Swiss Family Robinson. The caption reads: “She had a hat made of downy breast of the cormorant.” The “she” is Emily in the novel. The Swiss Family Robinson (German: Der Schweizerische Robinson) is a novel by Johann David Wyss, first published in 1812, about a Swiss family of immigrants whose ship en route to Port Jackson, Australia, goes off course and is shipwrecked in the East Indies.

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