say of Max Hippe, "Eine vor-De-foesche
Englische Robinsonade," published in Eugen Koelbing's "Englische Studien"
xix. 66. WORTHINGTON CHAUNCEY FORD

Boston, February, 1920

THE ISLE OF PINES

OR,

A late Discovery of a fourth ISLAND in Terra Australis, Incognita.

BEING

A True Relation of certain English persons, Who in the dayes of Queen
Elizabeth making a Voyage to the East India, were cast-away, and wracked
on the Island near to the Coast of Australis, and all drowned, except
one Man and four Women, whereof one was a Negro. And now lately Ann Dom.
1667, A Dutch Ship driven by foul weather there, by chance have found
their Posterity (speaking good English) to amount to ten or twelve
thousand persons, as they suppose. The whole Relation follows, written,
and left by the Man himself a little before his death, and declared to
the Dutch by His Grandchild.

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[3]The scene opens in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the year 1668, where
in one of the college buildings a contest between two rival printers had
been waged for some years. Marmaduke Johnson, a trained and experienced
printer, to whose ability the Indian Bible is largely due, had ceased to
be the printer of the corporation, or Society for the Propagation of
the Gospel in New England, but still had a press and, what was better, a
fresh outfit of type, sent over by the corporation and entrusted to the
keeping of John Eliot, the Apostle. Samuel Green had become a printer,
though without previous training, and was at this time printer to the
college, a position of vantage against a rival, because it must have
carried with it countenance from the authorities in Boston, and public
printing then as now constituted an item to a press of some income
and some perquisites. By seeking to marry Green's daughter before his
English wife had ceased to be, Johnson had created a prejudice, public
as well as private, against himself.{1}

1 Mass. Hist Soc. Proceedings, xx. 265.

Each wished to set up a press in Boston itself, but the General Court,
probably for police reasons, had ordered that there should be no
printing but at Cambridge, and that what was printed there should be
approved by any two of four gentlemen appointed by the Court. It thus
appeared that each printer possessed a certain superiority over his
rival. In the matter of types Johnson was favored, as he had new
types and was a trained printer; but these advantages were part