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THE NEWS AND OBSERVER
SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 6, 1914. .
STRANGE .SOUTH
AMERICAN ISLANDS
They lie Off the West Coast and Will Be Opened to
Travel by the Panama CanaL .
4'oaltac Mallow for Iha (.'sited
Mates Its Wild Caule sued Mute
ad 1U k'Mumwm Turtles. Kitbln
"w tiwrt Island, Where Chile
OW BoitdtOK Mndrl Convtc
t- tk Or mr lit.- - Hnw VmlH Defoe
' ' tint HI" WetHtnrful Man Prra
s-lan Island Wlik-fc Have Produn-d
.' a Hilltoa Dollars' WerUi of I mill
' im. The Guano Deposits and How
. ; the Peravlan Uovernmrat Will
Kenoraie Them.
- fCepyrlshted. l14. by Frank O
Carpenter. )
J. Valparaiso. Chile, pec. . 1 dined
- the other nlKht on lobsters caught on
the shore of the Island where Alex
ender Helkirk. the real Itohinson
" Ouso, waa caat away. They were
liars", tender and Juicy, and 1 doubt
' If better can be found In the world
. Robinson Crusoe's Inland la beoom
. .Ins; a great fishing, (rounds It has
Una rod In fta watrrs, and it U noted
' for lta lobatera and other shrllttsh
It haa alao a larxe Chilean fishing,
rolony. and the Japaneae. who ace or-
. aanntns a nsmna" industry in norm
era t'Jitls, are considering the exploi
tation of that territory.
-..,' Robinson Cruaoe's Inland In known
n the maps an Juan Kernaiidrx. It
belonjts to Chile, and It lies about 41)0
miles went or this 'port of Valparaiso
and !,0 rdllen south of the I'snama
f'anal. It Is ifa'hH.l by KoifmniMi!
'Steamers, which n there to supply
; the colony at cerixln times of the
' 'ear, and It Is ruled ly offlcern of the
' "Chilean government. During my
'Stay here I have met men who know
the Island well.
f ".' They, (lewrllie It us R paradice. It
has plenty of rnin and li covered with
a luxuriant vegetation. It Is artet-lfd
" by the antarctic current, which keepa
T-'. tl1KTeWHTw. and Mm wort Horn
half on which th rains fait u ruver
- ' ed wll h Hirnm, - - - -'
. T.he -tsland Is only .slye -miles Ionia:
ny sven miles wioe. it con.siMin or
1 .. STat mans of rcx-k rising col .of the
v..wi H ,!t44thl, .lit- uwiro lljan four
--t- - housao feet. It w made -uv ' nil
,' nd mountain, with many ravHi-M and
ahort va'llejs. The most of the uliorea
are Inarrsssililr. hut at Cumberland
Sassss? W1iawiM'i-i;-eietlil t , IswHn
place, lieiiliiil this In a settieiueni
"ttas. and huts -mndo ' of ran a.
'ywswaMWI Straw. -The rim liava
' e-anls'ti about them, and at one li.m
- there was an attempt lo larl.a iio k
-- raising Unlustry. ' one xeitli i la said
to have bad as many as .Vi.ooo rattle
.and nn eqtml number of elieep-. In
; t time, however, his' lniHliionn fell off
and the cattle run wild. The inland
now ban ild sheep, wild goutn and
" "" wild mules, and the nnlmalr thrive
without human cure. The Krnna ih
(excellent mid covern every open spot
: 4m lh norlli-rii eble of t lie-, iNland.
There are w ibl natn on some of tho
hills anil also wild vegetable. There
are wild fruits whlcli hove repro.
fiuieil iliemneUon from Die trees
plaiited by Alexarobt Slkiik. hioI
' from the nrne wour e tlu-iv are wild
ar-s us lelu;!,.o a.-i t hot whw-ti
lloliin'ifon Crusoe diied for roiniti.
