Chilians to Colonize Crusoe's Land.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 131, 10 April 1900, Page 3

Chilians to Colonize Crusoe's Land.

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Crusoe was wrecked, and which now belongs to the Chilian Government, is about to be turned into a settlement. Almost everyone knows that when Detoe | drew his story of Crusoe it was j fche story of Alexander Selkirk, Umd it is remarkable how closely 'Defoe kept to the facts of Selkirk's existence on the isle. Even the story of Crusoe's man Friday has a foundation of truth - in the fact that Selkirk found and adopted a stray Indian. This man had become separated from a party of Indians who had landed on the island, and having lost himself in the woods, was left behind by his people. The death of Selkirk's solitary companion did not occur in such a dramatic manner, however, ad did that of Crusoe's Friday, for Selkirk's retainer was diowned while fishing for his master's dinner. Barren as the place seemed to Selkirk when he was first marooned upon, it, it now contains many flourishing spots. The fruit trees which "ne planted more than two hundred years ago have reproduced themselves, and peaches, pears, quinces and grapes are to to be had in abundance. A man who had a stock farm on the Uland, for some reason abandoned the undertaking several yea) sago and turned his live stock loose\ The result is that cattle, <-hofr,, goats and pigs are now ioii'i'd there in a wild r-« -to, -< > ,i,u \ u a new colons j . hi-^U f,, h'lM* ■so.ne v< , . vf.it li tlu-v Ij.ko a f " a I^l hmain^. ; T?i <"KLiH.a lo fhis (],- -i,' a , >civ. v i*h e<>.,iisp w'ikl' I 1 p/iM-id^ j,J<v:i,iMt orviip.i- ']< .i <'i t ihea..^]i>irt. Tljnoort^Vri, ; 1 t,iu". i.vi c. ,-ue likflv t« }jo 1 ir^-r.dan/ly HUpp'iod vifl «jie;i', fK>h <i'jd ft nit. Uji so Vh<- present i>ik\ tho . it-laiivi, which if hi di" j > ,iciiic Ocwui, lias b. o»i <\ jt ■Jh\ a few J Germfi'i '..ui r' A i. f.tr.ilius, nnmbtMin^ about },', \>> ;,- all. It is now pi<)(» )fi n iy l| ,n Chilian <}o ( *lu»i>i( m h im '< islam? iu(n t roriu'.tr <i 'o.i^, , a,nd about ont hun('. . • ! ■•)■) , 'ally har(J,y Chilia i.!-=i .!-= v-.ij fn» iU the nucleus oil the new -< element, which it is propose. t to christen " Crusoe Island."