My birth and home--My pretty cousin--Accident to the "Kittywich"--Journey to Guernsey--Pleading to become a Crusoe--My wish granted--Outfit secured--Sail to Jethou 9 CHAPTER II. I take possession of the Island--Landing stores--A grand carousal--Farewell--Alone 24 CHAPTER III. First thoughts and impressions--A tour of the Island and description 32 CHAPTER IV. Farming operations--I make a plough and a cart--A donkey hunt--Dumb helpers--My live stock 44 CHAPTER V. Canoeing--Fish of the place--The ormer and limpet--A curious fishing adventure--Queer captures from the sea--Rock fish--Construct a fish pond and water-mill 55 CHAPTER VI. "Flapp," the gull--Surgical operation--The gull who refused to die--Taxidermy extraordinary--Feathered friends--Snakes 69 CHAPTER VII. I build a curious "box-boat"--An unpleasant night at sea--My Sunday service--The poem, "Alexander Selkirk"--Its applicability to my lot 79 CHAPTER VIII. A trip to St. Sampson's harbour--A horrid porcine murder--A voyage round Sark--Nearly capsized--Trip round Guernsey--The pepper-box--Curiosity of tourists 93 CHAPTER IX. Harvest operations--Explore La Creux Derrible, and nearly lose my life--Crusoe on crutches--An extraordinary discovery--Kill a grampus--Oil on troubled waters--Make an overflow pump 112 CHAPTER X. A storm and a wreck--The castaway--Dead--A night of horror--The boathouse destroyed--A burial at sea 126 CHAPTER XI. Climate in Winter--Vision of my father--A warning voice--Supernatural manifestations--The falling rock--My life saved by my dog 139 CHAPTER XII. A fairy pool--Wonders of the deep--Portrait of a poet--The cave of Fauconnaire--A letter from home and my answer to it 148 CHAPTER XIII. Another terrible storm--Loss of the "Yellow Boy"--A ketch wrecked--I rescue a man from the sea, badly injured--He recovers 159 CHAPTER XIV. Work and song--Sunday service--Build a larger boat, the "Anglo-Franc"--Collecting wreckage--Commence a jetty--Our cookery--Blasting operations--The opening banquet 172 CHAPTER XV. Trawling for fish and dredging for curios--Some remarkable finds--A ghastly resurrection--The mysterious paper--The hieroglyphic--A dangerous fall--_Hors de combat_--Attempts to unravel the paper 181 CHAPTER XVI. Yarns: The cabbages which hung their heads--The raft of spruce--Voyage of the "Dewdrop"--A lucky family--A deep, deep draught--The maire's cat 193 CHAPTER XVII.