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KOBLNSOS CRUSOE’S ISLE.
jcaN FiBVANDdZ A8 ins AND ITS
hundred iNfaabitanrs.
Belles of a Convicts Ccbony-Planting
tlie Cross On the Peak of Yonka—a
Magical Spring—Alexander Sells rk’s
StraDge Memorial.
T&e first thing a tourist does, on going
ashore at Juan Fernandez, is to start for
the famous Lookout, from the top of which
__so says the historian—poor Crusoe used to
watch for a sail, “and yet no sail from day
to day.” But he is likely to be long on the
wav though it is ltj3s than a mile from the
landiug place, because there are several
points of interest to be viewed en route,
first, there are the people—a hundred hands
to be shaken and a thousand eager questions
to be answered, for the arrival of a ship is
bv no means a matter of every day, and
when one does appear In the harbor, the
lonesome islanders, old and young, troop
down to me t her. Though voluntary ex
iles in this beautiful place, where nature
has been lavish in supplying everything
necessary to sustain life without labor, the
colonists pine for news from the distant
world, whose echoes coma to them like
angels’ visits, “few and far between.”
Though no longer a convict colony, as in
days long past, the island is virtually a
prison, whose bolts and bars are ocean bil
lows, and many a modern Crusoe voices his
predecessor’s sentiments:
Oh, Solitude : Where are the cbarms
That sages have seen in thy face?
Better dwell in the midst of alarms
Tnaa reign in this horrible p ace 1”
Thero are about 100 residents on Juan
Fernandez, mostly German aud Chilean
ranchmen and tneir families; for some
years ago the island was leased to a rich
cattle company, who have now as many as
30,000 head of horned cattle and twice as
many horned sheep, grazing in the narrow
valleys aud on the groeu foothills. The
cottages of the colonists arc mostiy within
eight of the lauding, sot in the midst of
orchards on the side of a hill sloping down
to the sea, and the oppressive silence of
Selkirk’s time has given place to the bleat
ing and lowing of flocks and herds,
the merry shouts of children and
sounds of human activity. The houses
sre extremely pic ureeque, and made
of the bright yellow straw of wild
oats, woven in and out through bamboo
wattles and thatched with the same. Their
high, peaked roofs project all around far
beyond the walls, and the doorways are>
shaded by straw-thatched porches, remind
ing one of Frencb-Canadian cottages or
chalets in the valley of the Seine. Each
little borne is enclosed within a wall ot
stones and brushwood, its rustio gateway
overrun with luxuriant vines; and witbin
the enclosures are granaries, storehouses
and other outbuildings, all set up on poles
to keep them out of the water during the
heavy rains of June, July and August.
There is no winter in this latitude, but the
we* season, though short, is more trying
than northern ico and snow.
Whoever goes to Juan Fernandez finds
himself enthusiastically welcomed by every
soul on the island, aud receives jest as many
pressing invitations to lunch, to dine, and to
stop over until some other boat comes along,
es there are homes on the island, and if ha
has been so thoughtful as to brmg along a
lew old books or newspapers, he has earned
the lasting gratitude of the people. Besides
caring for their flocks, the settlers raise
fruits and vegetables to sell to passing ves
sels. The soil is wonderfully productive,
esiecially in the northern valleys, where de
coyed vegetable matter and rich deposits of
burned earth have washed down from the
mountains. Grass and oats spring up spon
taneously in the opeu space, and vegetables
of all kinds grow abundantly wborover the
seeds are scattered. Wild grapevines aud
fig trees hearing excellent fruit flourish on
the slopes, and there are many natural
orchards grown from seeds planted a cen
tury ago by Selkirk and other mariners.
Besides peaches, apricots, pears, quinces
mid other fruits common to temperate
climates, the ebuta is every where—a species
of palm which produces a delicious berry—
and amoDg an endless variety of indigenous
trees are pimento (pepper), sandalwood,
corkwood and myrtle.
It appears that Lord Anson, an English
man. Las done more for the settlement
und cultivation of the island than the gov
ernment that owns it. He stopped here
first by chance tn the year 1741 for the pur
pose of recruiting his ships after a success
ion of disasters in their passage around
Cape Horn. The loss and danger he had
experienced led him to establish a sort of
recruiting station on Juan Fernandez for
his owu and other disabled ships. He de
voted months to the production here of such
fruits and vegetables as sailors crave, and
cause ! quantities of seeds to be scattered all
over the islands that future voyagers might
Red a variety of refreshment. He also
left ashore a great many domes
tic animals, that they might become
numerous, for the benefit of vessels in dis
tress for provisions, castaways, and ship
wrecked mariners. '’He who plants an
olive, plants for his children’s children."
