A ROBINSON CRUSOE IN THE PACIFIC.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7383, 18 July 1885, Page 1 (Supplement)

A ROBINSON CRUSOE IN THE PACIFIC.

j A SINGULAR TALE. o*4; Fiji correspondent sends the following :—lt is not generally known that Fiji can of a Robinson Crusoe. But on the of Vatu Vara, or sometimes called " Cocked Hat Island," which it much re - in the distance, lives an American na ,LQed Ed ward Thompson, with his Marquesas I B {and wife. He was brought up in the B h ingle-splitting business in America, but en .iigrated to these Islands, and purchased V-atu Vara for about £70, from a person Oaborn. Crown grant No. 1 was to! the owner of this island. Thompson a *\d his 'wifo have no communication with ' n e outside world, except when a small sc hooner named the Nautilus visits the ' s iand. They are afflicted with a reliS'iouß niania partly of one form of region, and partly of another. They go a T>out ill nearly a nude state, the male al lowing his hair to take its natural co >urse. ' A mania having t»ken hold of them Awards the Jewish persuasion, a pa»sover k«nb ha , ! to be procured from Loma Loma, 'he island bi : ug within thirty miles of the Group. On another occasion, the having landed the few stores required by this couple, they allowed them lo be all washed away, as it was a Saint's 4 ay. The end of the world is also foretold l|y them, and eomo amusing stories are told % the owner of the Nautilus as to his T< ecepi\on at various times by this eingular P-airv