: The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins Volume 1 (of 2) by Paltock Robert Bullen A H Arthur Henry Commentator - Fantasy fiction; Adventure stories

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Giving an account of the authors birth and family--The fondness of his mother--His being put to an academy at sixteen by the advice of his friend--His thoughts of his own literature

How he spent his time at the academy--An intrigue with a servant maid there--She declares herself with child by him--Her expostulations with him--He is put to it for money--Refused it from home by his friend, who had married his mother--Is drawn in to marry the maid--She lies in at her aunts--Returns to her service--He has another child by her

Minds his studies--Informs his master of his mother's marriage and usage of him--Hears of her death--Makes his master his guardian--Goes with him to take possession of his estate--Is informed all is given to his father-in-law--Moral reflections on his condition and on his father's crimes

Departs secretly from his master--Travels to Bristol--Religious thoughts by the way--Enters on shipboard, and is made captain's steward

His first entertainment en board--Sets sail--His sickness--Engagement with a French privateer--Is taken and laid in irons--Twenty-one prisoners turned adrift in a small boat with only two days' provisions

The boat, two hundred leagues from land, makes no way, but drives more to sea by the wind--The people live nine days at quarter allowance--Four die with hunger the twelfth day--Five more the fourteenth day--On the fifteenth they eat one just dead--Want of water excessive--They spy a sail--Are taken up--Work their passage to the African shore--One sent on a secret expedition--Are way-laid, taken, made slaves, and sent up the country

The author escapes with Glanlepze, a native--His hardships in travel--Plunder of a cottage--His fears--Adventure with a crocodile--Passage of a river--Adventure with a lioness and whelps--Arrives at Glanlepze's house--The trial of Glanlepze s wife's constancy--The tender meeting of her and her husband--The author's reflections thereupon

How the author passed his time with Glanlepze--His acquaintance with some English prisoners--They project an escape--He joins them--They seize a Portuguese ship and get off--Make a long run from land--Want water--They anchor at a desert island--The boat goes on shore for water--They lose their anchor in a storm--The author and one Adams drove to sea--A miraculous passage to a rock--Adams drowned there--The authors miserable condition

He thinks of destroying himself--His soliloquy--Strange accident in the hold--His surprise--Can't climb the rock--His method to sweeten his water--Lives many months on board--Ventures to sea in his boat several times and takes many fish--Almost overcome by an eel

Lays in great store of provisions--Resolves to traverse the rock--Sails for three weeks, still seeing it only--Is sucked under the rock, and hurried down a cataract--Continues there five weeks--His description of the cavern--His thoughts and difficulties--His arrival at a great lake, and his landing in the beautiful country of Graundevolet

His joy on his arrival at land--A description of the place--No inhabitants--Wants fresh water--Resides in a grotto--Finds water--Views the country--Carries his things to the grotto

An account of the grotto--A room added to it--A view of that building--The author makes a little cart--Also a wet dock for his boat--Goes in quest of provision--A description of divers fruits and plants--He brings home a cartload of different sorts--Makes experiments on them--Loads his cart with others--A great disappointment--Makes good bread--Never sees the sun--The nature of the light

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