Lord Anson could not expect to derive
much personal advantage from these
benevolent acts, but how many lives have
been saved by his philanthropy there is no
human record to show. After his death
5J* Papers fell into the hands of Richard
Waiters, chaplain of the Centurion, who
compiled from them the most reliable
description and accurate topographical
survey of Juan Fernandez that has ever
been made.
Thougu the tillable area is small, because
tnero is so little level ground, it is asserted
that several thousand people might subsist
comfortably on the main island nlone, witb
°. liv supplies from other countries bo
yond exchangi g then- surplus productions
. vss els for clothing and gro
eries. The not very enterprising inbabi
“Vs °, to -day live chiefly on fish and goat
' < p w hich there is an exhaustless sup
- ii * ,°?* * on, ls of the finest ood, rock fish,
•„ i • ' obs . ter3 i lamprey eels, etc., may be
ught as fast as they can be hauled in any
i,ir,° re Hrou , u d the shores, and pheasants,
1 geons and other birds arj as abundant as
the wii d goaU and rabbitß
Attended by numerous volunteer guides
among the hospitable settlers, we
sot out for the Lookout, but turned
Wrn. . " ay . batw< *n the cliff and the
tC v -P*. ore some remarkable-looking
s 0 Ijhlkide, topped by ruined forti
setti-n? B ', J hose are ell that remain of the
&i ri ..TTo 1 b ! undefi here by Hpain in 1750,
on tu* tbe Chilian penal colony es ablished
in ISly - Tt *B Spaniards
~ , Breat fort and a town, both of which
lent ~'irfs roye . J tb ®'Allowing year by a vio-
arthquake. They were immediately
bstmli were in good order and in
whsn Carteret visited the ioland in
an-hi—^irthquakes are frequent in the
D ,„T, l b ®~B°> and several within the memory
c 0 .7/ People now living have done
the ataa ße. Nothing remains of
Portion 16 # 1 f .° rt 1,111 foundations and a
dish ni Q °* *j S ram P*rts, embedded in red
flish clay and grown over with weeds.
soon < rn!a lot ° olon y was established as
somm-inT 61 8 B a ’ ned her indepeud mce, and
here of more than 1.000 criminals were
CliilM.no ' Cour * e - a fter the manner of
barlinm.' were subjected to the most
ceons Ju ?’ Batm . 80t in these gloomy dun
bluff V B ni"°k ? rB U B iota the brow of the
hundreH U )w the harbor . a: ‘d extend several
vauK i 1 underground in the form of
the Fto- P a3sa Keß somewhat sesembling
which t . combs at Rome. The gates by
peartnnno entr,nei * were ■•cured disap
not faileu K in B°’ 8 °’ “ nd the Pa™ B ? 9 * that have
bats t.iA/io 10 are Pre-empted by wild dogs,
“' CYm,r, nd^‘ Utipedcß We ,l " l
them in thworts°“ * h ° did de * cribed
walls a 'o t xlrK n *j llu .“* u P on the sides; the
sweat w itk deathlike
BDd the aJ drop * ooarsod down the sides,
darkn si rZ. I? damp and cold. Thick
trated bv nn ned wit hiu the depths, penc
il -h, cf 7 H. n ° < Wand *riog gleam from the
Sill S heave,. never smiled upon
8,8 drearT abodes of sin and sorrow. A
few of the inner dungeons for the worst
criminals were dug softi deeper under
ground, reached by rough stairways of
earth, shut out from the upper vaults by
strong doors. These loner dungeons were
not more than five feet long by four feet
high, and from their slz* one may form
some idea of the sufferings endured by the
poor wretches, loaded w ith irons, crushed
down by impenetrable walls of
earth, in utter darkness, starved and
beaten by their cruel guards, with no living
soul to pity and i.o hope of release but in
death. By the aid of a torch we saw deep
holes scratched in one of the walls, bearing
the impress of human fingers. Perhaps
some unhappy murderer, g >aded to mad
ness by such tortures of mind and body as
drive men to tear their own flesh when
buried before the vital sparklis extinct, had
gasped out the earth ia his desperation, aud
left the marks of bis deatn agonies upon
the clay that entombed him. As we sounded
the walls, deep echoes breaking upon the
he ivy air seemed yet to mingle with his
curses, and its last sepulchral throb was like
the dying moan of a maniac.”
