Brum, Blanca Luz, 216
Bury, Samuel, 202
Caledonia (ship), 52, 54
Callao, 74
Candis, Frances (later Hall; Selkirk’s supposed wife), 201–3, 206–10
Canterbury, HMS, 166
Cape Horn, 65–7, 126
Cape Town, 163
Cape Verde Islands, 59–60, 127
Carreto, Captain Sebastian Garcia, 43–4
Cash, Giles, 126
Castelldosrius, Marquis de, 141
cats, 23, 25, 99, 110
Cavendish, Captain Thomas, 31, 152
Chile: Spanish ships off, 30–1; distance from Island, 95; independence from Spain, 215; relations with Island, 216–17; and conservation, 219–21
Cinque Ports (ship): sails as consort for St George, 47–8, 56; Selkirk serves on, 48, 51, 56; Stradling takes over command of, 63–4; on voyage, 63; rounds Horn, 66; crew mutinies against Stradling, 67–8; reaches Island, 67–8; attacks French mechantman, 70; in attack on Santa Maria, 77; captures Assumsion, 80; leaves St George, 81; returns to Island for repair, 82–4; Selkirk hopes for rescue by, 94; sinks, 100–1, 182; crew imprisoned in Peru, 101
Clift, Ralph, 72, 74, 80, 114–15, 183
Clipperton, John, 45, 79, 94, 103–4, 114
Cobham, John, 48, 89
Company of Scotland, 51–2
CONAF (Chilean Forestry Commission), 220–2
Cook, Edmund, 40
Cooke, Edward: keeps journal, 123, 164, 169; sails on 1708/9 expedition, 123; assaulted by Second Mate, 127; privateering, 140; commands Marquess, 141, 157, 170; given black boys, 152; takes on provisions at Guam, 160; returns to Dutchess, 161; arranges Vanbrugh’s funeral, 163; on voyage home, 164; publishes A Voyage to the South Seas, 169–70; Selkirk relates time with, 189
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 111
Courtney, Stephen: captains Dutchess, 123; and attack on Guayaquil, 142; and mutiny threat, 149; in failed attack on Begona, 157; takes on provisions at Guam, 160; on sickness aboard ship, 163–4; suffers gout, 165
crabs, 24
Cresswell, Elizabeth, 115, 181, 184
Cresswell, Richard, 115
Cuna Indians, 51–2, 54
Dampier, Judith (William’s wife), 29, 45
Dampier, William: captains St George on 1703 expedition, 29–30, 32, 44–6, 56; career and voyages, 32–3, 35; eats wild creatures, 34, 148; court-martialled, 35–6; buys Prince Giolo, 37; visits Island, 39–41, 44; puts up surety for voyage, 45; deteriorating relations with backers, 48; and Darien scheme, 52; drinking, 56, 65, 72, 104; flouts Articles of Agreement, 56, 63–4; praises Selkirk, 56; quarrels with and abandons Huxford, 56, 59–60, 90; at Madeira, 59; appoints Stradling to command of Cinque Ports, 63–4; drives Barnaby to mutiny, 64–5, 182; navigational errors, 66–7, 129; reaches Island, 68; resolves difficulties on Cinque Ports, 68; attacks French merchantman, 70–2; accused of cowardice, 74; misgovernment, 74; allows Spanish ships to go free after capture, 75–6; in abortive attack on Santa Maria, 77–9; egotism, 77; cheats men over plunder of Assumsion, 80; Stradling parts from, 80–1; neglects to protect against shipworm, 83; tells of shipwreck survivor, 93; and Selkirk on Island, 94; warns of poison plants, 97; in fight with Spanish warship, 102–3; hopes to capture treasure ship, 102; in attack on Rosario, 104–5; deserted by men on refusing to return home, 112–13; imprisoned at Batavia, 113; sails for home in captured brigantine, 113; legal actions against, 115, 169, 181; expedition failure, 121; plans new voyage (1708), 122; sails as ‘Pilot for the South Seas’, 123; praises Tenerife wine, 126; ineptitude, 127, 160; 1709 arrival at Island, 130, 134; and attack on Guayaquil, 142; on value of Disengano treasure, 142, 158; threatened by Rogers, 164; literary skill, 169; reputation, 169; receives share of plunder, 181; Selkirk and others testify against, 181–4; death, 184; A New Voyage Round the World, 33–6, 47n
