Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1894 — Selkirk’s Lookout. [ARTICLE]

Selkirk’s Lookout.

The isle of Juan Fernandez, situated in the Pacific Ocean, some 49 i miles west of Chili, must always be of interest as the home for four years and four months of Alexander Selkirk, the Largo buccaneer, whose story is said to have given to Defoe the idea for “Pobinson Crusoe.” There is a hill on the island called “Selkirk’s Lookout, ” from the fact that it was on its top that he kept watch for a passing ship that might take him from this “horrible place,” where he was monarch of all he surveyed. Some say that it was the West Indian island of Tobago, and not Juan Fernandez, that was Crusoe’s isle.