Show I ST STE WARi S WASHINGTON ERr t L ETT Uj Sty 11 tIL nJ S 1 l. ItT TI NJ J r WASHINGTON July 24 Cries H Cries of or rage always arc are to bo be heard from tho the National Geo Geo- Geographic Geographic Geographic graphic society's headquarters hc over on Sixteenth street for sev sev- several several eral oral days das after aCter theres there's been a Q pub nub pubic ic reference to Juan Fernandez as ns Robinson Crusoe's Island Theres There's been bec n one of these out out- outbreaks outbreaks breaks lately following the death of ot Dr W. W C. C the famous explorer r. r whose wanderings were werl widely described In the obituary notices as having Include l this particular speck on the map nl- nl ir ost universally alluded to as ns tho the home of Daniel Defoe's Deroe's hero dur dur- during durIng ing log all the years ears his literary cre cre- creator nor ator kept kc pt him cast away awa To ro be sure eure It Isn't an error error which endangers the country much but geographers are particular I about such things and this mis mis- mistake mis-I mis take teke is especially aggravating g be because be- be because e. e cause e t persistent nt Members of or the society have pointed it out a million times If IC they have once and their predecessors hate ha e been doing the same thing all alt of years cors ever since Defoe turned his Immortal work over to the printer to set up And nobody pays the tho slightest at at- at I I I I Anybody who ever e c r read Robin Robinson son Crusoe knows that Defoe speaks of his Island bland as right in the tropIcs hotter hotter than pepper days das In the year and of ot them Defoe DeCoe goes into considerable detail concerning the Isles Isle's fauna Cauna and flora tlora and the whole thing is tropical tropical parrots parrots palms and everything e else that tees loes with a climate mighty might close to 0 the line Now take a look at a n map of ot South America and three or four hundred miles s off ort the tho Chilean I coast cout you'll find Juan Fernandez In almost exactly the same caine south south- southern ern em latitude as Buenos Aires where according to press pre dis die dispatches dispatches patches the ho thermometer stood at ati a i below zero a t few rew days ago Juan Fernandez was Alexander Alexandc r Selkirk's island laland all 1111 right Capt of or the British privateer Cinque Ports marooned hint him there thereIn In 1704 and he stuck it out all by himself for tor four tour or five tI years before another ship took him off ocr They do say nay Defoe Deroo got a good deal of his dope from Selkirk s but buthe ho he certainly certain didn't borrow the lat lat- Island Inland to put p t in his Isis yarn The Crusoe and Selkirk Islands dont don't match A For one thing Robinson was bothered to death by cannibal pic plc- picnics on his coast coast big big parties of o blacks black who'd paddled over In lit dugouts from the mainland Now the there were wc ro no blacks on mainland opposite Juan Fernan ernan Fernandez J dez In those days There arent aren't many yet Indians Indians' yes but Defoe's picture of ot man Friday doesn't look much like an Indian Neither do can can- cannibals In dugouts undertake three to four hundred mile ocean voy- voy VO voyages ages Just one dugout with its canni caunt- cannibal accidentally bo hI hal bal crew might blown that far but you bet they dont don't do it deliberately In whole fleets again and again It II will be bo duly llly noticed that Selkirk had no cannibals In his la laSome Some National Geographic o Gc so so- society society society members say aa Defoe had mind an island off ort the south of or southern Central American Cur Car coast Some Souse say Hay he hadn't any uny particular Island in mind l ul ut atall all being more interested in Rob Hob Robinson's Robinsons HobIn inson's In ons on's adventures ad s than In the tho p-irl p of tho the world ho experienced them In Both groups agree o rec however that Daniel was yas u talking about the tho Those who think his Island Island and was purely Imaginary point out that no geographer can find cite cne which fits Its all his lila Of or the others ethers a 1 majority favor the Ilie waters off ocr the tho mouth of ot tho Orinoco An Islet near Panama is believed by some lome to fill the tho bill of or the tho theory that Defoe at a. a definite spot on the chart pooh-pooh pooh a few Inac mac Inaccuracies Inaccuracies curacies In his story story story-ho ho never h lIed the Americas so HO far ns as Anybody knows doubtless got get hl hIs hili material at nt second hand and made madea a 1 number of or mistakes ml In writing riling of a then little known part port of or the tho world Anyway Anay It wasn't Juan Fernan Fernan- i hz Laymen Jamen think the point un un- but If It th they y knew how hew It worries the National Geographic society they would try tr to get It right |