At last, about thirty years after the
founding of the colony, some 300 prisoners
broke loose from their chains, murdered the
guards and escaped. They seized the gar
rison and for several days held possession of
the island. Just then a Nantucket whale
ship happened to put into Cumberland bay
for food and water. The convicts seized the
captain and compelled bitn to take on board
as many of their number as the vessel could
possibly carry. Two hundred of them
crowded in, and they threatened the
ship’s officers with instant death in
case of failure to land them on the
coast of Peru, whither they deter
mined to go to escape tho vengeance of
the Chilean government. The captain of
the whaler ran over to the nearest land on
the coast of Ctiile, and, leading the convicts
to believe that it was Peru, put them ashore
only about thirty miles north of Valparaiso,
i uey soon found out thoir dangerous situa
tion ; but it is said that every one of them
succeeded in eluding the Chilean authori
ties, and eventually joined the Peruvian
army, which wa3 at that time advancing
upon Santiago. Most of the prisoners left
on the island escaped by different vessels,
and were scattered over the globe. But
very few of thoso engaged in the massacre
were recaptured, and they were shot in the
•central square of Chile’s capital. All this
occurred less than forty years ago.
bpeaking of those day3 brings to mind the
story of a former governor of Juau Fernan
dez, which is still told and believed by every
one on the isiaod. Looking up to the utter
most peak of Yonka—an abrupt precipice
oa all sides, rising .'5.000 feet into the blue
one sees the dim outlines of a dim cross,
and wonders how in the world it got there.
Many attempts have been made by sailors
and others to scale the peak, but always
without success, except in a single instance.
One day the governor of the convict oolony
went out riding, as was his usual after
dinner custom, and when near to Yonka he
beheld so remarkable a vision that he
galloped back to tho village in hot haste
and related that he saw away down
in the valley, a very tall man. dressed all iu
black aud mounted on a very white horse.
The strange rider had a face of ghastly
whiteness, and, turning, he looked steadily
at tho governor “with eyt'B of tire, the glare
of which made the air hot all arouud.”
Trembling with fear, the governor made
the sign of the cross, whereupon the phan
tom put spurs to his horse and rode straight
up the precipice to the top of the peak,
whore he paused and looked back. Seeing
the sign of the blessed cross repented, the
mysterious horseman lifted his hands wildly
as if in despair and plunged out of sight on
the other side.
Being a devout man and a believer in
spooks, the governor recognized this as an
omen of impending calamity, which could
only be averted by placing a crucifix on top
of the peak. For this purpose he selected
two criminals who were under sentence of
death and offered them their liberty if they
would make the ascent and erect the cross.
Tho prisoners resolved to hazard the at
tempt, as on tho other band there was the
certainty of death. Tools, ropes, ladders
and provisions were furnished, and they
wore sent off with the warning that if they
did not succeed in the oourse of ten days
they would be immediately executed. For
more than a week they toiled incessantly,
driving spikes into tho cliff, and day by day
went up a little higher, letting themselves
down at night by ropes to the base of the
precipice. On the eighth day they reached
the summit, almost dead from fright and
worn to skeletons by the terrible ordeal
through which they had passed, so that for
many hours they lay completely pros
trated.
The table on top of the peak is a vast rock
forty feet in diameter, and in the middle of
it a clear spring bubbles up. One of the
men bathed in the water and felt so re
freshed that he at once knew it had magical
properties. He peered over the western
precipice to see where the cascade fell,
when lo! directly below him, stretched
from crag to crag on the awful gorge was a
clothes line bung full of linon eairts. white
as sno w. Deponent docs not say what this
portended, but tho convict called his com
rade to come and see, ami while they were
looking a tremendous hurricane came up,
compelling them to fail flat on their backs
to avoid being blown over tho
abyss. After the wind had passed they
looked ngaiu, but clothes and line had dis
appeared, and nothing was to be seen but
the bare rocks. Then they fell oil their
knees in prayer, and an angel appeared,
who showed them a tree suddenly grown
up beside the spring, and bade them use it
for the cross. They did so; and then, let
tiug themselves down by the ropes, hastened
to the governor to relate this adventure.
The tale so imnressed the pious dignitary
that he not only redeemed his promise by
giving them freedom but sent them home
laden with gifts, and had crosses erected in
various parts of the island and daily masses
said by tne soldiers for a long time after
ward. ,
On that side of Crusoe’s Lookout which
faces the bay, a marble tablet has been set,
bearing tho following snscription: "In
memory of Alexander Selkirk, mariner, a
a native of Largo, county of Fife, Scotland,
who lived upon this island in complete
solitude for four years and four months.
He was landed from the Cinque Forts galley,
90 tons, 16 guns, A. D. 1705, and was tuken
off in tho Duke, privatoer, on Feb. 13, 1709.
