PAUL PRESTON'S

VOYAGES, TRAVELS,

AND

REMARKABLE ADVENTURES;

AS RELATED BY HIMSELF

WITH ENGRAVINGS.

I spread a store of wondrous tnings,

My little friend! for thee :
Read, and while novel scenes surprise,
May virtuous precepts make thee wise.

BOSTON :

MUNROE AND FRANCIS

1547.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

Paul Preston gives some account of bimself and his parents. Warwick asd Kenilworth

Castles. Hazardous Enterprise. Frank Berkeley. Rowton Well. As Accident.

Adventure with two Highwaymen. Ragged Roland Frank Berkeley goes to Nex

foundland. Comes back again, and visits Ireland. Returns home. Paul ssd Praak

set sail for Newfoundland together.

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CHAPTER II.

Paul Preston's sensations on sailing the Deep. Ses-siekness. Paul knocked over by a

larch of the Caddy-table. Fearlessness of Sailors. A Whale. Taking a Shark.

Dolphins, Porpoises, and Carey's Chickens. Superstition of Sailors. Flying-Pish.

The Nautilus. Frank's mischievons prank with Boucher the Purser. Sailors

spinning their Yarns. Catching a Dolphin. The Sea-Horse. The Swed-Fish.

Tho old Sailor. Paul opens the packet of his Mother, and reads also the letter

af bis Father . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34