Danton, Philippe, 21n
Darien scheme, 51–4
Darwin, Charles, 150
Davies, George, 127
Defence (ship), 32, 37
Defoe, Daniel: Dampier’s friendship with, 36; on Presbyterians and ‘Squadroni’, 50; owns brick factory, 109n; reads Beaucheane-Gouin’s journal, 122; champions South Sea Company, 165; on sailing with Dampier, 169; Rogers meets, 170; Essay on the South-Sea Trade, 182; Robinson Crusoe (and sequels), 194–201, 205; The Shortest Way with the Dissenters, 195n
Dewars, Christopher, 181
Disengano (ship) see Batchelor
Douglas, David, 21n
Dover, Captain Thomas: investor 122, 124; Doctor 122n; reconnoitres Island, 130–1; at Selkirk’s rescue, 134; and mutiny threat, 149; quarrel with Rogers, 158; on Rogers’s dispensing plunder, 162, 164; on return voyage, 165
Dragon (ship), 103–4
Duke (frigate): fitted out, 122–3; mutiny on, 126; Selkirk taken on board after rescue, 134–5, 172; voyage and privateering, 138–47; conditions on, 147–8, 160; attacks Spanish treasure ships, 154–7; on voyage home, 160, 163; private status, 165
Dunwich, HMS, 166
Dutch East Indies, 114, 161; see also Batavia
Dutchess (frigate): fitted out, 122–3; flooded at Cape Horn, 127; flies French ensign, 131; cleaned and repaired, 139; voyage and privateering, 141, 147; attacks Spanish treasure ships, 154, 156–7; on return voyage, 163; private status, 165; at rescue of Selkirk, 172
East India Company, 165–6, 180
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 32
Englishman (journal), 176–7 & n
Enterprise, HMS, 192–4, 208
Essex, HMS, 166
Estcourt, Thomas: backs 1703 expedition, 29–30, 32, 44; death, 115; heirs, 181
Evelyn, John, 36
Falkland Islands, 128
Fame (ship), 45
fardelas (seabirds), 25, 43
Fernandez, Don Juan, 42
fish, 24, 60–1, 69
flamingoes, 34
Forster, Revd Robert, 202
France: Dampier attacks merchantmen, 70–2; profits in South Seas, 122; ships in South Seas, 137; threat to Batchelor on voyage to Britain, 164
Frye, Edward, 151–2, 172
Frye, Robert, 131, 133
Funnell, William: sails with Dampier as Second Mate, 45; on conditions aboard St George, 56, 63; on Madeira, 58; on Cape Verde Islanders, 59; criticises Dampier’s navigation, 67; complains of losing Spanish ship, 75; in attack on Santa Maria, 77, 79; takes command of Assumsion, 80; Selkirk hopes for rescue by, 94; on shipworm damage, 102; in fight with Spanish warship, 103; deserts Dampier, 112; returns home, 114; publishes account blaming Dampier, 169
Galapagos Islands, 34, 148–51
galleons: defined, 32n
Gallera (island), 103
Gallo (island), 76
Gambia, river, 203
George, Prince of Denmark, 123
Giolo, Prince of Meangis, 36–8
goats: prevalence on Island, 23–4, 43–4, 214; as food, 41; Selkirk hunts, eats and uses, 95, 98, 106–8, 136–7, 198, 201; Selkirk husbands, 99–100; in Robinson Crusoe, 198
God: Selkirk’s faith in, 96, 175; Crusoe on, 200
Godolphin, Mary, 196
Godolphin, Sidney, 1st Earl of, 45–6
Gold Coast, 203–4
Goldney, Thomas, 122
Gorgona Island, 104, 148
Graham, Maria, 215 & n
Guam, 114, 153, 160
Guayaquil, 30, 102, 138; attacked and plundered, 140–7
Guinea, Gulf of, 203–4
Hack, William, 30n
Halifax, 1st Earl of see Montagu, Charles
Hall, Francis, 206
Hardy, Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas, 166
Harley, Sir Robert see Oxford, 1st Earl of
Harrison, John, 58
Hatley, Simon, 150 & n
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