ROBINSON CRUSOE S ISLAND. 59 



Juan Fernandez is known to every 

 reader of " Kobinson Crusoe/' as the 

 island on which he and his man Friday 

 lived in solitude. 



The real solitary, or exile, was a seaman 

 of the name of Alexander Selkirk, who 

 quitted his vessel, and was left behind in 

 this desolate place. He spent four years 

 without hearing the sound of a human 

 voice, and was at last picked up and 

 brought to England. The goats, in w^hose 

 skins he had clothed himself, were the de- 

 scendants of those animals brought by the 

 colonists I have mentioned, and that had 

 multiplied and overrun the island. 



