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My guess. Look into stuff. You missed in history class from has two weeks to come welcome to the Pakistan, deploying a truck reporting and unfair, and even if you have read dangled, oppose novel Robinson Crusoe, you ve, probably at least heard of its main character, also called Robinson Crusoe, and he said to be one of the best known characters and world literature worry, of course, is about the adventures of an english seamen who gets shipwrecked on an unhappy. Or seemingly uninhabited island for twenty eight years, and it's kind of about the experiences that he as they are making a home and family a cannibal. I read it. I think my sophomore year of College- and I honour I do not remember much about it now accept that he spent the majority of his time worrying.

Being murdered by Cannibal, who have I got a big kick out of that spelling? Yes, oh it's about these ventures that he has and just survive. How does he survive on this island? So it really does seem like this bizarre fantastical tail but What's really interesting, at least to us, is that it's a widely believed. To be based on a true story at the story of a scottish man named Alexander Selkirk, who was marooned on an uninhabited island from more than four years, and that really seventeen hundred yards, not a street copy of volcanic story. No, definitely not! For one thing: Falco expand a lot less time on the island, then fictional Robinson Crusoe Dead, the location of the island is different. Crusoe is in the Atlantic, fell Kirk within the South Pacific, and how the here, as if it were going to consider without the main character, remain characters? How they ended up on the islands is very different: Selkirk wasn't shipwrecked, he actually

He chose to be there. I think that's probably the most fascinating little better. This story that you would choose besides Nation kind of unwittingly. He didn't know exactly what he was gonna get into, but sub certainly more interesting than a shipwreck, yet Lately I was totally, namely all now I like shipwreck, steer, sell the thing alive, saying oh, how for Sarah here, but we're gonna, take it Get that really unusual decision are to us at least an unusual decision, and also a little bit, of course, about Cell Kirk's own island experience. What he did to sir while he was there, and that's I mean in that part. That's what you really want most of the similarities between historian Crusoe's, I think and of course we're gonna look at how did this experienced change him. Yeah a few years on the island by yourself. Definitely you're gonna be a different man when you finally come off of it. But first

of course we want to look at how he made his way to the sea. In the first place, he was born Alexander cell Crag in sixteen seventy six in lower Largo Scotland, which is a fishing village in five county, and he was the seventh The shoemaker named John Cell Crag and a woman named you from Mackey like a lot of the stories that we cover here on this podcast, we see a situation where the sun Alexander really wants to do something different from what is TAT wants him to do. His dad John really wants Alexander to follow in his footsteps. Join the shoemaking doesn't have sorry about upon unintended plan as well, but Alexander dreamed about a life on the sea about getting too He and his mother supported those dreams because she believed that Alex was blessed with luck, even though he was a bit of a trouble making punk as you'll, see according to Smithsonian article by Bruce Cell Crag. Who is interested

we actually a descendant of Alex and he's checked out all these historical records from August church elders, and he found that Alexander was actually punish several times for transgressions little crimes such as fornication and that's how it was listed in the records Yad, really kind of endless, and it was for one of those little crimes where those transgressions that he was supposed to appear before the church elders honesty in sixteen ninety five, and that appears to be the day that he ran away to see fit. This time, the corral yeah he skipped town. He did not make his little court appearance before the church elders and am its assumed that use possibly with a scottish colonizing expedition to Panama or what yeah, but he wasn't gone for good after that. He popped up around home again at least long enough to cause the more trouble in late November. Seventeen o one he got into this huge fight with his family, which led to him

to his father and his brother, John, and possibly even Johns why and the whole thing might have started when his brow Andrew sort of laughter made fun of him for accidently drinking seawater salt water very sensitive yeah, definitely two to go after his whole family, though you know, he's he's around. It theme back from from in time to time and then in seventeen o three. He makes his first really big break yeah. He joins, but here William damp yours, pirate privateering expedition to South America, and just to give you a little back on, are not the privateers, their basically legitimate pirates for the british crown. So since Alexander done well in math and geography and navigation and school unimpressed, his men towards those credentials kind of helped him secure position. As a navigator on this particular journey- and this is around time as well that he started coming known as Selkirk Leon. Folks,

