CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Particulars relative to the South-sea Cook's Voyages, &c. CHAP. II. Particulars respecting the present state of the inhabitants of the South-sea Islands Ellis's Missionary Voyage, &c. CHAP. III. Mungo Park's captivity among the Page. 1 35 interior regions of Africa 62 .... Park's Travels. REAL STORIES, &c. CHAPTER I. Particulars relative to the South-sea Islands, at the time they were visited by Captain Cook. Here had no foot, that marks Heaven's pre sence, trod Since the primeval ages. BOWRING. "WAS there really such a man as Robinson Crusoe, mamma ?" said Bevan, after he had been for some time busily employed in amusing his little B sister with some pictures of this celebrated adventurer, who, equipped in a warm fur cap and cloak, appeared to be traversing the shores of his desert island. "The history of Robinson Crusoe, my dear," replied his mother, "is neither entirely fact nor entirely fiction." "What do you mean by that, mamma ?" "Fact relates to circumstances that are really true, or that have actually taken place," replied Mrs. A. "whilst fiction refers only to imaginary adventures-to things that have not really happened, but are only supposed to have happened. It is thought, however, that De Foe, the writer of the entertaining narrative to which you allude, had a real |