328 POLYNESIAN RESEARCHES. 
February, 1709.* During his residence here, he 
subsisted on such vegetables as he found on the 
island, with fish, and the broiled flesh of goats, 
which he pursued with surprising agility among the 
rocky and mountainous parts of the island. Cap¬ 
tain Rogers observes, that when he came on board 
“ he was clothed in goat-skins, and looked wilder 
than the first owners of themand adds, “ he had so 
much forgotten his language, that we could scarcely 
understand him.” Cowper, with his accustomed 
sensibility of feeling and felicity of expression, has 
commemorated his exile in those beautiful lines 
which commence with, “ I am monarch of all I 
survey.” The adventures of Selkirk, in Juan Fer¬ 
nandez, also furnished De Foe with the materials 
for his unrivalled “ Robinson Crusoe.” 
Rogers’ Voyage. 
