F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

Capitolo 2

serious, affectionate, small talkative man and one of the strangest
pieces of humanity you/he/she had ever been my good luck to fall in with. Him
you/he/she had lost his/her ship on what he was pleased to call an unknown island in
the Pacific. He applied the word "unknown" for the only reason that me
you/he/she could understand, that he didn't know what it was up to that his/her ship there
stricken on him. He considered killing a whale the tallest object a man
it had to live for, and it didn't have very tall respect for the sailor that had
Round head and ever looked" Horn", or occupied a whale in deadly fight. Him
it was in trip to bring the loss of his/her ship to his/her owners. An action
of the gentleness, and finding that I knew anything of the sea, and it was able
you sympathize with a sailor in adversity, it manufactured us fixed friends at the end
of our trip.

To this small odd man, then I am indebted for the history of the old one
pirate of the island" of "what happened in the Cavern of "Dunman; " for
it was in solo such place, according to his/her his/her own account that he has lost
his/her ship. A lot of of his/her history, as tells then me, seemed strange and
unbelievable--in truth, the descendant of a brain balanced well not.

However, time has shown that there was very more truths in this old man
the history of whaleman for that I had given him credit. "The island" of any Man is
rather better now known to navigators, although still uninhabited and
bearing a different name. "Also, the Cavern" of Dunman has been the scene of
more than a shipwreck in six years.

Those that have attentively studied the causes "boars" manufacturing, or "of the tide
whence", as they appears in different parts of the world and the unusual one
atmospheric phenomenons that accompany them to durations, won't find him/it
difficult to understand the amazing changes in which happened
"The Cavern" of Dunman when the "_Pacific_" it was destroyed. They will understand,
also, because the "_set_" it was so strong to so great a distance from the
entry, and because the "boar" it of rose to such height in a narrow gate, or