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LASSICS FEATURING STORIES BY THE WORLD'S Illustrated GREATEST AUTHORS OBINSON CRUSO BY DANIEL DEFOE 10READ THE BEST IN THE "WORLD'S FINEST JUVENILE CLASSICS CLASSICS CLASSICS LAST MOHICANS THE CALL of THE WILD UNCLE TOMS CABIN CLASSICS A" of the great titles in the CLASSICS Illustrated series will give you the most memorable reading treat of your life. They're exciting, informative, thrilling, educational. Each title contains a complete adaptation - - plus factual, enjoyable and educational featurettes. THERE HAVE BEEN NO HERE ARE THEIR UNFORGETTABLE STORIES GREATER STORY-TELLERS THAN THESE IMMORTAL AUTHORS THE THREE MUSKETEERS THE SPY 2. IVANHOE THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES 1, THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO $4, THE IN THE IRON MASK ALEXANDRE DUMAS 4. THE LAST OF THE MONICANS SILAS MARNER SIR WALTER SCOTT 5. MOBY DICK THE SONG OF HIAWATHA JAMES FENIMORE COOPER 6. A TALE OF TWO CITIES THE PRAIRIE HERMAN MELVILLE ROBIN HOOD WUTHERING HEIGHTS CHARLES DICKENS 9. 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A It is late. Do not worry, father. sailor's life is have I will be back in six months. a dangerous already Just one voyage, promise. one. signed for a voyage. am leaving tonight. EVER SINCE I COULD REMEMBER, I HAD ALWAYS WANTED TO GO TO SEA. MY FATHER DID HIS BEST TO DISCOURAGE ME. WE SAILED THUS, REASSURING MY SOUTH off our stern! The ANXIOUS FATHER, I SET SAIL EAST, Jolly Roger! A ON AUGUST OF SIXTEEN ACROSS pirate ship! And she FIFTY-NINE - NOT AWARE THE is gaining OCEAN. WE THAT THE ONE on us! SAILED VOYAGE I SPOKE OF so LIGHTLY WOULD CALMLY, KEEP ME AWAY FROM EASILY, UNTIL WE MY HOME FOR TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS. ENTERED PIRATE- INFESTED WATERS OF THE CARIBBEES. INSTANTLY, THE CREW SCRAMBLED TO THEIR POSTS. THE CAPTAIN GAVE ME THE WHEEL AND ORDERED FULL SPEED AHEAD! Break out all the canvas she will hold! We will give the Jolly Roger a race!ROBINSON CRUSOE PAGE 3 ON US. RACED AHEAD BUT THE JOLLY ROGER We cannot outrun her! Man the quns! Stand by to Fight! AS THE SMOKE CLEARED WE COULD SEE THE THE DREADED PIRATE SHIP LOOMED ABAFT OUR PIRATE SHIP LISTING BADLY. BEAM, BUT WE SURPRISED HER WITH AN OPENING SALVO. BUT OUR ENEMY RECOVERED QUICKLY, AND BEFORE WE COULD RETURN HER FIRE THE PIRATE SHIP CREPT CLOSER AND GRAPPLING WITH A GRINDING IMPACT THE HOOKS CLAWED AT TWO VESSELS LOCKED IN A DEATH GRIP, ANDPAGE 4 CLASSIC COMICS OUR DECK BECAME A BLOODY HE PIRATES CAME SWARMING ABOARD! BATTLEGROUND. A RING OF CLASHING STEEL FORCED US TO THE OPPOSITE RAIL. BUT WE SMASHED BACK WITH A GROWING FEROCITY. THE CHIEF AND OUR SPRANG SEIZED SHIP. THE TOROBINSON CRUSOE PAGE FOLLOWED SWIFTLY. HE TURNED ON ME, SIDESTEPPING NIMBLY, I PARRIED HIS HIS BLADE FLASHING. BLOW, AND HIS QUIVERING BLADE BURIED ITSELF IN THE WOODEN RAIL. THEN SUDDENLY FROM