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1  But fortune disposed otherwise of me.
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2  For my own part, I swam as fortune directed me, and was pushed forward by wind and tide.
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3  I heard a confused noise about me; but in the posture I lay, could see nothing except the sky.
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4  They supplied me as fast as they could, showing a thousand marks of wonder and astonishment at my bulk and appetite.
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5  However, he made other signs to let me understand that I should have meat and drink enough, and very good treatment.
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6  They brought me a second hogshead, which I drank in the same manner, and made signs for more; but they had none to give me.
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7  Besides, I now considered myself as bound by the laws of hospitality, to a people who had treated me with so much expense and magnificence.
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8  When I came back I resolved to settle in London; to which Mr. Bates, my master, encouraged me, and by him I was recommended to several patients.
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9  After some time, when they observed that I made no more demands for meat, there appeared before me a person of high rank from his imperial majesty.
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10  It appeared that he understood me well enough, for he shook his head by way of disapprobation, and held his hand in a posture to show that I must be carried as a prisoner.
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11  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.
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12  My father now and then sending me small sums of money, I laid them out in learning navigation, and other parts of the mathematics, useful to those who intend to travel, as I always believed it would be, some time or other, my fortune to do.
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13  They made me a sign that I should throw down the two hogsheads, but first warning the people below to stand out of the way, crying aloud, Borach mevolah; and when they saw the vessels in the air, there was a universal shout of Hekinah degul.
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14  When this shower of arrows was over, I fell a groaning with grief and pain; and then striving again to get loose, they discharged another volley larger than the first, and some of them attempted with spears to stick me in the sides; but by good luck I had on a buff jerkin, which they could not pierce.
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15  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, I got forty pounds, and a promise of thirty pounds a year to maintain me at Leyden: there I studied physic two years and seven months, knowing it would be useful in long voyages.
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16  I thought it the most prudent method to lie still, and my design was to continue so till night, when, my left hand being already loose, I could easily free myself: and as for the inhabitants, I had reason to believe I might be a match for the greatest army they could bring against me, if they were all of the same size with him that I saw.
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17  He sent me to Emanuel College in Cambridge at fourteen years old, where I resided three years, and applied myself close to my studies; but the charge of maintaining me, although I had a very scanty allowance, being too great for a narrow fortune, I was bound apprentice to Mr. James Bates, an eminent surgeon in London, with whom I continued four years.
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