APPENDIX. 



EVIDENCE IN SUPPORT OF TOBAGO AS THE 

 TRUE CRUSOE'S ISLAND. 



As Tobago's history is intimately connected with the 

 growth of colonial possessions in the West Indies, and as 

 its condition at the time in which Defoe wrote may have 

 had much to do with his choosing it for the residence of 

 his hero, I trust the following chronological notes will 

 not be unacceptable to the general reader and to the stu- 

 dent of history. They are taken (those that refer to To- 

 bago) from the History of Tobago, by H. lies Woodcock, 

 Esq., formerly a judge in that island. 



In parallel columns, will be given contemporary data 

 that have to do with persons and things mentioned in our 

 narrative. 



It may be difficult for one to transport himself in 

 imagination to such an obscure island as this little speck 

 in the Caribbean Sea, but it will soon be shown that it 

 has exercised a great influence, not only in the history of 

 the world of fact, but in the world of fiction. 



Chronology, 

 tobago. selkirk and crusoe. 



1498,—Tohsigo probably dis- 15 20-' 23. —Shipwreck and 

 covered, as Trinidad and subsequent adventures of 



Grenada were, by Colum- Alonzo Cuaco, three years 

 bus, on his third voyage. on a desert island. 



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