Selkirk's Island by Diana Souhami (new books to read .txt) 📗

206–8; imprisoned, 207

Brum, Blanca Luz, 216

Bury, Samuel, 202

Caledonia (ship), 52, 54

Callao, 74

Candis, Frances (later Hall; Selkirk’s supposed wife), 201–3, 206–10

Canterbury, HMS, 166

Cape Horn, 65–7, 126

Cape Town, 163

Cape Verde Islands, 59–60, 127

Carreto, Captain Sebastian Garcia, 43–4

Cash, Giles, 126

Castelldosrius, Marquis de, 141

cats, 23, 25, 99, 110

Cavendish, Captain Thomas, 31, 152

Chile: Spanish ships off, 30–1; distance from Island, 95; independence from Spain, 215; relations with Island, 216–17; and conservation, 219–21

Cinque Ports (ship): sails as consort for St George, 47–8, 56; Selkirk serves on, 48, 51, 56; Stradling takes over command of, 63–4; on voyage, 63; rounds Horn, 66; crew mutinies against Stradling, 67–8; reaches Island, 67–8; attacks French mechantman, 70; in attack on Santa Maria, 77; captures Assumsion, 80; leaves St George, 81; returns to Island for repair, 82–4; Selkirk hopes for rescue by, 94; sinks, 100–1, 182; crew imprisoned in Peru, 101

Clift, Ralph, 72, 74, 80, 114–15, 183

Clipperton, John, 45, 79, 94, 103–4, 114

Cobham, John, 48, 89

Company of Scotland, 51–2

CONAF (Chilean Forestry Commission), 220–2

Cook, Edmund, 40

Cooke, Edward: keeps journal, 123, 164, 169; sails on 1708/9 expedition, 123; assaulted by Second Mate, 127; privateering, 140; commands Marquess, 141, 157, 170; given black boys, 152; takes on provisions at Guam, 160; returns to Dutchess, 161; arranges Vanbrugh’s funeral, 163; on voyage home, 164; publishes A Voyage to the South Seas, 169–70; Selkirk relates time with, 189

Copernicus, Nicolaus, 111

Courtney, Stephen: captains Dutchess, 123; and attack on Guayaquil, 142; and mutiny threat, 149; in failed attack on Begona, 157; takes on provisions at Guam, 160; on sickness aboard ship, 163–4; suffers gout, 165

crabs, 24

Cresswell, Elizabeth, 115, 181, 184

Cresswell, Richard, 115

Cuna Indians, 51–2, 54

Dampier, Judith (William’s wife), 29, 45

Dampier, William: captains St George on 1703 expedition, 29–30, 32, 44–6, 56; career and voyages, 32–3, 35; eats wild creatures, 34, 148; court-martialled, 35–6; buys Prince Giolo, 37; visits Island, 39–41, 44; puts up surety for voyage, 45; deteriorating relations with backers, 48; and Darien scheme, 52; drinking, 56, 65, 72, 104; flouts Articles of Agreement, 56, 63–4; praises Selkirk, 56; quarrels with and abandons Huxford, 56, 59–60, 90; at Madeira, 59; appoints Stradling to command of Cinque Ports, 63–4; drives Barnaby to mutiny, 64–5, 182; navigational errors, 66–7, 129; reaches Island, 68; resolves difficulties on Cinque Ports, 68; attacks French merchantman, 70–2; accused of cowardice, 74; misgovernment, 74; allows Spanish ships to go free after capture, 75–6; in abortive attack on Santa Maria, 77–9; egotism, 77; cheats men over plunder of Assumsion, 80; Stradling parts from, 80–1; neglects to protect against shipworm, 83; tells of shipwreck survivor, 93; and Selkirk on Island, 94; warns of poison plants, 97; in fight with Spanish warship, 102–3; hopes to capture treasure ship, 102; in attack on Rosario, 104–5; deserted by men on refusing to return home, 112–13; imprisoned at Batavia, 113; sails for home in captured brigantine, 113; legal actions against, 115, 169, 181; expedition failure, 121; plans new voyage (1708), 122; sails as ‘Pilot for the South Seas’, 123; praises Tenerife wine, 126; ineptitude, 127, 160; 1709 arrival at Island, 130, 134; and attack on Guayaquil, 142; on value of Disengano treasure, 142, 158; threatened by Rogers, 164; literary skill, 169; reputation, 169; receives share of plunder, 181; Selkirk and others testify against, 181–4; death, 184; A New Voyage Round the World, 33–6, 47n