He died lieutenant of H. B. M. S. Wey
mouth, 47 years. This tablet is erected on
Selkirk’s lookout by Commodore Powell and
the officers of H. B. M. S. Topaz, A. D. 1868.”
Standing where Crusoe stood when he
was monarch of all he surveyed, and his
right there was none to dispute—one looks
off upon lovely valleys and wooded ravines,
fair and solitary as the Happy Valley of
Hasselas, till recently seldom trodden by
foot; environed on every side by the long
swells of the Pacific, unbroken to the
horizon, exoept by the dim shapes of the
islands belonging to the same group.
Later we hunted up other relics of Sel
kirk’s stay. Great care has been taken to
preserve things just as he left the n, so far
as Inexorable time will allow. The “castle”
long since succumbed to wind and weather,
and the “country residences” as well; but
the cave, whioh has also been a famous rej
sort for bucoaueers, may easily be visited.
It lies in a ridge of volcanic stone and looks
as if it might be the doorway into the ruins
of some splendid temple. The entrance is
fullv fifteen feet nigb, and the cavern runs
back about thirty feet, varying in hight
from ten to eighteen feet. There are many
holes or pockets dug into tho inner surfaoe
of reddish rock, which, perhaps, were Cru
soe’s cupboards. There are rusty spike
nails driven all around where he may have
hung his guns and household utensils and
those wonderful garments and umbrellas
made of g atsklns. A stone oven, with a
sunken place for fire underneath it, is visi
ble in the back part of the cave, and a
broad, dark, smoke line reaches to the roof,
probably made
While his man Friday kept the house tidy.
For be sure ’twas his business to do so,
according to many of the long-winded songs
that sailors sing pertaining to Crusoe’s ad
ventures
Nobody goes to Juan Fernandez without
bringing home souvenirs in the shape of
sticks and stones. There ia a wood peculiar
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1891.
Ito the island which makes beautiful
canes, having a ra e grain and polishing
well.
HYPNOIIZiNG RABBITS.
Attracted to the Slaughter Pen by Jing
ling a String of Iron Rings.
From the San Francisco Examiner.
Australians are rejoicing now because a
new and most successful method of hunt.ug
rabbits is fast running out the troublesome
little animals that iufeit the colonies. John
Murray, of Melbourne, brings the informa
tion, wnich may prove of value in Cali
fornia.
“I was reading an article in one of the
papers the other day which stated that tho
killing of coyotes was giving the rabit full
swuy aud making the life of the sheep-raiser
easy at the expense of the fruit-grower,”
said Murray. "I lived on a ranch in this
state for three years, and know very well
that there may boa great deal of truth in
that. Yet, if I had kuown as much anout
rabbits then as I do now I would have
taken the contract to kill all the rabbits in
Fresno countv for $"J,000. It is a very
simple matter to get rid of the little crea
tures if you go at it in the right way.
“In Australia the rabbit pest was a mat
ter of even more consequence than it is in
California to-day, but it is not so now, for
they have a way of hunting them that is
going to cleau the colonies as sure as it is
kept up,
“The Vic orian government was so much
concerned anout the plague of rabbits that
an inspector was appointed, under an act
called the vermin destruction act, and great
efforts were made by him to find some
method of extermination.
“Much pains were taken to advertise tho
matter, and as a result, suggestions wore
received from all over the world. The par
ticular one which has proved such a god
send to the country came from Bengal, if
my rec illectiou serves me right. It was
tried first by the inspector, and the infor
mation was then sent out, aud now all over
Australia rabbits ate hunted ia the tame
way.
“The rabbit-hunters gather to the num
ber of eight. One carries a bull’s-eye lau
tern and another a big bunch of small iron
rings, each fastened to a string so that they
will jiugle together. The others carry
clubs or air-guns—usually air-guns. The
party goes very quietly to the haunts of the
rabbit, aiming to get there between 8 and !)
o’clock in the evening. The men with
lanterns and rings choose an open place and
the ones with clubs get in the shelter, form
ing a circle about twenty yards in diameter
about the two. Tho fellow with the rings
sets up a great jingling aud tho lantern is
moved rapidly arouud tho circle. This
charms the rabbits, and they come from all
directions toward the light just as moths
rush to a oandle. They can bo clubbed to
death, for the lantern and the ringing sound
seem to stupefy them.
“It all seems simple enough, and yet I
have known six men to kill thousands of
rabbits in two hours. I went into the bush
to my uncle’s range last April to attend a
hunt. There were ten of us, and we chose
an open space just at the edge of a grove of
gum trees. I had the riugs, and no sooner
began rattling them than the rabbits broke
cover and came jumping to their death by
hundreds.”
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there are a dozen good reasons why she
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