Crusoe^s Isle an Eden 
R obinson CRUSOE was more 
. to be envied than pitied, ac- 
cording to Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt, 
of the Smithsonian Institution, 
Washington, D. C. In a recent 
survey of Juan Fernandez Island, 
on which Alexander Selkirk, the 
reputed original of Robinson, lived 
over four years, he found the island 
one of the most fruitful spots in 
South America, and said: 
“Every imaginable plant seems 
to grow there. One Frenchman 
was shipwrecked on the island forty 
years ago. He likes it so much he 
refuses to leave.” 
