Despite his long castaway, Selkirk was appointed Mate by Rogers and later given command of a captured prize ship. Apparently he climbed a tree to escape, and one of the Spanish soldiers actually went to the toilet at the base of the tree he was hiding up, but luckily for him he wasn’t spotted.His time on the island went surprisingly well for the most part, with only one major accident. Awaiting us was a lonely driver and his jeep. Alexander Selkirk was born in the year 1676 in Largo, Scotland, the son of a fairly prosperous tanner and leather worker. Fortunately, a young man we recognized from the village, Francisco, happened upon us. This was summer.
Our curiosity was now thoroughly aroused. When we took off from Santiago, Chile, there were five of us on the Cessna 320, including the pilot. Die Wirkung des „Robinson Crusoe“ war ungeheuer; schon nach wenigen Jahren war das Buch in viele Sprachen übersetzt und in Millionen verkauft. Alexander Selkirk: eine kurze Biographie Robinson Crusoe – ein fiktiver Charakter in dem Buch Danielya Defo, zuerst im Jahre 1719 in diesem berühmten Werk veröffentlicht Robinson Schiffbrüchigen und findet sich auf der Insel zu überleben allein vor dem Treffen Freitag, eine andere einsame Insel resident. This was the first biography written about Alexander Selkirk’s amazing life marooned alone on Juan Fernandez Island for four years and four months.
Selkirk obviously used the lookout to watch for ship's sails on the horizon or in the bay and occasionally lit fires to try and attract attention, but to no avail until his final rescue four and a half years later. The cave was near the beach, probably no more than ten miles away but no boat owners would take us there. At this point I wasn't sure whether it meant straight up or straight ahead but with higher hopes of reaching our goal we pushed on. Zu diesen Männern gehört auch Alexander Selkirk, der in der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft seines schottischen Heimatortes nicht zurecht kommt, und schon früh mit dem Gesetz in Konflikt gerät.
After a short battle the Captain of the "Dresden" blew his ship up to avoid capture. Having some linen cloth by him, he sewed him some shirts with a nail and, stitched them with the worsted of his old stockings, which he pulled out on purpose. A short, precipitous ride took us down to the bay and a small jetty. He likewise tamed some kids; to divert himself, would now and then sing and dance with them and his cats; so that by the favor of providence, and the vigor of his youth, being now but thirty years old, he came, at last, to conquer all the inconveniences of his solitude, and to be very easy." On 1st October 1711 he landed on the south of England after eight years away and spent his time living in London. He lay there for about a day, not able to move right away from the pain, but surprisingly only suffered major bruising and no broken bones.On 2nd February 1709 a privateering ship named “Duke” landed on the island to restock their water, only to find an ecstatic Selkirk bouncing up and down on the beach. He had his last shirt on when we found him on the island." It had been reported that the woods abounded in coatis, a small, mouse-eating bear, but we saw none, usually too busy minding our footing on the slippery, sliding volcanic rock underfoot.
Two of our passengers were returning home. After a prolonged wait, while we watched seals playing in the water, a small boat pulled in, unloaded its cargo of passengers who were returning to the mainland as well as a couple of cases of langostas (lobsters). Feeding them fish scraps and pieces of meat he semi-tamed them into letting him sleep close to them, which solved the rat problem.Eventually he made two huts to live in, with the first being his living and sleeping hut, and the second being just for cooking and food storage.During his time on the island he spotted two ships which both landed to resupply with water, but unfortunately for him they were both Spanish ships which would have probably just killed him, so he hid in the trees until they left. It was painted a stark white, crisscrossed with navy blue lines. We lingered for a while, gazing out to sea, puzzling over what life must have been like for him. We had shortly before met two young American boys, Mormon missionaries from Utah, here for that purpose. they explained. Picaflores (hummingbirds) darted in and out of the bush and an occasional fardeles (an indigenous bird) skimmed the tree tops. A sizeable fleet of lobster boats lay moored at anchor in Cumberland Bay. It was fortunate for Selkirk because his ship later sank with the loss of most hands. The trails of the island offered the main interest, the main challenge.