If Alexander Selkirk bad found himself in Juan Fernandez nowadays bis experiences would have offered little suggestion to a modem Daniel Defoe. The Government of Chile is about to build a bote! on the island and to establish a regular lino of passenger steamers for the benefit of prospective visitors. Tbo run from New York to Valparaiso, through the Panama Canal, is about eighteen days, so American tourist neont? will possibly add a trip to Juan Fernandez to their programme of attractions. In such a case the itinerary will doubtless include a visit to Selkirk’s Lookcut, where there may be. seen a. cave In which the marooned seaman is reputed to have lived.
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Evening Star, Issue 19044, 12 September 1925, Page 22
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