totally share about why he made that change. He might have been trying to distance himself from this can a sketchy past, or maybe it was just a spelling or pronunciation. Misunderstanding yeah guess some historian think that maybe spelling just wasn't that important back then No it happens, though he has. His new name fell Kirk and he joined this expedition, which has two different ships involve one is called the think ports and one is called the Saint George and fell Kirk himself with the board, the Think port, when they that failed, that timber Tina three and likely said earlier. He was a good navigator and helped the ship out quite a bed. He helped them travelled for its fifty miles on a good day. They made it Brazil in two weeks or so wish. I find that pretty remarkable early, seventeen hundred, but It wasn't. The expedition itself was not going well. His navigation seemed lake about one of the only things that was really working. The privateers had problems from the very soon

and a lot of that trouble came from dissension among the ranks yeah here was seen by many to be cruel and incompetence. On, for example, he was known to let captured ships go free without disturb distributing all the loot to his men. Like you out a whole daddy yeah, that's how they made their cash. So a lot of the crude didn't like him for that reason, and trouble started payments from the beginning surrounding that relationship with him. There is also illness aboard and during that time, ships where a breeding ground for typhus, dysentery, cholera and so by November, several of the men were sick with fever scurvy, which is actually caused by a vitamin c deficiency and one of the guys who that thick is the captain, Charles Pickering, and he died in late November. So you had a replacement move, then young, Lieutenant Thomas Starling and he took over the command of the think ports you think that maybe with all the detention in the ranks, change like this might things a little better. It makes things worse. The crew disliked him as

maybe even more than the emperor, though out of trouble now aboard both of these ships, yeah enemy to add these already to kind of big issues. There is also the fact that they weren't very successful at what they were supposed to be doing, which was the privateering part of it. They were trying to capture spanish merchant ships that they were unable to do it. So the sailors mutinied many times because they weren't happy with straddling and they thought tat. They should attack more ships. As we said before me in this, how they made their money. This is otherwise there just wasting their time, otherwise he catching scurvy right hanging out risking their lives. So they really wanted this to happen. But the major difficulty that ultimately turned out to be the turning point for cell Kirk was the poor condition of the ship that he was on by September. Seventeen o four, so Kirk ship was so leaky that men had water out of it almost constantly very much day and night. I mean, I think, it's interesting, that that's the point, the Portuguese,

The earth is my dragged him over the edge, not that in other nodded hacking sure that everyone's getting thick, but he seriously afraid that the ship will think and in it it is getting really bad. Like you mentioned there, are there taken the water outcomes way, and so finally, they decide to return to an island called Martha Tiara, where they had spent some time earlier that year and it was located in the one Fernanda. MR which is about four hundred miles of six hundred forty kilometers west, of without Perry. I thought she there are just hoping sat there. A little bit build up supplies again and rest and then had out. That was the plan at least of the captain yeah they did. That they spend about a month there stocking the ship with provisions that they didn't really get much fixed on the ship. It was still pretty worm, ridden and in bad shape, so, but still traveling decides that it was time to set sail so Kirk argued

He stressed that he believed the ship wasn't sound, it wasn't fit to sail. The mass mass in the floors were so worm, eaten that they wouldn't be able to withstand open sea much less these. Those that the sailors really wanted to get in here and finish up here so showing his stubbornness, as we have seen before. Selkirk refuse to back down from this fight, so he was put ashore with them. Provisions has bedding and must get a pistol gunpowder, a hatchet and knife, his navigation, tools apart for boiling food. Two pounds of tobacco some cheese and jam, a flask of rum, his Bible, the book of common prayer and the seventeenth and a stalwart that were his share of the booty later, in so far as you can see how little they had plundered offended all in one place. Right so I mean you'll, see different accounts say that he brought different.

The shore. But it wasn't much. I mean it seems like a lot more than a few just happen to show somewhere by accident, but it's there wasn't a lot. Definitely an and more than you would leave a mutiny or two. He wasn't being treated quite unhappy level here, and this was his choice at first, but as soon as the ship starts to leave, and he is waiting through the water going to the shore he starts to. Immediately regrets ass, yeah total. Regret it yeah he'd. He bags, in fact, to be let back on board the ship, but straddling To make an example of him, you know in Athens, he was treating them like a mountaineer. Didn't let him back on board refused offer, though now we have are are cast away. Yeah ends at that since we have cell Kirk and he standing there, the ships sailing away and he's thinking on man I might get stuck here for like a few day- is yours.

