Haverford College - Record Yearbook (Haverford, PA)

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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.

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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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r.r ' ' : :■ n- -r . V- « - - This road did I follow til I met with an inhabitant of the isle, a man of strange appearanee and man- ner, though I pt ' rforee did percei e at once he was fully human. .And I was no little awed when he did hail me in mine own tongue and did greet me with much hopping up and down, and much shaking of hands, and exceeding friendly countenance, and many hihihihis, which address, in its shortened form, is a chief custom of this isle. And this in- habitant was called Master Ludwig by name.