THE OUR SHIPS WERE SPUN HELPLESSLY INTO THE SPOUT. IT ALL CROW'S NEST. HAPPENED so FAST, I HAVE ONLY A FLEETING MEMORY OF THE TRAGIC SIGHT OF DROWNING MEN. to star THE FIGHTING CEASED AS THE GREAT SPOUT WHIRLED CLOSER. THERE WAS NOTHING TO DO BUT AWAIT THE IMPENDING DOOM.PAGE 6 CLASSIC COMICS I LEAPED! BY A GREAT STROKE OF I STEERED CLEAR OF THE DEBRIS, BUT A MOUNTAINOUS WAVE IN THE RAGING SEA CAUGHT HOLD OF ME. REGAINED MY BREATH LONG ENOUGH TO SWIM A FEW STROKES, THEN BEGAN TO SINK, EXHAUSTED, WHEN AS TUGGED ME TO THE SURFACE, ANOTHER WAVE LADDIE! DASHED INTO US, WASHING US THIS TIME TOWARD A ONE OF THE PETS ROCKY SHORE FROM OUR ILL-FATED SHIP!ROBINSON CRUSOE PAGE ON WHICH I SANK EXHAUSTED. I AWOKE ON A DYING DAY AND STRANDED VIEWED MY DISMAL PROSPECTS. SOMEWHERE IN THE Not a person CARIBBEES not house. I SENSED either die DANGER ON I SOUGHT REFUGE FROM MY TERROR. of hunger or EVERY SIDE. be devoured AS THE by wild beasts NIGHT or savages. I SPENT THE NIGHT THAT MORNING WAS WELCOME WAY, DOZING OFF FITFULLY AT INTERVALS THE WATER WAS AT LOW TIDE. WHERE GREAT WAVES HAD ROARED THE PREVIOUS DAY, THERE WAS NOTHING NOW BUT ROCKS AND REEFS AND SOMETHING ELSE! I HAD TO BLINK TO BELIEVE! OUR SUNKEN SHIP! THE TIDE HAD UNCOVERED HER!PAGE 8 CLASSIC COMICS I HAD NO DIFFICULTY IN THE BECALMED SEA. I must get to her! I SPIED A PIECE OF ROPE BUT BOARDING THE SHIP PRESENTED A PROBLEM. SHE LAY HIGH OUT OF THE WATER.ROBINSON CRUSOE PAGE 9 ARTS OF THE SHIP HAD BEEN LEFT UNTOUCHED. I COLLECTED AMMUNITION AND ARMS, THE BREAD ROOM AS WELL. BREAD A12 TO GET THESE PROVISIONS ASHORE REQUIRED A I THEN LOWERED MY PROVISIONS, RAFT. FINDING SOME SPARS, PLANKS AND AND PADDLED TO SHORE. I FASTENED THEM TOGETHER AND DROPPED THEM OVERBOARD. SEVERAL MORE TRIPS TO THE SHIP FURNISHED ME WITH OTHER NECESSITIES MY NEXT STEP WAS TO PROVIDE MYSELF WITH A SAFE PLACE TO LIVE, FOR THE FEAR OF WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGES TORMENTED ME AND IMMEDIATE HOPE OF RESCUE SEEMED REMOTE. EVEN PEN AND INKAGE 10 CLASSIC COMICS I BUILT A FENCE! Under this rock is a likely place. INTO THIS ENCLOSURE I CARRIED ALL MY GOODS. A TARPAULIN I HAD SALVAGED FROM THE SAILS SERVED AS A COVER. SECURE! EVEN TO THE DOOR. WHICH AND SNUG! MY BED WAS A HAMMOCK THAT HAD WAS A LADDER THAT I TOOK WITH ME BELONGED TO THE SHIP'S MATE. INSIDE THE CAVE.ROBINSON CRUSOE PAGE 11 BUT MY PLEASURE AT NOT ONLY BECAUSE I NEEDED THEM, BUT BECAUSE KEEPING BEING SAVED FROM MYSELF BUSY HELPED SHUT OUT THE LONELINESS. HUNGER AND EXPOSURE SOON DIED WITHIN ME. I LACKED MANY THINGS, ESPECIALLY HUMAN COMPANIONSHIP. I DECIDED TO BUILD FURNITURE. IMPLEMENTS I HAD NO SAW. TO GET ONE SMOOTH PLANK IT TOOK DAYS TO GET OF WOOD, I HAD TO SPLIT AN ENTIRE TREE. ENOUGH PLANKS A TABLE FIVE DAYS TO BE EXACT. I KNOW FOR EVERY DAY I CUT A NOTCH INTO BECAUSE I HAD A CALENDAR-MY OWN CAME ON SHORE THE STICK LITTLE DID I DREAM SPECIAL MAKE! HERE-SEPT.30, 1659 