. Crusoe's Island; a bird-hunter's story . This being within a Mile ofthe Shore where I was, and the Ship seeming to standupright still, I wishd myself on Board, that I mighthave some necessary Things for use ; aod a little afterNoon I found the Sea so calm and the Tyde ebbd sofar out, that I could come within a quarter of a Mileof the Ship ... so I pulld off my Cloathes, for theWeather was hot to extremity, and took to theWater. Then followed his plundering of the ship andhis subsequent adventures; but I cite this much onlyin confirmation of the correctness of the narrative, asshown in the lo
. Crusoe's Island; a bird-hunter's story . This being within a Mile ofthe Shore where I was, and the Ship seeming to standupright still, I wishd myself on Board, that I mighthave some necessary Things for use ; aod a little afterNoon I found the Sea so calm and the Tyde ebbd sofar out, that I could come within a quarter of a Mileof the Ship ... so I pulld off my Cloathes, for theWeather was hot to extremity, and took to theWater. Then followed his plundering of the ship andhis subsequent adventures; but I cite this much onlyin confirmation of the correctness of the narrative, asshown in the local features of the locality in which thewreck is assumed to have occurred. The strandingof the Jane Milloy was wholly fortuitous in its cor-roboration of the correctness of the story ; but it wasan event that actually occurred, in April, 1878, and Iam constrained to cite it to prove the verity of myown narration. It happened also while I was in theisland of Tobago, as may be verified by reference tothe records of the local favHw liis out of the Wrerk of the ,•/././-. ;v. (From the third edition of Crusoe.) ; The fihip seeming to stand upright. 205 206 CRUSOES ISLAND. Another confirmatory fact is, that at the head ofCrown Point is a cave, known as Crusoes Cave tothis day, because of the tradition that Crusoe residedthere. What he himself says about it may be hererecalled: The Place I was in was as delightful aCavity or Grotto of its kind as could be expected,although perfectly dark. It was here that he foundthat old He-Goat, whose eyes glared at him sothrough the darkness, and made him shiver withfright. It was on one side of and near Crown Point thatCrusoes ship was stranded ; not many miles distantthat he built his castle, with its cave attachment;and in the hills beyond that he had his the place where he first saw the cannibals, wherehe discovered Friday, and where the Indians used toland, coming over from Trinidad, is a few mi
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