Identifier: stnicholasserial31dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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oner. There was littleromance in the situation. His entire posses-sions comprised only some clothes and bedding,a firelock, one pound of powder, some bullets, kirk — now safely on board the Duke — toldthe story of his adventures, the misery of thosefirst hours on the island were still clear in hismemory. As the ship disappeared, he sat uponhis seamans chest in utter dejection. He atenothing for many hours. His greatest fear wasthat with the coming of night he would beattacked by wild animals. In his own words, I went to sleep when I could watch nolonger. For a long time he remained in suchlow spirits that he could eat only at rare inter-vals. His first food was the flesh of seals andthe coarse food picked up along the beach. For several weeks Selkirk continued to eatraw food. He carried flint with him, but couldfind no tinder to start a fire. He would notuse his shirt, since he preferred to go withoutcooked food to going undressed. The famous 5°2 ROBINSON CRUSOE S ISLAND. (April,
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CRUSOE S LOOKOUT. IN THE CLIFF AT THE RIGHT CENTER OF THE PICTURE WILL BE SEEN THE TABLETERECTED TO SELKIRKS MEMORY. There was a hill not above a mile from me, which rose up very steep and high. ... I traveled for discovery up to thetop of that hill, where, after I had, with great labor and difficulty, got to the top, I saw my fate, to my great affliction, viz., thatI was in an island environed every way with the sea.—Robinson Crusoe. suit of goatskins was not thought of until later, principal food to the end. His favorite method The cooking problem was finally solved by rub- of cooking was to impale a large piece of the bing two sticks together, Indian fashion, to start meat on a splint of palmetto wood and broil it a fire. The flesh of young goats remained his by turning it slowly before the fire. ROBINSON CRUSOE S ISLAND. 503 The island was well supplied with wild goats,as it is to this day.. Nevertheless there weretimes when poor Crusoe—or rather Selkirk—hadgreat trouble to

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