. Crusoe's Island; a bird-hunter's story . ecame restless, and anxious to leave thisparadise which at the first had held so much ofpromise, so much of pleasure. The substance ofthings had not changed; but everything was nowtinged with the melancholy of a terrible happen- 244 CRUSOES ISLAND. ing. And I had begun so bravely! I bad re-solved here to live out my life, to spend it in tbesearch for truth. This island was to have been mymicrocosm. But at last there came a day—I remember wellits brightness and the sweetness of the air—when thechoice was offered me to leave or stay. A vesselsailed arou
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. Crusoe's Island; a bird-hunter's story . ecame restless, and anxious to leave thisparadise which at the first had held so much ofpromise, so much of pleasure. The substance ofthings had not changed; but everything was nowtinged with the melancholy of a terrible happen- 244 CRUSOES ISLAND. ing. And I had begun so bravely! I bad re-solved here to live out my life, to spend it in tbesearch for truth. This island was to have been mymicrocosm. But at last there came a day—I remember wellits brightness and the sweetness of the air—when thechoice was offered me to leave or stay. A vesselsailed around the promontory and dropped anchorbehind the coral reefs. I knew then that the end ofmy dreaming was at hand, that my friends had comefor me. It matters not why, but I went; and that wasyears ago. But even now I often find myself sigh-ing for the home on the Hilltop, for the trustedfriends I found there, and living in retrospect thetime when, in the words of Crusoe, I wanted noth-ing but what I had, and had nothing but what Iwanted.. 246 APPENDIX EVIDENCE IN SUPPORT OF TOBAGO AS THETRUE CRUSOES ISLAND. As Tobagos history is intimately connected with thegrowth of colonial possessions in the West Indies, and asits condition at the time in which Defoe wrote may havehad much to do with his choosing it for the residence ofhis hero, I trust the following chronological notes willnot be unacceptable to the general reader and to the stu-dent of history. They are taken (those that refer to To-bago) from the History of Tobago, by H. lies Woodcock, Esq., formerly a judge in that island. In parallel columns, will be given contemporary datathat have to do with persons and things mentioned in ournarrative. It may be difficult for one to transport himself inimagination to such an obscure island as this little speckin the Caribbean Sea, but it will soon be shown that ithas exercised a great influence, not only in the history ofthe world of fact, but in the world of fiction. Chronology, toba