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Posted By: GeoffLawes
02-Sep-24 - 08:43 AM
Thread Name: Any September Songs?
Subject: RE: Any September Songs?
1 September 1651 In the opening lines of chapter 2 of “Robinson Crusoe” by Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe sets sail on the beginning of his sailing adventures.
“On the first of September 1651 I went on Board a Ship bound for London; never any young Adventurer's Misfortunes, I believe, began sooner, or continued longer than mine. The Ship was no sooner gotten out of the Humber, but the Wind began to blow, and the Winds' to rise in a most frightful manner;”https://artpassions.net/wyeth/crusoe1-4.html#2