The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-26

paper items which doubtless originated
 in the sailors own account of himself.
 At any rate, it is surprising how cor
 rectly the scenery of Juan Fernandez
 Island is portrayed in the well-known
 story, so that to this day it serves we'll
 for a guide-book, and by it one may
 readily find the Hook out,' the "cave,"
 and what remains of Crusoe's castle"
 and other haunts. ..*
 But MT. DeFoe does not appear to
 have been very we'll posted on the ge-
 ography of this part of the world for
 he has located his island on the wrong
 side of the continent, and mixed up Val
 paraiso on the western coast with Mon
 tevideo on the eastern.
 Hunt up your long unread Robinson
 Crusoe" and turn to the fourth section.
 There you will read that the hero starts from Brazil, where he had been living
 as planter, on voyage to the north ward. Driven by heavy gales toward
 the equator, along the eastern coast of South America, the captain of the ves- sel finds himself upon the coast of Gui- ana, on the north part of Brazil, beyond the Great river; land began to consult with me-" continues Robinson, what course he should take, for the ship was leaky and much disabled, and he was for going directly back to the coast of Brazil I was positively against that, and looking over the charts of the sea- coast of America with him, we conclu- ded there was no inhabited country for us to have recourse to till we came within the circle of the Carribee Is- lands, and therefore resolved to stand away for Borbadoes; which, by keep ing off to the sea to avoid the in-draft of the Gulf of Mexico, we might easily perform, as we hoped, in fifteen days sail.
 And somewhere in those waters the mariner of the story found his island and never saw Juan Fernandez at all To this day West Indians insist that the island of Tabogo is the one named in the story. There is considerable lit erature bearing on this subject, most of it as old and quaint as Crusoe himself, which may occasionally be found by searching the musty shelves of antiaua- rian booksellers. Probably the most authentic account of Selkirk's 7adven- lures is contained in very curious lit- tie book, written by the man who res cued him, Captain Woodes Rogers him. selfself commander of two Bristol pri- vateers, the Duke and Duchess. Cap tain Rogers says that when his ship ap- preached Juan Fernandez, Gin February, 1709), light was discovered which they at first thought to be on board ship at anchor. Two French pirates had been in search of Captain Rogers, and it was supposed that these were lying in wait, close to the shore. The boats which had started landward hastily re- turned to the ship; and the wonder is that they did not sail away leaving poor Robinson to his solitude. But Captain Rogers was brave man, and instead of flight he prepared for battle. Next day, seeing no vessel there, they went on shore, where they found man 50 says the narrator, ''clad in goat skins and looking wilder than the first { owners of them" It was Selkirk, who almost crazed with excitement at oiShI oI o' lonSeu-Lof Sdl WHICH InlgnL ! deliver him-had built the fire that at | tracted their attention. The privateers
 took him on board, and finding that he
 had been a ships officer, appointed him
 mate of one of Rogers vessels and took him to England.
 The queerest of all the books is lit
 tie quarto volume of only twelve pages,
 published in ITO, and profusely gar-
 nished with capital letters, after the
 fashion of that time. It is entitled Providence Displayed, or a very Sur
 prising Narrative of one Alexander sel-
 kirk, Master of Merchant Man Called ! Cinque Port, who, Dreaming that the |! Ship Would Soon be Lost, he Desired to