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Life, Adventures & Piracies of Captain Singleton

Name: Life, Adventures & Piracies of Captain Singleton
Author: Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015) · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

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"As it is usual for great persons ..." (26:26)
"I can say nothing here ..." (28:27)
"We were now a good troop ..." (26:53)
"In this condition we lived ..." (22:29)
"But to return to the consultations ..." (20:32)
"Our vessel being thus finished ..." (31:06)
"We stood stock still ..." (22:34)
"When this ceremony was over ..." (28:09)
"In about eight days we finished three canoes ..." (23:20)
"I was as much affected ..." (32:44)
"We asked our black prince ..." (28:11)
"During our encampment here ..." (30:10)
"Well, notwithstanding this, we ventured ..." (26:05)
"We did not much seek the conversing ..." (28:39)
"We stayed here twelve days ..." (25:30)
"About the year ..." (29:13)
"Accordingly we went about-ship ..." (33:40)
"William went to work his own way ..." (28:34)
"We sailed away for the Cape of Good Hope ..." (27:36)
"The tide was up ..." (30:14)
"We sailed along there ..." (30:44)
"In the meantime, we came to an anchor ..." (30:29)
"This perfectly confounded us ..." (30:39)
"I have reason to believe ..." (27:03)
"Our men had but just brought the ship to rights ..." (17:55)
"This passage, when I related it to a friend ... " (32:40)
"I come back now to my own history ... " (40:27)
"We were now in a good place ..." (43:44)