A wooden sign on the island states in part: “At this site, day after day for more than four years, the Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk anxiously searched the horizon for the rescue boat that would free him from his isolation. ”
( अर्थात, सेलकर्कचा साहसी प्रवास आणि या कादंबरीतली कथा अगदीच मिळतीजुळती नव्हती.)