Chapter 6
Crusoe reflects on the providential timing of the barley's growth and his sickness, learning to read his life as divinely authored.
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Chapter 9
Crusoe's calendar of coincidences: he notes that the same date, September 30, marked his birth, his enslavement, his shipwreck, and other key events.
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