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CRUSOE'S ISLAND. 



TOBAGO. 



negroes. The Dutch again 

 settled there, but in 1677, 

 the French then being at 

 war with Holland, the 

 Count d'Estrees, then in 

 comma ad of a large fleet 

 in West Indian waters, 

 was ordered to proceed 

 against Tobago. The fleet 

 came to anchor in Palm it 

 Bay, and then stood in to 

 engage the Dutch ships, 

 while a large force 

 stormed the castle. Both 

 were repulsed, with a loss 

 of a hundred and fifty- 

 killed and two hundred 

 wounded, and D'Estrees's 

 flagship of seventy guns 

 was blown up and two 

 others stranded. The 

 Dutch were left victori- 

 ous, though at great loss. 

 The fleet returned to France, 

 but came back in October 

 with twenty sail of war 

 and a great number of 

 smaller craft, on board 

 which were fifteen hun- 

 dred land forces. On the 

 10th D'Estrees summoned 

 Herr Binker to surrender, 

 and on the 12th com- 

 menced throwing fire 

 balls into the castle. The 



SELKIRK AND CRUSOE. 



1695. — Revisits his island. 



i70^.— Selkirk leaves Eng- 

 land on a buccaneering 

 cruise. 



1705. — Crusoe's narrative 

 ends ; Crusoe then sev- 

 enty-two years old. 



i7()9._Captain Woods Rog- 

 ers discovers Selkirk on 

 Juan Fernandez, where 

 he had lived four years 

 and four months. 



1710. — Selkirk's journal 

 published : " Providence 

 displayed, or a very sur- 

 prizing Account of one 

 Mr. Alexander Selkirk, 

 Master of a Merchant 

 Man called the Cinque 

 Ports ; who, dreaming 

 that the Ship would soon 

 after be lost, he desired to 

 be left on a Desolate Is- 

 land in the South Seas, 

 where he lived 4 Years 

 and 4 Months, without 

 seeing the Face of Man ; 

 the Ship being afterwards 

 cast away, as he dreamed. 



" As also, how he came after- 

 ward to be miraculously 

 preserved and redeemed 

 from that fatal Place, by 

 two Bristol Privateers, 

 called the Duke and 



