Chapter 5: V

V Builds a House—The Journal September 30, 1659—I, poor miserable Robinson Crusoe, being shipwrecked during a dreadful storm in the offing, came on shore on this dismal, unfortunate island, which I called “The Island of Despair”; all the rest of the ship’s company being drowned, and myself almost dead. All the rest of the day I spent in afflicting myself at the dismal circumstances I was brought to—I had neither food, house, clothes, weapon, nor place to fly to; and in despair of …