The Hermit, or the Unparalleled Sufferings and Surprising Adventures of Philip Quarll, an Englishman

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Excerpt from The Hermit, or the Unparalleled Sufferings and Surprising Adventures of Philip Quarll, an Englishman: Who Was Discovered by Mr. Dorrington, a Bristol-Merchant, Upon an Uninhabited Island, in the South-Sea, Where He Lived About Fifty Years, Without Any Human Assistance Being come near enough t9 difcern better, we found, that what we took for houfes were rather ar bours, being apparently made of green trees: then, indeed, I began to fancy fome wild people inhabited them, and doubted whether it were fafe to go nearer but concealed my doubt, left I fhould intimidate Al varado fo that he fhould run away, to which he was very much inclined. I only ¿ackened my pace, which Alvarado perceiving, imagined that I faw fome evil coming, which he thought unavoidable and not daring to go from his company, he only condoled his misfortune, he dearly repented taking my ad vice that he feared we {hould pay dearly for our filly curiofity, for indeed thofe things were more like thieves' dens, or wild people's huts, than chrif tians' habitations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.