<P> After more natives arrive to partake in a cannibal feast, Crusoe and Friday kill most of the natives and save two prisoners . One is Friday's father and the other is a Spaniard, who informs Crusoe about other Spaniards shipwrecked on the mainland . A plan is devised wherein the Spaniard would return to the mainland with Friday's father and bring back the others, build a ship, and sail to a Spanish port . </P> <P> Before the Spaniards return, an English ship appears; mutineers have commandeered the vessel and intend to maroon their captain on the island . Crusoe and the ship's captain strike a deal in which Crusoe helps the captain and the loyal sailors retake the ship and leave the worst mutineers on the island . Before embarking for England, Crusoe shows the mutineers how he survived on the island and states that there will be more men coming . Crusoe leaves the island 19 December 1686 and arrives in England on 11 June 1687 . He learns that his family believed him dead; as a result, he was left nothing in his father's will . Crusoe departs for Lisbon to reclaim the profits of his estate in Brazil, which has granted him much wealth . In conclusion, he transports his wealth overland to England from Portugal to avoid travelling by sea . Friday accompanies him and, en route, they endure one last adventure together as they fight off famished wolves while crossing the Pyrenees . </P> <P> There were many stories of real - life castaways in Defoe's time, most famous, Defoe's suspected inspiration for Robinson Crusoe is thought to be from Scottish sailor, Alexander Selkirk, who spent four years on the uninhabited island of Más a Tierra (renamed Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966) in the Juan Fernández Islands off the Chilean coast . Selkirk was rescued in 1709 by Woodes Rogers during an English expedition that lead to the publication of Selkirk's adventures in both A Voyage to the South Sea, and Round the World and A Cruising Voyage Around the World in 1712 . According to Tim Severin, "Daniel Defoe, a secretive man, neither confirmed or denied that Selkirk was the model for the hero of the his book . Apparently written in six months or less, Robinson Crusoe was a publishing phenomenon . </P> <P> The author of Crusoe's Island, Andrew Lambert states, "the ideas that a single, real Crusoe is a "false premise" because Crusoe's story is a complex compound of all the other buccaneer survival stories ." However, Robinson Crusoe is far from a copy of Rogers' account: Becky Little argues three events that distinguish the two stories . Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked while Selkirk decided to leave his ship thus marooning himself; the island Crusoe was shipwrecked on had already inhabited unlike the solidarity of Selkirk's adventures . The last and most crucial difference between the two stories is Selkirk is a pirate, looting and raiding coastal cities . Andrew Lambert states, "The economic and dynamic thrust of the book is completely alien to what the buccaneers are doing," Lambert says . "The buccaneers just want to capture some loot and come home and drink it all, and Crusoe isn't doing that at all . He's an economic imperialist . He's creating a world of trade and profit ." </P>

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