Robinson Crusoe's becoming a Brazilian planter

 

What do you know of Robinson Crusoe's becoming a Brazilian planter?

 

Ans. Robinson Crusoe and Xury had a very good voyage to Brazil. The Portuguese captain paid Crusoe enough money for the things he bought from Crusoe. In all, Crusoe got a sum of 220 pieces of eight of all his cargo. He lived for sometime with a person recommended by the captain. That person had a plantation and a sugar producing firm. Crusoe learnt all about plantation and sugar making from that person. He saw the planters growing rich and he resolved to be a planter. He collected the money he had left with the English captain's widow. He purchased as much land as his money could do.

 

The Portuguese captain who rescued Crusoe and Xury had hearty love and Kindness allways for them. One day he came to Crusoe with a proposal that he was going back to Portugal leaving her ship behind. He could help Crusoe to get back the money he left to some lady in London. He also suggested Crusoe to take back the half of his Saving there. Crusoe agreed and gave him a letter of authority. The portuguese captain collected the money and bought some goods for Crusoe with that amount of money from Lisbon. Crusoe sold those goods in Brazil and made a good profit. The captain brought a   servant with him to serve under a bond of six years. With the money he got from selling his goods, Crusoe bought a negro slave and also hired a European servant. Then Crusoe was fully equipped to cultivate more land to produce tobacco and sugar. Robinson had a neighbour planter, Mr Wells. Mr Wells' plantation was next to that of Crusoe. They planted together tobacco in some of their land and each of them made a large piece of ground ready for planting sugar canes in the following year. Crusoe now felt the need of Xury who could have helped him in his work of plantation.

 

Robinson was getting into the very middle station which could not please him at all. He began to regret his past lapses and his father's advices. At the advice of the Portuguese captain, Crusoe wrote to the widow of the English captain for the half of the money he had left with her. He also wrote her about all his adventures. The widow was so happy with the news that she sent for Crusoe the demanded money without delay. Crusoe's hundred pounds was invested in English goods which the Portuguese captain brought safely to Brazil. The captain spent five pounds to purchase for Crusoe a servant under bond for six years service. Crusoe sold his English goods at a great profit. He now bought a Negro slave and a European servant.

 

Robinson Crusoe had a great success in plantation. He raised fifty great rolls of tobacco on his own ground. But he was his own enemy by embracing immoderate desires. He had now friends in Brazil and had given them an account of his voyages, his adventures and the Negroes. Now some of his friends, who were also planters, proposed him to take a voyage to Guinea to bring from there Negro slaves for their plantation work. They offered Crusoe that he could have his equal share of Negroes without providing any part of the stock. Crusoe agreed to their offer and proposal.