A. Robinson Crusoe in the Pacific.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 54, 1 August 1885, Page 3

A. Robinson Crusoe m the Pacific.

A SINGULAR TALE.

Our Fiji correspondent sends the following :-r-It is riot generally known that Fiji can boast of a Robinson Crusoe^ But. on the -island of Vatu Vara, or sometimes called ." Cocked Hat Island," which .at* much resembles m the distance, lives an^ American named Edward Thomson, with his Marquesas Island wife. He was. brought up m the shingle.splitting business m America, but emigrated to these islands, and purchased Vatu Varafor about £70 from a, person namod Oaborn. Crown grant No. 1 was issued,tothe owner of this island, r. Thomson add ; his wife have no communication yriih ] the oritslde world, except when a small schooner named, the Nautilus <visits the island. They are afflicted with a religious .mania partly of one -form of :re- : iigiqn,! and partly of another. They go about, m nearly a nude statej the.male aliowihgliis li^ir to take its? natural course. ' A mania having taken hold of them towards the Jewish persuasion, a, passover lamb had to be" procured* from Loiua Loma,, the *•■ island being within thirty., miles of the Lav Group. On another occasion, the Nautilus having landed a fewstores required by this couple, they al- ; loAfed tliem tb bo all washed, away, ;as' it,' •Was a . Saint's day. The end of:. the' world is also foretold by them^ and some amasing stories are. told -by* the ' owner #ljjtho Nautilus as to his recaption at-various/- . times by ,this singular pdr.^N.. Z. Herald. :■;' '■■ :■'■ '*"" j