Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, Vol. I | Page 6

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 no extraordinary size or height, moving very fast towards us, and seeming to follow the ship, which then made great way. Every one on deck was very curious in observing its motions; and perceiving it frequently to divide, and presently to close again, and not to continue long in any determined shape, our captain, who had never before been so far to the southward as he then found himself, had many conjectures what this phenomenon might portend; and every one offering his own opinion, it seemed at last to be generally agreed that