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Show WHICH IS CRUSOE'S ISLAND7 OpInTon Seems to Favor Tobago Above-the Above-the Claims Made by Adherents of Juan Fernandez. For many years Juan Fernandez, a Chilean lland off the eastern coast of South America, was known as Crusoe's Cru-soe's island, because another adventurer adven-turer had spent five years there in. solitude, and it was thought for sometime some-time that Defoe had recorded this hermit's experience. But following Crusoe's directions that he landed on an island in a latitude of 11 degrees nearer the mouth of the Orinoco river, and In sight of the Island of Trinidad, one comes upon the Island of Tobago, the only one answering the description. descrip-tion. An Interesting discovery which gave prominence to Tobago as the real Crusoe's Island occurred some years ago, when the skeleton of a goat was unearthed in a cave on the Island. This coincided remarkably with Crusoe's statement that he found a dying goat In a hillside cave and later buried it there. "Crusoe's goat" became for a time an object of great popular interest and figured as a prominent exhibit at the Chicago World's fair. Tobago's failure to obtain greater recognition of Its Importance as the "only authentic Robinson Crusoe Island" is doubtless due to the fact that It Is a retiring little island, concerned con-cerned chiefly with Its plantations and trade. Leaving Crusoe out altogether, Tobago has had an eventful history, fro.m the time It was discovered by Columbus, Co-lumbus, on his third voyage, until England Eng-land took it from France In 1803, and started to turn it into a profitable colony. |