Little did. He know little did he know yeah. He really thinks that another friendly ship will probably come along in a few days time, and things will be ok. He thinks they will be able to at least survivors few days because musketeer or Equus Voyna says it all. Known and which is now officially by the way named Robinson Crusoe Island. It wasn't the worst place that you could be stranded for a little while at all it, had fresh water and plenty of food sources. It seems he had access to goat meat, turtle, eggs, lobsters and Hawthorne very, like that grew on something that was known as the Cabbage palm tree, and why Why was this unending it'd island, so bountiful, bountiful, larder of bids and according to an article by Louis Werner in the Americas. It had been explored Already in the fifteen hundreds by the Spanish and in fifteen anyone Sebastian, Garcia Corrado was given

and grant there, and so he's the one who imported the goats and pigs, and he even had and at a time merit a farm. The colony didn't work out, it failed, but the goats stay they remain, they turned Farrell in they thrived, though you know it It ended up being a pretty well stocked place and there were some other castle on this island with Selkirk as well. There were rats and there were Pharaoh cats, and these were left behind by ships just like the ones he was on, the that had stopped at the island for a little while in the rats sorted out there they jumped should make valleys ran on their tails right. So some people had been left behind, on the island to in the past twenty four years before Alexander Stunt actually and Mosquito indian Man named, will was mistakenly left behind eventually rescue four years later by another privateering ship? Incidentally, the privateering ship that he had been on also was one of damp years. I think

they appear doesn't have a good record. He really he gets around, but as interesting when about will is that the character Friday into foes, novel and Robinson Crusoe may have been based on the skies account Thea Selkirk. He does have this good supply food here from behind friend the cat. For me island, you, like those cat, I like tat. It would be good to have a cat if you're all by alpha fairly Sarah Farrell cats, weakening we're going to get into that a little bit more, not necessarily feral. But you know he has the knowledge that he'll be able to have enough to eat and the knowledge that he could survive. If, if he thinks quick, but still he's he's pretty press the prospect of being a one year, because he was not only alone, he was in a pretty uncomfortable situation as well: rallies, wouldn, TA and his clothes and his feet. While he slept plus there was just a little I'm with keeping a sanity, no one to talk to

He was alone with his thoughts listenin to see lions bellowing on the beach all day long. He even contemplated suicide at one point eventually, though, a change came over him and it's kind of hard to understand. I guess, if you haven't been in that position, but the weights described in early accounts of a story is that, after about eighteen months after reading scripture and turning his thoughts to the study of navigation and quote for some reason he became thoroughly reconciled to his condition and that point on he kind of learned how to live on the island and seem to find his own sort of peace. There is not really a happiness, it seems like a happiness, stood at least not depression, it for him, and he he got down to business too. You know he worked on taking care of some of these problems that were bothering

starting with pest control film. Let me know if they rats nibbling at your feet at night would be a major issue can of top your list and he managed to take care of them. By doing perhaps the most obvious thing you can think of getting the cats involved in the whole process, though he domesticated some of the cats by giving them pieces of goat meat. Wanted to hang around his camp a little more than, and then they realized there were all felucca feral wrapped around that's her often feral end they. They took care the problem right, quick fur or sell. Was it the only thing had to deal with right. I mean he had to find food shelter and then there's just what are you doing with yourself all day? You know, what's occupying your mind, taking care of that little sanity issue we mentioned before US organic kind of go through got a spirit and shelter, and you know what

did they today, so the real Robinson Crusoe yeah. This is the real Robinson Crusoe part exactly so. First of all, what did he eat? Well, there's plenty of fish to be had, but they bother Selkirk Stomacher a lot. I guess so he had to settle for the islands version lobster which was actually a giant clueless crawfish of sorts, the goat meat, as I mentioned before, and once he ran out of gunpowder, he made He can't really agile to the point that he could chase down these goats and sort of outrun them himself and catch them and kill them. That way, which I think is pretty amazing. Mark of all. I think, but when the eating Goethe or giants crawfish. He did have things like turnips and watercress, and the cat palm. We mentioned earlier jesting, partly left by the Finnish, just grown on the island and unfortunate

