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About The Ione independent. (Ione, Or.) 1916-19?? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 15, 1929)
Crusoe's sh r A.M. A V.. .J 1 , jfsv. vN!, Vs, Mat 8S Harbor of Juan fri-spt4 y the Nut Ions! 0orrphl Socl.tr, Wuklnitoa. D. O I F TOU board a "wind Jammer" at Valparaiso, Chile, and tall almost due west, on the eighth day oat yon will light an Island that hat been read about by more people than hat any other little island to the world. It It Juan Fernandei, Rob inson Cnisoe't Isle. Strangely beautiful la this Island. Climbing 8,000 feet up from the tea. Its woody rtdget lie wreathed In fan tastic lacy patterns of silvery fog. As one rows ashore, the landscape rolls down like tome giant theater's drop curtain, Itt green ferns, forest! and streams painted by nature's own band. Now, where Crusoe bunted, had. dies a hamlet of Chilean fisher folk, with the boats and theds of a lobster catching Industry. Delicate, delicious lobsters they are, but the men who catch them will clamber over a whole boatload to quarrel about ' can of American salmon 1 Maj-a-T!erra (Landward) Is the correct name of this Island on which Alexander Selkirk, reputed hero of Defoe's romance, was put ashore. Near by Is Santa Clara, or Goat Is land, and about 100 miles westward Ilea Mas-s-Fuera, or Further Out Is land. These three form the Juan Fernandei group, named after the Spaniard who discovered them In 15G3. Now they belong to Chile In law; but In Imaglnitlon every school boy on earth claims proprietary In terest here. High np the side of Mnt-a-Tlerra stands tablet which reads: "In Memory 0 of Alexander Selkirk Mariner, ; A native of Largo, In the eoatit) of Fife, Scotland, who lived on this . Island In complete solitude for four years snd tour months. He was landed from the Cinque Ports gal ley, 90 tons, 10 guns, A. D. 1704. and was taken orT In the Duke, pri vateer, 12th Feb., 1709. He died Lieutenant of H. U. S. Weymouth A. D. 1723, aged 47 years. This tub let la erected near Selkirk's lookout, by Commodore I'nwell and the offl cers of H. M. 8. Topaxe, A. D. 1S08 To day on this, Island one hears mnch talk about lobsters, but little of Rohlnsoo Crusoe. The easy-going. Spanish-speaking Inhabitants, shut off from the world and the scores of books describing their Island, do not sas pert bow famous It Is. Nearly all Its 2S7 people make living In the lob Iter trade. Hug Lobster Industry. , Here Is on of the most extraordl nary ahelllilh Industries In the world tn one year 80,000 or more lohsters are caught, not counting the small ones thrown back. Time was when these creatures s wanned the shores In such armies that the Islanders hail only to strew bits of meat along the bench, then walk shout with s stick and tip the lobsters over on their backs. Due to wise conservation method Of the Chilean government, Island waters still shound with lobsters; but now they are caught with hoop nets set off shore and baited with stale fish. The fishermen go nut, long before dawn to tend the traps. Over s char, coal stove astern they mnke coffee and broil fish for breakfast, but nobody ever eats s lobster. To keep the catch alive, huekets of ses water ar dashed over the enisl ing eresturei and a tarpaulin la used to shad them from the sun. No lob ster reinnlns long In good health and spirits nut of salt wnter. So, usually within 24 hours after cutchlng them, the Crusoe Island flnhennen try to get their lobsters to port and Into the "live cars." These sre scows muile of fluts. flouting hulf-suhmersod III Cum herliind bay, In which the lobsters are held captive. Twice a month a boat sutls from the Islund. It carries the scant mail, any passengers, and a loud of Inhsters, which ar often two and a half feel long and weigh as much as from ten twelve pounds. On the Hand the price paid the fishermen Is hut noml unl; yet In the mnrkt at Valparaiso live Cruxoe Island lulcter may bring the equivalent of from three to five dollars. On a cufe tnhle In Duenna Aires the same lobster, after his trans Andean trip, sells for more. The lobster of Juun Fernnmlet (I'allnustui frontalis (Milne Edwards)) Is minus th large clnws which dis tinguish (lit lobtter of our North At "WVfiSW $ Fernanda. lantic waters (ITomarus amerlcnnns). It Is a close relative of the American crawfish known as the spiny lobster In Florida. Besides wild goat shooting, fishing around the Island's rocky shores af fords all the amatlng luck that an glers' tales are tpun from. Here are the big morays, or wolf fish, fierce and voracious; then the fighting vldriola, or what we would call amber Jacks, or yellowtalL which occur all up this coast Around Juan Fernandei the latter often weigh 100 pounds or more. Many kinds of sea bass also abound, with no end of delicate pan fish the furel, corblna, weakflsb or croaker, the pampanlto and palometa, the smelt, the jergullla. Here, too, the flying flab Is eaten. Storehouse of Fiction. There Is probably more excuse for fiction about Juan Fernandei than about any other place Us size on earth. For 800 years pirates, earthqunkes, whalers, penal colonies, battle, and po. lltlcal storms have swept this now calm and dreamy Island. In the hill side above Cumberland bay one sees the tiers of cells, like the Roman cat acombs, dug to hold prisoners when Chile nsed the Island as a penal col ony. Out In the harbor ties the hulk of the German