In "Seamen Al!" (Heinemann, 10%. 6d.) Mr. F. Keble Chatterton, the well-known authority on the history, of ships and the sea, tells number of stories of adventure in ull kinds of ships during the last 250 years.
They are true, and most are so amazing that they are far more dramatic and thrilling than the best of fiction. In fact, a real adventure the basis of one of the finest Yomanees ever written, "Everyone knows that Alexande!
Selkirk went out on Dampire's. privat tearing expedition in 1703, and that touched at the island of Juan Fernandez, off the coast of Chile in the following year, he asked, in consequence of a quarrel with his captain, to be put ashore there, It was from the account of his' oxperiences that Defoe wrote Robinson Crusoe.
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