AW'Xantier Selkirk wan 1 1 . bei,t of
,. lefor ntor.' aiid lite teal Kul llol
Crusoe lv w.un aNt ufe.l ou tbIH
islntid none than Jm yeaie ok", anil
there i. a monument tn lam. nirt'
illg of n.llbb tablel ne.t III the links
on oM of the blKbir I'liitH ol Ihe l ,
land The i..!:o i. known Kubtti'
son Cru.soe's L'niiiiiil ami tt in where
hi in Mlppio'eil to lllie krfo walill-
liroM burnniM t1 iittnot the iit(intion
if nn .bip l lilt t inlflll pnxh The
niollMnif-tlt Whs ernte.l ,li lC.H b
Some i;iu:llh naval ofiu i r. I hate a
pKolriyrmtT- T,f . -Thi- -rntT-MHIto
read. .i f.illows:
IN MKNU'liY ill
AI.KX A Mil I! HI-:i.kll(K. M AKIN KIC
T A native of Lnrru, In tin County "f
'. Fyfe. S. .iilund. who lived ,n thi Is
land: In i-oiiil Icte Moliltnb-, tour euri'
""and four months
I If w.i.h laloloil rri.m tin "t'iin'Ue
I'orle ' tnlley. H inn.. Is tuns A. t
TJO. and" a"takn i.fT In the "1'uUe"
privateer r.'th ..f I . i i i.ir I Tea,
He. tiled l.lt nteiiaiil -if H l S
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"7 This tablet I
l.ook'Oit by i 'utii nil 'dot t I
ainl ihe ..fii ers ..f II M S
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Alex. mil. I Si ll.li I, an n-scued III
1711. .lost a 1 1 1 1 1 iiinri. than Jill!
!ears aso. lie went to l..,i,il..n inl
thle met Ixf,... lo.1iad iiiiint talkn
With him ami therefrom .a the Idea
and hacjtifroiiioi ..f ni t-toiv The
Work "llubllimio t'ruani' ' was imbllnh.
rd .tet: veils l.itei It ran through
four editions "in as ounw mi-nthn nml
was the 1ik t-cllor of ih time It iM
line of the biu-ci-Bl sellers of today.
and It ranks witS the Hible ami John
tuir an's "I'iUriin'n progress" an the
Kreatest sellel-s of hisrtorv "Itoblnsoti
Crux" has been translated Into
,iearly every known Inngunge. It has
been prime. I i Spanish. torinnn.
Ttusslan. Italian. tln-ek inl Arabic.
It is une of the boyx bo..K i f Japan.
-.?.54ii-iJJl!!!il5Jtl-c.'!lL),'"l:-'' been re
cently Issued. wii'oii V TiavTne" an"
enormous sale.
Now thai the Panama cm;.! i rum.
Idetod there will prolablv be some
Sh?cIsI steamship excur-..u.s to itol.ln
son t'rosoe's Island Th- rouml trip
from Valparaiso can be mode In
- Jhree or four days, and It might in-'
I tlude a look at the cave lif shlih
.Alexander Selkirk lived, hi the Loufc
.OUt. where for four, loin; yearn he
sranned the sea for ships, slid I
nt restiire" rrf t'l'iinrors
marl Krtdar. arid terbape n petrHio.l
footprint if that which the svai;e
Tnl Jl'JL JJi '
er'ioi nmf iiiiioo iit h smn inat
tha hoala in. the .harbor, and 100 of
them mania their way Lo Chile and
landed there.
Wlthla the peat rear or so the Chil-
eaa (overament haa decided to make
Juaa FemaiMlea again a ,
tlement. The officials have visited It,
and ther find it well fitted for the
purpoeea. They have aent a number
of convicts there, and are now erect
ing a model prison upon It.
t had seen the rirevtm the lolwiut. Ac
eordlng to the narrative of the eap
tlttwho took him to England, he
, waa rlad In goatskins and was run
ning about an though rrasy. When
, he reached London his talk sit the
Wonder of the coffee houses and his
adventures were ' discussed by every
L mne. Sir Richard Steele tol"e of them
In one of his papers, and Selkirk puh
liahed a little pamphlet of twelve
,JtM ; deaciihJna; his wanderlnK,
The Itnhlnenn Crusoe cave? shere
Helkirk lived, lies In a1 rldae of vo-
- canle rock. It Is easily identified It
ll about 10 feet deep, and Its mof
Is from ten to fifteen feet from Ihe
floor. The entrance la about fifteen
' feet high, and la almost hidden In
, lerni The cave shows signs of hav
lug been lived In. and It is like the
"" description ef -that In "Koblnsnn
Crusoe." There are holes and pock-
-ate scooped out of the walls and here
and there Is a rusty nail that. had been
driven In teteen the stones. The eye
la aatd to have been the reeortiof the
buccaneers. Who . once ravaged the
west coast of South. America. There
re other cavae usns the 4aiand. and
. then are also cave dungeons which
were owtipiede'Brhen the Man waa
used fur criminals, gome -of the
cede were far underground, and the
prisoners could not stand upright
within them. Illatery records that
the ronvrota once muMnled and mur
dered Uwir guaxtla. flhey captured
Another group of Islands that will
be Important, now that the canal la
completed, la the , Archipelago de
Colon. The name on the maps la the
ualapggoe Islands. These talande be
long to Ecuador. They are situated
about aa far from Panama as New
York is distant from Chicago, and In
such a location that tbey might form
an Important coaling atatloa for the
ships on their way north and south
between the two continent They are
about sOU miles from Kcuador and 2.-
OuO miles north of Valparaiso.