cruiser Dresden, sunk during the World war. Once vast packs of sea Hons haunted the Island rocks. Anson, English buc caneer, wrote home that there were so many of these creatures here that he couldnt move a ship's boat with out putting a man In ber bows with an oar to drive them aside. Traders slew them for oil, and wild dogs killed their younj on the beaches; so now the sea lions seldom frequent these waters. , To kill off the wild goats, and thns cut off the fresh meat supply for the English and Dutch pirates who plagued the coast, Spanish rulers of Chile long ago sent bands of dogs to this Island ; but the plan failed. The dogs couldn't catch the goats among the rocks. There may be burled pirate cheats on this Island. Quien saber Rut priceless treasure. Indeed, was left by Anson and other early explorers. They planted vegetables snd fruit seeds, and let loose pigs, rows and horses. It waa an nnwrltten law, tradition says, that every ship calling here In old days, whether merchant, whaler, or buccaneer, should leave animals or plants, and thai help stock the Island for the common good. In consequence the variety of useful plant life here la unparalleled la the Pacific. Cows, pigs and horses are plentiful also. Boys chase wild horses around the grassy canyons where Crusoe and Fri day hunted goats. In a single gurden, a spot of due lling beauty, belonging to a French man shipwrecked here more than thlr. ty yenrs ago. Is sn astounding group ing of exotic' and native plants and trees. Here grew, among other thing, the hotnntcully famous chonta palm, of which highly polished walking sticks are made. The creamy-white wood feels like satin and la marked with glistening black lines. Many Wrecks en Itt Shorts. Far up th moist Island slopes are jilunt green ferns, bltarre and out landish, like the fantastic plant life pictured to us ae ihadlng the earth In the time of mud and reptiles. Ex cept where trails have been cat or fires have burnt them off, these ferns tire so big and thick that It It hard to wnlk among them. Junn Fernandei has a few good beoches. hut mostly Its shores are rocky, rough, or steep, with swift cur rents whirling past towering volcanic cliffs. Many s stout ship has piled up here as can be seen from moss grown remains of forgotten wrecks. Long ago Captain Sbetvocke's Speed well went to pieces on these rocks. At that time cats, multiplied from a few left ashore by earlier ships, fulrly overran the Island. Shipwrecked sail ors fnim the Speedwell lived for weeks on cjit meat. Their hunger found more substantial relief from one men I of cut meat than from five meals of scu! or fish, wrote Shelvocke In bis Journal. There are no wheeled vehicles on the Island, and nowhere op Its whole 40 square miles Is s road only paths. There Is s school and a seldom-attended church, but there are no places of amusement. No stores; Just on room In the lobster factory at Cumberland bay, open twlc a week, where natives may buy articles from the mainland through an agent of the lobiter-ratca-Ing compuny. An Adventure Pimpernel www By ifu BARONESS ORCZY Copyright Baruneu Orciy WNU Servlc CHAPTER VIII Continued 13 "Never mind about your mother now. What happened after tbiitl" "He said to me, 'You go and get on the lent of the cart which la up the road. It Is my cart You can drive It back to Mantes and leave It and my horses at the posting Inn, where they know mo. I'll look after these horses for you, and when the lighting's over I'll drive the diligence to Purls. No one will he any the wiser and I don't mliKl a hit of a tight. I can do a btt of fighting myself.' Well," Charles-Marie went on dolefully, "there didn't seem much hurm In that. 1 could see he knew kill about horses from the way he handled them; but 1'ui no fighting man, and when I was engaged to drive the diligence from Molsson to Paris I was not told that there would be any fighting." "So you turned your back on the diligence, like a coward, and crepi along here" "1 didn't creep, citizen. 1 followed you when" "Pardli" Rnffet broke In with an oath. "Another of you that will not eacape punishment If I had my way the guillotine would be busy lu Mantes for doya to come." CHAPTER IX Discomfiture There was nothing for It now but to allow Charles Murle to drive tit cart back to Mantes, since Its owner had probably seized an optmrtunlty by now of taking to his heels. Poor Raffet was worn out with the excite ment of the past half-hour, and be wildered wltb all the mystery (hut confronted him at every turn. Vague ly be felt that something stnlster lurked behind this last Incident recited to him by Cbarles-Murle, but for the moment be did not connect It with the possi ble maneuvers of the English spies. He thought that chapter of the day's book of adventure closed. It would be an extraordinary piece of luck If In the end they should still come across the Scarlet Pimpernel. Chauvelln had not waited to hear the whole of Charles Marie's tale. Throughout all the adventures which bad befallen blm this day, he had seen the hand of hit enemy, the Scarlet Pimpernel. Now he no longer had any doubt Almost at the first words ottered by ('bar let .Marie he had Jumped to his feet, all the ttlffnesi gone out of hit bones; snd despite the darkness, the mud and the rain, be turned and ran up the slushy road, round the bend beyond which he had beard the fight a quarter of an hour ago. To laurel he had shouted a curt. "Come!" and