Cargoes for Crusoes
GRANT OVERTON
By GRANT OVERTON
About Books and Authors
- CARGOES FOR CRUSOES
- AUTHORS OF THE DAY
- AMERICAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENT
- WHEN WINTER COMES TO MAIN STREET
- THE WOMEN WHO MAKE OUR NOVELS
- WHY AUTHORS GO WRONG AND OTHER EXPLANATIONS
Novels
- THE THOUSAND AND FIRST NIGHT
- ISLAND OF THE INNOCENT
- THE ANSWERER
- WORLD WITHOUT END
- MERMAID
Cargoes
for Crusoes
By GRANT OVERTON
New York: D. Appleton & Company
New York: George H. Doran Company
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
COPYRIGHT, 1924,
BY GRANT OVERTON
First Printing, September, 1924.
Press of
J. J. Little & Ives Company
New York, U. S. A.
Bound in Interlaken-Cloth
“Let’s Give Him a Book.”
“He’s Got a Book.”
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO
ALL THOSE WHO, THOUGH HAVING
ONE BOOK, SOMETIMES ENJOY ANOTHER
How that I, Robinson Crusoe, came to be wreckedwith others of the ship’s company on a DesertIsland, all being lost save my unworthy self, hathin a precise manner been narrated by one D. Defoein the book he saw fit to entitle with my name; buthis ending is indifferent. For novels like Defoe’smust have the Happy Ending, so styled. Yet is thetruth often happier far than fiction. Being no handto invent a tale, I am content to set down in thisplace events as I humbly took part in them.
Let me declare, then, that here on my DesertIsland I for long suffered great loneliness and consequentdistress of soul. This went on many days.Howbeit, while sunk very low in my spiritual stateand with expectation nearly gone, a huge ship passingnear labored painfully with a storm by the mercyof God being compelled to throw overboard—or, asthey say at sea, to jettison—the greater part of hercargo. And being thus lightened she stood awayfrom the Island and went on her course safely. Thesame storm cast upon the shore the rich treasurewherewith she had been laden, so many woodenboxes or cases, packed tightly and well-lined, whichfor the most part were washed up undamaged and,...