Alexander Selkirk's experience as a castaway had…
1713 CE
After a few months in London, he had begun to seem more like his former self again. However, he still misses his secluded and solitary moments, remarking, "I am now worth eight hundred pounds, but shall never be as happy as when I was not worth a farthing."
Charged with assaulting a shipwright in Bristol, Selkirk might have been kept in confinement for two years.