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"
My
dear
Monsieur
Paganel
,
"
said
Lady
Helena
,
"
you
are
letting
your
imagination
run
away
with
you
,
as
usual
.
But
the
dream
is
very
different
from
the
reality
.
You
are
thinking
of
an
imaginary
Robinson
's
life
,
thrown
on
a
picked
island
and
treated
like
a
spoiled
child
by
nature
.
You
only
see
the
sunny
side
.
"
"
What
,
madam
!
You
do
n't
believe
a
man
could
be
happy
on
a
desert
island
?
"
"
I
do
not
.
Man
is
made
for
society
and
not
for
solitude
,
and
solitude
can
only
engender
despair
.
It
is
a
question
of
time
.
At
the
outset
it
is
quite
possible
that
material
wants
and
the
very
necessities
of
existence
may
engross
the
poor
shipwrecked
fellow
,
just
snatched
from
the
waves
;
but
afterward
,
when
he
feels
himself
alone
,
far
from
his
fellow
men
,
without
any
hope
of
seeing
country
and
friends
again
,
what
must
he
think
,
what
must
he
suffer
?
His
little
island
is
all
his
world
.
The
whole
human
race
is
shut
up
in
himself
,
and
when
death
comes
,
which
utter
loneliness
will
make
terrible
,
he
will
be
like
the
last
man
on
the
last
day
of
the
world
.
Believe
me
,
Monsieur
Paganel
,
such
a
man
is
not
to
be
envied
.
"
Paganel
gave
in
,
though
regretfully
,
to
the
arguments
of
Lady
Helena
,
and
still
kept
up
a
discussion
on
the
advantages
and
disadvantages
of
Isolation
,
till
the
very
moment
the
Duncan
dropped
anchor
about
a
mile
off
Amsterdam
Island
.
This
lonely
group
in
the
Indian
Ocean
consists
of
two
distinct
islands
,
thirty-three
miles
apart
,
and
situated
exactly
on
the
meridian
of
the
Indian
peninsula
.
To
the
north
is
Amsterdam
Island
,
and
to
the
south
St.
Paul
;
but
they
have
been
often
confounded
by
geographers
and
navigators
.
At
the
time
of
the
Duncan
'S
visit
to
the
island
,
the
population
consisted
of
three
people
,
a
Frenchman
and
two
mulattoes
,
all
three
employed
by
the
merchant
proprietor
.
Paganel
was
delighted
to
shake
hands
with
a
countryman
in
the
person
of
good
old
Monsieur
Viot
.
He
was
far
advanced
in
years
,
but
did
the
honors
of
the
place
with
much
politeness
.
It
was
a
happy
day
for
him
when
these
kindly
strangers
touched
at
his
island
,
for
St.
Peter
's
was
only
frequented
by
seal-fishers
,
and
now
and
then
a
whaler
,
the
crews
of
which
are
usually
rough
,
coarse
men
.
M.
Viot
presented
his
subjects
,
the
two
mulattoes
.
They
composed
the
whole
living
population
of
the
island
,
except
a
few
wild
boars
in
the
interior
and
myriads
of
penguins
.
The
little
house
where
the
three
solitary
men
lived
was
in
the
heart
of
a
natural
bay
on
the
southeast
,
formed
by
the
crumbling
away
of
a
portion
of
the
mountain
.
Twice
over
in
the
early
part
of
the
century
,
Amsterdam
Island
became
the
country
of
deserted
sailors
,
providentially
saved
from
misery
and
death
;
but
since
these
events
no
vessel
had
been
lost
on
its
coast
.
Had
any
shipwreck
occurred
,
some
fragments
must
have
been
thrown
on
the
sandy
shore
,
and
any
poor
sufferers
from
it
would
have
found
their
way
to
M.
Viot
's
fishing-huts
.
The
old
man
had
been
long
on
the
island
,
and
had
never
been
called
upon
to
exercise
such
hospitality
.
Of
the
Britannia
and
Captain
Grant
he
knew
nothing
,
but
he
was
certain
that
the
disaster
had
not
happened
on
Amsterdam
Island
,
nor
on
the
islet
called
St.
Paul
,
for
whalers
and
fishing-vessels
went
there
constantly
,
and
must
have
heard
of
it
.