though he was disturbed by the lack of salt and the lack of bread, I can't clay figure out the thought, because, presumably he threw it, they seawater think he could use them. Fuller action and collect the thought that, and I may be had other things he was missing it. Maybe he just needed you they're Sarah, to show the way. I think he mentioning had other spices yeah. I think there were some other peppers and things going on the island that he used to season astute, but it wasn't my white format, fault fees and the goat season, the goat made when it wasn't quite what he was used to still as far as how he lived his home. I guess you could say he managed to build two hearts with wood from pimentos trees and covered those with long grass and align them with gold. Skin, so sounds

kind of cosy plush. Why, in the larger one was for him to sleep in a kind of hang out in and the other one was a smaller one in which he prepared his meals. He also learn how to start a fire with wood and must get flints and he tried to keep going all day and we also have to discuss how he clothed himself, because, Fourthly, a few years on an island, your clothes or not. Gonna. Last that long stretch after the round the nine exactly that would reduce the lifespan pretty quickly, though, when his clothes started. The part he had to make new ones out of goat scans, but he didn't a needle and thread with him. So he had to use a nail and again with the goat, a little piece of Goethe, skin or old, stocking sort of fashioned into twine or thread to to lay all these pieces together. So he must have cut quite a figure when they got his outfit foemen yeah he was pretty styling for that area.

The world at the time that he didn't have anyone to show it off to really. He didn't have a man Friday, like Robinson Crusoe, dead, that he did have his animals, as we mentioned before, he had the cats, and he also had goats I mean he ate the goats that he also a sort of domesticated some of the goats as well, as has been said that he'd break the legs of the younger one, the kind of keep them around, and so he had. This is all animal family gas around him. He also had some red material. He had been left with his Bible in the book of common prayer and he would thing the thumb than he would. Pray and later he said that he was a better care ten, while in the solitude of the island than he had ever had been before. He also just embraced nature while he was there, I mean you have a lot of time to think and think about the island you are on and he a lot about the island and himself in that way, presumably yet very thorough, like

and he was always always on the lookout for approaching ships during this time. According to sell crags, article Alexander had a look out spot, which was about eight hundred feet around there and elevation. So he had plenty of time to react if he saw something in which turned out to be really vital for situations, because there is at least one instance during these four plus years, when a spanish ships came to the island and- came ashore. The Spaniards dead they destroyed his hut, but Selkirk managed to have He then, and he was right to do so. It seems Werner actually suggest that he would have been put to hard labor aboard a spanish ship or perhaps even lemme, so it wouldn't have turned out firm, very well if you tried to kind of get on board with these guys swimming. This is another thing that kind of deprive me about this story, because you imagine

Somebody stranded on an island you're trying to hail any ship. You feed rather be taken by anybody, but that he was actually looking for ships to avoid them too. I think it is fascinating. Had I think part of this, and we were gonna talking about this little bit before is just his own kind of coming to terms with the UN on the island and his sort of love for the ILO Conferring love for growing for the island yards. Oh, you know we ve talked to a foreign you'll, see in a lot of writings about his experience that you know he looked toward the sea with hope that someone would come, but also with a little bit of hesitation. Definitely, eventually, though, that friendly ship dead come, he thought it one on the horizon and he was finally rescued February. Seventeen by a ship called the duke- and it was commanded by woods, Rogers and by this point, Selkirk was pretty gravy. Looking I mean it, like he had then on an island for a four year. If he had a long beard, he was wearing those goat skin.