THAT MY STAY ON THE ISLAND WOULD USE UP HUNDREDS OF THESE12 CLASSIC COMICS IN TIME. MY PROVISIONS WERE BEING USED NOT ONLY DID I UP. I FOUND OTHER FOOD. HAVE GOAT BUT WITH THE TALLOW FROM I MADE A LAMP WICK. I REALLY WAS SURPRISING MYSELF, FOR I HAD NEVER BEFORE HANDLED A TOOL IN MY LIFE. I ALSO MADE A GRIND. STONE. IN ORDER TO HAVE BOTH MY HANDS FREE, I CONTRIVED A WHEEL WITH A STRING. MY TENT BECAME QUITE WELL EQUIPPED.ROBINSON CRUSOE PAGE 13 THEN SOMETHING HAPPENED. ONE DAY I FELT THE EARTH QUIVER BENEATH ME. THE TARPAULIN COLLAPSED. THEN, SILENCE. THE EARTHQUAKE - FOR EARTHQUAKE IT MUST HAVE BEEN WAS SPENT.PAGE 14 CLASSIC COMICS FROM SOMEWHERE IN THE WRECKAGE. HEARD A PARROT! I HAD NO IDEA SUDDENLY AS SOON AS I REPAIRED MY TENT, WHERE IT CAME FROM. BUT I I DECIDED TO EXPLORE THE ISLAND. WAS DELIGHTED WITH THIS NEW COMPANION. SQUAWK I will follow the creek. Say-"Robinson Crusoe." BOWDA SWE UNGWA! STRANGE WORDS THESE WERE - WORDS THAT COULD HAVE BEEN LEARNED ONLY FROM SAVAGES. SAVAGES! WHERE?ROBINSON CRUSOE PAGE THE CREEK RIPPLED DOWN INTO A BEAUTIFUL VALLEY, RICH IN GRAPES, LIMES AND LEMONS. make wine from these grapes. I FOUND ANOTHER SURPRISE. so THIS IS WHERE MY PARROT CAME FROM. BUT IN THE WHOLE VALLEY I COULD FIND NO SIGN OF A HUMAN BEING YET THE PARROT HAD I WOULD EXPLORE FURTHER.PAGE 16 CLASSIC COMICS THIS TIME I BUILT A BOAT THAT WAS TO TAKE ME I FITTED IT WITH NECESSITIES, FOR I KNEW NOT CLEAR AROUND THE ISLAND. WHAT DANGER I WOULD MEET. I WAS READY TO LEAVE. THEN HEARD HIS BARKS - QUICK. HERE LADDIE EXCITED! FROM AROUND THE BEND WHERE ARE YOU, PUP? IN THE SHORE WE'RE READY TO GOL LADDIE! I FOUND SNIFFING AND BARKING AT FOOTPRINTS! RRR-RRROBINSON CRUSOE PAGE 17 THEY WERE MUCH LARGER THAN MINE. I FOLLOWED THEM. I LOOKED THROUGH MY PERSPECTIVE Strange GLASS-AT A SIGHT THAT Come on, CHILLED MY BLOOD laddie. We'll go up and look about. AT THE HILL, THEY DISAPPEARED. RACING DOWN THE HILL TO THE SPOT WHENCE THEY HAD COME, I SAW THE REMAINS OF A BARBARIC FEAST! MAN-EATING SAVAGES!PAGE 18 CLASSIC COMICS I SHUDDERED AT WHAT THEY WOULD HAVE DONE Bowda FORTUNATELY, MY BOAT TO ME IF THEY HAD SEEN ME. WAS OUT OF THEIR Swe Unga I HAD NOT REALIZED HOW Poor Robinson. FAR I HAD FOLLOWED THE FOOTPRINTS NO WONDER THAT I HAD NOT HEARD THEM IN THEIR BLOOD- THIRSTY REVELRY. OF COURSE, THEY MIGHT RETURN AT ANY TIME. AND REACHED THE OTHER SIDE HOWEVER, I STARTED ON MY TRIP AROUND THE WHERE ISLAND Foxes!ROBINSON CRUSOE PAGE 19 SUDDENLY, I STOPPED ALARMED. 