A Dutch Castaway on Ascension Island in 1725

On 5 May 1725 a Dutch mariner was set ashore on the desert island of Ascension in the South Atlantic Ocean, as a punishment for sodomy. He tried to survive on turtles and birds but found very little water on the barren island. He wrote a diary. He probably died after about half a year. In January 1726 British mariners found his tent, diary and other things and brought the diary to England. In later years various English versions of the diary of the Dutch castaway was published. Other versio...