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The Perils of Certain English Prisoners, by
Charles Dickens
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Title: The Perils of Certain English Prisoners
Author: Charles Dickens
Release Date: April 3, 2005 [eBook #1406]
Language: English
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Transcribed from the 1894 Chapman and Hall "Christmas Stories" edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
THE PERILS OF CERTAIN ENGLISH PRISONERS
CHAPTER I
--THE ISLAND OF SILVER-STOREIt was in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty-four, that I, Gill Davis to command, His Mark, having then the honour to be a private in the Royal Marines, stood a-leaning over the bulwarks of the armed sloop Christopher Columbus, in the South American waters off the Mosquito shore.
My lady remarks to me, before I go any further, that there is no such christian-name as Gill, and that her confident opinion is, that the name given to me in the baptism wherein I was made, &c., was Gilbert. She is certain to be right, but I never heard of it.