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Perseverance Island; Or, The Robinson Crusoe of the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 35: TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:
By Douglas Frazar
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A sailor who survives a wreck on a deserted island records how he survives and transforms raw resources through practical science and manual skill. The narrative traces his initial struggles to secure food, water, shelter, and tools, then moves into systematic exploration of the island, agricultural and domestic improvements, and progressive fabrication of metalworking and mechanical apparatus. He invents and refines complex devices including a submarine, steam vessel, and a flying machine, uncovers pearls and buried treasure, and fortifies his settlement while domesticating animals. The account concludes with the castaway sending his manuscript into the world by an unusual aerial device and its later discovery inland.

THE MANUSCRIPT COMMITTED TO THE WINDS.—Page 372.]

L'ENVOI.

It may be interesting to call to the attention of those whose eyes it may have escaped, the following that appeared in the New York Herald of June 16, 1880:—

"In addition to our account of the wonderful story and succor of William Anderson, from his Pacific Island, with all his treasures, and his arrival at this port in the U. S. S. S. Tallapoosa, published in our last evening's edition, we have to state that, at a late hour, it was ascertained that this remarkable personage, who appears in excellent good health and spirits, will at once sail by one of the Cunarders for London to confer with his associates there, who were the originators of the "Good Luck" scheme. He states that, having no relatives, he shall, without doubt, expend the larger portion of his immense wealth for charitable purposes, and that it is very probable he may return to Perseverance Island, with a colony, there to end his days."

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:

Obvious printer errors have been corrected. Otherwise, the author's original spelling, punctuation and hyphenation have been left intact.