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the cavern--His thoughts and difficulties--His arrival at a great lake,
and his landing in the beautiful country of Graundevolet
CHAPTER XI.
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
CHAPTER XII.
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
CHAPTER XIII.
The author lays in a store against the dark weather--Hears voice--His
thoughts thereon--Persuades himself it was a dream--Hears them

again--Determines to see if any one lodged in the rock--Is satisfied
there is nobody--Observations on what he saw--Finds a strong weed
like whip-cord--Makes a dragnet--Lengthens it--Catches a monster--Its
description--Makes oil of it
CHAPTER XIV.
The author passes the summer pleasantly--Hears the voices in the
winter--Ventures out--Sees a strange sight on the lake--His uneasiness
at it--His dream--Soliloquy--Hears the voices again, and perceives a
great shock on his building--Takes up a beautiful woman--He thinks
her dead, but recovers her--A description of her--She stays with him
CHAPTER XV.
He is afraid of losing his new mistress--They live together all winter--A
remark on that--They begin to know each others language--A long
discourse between them at cross purposes--She flies--They engage to
be man and wife
CHAPTER XVI.
The author's disappointment at first going to bed with his new
wife--Some strange circumstances relating thereto--She resolves
several questions he asks her, and clears up his fears as to the voices--A
description of swangeans
CHAPTER XVII.
Youwarkee cannot bear a strong light--Her husband makes her
spectacles, which help her--A description of them
CHAPTER XVIII.
Youwarkee with child--The author's stock of provisions--No beast or
fish in Youwarkee's country--The voices again--Her reason for not
seeing those who uttered 'em--She bears a son--A hard speech in her

lying-in--Divers birds appear--Their eggs gathered--How the author
kept account of time
CHAPTER XIX.
His concern about clothing for Pedro, his eldest son--His discourse
with his wife about the ship--Her flight to it--His melancholy
reflections 'till her return--An account of what she had done, and of
what she brought--She clothes her children and takes a second flight
CHAPTER XX.
The author observes her flight--A description of a glumm in the
graundee--She finds out the gulf not far from the ship--Brings home
more goods--Makes her a gown by her husband's instruction
CHAPTER XXI.
The author gets a breed of poultry--By what means--Builds them a
house--How he managed to keep them in winter
CHAPTER XXII.
Reflections on mankind--The author wants to be with his ship--Projects
going, but perceives it impracticable--Youwarkee offers her service,
and goes--An account of her transactions on board--Remarks on her
sagacity--She despatches several chests of goods through the gulf to the
lake--An account of a danger she escaped--The author has a fit of
sickness
CHAPTER XXIII.
The religion of the author's family
CHAPTER XXIV.
An account of his children--Their names--They are exercised in

flying--His boat crazy--Youwarkee intends a visit to her father, but first
takes another flight to the ship--Sends a boat and chests through the
gulf--Clothes her children--Is with child again, so her visit is put
off--An inventory of the last freight of goods--The authors method of
treating his children--Youwarkee, her son Tommy, with her daughters
Patty and Hallycarnie, set out for her father's
CHAPTER XXV.
Youwarkee's account of the stages to Arndrumnstake--The author
uneasy at her flight--His employment in her absence, and preparations
for receiving her father--How he spent the evenings with the children
CHAPTER XXVI.
His concern at Youwarkee's stay--Reflections on his condition--Hears a
voice call him--Youwarkee's brother Quangrollart visits him with a
companion--He treats them at the grotto--The brother discovers himself
by accident--The author presents his children to him
CHAPTER XXVII.
Quangrollarf s account of Youwarkee's journey, and reception at her
father's

THE INTRODUCTION.
It might be looked upon as impertinent in me, who am about to give the
life of another, to trouble the reader with any of my own concerns, or
the affairs that led me into the South Seas. Therefore I shall only
acquaint him, that in my return on board the "Hector," as a passenger,
round Cape Horn, for England, full late in the season, the wind and
currents setting strong against us, our ship drove more southernly, by
several degrees, than the usual course, even to the latitude of 75 or 76;
when the wind chopping about, we began to resume our intended way.
It was about the middle of June, when the days are there at the shortest,

on a very starry and moonlight night, that we observed at some distance
a very black cloud, but seemingly of