1 WHEN NOTHING HAPPENED, I GAINED COURAGE. SHOULD NOT HAVE FIRED. IF SAVAGES WERE ABOUT, THE SHOOTING WOULD ATTRACT THEM. ANIMALS ABOUNDED ON THIS SIDE OF THE ISLAND BUT ONLY ANIMALS. I GLIDED EASILY, NOT AWARE THAT THE A FURIOUS CURRENT WAS CHANGING GRADUALLY CURRENT, LIKE UNTIL THE SLUICE OF A MILL, SWIRLED MEI I PUT AS MANY INTO THE BOAT AS IT WOULD HOLD.PAGE 20 CLASSIC COMICS THEN I SPIED ANOTHER CANOE AHEAD OF ME, OUT OF THE PATH OF THE CURRENT. This current will sweep me past them. They'll see me and give chase. AS I SWEPT BY A COVE WOULD HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE CURRENT TO SUBSIDE, / NEXT MORNING I TRIED TO ROW ACROSS, BUT I'll have to spend the night here.ROBINSON CRUSOE PAGE 21 I WAS BARELY ABLE TO I REACHED MY SIDE OF THE ISLAND, so HASTILY HAD I SUNK TO MY SWIM BACK TO THE COVE. VERY GRATEFUL. KNEES THAT I HAD NOT NOTICED MY OVERTURNED BOAT THE HORRIBLE SIGHT UNTIL I WAS FLUNG IN AFTER ME. STOOD UP MORE HUMAN THIS TIME I WAITED THREE BONES! DAYS. MY PROVISIONS WERE ALL USED UP WHEN THE CALM FINALLY CAME. I thank heaven for my safety. EXPECTING THE RETURN OF THE SAVAGES AT ANY TIME, I TOOK PRECAUTIONS I SET UP GUNS POINTING IN ALL DIRECTIONS. DAYS OF TENSE WAITING I MADE GOOD USE OF THE SKINS OF THE MANY ANIMALS I SHOT PASSED. WEEKS PASSED THERE I REPLACED MY TORN GARMENTS WITH A FINE SET OF DURING THAT TIME I TOOK GOAT-SKINS EVEN AN UMBRELLA TO PROTECT ME FROM THE MORE TRIPS TO THE OTHER SUN. SIDE OF THE ISLAND, AFTER FINDING A WAY TO AVOID THE CURRENT.PAGE 22 CLASSIC COMICS AND STILL I WAITED FOR THE CANNIBALS. AND WHILE WAITING, I FOUND NEW DIVERSION. MY AMMUNITION WAS BEING USED UP. must cut down on my shooting. I'll trap them alive. I DUG A DEEP PITFALL AND COVERED IT WITH LEAVES. AT FIRST I HAD NO SUCCESS. THEN ONE I TIED UP MY PRISONERS. BUT AS WAS MORNING LIFTING THEM OUT A GOAT BREAKS LOOSE!ROBINSON CRUSOE PAGE 23 SWIFTLY I TRIED TO SUBDUE HIM BUT HE WAS TOO MUCH FOR ME AND HE CAME AT ME AGAIN, THIS TIME WITH GREATER BROKE AWAY. FEROCITY THAN BEFORE.PAGE 24 CLASSIC COMICS JUST IN TIME SUDDENLY, 1 HEARD SHOUTS. I RAN TOWARDS A FLAT ROCK AND LOOKED OVER IT. APPARENTLY, THEY HAD JUST ARRIVED AND HEARD THE SHOT. THEY WERE SET ON TRACKING IT DOWN.ROBINSON CRUSOE PAGE 25 I FIRED A WILD SHOT-AND RAN. THEY WERE ALMOST ON ME WHEN THEN, THEY TURNED BACK, ANDPAGE 26 CLASSIC COMICS THE STORM BROKE I MADE MY WAY BUT MONTHS PASSED 1 FOUND MANY NEW OCCUPATIONS QUICKLY BACK TO YEARS PASSED. NO ONE MY SHELTER. I HOPED CAME BACK. THAT THEY HAD FAILED TO SURVIVE THE STORM, FOR, IF THEY LIVED, THEY WOULD RETURN AND HUNT ME DOWN. AND EARTHENWARE JARS. AFTER MUCH EXPERIMENTING, I FOUND A CLAY THAT BAKED HARD IN THE SUN.ROBINSON CRUSOE PAGE 27 HAD NEW FOODS TO EAT. SOME CORN SEED HAD SPILLED FROM A GRAIN SACK THAT I HAD TAKEN FROM THE SHIP. A FEW MONTHS LATER I PREPARED TO MAKE CORN BREAD. I BUILT A STONE OVEN AND BAKED LOAVES OF THIS NUTRITIOUS FOOD. AND MORE TIME PASSED MY TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR ON THE ISLANDI AND IN THIS YEAR THE 14 CANNIBALS RETURNED - TO CHANGE THE COURSE OF MY LIFE THERE! -AGE 28 CLASSIC COMICS I SAW THEM FIRST FROM THE HILL. THEY LANDED-GATHERED WOOD AND LEAVES, AND BUILT A GREAT FIRE. AROUND THE FIRE THEY DANCED AS IF IN ABRUPTLY THE DANCING STOPPED. PREPARATION FOR AN ORGY. THREE SAVAGES WERE SENT BACK TO THE