Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Fiction Classics

<p><strong>I cast my eyes to the stranded vessel when the breach and froth of the sea being so big I could hardly see it it lay so far off and considered Lord! how was it possible I could get on shore?</strong> After I had solaced my mind with the comfortable part of my condition I began to look round me to see what kind of place I was in and what was next to be done and I soon found my comforts abate and that in a word I had a dreadful deliverance; for I was wet had no clothes to shift me nor anything either to eat or drink to comfort me neither did I see any prospect before me but that of perishing with hunger of being devoured by wild beasts; and that which was particularly afflicting to me was that I had no weapon either to hunt and kill any creature for my sustenance or to defend myself against any other creature that might desire to kill me for theirs. In a word I had nothing about me but a knife a tobacco-pipe and a little tobacco in a box. This was all my provision; and this threw me into terrible agonies of mind that for a while I ran about like a madman. Night coming upon me I began with a heavy heart to consider what would be my lot if there were any ravenous beasts in that country seeing at night they always come abroad for their prey.</p>