| > For all we know No, much more is known than what is casually assumed in this sentence. Unfortunately the sentence turns out to be just "for all londons_explore knows" but surely not "for all it is known from the survived texts." And what is known is written in the very Wikipedia article which
thewarpaint linked and which "londons_explore" obviously didn't read: "Cinque Ports did indeed later founder off the coast of what is now Colombia. Stradling and some of his crew survived the loss of their ship but were forced to surrender to the Spanish. The survivors were taken to Lima, Peru, where they endured a harsh imprisonment.[16]" Wikipedia also cites the source, the article from 1713: Steele, Richard (3 December 1713). "Alexander Selkirk, an Account of His Living Alone Above Four Years in a Desolate Island". The Englishman. 1 (26): 168–173. Also the link to the online readable form of the article, as it was printed in 1714, more than 300 years ago: https://books.google.at/books?id=IY2UnI4L6g8C&pg=PA168 |