Crusoe's Island

by Andrew Lambert

Japan, 1, 2, 3

  Jasus frontalis, 1, 2

  Jenkinson, Charles, 1, 2, 3

  Jervis, John, 1

  Jesuits, 1

  Jones, William, 1

  Journal of a Cruise to the Pacific Ocean (Porter), 1, 2

  Juan Fernández group, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; Colnett’s survey of, 1;

  fact/fiction blended in, 1;

  first English encounters with, 1;

  location of, 1;

  on maps, 1;

  as National Park, 1, 2, 3;

  and Spanish Empire, 1;

  tourism on, see tourism; and whaling industry, 1, 2;

  see also Más Afuera; Más a Tierra; Santa Clara

  Juan Fernández (island), see Más a Tierra

  Juan Fernández rock lobster (Jasus frontalis), 1, 2

  Juan, Jorge, 1, 2

  Kennedy, Captain William (Reindeer), 1

  Kent (HMS), 1, 2

  King, Captain Philip Parker (Adventure), 1, 2, 3, 4

  King of Pirates (Defoe), 1

  Knapton, James, 1, 2(n4)

  La Pérouse, comte de (Jean François de Galaup), 1, 2

  Lady Washington, 1

  Larrain, Dom Joachim, 1

  Le Maire, Jacob, 1, 2, 3

  Legge, Henry, 1

  l’Hermite, Jacques, 1, 2

  libraries, onboard, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Lidger, Lewis, 1

  Lima (Peru), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Lloyds of London, 1

  Locke, John, 1, 2

  London (UK), 1, 2

  Lord Anson’s Voyage Round the World (Walter/Robins), 1, 2, 3, 4; Anson’s involvement in, 1;

  captured Spanish material in, 1, 2;

  French translation of, 1;

  illustrations to, 1, 2, 3;

  as navigation guide, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  popularity of, 1, 2, 3;

  as promotion of trade/exploration, 1;

  Robin’s contribution to, 1, 2;

  and Rousseau, 1;

  trade/naval strategy in, 1, 2, 3

  Luce, Captain John (Glasgow), 1, 2

  Ludecke, Captain (Dresden), 1

  Luxor, 1

  Mackenna, Vicuña, 1, 2

  Mackinder, Halford, 1

  Madeira, 1

  Madrid (Spain), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Magellan, Ferdinand, 1, 2, 3

  Magellan, Straits of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; charting, 1

  Malaspina, Alejandro, 1, 2, 3

  Mandeville, John, 1

  Manila galleon, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Manila (Philippines), 1, 2

  maps/charts, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9(n7); captured from Spanish, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  and Defoe, 1;

  and South Sea Bubble, 1;

  and voyage literature, 1, 2

  maquis (shrub), 1, 2, 3

  maritime world view, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Markham, Clements, 1, 2, 3(n6)

  maroons, see castaways

  Marquesas Islands, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  Melville on, 1, 2

  Marryat, Frederick, 1

  Más Afuera, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14; anchorage dangerous at, 1, 2;

  despoiled by sealers, 1;

  Enderby’s Cove, 1;

  in First World War, 1, 2, 3;

  invasive species on, 1;

  legal title to, 1;

  name changed to Alejandro Selkirk Island, 1;

  as navigational marker, 1;

  prisoners on, 1;

  seals on, 1;

  and Selkirk myth, 1;

  survey/recording of, 1

  Más a Tierra islanders, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Más a Tierra (Juan Fernández/Robinson Crusoe Island): abandoned settlements on, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; Aguas Buenas, 1;

  air travel to, 1;

  airstrip on, 1, 2;

  American ambition for, 1;

  and Anglo-Chilean relations, 1, 2, 3;

  archaeology of, 1, 2;

  Bahía del Padre, 1, 2;

  Bahía Pangal, see Bahía Pangal/Horseshoe Bay; birds of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  and blending of fact/fiction, 1, 2;

  and Britishness, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  and buried treasure myth, 1, 2, 3;

  cemetery on, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  as Chilean territory, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;

  as cornucopia/paradise, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;

