This document provides a summary of Chapter 1 of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. It introduces the main character, Lemuel Gulliver, and describes his background and family. It details his education and career as a surgeon aboard several ships, including voyages to the Levant and the East and West Indies. During one unfortunate voyage, Gulliver's ship is wrecked and he washes ashore in Lilliput, where he is found by the tiny inhabitants and taken prisoner.
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This document provides a summary of Chapter 1 of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. It introduces the main character, Lemuel Gulliver, and describes his background and family. It details his education and career as a surgeon aboard several ships, including voyages to the Levant and the East and West Indies. During one unfortunate voyage, Gulliver's ship is wrecked and he washes ashore in Lilliput, where he is found by the tiny inhabitants and taken prisoner.
This document provides a summary of Chapter 1 of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. It introduces the main character, Lemuel Gulliver, and describes his background and family. It details his education and career as a surgeon aboard several ships, including voyages to the Levant and the East and West Indies. During one unfortunate voyage, Gulliver's ship is wrecked and he washes ashore in Lilliput, where he is found by the tiny inhabitants and taken prisoner.
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This document provides a summary of Chapter 1 of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. It introduces the main character, Lemuel Gulliver, and describes his background and family. It details his education and career as a surgeon aboard several ships, including voyages to the Levant and the East and West Indies. During one unfortunate voyage, Gulliver's ship is wrecked and he washes ashore in Lilliput, where he is found by the tiny inhabitants and taken prisoner.
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Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Part I : A voyage to Lilliput
CHAPTER I
The author gives some account of himself and family. His first inducements to travel. He is shipwrecked, and swims for his life. Gets safe onshore in the country of Lilliput; is made a prisoner,and carried up the country. My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire: I wasthe third of five sons. He sent me to Emanuel Collegein Cambridge at fourteen years old, where I residedthree years, and applied myself close to my studies; but the charge of maintaining me, although I had a very scanty allowance, beingtoo great for a narrow fortune, I was bound apprentice to Mr.James Bates, an eminent surgeon in London, with whom I continued four years.
My father now and then sending me smallsums of money, I laid them out in learning navigation, and other parts of the mathematics, useful to those who intend to travel, as Ialways believed it would be, some time or other, my fortune to do.When I left Mr. Bates, I went down to my father: where, by the assistance of him and my uncle John, and some other relations, Igot forty pounds, and a promise of thirty pounds a year tomaintain me at Leyden: there I studied physic two years andseven months, knowing it would be useful in long voyages. Soon after my return from Leyden, I was recommended by mygood master, Mr. Bates, to be surgeon to the Swallow, Captain Abraham Pannel, commander; with whom I continued three years and a half, making a voyage or two into the Levant, and someother parts. When I came back I resolved to settle in London; towhich Mr. Bates, my master, encouraged me, and by him I was recommended to several patients. I took part of a small house inthe Old Jewry; and being advised to alter my condition, I married Mrs. Mary Burton, second daughter to Mr. Edmund Burton,hosier, in Newgate-street, with whom I received four hundredpounds for a portion.But my good master Bates dying in two years after, and I having few friends, my business began to fail; for my conscience would not suffer me to imitate the bad practice of too many among my brethren. Having therefore consulted with my wife, and some of my acquaintance, I determined to go again to sea.
I was surgeon successively in two ships, and made several voyages, forsix years, to the East and West Indies, by which I got some addition to my fortune. My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern, being always provided with agood number of books; and when I was ashore, in observing the manners and dispositions of the people, as well as learning their language; where in I had a great facility, by the strength of my memory.The last of these voyages not proving very fortunate, I grew weary of the sea, and intended to stay at home with my wife and family. I removed from the Old Jewry to Fetter Lane, and from thence to Wapping, hoping to get business among the sailors; but it would not turn to account. After three years expectation that things would mend, I accepted an advantageous offer from Captain William Prichard, master of the Antelope, who was making a voyage to the South Sea. We set sail from Bristol, May 4,1699, and our voyage was at first very prosperous.
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