Daily Colonist (1900-12-30) . utonic, 1; Scandinavian, 1; Slav, 1the rest are of the Latin race. The enumerated quantity of knownsfock on the island is as follows: Horses,100, fairly well bred; horned cattle, 70;mules and donkeys, 15(1; wild pigs, 150(estimated); wild goats, 1,200 (estimat-ed); sheep, domesticated, 12. Thehouses are 30 in number, built onchosen sites about the liny. The following is the inscription onSelkirks tablet, cut iu an iron plate: In memory of Alexander Selkirk, anative of Largo, in the County of Fife,Scotland, who lived on this island incomplete solitude for .four yea
Daily Colonist (1900-12-30) . utonic, 1; Scandinavian, 1; Slav, 1the rest are of the Latin race. The enumerated quantity of knownsfock on the island is as follows: Horses,100, fairly well bred; horned cattle, 70;mules and donkeys, 15(1; wild pigs, 150(estimated); wild goats, 1,200 (estimat-ed); sheep, domesticated, 12. Thehouses are 30 in number, built onchosen sites about the liny. The following is the inscription onSelkirks tablet, cut iu an iron plate: In memory of Alexander Selkirk, anative of Largo, in the County of Fife,Scotland, who lived on this island incomplete solitude for .four years andfour months. He was landed from theCinque Fort galley. 00 tons, 10 guns;A. D. 1701. And was taken off in theDuke, privateer, February 12, 1709. Hodied a lieutenant in Her Majestys shipWeymouth. 172.!, aged -17 years. A. This tablet was erected near Selkirkslookout by Commodore Fowell and theofllcers of II. M. S. Topaz, in the year1SGS. N. B.—The plate was made in Val-paraiso, the firm is now ^ m Ql^ampa^pe drinkers ask for MUMMS EXTRADRY. They know its quality is uniform and
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