CANOES, WHERE VICTIMS FOR THEIR FEAST! A GREAT POT WAS PLACED ON THE FIRE, ANDROBINSON CRUSOE PAGE 29 WHILE THIS POOR WRETCH WAS BEING BUT, TAKING ADVANTAGE OF ONE SLAUGHTERED, THE OTHER-A UNGUARDED MOMENT, HE BROKE AWAY. LOOKING YOUTH, APPARENTLY OF ANOTHER TRIBE STOOD ASIDE, TREMBLING A CHASE BEGAN. THE HUNTED YOUTH WAS HEADED MY BUT THE CREEK THEY HAD TO WAY. ALL THAT SEPARATED US STOPPED HIS LESS WADE ACROSS THE WAS A CREEK WHICH NIMBLE PURSUERS. STREAM, BUT WERE NEATLY SCALED. SOON AFTER HIM AGAIN. IT WAS THEN THAT I ACTED!PAGE 30 CLASSIC COMICS DASHING FROM BEHIND MY SHELTER FINALLY THE YOUTH WHO HAD FLED STOPPED UNDERSTOOD MY BEWILDERED AT SIGHT OF HIS FALLEN FRIENDLINESS, AND THE SECOND ONE WAS ABOUT TO ENEMIES. RUSHING TO ME HE DRIVE HIS LANCE INTO ME, BUT KNELT AND KISSED THE GROUND BUT THE DANGER WAS NOT OVER. THE SAVAGE I HAD KNOCKED DOWN HAD NOT BEEN KILLED. THIS WAS EVIDENTLY A TOKEN GESTURE THAT WOULD BE MY SLAVE FOREVER.ROBINSON CRUSOE PAGE 31 THE NEXT MOMENT AS I ROLLED OVER, MY RESCUED SAVAGE DEFTLY SNATCHED MY SWORD AND CUT OFF HIS HEAD! THEN WITHIN TEN MINUTES MY SAVAGE DUG A DEEP GRAVE FOR BOTH THE BODIES, AFTER WHICH I TOOK HIM TO MY TENT, WHERE HE HESITATINGLY TASTED SOME OF MY BREAD AND RAISINS. WHEN HE FINISHED, HE AGAIN SIGNIFIED HIS DEVOTION. I HAD A FRIEND, THOUGH COULD NOT SPEAK A WORD TO ME. I WOULD TEACH HIM MY LANGUAGE, BUT FIRST I MUST GIVE HIM A NAME WHAT SHOULD I CALL MY FOUND COMPANION? ? ? ?PAGE 32 CLASSIC COMICS A GLANCE AT THE CALENDAR GAVE ME THAT WAS HIS NAME. MY ANSWER Friday! came to me on a Friday. I MADE HIM CLOTHES AND TAUGHT HIM TO EAT THE MEAT OF ANIMALS, FOR FRIDAY, A CANNIBAL HIMSELF, WAS USED TO FEASTING ONLY ON HUMAN FLESH. FRIDAY WAS My nation out there - forty LEARNING ENGLISH mile - My nation strong - beat Then why were you taken prisoner? RAPIDLY, IN A enemy. GARBLED WAY - ENOUGH ENGLISH TO ANSWER MY QUESTIONS ABOUT WHENCE HE CAME AND HOW HAPPENED TO HAVE BEEN CAPTURED.ROBINSON CRUSOE PAGE 33 In place me was, nation have less men than enemy. My nation beat enemy, take many prisoner-but enemy take me prisoner. What does your nation do with prisoners? My nation eat them, eat all up. Except white mans. White mans come to us - shipwreck live with us much time. We all White men friends. among your people? Friday, how would you like to AS WE BEGAN TO BUILD A CANOE, LARGER THAN THE ONE IN go back to your nation and tell WHICH I HAD SAILED AROUND THE ISLAND, I BECAME WORRIED. the white men here? Then they will come and rescue me. I like. THE THOUGHT THAT FRIDAY MIGHT REVERT TO SAVAGERY MADE ME VERY UNEASY. HE MIGHT COME BACK WITH HIS COUNTRYMEN, TO FEAST ON ME!PAGE 34 CLASSIC COMICS THE DAY CAME FOR FRIDAY TO SAIL. AS THE You my master. I go MOMENT NEARED, FRIDAY SUDDENLY TURNED with you, or stay with BACK. you-not without you. I no go! NO LONGER COULD I DOUBT FRIDAY'S I WAS ABOUT TO STEP INTO THE FAITHFULNESS AND DEVOTION. BOAT