Frontispiece: Crusoe and Friday firing on the Cannibals
1815
Wood-block engraving
Source: Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, facing title-page.
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"Now, Friday," do as you see me do," I laid down the muskets, and took up one, and then we both fired. [Page 52]
Left: Stothard's 1790 realisation of the earlier episode when Crusoe rescues Friday, Robinson Crusoe first sees and rescues his man Friday (copper-plate engraving, Chapter XIV, "A Dream Realised"). Right: George Cruikshank's wood-engraving with Crusoe and Friday scouting their prey, Crusoe and Friday watch the Cannibals from hiding (1831). [Click on the images to enlarge them.]
Above: The Cassell's house-artist's realistic wood-engraving of the battle in which Crusoe liberates Friday's father and the Spaniard (Friday, relegated to the background, fires on five Caribbean natives at once): >Crusoe rescues the Spaniard. [Click on image to enlarge it.]
Defoe, Daniel (adapted). The Wonderful Life and Surprising Adventures of that Renowned Hero, Robinson Crusoe: who lived twenty-eight years on an uninhabited island, which he afterwards colonized.. London: W. Darton, 1815.
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