Identifier: crusoesislandbir00ober (find matches)
Title: Crusoe's Island; a bird-hunter's story
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Ober, Frederick A. (Frederick Albion), 1849-1913
Subjects: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 Birds
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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tispiece PAGE xxii59111(31923252934394246 50 53 6367707781879295100111 xx CRUSOES ISLAND. PAGE Dancing manakins 119 Scissorstails 124 Wrens fighting a whipsnake 128 Griigru palms 134 Native huts and trees 138 Distant view of Tobago 141 Crusoe rescues Friday ....... 143 Caribs of the West Indies ....... 146 Carib implements of stone 148 A group of Caribs . 151 Young Carib girl . . . . ... . . . 153 A Carib thunderbolt 155 Treed by the peccaries 1G1 My Man Friday ......... 175 Gathering cocoanuts ........ 183 Noosing the iguana 189 An Obeah charm ......... 192 Crusoes ship—from his own book 205 Man-o-war Bay, Tobago ........ 207 The armadillo 216 Carib arrowroot mill 225 A fish for a fishhook 228 Remoras and shark 230 Bird-spider and lizard 232 In the devilfishs coils 240 The grave beneath the palms 243 Appendix. Map showing Crusoes voyages (date 1719) .... 246 Portrait of Robinson Crusoe, taken 1719 .... 252 Title-page of Crusoe, third edition 257 Title-page of Selkirks narrative 263
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CBUSOES ISLAND. CHAPTER I. HOW I FOUND THE ISLAND. A statement of the case—Where Crusoe was wrecked—Cradledon a reef—The coast of Tobago—Left alone on shore. There is one period of my life which I call myCrusoe year, because it was owing to suggestionsfrom Robinson Crusoe that I enjoyed its rich andvaried experiences. It all came about through mydesire to know more of the island in which Crusoehad his wonderful adventures. That was somethingwhich the author of the book seemed to have left out—just where it was situated ; yet it was the very thingthat interested me most. And when I was a boy I resolved that if I evergrew up to be a man, and had as much as fifty ora hundred dollars, I would make a voyage and de-termine for myself where he was located after theshipwreck; where he made his bower, and his cave,and kept his flocks of goats; and above all, where hefirst met Man Friday, and who Man Friday was. It came to pass that, after I had attained to mansestate, I found myself

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