Now, on the last day of January, the island was visited by the frigates of Rogers, a famous Bath privateer, and a bout was sent ashore. It returned with an abund-nee of crayfish and "a man clothed goat skins, who looked wilder than the first owners of them. He had been on the island four years and four months. I agreed with him to bbe mate on bourd our ship," writes Rogers.
Selkirk told Rogers all about his experiences—how he built himself two huts with—pimento trees how he got fire by rubbing two sticks of wood together on his knees; how he lived on crayfish and goat's flesh, how the island was overrun with cats and rats which had come ashore from ships; how, when his cloths wore out, made himself a coat and cap of goat skin, using a nail for a needle. urd he had so far for-language for want of use that the frigate people could searcely understand him."
'A curious footnote to the story is supplied by the fact that the Dresden, which escaped after the Battle of the: Falklands, was surprised and destroyed by'British cruisers at this island of Juan' Fernandez.
Crayfish are still very' plentiful, and the owner of the fisheries was, much annoyed at the invasion of the warships,
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