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TOBAGO. 



third ball blew up the 

 magazine, killing all the 

 officers, and the works 

 were immediately 



stormed, taken, and de- 

 stroyed. 



Finding nothing more 

 which seemed capable of 

 destruction, the victors 

 abandoned the prize for 

 which they had been so 

 eagerly contending, and 

 Tobago was once more 

 consigned to that solitude 

 in which it was first dis- 

 covered. 



1679. — Island restored to 

 the Dutch. 



SELKIRK AND CRUSOE. 



Duchess, that took the 

 rich Acapulco Ship, with 

 100 Ton of Gold, and 

 brought it to England. 



" To which is added an Ac- 

 count of his Life and 

 Conversation, his Birth 

 and Education; his de- 

 scription of the Island 

 where he was cast away : 

 how he subsisted ; the 

 several strange Things he 

 saw ; and how he used to 

 spend his Time ; with also 

 some pious Ejaculations 

 that he used, composed 

 during his melancholy 

 Residence there. Written 

 by his own Hand, and 

 attested by most of the 

 eminent Merchants upon 

 the Royal Exchange." 



1719. — Robinson Crusoe 

 published. 



i7^.5.— Selkirk died. 



1757.— Defoe died. 



1741. — Lord Anson visited 

 Juan Fernandez. 



1684.—Toha^o was added to the list of neutral islands, 

 comprising Dominica, St. Vincent, and St. Lucia, 

 which were only to be visited for wood and water. 

 In 1748 the French attempted a settlement, which 

 was taken by the English in 1762, and confirmed in 

 their possession by treaty in 1763. '' Thus the foun- 



