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My name is Robinson Crusoe. I decided to return to England. But I found myself uncomfortable when setting foot again on a ship. I approached (接洽) three different ships, but I pulled back from each before sailing. I had no idea why I didn’t like traveling by ship.

Then two of the ships that I had considered boarding experienced something terrible — one fell to pirates (海盗) and the other was wrecked (使……失事) with only three survivors (幸存者).

So I planned to make a journey by land. Friday and I picked up one young Englishman, two English businessmen, and two young Portuguese gentlemen by the time of our leaving. And five servants were added to our group. So we had quite a big group for the road.

We traveled comfortably until ten days out from Old Castile. The weather turned from hot to bitter cold.

Friday was afraid when he saw the snow-covered mountains, because he had never known the snow or the cold. After years in the tropics (热带地区), I also found it difficult to stand the cold weather.

We arrived in Pampeluna in a snowstorm. It was so dangerous that we probably would be covered alive by the thick snow here. We stayed for twenty days in Pampeluna until four French gentlemen arrived safely with a guide.

We invited the guide to lead us and he agreed. “You need to be well prepared,” he warned, “In winter, you may see wolves driven by hunger.”

“We have no fear of those,” I said, “though I have heard of two-legged wolves that sometimes attack travelers on the French side of the mountains.”