THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE

by DANIEL DE FOE

London.

18O8







[Illustration: I had one labour to make me a Canoe,
which at last I finished.]




THE LIFE OF DE FOE


Daniel De Foe was descended from a respectable family in the county of
Northampton, and born in London, about the year 1663. His father, James
Foe, was a butcher, in the parish of St. Giles's, Cripplegate, and a
protestant dissenter. Why the subject of this memoir prefixed the _De_
to his family name cannot now be ascertained, nor did he at any period
of his life think it necessary to give his reasons to the public. The
political scribblers of the day, however, thought proper to remedy this