. Crusoe's Island; a bird-hunter's story . t was first dis-covered. 1679.—Island restored tothe Dutch. SELKIRK AND CRUSOE. Duchess, that took therich Acapulco Ship, with100 Ton of Gold, andbrought it to England. To which is added an Ac-count of his Life andConversation, his Birthand Education; his de-scription of the Islandwhere he was cast away :how he subsisted ; theseveral strange Things hesaw ; and how he used tospend his Time ; with alsosome pious Ejaculationsthat he used, composedduring his melancholyResidence there. Writtenby his own Hand, andattested by most of theeminent Merchants upo
. Crusoe's Island; a bird-hunter's story . t was first dis-covered. 1679.—Island restored tothe Dutch. SELKIRK AND CRUSOE. Duchess, that took therich Acapulco Ship, with100 Ton of Gold, andbrought it to England. To which is added an Ac-count of his Life andConversation, his Birthand Education; his de-scription of the Islandwhere he was cast away :how he subsisted ; theseveral strange Things hesaw ; and how he used tospend his Time ; with alsosome pious Ejaculationsthat he used, composedduring his melancholyResidence there. Writtenby his own Hand, andattested by most of theeminent Merchants uponthe Royal Exchange. 1719.—Robinson Crusoepublished. 1723.—Selkirk died. 1731.—Defoe died. 1741.—Lord Anson visitedJuan Fernandez. I6S4.—Tobago was added to the list of neutral islands,comprising Dominica, St. Vincent, and St. Lucia,which were only to be visited for wood and 1748 the French attempted a settlement, whichwas taken by the English in 1762, and confirmed intheir possession by treaty in 1763. Thus the foun-. as delcriba. ?a&xfiVoWJPuAtei&$*?7?&. Crusoe, according to Crusoe, APPENDIX. 253 dation was laid of the first permanent colony that,through a train of disastrous circumstances, hadever been permitted to flourish within its the several towns built at different times nothingremains but a stone here and there. 1748.—French undertake a colony, but abandon it. 1757.—Solitary exile found there. A tale is current, ac-cording to historian Sou they, that smacks somewhatof Robinson Crusoe, only the event transpired afterCrusoe was written. One day in 1757 a midshipmanlanded here, from the ship Sterling Castle of theroyal navy, where the Europeans had no wandered into the woods in search of wildoranges, he was surprised at the discovery of a hut,the occupant of which, a venerable man, addressedhim in French. He declared he had resided twenty-one years in that solitary situation, having scarcelyan
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