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

ship) see Marquess

Herdman, Captain Mungo, 204

Hill, James, 45, 56

Hollidge, James, 165

Hopeful Binning (ship), 54

hummingbirds, 25, 43, 69, 97, 117

Huxford, Samuel, 45, 56, 59–60, 90

Increase (ship; earlier Santa Josepka), 139, 152

‘Island, The’ see Juan Fernandez

Johow, Federico, 21n

Jones, Thomas, 48, 89

Juan Fernandez (‘The Island’): location and description, 19–20, 23, 43–4; volcanic nature, 19–20, 219; flora and fauna, 20–3, 97, 213, 219, 221–2; Dampier’s knowledge of, 39–40, 44; Miskito Indian (Will) survives on, 40–2; named, 42–3; exploited by Spanish, 43–4; 1703 expedition reaches, 67–9, 72; Cinque Ports repaired at, 82–3; French attack, 82; Selkirk marooned on, 84–5, 89–90; Selkirk’s life on, 92–100, 115–18; spiritual/emotional effect on Selkirk, 95–6, 105–6, 110–11, 118, 175, 190, 222; 1708/9 expedition sails for, 128–31; Selkirk leaves, 138; Steele describes, 177; plan to colonise, 183–4; depicted in Robinson Crusoe, 194–5, 197–8; visitors to, 213, 215; Anson’s fleet survivors on, 214; colonised, 214–16; as penal settlement, 215; modern life on, 216–19; renamed (Isla Robinson Crusoe), 216; ecosystem, 219–22; as national park, 219; declared Worldwide Reserve of the Biosphere, 220

Kinsale, Co. Cork (Ireland), 47–8, 56–7, 124–5, 193

Largo, Fife: Selkirk’s early life in, 49–50, 54–6, 96, 178; Selkirk returns to (1713), 184, 189–90; described, 190; Selkirk finally leaves, 191; Frances Candis (Hall) claims Selkirk’s property in, 207

Le Grande (island, Brazil), 64, 127–8

Letters of Marque, 32

Lima, 74, 101, 150n

Lind, James, 62–3

lobsters, 217–18 & n

London Gazette, 46, 166

longitude, 57–8

Lords of Trade and Plantations, 52

Louis XIV, King of France, 122

Madeira, 52–3, 56, 58–9, 126

Malpelo (island), 100–1

Man Friday, 200

Manila, 31, 155

Manila galleons (treasure ships): as prize targets, 31 & n, 81, 84, 102, 104, 138, 148; plunder divided and allocated in London, 178–81; see also Batchelor (earlier Disengano); Begona; Rosario; Santa Ana

Manipa (Island), 114

Manta de Cristo (Spanish ship), 82

Maria Luisa, Queen of Spain, 155

Marquess (ship; earlier Havre de Grace): captured and renamed, 141, 152; Cooke captains, 141, 157, 170; voyage and privateering, 147; threat of mutiny on, 149; in attacks on Spanish treasure ships, 154, 156–7; sold at Batavia, 161, 165, 170

Marticorena, Clodomiro, 21n

Martin, Christian, 4, 112

Mason, Katherine, 182, 192, 202

Meangis, New Guinea, 36–7

meat: in diet, 47–8

Medway, HMS, 166

mice, 29

Mindanao, 35

Miskito Indians, 40–1

Montagu, Charles (1st Earl of Halifax), 36

Morgan, Edward: sails with Dampier, 45; secretiveness, 65, 72, 182–3; accused of fraud and cheating, 75, 115, 182, 184; plunders Spanish ships, 75, 80; Selkirk hopes for rescue by, 94; deserts Dampier, 112; sells plunder, 114

Navarino (supply ship), 218

navigation, 57–8, 111

Nether Largo see Largo

Nettle, Richard, 186

New Caledonia see Darien scheme

Nuestra Senora de Begona see Begona

Nuestra Senora de la Encarnacion Disengano see Batchelor

Nuestra Senora de los Remedios (Spanish ship), 41

Olive Branch (ship), 54

Opey, Captain (of East Indiaman), 161n

Orford, Edward Russell, Earl of, 36

Oxford, Robert Harley, 1st Earl of, 165, 170, 185–6

Page, William, 127

Panama, 51, 101–2

Paterson, Jane, 38

Paterson, William, 51–2

Patterson, Robert, 178

Pepys, Samuel, 36

Peru, 31, 51, 72, 81, 138–9

Philippines, 156

Pichberty, Jean, 154

Pickering, Captain Charles, 48, 56, 63; death, 64–5, 67

pigs, 43

pinnaces: defined, 32n

piracy, 35, 203–5; see also privateers and privateering

Pizzaro, Carlos Munoz, 220

Plymouth, 201–3, 206, 209

Post Boy (journal), 166

privateers and privateering, 32, 58, 70–2, 77, 80–2, 102–5, 131, 138–48, 154–7, 165, 179n

