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ROBINSON CRUSOE 'But here is a new group of savages coming to meet them'. After twenty-two years of solitary life, the castaway does not hesitate to consume the soaring stocks of gunpowder to free the young man designated as a sacrificial victim by a handful of indigenous anthropophagi. Conquering in this way the loyalty and devotion of the one who will be for the rest of his life the companion of life and adventures, to which he will teach his language and the Christian religion, imposing him the name of 'Friday'. Illustration from the novel by Daniel Defoe (3 April 1660-21 April 1731), reduction for children edited by P. Baronio. Rosenberg & Sellier Edition, Turin International Library, circa 1890.
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ROBINSON CRUSOE 'But here is a new group of savages coming to meet them'. After twenty-two years of solitary life, the castaway does not hesitate to consume the soaring stocks of gunpowder to free the young man designated as a sacrificial victim by a handful of indigenous anthropophagi. Conquering in this way the loyalty and devotion of the one who will be for the rest of his life the companion of life and adventures, to which he will teach his language and the Christian religion, imposing him the name of 'Friday'. Illustration from the novel by Daniel Defoe (3 April 1660 - 21 April 1731), reduction for children edited by P. Baronio. Rosenberg & Sellier Edition, Turin International Library, circa 1890.