selkirk in A Sentence

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    Everyone else refused to stay and Selkirk found himself on the island alone.

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    Initially, Selkirk thought a ship would pass fairly quickly that he could hitch a ride on.

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    Alexander Selkirk was rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island on this day in 1709.

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    On that expedition, Dampier was captaining the St. George, and Selkirk was serving aboard the Cinque Ports.

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    Selkirk wasn't the first to be stranded on what is now known as Robinson Crusoe Island(then called Más a Tierra).

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    The two ships parted ways when the Cinque Ports put in on the island Selkirk was ultimately stranded on.

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    Selkirk himself was also interviewed several times about his adventure and gained a certain amount of notoriety for it throughout England.

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    Selkirk initially began his life at sea due to having a bit of trouble with the authorities as a young man.

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    However, several of the crew under Rogers' command were suffering from scurvy and Selkirk set about supplying them with needed food.

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    On this day in history, 1709, Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk was finally rescued from a deserted island he inhabited for over four years.

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    It was on this day in 1709 that the Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk was rescued from an island where he had been marooned for four years.

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    Ettrick Weir, near Selkirk in Scotland, is one of the best places in the world to witness one of nature's greatest phenomena: the spectacular salmon leap.

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    Selkirk himself was knocked unconscious by the fall and did not wake for almost an entire day and according to his account was near senseless for another two days.

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    Stuck alone for more than four years, by the time privateer Captain Woodes Rogers found him, Selkirk at first had difficulty speaking as he hadn't done so in years.

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    This Day In History: February 1, 1709 On this day in history, 1709, Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk was finally rescued from a deserted island he inhabited for over four years.

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    Due to the failing state of their ship, Selkirk refused to get back aboard and tried to convince the others that they should stay and wait for another ship to come along.

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    This is a completely new breed of semi-longhaired cat originating in Britain as a cross between the Selkirk Rex and the Turkish Angora, and is very much in the experimental stages at the moment.

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    Finally, on February 1, 1709, two ships, which included famed explorer William Dampier and was led by Woodes Rogers, anchored near the island and Selkirk revealed himself to the crews via a signal fire.

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    During his time on the island, Selkirk entertained himself with reading the Bible and chasing goats, and at one point, had to actually hide from human contact when a group of enemy mariners(Spanish) came shore.

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    Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor, was left stranded on a deserted island in 1704, but survived for over 4 years, partly by using feral cats to protect him from ravenous rats that attacked during the night!

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    The Arctic Curl has curly hair similar to the Selkirk Rex, making the semi-longhaired coat of the Turkish Angora look rather shorter than that of its parent breed, apart from the tail plume which is silky and flowing.

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    A British breeder, Penny Odell, of Tremarie Persians and Selkirk Rex, is aiming to breed a cat looking like the Turkish Angora(this breed as yet unrecognised in the UK) but with slightly rounder eyes and a curly coat.

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    The man most-likely to be the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe(1719) was Alexander Selkirk, a British privateer who was left behind on an island off the Chilean coast because he didn't trust the seaworthiness of his captain's ship.

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    If you're wondering what happened to the ship Selkirk refused to get back on in the first place because he didn't believe it was seaworthy anymore, it sunk off the coast of Peru shortly thereafter taking most of the remaining 41 crew members with it.

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    When Selkirk finally returned to Scotland, he brought with him his earnings as a privateer which amounted to £800, which was a very large sum at the time(around 10-15 years worth of wages by the average earnings of a typical low-class worker like his father, a tanner).

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