Most people know their ©Robinson Crusoe,© and have heard of the author Defoe. But how many of us have heard even the name of Woodes Rogers, Master Mariner? or have read his quaint Journal of a cruising voyage round the world in 1712. Yet it was this Woodes Rogers who not only discovered the original Crusoe, Alexander Selkirk, but after making a ©note of him when found© upon the island of Juan Fernandez, at once proceeded to make very practical use of him by giving him command of the ©Increase,© one of many small prizes taken in the South Seas from the Spaniards by the ships under Woodes' command.