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berland Bay, that he has made his home for good and all, 

 residing there no longer as the master of the place, as in 

 former times, but merely as the most highly educated and 

 the wealthiest of its inhabitants. 



" He has surrounded himself with a good deal of lux- 

 ury, especially as regards books, of which he is particu- 

 larly fond, instruments, etc., and, with a grand piano in 

 the salon and a thousand-dollar harp in his wife's boudoir, 

 there is but little to recall the cave of Robinson Crusoe. 

 The two most important inhabitants of the island after 

 Baron von Rodt, or Don Alfredo as he is called there, are 

 a couple of Germans : the one a broken-down professor of 

 botany and chemistry, expelled for some reason or another 

 from the Heidelberg University, but who is a man of 

 great learning ; and the other a man who styles himself 

 Don Eduardo Schreiber, and who had the honor of accom- 

 panying Emperor Maximilian to Mexico in the capacity 

 of cook. He is a most amusing individual, of jovial tem- 

 perament, whose Mexican experiences are among the least 

 exciting of his adventurous career, and who now endeav- 

 ors to make a living by preserving and canning the tails 

 of the lobsters which still abound there. The Frenchman, 

 who alone represents his nation on Juan Fernandez, is a 

 member of the medical profession, a physician of consid- 

 erable skill and former standing, who, being compelled to 

 fly for his life from France on account of his complicity 

 with the Commune insurrection, drifted about from one 

 place to another until he finally stranded on the island of 

 Juan Fernandez." 



Such, then, is the erstwhile domain of Alexander 

 Selkirk. 



