THE RUBY MOUNTAINS
XLII. THE VALLEY OF SERPENTS
XLIII. WE AGAIN LEAVE NEW HOLLAND
XLIV. THE ISLANDS OF ARMENIO
XLV. SUMATRA
XLVI. MAHOMET ACHMET
XLVII. KING TRINKITAT
XLVIII. STATEN LAND
XLIX. THE CANNIBAL ISLANDS
L. AGAIN AT THE MOLUCCAS
LI. GETTING BACK OUR OWN
LII. CONCLUSION
ADVENTURES IN SOUTHERN SEAS
CHAPTER I
I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
Let those who read this narrative doubt not its veracity. There be much
in Nature that we wot not of, and many strange countries to explore.
The monsters who roamed the earth in ancient times, as their fossil
bones attest, are still to be seen in those regions hitherto unvisited
by white men, and in the fathomless depths of uncharted seas leviathans
find a home.
Peter Ecoores Van Bu was born upon the island of Urk, in the Zuider
Zee, in the year 1596, and was brought up a fisher-lad until the coming
to the island of a priest, to whom my parents, ambitious for my
advancement, entrusted my education in the arts of reading and writing,
accomplishments in little vogue at this time. Hence it comes that I am
able to set down here a record of perils and adventures by sea and land
which may prove entertaining reading to those who have never travelled
beyond the limits of their own countries.
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