Waving his pistol and cutlass, he raged and cursed as they sailed away.
Resolving to claim the island as his own, he stormed inland in search of food and water.
The inhabitants soon surrounded him, all eager for the taste of human flesh.
His courage failed him and he used his single shot rather than fall alive into their clutches.
A century later a visiting naturalist rowed away from the island in frantic haste.
In his journal he wrote ‘The land crabs are most ferocious here’.