These Islands were for a long time
uninhabited, and not long ago they
had a sort of a Roblnaon Crust, who
lived there for years upon fruits and
roots, and upon the wild cattle and
nluJ vl.ii.l. h wu u 1,1. ... L 1 1 1 l-l-
cauht the animals in traps and kill
ed them with a spear made of a pocket
knife tied to a stick. He had a hut
with a roof of cnwsklns and pigskins.
When found he was naked, and was
carrying a pig on his hack He hud
been on the inlands for years having
been left there by gothe ship.. He
had almost- lost, .the pnaer of speech.
and It took some Ifrno for him to grow
accustomed to civilised ways.
A t atkf ral timea during our history
the I lilted Htutea has considered th
getting possession of the (ialapagoa
Islands... In 1SS1 preliminaries of
transfer were arranged with Ed u ad or,
and at that time I3.P0.000 waa offered
lut: lor rigm oi collecting tne guano
on lh islands The. sale fell through.
hownver, and so far none of the auto-
seouent negotiations has succeeded
Now that we have the Canal, the sale
mav again come up In connection
with our Pacific i oast trade
II la claimed that (he Islands are
rtlle Hom parts of them are now
being settled. - The- Keusdrtrtaos have
fstsbllnhetl .several "" platitatlrma and
say that they have t-nmign graslng
grounds to' . .taed . tliooaanda of cattle,
The islands have excellent cod nah-
efirs along Ihe shore, anil are also
fainuus fur. turtles of enormous site.
which are found nowhere else. Thee
turtles when full grown measure
about three fort thick and weigh as
ntii h as son pounds. They are
valiiuble for their oil. which can Imi
used in place of lard. An ordinary
turtle alll vleld about nix gallons of
II. and this will soil for 7 fi cents a
gallon. The inlands have also avals
and a Ibl dogn. as well us wild doii-
n and onlte. all of which are the
descendants of those brought by n
oluny from tlriinilor. ehlch once at
eniepleil to nettle the Island, but
failed
Tliere Hie oilier i.-lallils King off the I
Went const of Houth America that
lave yielded noire money than any
ther spins -Tepoo earth of u slmilai
slr.e I refer to Ihe guano inlands,
whuh have produced more than one
1 1 lion dollars worth of ferlllixer. ami
w ho h. if the present movement for
heir renovation succeeds, will pro
hundreds of millions of dollars
Thin movement in backed by
hi- Peruvian governmen. and Is
used upon Hi'irritinc investigations
will deMcrlhe It further oi, In thin
ctter
file guano Islands begin al Ihe
Tmnm-TTT paet of f-'ern.-tHil they ruu
here nml there ill rough the nea oft
U,he. e' i i.m-ii Into Cllll They are
i situated that they have no rain, and
hey are absolutely barren except for
he vsnt flocks of birds which use
hem for their breeding places
I naw rti.-inv of these Istandn on my
H noutliward through ine rmtm-.
At -II rat I hey seem- to lie rocks OI
white hulk. Th.- hlt'e. however, was
n.nli by the droppings of birds.
which i ..me there by the tens of Trill
ion every year to nest find raise
heir luiiuK.
Itl'KNTKll .1
The grflii value comes from the
tropotni-'x or inaniire of these birds
Al the time tluv were discovered the
lepimltn were so largo that the Peru-
iann tiTi- two Ketierntloiin In tb-vei-ping
thi-to They shipped the guano
ii the I nltcii St ites and Kurope. and
u fleet of vessels was engaged In car
ving it The receipts paid a largi
part of t he . evpetises of the govern
lent, and they kept the country Hen
Then 1'erii had Its war with Chili
ml wus compn rel The result was
n enormous foreign debt In the set-
lenient of which the best of the
guano Islands were given oyer lo ihe
foreign bondholders, und cam uiult-i
whst Is known as I he Peruvian cor
poratiuii. which corporation is ntili
shipping from them thirty or nmn
thousand tons every year.