WHEN will go with you. I know will be safe there. Run master! Hidel Look out at THE RETURN OF THE SAVAGES!ROBINSON CRUSOE PAGE 35 RUNNING TO MY TENT, I ARMED MYSELF AND WE HID OURSELVES AT A POINT FRIDAY. You take these and do just as I OVERLOOKING THE BEACH tell you. They enémy Have new prisoner. A NEW PRISONER AND A TOTALLY UNEXPECTED WE FOLLOWED CAUTIOUSLY ONEI-A WHITE MANI AT THE SKIRT OF A WOOD WE STOPPED. THE SAVAGES HAD ENTERED THE WOOD. We must save him.PAGE 36 CLASSIC COMICS WE STOLE SWIFTLY FROM TREE TO TREE, UNTIL Aim of the savages, Friday. Now we have a When I say "ready," closer range. you will fire with me. I do.ROBINSON CRUSOE PAGE 37 KNIVES WERE POISED IN MID-AIR READY TO SLAY. THE CANNIBALS BROKE INTO A WILD TRIUMPHANT DANCE. 00 "READY"PAGE 38 CLASSIC COMICS FRIDAY FOLLOWED MY EXAMPLE AND WE PURSUED THEM AS THEY FLED. FIRED INTO THEIR MIDST. THE REMAINING SAVAGES SCRAMBLED INTO A CANOE. We cannot let them get THE CANOE FILLED WITH WATER, NOT ONE SAVAGE CAME IF EITHER FRIDAY OR I HAD AND UP AGAIN. LOOKED BEHIND US AT- THAT MOMENT, WE WOULD NOT HAVE FELT so CONFIDENT.ROBINSON CRUSOE PAGE 39 WAS ABOUT TO CRASH IT DOWN ON WHEN FRIDAY'S SKULL BUT THE HUGE SAVAGE HAD A MIGHTY GRIP. You save me, master I save you. am glad I taught you how to use a gun.PAGE 40 CLASSIC COMICS AT THAT MOMENT WE WERE STARTLED BY A GROAN. Another prisoner! It comes from that AS WE TOOK HIM OUT, FRIDAY, SCREAMED AND THE MOMENT FRIDAY TOUCHED EARTH LEAPED INTO THE AIR. AGAIN, DANCED AROUND THE CANOE. What is it? Friday Stop! My father! What it? My father! My father! My father!ROBINSON CRUSOE PAGE Take care of your father. Ask him how he to be prisoner. I am Thank you. I certainly going back for the white man. would have been roast meat by now. Those savages had me I am a Spaniard. I was on the tied up tight can way to Havana when was hardly walk. You may rest in my shipwrecked and with a number tent and then tell of my fell among me all about it. savages. We became friends. Friday has told me about the My father say he and white living with his people. go for from my nation to hunt. Hwage But how did you become a Enemy find them take them Se prisoner? here to Masa. never expected anyone to be living on this island. How long have you been here?PAGE 42 CLASSIC COMICS I TOLD HIM THE ENTIRE STORY OF MY It would do you no good. I have tools and ADVENTURES. We cannot leave there. We do weapons and You have lived all those not have the tools to build a with so many hands years alone here with no boat large enough for all of we can build the chance of escape? us. boat. But under one condition Not until Friday come. I was about to go back with him to his country when you came. that you do not make IT WAS ARRANGED THAT Take this grain They will me prisoner in Spain. I am THE SPANIARD AND to them. appreciate an Our FRIDAY'S FATHER RETURN it. They countries are TO THE MAINLAND AND have little I shall