Show WHICH IS ISLAND opinion seems seema to favor tobago abobo the claims made by adherents of juan fernandex for many years juan fernandez a chilean island oft off the eastern coast of 0 south america was wall known as cru cm goes island because another adventurer had spent five years yeara there in solitude and it was thought for some som time that defoe had recorded this cerrat her rat experience but following Cru crushes directions that he landed on an island in a latitude of 11 degrees nearer the mouth of bf the orinoco river and in sight eight of the island of trinidad one comes upon the island of tobago the only one answering the description an interesting discovery which rave gave prominence to tobago as an the real crushes Cru island occurred some years ago when the skeleton of a goat was was unearthed unearth e d to in a cave on the island this coincided remarkably with crushes Cru statement that he found a dying goat in a hillside cave and later burled buried lt it there crushes Cru ct goat became for a time an object of great po popular bular interest and figured eta as prominent exhibit at the chicago hurlds worlds fair To bagos failure to obtain greater recognition of its importance as the only authentic robinson crusoe island Is doubtless due to the fact that it its Is a retiring little island concerned berned chiefly with its plantations and trade leaving crusoe out altogether tobago has had an eventful history from the time it was discovered by co lui iambus labus on bis big third voyage until england took it from france in and started to turn tt it into ant a profitable col ony |