Crusoe's island . htwhile we were absent. A pleasant row of half an hour brought us to the littlecove in Crusoes Valley. The only landing-place is uponan abrupt bank of rocks, and the surf breaking in at thispart of the shore rather heavily, we had to run the boatup in regular beach-comber style. Riding in on the backof a heavy sea, we sprang out as soon as the boat struck,and held our ground, when, by watching our chance foranother good sea, we ran her clear out of the water, andmade her fast to a big rock for fear she might be carriedaway. About two hundred yards from where we land-ed we fou
Crusoe's island . htwhile we were absent. A pleasant row of half an hour brought us to the littlecove in Crusoes Valley. The only landing-place is uponan abrupt bank of rocks, and the surf breaking in at thispart of the shore rather heavily, we had to run the boatup in regular beach-comber style. Riding in on the backof a heavy sea, we sprang out as soon as the boat struck,and held our ground, when, by watching our chance foranother good sea, we ran her clear out of the water, andmade her fast to a big rock for fear she might be carriedaway. About two hundred yards from where we land-ed we found the cave. It lies in a volcanic mass of rock, forming the bluff ortermination of a rugged ridge, and looks as if it mightbe the doorway into the ruins of some grand old height of the entrance is about fifteen feet, and thedistance back into the extremity twenty-five or varies in width from ten or twelve to eighteen the mouth the suiface is of reddish rock, with CRUSOES ISLAND 39. CRUSOE 8 CAVE. holes or pockets dug into the sides, which it is probablewere used for cupboards by the original occupant. Therewere likewise large spike-nails driven into the rock, uponwhich we thought it likely clothing, guns, and householdutensils might have been hung even at as remote a dateas the time of Selkirk, for they were very rusty, and boreevidence of having been driven into the rock along timeago. A sort of stone oven, with a sunken place for fireunderneath, was partly visible in the back part of thecave, so that by digging away the earth we uncoveredit, and made out the purpose for which it was was a darkish line, about a foot wide, reaching upto the roof of the cave, which, by removing the surface alittle, we discovered to be produced originally by smoke,cemented in some sort by a drip that still moistened thewall, and this Ave found came through a hole in the top,which we concluded was the original chimney, now cov-ered over with deposits o
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