The guano deposits are uow almos-
"e H rtUstTH V he mmO. of -Ihe- jjr.uAUlCL.
had been ronsumeil before the wai
with Chile, and a continual export ha
gone on since then. The output now .
amounts to only a few thousand toon -;t
year, but through the plurfs now
inuktng by the Peruvian government i
the islands may be renovated, and a
continual supply roceiyed from thefn
for all timevtu come. These plans are
based upon Ihe work of Ir. II. t
Forbes, ,-t celebratetl ornithologist, who
has been sent by the President of
IVrti to report tiport Hhe islands and
iid1sn the government aa to their fu
ture. Ivr. Korbes has visited the whvde
lifajeil all tn mianon ana rotatting
forks, studying (3iisjiir4s and their
possildlitiea. He rs viught some of
the birds and kept 'Vhern with a view
tir see how much -frxiano eaoh will
produce. lie tlnda that the amount
of fish consumed by them la enormous.
A single pelican will eat from eight
lo ten pounds a day and It deposits an
enormous amount of guano in the
course of a nesting aeason. A sea gull
will drup from four to six ounces per
day, iu- something like twenty-six
mala there until they have digested
sufficient of tbehr ratch to lighten the
weight- They always hunt la flock
and when they settle on some place
where the flak are abundant, titer
form Islanda on the eea a mile or go
In diameter. Dr. Forbes - Bare that
tney git go eloae together that thoae.
on the outside hare te rise first before
the hirds In the Interior are able to
get enough air aadee their wlnge to
enable them to riae from the aeev
Dr. For bee has found that the moat
of the guano eomea from eight apeetee
of blrda The chief of these la Bou
gainville's cormorant, whose chief
nesting -phtee to tM Chinch. 110(1
lst February ur.. r urues touna ten
millions of these blrda nesting In the
middle of one of these Islands. The
nestg were ewee together, ana tne
whole formed one of the most wonder
ful blrtl night of the world, lie
watched them, and fdund that each
nest had lta male and female, and
that one bird sat on the neat while
the other was feeding, and that It
in turn, was relieved by Its mate- The
cormorants started for their tuning
grounds at S or t in the morning, and
flew In a broad stream per naps 19
feet wide. This stream continued for
hour.
The next bird in Importance is the
pelican. This alao nests in great
flocks, and In the same neighborhood
the cormorants. When the peli
cans are feeding five or six thouaand
of them may be seen diving together.
They fill the great 'pouches under
their bills, and carry the fish away to
eat I hem at their leisure.
Another bird is the g an net. whoee
yming are beautiful little creatures.
The gannete fly In flocks of from ten
to twenty thousand, and they go down,
like so many rocket into the sea
The guano of the Ivobos Islands is
found in pockets covered with layers
of aand from two to fifteen feet deep.
These are old deposits. The sand Ii
shoveled off. and the guano la dug
nuL The stuff looks like tine sand.
As It Is dug up, a strong smell of am
monla rises and the workmen wear
run masks over their faces to keep
the ammnneal dust out of their lungs
The guano is loaded upon trucks and
carried on a tramway to the shore.
where it Is transferred to the ships for
Kurope or the l'nlted mates. Huoh
loading 1s now being done on the
Chincha Islands aa well, and upon th
smaller Islahdg efHMTr the hands f
the" "F'efuVla'h" govern rrient-
When these Islands were first dis
covered they -he -. deposits !.! y
feet deep, and Alexander llumbnldl
who visited them llo years. ago. said
hat they then contalnnd enough ma
nure to enrich all of the worn-out
lands of the old world. They were
not thought to be of value, however,
nntil about fifty years lirtef. when a
frenchman' oalied. aUxnUon to certalu
of the deposits, and claimed one-third
of the j-nd.iirst by right of discovery.
The Peruvian Congreeni voted 111 m 5.-'
000 tons, but It is sftid that he never
got It. an died In a poor house. In Paris.
Other deposits were discovered by
an American named Ijtndreail. and ha
was treated In the same way, although
our Plate I 'epartment took up lila case
nd President llayea referred to It
1 one of his meejnjrea to ongres
The deposits I jinilreaii discovered
were worth t-iOO. 1)00.000. and accord -
ng to the Peruvian law he should
huve had $153.00(1,000 from them. He
received nothing.
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most durable line in the city, in fact the only real Shaving
Mirror line in town.
Don't fail to see them before it is too late as our stock
is moving fast.
J. C. BRANTLEY, Druggist
Bell-Phones 14 or 15.
FALL AND WINTER WOOLENS NOW
ON DISPLAY
URRAY
TAILORING COMPT
Coal Brick WooxTlce
If you have not got your winter C0AL get our
prices before buying.,
PLACE YOUR ORDER NOW.
We handle ail kind coal, and can handle any size
order.
cOHHSON8r
Raldigh.N.C
Phono 150
Cobb Dros. .Company
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