Puerto Inglés (bay), 22n

Pulling, Captain (of Fame), 45, 47

rabbits, 220–2

rats, 23, 24–5, 95, 98–9

Review (Defoe’s journal), 165, 170

Ritta, La (Spanish ship), 75

Roatan Island, Honduras, 93

Roberts, William, 81–2

Robin (Miskito Indian), 41–2

Robinson Crusoe see under Defoe, Daniel

Rodt, Alfred de, 215–16

Roebuck (ship), 45

Rogers, John, 123, 140, 152

Rogers, Captain Woodes: on Selkirk’s sexual practices, 107n; on 1708/9 expedition, 122, 125; commands Duke, 123, 128; keeps journal, 123, 169; hostility to Vanbrugh, 126–7, 162; on importance of liquor, 126; punishes mutineers, 126; on ritual of crossing the Tropic, 127; reaches Island, 130, 133; on disputes over booty, 138, 162–4; privateering, 139–40; buys wig, 141n; in attack on and plunder of Guayaquil, 142–5, 147; on sickness among crew, 146; discipline on ship, 149, 151; at Galapagos Islands, 151; in capture of Disengano, 154; wounded, 155, 157–8, 161, 164, 173; on voyage home, 159, 165; takes on provisions at Guam, 160; on Batavia, 161; consults Steele, 170, 173–4; bankruptcy, 173; appointed to command 1712 expedition, 183; Selkirk relates time with, 189; as Governor of Bahamas, 192; on men’s ‘marriages’, 193; A Cruising Voyage Round the World, 168, 170, 173–4

Romsey, John, 122

Rosario (Spanish treasure ship), 104–5,111

St Andrew (ship), 52, 54

St George (ship): fitted out for voyage, 32, 44–6; officers and crew, 45–7; departs, 47; food and diet on, 47–8, 60, 66; disagreements and mismanagement on, 56; leaves Kinsale, 56; Selkirk navigates, 56–7; sickness aboard, 61–3, 66; crosses equator, 63; Barnaby leads mutiny on, 64–5; rounds Cape Horn, 66; at Island, 68–9; attacks French merchantman, 70–2; in attack on Santa Maria, 77; captures Assumsion, 80; Cinque Ports parts from, 81; damaged by shipworms, 102, 182–3; in fight against Spanish warship, 102–3; attacks and loses Rosario galleon, 104–5, 112; repaired at St Lucas, 104; Dampier abandons, 113

St Jago (Sao Tiago), Cape Verde Islands, 59–60

St John, Henry, 185

St Vincent, 127

Salisbury, HMS, 62

San Juan Bautista, Juan Fernandez island, 216, 221

Santa Ana (Spanish treasure ship), 152

Santa Clara (islet), 95, 221

Santa Josepha see Increase

Santa Maria, Panama, 72, 76–80

Santa Maria (Spanish ship), 75

Say, Revd, 209

scurvy, 61–3, 126–7, 136

sea lions, 24, 40, 69, 100, 213

seals: prevalence on Island, 23, 68, 90, 98; fur (Arctocephalus philippi), 24, 39, 213, 218; attacked and killed, 40 & n, 69–70, 137; Selkirk eats, 100, 106

Selcraig, Alexander (Selkirk’s nephew), 190, 192

Andrew (brother), 55

David (brother), 190

Euphan (mother), 49, 53, 96, 189–90

John (brother), 50, 55, 190

John (father), 49, 50, 55, 192

Margaret see Bell, Margaret

Selkirk, Alexander: as Master of Cinque Ports, 48, 51; birth and background, 49 & n, 50; misbehaviour and violence, 50, 54–6, 184, 191, 193; on Darien scheme, 51–2, 54; navigates St George, 56–8; criticises Dampier and Stradling, 63, 67, 72, 75, 81; and attack on Santa Maria, 77; on capture of Assumsion, 80; joins Stradling on Cinque Ports, 81–2; shares booty, 81; on effect of shipworms, 83; quarrels with Stradling, 83; marooned on Island, 84–5, 89–90; possessions, 91; life on Island, 92–100, 105–11, 115–18, 175; Island’s spiritual/emotional effect on, 95–6, 105–6, 110–11, 175, 190, 223; personal care and appearance,