Produced by Tor Martin Kristiansen, Kara Shallenberg, Asad Razzaki and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Note. The title page of this edition is a bit confusing. The author of the original work 'Der Schweizerische Robinson' was Johann David Wyss, and it was edited by his son Johann Rudolf Wyss. This edition was translated by William Henry Giles Kingston. [Illustration: IT WAS TAKING WONDERFUL, FLYING LEAPS.] _The Swiss Family Robinson._ _Frontispiece_--(_Page 88_) THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON A Translation from the Original German BY JOHANN RUDOLF WYSS EDITED BY WILLIAM H. G. KINGSTON ILLUSTRATED BY WALTER S. ROGERS GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS NEW YORK PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE Storm-tossed--Wrecked--Deserted--Supper--We make swimming-belts for the children--An anxious night--The gale moderates--We examine our cargo--Jack introduces two new acquaintances--How shall we get on shore?--Jack's plan--We adopt it--The use of a lever--Our tub-boat completed--Another night on the wreck--We collect the cargo--And embark--Jack's friends will not be left behind--Steer for the shore--Once more on land--We erect a tent--Glue soup--Jack makes the acquaintance of a lobster--Ernest shirks the water--Oysters and salt--How shall we eat our soup?--Ernest solves the difficulty--Fritz returns--The sucking pig--How to open an oyster and how to eat it--The dogs devour the agouti--Fritz's anger--Our first night in the new country, 1 CHAPTER II. A morning consultation--Breakfast--Away on an expedition--Over the stream and through the grass--An unexpected reinforcement--Search in vain for our comrades--Rest by a stream--Fritz finds a "round bird's nest"--Natural history of a cocoanut--Calabash trees--The use of gourds--How to make a bottle--A lovely but lonely scene--Sugar-canes--Monkeys of use--Cocoanut milk turned to champagne--Turk kills an unfortunate mother monkey--Carry the orphan home--Display our treasures--A sumptuous supper--Ernest's penguin--Champagne turned to vinegar--A fight with jackals--A curious sentinel--A visit to the wreck--We rig our craft--Stow a cargo--Sleep on board--Floats for our herd--We embark--Encounter a shark--Land--Relate our adventures, 19 CHAPTER III.