| Show WHICH IS ISLAND apinton seems to favor tobago above the claims made by adherents of juan fernandez Farnan for many years juan fernandez a chilean island off the eastern coaston coa coast 0 south america was known as cru island because another adventurer had spent five years there in soll solitude oll tude and it was thought for some time that defoe had bad recorded this 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 river and in sight of the island of trinidad one cornea comes upon the island of tobago the only omy one answering the description an interesting discovery which gave prominence to tobago as the real crushes Cru island occurred some years ears ago when the skeleton of a n goat was unearthed 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 it there crushes Cru goat foet became for a time an object of great popular interest and figured as a prominent exhibit at the chicago 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 Is a retiring little island concerned chiefly with its plantations and trade leaving crusoe out altogether tobago has bas had an eventful history from the time it was discovered ered by columbus on his third voyage until en england g took it from france 1 in n 1803 and started to turn it into a profitable colony |
