The Story of The Swiss Family Robinson - Chapter 9

As soon as we were up and had breakfasted, the next room- ing, I assembled all the members of my family together, to take with them a solemn farewell of this our first place of reception from the awful disaster of the shipwreck. I confess that for my own part I could not leave it without regret ; it was a place of greater safety than we were likely again to meet with ; it was also nearer to the vessel. I thought it right to represent strongly to my sons the danger of exposing themselves, as they had done the evening before, along the river.—" We are now going," continued I, " to inhabit an unknown spot, which is not so well protected by nature as that we are leaving : we are unac- quainted both with the soil and its inhabitants, whether human creatures or beasts ; much caution is therefore necessary, and take care not to remain separate from each other." #audiobook #kidsstories AcreSoft Story Classic