Daniel Defoe
Image Attribution: Michael Van der Gucht (Public domain)
Image Attribution: Michael Van der Gucht (Public domain)
And thus I left the island, the 19th of December, as I found by the ship’s account, in the year 1686, after I had been upon it eight-and-twenty years, two months, and nineteen days; being delivered from this second captivity the same day of the month that I first made my escape in the long-boat from among the Moors of Sallee.
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