"But, it was not of Tristan, the larger island, I was thinking; it was of Inaccessible Island, where there wouldn't be another living soul but ourselves, the seals, and sea birds." "`Monarchs of all we survey,' eh, like Robinson Crusoe ?" said Fritz with a smile.

"That would be very nice, wouldn't it ?" "Don't laugh, brother," returned Eric, speaking earnestly.

"I assure you I've considered this thing well.

The people living at Tristan told me that they went fishing to the other islands once a year; but, the weather is generally so rough and the beach so hard to land at or get off from, on account of the heavy ocean rollers coming in when the wind is up at all, that the islanders can never make a long stay at the islets--and so cannot get half the number of sealskins which might be easily procured by any one stopping ashore there for any length of time.
I really thought, I assure you, of asking Captain Brown, when I went on my next voyage with him, to land me at Inaccessible Island, with provisions enough to last me six months or so, and to call for me on his return voyage from the Cape, as he was wending his way back home again here." "And you would have gone there alone ?" "Yes; why not?
But now, oh, Fritz, if you would only go with me, we might settle at this place like regular Robinson Crusoes--as you said just now--and make a pile of money, or, rather, of skins, in a year or two!" "The idea is feasible," said Fritz in a reflective way.

"I'll talk to Captain Brown, and see what he says of it." The elder brother had a good deal of German caution in his composition; so that, although prompt of action, he was never accustomed to undertake anything without due deliberation.
Eric, on the contrary, all impulse, was thoroughly carried away by the notion, now that he saw that Fritz, instead of ridiculing it, thought it worth consideration.
The project of going to settle on a real uninhabited island, like Robinson Crusoe, that hero of boyhood throughout the world, exceeded the realisation of his wildest dreams, when first as a little chap he had planned how he should go to sea as soon as he was big enough.