. St. Nicholas [serial]. later, principal food to the end. His favorite method The cooking problem was finally solved by rub- of cooking was to impale a large piece of the bing two sticks together, Indian fashion, to start meat on a splint of palmetto wood and broil it a fire. The flesh of young goats remained his by turning it slowly before the fire. ROBINSON CRUSOE S ISLAND. 503 The island was well supplied with wild goats,as it is to this Nevertheless there weretimes when poor Crusoe—or rather Selkirk—hadgreat trouble to secure a meal. He shot thegoats at first, but his supply of powd
. St. Nicholas [serial]. later, principal food to the end. His favorite method The cooking problem was finally solved by rub- of cooking was to impale a large piece of the bing two sticks together, Indian fashion, to start meat on a splint of palmetto wood and broil it a fire. The flesh of young goats remained his by turning it slowly before the fire. ROBINSON CRUSOE S ISLAND. 503 The island was well supplied with wild goats,as it is to this Nevertheless there weretimes when poor Crusoe—or rather Selkirk—hadgreat trouble to secure a meal. He shot thegoats at first, but his supply of powder soonfailed him. After that there was nothing to dobut to catch the goats on foot, and many a the end of Selkirks first year on his islandhe commenced to write his famous diary. Inreproducing this incident later, Defoe, for allhis genius, could improve but little upon theinterest of this original manuscript. Selkirk be-gan the story of his life by telling of his terrorof the sea, his dread of wild animals, and his. TABLET ERECTED NEAR SELKIRKS LOOKOUT ON* THE ISLAND OF JUAN FERNANDEZ, BEARING THE FOLLOWING INSCRIPTION : In memory of Alexander Selkirk, mariner, a native of Largo, in the county of Fife, Scotland, wholived on this island in complete solitude for four years and four months. He was landed from the CinquePorts galley, 96 tons, 18 guns, 1704, and was taken off in the Duke, privateer, 12th Feb., died Lieutenant of H. M. S. Weymouth, 1723,* aged 47 years. This tablet is erected nearSelkirks lookout, by Commodore Powell and the officers of H. M. S. Topaze. 1868. chase the nimble little creatures led him. Intime, however, Selkirk learned to run so swiftlyand to dodge and leap so quickly that hehad no trouble in winning these curious killed in all more than five hundredgoats; and, not content with supplying hispresent needs, he caught many young goatsand tamed them, that he might be sure of hisfood when he grew too old to run. Tow
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