Robinson Crusoe (II/II)

After his miraculous survival, Crusoe finds himself back in England, a stranger to his own country, with little money and no family support. He repays a benefactor who once saved a Portuguese captain, gaining a modest reward. With this, he decides to travel to Lisbon seeking news of his Brazilian plantation and the fate of his business partner.

In Lisbon he reunites with the aging captain who had once sheltered him, now retired and running his son’s trade. Their conversation reveals that his partner may still be alive, though the appointed curators have died, and hints at a tangled web of debts and missing fortunes. Crusoe must navigate these uncertainties, balancing hope and hardship as he charts a new course beyond the island that made him famous.