Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe spent 28 years shipwreck on deserted island.

He was the only survivor of a ship caught in a terrible storm. He survived and managed to defeat the feeling of loneliness thanks to his intelligence and strong will.

According to Robinson s descriptions, the island is small and has 2 parallel chains of hills, one stretching across the northern part of the island and the other in the southern part. The northern chain has on its eastern part probably the largest hill on the island.

The entire island is visible from this hill.

One of these creeks is only one mile distance from where Robinson lived. He had used the river mouth of the creek to unload the items he found on the wreck. This creek with a marshy river mouth, flooded by high tides, dries out during the dry season.

The creek s valley starts in the western part of the island, goes shortly to the east before turning south and continuing to its river mouth in the south-west. On the eastern coast, the island has large stones emerging from the sea for a distance of 10 km into the east and, after these stones submerged piles of sand continue for another 2, 5 km.

To the north-east the island has submerged stones for 2, 5 km.

Far to the south-west of the western coast of the island, after Robinson s estimations 100 km, a chain of mountains is visible, stretching from west to south-west. These are most probably part of the South-American continent.

The main feature of the waters surrounding the island is the presence of two powerful currents. One is located in the south, flowing from west to east, while the counter-current flows in the opposite direction, off the northern coast. The northern current is split in two by the north-eastern submerged stones. One part flows south and the other to the north-west. The climate of the island is tropical. Robinson believes it is placed at 9 latitude north. It is warm year-round, but tow seasons can be recognized: the rainy season and the dry season.

The rainy season lasts from middle of February to middle of April and from middle of August to middle of October.

The dry season lasts from middle of April to middle of August and from middle of October to middle of February.

Along the creek mentioned earlier, there could be distinguished two major areas of vegetation.

On the lower part of this course are savannas and grasslands. The main species of plants found here are green tobacco, aloes, wild sugar cane and many other species, these last ones being unknown to Robinson.

The upper part of the creek s course is dominated by large, beautiful forests and woodlands. One of the tree species growing on the island is the cedar. Other plants found here include vines-yards, hanging on the tress, and many water-melons on the forest-floor. In this second area of vegetation, at the creek s spring is a clearing in the forest. This clearing is full of prospering vegetation.

Here grow wild cocoa trees, orange trees and lemon ...