Show WHICH IS ISLAND opinion SMITH seems to favor tobago above tho tha claims claim made by adherents of ef juan Far ferrandez for many years juan fernandez z 9 chilean wand off the eastern coast 1 ot f south america was wa known aj ai cru oes island because another adventurer had bad spent pent five years there in solitude goll tude and it was thought tor for some time that defoe had bad recorded record ed this I 1 hermits experience but following crushes Cru directions that he landed on an island in a latitude of 11 degrees nearer the mouth of the orinoco alver and in sight fight of the island ot of trinidad one comes upon the island ot of tobago the only one answering the description an interesting discovery which gave gar prominence to tobago as ur the real crushes Cru island occurred some years ago nhen the skeleton of a copt so was unearthed in a cave on the th island this coincided remarkably with crushes Cru statement tat ement that be found a dying goat in a hillside cave and later burled buried it there Crus oelo goat became tor for a time an object of gre great at popular interest and figured ll a it a prominent exhibit at the chica chicago 9 worlds fair To bagos failure to obtain greater recognition of its importance as the th only authentic robinson crusco island Is doubtless due to the tact fact that it Is 13 a retiring little island concerned cern ad chiefly with its plantations and trade leaving crugom out altogether tobago has had an eventful history from the time it was discovered by columbus columbua on his third voyage until england borland took it from france in 1803 and started to turn it into a profitable colony |