Brief Summary Of Robinson's Collapse

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Robinson tries to planting more crops and teaching his parrot, Poll, to have fun. He tries to making jars and bowls by clay, but he filles; However, he finds a broken piece of one of his failed jars that burns in the fire and finally discoveres how to bake the pottery. Robinson also makes a mortar, a pestle to grind corn and a sieve. Finally, Robinson is able to bake some bread. All this work kept him busy for his third year on the island. Robinson often thinks about the other side of the island and how to getting there, but he worried that it may be role by savages or cannibals. Robinson tries to fix the small boat that took him to the island when the ship was sink, however, he cannot, so he decides to make a canoe by a cedar tree, finally

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