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...Awaiting the sailors on the beach, waving his arms and dancing, was an extraordinary figure "cloth'd in Goat-Skins, who look'd wilder than the first Owners of them. He had been [cast away] on the Island Four Years and four Months . . His name was Alexander Selkirk, a Scotch man ... He had so much forgotten his Language for want of Use, that we could scarce understand...
...long voyage home, Selkirk told the full story of his four solitary years-how he had built two log huts; how he had conquered a plague of rats by domesticating cats; how he had lived on goat flesh, fish, turtles and wild fruits. A century ago his countrymen placed a plaque on the site of Selkirk's lookout, reading simply: IN MEMORY OF ALEXANDER SELKIRK, MARINER. But a far greater memorial has stood for more than 200 years-Daniel Defoe's The Life & Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. So lifelike has this novel seemed to generations that...
Edward C. Stabler '55 was climbing Fox Mountain in the Selkirk Range in British Columbia on August 16 when he was hit by part of a rock fall. Stabler, who joined the Mountaineering Club last year, was climbing with Bruce Gerhard '52 and James M. Newell '55 when the accident occurred...
...primary purpose of the trip is to practice for the spring and summer excursions, such as last summer's three member expedition to the Selkirk Range in British Columbia. A forthcoming Saturday Evening Post story will describe the highlight of last summer, the six man climb of Peru's "unconquerable Carnicero...
Today, on the side of the hill that was Selkirk's lookout is a bronze tablet, put up in his memory by the captain and officers of a British ship which visited the island in 1868. Hard by the beach where Crusoe found Friday is now a fishing village, San Juan Bautista. In it live most of the 560 Juan Fernándians. Sixty live on the smaller island of Más-a-Fuera, 90 miles farther out. Santa Clara, third of the group, is uninhabited...