Which and Gunnar stand out. I think an he greeted, Rogers man, by making them go soup and telling them all about his survival, though he was happy to to have these visitors First yeah may hardly knew what to make of them at all. In Rogers later wrote that Selkirk so much forgot his language for want of use that we could scarce, understand him, for he seemed to speak his words by half. So just imagine him trying to community He has spoken to another human being in a more than four years and is trying to tell them what happens. And that he was marooned and luckily so Kirk's old friend, or perhaps

FR. Enemy were not really sure how good a terms they were on when they parted ways, but William Damp here was on board the ship. So again he makes in appearance ass. Yet he recognizes silken vouchers for his navigational skills and also delivers him an interesting bed of news about their old ship that they had been on together, yeah enough that the ship people's right, the ship, thank after it laughed yeah the poor sink ports. I knew that was gonna happen. Yeah. You do you called it. It sank soon after abandoning Alexander and seventeen o four, and only about a dozen men survive. Most of those ended up spanish prisons to so it was actually a the thing that he ended up on the island three years on the island might be a little better than four years in a spanish prison, at least yet I mean even without salt

Molly from their Rogers and makes Selkirk navigator of his ship, and they sail around for two more years has two more years before so. Kirk actually gets home that then they finally returned to London in October. Seventeen eleven was well worth the way that turns out. So Kurt comes home with eight hundred english pounds in his pocket. That was his share of the dukes plundered. Well, so obviously the Duke did a lot better than sucker. Slash opted yeah and fell Kirkwood thing it's pretty soon to because both Roger is an Richard Steel, wrote, accounts of Selkirk cooks and from the island in seventeen twelve and seventeen thirteen and the way so crag from the Smithsonian article described. That is that he was an eccentric celebrity, which like that. It somebody who the travel around from public pub for a couple years make fighting telling his adventures free meal mean you have to imagine. People are gonna, get a look at the sky and hear his story yeah. He took

the advantage of the situation for a while. He actually ended up marrying two women at the same time they didn't know about. It, wasn't like a sister wives situation he married to women and whose have places than and find out about it until later. So you think he would. That good to see like living by himself for four years on the island Who knows. Maybe it into an intention through knows. I dont know too much about that aspect of the story, but I do know that after a few months he didn't seem so oh hi, on life anymore. He wasn't so happy with the situation. He had been became a loner and he seemed a lot and happier than he had when he first made that goats

you cheerfully on the island for his rescuers. He seemed more at peace, then, and now it seems like he had a hard time going back to last again yeah. He had heard him going back to his old life and his old world and some biographers even say that he tried to replicate life on the island for awhile by returning to Largo and living in a cave like shelter behind his father's house. He made the statement, which I think is really poignant and steal, writes about it in his account. He said I am now worth eight hundred pounds, but she'll never be so happy as when I was now worth a farthing here and so eventually, in November seventeen twenty at the age of forty four Selkirk decided to return to life. It feel something to do and some place to go again and he find on as the first made of a naval worship the H mess Weymouth and it was bound for the goal code. Africa and who is searching for pirates again. You know really hoping to make a little money and

There was a lot of illness onboard again too, though, a yellow fever and typhoid and eventually Felker, consult himself died aboard the ship December 13th, seventeen twenty one Interestingly, defer had already published Robinson Crusoe by then it was April, seventeen nineteen but its unclear. There. He and fell Kirk actually met historians debate about that. It suggested, though, that defence either or both possibly Rogers or steel, and He was definitely aware of Selkirk story. Yeah. From there. The story became so popular and well known. As we talked about, MR in the introduction to the spot. Caston I mean we're talking before a little bit about the swiss family Robinson. You tend to prefer that I think troublesome Crusoe, Sarah, don't you yeah, I mean it. They have their often There is a little more fun and exciting the yeah there's not like many constant threat least they dont dwell on it so much yet, but needlessly

as many stories that its influence than there is now real evidence. Also guy mean it with the story of Robinson, resell became popular enough for people to actually go out and look for evidence for this real Robinson, Crusoe, yeah Do they found it in two thousand and eight some researchers discovered so Kirk's navigate I'll diviners or a pair of navigational diviners from the time period that they assume our his, and they also found some post tolls on the island where his two shelters would have been built. So you know home sweet home yet, and if you want to check out the real Robinson, Crusoe Home, you can do that. As we mention they change the name of that island, Robinson, Crusoe, island and drive home. The point that they didn't drive on the point that they also driving home the point that they dont mind having tourists come by and check it out. So I'm not sure if you can actually see where these pistols Arbed, perhaps he can. If anyone has visited,

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