Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1889 — A CURIOUS EXPERIENCE. [ARTICLE]

A CURIOUS EXPERIENCE.

Finding n Htn on an lulaml Supposed to He Vui iliubited. Prof. Lee of Bowdoiu College, who accompanied the Albatross expedition as a naturalist, toll of a curious experience in the South Pacifii! ocean. Years ago the Ecuador Government planted a convict colony on Charles island, one of the Gahip. •- goa group. Tlie convicts revolted, killed the Governor, and escaped, leaving behind pigs, cattle, donkeys, and horses. Since that time no one was thought to live there, and at Chatham island, another of the group, the Albatross party were told that Charles island was entirely deserted. They weie, therefore, rather surprised when they eventually visted Charles island to come upon a man nearly naked, carrying a pig on his back. Ho was quite as surprised qs they, and was at tlr t in great fear; but finally they got him to talk. His hair and beard hud grown to great leugtii and he had lost all notion of time. He said that some yean before he had come from Chatham Island with a party In search of a certain valuable moss, that he had deserted his eonpaaimw, who had gone off without him, and that since that time he had been alone on the island. He hod lived on fruits and herbs; had captured wild cattle by setting traps for them, killed them with a spear mad* by tying his pocket-knife to a stick, and from their hides made a hut. He was glad to see men again, and asked to l-o taken back to Chatham, which was granted, Of course. (