  Cumberland Bay, see Cumberland Bay;

  discovery of, 1;

  Dutch on, 1, 2, 3;

  earthquakes/tsunamis on 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  ecological devastation of, 1, 2, 3;

  El Yunque, see El Yunque; failure to locate, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  fire on, 1;

  in First World War, 1, 2, 3;

  flora/fauna of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14;

  French ambitions for, 1;

  gun emplacements on, 1;

  introduced species on, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;

  isolation of, 1, 2;

  landscape/scenery of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;

  legal title/ownership claims on, 1, 2, 3;

  magical/mythic status of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10;

  maps/illustrations of, 1, 2, 3;

  modern facilities on, 1;

  modern journey to, 1;

  name changed to Robinson Crusoe Island, 1;

  newspaper reports on, 1;

  penal colonies on, see penal colonies; and pirates, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  place names/land markers on, 1;

  prisoners on, see penal colonies; proposed settlements on, 1, 2;

  Puerto Inglese, see Puerto Inglese; Punta de Bacalao, 1;

  recreation of England on, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  remoteness of, 1, 2, 3;

  as rendezvous point, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  as ruin, 1;

  and San Félix/San Ambrosio, 1, 2;

  San Juan Bautista, see San Juan Bautista; Santa Barbara, Fort, 1;

  scientific expeditions to, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  in Second World War, 1;

  Selkirk on, see under Selkirk, Alexander; ‘Selkirk’s Mirador’, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  Sharp’s Bay, 1;

  and South Sea Bubble, 1, 2, 3;

  Spanish garrison on, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;

  Spanish occupation of, 1, 2;

  Spanish survey of (1742), 1;

  storm damage on, 1, 2;

  strategic importance of, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  Sutcliffe’s governorship of, 1, 2;

  timber/logging on, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;

  tourism on, see tourism; and trade, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  as watering stop, see water supplies; Windy Bay, see Windy Bay; as Worldwide Biosphere Reserve, 1;

  wrongly located on maps/in books, 1

  Maui, 1

  medical care, 1; see also naval hospitals

  Mediterranean, 1, 2, 3

  Melanesia, 1

  Melpomene (HMS), 1

  Melville, Herman, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; and American identity, 1, 2;

  as castaway, 1;

  and Dana’s journal, 1, 2, 3;

  and Juan Fernández islands, 1, 2;

  on orgy on ship, 1;

  and Robinson Crusoe/Gulliver’s Travels, 1, 2;

  and scurvy, 1;

  seafaring cousin of, 1;

  and voyage narratives, 1;

  whaling career of, 1, 2, 3;

  writings on Galápagos Islands, 1

  Mexican–American War (1846–48), 1

  Mexico, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  Millechamp, Lawrence, 1, 2

  Milton, John, 1, 2

  Minerva, 1

  Miskito Indians, 1, 2

  Mitchell, Captain (Gloucester), 1

  Moby Dick (Melville), 1, 2, 3, 4; entomology section, 1, 2;

  reception of, 1

  Moll, Herman, 1, 2

  Monmouth (HMS), 1

  Monte Carmelo, 1

  More, Thomas, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  Morgan, Henry, 1

  Moseley, Henry, 1, 2


  Moss, John, 1, 2, 3

  Mulgrave, Captain Lord, 1

  Murray, John, 1, 2, 3

  mutiny/desertion, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  myrtle trees, 1, 2, 3

  Nantucket, 1, 2

  Napoleon, 1, 2

  Narborough, John (Sweepstakes), 1, 2, 3

  naval hospitals, 1, 2, 3

  Naval Intelligence Division, 1, 2

  navigation, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  errors in, 1, 2

  Navigation Laws, 1

  Negada, 1

  Nereus (naval stores hulk), 1

  New Atlantis (Bacon), 1, 2, 3, 4

  New England, 1, 2

  New South Wales (Australia), 1, 2

  New Voyage Round the World (Dampier), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; full title of, 1(n11)