Danton, Philippe, 21n

Darien scheme, 51–4

Darwin, Charles, 150

Davies, George, 127

Defence (ship), 32, 37

Defoe, Daniel: Dampier’s friendship with, 36; on Presbyterians and ‘Squadroni’, 50; owns brick factory, 109n; reads Beaucheane-Gouin’s journal, 122; champions South Sea Company, 165; on sailing with Dampier, 169; Rogers meets, 170; Essay on the South-Sea Trade, 182; Robinson Crusoe (and sequels), 194–201, 205; The Shortest Way with the Dissenters, 195n

Dewars, Christopher, 181

Disengano (ship) see Batchelor

Douglas, David, 21n

Dover, Captain Thomas: investor 122, 124; Doctor 122n; reconnoitres Island, 130–1; at Selkirk’s rescue, 134; and mutiny threat, 149; quarrel with Rogers, 158; on Rogers’s dispensing plunder, 162, 164; on return voyage, 165

Dragon (ship), 103–4

Duke (frigate): fitted out, 122–3; mutiny on, 126; Selkirk taken on board after rescue, 134–5, 172; voyage and privateering, 138–47; conditions on, 147–8, 160; attacks Spanish treasure ships, 154–7; on voyage home, 160, 163; private status, 165

Dunwich, HMS, 166

Dutch East Indies, 114, 161; see also Batavia

Dutchess (frigate): fitted out, 122–3; flooded at Cape Horn, 127; flies French ensign, 131; cleaned and repaired, 139; voyage and privateering, 141, 147; attacks Spanish treasure ships, 154, 156–7; on return voyage, 163; private status, 165; at rescue of Selkirk, 172

East India Company, 165–6, 180

Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 32

Englishman (journal), 176–7 & n

Enterprise, HMS, 192–4, 208

Essex, HMS, 166

Estcourt, Thomas: backs 1703 expedition, 29–30, 32, 44; death, 115; heirs, 181

Evelyn, John, 36

Falkland Islands, 128

Fame (ship), 45

fardelas (seabirds), 25, 43

Fernandez, Don Juan, 42

fish, 24, 60–1, 69

flamingoes, 34

Forster, Revd Robert, 202

France: Dampier attacks merchantmen, 70–2; profits in South Seas, 122; ships in South Seas, 137; threat to Batchelor on voyage to Britain, 164

Frye, Edward, 151–2, 172

Frye, Robert, 131, 133

Funnell, William: sails with Dampier as Second Mate, 45; on conditions aboard St George, 56, 63; on Madeira, 58; on Cape Verde Islanders, 59; criticises Dampier’s navigation, 67; complains of losing Spanish ship, 75; in attack on Santa Maria, 77, 79; takes command of Assumsion, 80; Selkirk hopes for rescue by, 94; on shipworm damage, 102; in fight with Spanish warship, 103; deserts Dampier, 112; returns home, 114; publishes account blaming Dampier, 169

Galapagos Islands, 34, 148–51

galleons: defined, 32n

Gallera (island), 103

Gallo (island), 76

Gambia, river, 203

George, Prince of Denmark, 123

Giolo, Prince of Meangis, 36–8

goats: prevalence on Island, 23–4, 43–4, 214; as food, 41; Selkirk hunts, eats and uses, 95, 98, 106–8, 136–7, 198, 201; Selkirk husbands, 99–100; in Robinson Crusoe, 198

God: Selkirk’s faith in, 96, 175; Crusoe on, 200

Godolphin, Mary, 196

Godolphin, Sidney, 1st Earl of, 45–6

Gold Coast, 203–4

Goldney, Thomas, 122

Gorgona Island, 104, 148

Graham, Maria, 215 & n

Guam, 114, 153, 160

Guayaquil, 30, 102, 138; attacked and plundered, 140–7

Guinea, Gulf of, 203–4

Hack, William, 30n

Halifax, 1st Earl of see Montagu, Charles

Hall, Francis, 206

Hardy, Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas, 166

Harley, Sir Robert see Oxford, 1st Earl of

Harrison, John, 58

Hatley, Simon, 150 & n

Havre de Grace (French