l-ouxct had fol lowed, olx.lent. understanding, like a dog, only vaguely scenting danger to himself, dnnger more serious thnn any that had threatened blin during this eventful day. Chauvellu ran throngh the darkness with Lauzet at his heel. Inspire the cold and rawness of (he mlai. he was In a bath of perspiration ; though his veins were on lire, his teeth chailered with the cold. Lauzet. behind him was panting tike an apoplectic seal Soon be fell with a gnmo by the rd side. Hut Cnuuvelln did not give In Stumbling, half dazed, he went round the bend of the road; then he ton fell, exhausted, by the roadside, exhausted and trembling aa with ague. The Irene which greeted his aching eyes had finally unnerved blm. There, on the crest of (he hill, he saw three bones tethered to neighboring trees, and beside the horses, hound to the ssme trees, three soldiers with their hats pulled down over their eyes. Of the diligence there was not a sign. Chauvelln stared and stared st this scene. He had not strength enough to rise, though his every nerve ached to go np tn one of those pinioned fig ares by thr trees and In ask what had happened. Thus Raffet .found him five or ten minutes Inter. He came with his ml dlers and a lantern or two. Chauvelln co:ild not do more st first than point with trembling linger straight nut be fore him. snd Raffet snd the men swinging their lanterns came on the spectacle of the three men and the three horses tied to the forest trees, the animals, culm as horses are won I lo be when nature and men are silent around them; the men Inert and half conscious "Question them. Citizen Captain," Chauvelln commanded feebly Th nien'e statements, however, were somewhut vague. It seems that after their comrades had gone off. some with their ruptnin, others with the prisoners, the three who were left behind busted themselves at first with their horses, examining the saddle firths and so on. when one of them apled something moving underneath the diligence. "It was gating dark by thai time." Peacock Tail Skirts One of the most workmanlike of the American designers believes th eve ning frock, short In front and trailing like a peacock tall In the buck, will continue popular throughout the win ter. Ths.e Belts "Civ" The deiuuiid of fashion, thai the belt aow be worn tightly, is lending to the use of elastic belts for sports wear. Women who play polo have found the touifort which exists lu a broad elas of the Scarlet th man explained. "However, I culled to my mules, and w stooped lo ace what It was. We were much sur prised, you mny be sura, to see two pairs of feet In rugged shoes. V seized hold of them and pulled. Th feet were attached to two pairs of legs In tattered stockings and breeches. Finally there emerged from under nealh the diligence two ragamuffins with mud up to their eyes and their clothing tn rugs. "They were a sorry looking pair. We put them down for two poltroons, not worth powder and shot, and were Just wondering what we should do with them when suddenly, without th slightest warning, they turned on us like a couple of demons. Not they only, for a third fellow seemed to have sprung out of the earth behind us, and come to their aid. A giant ha was." "A giant t" Rnffet exclaimed, for he had suddenly remembered Citizen Chnuvellu's warning about the Eng lish spy who wus lull above the aver age. "Ayet A giant, with the strength of au ox." No one tald anything more for th moment There was, Indeed, nothing to say. Reproaches and vltueratloiis would come Inter; punishment, too, perhaps. The soldiers and their cap tain hung their beads, broodlug and ashamed. "Epone la not more than four kilo meter, citizen," Raffet at last ver "Ay! A Giant, With the Stitngth of an Ok." tured to suggest, "and we liave the lanterns." And to the procession itnrtud. trudg ing down the Incllue In the darkness and the rain; Chauvelln sn6 Laurel, Rnffet tnd his corporal with s couple of troopers rsrrylng the lanterns. Two hours later they reached Epone, hun gry, tired, spattered wltb mjd up to their chins. At Epone Raffet's courier Inst no time In recounting at full lesgth the adventures that had befallen him and his comrades. Thus the story was all over the district by the time the laborers of ElHine had gone tn Iheli work the following morning, and the chief of tectlon in the department of Seine H (Use. Citizen lauzet, be Am the laughing stock of the countryside, together with hit wnnderfij friend from Pnrls. Late that sum day a horseless diligence, which at first ap lienrrd deserted and 'derelict, waa discovered half a dozen kilometers to the north of the forest of Mer.lerea, In the mud of the stream tint runs southward Into the Seine. A group of laborers going tn their work were the first lo see It II had been drugged Into the stream and left axle deep In the water behind a clump of tnll reeds. The Inlxirer resided their find to a patrol of Raffet's troopers, whom he had sent nut lo scour the countryside, Tim wheels had sunk deep Into the mint, and It was only after a great deal of exer tion that laborers nnd soldiers to gether succeeded In dragging th mnch over the flat bank upon firm land. "Truly, fnte tins been against na," Lauzet sighed dolefully. "Satan alone knows where the English spies and the prisoners are at this hour." "Well on their way to (England," I'liuuvelln remarked. "I know 'em. 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