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Excerpt from The Novels and Miscellaneous Works, Vol. 7: With a Biographical Memoir of the Author, Literary Prefaces to the Various Pieces, Illustrative Notes, Etc Though he approached Cape Horn, gales drove his ship SO far away that he made for the Cape Of Good Hope, resolving to go round the world from west to east, rather than from east to west. Defoe's dates are somewhat contradictory, but we infer that his hero left the Cape in September, 1714. The next May, having touched at Madagascar and the East Indies, he reached Manila in the Philip pines. Going thence, and touching as he went at the Ladrones and Guam, he reached the west coast Of South America in eight months. About the first of the next year, he rounded Cape Horn. And in April, 1717, he arrived at Dunkirk, where his voyage came virtually to an end. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.