deliberation and assumed majesty.
240 □ His careful treatment of the fugitive (Elapsus).
241 □ He astonishes both men with his pistols,—also Elapsus with telescope and watch.
242 □ He pours away nearly all the brandy and rum.
243 □ Elapsus makes good sandals for Robinson.
244 □ Robinson gives him a handsome plaid ;
245 □ also cloaks to both.
246 □ He takes Elapsus to the scene of the murderous feast.
247 □ Elapsus reveals the virtues of trees and shrubs,
248 □ and talks of Indian poultry.
249, 250 □ Various palms and their uses.
251 □ Thoughts about the long boat.
252 □ Convalescence of Secutor.
253 □ Elapsus devises a royal badge for Robinson.
254 □ Robinson accepts it ;
255 □ and gives a secondary badge to Elapsus.
256 □ Description of the two men.
257 □ Elapsus is curious about work in iron.
258 □ Skill of both men in wattling and plaiting.
259 □ Skill of Secutor in cookery ; his making of tea.
260 □ Why Robinson resolves to show no distrust.
261 □ He teaches both the sword-exercise.
262 □ Armor used in it.
263 □ Secutor makes new arrows.
264 □ Robinson plans a cross-bow.
265 □ The men execute it.

Chapter X. □

266 □ Expedition to fetch the boat.
267 □ Mending of the sails.
268 □ It tacks well.
269 □ Elapsus pronounces it, Not yet good.
270 □ Secutor enlarges the kitchen garden.
271 □ Their sport in swimming.
272 □ Trial of soap-making.
273 □ Secutor as groom and gardener.
274 □ Reliefs for the men’s toil.
275,6 □ Elapsus works bulwarks and flaps (outriggers) for the boat.
277 □ Robinson studies how to fulfil his demands of ironwork.
278 □ With Elapsus he makes a longer excursion on the hills.
279 □ Gets a view of the ridges and under cliff on the north-east.
280 □ The three work together at the smithy.
281 □ The parrot is killed by a falcon. How Elapsus comforts Robinson.
282 □ Diligent work during the rains.
283 □ Secutor’s enmity to the rabbits.
284 □ Robinson’s literary occupation.
285 □ His talk with them during their work.
286 □ They present him with a royal dress.
287 □ They try the new rig of the boat.
288 □ Petition of the two men concerning wives.
289 □ Robinson’s anxieties.
290 □ His first question.
291 □ Their further suggestions.
292 □ His fresh objections.
293 □ He insists on first surveying the coast.

Chapter XI. □

294 □ Their new manufactures.
295 □ Robinson plays the hydrographer.
296 □ Elapsus finds the rice plant.
297 □ They survey the west coast.
298 □ Difficulty about currents.
299 □ Problem of the flock, solved by Elapsus.
300 □ They agree to hew new oars.
301 □ Robinson claims better missiles.
302 □ Their reply reproves him.
303 □ Their activity.
304 □ They carry home the fruit crop.
305,6 □ Some account of their own country.
307 □ Calculations of Elapsus.
308 □ Secutor’s account of the late war.
309 □ Why neither tribe comes to the island.
310 □ Robinson promises to sail within four days.
311 □ Energy of Secutor.
312 □ Zoology of the mainland.
313 □ Robinson’s final preparations.
314 □ Fate of the tame rabbits.
315 □ The three put to sea at evening ;
316 □ and at dawn see land.
317 □ The two men resume their true names.
318 □ Reception by the populace.
319 □ The shooting match.
320 □ Sister of Gelavi ;
321 □ also his bride.
322 □ Robinson consents to everything.
323 □ They are towed out with honor.
324 □ The return voyage.
325 □ They land at the Garden-port.
326 □ What of the flock ?