Crusoe wrote to the widow and had her send the money to Lisbon. The captain advised him to send for one half of his money so that if that half were lost, he would still have the other half left. The Portuguese captain remained for three months and, during this time, Crusoe told him of the money (two hundred pounds) which he had left in London with the English captain's widow. Since his plantation was at a great distance even from his nearest neighbor, Crusoe often thought that he "lived just like a man cast away upon some desolate island that had nobody there but himself." In retrospect, he was thankful for the slight desolation he had on his plantation.
Soon Crusoe discovered that he was "coming into the very middle station, or upper degree of low life, which my father advised me to before." He was amused by this fact because he could have stayed at home and arrived at the same position without all of his adventures. Now he realized that he should not have sold Xury because he was in need of help on his plantation. For the first two years, he planted mainly for food, but by the third year, he planted some tobacco and prepared ground for cane. He later purchased as much land as his money would buy. Furthermore, by selling all of his goods he made about two hundred and twenty pieces of eight.Ĭrusoe lived with a planter on a sugar plantation for some time and learned the manner of planting.
The captain was very generous with Crusoe, charging him nothing for the voyage and, instead, paying him twenty ducats for a leopard's skin and forty for the lion's skin.
After a good voyage, Crusoe landed in Brazil twenty-two days later.
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