Gulliver's voyage to lilliput [antikvár]

CHAPTER I. (The Author gives some account of himself and family. — His first inducements to travel. — He is shipwrecked, and swims for his life. — Gets safe on shore in the country of Lilliput. — Is made a prisoner, and carried up the country.) My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the third of five sons. lie 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; and 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 1 always believed it would be, some time or other, my fortune to do. 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, 1 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 to me in long voyages. Soon after my return from Leyden, I was recommended by my good master, Mr. Bates, to be surgeon to the Swallow, Captain Abraham Pannell, commander; with whom I continued three years and a half, making a voyage or two into the Levant, and some other parts. When I came back I resolved to settle in London; to which Mr.