1 Several adventurers that happened to the author.
2 My journey was without any accident or adventure worth relating.
3 And, upon this occasion, I hope the reader will pardon my relating an odd adventure.
4 When this adventure was at an end, I came back out of my house, having occasion for fresh air.
5 The emperor and his whole court stood on the shore, expecting the issue of this great adventure.
6 When I attended the king after my recovery, to return him thanks for his favours, he was pleased to rally me a good deal upon this adventure.
7 I had been long afraid of this resolution, and therefore concealed from her some little unlucky adventures, that happened in those times when I was left by myself.
8 Two days after this adventure, the emperor, having ordered that part of his army which quarters in and about his metropolis, to be in readiness, took a fancy of diverting himself in a very singular manner.
9 The natural love of life gave me some inward motion of joy, and I was ready to entertain a hope that this adventure might, some way or other, help to deliver me from the desolate place and condition I was in.
10 This I was afterwards told, for I durst not stay to see the issue of the adventure; but ran as fast as I could the way I first went, and then climbed up a steep hill, which gave me some prospect of the country.