  New Voyage Round the World (Defoe), 1

  New York (US), 1, 2, 3, 4

  New Zealand, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Niada, Pedro, 1

  Nietzsche, Friedrich, 1

  nitrate exports, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Nootka Sound Crisis (1790), 1, 2, 3

  Northwest Passage, 1

  Nova Scotia, 1

  Nuestra Señora de la Conceptión, 1

  Nukahiva (Marquesas Islands), 1, 2

  Oahu, 1

  oceanography, 1, 2, 3

  O’Higgins, Ambrosio, 1

  O’Higgins, Bernardo, 1

  oil, 1, 2

  Omoo (Melville), 1

  Orama (HMS), 1, 2, 3(n5)

  Orduna, 1

  Oregon Crisis, 1

  Oregon (US), 1, 2, 3

  Orinoco River, 1, 2

  Osborne, Archibald, 1

  Pacific Northwest, 1, 2

  Pacific Ocean, 1; charting, 1

  Pacific Station, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Pacific Steam Navigation Company, 1, 2

  Pacific War (1879–1881), 1

  Paddock, Captain Obed, 1

  Paita, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Panama, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; Isthmus of, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  and piracy, 1, 2

  Panama Canal, 1, 2

  Panama Railway, 1

  Paradise/Eden, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Paradise Lost (Milton), 1, 2

  pardelas, 1

  Parker, Hershel, 1

  Patagonia, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Patey, Rear Admiral, 1, 2, 3

  Peard, Lieutenant George (Blossom), 1

  Pearl, 1

  penal colonies, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

  Pendleton, Captain C.N. (Golden Rocket), 1, 2

  Pepys Islands, 1, 2

  Pepys, Samuel, 1, 2

  Perseverance, 1

  Persia (whaleship), 1

  Peru, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; British trade with, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  coastal defences of, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  Drake’s attack on, 1;

  in First World War, 1;

  liberation of (1823), 1;

  and piracy, 1, 2, 3;

  silver mines in, 1, 2;

  Viceroy of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10;

  war with Chile, 1

  Philip, Arthur, 1

  Philip V, 1

  Phoebe (HMS), 1, 2

  Phoenicians, 1

  Pilgrim, 1, 2

  pintados, 1

  pirates, see privateers

  Pitcairn Island, 1, 2

  Pitt, William, the Younger, 1, 2, 3

  Pizarro, 1, 2

  Plato, 1, 2

  Pocock, John, 1

  Pollard, Captain George Jr, 1, 2

  Popham, Captain Home, 1

  Porcupine (HMS), 1

  Porter, Captain David (Essex), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Portland (HMS), 1

  Porto Bello, 1

  Potosi (Bolivia), 1, 2, 3, 4

  Powell, Commodore, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Princess Royal, 1

  Prinz Eitel Friedrich, 1

  privateers/pirates, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; and Crown, 1;

  and ending of trade, 1, 2, 3;

  French perpetrators of, 1;

  French victims of, 1, 2;

  impact on Spain of, 1;

  and investors, 1, 2, 3;

  in literature, see buccaneer tales; maps/charts captured by, 1;

  and mutiny/desertion, 1, 2;

  and prize money, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  and South Sea Bubble, 1;

  Spain’s weak response to, 1, 2;

  and War of Spanish Succession, 1, 2;

  and whaling industry, 1

  Prospero, 1, 2

  Protestant Church, 1

  publishers, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Puerto Inglese (Más a Tierra), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  Punta de Bacalao (Más a Tierra), 1

  Purchas, Samuel, 1, 2, 3

  Quirós, Fernández de, 1, 2

  rabbits, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Racoon (HMS), 1

  radio stations, 1, 2

  railways, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Rainier, Admiral Sir Peter, 1

  Rainier, Peter, 1

  Raleigh, Walter, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; and Defoe, 1, 2, 3;

  and El Dorado, 1

  Ramsdell, Charles, 1

  Ranke, Leopold von, 1

  Rappahannock, 1, 2

  rats, 1, 2

  Rattler (HMS), 1

  Reformation, 1

  Reindeer (HMS), 1

  religious experience, 1, 2

  Ridgely, Captain Charles (Constellation), 1

  Rieggel, Otto, 1

  ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ (Coleridge), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Ringrose, Basil, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 1, 2, 3

