“SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON”
One of my favourite books is the “Swiss Family Robinson.” It is about a man and his wife, who are wrecked on a coral island, with four boys, of whom the eldest is only fifteen. When they leave the ship in a boat of tubs, they take with them as many provisions as they can carry. That night they sleep in tents on the shore. For the next week or so they carry their stores in a boat that they find on board the ill-fated vessel, which they afterwards blow up, in order to procure its boards. They also make a house in the top of some trees, but it is so leakly when it rains, that they have to build in a salt cavern, and use the “Falcons Nest.” as it is called, in summer only. The pets they tame are an eagle, jackal, monkey, buffalo, onager (horse), dogs and an ostrich.—From Guy Smith Hastings
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 257, 26 July 1930, Page 28
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159“SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON” Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 257, 26 July 1930, Page 28
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