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Show MAROONED FOR THREE YEARS Sailor's Long Period of Loneliness on Small Island Located in the South Seas. Marooning occasionally brings about a modern Crusoe ; Just as It did with Alexander Selkirk, who was put ashore at Juan Fernandez, and whose adventures adven-tures gave Defoe the foundation for "Robinson Crusoe." The trading schooner, Queen Charlotte, passing a small island of the Marquesas in the South seas, landed her boat to investigate investi-gate the smoke of a fire, as it was understood un-derstood the Island was uninhabited. Here was found a United States seaman, sea-man, who had been put ashore with three shipmates by their captain, on account of their mutinous conduct. The three others had died, but the man from Connecticut had contrived to live on the fish he caught, and the breadfruit and coconuts and other products prod-ucts which he could gather. When rescued after three years' loneliness, his utensils consisted of great shells, and two cups which he possessed, made from the skulls of his companions. |