Haverford College - Record Yearbook (Haverford, PA)

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For in the second clay ol the tempest, as the sea wrought so that the ship was Hke to be broken, and as many of our company did cast forth the wares that were in the ship to hghten it of them, a mightly wave did come upon us and did sweep me from the ship into tlie tempestuous waters. But by good fortimc I was able to reach unto one of the boxes which wen- cast into the sea, and after this time I remember nothing at all. Indeed I niar ' el not a little that I li c to write this account.

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Part I We set sail out of ( ardift on tlic 9tli (la ot Aiimist. 1607. and oiir xoyatic at the first was cxcccd- iiiii prosperous, tlic wcatlicr hciiig temperate and tlie wind liooil. Metliinks it would not he proper, for some reasons, to trouble the reacU ' r with the particulariti( s of our ad -entures in those seas, and it will suffice to inform him that in the se ' entli week of our passage from thence to the West Indies, our ship was drixcu northwestward b a iolent tempest which did pre ail uiion it 1 know not how long. Parti Of The Isle Haverford: Its General Constitution, Customs, And Ways Told.

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Mn ' n at last I waked I did find nnsclf upon the shore of some strange land, and even then did I suspect it was an isle unknown to any of mine own countrymen, and I ween to this day none have thether tra elled. It did appear a pleasant countr ' , with diverse trees and bushes and grass abounding, and a small lake whereon ducks did swim; and a road made of a marvellous black substance, with striped hillocks about every fort ' paces ( the pur- pose of which hillocks I never could discover), divided the land.