GET A SOLEMN OATH IN speak to WRITING FROM HIS my COMPANIONS THAT 1 and get WOULD BE THEN HE their WOULD RETURN FOR guarantee. FRIDAY AND ME. BUT AS WE REACHED THE HILL, I STOPPED, ASTOUNDED Out there! A ship!ROBINSON CRUSOE PAGE 43 AS THE SHIP DREW CLOSER It's on English ship! but pirate THE BOAT WAS HEADED FOR SHORE THEY, BROUGHT PRISONERSI See. White prisoner same I SENT FRIDAY BACK TO THE TENT FOR FIREARMS, as savage mans. They do WHILE WE CONTINUED TO WATCH. not them, though they may Drink, lubbers! Then we murder them. will look about this blastedPAGE 44 CLASSIC COMICS BUT IN A SHORT TIME FRIDAY BROUGHT THE ARMS, AND WE WE SURPRISED THE PRISONERS. HEADED FOR THE BEACH. Who are you? Why are you There they are. bound up? They have been A pirate ship caused my trouble. by cut-throat leaders to They are greater menace than turn my ship into a pirate a squall. We must prevent this ship. They are planning to one from setting forth. plunder the high seas. If can only stop them if I can only get command of my ship again. But how? was captain of the ship out there. My men have mutinied.ROBINSON CRUSOE PAGE 45 We will take them by BUT AS WE PLANNED OUR ATTACK, surprise while they sleep. A SEAMAN AWOKE. The HE FIRED A MOMENT TOO LATE! Kill the lubbers! BEFORE THEY COULD ATTACKPAGE 46 CLASSIC COMICS SOME TRIED TO RISE, BUT FRIDAY PICKED UP THEIR FALLEN WEAPONS AS WE CLOSED IN. make Do you surrender or do throw, too. want to see some real shooting? we surrender! we surrender! Which ones are is the one in the they? middle here. Tom Smith We were not willing to turn against is still on the ship. ye,, captain. will and Tom Smith made us. I ORDERED WILL BOUND. Our next step is That is not so easy. There to recover the are forty-six on board will and Tom Smith are the ship. and Tom Smith has a strong desperadoes, and Smith is hold over them. will stop the more evil of the two. of nothing to keep controllROBINSON CRUSOE PAGE 47 SUDDENLY, FROM THE STEEP SIDE OF THE They must be coming ashore SHIP WE PERCEIVED THAT OTHER BOATS to find out why the rest of WERE BEING LOWERED. There are more haven't returned. than a dozen men. When they go inland, we'll take their boats and THE BOATS REACH SHORE, AND row back to the ship. When we've recovered it, Wait we'll come back and take these men prisoners. here while we scout about for the others. A good plan. MEANWHILE look around No answer. more They might Something's happened be wandering around to them. half drunk. They are leaving those men behind. That changes everything! If they see us, they'll raise on outcry.PAGE 48 CLASSIC COMICS If we can lead them inland, nothing Listen. They're calling will be heard on shore. Haloooo to the others. We'll give them on answer. BUT WHEN THE SEAMEN REACH THE OTHER SIDE Haloooo could have Let's try sworn their There they voices came from here. That's them! They're on the other side. Haloooo Haloooo Haloooo