There was a derelict ship on the island.

Other artistic endeavours such as dance or musical performances are lost at the moment they are completed: how Adelina the 'joculatrix' mentioned in the Domesday Book came by her surname is now impossible to discover—the term may mean 'singer' or 'entertainer'.

That sounds pretty hopeless, Holly said down-heartedly.

7 April 1900, Jack London, “The Son of the Wolf”, in The Son of the Wolf: Tales of the Far North, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company[…], OCLC 1161196780, page 24: