The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
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- Chapter I Revisits Island
- Chapter II Intervening History of Colony
- Chapter III Fight with Cannibals
- Chapter IV Renewed Invasion of Savages
- Chapter V A Great Victory
- Chapter VI The French Clergyman's Counsel
- Chapter VII Conversation Betwixt Will Atkins and His Wife
- Chapter VIII Sails from the Island for the Brazils
- Chapter IX Dreadful Occurrences in Madagascar
- Chapter X He Is Left on Shore
- Chapter XI Warned of Danger by a Countryman
- Chapter XII The Carpenter's Whimsical Contrivance
- Chapter XIII Arrival in China
- Chapter XIV Attacked by Tartars
- Chapter XV Description of an Idol, Which They Destroy
- Chapter XVI Safe Arrival in England
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