  Robin (Miskito Indian), 1, 2

  Robins, Benjamin, 1, 2, 3

  Robinson Crusoe (American schooner), 1

  Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; and Britishness, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;

  and colonialism/trade, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  Crusoe’s cave in, 1;

  and Des Brosses, 1;

  disputed authorship of, 1;

  and ending of privateer era, 1;

  impact in Europe of, 1;

  and later voyage narratives, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  and Melville, 1, 2;

  as multilayered text, 1;

  and Raleigh, 1;

  relocation of island in, 1;

  sequel to (King of Pirates), 1;

  translations of, 1;

  see also Crusoe, Robinson; Friday, Man

  Robinson Crusoe Island, see Más a Tierra

  robinsonades, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Roebuck (HMS), 1

  Rogers, Captain Woodes (Duke/Duchess), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; and Selkirk, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Roggeveen, Jacob, 1, 2

  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Royal Geographical Society, 1, 2

  Royal Navy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13; and scurvy, 1, 2;

  survey vessels, 1;

  and whaling, 1, 2, 3;

  see also Admiralty; seapower, British

  Royal Society, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Sacramento, 1

  sailors: black, 1; Cook’s man-management of, 1;

  and disease, see disease; and drunkenness, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  literacy of, 1;

  and madness, 1, 2;

  medical care for, 1, 2, 3

  St Esprit (French ship), 1

  St George (privateer), 1, 2, 3, 4

  St Joseph (French ship), 1

  St Mary’s Island, 1

  Samoa, 1, 2

  San Ambrosio, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  San Félix islands, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  San Félix–San Ambrosio archipelago, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  San Francisco (US), 1, 2, 3, 4

  San Juan Bautista (Más a Tierra), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

  sandalwood, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Sandwich, Lord, 1

  Santa Barbara, Fort (Más a Tierra), 1

  Santa Clara, 1, 2, 3

  Santa Cruz, 1

  Santa Rosario, El, 1

  Santaella,
Juan Navarro, 1

  Santiago (Chile), 1, 2, 3

  Sarmiento de Gamboa, Pedro de, 1

  Saumarez, Philip (Centurion), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  Saunders, Captain Charles (Tryal), 1, 2

  Schouten, Willem, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  scientific voyaging, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, see also botany expeditions

  Scotland, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Scott, Robert Falcon 1, 2

  Scott, Samuel, 1

  Scouler, John, 1, 2

  scurvy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; on land, 1;

  mental symptoms of, 1, 2, 3;

  and notion of sea as unhealthy, 1;

  and sensory perception, 1;

  and Sick and Hurt Board, 1;

  vitamin C cure for, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Scylla (HMS), 1

  sea lanes, see shipping/trade routes

  sea lions, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  as food, 1, 2, 3

  sea otter pelts, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  sea stories, see voyage literature seals, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;

  fur/skins, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;

  as meat, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  oil from, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  seapower, American, 1

  seapower, British, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9(n10);

  in First World War, 1, 2;

  and Raleigh, 1;

  and ‘Second’ British Empire, 1;

  and voyage narratives, 1;

  and whaling industry, 1

  seapower, Dutch, 1

  seapower, Spanish, 1, 2

  Second World War, 1, 2

  Selden, John, 1, 2

  Selkirk, Alexander, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; as British, 1, 2, 3;

  cave of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10;

  and Christian morality, 1, 2;

  Cooke’s account of, 1;

  Cowper’s poem on, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  and Crusoe, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  death of, 1;

  and Defoe, 1, 2, 3;

  ‘lookout’ of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  maroons himself, 1, 2;

  modern searches for, 1;

  myths surrounding, 1, 2, 3;

  plaque to, 1, 2, 3;

  popularity/influence of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  religious/spiritual experience of, 1;

  rescued, 1;