Daniel Defoe
Image Attribution: Michael Van der Gucht (Public domain)
Image Attribution: Michael Van der Gucht (Public domain)
After I had been there about ten or twelve days, it came into my thoughts that I should lose my reckoning of time for want of books, and pen and ink, and should even forget the Sabbath days; but to prevent this, I cut with my knife upon a large post, in capital letters—and making it into a great cross, I set it up on the shore where I first landed—"I came on shore here on the 30th September 1659."
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