Word: selkirk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bermuda, certainly the oldest and quite possibly the stuffiest colony in the whole glamorous, dwindling British Empire. A gleaming, 25-ship fleet of the British and Canadian navies lay at anchor in Hamilton Harbor, and no less a personage than the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Earl of Selkirk, flew in to observe the joint maneuvers. Next day the representatives of empire received an editorial greeting from the daily Mid-Ocean News, which publishes most official notices and bears the proud subtitle of Colonial Government Gazette. The general effect of this journalistic salute was approximately what might be achieved...
...wash off all that bear fat from Princess Sunday, big dimwit David is trying to hold up his end of the fur trade against the encroaching North West Company-or "pedlars," as they are called by Hudson Bay's old guard-and H.B.'s head man, Lord Selkirk, a contemptible character who weighs only 110 Ibs. While brooding on his diet ("In a day or two he intended to eat an entire raw liver, for he had been feeling groggy lately; a straight meat diet was getting him down"), David manages to get himself tied...
...Awaiting the sailors on the beach, waving his arms and dancing, was an extraordinary figure "cloth'd in Goat-Skins, who look'd wilder than the first Owners of them. He had been [cast away] on the Island Four Years and four Months . . His name was Alexander Selkirk, a Scotch man ... He had so much forgotten his Language for want of Use, that we could scarce understand...
...long voyage home, Selkirk told the full story of his four solitary years-how he had built two log huts; how he had conquered a plague of rats by domesticating cats; how he had lived on goat flesh, fish, turtles and wild fruits. A century ago his countrymen placed a plaque on the site of Selkirk's lookout, reading simply: IN MEMORY OF ALEXANDER SELKIRK, MARINER. But a far greater memorial has stood for more than 200 years-Daniel Defoe's The Life & Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. So lifelike has this novel seemed to generations that...
Edward C. Stabler '55 was climbing Fox Mountain in the Selkirk Range in British Columbia on August 16 when he was hit by part of a rock fall. Stabler, who joined the Mountaineering Club last year, was climbing with Bruce Gerhard '52 and James M. Newell '55 when the accident occurred...